This Week's Worship
Kourtney and Olivia did not manage to lead their worship last week so they did theirs this week. Their worship reflected on the Gospel from last week when Jesus became angry in the temple. The girls had the class respond to ways in which we can welcome the Holy Spirit into our temples (hearts) by sending around praying hands for each child to write down one gift they could offer to the Holy Spirit. This was delivered so respectfully.
This Week's Learning
In Maths this week we have been focusing on ratio. We started looking at ratio language before introducing the ratio symbol and solving ratio problems. This then led us nicely to focusing on scale factors.
In English we completed our cyclone poems and even sent a copy home (sorry if they gave anyone nightmares!!) By the end of the week we were comparing the film and novel version of The Wizard of Oz, specifically the moment when Dorothy met the Scarecrow. This then led to us innovating a piece of descriptive writing about the scarecrow.
In RE we continued our focus on the women of the Old Testament. This week the class worked in groups to delve even deeper into the life of one of these woman. They had to create a presentation, outline the story behind the women, what the historical context was and what their relationship with God was like.
In PE with me this week we built on our gymnastic sequences from last week. We introduced rolls and jumps into out balance sequences and ensured they had smooth transitions, good control and straight lines.
In Science this week we created MRS GREN posters and labelled diagrams of the six different kingdoms. We looked at the similarities and the differences between each kingdom.
In Geography we researched some key information about the UK using the laptops and used atlases to help us to label many counties in the UK.
Mini Vinnies Fundraising
Well done to the Year 6 Mini Vinnies who had their first fundraising event for CAFOD today. They were selling baked goods and homemade bits and bobs all in aid of CAFOD. They gave up their own time to do this and for such a worthy cause. All together they raised an amazing £163.16!! Thank you to all our Mini Vinnies for their dedication to this event-what a success!
AWARD WINNERS!
Golden Award: this week’s Golden Award went to Matilda for being an enthusastic learner. She is so focused and is making great progress!
Writing Award: this week’s Writing Award went to Natalia for her incredible cyclone poem!
Maths Award: this week’s Maths Award went to Luna for her superb work on ratio.
Well done also to Olivia, Matilda, Laura, Natalie & Martha for completing their reading bookmarks!
Dates For Your Diary
- Parent Meetings 24th November- you should have all received an email to book a parent meeting with myself on the afternoon of Monday 24th Nov. If you have not already, please do book an appointment. I look forward to meeting you all officially.
- Friday 5th December - Christmas movie nights for KS2 (5pm - 6.30pm)
- Thursday 11th December - Caterlink Christmas Dinner Day and Christmas Jumper Day
- Friday 12th December (after school) - Christmas Fair
- Monday 15th December - Peter Pan Pantomime at Lowther Pavilion. Payment can be paid on ParentPay.
- Thursday 18th December - KS2 Carol Service 2pm in Church
- Friday 19th December - School Closes for Christmas at an earlier time of 2pm (no After School Club). School reopens on Tuesday 6th January 2026
Notices
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Change in PE days!! Due to the hall being unavailable on Friday mornings, I have changed our other PE day to Thursdays instead of Friday. Apologies for the change. Just to confirm, PE days from next week will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
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Water bottles-these need to be filled and brought in each day and taken home to be cleaned at the end of each day. Each child in the class was provided with a school water bottle-please can you ensure these are the bottles that are brought in daily and not their own water bottle from home.
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Reading books - Year 6 have their ZPDs for this half term. We do want the children to challenge themselves with their home readers, so please do let me know if you ever think the book they are reading at home is perhaps not challenging enough.
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Homework- Please find details on this week’s homework here. If your child very finds any of the homework challenging, please remind them to mention it to me in school and we can go over it together.
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Contact information- We no longer access the year group email (year6@…) If you need to contact me for any reason, and cannot catch me at the door, feel free to either pop an email to the admin address (with Year 6 in the subject box) or give the school a ring.
✝Wednesday Word and TenTen Newsletter✝
Please have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worships…
WEDNESDAY WORD Please follow this link below to access the Gospel Readings for the forthcoming week, there are also some fun activities to complete, this is a fantastic family resource to share and celebrate with your child at home.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Andrew