Welcome back and a very happy new year! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you all a great new year.
Yesterday we celebrated Epiphany and the new year by going to church for whole school mass. Epiphany is celebrated 12 days after Christmas on the 6th January and is the time when Christians remember the Wise Men who visited Jesus in Bethlehem after his birth.
Our award winners:
Golden Award (CARE) - Frazer
Writing Award - Elsie
Maths Award - Elsie
Our learning this week…
In English we have begun to explore our new text, which we will use to support our development of writing a first-person setting narrative. This week the children have considered different pieces of evidence from the text to write a prediction and in small groups they have predicted the sequence of 5 pictures revealed to them - they don't yet know the name of the book.
Our focus in maths has been adding fractions greater than one and adding to mixed numbers.
In RE we have been discussing Jesus' greatest commandments and have linked them to Moses' ten commandments.
In art the children have begun to look at the 3D work of Alberto Giacometti and have had a go at drawing figures inspired by his sculptures.
We began our Vikings history topic this week. We began by finding out when the Vikings came to Britain and reflected on some otheir reasons for invading.
In Spanish we are continuing to learn words related to our family.
In PE the children did a one off lesson of dodgeball with Gaz, who led the PE lesson for this week.
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League has a new competition, which started on Monday and runs till the 12th February. Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 3rd place out of 15 schools in the trust and we have scored 399 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Matilda Year 5 3001
2nd Matilda Year 4 2787
3rd Buddy Year 4 1910
4th Jake Year 4 1820
5th Frazer Year 5 1178
Well done to everyone on our leaderboard this week!
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At Our Lady's we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters.
Keeping children and young people safe online is one of the biggest challenges facing society today and it is all of our responsibility to ensure that children are educated to make positive, informed choices when they are online.
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
Top Tips for parents: Essential online safety. This free guide gives ten practical and evidence-informed online safety tips to help adults guide children toward healthier and more informed digital habits.
We hope you find these guides informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all. Thank you.
To read this week’s Good News Gospel reading, please follow the link to share the Gospel at home with your family. These are really child-friendly resources to share at home. Good News Gospel
Please also have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worship…
Great start to this half term Year 5, have a great weekend!
Mrs McVey and Mrs Hodgkiss