‘The greatest among you must be your servant. Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will be exalted.’ (Matthew 23: 12)
Key Messages of the forthcoming Gospel Reading… (Week Beginning 6th November 2023)
Children will learn:
Children will learn that:
True greatness is putting God first before ourselves or other things.
Being humble also means focusing on others more than ourselves
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.
Feast of All Saints and School 70th Anniversary
Whole School Mass 1st November 2023
On Wednesday 1st November we attended a whole school parish mass in church at 9.30am. This was a great opportunity to worship and gather within the parish community to celebrate the feast of All Saints Day and also to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of our school . Parents, parishioners and past pupils were warmly welcomed to join us in the School Hall after mass for some refreshments. Well done to our Year 4 representatives for serving refreshments at this celebration!
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 guides give helpful advice about…
The social media site X, highlighting the major changes since its rebrand from Twitter and the related online safety risks.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: a suspense-filled horror game which has nevertheless attracted a relatively young fan-base.
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.
Our learning this week…
In English the children have been sharing, editing and writing their final drafts of their own descriptions of a scene from our class text ‘The Whale’. We have also started to explore newspaper texts based on the events and characters from the story, we will continue to develop this further next week.
In Maths we have been developing our understanding of subtracting two 4-digit numbers using the column method. We have been exploring the use of bar models and the part whole models to support our understanding.
In RE the children have been continuing to work hard to grow their knowledge of a range of Bible stories. This week we have been researching the stories of David and Goliath and Jonah and the Whale. Considering ways in which they showed their strong faith and trust in God.
Spellings, times tables and homework
The children will be coming home with their spellings and homework on Monday 6th November, this needs to be returned by the following Monday.
The children have all come home with their login for TTRS, please can you support your child to access this on a regular basis.
PE -
Please note, PE days will now be on a Tuesday and Wednesday.
Award winners
Golden: Elsie
Maths: Jacob
Writing: Hallie
Kind regards for your continued support and wishing you all a relaxing weekend.
Mrs Parker, Mrs Hodgkiss and Mrs Andrews
