Yesterday, Year 4 had their first class mass of the year, it was on the theme of Abraham’s covenant, which matches our RE topic. Father gave a question and some challenges: What is a covenant? Invent a covenant and write the bidding prayers. They worked so hard and it was so difficult selecting whose bidding prayers to choose, I had to do it randomly! The children who read the bidding prayers and those who did the challenging readings did a fantastic job! Father also taught us a new song “Though the Mountains May Fall.” The children did a beautiful job learning, remembering and singing this!
We have been extremely busy with our learning in Year FOUR this week. Here’s what we have been up to…
In English, the children have finished their setting descriptions with contrasting moods and moved onto looking at a newspaper report and considering whether the whale was spotted, or if it was a hoax!
In Maths, the children have been counting in 25s, and learning negative numbers. I am so proud of all of their effort in Maths this week.
In Music, the children have continued playing their cornets. Please keep practicing at home. Practice makes….
In PE, we have practiced handball skills.
In Science, the children have finished the journey of food through the digestive system.
In RE, we learned more about God’s covenant with Abraham, learning about Abraham and Sarah’s child, Isaac.
Resilience team!
Wellbeing Wednesday has continued! This week we wrote short positive messages to hand out to others in the class. The children also considered what it will mean to be Mental Health Champions and what their actions could be.
We’ve started planning the World Mental Health day activities for Thursday next week. .
Times Tables Rock Stars
Each half term, the schools within the trust compete with each other on TTRS. This half term’s competition is already underway but we can still do our best to get as many points as we can from now till the 18th October. In addition to this, during our Celebration assembly on a Friday, our leaderboard will be announced. Please see the poster. Good luck everyone!
🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟
The Golden Award went to Archer, for how well he has been responding to feedback and using it to improve his work.
The Maths award went to Sienna for excellent work on negative numbers.
The Writing award went to Matilda, for a fantastic setting description with great use of cliff hangers.
📅Dates for your diaries 📅
Thursday 10th October Whole School Wellbeing Day – we ecourage you to wear odd socks this day. We will be leading other classes in short Wellbeing activities.
Monday 14th October Parents meetings for every class – in school from 1pm (electronic appointment will be sent out separately)
Wednesday 16th October Whole school Harvest Celebration Assembly
Friday 18th October Whole School Science workshop..
Friday 18th October 3.15pm close for end of half term
📌NOTICES 📌:
Reading records, reading books and water bottles need to be in school every day, please.
Y4’s PE days are Tuesdays and Friday. Earrings should not be worn on PE days.
Remember cornets on a Tuesday! If you don’t practice, you won’t improve.
Homework is available on the Y4 Homework section of the website, times tables and spellings will be tested next Friday.
Please keep sending your child in with their red water bottles. Air-Up and similar bottles are not appropriate for school, we have had a few issues with them leaking.
Catholic life
The following resources are a great way of keeping you all informed of our current liturgy themes and of the weekly Gospel scripture, with some activities that the children can complete at home. We hope you find these resources useful and that they help you to support prayer and worship in your own homes.
https://www.paperturn-view.com/uk/wednesday-word/faithfulness?pid=MTA101634&v=74.6
http://www.tentenresources.co.uk/prayers-for-home/parent-newsletter/
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…
What Parents & Educators Need to Know about Instagram This free guide tells you all you need to know about the social media platform Instagram, breaking down its associated risks and how best to mitigate them.
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.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.
Mr Bourn and Mrs Dunford
