The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice – an agreement to end the First World War. Year 5 spent time thinking about all those people in the armed forces who have sacrificed so much to protect their country and we made our own poppies . On Monday morning, like the rest of the country, we joined the whole school in a Remembrance reflection led by Year 6 and we held one minutes silence as a sign of respect.
As a sign of respect due to remembrance day this week, we have continued to focus on our school value of RESPECT and our Golden awards and positive post, that we do in class, have celebrated those children who have been living out the value respect. #RESPECT
Our award winners:
Golden Award (RESPECT) -
Writing Award -
Maths Award -
Our learning this week…
In English we’ve been investigating the structure of a formal report and the key language features. The children have been experimenting with openers and extenders to write complex sentences and have particularly focused on relative clauses.
The focus in maths has been addition and subtraction - using formal column methods, mental methods and using rounding to estimate answers, which csnn
In RE the children have been working with Mrs Mannix and learning about the covenants made with God
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Laura and Zachary. The theme of their liturgy was The Widow’s Offering. In this Gospel, Mark 12: 41-44, we learn about a widow who gave away her last two coins and that Jesus is interested in the generosity of our hearts. Even if it feels like we have little to give, will we trust God and give our all? Being generous demonstrates one way of showing love.
During their liturgy, we were reminded of the Children in Need appeal that takes place on Friday by watching a film about a boy called Ryan who is supported by a charity that is in turn funded and supported by monies raised during Children in Need. Thank you, if you have supported our appeal to support Children in Need through Parent Pay today - if you haven’t yet, it’s still not too late to do so.
Zachary and Laura challenged the children to think about how they can be generous this week and the children wrote their own little prayer.
“They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.” (Mark 12:44)
In science, the children have investigated how friction acts on objects.
In geography the children used the data collected from the questionnaires completed to find out some trends. The children made pie charts to present their data.
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Charlie from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The unit for this half term is dance.
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition continues, which started on Monday and runs till the 20th December. Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 2nd place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 1233 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Harriet Year 6 18121
2nd Matilda Year 3 17644
3rd Natalia Year 5 16391
4th Olivia Year 5 15318
5th Aibhin Year 5 8464
Well done to everyone on our leaderboard this week!👏🏻🏆
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…
Friday 6th December PTFA Christmas Fair. 3.30pm -5.30pm. More details to follow on this.
Thursday 12th December Members of our school choir singing at Abbingdon Street Market 6pm
Tuesday 17th December Festive party clothes day and Christmas lunch
Thursday 19th December KS2 carol service in church - families welcome 2pm
Thursday 19th December close for Christmas 3.15pm
Tuesday 7th January 2025 First day back in 2025
Have a great weekend, Year 5!
Mrs McVey, Mrs Hodgkiss and Miss Andrew
If you need to contact me or have any questions/queries, please contact me on year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks.