This week the children have thought carefully about how they are going to prepare themselves to meet Jesus this Christmas. They have made their advent promises and they have linked their promise to Jesus’ teachings. Please ask your child what they have promised to do this advent.
We’ve had a couple of exciting weeks and one of the highlights was a writing workshop with our local author and now Our Lady’s school reading patron, Dan Worsley! Dan came into school to work with the children to plan a big write using an extract from one of his own stories. The children enjoyed the story telling and were so inspired that when Dan left us to go and work with Year 6, Year 5 wanted to carry on with their own version of Dan’s humorous story. I’m so proud of how hard the children worked! They listened well to the advice that Dan gave them and they worked hard to include all the features.
In maths the children have been focusing on division and multiplication methods. They’ve used mental strategies to multiply and divide multiples of 10 and 100 and they’ve used written methods to multiply and divide 3-digit and 4-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers.
In RE the children have listened to the story of Abraham and Sarah, learnt about the Covenant God made with Abraham and have reflected on Abraham’s trust in God.
In Science the children have been learning about the movement of the moon relative to the Earth and have learnt about the phases of the moon. The children have been given moon watch homework - they need to draw the shape of the moon (if visible) each night and identify the phase of the moon using the moon dial they made in class. Please hand the moon watch homework in after Christmas.
In geography the children undertook their second fieldwork trip. They made their own maps around the Squires Gate shopping area and then asked the general public to complete a questionnaire. The children really enjoyed their fieldwork and all the teachers were very proud of how well behaved and polite the children were.
We started our DT work this week. The children were set a challenge to make a simple chassis using just card, dowling, 4 wheels and masking tape. Take a look at their efforts…
