The Third Sunday of Advent symbolises Joy with the “Shepherd’s Candle” reminding us of the Joy the world experienced at the coming birth of Jesus. The third Sunday of Advent we are invited to reflect on the joy we have access to because of our faith in Jesus. One of the defining characteristics of Christ-followers is their joyful demeanor. Let’s not allow the struggles of this year steal from the great joy we have because of Jesus.
Advent liturgies
Throughout Advent we would like to invite all children and families to join us in the school hall for a short Advent liturgy led by Father Frank.
This will be held every Tuesday morning at 8:20am until Tuesday 20th December 2022.
We do hope you can join us for this opportunity to gather as a faith community to reflect on the true value and meaning of Advent. Thank you to those families who joined us last week.
Our learning this week…
In English the children have finished planning their own exploration narratives and have begun writing their own exploration narrative.
In Maths the children have used the written method of column subtraction to subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits.
In RE the children have learnt about Moses and the Ten Commandments.
In computing the children have been learning to use a new 3D design software package called TinkerCAD ready to design new tyres for a Mars Rover.
In PE they’ve continued to work on and develop their space-themed dance.
In music the children have practised singing carols for our KS2 advent service later this month.
During our Bounce Forward session we continued to look at the basics potion on the resilience framework and the children identified three different ways that they can challenge themselves to be more resilient. Take a look at the resilient framework here.
We started our Design and Technology work this week. The children were set a challenge to make a simple chassis using just card, dowling, 4 wheels and masking tape. They also recapped their learning on building electrical circuits in preparation for a project next week. Take a look at their efforts…
Our award winners:
Golden Award - Ayson
Maths - Chase
Writing - Zak
Star Award - Mickey
Resilient moves…
Thank you to those who have shared their resilient moves this week…
What resilient moves will you make this week? Please email me photos of your resilient moves you make this week to year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk I look forward to receiving them.
This week’s resilient moves challenges are:
Try to start fresh each day and remember tomorrow is another day (Coping)
Spend time playing and making time for hobbies (Basics)
Bedrock Competition
Bedrock’s competition will run till the 18th December. The children will need to complete their Bedrock lessons to earn 140 points, by this date, for a chance to win fantastic prizes (points will be checked starting 31/10/22). We will also continue our own in class competition.
Here is our TOP 5 on the scoreboard this week:
1 Mickey 514 points
1 Ola 511 points
3 Jacob 431 points
4 Hallie 254 points
5 Charlotte 245 points
Well done to all the children who are on our leader board this week.👏🏻
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.
With Christmas nearly here and perhaps with presents including new technology or related games being received, we thought we’d share some helpful advice in setting up appropriate parental controls. Parental controls can help to protect your child from seeing something that they shouldn’t – although it is important to emphasise that no system is effective all of the time so it is important to engage with your child and talk to them about their online life regularly.
We hope you find this Newsletter informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all.
Online Safety Newsletter December 2022
KS2 Advent Service
On Monday 19th December at 2pm, KS2 will be taking part in an Advent Service in Church. All families are invited to join us as we sing some traditional carols and listen to the Nativity story.
Own clothes day
Our Lady's PTA would like to invite all children to come to school on our last day of term - Tuesday 20th December in their Christmas clothes.
Children are welcome to wear their own clothes and include anything Christmassy they would like - for example Christmas jumper, Christmas dress, party dress or Christmas accessories.
Please don't buy anything special for the day, you can always be creative with decorations and tinsel at home to create your own accessory to wear with your own clothes!
There will be a £1 donation set up in Parentpay to raise money for PTA funds.
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. https://www.paperturn-view.com/uk/wednesday-word/half-term-holiday-special?pid=MTA101634&v=72.4
Hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans, Mrs McCooey and Mrs Hodgkiss
