This Sunday marks the second Sunday of Advent. The second Sunday of Advent symbolises Faith with the “Bethlehem Candle” reminding us of Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem. There is comfort to be found when we pause to read, pray, and reflect over the course of the Advent season...a time when believers eagerly anticipate the celebration of Christ’s birth. The second Sunday of Advent gives us the opportunity to prepare our hearts in faithful waiting, celebrate the birth of Jesus, and ready ourselves for his second coming. It's a beautiful chance to reflect on the ways prophecy has been fulfilled and to ponder what the future (promised to us through prophecies) will bring.
This afternoon we had a lovely Advent prayer and reflection led by Father who came to talk to the children about how we can pray and talk to God. He showed the children different ways they can pray such as through music and smell using incense,. He said when we burn incense, it is a sign our prayers are going up to Heaven. Father also talked about the different prayers that we can say to God: thanks, please and sorry. The children were given a piece of paper and wrote either a thank you prayer or a ‘please’ prayer and then put it in a container, which Father will take over to church to burn in a special container to send our prayers to Heaven. Each of the children also received a chocolate coin wrapped in foil which represented a person who we needed to say sorry to. The children took off the foil and said a sorry prayer and then screwed up the foil to throw away the sin. Father reminded us that in Matthew it says, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Our award winners:
Golden Award (CARE) - Lola Mae
Writing Award - Oscar
Maths Award - Layla
Our learning this week…
In English we have been identifying the language features of a formal report and have been writing sentences using modal verbs.
In maths the children have been using mental strategies for addition and subtraction.
In RE we have learnt about the Covenant that God made with Abraham. We considered what Abraham had to do to keep the covenant and what helped Abraham overcome the challenges
In Science the children have investigated the effects of water resistance.
In Spanish the children have been learning to respond to the question, ¿Tienes hermanos? (Do you have brothers or sisters?).
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Erin from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The focus of their lessons this half term is invasion games: Rugby.
In DT the children have begun to think of vehicles and were challenged to make a moving chassis.
Our Year 5 prayer and liturgy this week was led by Darcy and Lily. Their worship was on the theme of Let your light shine! The girls reminded the class of how they can let their own lights shine this advent by living out their advent promise and Jesus’ commandment, “Love one another as I have loved thee.”
“Then Jesus said, If you are good, you will be like a candle that shines brightly for everyone to see.“ Matthew
Bedrock Competition!
Don’t forget Bedrock’s new competition to be in with a chance of winning some great prizes. You just need to collect 20 points or more each week and earn 160 or more points in total using Bedrock from 30th October till the 24th December.
Here is our TOP 5 on the scoreboard this week:
1 Kurt 435 points
2 Hallie 415 points
3 Layla 260 points
4 Isaac 164 points
5 Elsie 143 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.
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
Disney+ This guide examines the hugely popular streaming service Disney+ for potential risks, giving advice on how to avoid 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.
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…
Dates for your diary…
Wednesday 20th December Christmas meal & Christmas jumper day Children are invited to wear their own clothes for the day, and this can include Christmas jumpers, dresses or accessories if they would like - but please don't buy anything especially. We would like to support Save The Children with the Christmas jumper day, and will add a voluntary contribution of £1 to Parentpay for donations to this charity nearer the time.
Thursday 21st December at 2.15pm - KS2 Advent Service in Church.
Parents are invited to celebrate the KS2 Advent Service with us over at Our Lady’s Church. We will be singing some Christmas carols as we tell the story of the Nativity. We’d love to see you there if you can make it.
Hope you all have a great weekend everyone!
Mrs McVey and Mrs McCooey
