We had a lovely end to this half term. Yesterday, the children had a fantastic time at Ascent and made us all proud of how well behaved they were and how they showed great resilience. Well done Year 5! Thank you all so much for sending in the children’s Ascent socks.
On Tuesday we celebrated Safer Internet Day. This year’s theme was Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations online. It gave the children the opportunity to think about their own online activity, which online activity matters to them most and think about how the online issues they had discussed can make people feel and how their bodies might react. After doing this, they explored the importance of talking to someone and how this can help.
To support online safety at home, here is this year’s Safer Internet day newsletter.
Our Reading Champions…
Well done to our reading champions this half term who all completed bookmarks for reading regularly at home.
When the children read regularly, golden tickets are given out and then we do a draw at the end of each half term. Well done to Hallie, who is our golden ticket winner and has won a prize for her great home reading this half term.🤩👏🏻
Please can you encourage your child to read at home and sign their reading diary. I’ve noticed that many children are not reading as regularly as they should and and this is having an impact on the progress they are making and their quiz scores in school. Next year, the children will need to sit the SATS reading paper and in order to prepare for this, the children need to be reading as much as they can. They should be reading for at least 20 minutes a day at home. To improve this, we will continue to check reading diaries weekly and they will receive house points and Golden tickets for reading and taking quizzes. Get reading Year 5! 📚
Our award winners:
Golden Award - Poppy
Maths - Ruby
Writing - Jacob
Star Award -
Bedrock Competition
Well done to all of Year 5 who achieved 140 points or more on Bedrock over this last half term. I wish you all luck for the Bedrock prize draw! A big congratulations goes to our Bedrock Champion, Charlotte, and well done to all the other children on our TOP 5 scoreboard. Well done!
Well done to all the children who are on our leader board this week.👏🏻
Here is our TOP 5 on the scoreboard this week:
1 Charlotte Gilheaney 308 points
2 Lexi Rose McGow 265 points
3 Ola Marzec 232 points
4 Joseph Flanagan 225 points
5 Emma Burgess 207 points
Resilient moves…
What resilient moves will you make over half term? 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:
Exercise and fresh air (Basics)
Play and hobbies (Basics)
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…
Hope you all have a lovely half term.
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans, Mrs McCooey and Mrs Hodgkiss
