To begin our new half term, the whole school went to mass to celebrate the feast of All Saints. All Saints’ Day is celebrated every year on 1st November; it is a holy day in the Catholic Church, celebrating the saints of the church as well as those saints who have not yet been recognised.
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Ellenie
Writing Award - Conleth
Maths Award - Oscar-James
Our learning this week…
In English we’ve been immersing into more lunar landings and gathering vocabulary and their meanings in preparation for the next big write - a formal report.
Our focus in maths has been dealing with negative numbers, adding and subtracting 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000 and number sequences.
In RE the children have been working with Mrs Mannix and learning about St Francis..
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Elsie and Hallie. The theme of their liturgy was Give me courage. Bartimaeus was a poor blind beggar who persisted, made a fuss and kept calling for help because he knew, not with his blind eyes but with faith, we too can look deeper, like Bartimaeus, and use our eyes of faith. To develop our spiritual sight we need to listen, seek, and respond to Jesus’s call. The girls’ challenged the class to think about how they will respond to Jesus’s call.
““Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.”” Mark 10:52
In geography the children have used a digital mapping program to create a map of their route to school including a key. Thank you to everyone who drew out a map of their route, it really helped to complete their digital map.😊
In art the children have been experimenting by working in the negative by using rubbers to remove graphite work.
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Charlie from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust.
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League has a new competition, which started on Monday and runs till the 20th December. Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 1st place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 429 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Natalia Year 5 6749
2nd Aibhin Year 5 5600
3rd Fionn Year 3 2436
4th Ava Year 4 1334
5th Natan Year 3 490
72Well done to everyone on our leaderboard 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…
What Parents & Educators Need to Know about Fortnite. This free guide provides expert insight into the risks associated with Fortnite, letting you know how to keep children safe while they play.
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. Thank you.
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…
Monday 11th November - Remembrance day Poppies will be on sale in school to support this special occasion. Children can bring in a voluntary contribution to support the Royal British Legion in preparation for this day. Thank you!
Friday 15th November KS2 Autumn disco. 6pm -7pm in school hall. Tickets available via parent pay at £2.50. Children to come in party clothes. Snack and drink included.
Friday 6th December Christmas Fair. 3.30pm -5.30pm. More details to follow on this.
Thursday 19th December Festive party clothes day
Great start to this new half term, Year 5, well done! Have a lovely weekend!
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.
