Bikeability
First of all I just want to say a massive well done to all the children in Year 5 who took part in Bikeability this week. It’s not been the warmest to be outside for most of the day, but they all persevered, listened well and showed off their safe cycling. Well done!
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Jackson
Writing Award - Beaux
Maths Award - Ellenie
Our learning this week…
In English we’ve planned and started to write our formal report.
Our focus in maths has been using and interpreting data from tables and two-way tables.
In RE the children have been working with Mrs Mannix and learning about the covenants made with God
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Beaux and Oscar. The theme of their liturgy was Be the King of my heart. In this Gospel, John 18:33-37, we learn that as the true King, Jesus leads us by His Word and His Spirit to the truth of God the Father’s love for us. Our hearts are little kingdoms made for the King.
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” (John 18:33-37)
In science, the children have explored the effects of water resistance.
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Charlie from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The unit for this half term is dance.
In our Bounce Forward sessions (as part of our PSHE), we made a resilient moves box and the children wrote down some challenges to go in the box. Each week we will pick some out to challenge the children to create some resilient moves during the week. Every Bounce Forward session we always start the lesson by sharing the resilient moves that we have made over the course of the week and identifying which of the potions they come from on the resilient framework.
This week’s resilient move challenges are:
Get enough sleep (Basics potion)
Engage mentors and learn from our role models (Learning potion)
Build your resilience
How many resilient moves can you make this week?
Use the resilient framework to identify the ones you and your family make. Resilience Framework
Congratulations and thank you to Emily who shared her resilient move this week…
If you would like to share a photo of your child making a resilient move, then send them to our email year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk and I will post them here each week. For example, a photo of a bike ride - the resilient move would be fresh air and exercise which comes from the basic potion on the framework. Please note: if the photo has other children on it, please ensure you have consent to share it with me.
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition continues and runs till the 20th December. Good luck everyone! Please make sure you take the time to do your bit.
Our school is currently in 3rd place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 1576 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Harriet Year 6 21269
2nd Matilda Year 3 20367
3rd Natalia Year 5 19051
4th Olivia Year 5 17865
5th Aibhin Year 5 9631
Well 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 Snapchat. This free guide brings you up to date with the risks associated with Snapchat, and lets you know how best to safeguard young people who use the app.
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…
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th December Bikeability for the remaining group of Year 5s. Good luck!
Friday 6th December PTFA Christmas Fair. 3.30pm -5.30pm. More details to follow on this.
Thursday 12th December Members of our school choir singing at Abbingdon Street Market 6pm
Tuesday 17th December Festive party clothes day and Christmas lunch
Thursday 19th December KS2 carol service in church - families welcome 2pm
Thursday 19th December close for Christmas 3.15pm
Monday 6th January 2025 First day back in 2025
Have a great weekend, Year 5!
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.
