This Sunday will mark the fourth week of Advent. We light the final purple candle to mark the final week of prayer and penance as we wait for the birth of our Saviour. The 4th Sunday of Advent symbolises Peace with the “Angel’s Candle” reminding us of the message of the angels: “Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men.”
Well what a wonderful end to a great term! I am so proud of Year 5, it has been such a pleasure to get to know your children this term - they are all lovely and they’ve all worked so hard and have come on so much already. Well done Year 5!👏🏻😊
Dance-A-Thon
Yesterday, Year 5 led the whole school in a fun festive Dance-A-Thon. Each class came down to the hall and Year 5 welcomed them in and danced along to a few Christmas dances. This was organised during UK Parliament week and the whole school took part in a vote for what they wanted to do to celebrate Christmas in school. Look at the fun they had…
〰️ Our Achievements
〰️ Our Achievements
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Olivia
Writing Award - Year 5
Maths Award - Luna
Our Reading champions
Well done to our reading champions this half term, who all completed bookmarks for reading regularly at home. Let’s see if next half term we can see more reading champions. Don’t forget to keep up with your reading regularly and get your diaries signed.
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition continues and runs till tomorrow at 3.30pm. Good luck everyone! Please make sure you take the time to do your bit. I will be rewarding house points to those children who go on TTRS.
Our school is currently in 4th place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 2150 points (school average score) so far.
Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Matilda Year 3 23493. ⭐️🏆 Champion 🏆⭐️
2nd Harriet Year 6 23413
3rd Natalia Year 5 20016
4th Olivia Year 5 19777
5th Aibhin Year 5 9934
Well done to Matilda in Year 3, who was our Times Table Rock Star Champion this half term, and to everyone on our leaderboard and who took part! 👏🏻🏆
In our Bounce Forward session, we started to think about all the positive relationships in our lives and thought about all the people who are in our support circle who can help us through tough times.
Our resilient move challenges for Christmas the holidays are:
Be brave (Belonging potion)
Make friends and mix with other people (Coping 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
Thank you to Emily who has shared her resilient moves 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.
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…
10 Top Tips for Safety on Social Media. This guide provides expert advice on helping children and young people to use social media responsibly.
We hope you find this guide 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…
Thank you to those families who were able to join us for our KS2 Advent carol service today, we hope you enjoyed it. We also wish to thank you for your lovely gifts, cards and words, we really appreciate it.🙏
We wish you all a wonderful happy and Holy Christmas 🎄 and we hope you all stay safe and well and have a great start to the New Year. See you all in the new year!
Mrs McVey, Mrs Hodgkiss and Miss Andrew
