Here we are at the end of another term! Take a look below at what the children have been up to this week and their achievements. I hope that over the Easter holiday you are all able to enjoy some down time and have a wonderful, happy and Holy Easter with your families. 🐣
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs McCooey
We said goodbye to our ducklings 😢…
Sadly, the ducklings have now gone to their new home on a farm where they will be able to wander freely with other ducklings. We’ve really enjoyed watching them grow and getting to know them and we’re really going to miss them as they all have such loveable characters. The children particularly enjoyed watching the ducklings take a paddle in their own mini paddling pool. Yesterday, they paired up with their Reception buddies to share in the joy!
Book Lent challenge complete!📚
I am so delighted with all of Year 5 this week for completing their Lent challenge book. It’s been wonderful to see how enthused they’ve been and I’m impressed with how many children have read more than one of our challenge books - some reading all seven books from the selection. This morning each group sat together over a celebratory cake so that we could talk about the book we had read. It was really lovely to chat about the book and share our thoughts and opinions. Well done Year 5, I’m so proud of you all!
Our Good Friday liturgy
Yesterday, Year 5 led the whole school in a liturgy about Good Friday, the crucufixion of Jesus . This part of the Easter story is a difficult one to tell, as it is the saddest part of the Easter story, but Year 5 were able to reflect on the events so beautifully and showed great reverence - we were so proud of them!
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Layla
Writing Award - Dominic
Maths Award - Hallie
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.🤩👏🏻
Our learning this week…
In English we have been writing a diary entry from the point of view of Puck to conclude our work on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In maths this week we have been working on finding the area of shapes and comparing and estimating the areas of different shapes.
In Science we have been tracking the growth of our ducklings and learning more about them.
RE - In the parable of the Lost Son (the prodigal son), the children have identified the important message and have explored who the Father and the Son represent and what the the story tells us about them.
In geography the children are working with Mrs Mannix and are looking at latitude and longitude.
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 rounders.
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…
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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.
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…
