Today we celebrated the Feast of Pentecost by going over to church and taking part in a liturgy. Pentecost is one of the most important feast days of the year that concludes the Easter season and celebrates the beginning of the Church. Pentecost occurs 50 days after the death and resurrection of Jesus, and ten days after his ascension into heaven. When the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles, they preached the Good News of Jesus Christ. Miraculously, people of many different languages and nations could understand the Apostles in their own languages. This miracle reflected God’s desire for the Gospel to be preached to all, and for all the peoples of the earth to be united in faith.
In church, some children from Year 5 were involved in reading out the readings from the Bible - they all read so beautifully, well done! Then, Father Frank invited each class to share the poster that we had all made which had the gifts of the Holy Spirit written on them. Our poster showed the gift of ‘understanding’. Each class also shared the word ‘Peace’ spoken in different languages, just as the disciples had been able to speak in different languages all those years ago. Year 5 shared the word ‘Peace’ in Ukranian - ‘мир’.
In class, alongside wearing bright colours to mark this wonderful joyous celebration, we did some Pentecost crafts to remind us of the coming of the Holy Spirit…
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Harriet
Writing Award - Mia
Maths Award - Dominic
Our learning this week…
In English we have been looking at devices to support cohesion within a text and we have been identifying the features of a dilemma narrative in preparation for our own writing.
In maths this week we have been looking at number sequences involving fractions with the same and with different denominators.
In RE the children have been thinking about prayer and they have read a number of Bible readings where Jesus told us about how we should pray. The children then made their own guide to prayer in response.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Dominic and Teddy. This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Dominic and Teddy. The Gospel this week shows Jesus’ prayer for believers - that we would be one with Him and the Father. We can live in this unity by trusting Jesus, keeping our focus on Him, praying as He did to God the Father, and remaining in His love. The Gospel reading is taken from John 17:11-19.
“Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one,” John 17:11
In geography the children are working with Mrs Mannix and are continuing to work on latitude and longitude.
In computing this week the children have continued to program a piece of themed music on Sonic Pi .
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.
Monday 20th May School nurse visit to talk about the changes to bodies in puberty. This is part of our Science curriculum in Year 5 and is also part of our HRSE.
Friday 24th May Non Uniform day – £1 for PTFA funds
Friday 24th May Close for May half term
Monday 10th June School reopens for pupils
Thusrday 13th June Year 5 St Mary’s Taster day (To be confirmed. More details will be posted nearer the time).
Friday 14th June Non-uniform for PTFA theme EUFA Euros wear football Kit / a team colour and bring
an unopened bottle 🍾 (KS2) for summer fayre bottle tombola.
Friday 28th June (am) KS2 Sports Day - provisional subject to weather🤞🏻. Please note KS1’s will be the day before (subject to weather). Alternative dates have been arranged for Sport’s day if the weather is poor, but due to a clash with our taster day at St Bede’s on the 11th July, we won’t be in school.
Thursday 11th July Year 5 St Bede’s Taster day (More details will be posted nearer the time).
Friday 12th July Summer Fayre after school PTFA events
Monday 15th July Moving up afternoon - Year 5 will go up to Year 6 and spend some time with their new teacher in preparation for the new academic year.
Tuesday 16th July 9.15am Year 6 Leavers mass whole school and families in church
Friday 19th July 3.15pm Break up for Summer ☀️
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 and Educators Need to Know about Helldivers 2 This free Wake up Wednesday guide discusses the online safety risks of the video game Helldivers 2 and offers advice on how to safeguard younger players.
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 liturgy…
Have a great weekend everyone!
Mrs McVey, Mrs McCooey and Miss Evans
