Wow! Here we are again at the end of another half term. Can you believe we only have one more half term before we reach the end of Year 5? Time flies when you’re having fun! The children have all been working hard and certainly deserve their well earned break. Please do, however, encourage your child to read daily and make time for spellings and times tables - it’s really important to keep up with these so they continue to progress as we reach the end of Year 5 and get ready for Year 6. Happy half term everyone!
Our award winners:
Golden Award (RESPECT) - Darcy
Writing Award - Zahra
Maths Award - Ronnie
Our Reading Champions…📚
Well done to our reading champions this half term who all completed bookmarks for reading regularly at home.
Well done to Emelia, who is our golden ticket winner and has won a prize for her great home reading this half term.🤩👏🏻
Swimming
Well done to all of Year 5 for their efforts in swimming this year so far. They’ve achieved so much already we thought we better give the certificates out. We will swim all next half term but there will be no swimming in the last week - instead they will have a swimming safety talk with one of the swimming teachers. ⭐️
Our learning this week…
In preparation for our English write, the children have created a mood palette for their chosen beast and have used their ideas to create relative clauses.
In maths this week we have been looking at comparing and ordering fractions and mixed numbers.
In RE the children have been thinking about the meaning of the Lord’s prayer.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Lily T, Olivia S and Olivia W. The girls’ liturgy celebrated Pentecost. After going up to heaven, Jesus sent His Holy Spirit to the disciples and all who believed. Their prayers echoed those of the first week of Eastertide and along with our other daily liturgies this week, they will help the children to grasp more deeply the reality and joy that Christ is alive and that the Holy Spirit lives within us and helps us. The girls’ challenged the children to think how the Holy Spirit can help them in their lives.
“Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” John 20:22-23
In geography the children are working with Mrs Mannix and are continuing to work on 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.
Friday 24th May Close for May half term
Monday 10th June School reopens for pupils
Thursday 13th June Year 5 St Mary’s Taster day. We will be there until 2.30pm when we will return to school. The children will need to wear their full school uniform and will need to bring a packed lunch for the day and their water bottle (usual school packed lunch rules apply).
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…
Happy half term everyone!
Mrs McVey, Mrs McCooey and Miss Evans
