Sky Arts ‘Access All Arts’ Week
This week has been Arts Week in school. Access All Arts week is a nationwide, week-long celebration of the arts, specially designed for primary schools. This week we’ve been on a creative adventure on the theme of ‘Connection’ exploring how the children can connect to themselves, each other and the world around them, through the arts. Drawing inspiration from Mr Doodle, on Monday the children doodled their favourite things onto a landscape. Yesterday, the children had to pick one of the selected landscapes from the art gallery, and using Colour Cards, they mixed different colours and recreated the landscape with a different mood. Today, using a picture of Blackpool cut up into 28 pieces, the children have painted a piece of the cut-up landscape, experimenting with the colours they use. Next week, we will finish it off and collage it back together into a triptych. We’ve had lots of fun! 👩🎨🎨🖌️🖼️👨🎨
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Peter
Writing Award - Kurt
Maths Award - Rosie
Our learning this week…
In English we have planned and started writing our own dilemma narrative.
In maths this week we have been adding fractions.
In RE we have been learning what the church teaches about other faiths.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Corben and Emelia. The theme of their liturgy was What is the Kingdom of God? Jesus helps us to understand these heavenly ideas by using down to earth stories - The Parable of the Growing Seed and The Parable of the Mustard Seed (Mark 4:26-34) . The children told that Jesus helps us understand that the Word of God (what the Bible teaches us) should produce a crop in our lives and it should change us. They challenged the class to think about the answer to…How can you let the Word of God change your life?
“What shall we say the kingdom of God is like?" Mark 4:30
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Erin from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust.
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 Popups This free information guide addresses the online safety risks of pop-ups, letting you know how to make children aware of this prominent marketing technique.
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.
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 ☀️
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
