Our award winners:
Golden Award (RESPECT) - Beaux
Writing Award - Eleena
Maths Award - Jackson
Our learning this week…
In English the children have improved their 1969 lunar landing paragraphs. They’ve also been identifying tense and changing our writing between present and past tense. We’ve also been reading about Neil Armstrong and thinking about his character.
Our focus in maths has been partitioning 5-digit numbers and then placing numbers on a number line.
In RE the children have been working with Mrs Mannix on the Creation story.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Ellenie and Gabriel. The theme of their liturgy was Walk in His presence. In the Gospel (Mark 8:27 - 35) , Jesus confounded the expectations of His disciples. It helps us learn that God’s plans can be surprising and that following Jesus involves expecting the unexpected. The children challenged the children to think about how they can walk with Jesus this week.
“You are the Messiah" Mark 8:29
In science we have been learning about how day and night occur.
In Spanish we have focused on greeting each otherand developing our knowledge of counting in Spanish.
In art we continued to develop our work on Hundertwasser .
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Charlie from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The focus of their lessons this half term is all about leadership and being a good buddy to develop their skills for their role as play leader.
Homework
A reminder that a summary of this week’s homework can be found on the Year 5 homework page. Please make sure homework is completed by Tuesday, ready for spelling and times table tests. Don’t forget that we are also part of the BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League.
Each half term, the schools within the trust compete with each other on TTRS. This half term’s competition is already underway but we can still do our best to get as many points as we can from now till the 18th October. In addition to this, during our Celebration assembly on a Friday, our leaderboard will be announced. Please see the poster. Good luck everyone! See poster
Our school is currently in 4th place out of 12 schools in the trust. We have 414 points.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Aibhin Year 5. 9,194 points
2nd Natalia Year 5 9,042 points
3rd Ava Year 4 4,242 points
4th Ellenie Year 5 1,528 points
5th Alexander Year 5 1,332 points
Well done to everyone on our leaderboard this week!
Bikeability
Thank you to all those who have already filled in their Bikeability forms. If you have yet to send your child’s form back, please read and sign the forms as soon as possible and send back into school so that I can confirm numbers and allocate dates. Please be clear on your form whether your child will need to borrow a bike. If your child has not yet filled in their Bikeability form but does not wish to take part, please could you confirm this by email year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk Thanks for your support.
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 & Educators Need to Know about Final Fantasy XIV This free guide covers the risks of the popular video game Final Fantasy XIV, as well as letting you know how to help young players safely enjoy this MMORPG.
We hope you find these guides 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…
Monday 23rd September School Photographs
Thursday 26th September European Languages Day
In class we will mark this day by dedicating some time to talk about the importance of foreign language learning, learn about the culture of our chosen country (Spain) and use the language.
Thursday 26th September Year 5 Class mass 9.30am
Thursday 10th October Whole School Wellbeing Day – we ecourage you to wear odd socks this day. The day will be lead by Year 4 who have taken on the new role as our Resilience Team this year.
Monday 14th October Parents meetings for every class – in school from 1pm (electronic appointment will be sent out separately)
Wednesday 16th October Whole school Harvest Celebration Assembly
Friday 18th October Whole School Science workshop followed by Year 5 and 6 separate workshops.
Friday 18th October 3.15pm close for end of half term
Well done Year 5, we’ve had another good week. Have a great weekend!
Mrs McVey, Mrs Hodgkiss and Miss Andrew
If you need to contact me or have any questions/queries, please contact me on year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks.
