We said goodbye to our ducklingsš¢
Sadly, the ducklings have now gone to their new home on a farm where they will be able to wander freely with other ducklings. Weāve really enjoyed watching them grow and getting to know them and weāre 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!
Our Lenten Reading challengeā¦
Iām delighted with how well Year 5 have taken on this challenge. Itās been great to see so many of them reading so many books and taking their quizzes. Weāve even got some children who have almost gone through all the books in our collection - over 10 books! Please continue to encourage your child to read as much as they can and read as many of the Lenten books as they can. For each book read, they will receive a golden ticket and will also receive a golden ticket for each time they read 3 times at home. At the end of this challenge we will have our book club celebration and a golden ticket winner will be drawn and they will win a special prize. Keep up the great reading, Year 5! š
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School Run to Rome Sponsored Event for CAFOD
As a school we are together going to run the distance from our school to The Vatican in Rome. We will be doing this by running laps around our field. Together we will run a distance of 2180km.
Our running club have launched the event by running 122 laps and they have pledged to run 1000 more laps.
Each class has been given a target number of laps to run - Year 5 will be running 30 each - before Friday 25th April when we will celebrate reaching our total and will be sending Miss Heim Sarac off on her London Marathon Event on. Miss Heim- Sarac is running for CAFOD Please support us by sponsoring the run.
We would ask parents to collect sponsorship from friends and family and then pay the total amount through your childās parentpay account. This event will be added to parentpay account āRun to Rome for Cafodā in order for proceeds to be sent directly to CAFOD as we are now a cashless school. Please can all sponsorship forms be returned by Tuesday 22nd April 2025. Thank you for your support.
Our award winners:
Golden Award (CARE) - Conleth
Writing Award - Laura
Maths Award - Eleena
Our learning this weekā¦
In English this week, we have identified and used relative clauses and weāve also been looking at the features the writer has used in our model text.
The focus of our maths this week has been changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa. Weāve also been comparing fractions less than 1 and more than 1.
In RE the children have been working with Mrs Mannix on the theme of Inspirational people and have focused on the Beatitudes.
This weekās prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Luna and Jacob. The theme of their liturgy was Reasons to Praiseā¦.They used last Sundayās Psalm to inspire prayer of praise for Godās limitless love and mercy and they asked the class to write their own prayers.
āPraise the Lord, my soulā Psalm 103:1
In Science this week we have continued to learn more about our ducklings.
In Computing the children used the Stop Motion studio app to make animations on a whiteboard.
In Spanish weāve continued to look at number and have practised phrases on the topic of family.
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition runs till the 11th April. Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 3rd place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 2112 points (school average score) so far.
This weekās Our Ladyās Top of the Rockās Leaderboard:
1st Matilda Year 4 27543
2nd Elsie Year 4 18801
3rd Alexander Year 5 14101
4th Annie Year 4 13094
5th Frazer Year 4 12955
Well done to those on our leaderboard! šš»
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 monthās online safety guide gives helpful advice aboutā¦
What Parents & Educators Need to Know about Bluesky Social App. This free guide discusses the growing popularity of Bluesky, a public-first microblogging social media platform, and explores what parents and educators can do to ensure children's safety when using the app.
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 weekās 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 worshipā¦
March ā June 2025 Year 5ās in school workshops with experienced drama/dance practitioners as part of the Tales Retold project
7th April - Easter Egg Competition Deadline ā all children can enter ā details to follow
11th April - Easter Bonnet parade in school ā details to follow
11th April - Close for Easter
22nd April - School reopens
Thursday 15th May Year 5 trip to Grand Theatre to watch Pig-Heart Boy. Payment for the trip can be made on Parent Pay (this can be done in instalments if you wish). Thank you to those who have already paid in full.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
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.
