In RE this week we focused on Jesus’ journey into Jerusalem, which we celebrate on palm Sunday. We know that this event preceded the Passion of Christ, and it was a joyous moment for the people of Jerusalem who welcomed Jesus, their Messiah. Jesus was God’s promise of a saviour fulfilled and the people of Jerusalem acknowledge Jesus as this promise. Not everyone, however, was as excited by Jesus’ arrival. We focused on a image of Jesus’s arrival into Jerusalem and describe the thoughts and feelings of the different people in the image; this included the people of Jerusalem, the religious leaders and Jesus himself.
Here is what else we have been up to….
This week have continued with our SATS booster lessons on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday morning. Mrs Owen and Mrs Ormerod have continued to build and develop Year 6’s reading skills and GPS understanding. They are focusing on how to answer some of the questions, in order to achieve the marks. In Maths, I have focused on drawing angles using a protractor, time and nets of 3D shapes. We will be sitting some mock SATs papers every morning next week, up until Thursday. These will be sat in the school hall to give the class a real feeling of what it will be like on the actual week of SATs. I will communicate these SATs scores with each parent before we break up for Easter.
In our Maths lesson our focus has been pie charts and percentages and calculating the mean.
In English we started a new unit; this is on discovery narratives. We will be using two vehicle texts, centred around Charles Darwin’s life and discoveries, to help us to produce quality pieces of writing. This week we made predictions and explored some new vocabulary and phrases.
In Science we started a new topic on Light. We used a demonstration of a torch and a cardboard tube to prove that light travels in straight lines. When we had the tube straight we could clearly see the light through the both side, when we shone a torch through it. When we bent the tube, however, we could no longer see the light. This proved two things: light cannot bend (it travels in straight lines) and light cannot travel through opaque objects. We then drew some scientific diagrams in our books.
Here are some pictures of us with our Sacred Art pieces of work….
🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟
The Golden Award went to Elsie for being a caring and considerate member of the class. She not only cares about her peers she cares about her work and her learning!
The Writing Award went to Kurt for ensuring her included some of the key words and phrase in his wirtten prediction.
The Maths award went to.Connie for her superb work measuring and drawing angles.
CONGRATULATIONS to all that took part in the interschool cross country event on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Mannix was so impressed with their resillience. A special mention must go to Darcy, who came first place!! Well done, Darcy!
Year 6 Easter Reflection: Jesus’ Resurrection
We welcome Year 6 parents to join us, along with the rest of the school, as we lead an Easter reflection on Jesus’ resurrection. This reflection will take place in the school hall at 9.30am, on Friday 11th April. The refection itself is about 15/20 minutes long. As we will have all of the other year groups in the hall too , we must limit attendance to two adults per family.
Kooth: Mental health and well being support
Please find below an information letter from Kooth, which is a resource that offers free, safe and anonymous mental health and wellbeing support for young people no matter what worries they are facing.
In order to reassure parents of Kooth being a trusted resource fully funded and endorsed by the NHS and Local Authorities, they are also offering some webinars for parents to come and find out more about the service. Below are the links for parents/carers where you will find out what Kooth is, how your children can sign up and how we keep your children safe online.. Parents can keep their cameras off if preferred.
31st March 6:00 - 6:30
3rd April 6:30 - 7:00
Our Lady’s sponsored run to Rome–raising money 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 6 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. 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 child’s parentpay account. This event will be added to parentpay account ‘Run to Rome for Cafod’ 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.
📌NOTICES📌:
⚽ PE day- Wednesdays.
📝Homework- I have set homework this week, details of which can be found on the Year 6 Homework Page. Please can you encourage your child to complete all homework set, as I still have some children not completing all of their online homework.
📩 Contact information- if you need to contact me for any reason, please email using year6@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk.
📆 Year 6’s Easter reflection is at 9.30am on Friday 11th April.
📆 We break up for Easter on Friday 11th April, and return to school on Tuesday 22nd April.
📆 SATs begin on Monday 12th May and the last test will be sat on Thursday 15th May.
✝Wednesday Word and TenTen Newsletter
Please have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worships…
WEDNESDAY WORD Please follow this link below to access the Gospel Readings for the forthcoming week, there are also some fun activities to complete, this is a fantastic family resource to share and celebrate with your child at home.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s 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!
🖥Online Safety at Our Lady’s
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 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.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Murphy, Mrs Ormerod & Mrs Owen
