We welcomed in this new half term with a whole school mass to celebrate the feast of All Saints. This was also a joint celebration to mark Our Lady’s School’s 70th birthday! It was a lovely start to the week and a time to reflect on what it is to be saint. Fr. Frank talked about how the word ‘Saint’ means holy and to be a saint is to treat others as we would treat Jesus. I think Our Lady’s is full of Saints in the making! After mass, the parishioners from Our Lady’s were invited over to the school hall for tea, coffee, biscuits and a chance to reminisce on the history of Our Lady’s school. We had also delved into the archives and managed to get pictures of Our Lady’s school along with past pupils and teachers, from years passed.
Here’s what else we have been up to this week…
In Maths we have been finding fractions of amounts and writing and plotting co-ordinates in the four quadrants on a graph.
In English we have started our new unit on ‘Classic Fiction’. In our first lesson we wrote a discussion text based on the question ‘Can modern literature be classed as Classic Fiction?’ We explored some arguments for and against this idea and then the children put their own view across too. We have also been exploring new vocab, including archaic language, from the opening on ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ This will be our main focus text for this unit but we will also be exploring extracts from many classic fiction books.
In RE we were asking and responding to questions about the Kingdom of God. We thought of two questions we found difficult to answer ourselves and went around the class to ask our friends to respond to them. Once we had our friend’s response we then wrote a reflection on what we thought.
In History we have come to the end of our Battle of Britain topic, so we responded to the question ‘How was the Battle of Britain a significant turning point in British history.’ We then filled in a critical thinking grid with our different responses to the topic as a whole.
In Computing we did some research on Bletchley Park.
🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟
The Golden Award went to Elsie for being one of those children who is always getting on with her work!
The Writing Award went to Hallie for her cohesive piece of writing in History.
The Maths award went to William for his brilliant work on co-ordinates.
NOTICES:
PE is on Wednesdays.
Homework- I have set homework this week, details of which can be found on the Year 6 Homework Page.
Contact information- if you need to contact me for any reason, please email using year6@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk.
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.
Online Safety at Our Lady’s
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 guides give helpful advice about…
The social media site X, highlighting the major changes since its rebrand from Twitter and the related online safety risks.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: a suspense-filled horror game which has nevertheless attracted a relatively young fan-base.
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 for a great first week back, Year 6!
Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Evan
