📚Jeff Kinney visit to Our Lady’s!!!📚
I can hardly believe I am typing this, but yesterday we welcomed THE world-renowned author and cartoonist, Jeff Kinney, into our school!! We were so fortunate to be selected for this visit and the whole of the school were unbelievably excited to meet the ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ writer. We gathered together, as a whole school, while Jeff delivered an fun, interactive assembly and then he spent some time with our Year 6 librarians! I had 7 extremely giddy librarians in my class yesterday! This was such an amazing opportunity to raise the profile of reading within our school and further inspire our budding writers and illustrators.
Jeff Kinney visit….
Here is what else we have been up to….
In Maths we continued to looked at converting between fractions and decimals and then moved on to multiplying by decimals.
In English we finished and copied up our descriptive cyclone poems. I was so impressed with the standard of these poems and so were the class. So much so that we made three copies-one to display in the classroom, one for our books and one to take home! We then moved on to looking at the introduction of one of the main characters in The Wizard of Oz : Scarecrow. We compared the introduction of Scarecrow in the novel with the film version, noting any similarities and differences. We then looked in more depth at the description of Scarecrow and innovated Frank L Baum’s description from the book.
In RE we look at an example of injustice that happened back in 2000 when a wealthy gold mining company set up work in Honduras, which hugely affected the local residents in the area. Not only did they have to move from their homes and life in (very poorly made) houses, they also had no land to plant their crops, were inflicted with air and noise pollution and had no clean water to drink so had to resort to drinking unsafe, contaminated water from the gold mine company. We linked this injustice to Pope Francis and Jesus teachings and discussed how this company were not playing their part ot be stewards of God’s creation-this also link in nicely with Pope Francis’ words from Laudato Si.
In Science the class complete an end of topic quiz on our topic from last half term. Any questions they did not know the answer to, they researched and filled in with their purple pens.
In Computing we started to make a PowerPoint presentation all about Bletchley Park. Each group will be presenting these to the class, when they have been completed.
🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟
The Golden Award went to Oscar for giving up his own time to make and sell items to raise money for charity.
The Writing Award went to Bobby for the huge improvement to the standard of his written work.
The Maths award went to Joshua for his quick mental maths when dividing numbers by 10 and 100.
NOTICES:
Children in Need-I would like to say a huge thank you for the effort and donations from today. It was a huge success, and as a school we raised a lot of money towards Children in Need charities. A special mention to Oscar Op and Jacob for helping to make and sell items to raise extra money for this charity too!
Homework concerns- I have started to notice that more and more children each week are failing to complete either the Bedrock lesson or the IXL units, and in some cases both! I really do not want the standard of homework completion to slip. Please can I politely ask parents to remind their child at home that all online homework has to be completed by Wednesday evening. I will reiterate this in school too.
PE day- 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.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Evans
