This Sunday 3rd December marks the first Sunday of Advent and the start to the Church’s new liturgical year. On this day, the Hope candle will be lit. Advent comes from the Latin word meaning "coming." Jesus is coming, and Advent is intended to be a season of preparation for His arrival. While we typically regard Advent as a joyous season, it is also intended to be a period of preparation and penance. In Year 6 this week we made our Advent Promises. As we were writing these, we were mindful of the ways in which we can use our promise to help spread the Kingdom of God.
Here is what else we have been up to this week…
In Maths we have had a big focus on percentages: finding percentages of amounts, finding missing values involving percentages and looking at percentage and decimal equivalents. We also had a look at past SATs reasoning paper. Rather than giving this to the class in test conditions, we looked at it together. Everyone had a go at each question independently first and then we went over the answer to each question straight away, as a class. This was a good way to ease each of them into the reasoning papers and give them an idea of the styles of questions they are asked.
In English we look looked at the introduction of the first main character that Dorothy meets in The Wizard of Oz: Scarecrow. We used this to identify some key features and then created an ‘Introducing new characters’ toolkit. We also watched the whole film this week as we needed to plan our shared write but had only managed to get part way through the novel. Next week we will begin our shared write, using the story line of the Wizard of Oz but innovating it with new characters and settings etc.
In Science looked at further classifying animals within their groups. This helped us to understand that there are so many different ways of classifying living things, based on their shred/differing characteristics. We had a go at classifying birds and mammals into different groups.
In Geography we looked at the cities and towns in the UK. To begin with, we had to look at what cities and towns are and the class named as many as they could. After this, we then labelled many cities and towns of the UK on a map, using our atlases to help us.
In HRSE our focus was on difficult emotions. We looked at different strategies to help us cope with these types of emotions, that will help us not to act irrationally in times of emotional turmoil.
🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟
The Golden Award went to Amelia for her efforts to remain focused in class.
The Writing Award went to Avie for her valued contributuons towards our class write.
The Maths award went to Lexi-Rose for her work on percentages and fractions.
📌NOTICES 📌:
Dates for your diary:
🗓 Friday 8th December 2.00pm-3.15pm - SEND Coffee Afternoon in the Church Hall.
This is a follow up from the successful SEND afternoon and will focus on deciding what professional parents would like to hear from and areas that they need support in. Mrs Ormerod will speak to you about how to navigate the FYI directory and how APDR/ graduated response works in school. There will also be members of the Blackpool parent forum in attendance. There will also be people there to discuss support around the cost of living.
🗓 Wednesday 20th December - Christmas meal & Christmas jumper day.
Children are invited to wear their own clothes for the day, and this can include Christmas jumpers, dresses or accessories if they would like - but please don't buy anything especially. We would like to support Save The Children with the Christmas jumper day, and will add a voluntary contribution of £1 to Parentpay for donations to this charity nearer the time.
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
