In RE we started our new unit on ‘Jesus, the Messiah’. In this week’s lesson, we have been working in pairs to explore the question ‘How do we know that Jesus is truly human and truly God?’. Some of us have created PowerPoint presentations, whilst others have presented it as an information poster. We also made our Lenten promises. Lent is a time for self reflection and repentance. It’s a time for us to closen our relationship with God, as we prepare for the death and resurrection of His son, Jesus Christ. We wanted to make sure, therefore, that our Lenten promises were meaningful and achievable; not just empty words.
📚World Book Day!!📚
'There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot in Treasure Island.' Walt Disney
Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day. The class looked absolutely fabulous, dressed up as their favourite book character. Such a great effort!! In class we started the day watching a Wizard of Oz performance arranged by a small group of girls and boys in the class. They were brill! In the afternoon, we had a carousel of activities that we made our way around. There were five stations, which included: book mark making; book scavenger hunt; guess the book emoji quiz; read and relax and book word searches. We had such a fun afternoon immersing ourselves into the world of books. Reading is so important as it helps us to grow and develop in so many ways! From Today, our Lenten reading challenge will begin too; this will give the opportunity for us to read the same books so we can have a book club at the end of the term. We can have a biscuit and have a chat about what books we read and what we thought about them.
Here is what else we have been up to….
In Maths this week our focus has been on finding thr area of any triangle. We have also spent more time in our maths booster lessons focusing on the reasoning papers.
In English we have planned our independent write and have now started writing our narrative. We have used our guided write to help and support us with this. I cannot wait to read the completed pieces of writing next week!
In Science we continued with our topic on ‘Evolution and Inheritance’. This week we studied Charles Darwin and his theories on evolution and Natural Selection. We started to write a scientific report on this,which we will finish off next week..
In Art we designed, outlined and then painted our piece of sacred art, centred around the theme of HOPE. This lesson was lead by Mrs Ormerod, who is a very talented artist herself. First the class thought about what images, symbols and/or scripture passages they wanted to be the focal point of their art and they then used their artistic flair to transform this into an inspirational piece of sacred art.
🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟
The Golden Award went to Olivia W for being such a good friend to all.
The Writing Award went to Lola-Mae for making sure the opening of her independent write was to a high standard.
The Maths award went to Tommy for the huge improvement with his arithemtic.
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition runs till the 11th April. Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 4th place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 1130 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Matilda Year 4 14280
2nd Elsie Year 4 10585
3rd Ava Year 4 6714
4th Annie Year 4 5944
5th Frazer Year 4 5703
Well done to those on our leaderboard!
📌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.
📆 After school SATs Booster lessons will continue on Tuesdays, 3.15pm to 4.15pm
Science Week Year 6 Project
Any last minute garments MUST be bought into school on Monday.
✝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
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 TikTok. This free guide explores the potential online safety risks of TikTok, letting you know how to safeguard children and young people who use the platform.
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
