Millie: for encouraging her friends to make the right choices.
Livia: for a high standard of writing across all subject areas.
Kyran: for super progress with fractions - finding the LCM to add and subtract fractions with different denominators.
Maia: for demonstrating excellent Growth Mindset.
Vinny: for improving his arithmetic raw score by 16 marks this term.
Ebony, Idana, Malachy and Ollie!
For excellent Flashback Narratives which include trigger and transitional sentences demarcated with ellipses. Well done!
Jayden-Thomas: for making a concerted effort to demonstrate our school values.
Franchesca: for a good effort analysing transitional sentences used in Flashback Narratives.
Alisha: for a resilient attitude towards solving calculations mentally.
Golden award
Maisie: for showing compassion and kindness towards others.
Maths award
Kyran: for making great progress with identifying the order of mathematical operations.
Star Writer
Samuel: for trying hard to develop his understanding of writer’s knowledge. Great progress!
Well done to Year 6 for leading our special assembly today. You all read beautifully.
We have enjoyed using concrete materials this week to investigate square and cube numbers.
We have been busy creating our Blitz skyline art using pastels and silhouettes.
Golden Award
Max: for setting a great example and being a good friend.
Maths Award
Maia: for super progress with identifying common factors and multiples.
Star Writer
Vinny: for an excellent effort with his Bravery Award speech.
Golden Award:
Summer - for her attitude, kind-nature and always having a smile on her face!
Maths:
Max for superb focus during daily morning maths activities
Writing:
Sophie for excellent effort with her Bravery Award speech
What a busy first half term!
Have a lovely break everyone. See you soon, Miss L :)
We have produced some fabulous diary entries using features such as adverbials, rhetorical questions, parenthesis and emotive language.
We have started analysing Bravery Award Speeches and look forward to planning our own next week.
We have loved our new Computing topic based on Bletchley Park. We have learnt about code breaking and we are now Caesar Cipher experts!
In science, we have planned an investigation to explore the effect of different exercises on our heart rate.
Golden Award:
Lillie S for always demonstrating a positive attitude towards her learning.
Maths:
Abigail for showing resilience when working on challenging division calculations - and keeping a smile on her face!
Star Writer:
Lily for making a huge effort to work independently when analysing the structure and language features of a text.
Well done to Max and Maia - you will do a superb job!
Well done, Vinny and Maisy!
Golden Award:
Leo, for a consistently respectful attitude towards adults and peers alike.
Maths:
Sam, for being resilient in order to achieve his target with multiplication.
Star Writers:
All Year 6 have made excellent progress during our unit on diary entries!
A special well done to Tyler, Dainton and Livia for creating atmosphere through emotive vocabulary choices.
Thursday 20th October: Own clothes day - £1 per child for PTA funds
Friday 4th November 6-7pm: KS2 Bonfire Night Disco - £3 a ticket
Sunday 4th December: Christmas Fair. More details to follow!
Year 6 have been busy planning our diary entries based on ‘Rose Blanche’. We have completed our Maths unit on Place Value and we have started problem solving using written methods of addition and subtraction.
Well done to all the children who delivered their speeches on Tuesday. They were all fabulous and we are all very proud of you. KS2 have now voted…Results to follow!
Well done to Year 6 for becoming our school prefects on Monday during our lovely assembly.
We really enjoyed a visit from referee, Ollie Langford, who gave us lots of information about his role and he showed us the equipment he uses during a match. He then set us a challenge to create a design for a product to make his job easier! We heard some great ideas including those of Ebony and Lily K, who thought of a goal post which flashes different colours if the ball crosses the line, and Vinny who designed some fabulous football boots to help the Ref keep up with the players!
We watched a superb performance of Twelfth Night on Wednesday, starring some of our very own Year 6 children! They then performed at The Grand on Thursday and Friday. What a superb opportunity!
Golden Award:
Millie for being so helpful and considerate.
Star Writer:
Gabriella for making a great effort in her work and remembering to reflect a high standard of written work in all subjects.
Maths:
Lily K for excellent daily arithmetic work in Morning Maths.
23/09/22
A huge well done to our stars this week:
Golden award:
Idana for always trying her best to make the right choices - in her learning, attitude and in how she treats others.
Star writer:
Malachy for making a concerted effort to improve a diary extract - including the use of parenthesis and sentences of three.
Maths:
Evie for her focus and effort, particularly when using STEM sentences to explain how she calculated an answer.
Golden award:
Henri for excellent independent work and focus
Star Writer:
Isobel for a superb contrast poem
Maths:
Ollie for superb explanations of the mathematical strategies he uses
Welcome back!
Welcome back to your final year at Our Lady of the Assumption!
Year 6 teaching team:
Miss Leahy, Mrs Owen and Mrs Frost
Our PE days are Monday and Thursdays - remember to wear your full PE kits on these days.
Reading
Our class texts will include ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, Anne Frank and ‘Poems from the Second World War’, which link to our Autumn term history topic ‘World War II’.
Remember to read at home and log this in your diary.
Writing
This term, our writing will be based on the book, ‘Rose Blanche’. We will become skilful in using adverbials, rhetorical questions, emotive language and parenthesis to add detail when producing diary entries.
I will set homework activities in your Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling CGP books.
Maths
We are beginning with Place Value within 10,000,000 and using the four operations.
Remember to practise your times tables.
I will also set homework activities in your CGP books.
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The Kingdom of God
We will:
Learn about the Kingdom of God and reflect on its meaning for us
Understand that everyone is invited into the Kingdom of God
Consider ways to share the Good News
Know that Jesus has compassion on all who suffer and think of ways in which we can show compassion
Know about people who helped to spread the Kingdom of God and reflect on what we can learn from them - Maximilian Kolbe & Mother Teresa
Science
Animals - Exercise, Health and the Circulatory System
Targets:
Identify and name parts of the human circulatory system
Describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood
Describe ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans
Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way bodies function
Foundation subjects
Each week, we will also study either Geography or History, Art or DT, Computing, Spanish and Music.
I’m really looking forward to our year together - it’s going to be a great one!
It has been an extremely busy week for year 6. Not only have we begun our rehearsals for our end of term production, which we are excited about, but we have started our enterprise project. You may have seen us on the play ground at the end of the day selling lolly pops or in school selling book marks, along with setting up a box office to sell tickets to our production. Through this project we are learning; business skills, marketing, money sense and how to keep accounts, so please support our business venture by buying our products.
Thank you to all parents who came to cheer us on during sports day. It was lovely to have the Our Lady community together again and the beautiful sunshine made it even more enjoyable.
Results of KS2 Sports day…
1st Layton 500 points Champions!🏆👏🏻
2nd Marton 473 points
3rd Clifton 470 points
4th Newton 469 points
Please see below for the remainder of the photos from our time at Water Park. I hope the children have all managed to rest over the weekend and that they have told you all about their time away. We have made such wonderful memories and I know I speak for all the teachers present when I say that we feel so grateful that we had the opportunity to spend this time with your fantastic children! When I reflect on everything we achieved I feel such a great sense of pride.
I hope the children enjoy their last few weeks as Our Lady’s pupils!
Miss Heim-Sarac, Mrs Ormerod, Mrs Owen, Miss Evans and Miss Murray
P.S. There was one camera (Mrs Owen’s group I think) that I can’t seem to get the photos off. I will keep persevering!
We are so sad to be coming to the end of our final full day at Water Park! The week has flown by and we are all so proud of the children for how they have conducted themselves. Not only have they behaved beautifully, they have ALL shown great resilience, independence and teamwork.
We have finished today with our talent show…our winners were:
1st place - Laciee
2nd place - Molly
3rd place (joint) - Onalee/Eliza, Isabella and Brodie
The children were all fantastic - we were so impressed with the effort they put in to their performances. The children are currently enjoying their last night disco. There has already been lots of dancing and games!
Here is what the children have done today in their groups:
Wetherlam - sailing on the dart boats and kayaking
Swirl How - journey day (to peel island and part of top o selside) and kayaking
Coniston - orienteering and sailing
Brown Pike - canoeing, rock climbing, sailing
For tea we had a roast dinner followed by banoffee pie.
I am sure you are all looking forward to seeing the children tomorrow and I know they are looking forward to seeing you too. Personally, it has been so lovely to spend this week with the children as the last time I spent time with them properly was in Year 3. They have all grown in to such lovely, mature and kind children.
The photos from today will be available on the blog tomorrow.
Miss Heim-Sarac, Mrs Ormerod, Mrs Owen, Miss Evans and Miss Murray
Here are the photos from Day 3 (Wednesday)…
We have had another wonderful day in the beautiful surroundings of Water Park. The children are currently having some hot chocolate before heading to bed. Each day we have been awarding prizes per group for those children who we think have really shown great progress in terms of their independence, resilience or teamwork skills. Ask your child when they are home if they received a prize!
I hope you can all see the pictures in the blog post below from days 1 & 2. I am having the same issues as yesterday connection wise so I will upload today’s photos tomorrow! The weather was quite gloomy this morning but it really perked up this afternoon and we even had some sunshine!
Here is what each group has been up to today:
Swirl How - sailing, orienteering and low ropes
Coniston - sailing and problem solving
Wetherlam - canoeing, climbing, abseiling
Brown Pike - ghyll scrambling and orienteering
Phew! We are all tired and looking forward to a good nights sleep. For tea we had chicken burgers and chips followed by apple crumble and custard. We then went outside to play some games and sit around the fire. A lovely day was had by all.
Miss Heim-Sarac, Mrs Ormerod, Mrs Owen, Miss Evans and Miss Murray
Hello parents!
We apologise for the delay in getting this blog to you - yesterday was such a hectic day that before we knew it we were getting ready for bed! When we first arrived the children had a tour of the site and were introduced to the Water Park staff. We then had a yummy lunch and were shown where we were sleeping. This was the part the children were most excited for - their bedrooms! We then split in to our groups for the week - Coniston, Brown Pike, Swirl How and Wetherlam. The activities for yesterday afternoon were ghyll scrambling, kayaking and canoeing.
The children were all brilliant and had a fantastic time. We then came back to the house and had our tea - pizza followed by lemon cheesecake. We had a fun game of manhunt in the grounds and hot chocolate before bedtime.
Water Park is set in such beautiful surroundings - on the shores of Consiton Water - and we all feel very lucky to be here taking part in activities we would never usually do. We are really pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones and at the same time learning how to be more independent and resilient. As teachers, we couldn’t be prouder of them all. Here is what the different groups got up to today:
Wetherlam - orienteering, low ropes, leap of faith, sailing
Coniston - rock climbing, kayaking, canoeing and low ropes
Swirl How - ghyll scrambling and climbing
Brown Pike - Journey Day
After the activities above we had a tea of lasagne, salad and sticky toffee pudding! We then played a game called Dino Quest outside followed by hot chocolate. As I write this, the children are currently playing an intense game of Uno in the lounge!
We have tried to take photos where we can, but we are having some connection issues. We will get them uploaded as soon as possible for you to see. We hope you enjoy seeing what your children have been up to and we will post another blog tomorrow for you. Please don’t worry - your children are all fine and having a great time.
Miss Heim-Sarac, Mrs Ormerod, Mrs Owen, Miss Evans and Miss Murray
