Day 3 Water Park

Coniston

Today we canoed to the other side of the lake. We hiked 300 meters up Beacon Fell (Cumbria). Half way up we stopped and climbed the rock face with harnesses and helmets. We then continued the long climb to the top of the Fell. We had many stops along the way and it was really hard work. The children persevered and we all made it to the top! The climb down was much more fun. The canoeing home was hard as we were all exhausted and hungry. I think we will all sleep well tonight.

Wetherlam

What an amazing day at Waterpark. Firstly, went out on the ‘big cat’ round the lake. The children absolutely loved it. Then we went on the fun boats sailing. Again, the children worked so well together and showed great resilience. We then had lunch. This afternoon we went to do ghyll scrambling. All of the children said this was the highlight of their week so far. Before the Ghyll we also stopped off at the Bluebird Cafe for an ice cream and to feed the ducks. One of the swans nipped Charlotte on the bum and through her laughter she said ‘I’m so lucky I have so many layers on because I didn’t even feel it!’

Swirl Howe

Today has been another dry day with the sun shining, We started with a team game this morning by the lake, then we took a minibus to a place called Humphrey Head with a beach and sheep. We headed over a hill doing sausage rolls back down. After we stopped for lunch we went rock climbing, They all did amazing, crawling under rocks and going such a long way not to mention scrambling over them too. We are all tired but had a fun day!

Evening Activites

This evening we all played hide and seek. Mrs Bland and Mrs Heim-Sarac were expert at this game and won the first round… we will never reveal our hiding place either ha ha!

We then went down by the lake and had marshmallows by the fire, followed by hot chocolate in our PJs. The perfect end to a perfect day!

Star of the Day

Coniston: Lexi for never giving up or complaining about how long or far things were

Wetherlam: Bobby for positivity and politeness

Swirl Howe: Elsie for resilience

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Authorfiona ormerod

Day 2 Water Park

Just letting you all know we all had a peaceful night and we are all okay. We are getting ready for the day and will have breakfast at 8am. Some of the children are up, dressed and already playing the piano.

We will update the blog at the end of the day.

Coniston

Today we worked on our listening skills and ensuring we had our clothes ready for the day as we knew we were having a wet morning. We got kitted out in wetsuits and waterproofs and spent the morning kayaking on the lake. We played games and had races and even climbed out on the jetty. We then spent a lot of time jumping in the lake.

After lunch we did some orienteering then more climbing. Today we all climbed on the high ropes to the top of the pole. We have had a fantastic day.

Hallie: My happiest time was jumping off the jetty, I am really proud of Joseph for getting in the lake, I learnt how to kayak, I am proud of myself for not panicking when I fell in the lake out of my kayak.

Avie: My happiest time was climbing the pole, I am proud of Joseph for standing on the platform, I learnt not to be scared of heights, I am proud of myself for jumping off the jetty.

Lexi: My happiest time was jumping off the jetty, I am proud of Mrs Bland for climbing to the top of the pole because she doesn’t like heights, I learnt to jump off the jetty, I am proud of myself for standing on top of the pole and waiting for Joseph to climb up to me.

Joseph: My happiest time was climbing the pole, I am proud of everyone for getting to the top, I learnt to not give up and to keep trying until I succeed, I am proud of myself for standing on the pole.

Mickey: My happiest time was speeding off in the kayak, I am proud of everyone getting to the top, I learnt how to kayak and that I am quite good at it, I am proud of myself for being on the water because I don’t like fish.

Amelia: My happiest time was holding hands and leaning forward, I am proud of Avie for being the first up the pole, I learnt to kayak and I am proud of myself for jumping off the jetty.

Wetherlam

Our first full day at Water Park has been busy and very memorable. We started the day sailing on the darts. Some of the children also had the chance at driving the speed boat. It was perfect weather for sailing! We then came back to the house for a shower and lunch. We spent the afternoon on the low and high ropes. The children were incredible and really pushed themselves out of their comfort zones. They have shown great team work and have been encouraging each other throughout the day.

Swirl Howe

Today the sun was shining, so we got the fun sail boats out, did Low ropes, took a mini bus to the cafe and skimmed stones. In the sail boats we played a game and it was the first to get to the balls, Ozzie & O’C won and got all 3. We stopped at the side of the lake to have lunch, we split up into groups some did a bit of hiking while listening to music whilst others sailed on their own, then we swapped over. We all got back on our boats and sailed 5 miles back with our partners to Water Parks, we got back safely with rosey cheeks. We all had a great day!

Evening

We played a treasure hunt picture game followed by two games of camouflage. We then had hot chocolate and biscuits. We have all gone upstairs to bed exhausted from the day but excited for tomorrow.

Stars of the Day

Every single child has worked hard and persevered with their own individual challenges.

Coniston: Hallie for falling in the water pulling herself out and never complaining or panicking, just being such an inspiration to us all.

Wetherlam: Jacob for mastering sailing and then facing his fears on the high ropes. A huge shout out to his team for being great cheerleaders and encouraging him to keep going.

Swirl Howe: William for persevering with sailing when he found it tricky, so much so he sailed solo back to the bay!

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Authorfiona ormerod

Day 1 Water Park

We arrived safely and had a brief meeting with Annie. We then had lunch and moved into our rooms for the week.

After lunch, we unpacked and had a fire drill. We then split into our groups and all took part in various activities.

Coniston Group

Our group leader is Vicki. First, we went on the low ropes outside until it rained. Then we climbed the indoor climbing wall.

Mickey was encouraging Lexi and Joseph during bouldering and was demonstrating how to be a great teammate. Joseph entertained us all with his tiny scream of excitement at everything new. We enjoyed playing bouldering statues, Avie won the first round and Lexi the second round, Mickey was runner-up in both rounds, and in the final round Mickey won with Lexi close on his heels.

Hallie kept slipping off the wall but improved her technique and mastered her fears through sheer determination. Joseph and Avie were the only two to complete the orange bouldering path without falling off.

We moved on to climbing to the top of the wall with harnesses. The group built up their techniques and resilience all climbing blindfolded and on the overhang. Amelia is a natural at climbing too!

It was then our turn to clean up and set up for dinner, their teamwork and communication were second to none.

Wetherlam Group

The instructor of this group is Alex. The weather was crazy! One minute it was sunny, the next we had a hailstorm! The teamwork was incredible and everyone had fun and worked together. We had a pit stop and played some games too.

Swirl Howe Group

This group’s instructor is called Steve. We got caught in the hail in the middle of the lake whilst canoe rafting. Resilience is our middle name! We accidentally might have rowed into another boat. We persevered and completed our tasks and had so much fun. We were all looking forward to a hot shower afterwards.

Extra photos of the day below

Evening Activities

From 7 pm till 8.15 pm we took part in a dinosaur treasure hunt around the grounds. We then put PJs on, had hot chocolate and chilled out. It is now 9 pm and all the children are in their rooms exhausted. Hopefully, we will all have a good sleep ready for the excitement tomorrow will bring.

Students of the day:

Mickey - being the first to show great teamwork by encouraging others.

Charlotte - being fearless, dunking her head in the freezing lake numerous times and doing a starfish in the lake too!

Emma - fighting through freezing hail without batting an eyelid.

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Year 6 News

Friday 12th April

This week year 6 worked hard at looking through their SATs papers, making changes and targeting the gaps in their knowledge.

Well done year six for showing resilience and determination.

Online Safety

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.

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We hope you find this guide informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all.

Year 6 Dates to remember

Waterparks: 15th - 19th April

Year 6 awards

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award (Respect) - Frankie

Writing Award - Emma

Maths Award - Avie

Congratulations!

As always in year six I am on the lookout for kindness and respect. This week Emma helped Frankie when he was injured. Lexie helped Ayson during class. Oscar Op was kind to Jacob. There were many other examples too, keep it up year six!

Year 6 Homework:

Finish off the SATs papers sent home during Easter to return by Monday 15th April. If you have already completed them then you have a weekend off.

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Year 6 News

Thursday 28th March

Every day this week Year 6 completed mock SATs. They have all worked hard to complete their tests and I have been impressed with their efforts.

Reports

Reports will be sent home the first day back after Easter.

Events

Today Year six shone bright during assembly. Our job was to inform the rest of the school about the Resurrection …and inform them we did! Each member of the class sang, danced and performed their lines. Mrs Owen, Mrs Mccooey and I were all so happy and proud of each class member. A huge congratulations to each of them!

Year 6 awards

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award (care) - Chase and The whole class for their exceptional performance and hard work with SATs.

Writing Award - Lexi Rose

Writing Award - Bobby

Maths - Everyone for completing two SATs maths papers in one day.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to all of year six for their hard work this week. We are working together as a class on kindness and being a good friend. Mickey has been encouraging people on the football pitch, Ayson has been kind and caring for classmates when they were upset and has been coaching those struggling at football and giving them help and tips, Joshua for checking how my day has been and Emma for making sure I had water at break. Thank you to all of year six for all the kindness you bring to the school.

Dates to remember:

Back to school: 9th April

Waterparks: 15th-19th April

SATS: 13th-16th May

Year 6 Homework:

Please complete the SATs tests that have been sent home.

Try and complete them like you would under test conditions, within the time. Then anything you didn’t know circle the question and ask a parent or look it up and see if you can then answer the question. Just be honest and make a note of what you had help with. This is revision, it is to help you. Please do not stress over your tests, have an easter egg and a drink and practice your SATs work.

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 and Educators Need to Know about Clickbait This free information guide addresses clickbait – a widespread digital marketing strategy which carries several significant online safety risks for impressionable youngsters.

We hope you find this guide informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all.

Happy Easter to you all!

To read this week’s Good News Gospel reading, please follow the link to share the Gospel at home with your family. These are child-friendly resources to share at home. Good News Gospel

Please also have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worship…

TenTen Parent Newsletter

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Authorfiona ormerod

Year 6 News

Friday 22nd March

Math

This week we have continued our learning about co-ordinates. We have practised translation and reflection. We have practised long multiplication, decimals and ended the week pushing our learning with multi-step word problems. Every student has shown resilience and perseverance in their learning.

English

This week the outcome stays the same: To write an explanation of how an animal has adapted to its environment, however, our focus shifts to finishing our first draft and presentation. The students have chosen to make a poster or newspaper article or leaflet. This will hopefully be completed next week.

Events

PE: Our wonderful coach Erin had a great lesson on Wednesday with our new topic rounders.

Sports Champions: On Fridays, year 6 are fortunate enough to have a visit from Sports for Champions. It is a wonderful opportunity for year six to access this extra knowledge about sports and what it takes to become a champion. As a class, we are all working hard to complete the tasks of doing more exercise and eating healthily. We finished counting our stickers and we will wait to see what prises we won. Congratulations year six.

Waterparks: Please ensure you have a Waterparks information pack and that the medical consent form is filled and returned.

Year 6 Dates to remember

Waterparks: 15th - 19th April

Year 6 awards

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award - Hallie

Writing Award - Ola

Maths Award - Mickey

Congratulations!

As always in year six I am on the lookout for kindness and respect. This week I was recovering from an operation and some students made me cards, throughout the week I have had various students help me and check if I am okay, which is so kind and thoughtful. Thank you year 6.

Year 6 Homework:

More information in the homework section

Spellings: please practice your spellings, some children get full marks each week because they practice. Come on year six, you can do this.

IXL English: Nouns - see Homework section

IXL Maths: Fractions - see Homework section

TT Rock stars: Let’s improve our mental maths

English comprehension: Please complete the new comprehension tests. Time yourself, see how long it takes you to do test 1 and test 2. It should only take 20 minutes, but do not panic if it takes longer, be honest and record it.

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Authorfiona ormerod

Year 6 News

Friday 15th March

Maths

This week we have been focusing on coordinates, plotting in all four quadrants and solving problems. This is preparing us for next week when we will be revisiting reflections and translating shapes. We also revised fractions and used this as an excuse to eat cake in maths.

English

This week we have moved on to developing our plan to be more specific enabling us to successfully use our animal research in our writing. The outcome stays the same: To write an explanation of how an animal has adapted to its environment, however, our focus shifts to writing the first draft of our introduction and paragraphs 1 and 2.

Events

Cake in Math: Any excuse to have cake is a good one. We explored simplifying and equivalent fractions.

PE: Our wonderful coach Erin struggled this week with the rain which meant PE was inside. Year six had a fantastic lesson and as always we are focusing on working as a team and what makes a good team player.

Sports Champions: On Fridays, year 6 are fortunate enough to have a visit from Sports for Champions. It is a wonderful opportunity for year six to access this extra knowledge about sports and what it takes to become a champion. As a class, we are all working hard to complete the tasks of doing more exercise and eating healthily.

Waterparks Meeting: Thank you to those who attended the meeting for those who were unable to attend you were missed. Please ensure you have a Waterparks information pack and that the medical consent form is filled and returned.

Year 6 Dates to remember

Waterparks: 15th - 19th April

Year 6 awards

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award (care) - Ayson

Writing Award - Jacob

Maths Award - Chase

Congratulations!

As always in year six I am on the lookout for kindness and respect. This week I witnessed a student stand up to his best friends who were in the wrong. It is harder to do the right thing when it means standing up to our friends. This act showed incredible strength and moral understanding. This student was praised and rewarded, they know who they are and I am incredibly proud of them and I hope they are proud of themselves too.

Year 6 Homework:

More information in the homework section

Spellings

IXL English: Homophones, Nouns

IXL Maths: Fractions

TT Rock stars: Let’s improve our mental maths

English comprehension: Please complete the new comprehension: Stone Age

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Authorfiona ormerod

Friday 8th March

Friday 8th March

Maths

This week we have been targeting our weaknesses and revising mean, fractions, long multiplication and division, as well as finishing off our last topic - shape. Year six have persevered and worked hard to close the gaps in their knowledge and turn their weaknesses into strengths.

English

We are preparing for our big write on the animal of our choice. We are focusing on factual writing and our writing outcome is: To write an explanation of how an animal has adapted to its environment. Year six have individually chosen an animal and spent this week gathering facts and planning their writing.

Events

World Book Day was a wonderful success. The class voted for their favourite costumes our winners were: Bobby, Joseph, Joshua and Oscar Op. Thank you to all our parents for your support with this day. (Photos will follow in the gallery.)

Sports Champions: Last week we did fruit tasting and this week we played tag rugby. It is a wonderful opportunity for year six to access this extra knowledge about sports and what it takes to become a champion. As a class we are all working hard to complete the tasks of doing more exercise and eating healthily.

Year 6 Dates to remember

Friday 15th March Dress up for Brian House Children can come in to school in something bright, something comfy, something stripy, whatever you want to wear and remember a contribution to our charity.

Year 6 awards

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award (care) - Lexi-Rose

Writing Award - Mickey

Maths Award - Ola

Congratulations!

Congratulations to all of year six for their hard work this week. We are working together as a class on kindness and being a good friend. I have seen lots of examples this week: Frankie congratulating certificate winners, Ayson checking his friends are okay, Bobby and Lexi excelling at team sports, Emma including people in her games at break time, Izzy taking turns with her friends.

Year 6 Homework:

More information in the homework section

Spellings

IXL English: H2. Inference

IXL Maths: DD. Angles 7, 8, 9

TT Rock stars: Let’s improve our mental maths

English comprehension: Please complete the next one in the booklet - Penguins

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Authorfiona ormerod

Friday 1st March

Year 6 Dates to remember

Thursday 7th March World Book Day Children can come into school dressed as their favourite book characters and will need to bring in their favourite book to share and enjoy. Please note: There is no need to go out and buy anything new for the day, it’s more important to bring in a favourite book and enjoy it.

Friday 15th March Dress up for Brian House Children can come in to school in something bright, something comfy, something stripy, whatever you want to wear and remember a contribution to our charity.

Year 6 awards

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award (care) - Charlotte

Writing Award - William

Maths Award - Oscar Op

Congratulations!

Congratulations to all of year six as we grow and develop our caring school community. I have seen many examples of kindness this week. From William and Hallie supporting other students successes, to Lexi and Ayson working together and creating cubes to sell for Brian House. Well done everyone!

Year 6 Homework

(More information in the homework section of the blog)

IXL English: Inference H. 1

IXL Maths: Angles, DD. 4, 5, 6

TT Rock stars: Let’s improve our mental maths

English comprehension: Please complete the next one in the booklet - Orangutans

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AuthorKay McVey

Year 6 awards

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award (respect) - Frankie

Writing Award - Joshua

Maths Award - Charlotte

Congratulations!

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AuthorKay McVey

Friday 9th February 2024

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award (learn) - Year 6

Writing Award - Ayson

Maths Award - William


Spellings homework - Revise the Year 5/Year 6 spelling sheet.


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.

On Tuesday we celebrated Safer Internet day, which takes place every year with thousands of people across the UK working together to champion youth voice and engage in conversations about how we can all work together to make the internet a great and safe place. This year’s theme was ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’.

For more information, click on the link Safer Internet Day for parents/carers

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Cold Cold Week!

19.1.2024

The children were extremely excited to wake up to snow! Fortunately we managed to frolic in the snow before it melted!

This weeks Gospel and our learning in RE

In this week’s Gospel we start to learn how Jesus began to gather the first Christian community. We reflect that our school and our parish were founded to be places of love, friendship, security and inclusion- we try to live this in our daily lives.

Year 6 have been looking at the New Covenant that God made with us and how Jesus is the Bread of Life. In order to contribute to the school community and share their faith Year 6 are creating an explanation of Mass to support the younger children on their spiritual journey.


Learning:

Maths: We have been continuing deepening our knowledge of Algebra and have started to master writng algebraic equations as well as applying formula to mathematical problems.

English: We have continued our exploration of- Darwin An Exceptional Voyage. This week we have analysed the text and considered why the author has chosen particular word and phrases. We had fun acting the meaning of our new vocabulary to ensure we understood!

Science: Linking to Darwin’s explorations in science we are studying Evolution and Inheritance. This week we looked at how species can adapt over time, we also considered how a random mutation can be beneficial to a species survival. We continued to debate how living things adapt to their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution. We enjoyed singing along to the camel song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpGg-m8wyY4

Homework :

Please see the homework page for this weeks homework tasks. They are due to be completed by Thursday 25th.

Notices:

PE will continue to be on a Wednesday

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award (learn) - Jacob Chandler

Writing Award - Hallie

Maths Award - Lexie -Rose

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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.

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Happy New Year and Welcome Back!

May I wish you all a happy new year and welcome back to a new school term. It has been wonderful working with Year 6 this week and they have been very welcoming as Mrs Murphy has now left for her maternity leave. I will keep you updated with any news!

January is traditionally the month of beginnings – a time for making a NEW START.

In this Sunday’s Gospel, we hear about the two disciples of John the Baptist making a new start. They may not have known what John meant when he said ‘Look, there is the Lamb of God,’ but they knew what he wanted them to do: they had to start afresh and get close to Jesus.

In class we have been reflecting on how each day is a new beginning, a fresh start, where we can thrive to do and be our ‘best self’. We may not always succeed but we can listen to the advice of Pope Francis:

“Let us allow God’s constant help to make us new people’”

Learning:

Maths: We have been deepening our knowledge of Algebra and have started to master simplifying equations as well as applying formula to mathematical problems.

English: We have started our literacy unit using the book- Darwin An Exceptional Voyage. We have already written a perceptive prediction about the text and have begun to explore the vocabulary alongside bringing the book to life through our oracy.

Science: Linking to darwin’s explorations in science we are studying Evolution and Inheritance. We had a great time playing the ‘Evolution game’ to discovering how natural selection worked, how offspring vary and are not identical to their parents. we also considered how animals and plants adapt to their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.

Homework :

Please see the homework page for this weeks homework tasks. They are due to be completed by Thursday 18th.

Notices:

PE will continue to be on a Wednesday

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

Golden Award (CARE) - Amelia

Writing Award - Emma

Maths Award - Ola

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Authorfiona ormerod

Have a Happy and Holy Christmas!

As this term comes to an end, we mark the fourth Sunday of Advent this weekend. The fourth candle, also known as the ‘Angel Candle’, symbolises Love. During this final week of Advent, we rejoice in the endless love that God has for us, which is made apparent in the birth of his Son. We reflect on the good news of God’s love brought to us from the angel Gabriel.

This week Oscar Op and Frankie led the class in a beautiful worship on the theme of Friendship. This was a lovely theme to end the year, reflecting on what it means to be a friend and how we can show friendship to those around us, particularly at Christmas time.

Our (busy) week!

As promised, we certainly have not taken our foot off the pedal this week. The class have been: finishing off SATs papers, completing independent writes, touching upon algebra, writing about The Incarnation, making Christmas cards and calendars, practicing carols and taking part in the Advent service!!! Now it is finally time to take a ‘break’ and fully embrace the festivities of Christmas!

Thank you

I would like to thank my class and parents so much for the support I have had this term. I know it came as quite a surprise to the children and parents alike that my journey with this class was going to be shorter than expected, but I really could not have asked for a better way to end 2023. My class should be incredibly proud of all they have achieved in Year 6 since September! This year has certainly not been without its challenges but I have watched each and every one of them grow in so many different ways, and I have no doubt they will continue to develop and flourish with Mrs Ormerod in the new year. Mrs Ormerod has been spending a lot of time in our class this week, getting used to our routines and I know she has been so impressed with the work and focus the class have shown. Even when I finish, to begin my maternity leave, I will certainly continue to follow the journeys of each child in this class-they hold a special place in my heart.

I would also like to say a HUGE thank you for the kindness and generosity you have shown with your gifts, cards and words today!

🌟 AWARD WINNER! 🌟

This week I presented just one award, which was the Golden Award. I awarded this to ALL of the class! I wanted to acknowledge each and every child in the class for the hard work they have shown this year. I really do appreciate the effort you have given to Year 6 so far. Please keep this up!

📌NOTICES 📌:

  • PE day- this will still be on Wednesdays after Christmas.

  • Homework- I have not set any homework over the break

  • Contact information- if you need to contact Mrs Ormerod 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…

TenTen Parent Newsletter

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.

Wednesday Word

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 guide gives helpful advice about…

Top Tips for Setting up Parental Controls on New Devices - This guide provides some valuable advice on setting up new devices so that children can use them safely.

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.

And finally the Year 6 team would like to say Merry Christmas to all of you! We hope you have the most magical Christmas and New Year! We shall see you in 2024!

Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen, Miss Evans & Mrs Ormerod x

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AuthorCatherine Slater

Third Sunday of Advent....rejoice in hope!

This Sunday marks the third week of advent, when the Hope candle will be lit. During the third week of Advent we are filled with joy for the near arrival of Jesus on Christmas day. This Sunday is often called ‘Gaudete Sunday’ as we reflect on the joy the shepherd’s felt at the birth of Jesus.

On Wednesday, Isabelle and Ayson led a beautiful worship all about trust. They also used this as a lovely opportunity to continue opening our class advent calendar, which has been taking us on a journey to the birth of Christ. In our RE lesson we were reflecting on the true meaning of Christmas and Jesus as the Incarnation: God made man. God sent Jesus, who is truly God and truly human, as the fulfillment of His promise to send us a Saviour.

We also had the privilege of watch Reception’s and KS1’s nativities this week, when they showed us the story of Jesus’ birth through song, dance and acting!

Here’s what else we have been up to this week…

In Maths we have had another go at an arithmetic and reasoning paper. This will give me a good insight as to where each child’s strengths/areas of development are. We have also started a new unit on algebra this week. This has been like Marmtie!! Some love it, others not so much! We spent our first lesson finding rules, using algebraic expressions and the next lesson we looked at solving some algebraic calculations.

In English we have (finally!!!) finished our shared write and the class have started to plan their independent write. Next week, we will be using every English lesson to complete this extended piece of write….I am determined to read all of their completed stories before my last day! We also had another go at a reading and GPS SATs paper.

In Science we have been looking at what microorganisms are and how we can classify them into different groups.

In Geography our focus was on the seas and coasts of the UK. We recapped the seas of the UK and then looked at different places on the coast in the UK. We had a list of geographical vocab that we then had the task of researching the meaning of.

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

The Golden Award went to Charlotte for being an active learner. She has really impressed me with her learning in our shared write, in particular, this week.

The Writing Award went to Amy for working incredibly hard on her independent writing.

The Maths award went to Elsie for trying so hard with her maths, even when she finds it challenging. Her hard work is paying off!

📌NOTICES 📌:

  • Dates for your diary:

    🗓 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. Please note that this is a PE day for Year 6, so please ensure suitable footwear is worn.

    🗓 Thursday 21st December @ 2.15pm - KS2 Advent Service in Church.

    Parents are invited to celebrate the KS2 Advent Service over at Our Lady’s Church in the afternoon of the 21st December. We will be singing some Christmas carols as we tell the story of the Nativity. We do hope you can make it.

    🗓 Thursday 21st December - we break up for Christmas at usual finishing time, 3.15pm.

  • PE day- Wednesdays.

  • Homework- I have not set any homework this week.

  • 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…

TenTen Parent Newsletter

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.

Wednesday Word

Almost there….

As this term nears the end, so does my journey with my Year 6 class. I can hardly believe how fast these past four months have gone. In spite of this, we are still not ready to take our foot off the accelerator….we have plenty to fit into our last four days! I am so impressed with what each and every child has personally achieved so far and I will certainly be making the most of our last week together. I have already promised the class that I will give them ALL of me, and they need to give me ALL of them, before we break up for Christmas. Thank you to all of my Year 6 parents for your continued support this year.

Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Evans

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AuthorCatherine Slater

'And on earth, peace to those on whom his favour rests.' Luke 2:14

This Sunday marks the second Sunday of Advent. On this day the Peace Candle, also known as the ‘Bethlehem Candle’, will be lit. The Bethlehem Candle is purple, signifying repentance and royalty. It recalls the preparations Mary and Joseph made for Jesus’ birth. As we’re getting ready for Christmas, let’s make our plans and carry them out. But, it is important not get so wrapped up in our own preparations that we’re too busy to appreciate what God is doing in our lives and that Advent is preparing us for the birth of Christ, our Saviour. Today, Fr. Frank led Year 6 in a lovely Advent reflection all about prayer.

Here’s what else we have been up to this week…

In Maths we started the week completing another reasoning paper, as a class. In the same way we did last week, the class had a go at a few questions at a time and then we looked over the questions and marked them as a class. The children find this really helpful as it is a good way for them to experience the types of questions they will get on a reasoning paper, but without the pressure of test conditions. The second part of the week we focused on percentage, fraction and decimal equivalents.

In English we began our shared write. We have changed some of the original storylines/characters/details from the Wizard of Oz and innovated other aspects. Together, we have drafter the first few paragraphs, ensuring we include certain features and language choices in our text. This shared write will be very useful when the children come to writing their independent write!

In RE we looked at the meaning and symbolism of the different parts of the Advent Wreath. We focused on the significance of each candle and their colour as well as the circular shape of the wreath. The class had a go at drawing the advent wreath in their own books and labelling each part.

In Science we looked at the Linnaean classification system. This is a system that Carl Linnaus developed in the 1700s so that scientists all over the world would be naming and classifying living things in the same way. This was quite a complex system for us all to get our heads around but the class did such a good job at using this system to classify different species of reptiles into all of the other groups that they belong.

In Geography we found out more about the hills and mountains in the UK. We focused on a selection of mountain and hills and researched their country, mountain range and elevation. We then put this data into a bar chart.

In Computing the class (finally!) had the chance to present their Bletchley Park PowerPoints that they have designed over the past couple of lessons. I was so impressed with how each group/individual did. They got up in front of the rest of the class and shared their information with everyone…..

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

The Golden Award went to Oscar Op for always be willing to lend a helping hand.

The Writing Award went to Oscar O’C for his great contributions to our shared write.

The Maths award went to Emma for using different strategies to solve problems.

📌NOTICES 📌:

  • Dates for your diary:

    🗓 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.

    🗓 Thursday 21st December @ 2.15pm - KS2 Advent Service in Church.

    Parents are invited to celebrate the KS2 Advent Service over at Our Lady’s Church in the afternoon of the 21st December. We will be singing some Christmas carols as we tell the story of the Nativity. We do hope you can make it.

  • 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…

TenTen Parent Newsletter

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.

Wednesday Word

Online Safety

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…

Disney+ This guide examines the hugely popular streaming service Disney+ for potential risks, giving advice on how to avoid them.

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.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Evans


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AuthorCatherine Slater

"Advent is a time of waiting for our Lord, who will visit us all in our own hearts." Pope Francis

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…

TenTen Parent Newsletter

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.

Wednesday Word

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Evans

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AuthorCatherine Slater

"If we choose the Kingdom of God, God will always welcome us!" - Fr. Frank

On Tuesday we had the privilege of welcoming Fr. Frank into the Year 6 classroom for an ‘Ask Fr. Frank’ session. As a class we had pre-prepared some questions, some of which were linked to our RE topic and some that were more broadly about religion in general. This was such a great session and an opportunity for the class to deepen their understanding of the bible teachings and their own faith. One of the children from the class actually said, “Wow, I feel like I understand so much more about my faith.” This was so lovely to hear! Thank you to Fr. Frank for taking the time out of his day to answer all of our questions. He said he would be more than happy to come back again next term and do the same!

This week Amelia, Amy and Hallie also led their first worship, which they had planned and resourced themselves. This was such a lovely, reflective worship all about Peace.

Here is what else we have been up to this week…

In Maths we moved on from decimals and moved onto percentages. We have been finding percentages of amounts, using the most efficient methods. For example, we now know that to find 25% of an amount we can just divide by 4 as it is the same as one quarter, and to find 20% we can divide by 5 as it is the same as one fifth.

In English we planned and wrote another formal letter. We read about the character of the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz and that he was in pursuit of a brain. We read the relevant chapters from the book to gain a better insight into the reasons he wanted a brain, and used this to pen a letter to the Wizard of Oz asking him to help him with his request. We then went on to look at a range of openings to different classic fiction books, identifying common features. This will helped us to create a ‘classic fiction opening’ toolkit.

In Science we started our new topic on Living Things and Their Habitats. we started by recapping what classification is and looking at the shared features of several different groups of animals, such as: mammals, amphibians, bird, molluscs, annelids… The class then described the features of different animals and gave examples of animals that belonged in each group.

In Geography we looked at the counties in the UK. To begin with, we had to look at what a county actually is. After this, we then labelled many counties of the UK on a map, using our atlases to help us.

In Computing we finished our Bletchley Park PowerPoints, ready to present in our next lesson.

🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟

The Golden Award went to William for aiming high in his Maths and English learning.

The Writing Award went to Chase for his great choices of vocabulary in his formal letter.

The Maths award went to Amelia for the progress she is making-I love watching her grow in confidence by the day!

NOTICES:

  • Dates for your diary:

    Wednesday 29th November, 9am-10am - school nurse visit in the school hall. This drop in is for any parent(s) who might have an issue they wish to discuss. No appointment is necessary.

    Friday 8th December, 2.00pm-3.15pm - 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. 

  • 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…

TenTen Parent Newsletter

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.

Wednesday Word

E-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…

Smart TVs As these internet-enabled entertainment systems rapidly become standard, find out how to guide children in using such devices safely.

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.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Evans

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AuthorCatherine Slater