I can’t believe that we now only have a week to go. It’s been a really busy week and next week promises to be another busy week. On Monday, the final curtain fell on our Tales Retold project (see below). On Tuesday, we had our Sport’s day (see below) and today, Year 5 led the Year 6 Leaver’s mass. Well done to Year 5, who led the Mass beautifully as we send off our Year 6 students in their final week at Our Lady’s School.
Tales Retold
On Monday, our Tales Retold project came to an end. The children had their last workshop at the Grand Theatre and then they performed a piece of work, reflecting on their year’s work. Thank you to the parents and families who were able to come along and watch. They were also shown a video made from work that took place at our very first visit to the Grand Theatre this year and then they were given the opportunity to reflect on their year and Pig-Heart boy. The Grand Theatre filmed the children’s performance and once this has been edited, they will share the link with us and I will share it with you.
Sports Day Results for KS2
On Tuesday, the children took part in Sport’s day, which was fun and the effort from the children was amazing. Thank you to all of you who were able to attend and support the children.
1st. St Andrew 292 ️🏆 CHAMPIONS!!!🏆
2nd St Patrick 285
3rd. St George 279
4th St David 269
Well done to all the children, but a big well done to St Andrew who won Sport’s day for KS2. 👏🏻⭐️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏻
Our sports day photos, courtesy of our photographer, Eleena - thanks Eleena!
Our award winners:
Golden Award (CARE) - Martha
Writing Award - Oscar
Maths Award - Year 5
Our learning this week…
In English we have built descriptions about our chosen beast for our dilemma narrative and used relative clauses to add extra information. We’ve started planning our dilemma ready to finish our unit next week.
The focus of our maths this week has been multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.
In history the children have used secondary sources to research a Greek god or goddess.
In art the children have finished their artwork inspired by the work of Chris Ofili.
In RE the children did some work on public speaking with Mrs Mannix.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Florence, Olivia, Elsie and Natalia. The theme of their liturgy was Moments of Joy. Jesus sent His disciples out to spread the Good News, knowing that they would not be welcome everywhere they went. His instructions were clear: speak peace to everyone and do good work amongst others but, if you are not made welcome, move on. Their prayers this week helped children to respond lovingly and joyfully, even when their efforts are unwelcome.
“As a mother comforts her child,
so will I comfort you;” (Isaiah 66:13)
The new BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition started this week and runs till the 18th July. Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 3rd place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 1403 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Ronnie Year 6 14061
2nd Macie Year 4 10057
3rd Matilda Year 4 9150
4th Finlay Year 4 7113
5th Olivia Year 5 6016
Well done to everyone on our leaderboard this week!👏🏻
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 AI-enabled scams This free online safety guide explores how AI is being exploited in certain online scams, revealing the risks for young people – everything from phishing and sextortion to deepfake fraud and voice cloning.
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.
To read this week’s Good News Gospel reading, please follow the link to share the Gospel at home with your family. These are really 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…
Thursday 17th July Our Lady’s Got Talent Contest.
Friday 18th July Close for Summer 3.15pm
Have a lovely weekend everyone, enjoy the sunshine! Next week, please bring a bag for life into school, ready to bring your work home at the end of next week.
Mrs McVey, Mrs Hodgkiss and Miss Andrew