Well done Year 5, we’ve had a super half term and you’ve all worked so hard. Hope you all have a lovely well deserved rest and be proud of what you have achieved this half term!
Edina Trust Bulb Plant project
On Wednesday, Year 5 planted their bulbs, daffodils and crocuses, in their own pot and placed them in one of our school garden areas. Over the next five and a half months the children will be watching over their bulbs to see when they first flower and to collect rainfall and temperature data daily to send off to the Edina Trust. Schools all over the UK are taking part and our data will be collated with theirs to contribute to finding out the effects of climate change. Take a look at our photos…
Bikeability Success
Well done to all those children in Year 5 who took part in Bikeability over the last two days. They all did amazing and achieved their Bikeability levels 1 and 2...
Our Golden Ticket winners…
During this half term, all children have been awarded a golden ticket for each three times they have read this term. Today, during our Golden Award celebration assembly, each class drew a golden ticket winner and our Golden Ticket winner for reading this half term was .... for Year 5. Along with the other winners, they have won a prize which has kindly been donated by the PTFA. Well done ....! ⭐️
Our Reading Champions!
Well done to our reading champions this half term, who all completed bookmarks for reading regularly at home. Let’s see if next half term we can see more reading champions. Don’t forget to keep up with your reading regularly and get your diaries signed. We're not seeing many diaries getting signed regularly and therefore children are missing out on reading stickers and golden tickets. We'll be updating diaries after half term so please support your child in keeping up with their reading during half term.
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TTRS day
Today we celebrated Times Tables Rockstars day! Everyone in school looked fabulous dressed as either a rockstar or a number to mark the occasion. Year 5 were all involved in competing in the TTRS battles which took place throughout the day. Our battle was against Year 4 and Year 6 and Year 2 and Year 3 had their own battle. This morning, those children not taking part in Bikeability, also supported Year 2 in their TTRS battle which was lots of fun! Well done everyone!
The results are in...
Congratulations to the two battle winners...
Year ... won against Year and Year.
Year ... won against Year.
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Layla
Writing Award - Year 5
Maths Award - Penny
Our learning this week…
In English the children have been working really hard on writing their own exploration narrative.
Our focus in maths has been multi-step addition and subtraction problems.
In Science the children have recapped all the concepts that they have learnt over the last half term.
In geography, the children have continued to learn to describe the key features of the physical geography of the Americas, including a range of landscapes and biomes.
In art Year 5 have continued their work on Hundertwasser.
In PE the children are working with PE specialist Max from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust. The focus of their lessons this half term is hockey.
Stem challenge achievement
This week, Year 5 were awarded certificates for their work we did a couple of weeks ago on the STEM rocket challenge...
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition concludes today at 3pm
Our school is currently in 6th place out of 15 schools in the trust and we have scored 1349 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st. Fionn Year 4 13362 WINNER!
2nd Matilda Year 4 10726
3rd Freddie Year 4 9022
4th Matilda Year 5 8556
5th Luke Year 4 8136
Well done to Fionn, who is our Rockstar champion this half term, and everyone on our leaderboard this week! Top scorers across Year groups will be announced in assembly after half term.
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 Fortnite. This online safety guide explores Fortnite’s newest updates, outlining potential concerns, including spending pressure, screen time increases, and unfiltered voice chat with other players.
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…
(Please note that dates could be subject to change - I will post any changes as they happen.)
Tuesday 4th November Back to school
Thursday 6th November All Saints Day Whole school mass. 9.30am
Thursday 13th November Year 5 & 6 Liturgy for parents in the school hall 9am
Friday 7th November Dress as a firework (colourful) Bring donations of bottles/chocolates for prizes at the bingo event (any leftovers to be made into hampers for the Christmas Fair)
Friday 14th November Family bingo night
Friday 5th December KS2 Christmas movie night
Friday 12th December Christmas Fair (after school)
Friday 19th December Close for Christmas
Well done Year 5, hope you all have a great half term!
Mrs McVey and Mrs Hodgkiss