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This Week's Worship
This week's worship was led beautifully by Emily, Olivia and Kourtney. They focused on this week's Gospel where Jesus refers to us as 'The Salt of the Earth' and tells us to shine our lights!
This Week's Learning
Many of our morning English and Maths lessons this week have been used to go over the papers we did last week. I feel it is very important for the children to receive that feedback and look at rectifying any mistakes they made through human error. It also gave us the opportunity to delve deeper into those trickier questions looking at techniques to help us answer them on future papers. Your child also came home with their results for you to see this week; hopefully you have received them. If not, please do let me know and I will send another copy home.
In Science we wrote an explanation of how a periscope works, based around the concept of reflection. We then drew a scientific diagram of this and labelled it.
In Music this week Mrs Owen got the class performance ready! Today they performed their musical piece to me, using vocals and instruments to the song 'Happy'. I was very impressed!
In RE this week we were using some theological vocabulary to describe Jesus. We looked at the scripture passage 'The Feeding of the 5000' and explored the question 'What does John want us to know about who Jesus truly is?' The class were coming up with words and phrases such as 'The Incarnation', 'divine', 'Messiah' and 'miraculous'. I was so impressed with their knowledge and understanding of John's authorial intent.
In Art most of the class managed to finish their piece of religious art and they are proudly on display (see images below). Many teachers and pupils have commented on their displayed art, and how impressed they are with the quality!
Safer Internet Day!
On Tuesday, it was Safer Internet Day and in school we had a lesson exploring the topic: ‘Smart tech, safe choices – Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI’. We looked at the pros and cons of AI and what was 'okay' and 'not okay' when it comes to the use of AI. The class then used this information to design their own posters.
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. Below are some links and safety guides which you may find useful:
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
What Parents and Educators Need to Know about Supporting safe use of AI This is a practical guide to help parents support their children to use AI safely, thoughtfully and responsibly in everyday life.
UK Safer Internet Centre
Tips for Parents and Carers: Keeping you and your loved ones safe online https://saferinternet.org.uk/
PARENTAL CONTROLS: Protecting young people from inappropriate online content. https://saferinternet.org.uk/
Internet matters.org
See recommended online safety guides for parents:
https://www.internetmatters.
https://www.internetmatters.
https://www.internetmatters.
Activate parental controls with how-to guides https://www.internetmatters.
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 for your support.
TTRS Competition
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League has a new competition, which started on Monday and runs till the 12th February. Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 5th place out of 15 schools in the trust and we have scored 1884 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Alexander Year 6 18074 WINNER!
2nd Matilda Year 4 16732
3rd Stephen Year 6 16252
4th Freddie Year 4 15420
5th Buddy Year 4 13941
Well done to everyone on our leaderboard this week but especially to Alexander in Year 6 who is this half term's Our Lady's TTRS Champion!
Sporting opportunities
Please see the flyers for information on sporting opportunities. Badminton and Cricket are free. I am not sure if there is a cost for the rugby.
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Notices
- We break up on Thursday 12th February. We return to school on Monday 23rd February.
- Thursday 12th Feb-KS2 Valentine's Disco 4.30-5.30pm
- PE days are Wednesdays and Thursday this half term.
- Reading books - Please do keep up with home reading as this will help to see that progress with each Star Reading test taken. We do want the children to challenge themselves with their home readers too, so please do let me know if you ever think the book they are reading at home is perhaps not challenging enough.
- Homework- I have not set any online homework or spellings over half term; the class have earned a break. I do please ask that they keep on top of their home reading, however.
- Contact information- We no longer access the year group email (year6@…) If you need to contact me for any reason, and cannot catch me at the door, feel free to either pop an email to the admin address (with Year 6 in the subject box) or give the school a ring.
✝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.
Thank you!
A huge thank you to all of you parents/guardians for all of your support and massive thank you to this Year 6 class for all of their hard work and efforts this half term. We hope you have a wonderful half term break and will see you in Spring 2!
Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Andrew