We are now in May, the month of Mary. This month we plan for the children to create their own Rosary bead set to help us with our prayers.

The Rosary is a meditative prayer that reflects upon the life, ministry, and death of Jesus and also on His Blessed Mother. As we repeat the familiar prayers, we allow our minds to think about the lives of Jesus and Mary here on earth – a mystery.

The Mysteries

There are four parts to the rosary, known as ‘mysteries’:

The Luminous Mysteries
The Sorrowful Mysteries
The Glorious Mysteries
The Joyful Mysteries

For each set of mysteries, we are introduced to five different elements or ‘snapshots’ of the lives of Jesus and Mary. Each snapshot taken from Scripture is an opportunity to reflect and pray. To respond, we pray a set of prayers, which together with the reflection is called a ‘decade’. The prayers we say as part of this set begin with one Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys and one Glory Be to finish. We use the beads of the Rosary to keep track of our prayers!

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…

TenTen Parent Newsletter

This week..

In English, the children will begin to narrate their own refugee narrative.
We started our new class book today, Raven’s Gate written by Anthony Horowitz. It is the first book in a series called The Power of Five. I hope this will encourage more reading for pleasure at home, there are lots of books in the series that the children may wish to read.

In Maths, we are looking at money and using our decimal knowledge to help with this.

In Science, we are continuing our learning about states of matter.

The children also have their mini olympics event at St Mary’s on Wednesday and a Fit2Go event at Blackpool Football Club on Thursday. An exciting week and lots of opportunities to represent our school.

We will mark VE day on Thursday 8th May, but our class will need to come in their full PE Kit due to the Fit2Go festival in the afternoon, please.

The Homework page has been updated with spellings, please practise these for the spelling test on Monday.

BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition

The new BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition started this week and runs till the 23rd May. Good luck everyone!

Our school is currently in 2nd place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 1002 points (school average score) so far.

This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:

1st Priya Year 4 16036

2nd Matilda Year 4 13687

3rd Annie Year 4 11178

4th Ava Year 4 9034

5th Elsie Year 4 3308

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 Making Friends Online This free guide looks at the challenges of children forming friendships online, highlighting key risks such as grooming, privacy concerns and inappropriate content — and offers tips for staying safe.

What Parents and Educators Need to Know about ZEPETO This free guide explores ZEPETO, a fast-growing virtual world app. It highlights the associated risks for younger users, such as chatting with strangers, exposure to inappropriate content, and spending real money.

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.

Golden Tickets

Please continue to encourage your children to read a minimum of 3 times per week and pop it in their reading logs. They will receive a golden ticket for this each week and at the end of this half term, one person will win a prize!