Pig-Heart Boy
Yesterday, we all had a great time at Blackpool Grand Theatre watching the performance of Pig-Heart Boy. It was definitely worth watching and it was interesting to see how they adapted it for the stage. The children thoroughly enjoyed watching it and we look forward to next half term’s Tales Retold workshops where we will be preparing something, based on this story, to take to the Grand Theatre stage. We’re excited!
Extreme Reading Challenge
Continuing with our focus on reading across school, we have a challenge for the children! Reading is one of the most valuable skills we teach children, and it can be a magical adventure when we bring creativity and fun into the mix. One exciting way to encourage pupils to read is through extreme reading challenges – taking books to unusual places or reading in imaginative ways. Where is the most interesting place you have ever read a book? Whether it is up a tree or on top of a mountain, we want your photos! Your challenge is to take a photo of yourself reading somewhere extreme (but safe!) and send it in to school. Please send your photos to admin@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk so we can display these in school and on our website. We can't wait to see your pictures! Thank you for your support!
Golden tickets for reading!
A reminder that next week is the last chance to earn golden tickets for reading this half term as part of our reading challenge. Children will receive a golden ticket each time they read and get their reading diary signed three times. Next Friday, during our celebration assembly, we will draw a golden ticket from each class’s box, and one winner from each class will receive a reward. Please encourage your child to read regularly and bring in their signed reading diary so they can collect their golden tickets. Thank you for your support.
Blackpool Sings Pop 2025 Competition
The Blackpool Sings Pop 2025 competition will be held on the evening of Tuesday 20th May at Montgomery Academy in Bispham. If you’d like to show your support, please come and cheer on Aibhin and Ava (Year 4), who will be representing our school! 👏🏻🎤🎶 Good luck!
Our award winners:
Golden Award (CARE) - Ellenie
Writing Award - Jacob
Maths Award - Gabriel
Our learning this week…
In English this week, we have begun to look at our new text, King Kong, which will be the focus of our writing unit. Before the text was revealed, the children predicted the story from picture clues from the given text. They’ve also had a go at inferring character based on clues from the text.
The focus of our maths this week has been multiplying mixed numbers by integers and finding fractions of a number.
In RE the children have been working with Mrs Mannix on the story of the Prodigal son.
This week’s prayer and liturgy was planned and led by Jacob, Matilda and Stephen. The theme of their liturgy was Hear His Voice….Prayer is a two-way communication between us and God that involves speaking and listening. Jesus invites us to listen to His voice and this is a skill that can be developed. When we listen to Jesus, He leads us to the Father through the Holy Spirit.
“ My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” John 10:27-30
In geography, the children have begun to research the River Nile.
In computing the children have begun to learn and tinker with a coding program called Scratch to create music.
In DT, we have continued to make Truss bridges from spaghetti.
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 4th place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 1300 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Priya Year 4 20656
2nd Matilda Year 4 20343
3rd Annie Year 4 13838
4th Ava Year 4 9606
5th Elsie Year 4 5837
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 Minecraft This free guide explores Minecraft – a gaming favourite for children and adults alike. It highlights the potential risks, including online strangers, in-game bullying and unintended spending.
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 12th June Puberty talk with the School nurse
Till June 2025 Year 5’s in school workshops with experienced drama/dance practitioners as part of the Tales Retold project
Free family workshop at Blackpool Grand Theatre
On Saturday 14th June, John Hegley is running a free children and family workshop at Blackpool Grand Theatre. If you’re interested, please click on the link for further details and the booking contact.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Mrs McVey, Mrs Hodgkiss and Miss Andrew
If you need to contact me or have any questions/queries, please contact me on year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks.
