✨✨Head Boy & Head Girl✨✨
This week teachers and pupils voted for the girl and boy they would like to take on the role of Head Boy and Head Girl. After watching each and every one of them deliver their speeches on Friday, this decision certainly was not an easy one! They were all incredible and each one would have been worthy of this role. After collating all votes this week, I am pleased to officially announce our new Head Girl as Olivia and our new Head Boy as Leo. With the second highest amount of votes, Martha and William will be our Deputy Head Girl and Head Boy, respectively, CONGRATULATIONS to you all!!
Next week everyone will have their official roles of responsibility!
Thank you to Zachary, Conleth and Jackson for leading this week’s worship so thoughtfully. Their worship refected on this week’s Gospel reading, Luke:16. In this reading we understand that Jesus was teaching us that in order to dedicate our lives to God, we have to understand the true meaning of wealth: wealth in love and faith, not in money. The boys had the class respond to this reflection by writing a prayer and asking them to go forth and show their love to others.
In RE this week we looked at the life and work of Belgian Priest and Scientist, Fr. Georges Lemaitre. He was living proof that religious and scientific views on creation can be compatible with each other. He came up with the theory of ‘The Big Bang’ (although be did not give it this name), that the universe began as a single point and continued to expand. We had many discussions in this lesson about how science helps us to understand how the world works and religion helps us to understand its relationship with God: The Creator. The class then took on the role of Fr. Georges, writing a letter to a confused parishioner, explaining his views on religion and science.
Here is what we have been up to this week…
In Maths we focused on prime, square and cube numbers at the beginning of the week and moved onto written methods for multiplication and division by the end of the week. We used the multi-link cubes to help us deepen our understanding of cube numbers…
In English we continued with our biography topic. We used Usain Bolt’s biography to retrieve/infer information from a text and we highlighted any relative clauses we could identify. We are going to use Usain Bolt as our focus person for our shred biography write. This week completed a plan together and we even made a start to our shared write. The shared write is a really good opportunity for the class to write a biography to a really high standard, by sharing ideas and using our toolkits to ensure we include all that we need to. This will prove to be invaluable when the class come to doing their independent write.
In History we continued on from last lesson, exploring some of the ‘Big Questions’ that we wanted to find the answers to about life in the workhouses in Victorian Britain.
In Science we continued our work on the Circulatory System. This week our focus was on the blood. We looked at the four components of blood (plasma, white blood cells, red blood cells & platelets) and what proportion of the blood they take up. Our task was to describe the functions of the different components of the blood before drawing a pie chart to show what percentage each of these components take up. Some children then went on to answer the challenge question ‘What happens when we graze our knee?’
This afternoon, in celebration of European Languages Day we learnt about our counrty, Belgium. We even got to sample a belgian delicacy….waffles!
🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟
Golden Award: this week’s Golden Award went to Eleena who is such a caring and considerate young lady.
Writing Award: this week’s Writing Award went to Aibhin for her superb writing in RE.
Maths Award: this week’s Maths Award went to Stephen for his independent work in class.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
The new BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition started last week and runs till the 24th October Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 4th place out of 15 schools in the trust and we have scored 570 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Fionn Year 4 8013
2nd Luke Year 4 7157
3rd Freddie Year 4 2703
4th Matilda Year 5 2698
5th Matilda Year 4 2499
Well done to everyone on our leaderboard this week!
📆Dates For Your Diary📆
10th October 6pm-7pm: KS2 Autumn disco The PTFA are running this event. The tickets cost £2.50 and you pay on ParentPay now.
Thursday 13th November Year 5 & 6 Class Liturgy (9am) Next half term Year 5 & 6 will be leading an assembly for parents to attend. I know this is a while away but you might want to pop the date in your diary now.
📌Notices📌
PE days- Wednesdays this half term.
Water bottles-these need to be filled and brought in each day and taken home to be cleaned at the end of each day. Each child in the class was provided with a school water bottle-please can you ensure these are the bottles that are brought in daily and not their own water bottle from home.
Reading books - we have now completed our STAR Reading tests and each child has been given their ZPD range. I have mentioned to the children that I would like them to be challenged by their home reading books, so to focus on the upper end of their ZPD range. If they do find any of these books too tricky and it takes away the pleasure, they just need to tell me and we will find a more suited text.
Homework- Please find details on this week’s homework here. If your child very finds any of the homework challenging, please remind them to mention it to me in school and we can go over it together.
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.
For those who could not attend the Meet the Teacher meeting, here is the PowerPoint:
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 Snapchat This updated online safety guide examines Snapchat’s latest features, including AI tools, Snap Map, and subscription content, and the potential risks they pose to young users, from screen addiction to sextortion.
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.
✝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.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Andrew
