Superstars – Friday 5th October 2018

By Mr A Cooke5th October 2018

Well done to all our Superstars this week! It’s a bumper week as, due to the 50th Anniversary celebrations, there was no Superstars assembly last Friday.

Reception
George – for concentrating on hearing sounds and doing some great writing.
Grace M – for trying hard in all areas throughout the week.
Frankie – for drawing a wonderful giraffe and for labelling with great sounding out.
Grace B – for great writing and labelling.

Year 1
Nicholas – for persevering in Maths when the task got a little tricky.
Fabian – for beautiful behaviour at Mass. He was a role model for all of Year 1.

Year 2
Sienna – for pushing herself to complete as much work as possible to a high standard.
Alicia – for excellent contributions to class discussion.

Year 3
Ted – for great explanations in Science.
Maria – for helping others.

Year 4
Lola W – for always being a good role model and following instructions.
Lawson – for superb reading and working hard this week.

Year 5
Emily C – for engaging all senses in a retelling of our class book.
Malgorzata – for working hard to explain converting digits to Roman Numerals.

Year 6
Bethany – for a wonderful letter in History, describing the life of a WW2 ‘Land Girl!
Lola – for a wonderful letter in History, describing the life of a WW2 ‘Land Girl!
Roderick – for a super explanation about how animals adapt to live in extreme environments.
Lucy – for using a variety of sentence structures in her writing.
Eadie – for using a variety of sentence structures in her writing.

Year 5 updates

By Mr A Cooke28th September 2018

Year 5 have been so busy recently, that they’ve hardly had enough time to update their blog!  Get ready for this week’s bumper edition!

Our topic this term is:

and so we’ve been learning all about space and in particular, the way that our solar system works.  Here is an example of our work so far.

In RE, we have been studying the ‘Canticle of Creation’ which is a special prayer, written by St Francis of Assisi.  Using this as inspiration, we have tried to write our very own versions.

We were also sharing, with each other, our God given talents (William’s seems to be star jumps!)

In maths, we have discovered Roman Numerals and have been learning the values of each symbol.

Our ‘Cold Writing’ this week was all about beautiful gardens – with a hidden dark side!  Our Cold Write before this was about the discovery of a NEW planet.

In PE we have started to learn about disc sports – which has been great fun.

We are also very proud to be the class with the highest attendance to extra curricular activities!

That’s all for now. Until next time………

Hannah & Darragh

 

50th Anniversary of the School Building

By Mr A Cooke28th September 2018

Thank you to everyone who helped to make our celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the school building so special this morning.  We started with a lovely whole school mass and then gathered together back at the school for refreshments (thank you AIP!).  It was great to see so many former pupils and members of staff and we were so glad to be able to share old photos, artifacts and many memories of All Souls.  Thank you also to the choir for beautifully serenading us all and our children who worked as tour guides for the morning.

Monday morning assembly – Woodland Trust

By Mr A Cooke24th September 2018

This morning, we started to get excited as a school about the impending arrival of 200 saplings from the Woodland Trust, which are due to be delivered during November.

We listened to the story of the ‘Man who planted trees’ and talked about the importance of trees and how we, as individuals, can make a difference to the world.

During November, we will be creating our own school woodland area on a section of the school field and the children, with the help of adults from the community, will have the opportunity to plant trees which we hope will be around for generations to come.

We are also excited to be working towards the ‘Green Tree Schools Award’ this year and have our sights set firmly on achieving platinum status!

 

Superstars – Friday 21st September 2018

By Mr A Cooke21st September 2018

Well done to all our Superstars this week!

Reception
Well done to all of Reception for settling in so well!

Year 1
Jaromir – for a fantastic attitude to learning this week, going above and beyond what has been asked for. Well done!
Lukas – for a fantastic attitude to learning this week, going above and beyond what has been asked for. Well done!

Year 2
Thomas – for focusing well and trying hard in all areas of the curriculum.
Caitlin – for focusing well and trying hard in all areas of the curriculum.

Year 3
Lottie – for excellent behaviour.
Jacob – for showing perseverance even when he finds work tricky.

Year 4
Sara – for a fantastic effort in maths, answering questions during lessons.
Daniel T – for a fabulous effort during English lessons when writing his sentences.

Year 5
Isla – for great engagement with the Genesis story of Creation.
Liam LJ – for persevering throughout a week of tricky maths lessons.

Year 6
Gracie-May – for an accurately punctuated and emotive diary entry.
Niamh – for beautiful work in RE.

Kurling Season back up and running!

By Mr A Cooke21st September 2018

We thoroughly enjoyed our first Kurling session of the new season this morning.  Our new recruits were shown the ropes by our experienced players and it wasn’t long before the first (highly competitive) games were underway.  The Autumn term Kurling league will commence next week.  Who will be crowned champion!

 

Craft Club

By Mr A Cooke18th September 2018

I’m super impressed with these wonderful puppets made by the children at Mrs Senyk’s craft club tonight.

Well done Maddie, Lily, Helena and Izzy.  There are still places available, so if any more children would like to join, please have a chat with Mrs Senyk.

Superstars – Friday 14th September 2018

By Mr A Cooke14th September 2018

Well done to all our Superstars this week!

Year 1
Hudson – for beautiful behaviour inside and outside the classroom.
Isabel – for joining in and asking questions when she is unsure.

Year 2
Layla – for focusing well and trying her best in lessons.
Wiliam – for focusing well and trying his best in lessons.

Year 3
Roman – for working hard with his 4 times tables, showing improvement.
Tessa – for lovely presentation in her work.

Year 4
Elijah – for sharing his answers and contributing well to lessons.
Esme – for showing resilience in maths.

Year 5
Laim G – for engaging fully in all subjects across the week.
Darragh – for pushing class discussion into new and fascinating areas.

Year 6
Harry – for being a superb role model – always trying his hardest and making valuable contributions to lessons.
Lorcan – for showing great attention to detail in Geography when labelling a world map and sharing great general knowledge.

Superstars – Friday 7th September 2018

By Mr A Cooke8th September 2018

Well done to all our Superstars this week, who have impressed their new teachers and become the first class Superstars of the 2018-19 academic year!

Year 1
Ollie – for a wonderful first week of Year 1. He is a fantastic role model and has a wonderful attitude to learning.
Evie – for a wonderful first week of Year 1. She is a fantastic role model and has a wonderful attitude to learning.

Year 2
Molly – for being an excellent role model in following our new class rules.
Leo – for being an excellent role model in following our new class rules.

Year 3
Peach – for a great start to life at All Souls.
Oliver – for a great start to life at All Souls.
Harrison – for a great start to life at All Souls.

Year 4
Miles – for asking lots of questions and bringing a lovely smile to the classroom.
Ha Eun – for producing a beautiful pen-pal letter and showing kindness to everyone in our class.

Year 5
Tyler – for sharing ideas and contributing brilliantly to discussions throughout the week.
Maddy – for concentrating on instructions given to create a couple of great pieces of art.
Izzy – for a great start to life at All Souls.

Year 6
James – for an extremely thoughtful beginning of the year prayer.
Lily – for her super effort in creating her Blitz-inspired artwork.

Well done also to our children from Year 4 and 6 who successfully regained their pen license and pen license plus certificates.