Thank you to everyone who attended our Lenten Craft Afternoon. We had a lovely time reflecting on how Jesus paid the ultimate price for us by giving his life to save us from our sins and we made some Coin Crucifix’s to represent this.
We will take them to our Whole School Mass to be blessed by Fr Paul on Tuesday.
A huge thank you to everyone who supported our wonderful St Patrick’s Coffee Morning. It was fantastic to see so many members of our school community come together to celebrate and enjoy such a special event.
Year 5 did an amazing job hosting the event, from welcoming guests, perfoming in our Story of St Patrick, dancing to Molly Malone and our special signed performance led by Amie Chester. We loved helping throughout the day serving refreshments, helping everything run smoothly and showing great responibility and pride in representing our school.
A special thank you to the musicians Fiona, Jarlath and Martin and Irish Dancers from Mary McHugh’s School of Irish Dance, whose traditional tunes and dances created a brilliant atmosphere throughout the morning.
Thank you to the PTA for their continued support and for helping organise such a successful event. Your dedication and willingness to give your time makes occasions like this possible. Also, to Rory and the Irish Society for their time given in supporting the celebration and helping us share Irish culture with our community.
Enjoy the photos of the morninng! Videos to follow….
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We had an amazing morning of Science thanks to Bishop Ullathorne, and we would like to say a huge thank you for inviting us to take part. It was an exciting and hands-on experience that really helped us deepen our understanding of key scientific ideas.
During the morning, we learned all about forces, including gravity and upthrust, and how these forces act on objects in water. We explored why and how a boat floats, discovering that floating depends on buoyancy, density, and displacement. We learned that a boat floats when the upthrust from the water is greater than the downward force of gravity, and that spreading mass over a larger area can help reduce density.
We then carried out a fantastic scientific investigation where we designed and made our own boats. We tested them by carefully adding weights to see how much mass each boat could hold before sinking. This helped us work scientifically by making predictions, testing our designs fairly, observing results, and deciding which boat was the most successful. We also decorated our boats, and a winner was chosen for the best design, which made the challenge even more fun!
We would like to say a special thank you to Mrs Brown and Mrs Maxwell for the well-organised morning and the lovely Mr Bean for such an engaging lesson. Thank you as well to Mr Ballard, Mrs Hayes, and the department technicians for supporting us throughout the activities and helping everything run smoothly.
We had a brilliant time, learned lots of new scientific vocabulary and concepts, and felt like real scientists for the day. It was lovely to see some familiar faces of our All Souls alumni too! Thank you again to everyone @B_Ullathorne for such a memorable and inspiring Science experience! 🚤🔬✨
On Tuesday we attended mass, which was also the Feast Day of St Blaise.
St Blaise is an important saint in the Christian calendar and is remembered each year on the 3rd February. He lived in the 4th century and was a bishop and doctor in Armenia. St Blaise was known for his strong Christian faith and for caring for the sick, especially those with illnesses of the throat.
One of the most well-known stories about St Blaise explains why he is the patron saint of throat illnesses. It is said that he saved a young boy who was choking on a fish bone by praying for him, and the boy was miraculously healed and because of this miracle, St Blaise became closely linked with healing and protection of the throat.
Following mass, Father Paul invited us to a Blessing of the Throats. He held two crossed candles nearto each person’s throat and said a prayer asking God to protect them from illness, especially problems related to the throat.
We pray for good heatlh for one another, our family, our comminity and ourselves. Thank you Father Paul for blessing us and for the opportunity to learn more about why St Blaise is still remembered and revered to this day.
We had a fantastic time making memories on our annual residential religious retreat to Alton Castle.
The children made new friends, experienced a range of activities, conquered their fears, reflected daily on their Catholic faith and had a whole lot of fun (not a whole lot of sleep, perhaps, but most definitely a whole lot of fun😍) I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.
Well done Year 5 – you are incredible!
We have been working hard in Maths this week learning about quotitive and partitive division. We used straws and counters to help us overcome lots of challenges until we nailed it! Well done Year 5!
We had terrifc fun plying in the snow today! Well done to everyone who braved the adverse weather conditions and made it into school! A super turn-out and a super snowball fight!
As part of our Design Technology curriculum, we spent the afternoon baking and decorating some delicious, Christmas treats.
We carefully prepared a written recipe and method and tested our preparations out to create the perfect, festive Christmas biscuits!
A huge thank you to Ms Blair-Wilson, our kitchen manager and Chef, for co-ordinating and leading the event and to her team; Mrs Kaur-Nagra and Mrs Croft for all of their support. A special thank you to Sodexo and Alliance in Parrtnership (AIP) for supplying the ingredients and supporting the experience.
The children absolutely loved the afternoon and were so proud of their creations! We most defintiely have some budding bakers in the making!
This week we have taken our learning outside to give us some inspiration for writing poetry. We went on a winter-walk around the school grounds to explore what we could feel, see, hear, touch, taste and smell.
The children have written some wonderful Cinquain poems that we are going to display in our classroom.
Well done Year 5!
Year 5 spent a lovely afternoon with their grown-ups at our Advent crafting event. The children read Prayers and Scripture and spent time crafting their own Advent Wreaths.
Thank you to those who were able to join us and we hope that your hand-made wreaths will take pride of place in your homes this Christmas!
A special thank you to Grandad Kirrane for the plentiful supply of Evergreen and Holly! We really appreciate you!
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