Thank you so much to One Life Music for leading another fantastic ‘Sing out with Joy’ event. Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed sharing in this special celebration with other children from our Catholic partnership schools.
I’m pretty sure we will all be spending half term singing our newly learnt songs!
Rivers
Well done to Year 6 for their fabulous efforts in creating their first home study project on the theme of ‘Rivers’. A lot of research and time has clearly been put into them and they look great!
They also enjoyed visiting other classrooms to see what their home study themes were and explore what they’d made. Well done everyone!
Our next home study project is: Confirmation Saint
Choose a saint, whose name you will adopt during Confirmation to research and present
Due: Wednesday 11th December 2019
L.S.Lowry
This half term, Year 6 have been practising their perspective drawing skills, using L.S.Lowry as their inspiration.
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They have gained an understanding into how using perspective gives a sense of space and depth. This week, they finished their final pieces using oil pastels to add colour.
I think you’ll all agree they look fantastic! It was lovely to see how proud (and pleasantly surprised!) the children were of their improved skills and final outcomes 🙂
Year 6 were fortunate enough to receive a visit from Deacon Owen today to talk to them about vocations.
The afternoon began with Year 6 showing off all they already knew about vocations before Deacon Owen helped to fill in some blanks and take their understanding to a deeper level.
We discussed the roles of sisters, deacons and priests before meeting Sister Erin, Deacon Charlie and Father William to learn the difference between these vocations.
Deacon Owen was so impressed – as was I – with not only the children’s thoughtful and reflective responses to questioning but also the maturity of the questions they were asking.
We learnt that the talents and gifts that God gave us will help us to decide which way God is calling us to serve Him.
Year 6 enjoyed a very reverent prayer service this morning on the theme of the Glorious Mysteries. Thank you for planning, preparing and delivering such a beautiful time of reflection Maddy, Roisin and Emily!
Year 6 had great fun visiting Coome Country Park today!
When we got there, we showed off how much we had learnt and really impressed John and Lucy, our workshop leaders!
We were then left a little disappointed as we found out we couldn’t get in the river because it had risen too much and so was too dangerous! BUT it was interesting to see how much the recent downpour of rain had changed the look of Coombe and the colour of the river! 
Despite the risen water levels, we still got to carry out our river study and of course splash in quite a few puddles along the way!
First we measured the width of the river, before trying our best to measure the depth of it and different points. We found it very difficult to keep the measuring stick still as the river was flowing so fast! The river was so deep, our measuring stick wasn’t long enough to measure it at two of our points!
Next came the task of measuring the flow of the river by dropping our very scientific equipment (wooden sticks) down one side of the bridge and recording how long they took to travel through the other side using stopwatches. Again, because of the increased flow of the river, which had picked up lots of debris (hence the murky coloured water!), this was more difficult to do and our sticks kept getting lost!
Ask us what we found out to see if we can explain what our results taught us about our study of the River Smite.
Finally, we got to go and visit the (overflowing!) pond and do some pond-dipping to see what kind of invertebrates we could find!
We had such a brilliant time in which we learnt so much in relation to both our Geography and Science units!
This week, we have been researching UK rivers. We then created a poster to show the comparison of some of the most famous rivers in the UK.
Today, Year 6 enjoyed a visit from Paul and Lorraine on behalf on the RNLI.
We learnt about the bodies of water we have surrounding us, and the need for us to stay safe, despite not living close to the sea.
We were given stickers, badges and certificates to show what we learnt and help us to spread the message.
We also found out how this charity helps and what we can do to support them.During this extradorindary month of mission, we are going to think about what we can do as individuals and as a class to support them. Some suggestions so far include:
‘We could donate some of our pocket money.’
‘We should visit the RNLI shops when we go on holiday.’
‘Raise awareness about the charity and what they do.’
‘Hold a Fish Supper night (annual event).’
‘Hold a fundraising event in school’.
Well done to Dhilan, Darragh and William who planned, prepared and delivered a lovely prayer service to the rest of Year 6 and their prayer friends in Reception.
They focused on the first sorrowful mystery: The Agony in the Garden.
“Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, ‘Sit here, while I go yonder and pray.” (Mt 26:36-39)
This prayer service taught us all that the Sorrowful Mysteries cover the events of Holy Thursday, after the Last Supper, through the Crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday, Each mystery is associated with a particular fruit, or virtue, which is illustrated by the actions of Christ and Mary in the event commemorated by that mystery. While meditating on the mysteries, we also pray for those fruits or virtues. The virtue most commonly associated with the mystery of the Agony in the Garden is acceptance of Gods will.
The whole school joined together in the hall this afternoon to share in ‘A Time of Prayer’ live streamed with Archbishop Bernard Longley.
We prayed the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary using a Mission Rosary, and also marked the Feast Day of Blessed John Henry Newman.
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