Mrs J Hartwell | All Souls' Catholic Primary School

Confirmation 2025

22nd October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

Thank you to everyone who came along to support our Commitment Mass on Sunday. It was wonderful to see so many of our children and families, along with our parish, reverently make their intention and commitment before God to continue their spiritual journey.

Please see below a copy of the information leaflet regarding the Sacrament of Confirmation 2025 that children should have brought home with them. This year, Father Paul has streamlined the process of distributing and submitting forms. Application forms can be collected from the sacristy at Mass. Completed application forms should be returned to Father Paul at Mass before Friday 1st November 2024. Should you need to contact Father Paul, please email: [email protected]

Unfortunately, we do not yet have a date for Confirmation and whilst we understand that this is difficult for those of you who may wish to invite family from overseas or if the children have someone in mind for their sponsor that may need a little more notice, this date is at the discretion of the Bishop and all we can do is wait for a date to be allocated. Please rest assured that once we know we will of course let you know.

Nursery Applications 2025

21st October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

Year 6 Dance

17th October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

We are INTERNET LEGENDS!

16th October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

The children in Key Stage 2 were lucky enough to enjoy a visit from Vicki and Tenisha from Be Internet Legends by Google to teach them all about how to become Internet Legends!

The interactive event taught us to be safer, more confident online explorers, whilst having fun along the way! The skills and behaviours we learnt will help us to navigate our online lives – helping us to learn to be Sharp, Alert, Secure, Kind and Brave.

Here is the game they mentioned you can play at home: https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_uk/interland

Virtual Author Visit – Hannah Gold

16th October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

Year 6 LOVED their virtual author visit from multi-award winning bestselling author, Hannah Gold for the official launch of her highly anticipated new book TURTLE MOON. This thrilling new illustrated animal adventure for children follows other fantastic books such as The Last Bear, Finding Bear and The Lost Whale – all books are must-reads!

Thank you, PTA!

16th October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

The children (and staff!) in Year 6 were very excited when Mrs Smith hand-delivered us a fantastic selection of books which will become our class readers which we read for pleasure at the end of every day! We know how much hard work and generosity goes into fundraising and we appreciated it that little bit more this week when we saw these pennies and pounds turn into books!

VIP Reader

16th October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

Attention Year 6 Families and Friends (and Famous People?)

Would you like to become one of our VIP Readers?

Once a month, we invite someone new into our classroom (either in person or virtually) as our VIP reader. This month we enjoyed a session with Hannah Gold, author of ‘Turtle Moon’, ‘The Last Bear’, ‘Finding Bear’ and ‘The Lost Whale’. Next month, it could be you!

Our aim is for children to be exposed to different reading voices, different text choices and have the opportunity to find out more about other people’s reading experiences, preferences, recommendations and advice whilst also bringing a even more excitement and enjoyment into our reading time.

All you need to do is choose an extract of your choice (this could be from your favourite childhood book, a recent news article, a poem, something original or something from the Bible!) and turn up on your selected date at 2.50pm. You will have the opportunity to spend 10-15 minutes sharing this extract with the class before allowing them 5 minutes to ask you some questions. This is a complete surprise to the children on the day as they love the reveal of who is behind the book!

The dates still available for the rest of the year are listed below: if you, or someone you know (the more famous the better 😉 ) would be interesting in being a VIP reader for Year 6, please email me.

Thanks,

Mrs Hartwell

24/10/24
28/11/24
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30/01/24
13/02/24
27/03/24
01/05/24
22/05/24
26/06/24
10/07/24

Writing with a real life purpose and audience!

16th October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

Year 6 were enthused with their recent writing unit in English as they were tasked with twisting a traditional tale into a story their prayer friends in Reception would enjoy. Today, they had the pleasure of sharing their stories with one another, introducing them to The Three Little Wolves, Innocent Locks, Little Rotten Riding Hood and many more interesting characters and stories – including dinosaurs and unicorns!

Once again, Reception were the perfect audience, listening with respect, showcasing their enjoyment and were able to recall what happened in their prayer friend’s story!

What a fantastic way to start a Wednesday!

Year 6 Brightened Up this Harvest!

3rd October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

Thank you to all the children who brightened our classroom today with their colourful clothes and for all the generous donations of food items to be shared amongst those in need.

Teaching our Prayer Friends a valuable message

3rd October 2024Mrs J Hartwell

In RE this week, Year 6 were tasked with showing their understanding of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel by retelling the story and its important messages to their prayer friends.

The children in Year 6 worked hard to do this in a way that made sense to their prayer friends and left them with some very important messages to go forth with which Reception were able to articulate very well!

Well done, Year 6 and Reception!