As part of their RE unit, learning about other faiths, Year 5 visited a Hindu Temple this week. We learnt so much and really enjoyed having a little dance and sing too!
This week we raised attention for the Ukraine conflict by wearing yellow and blue as part of our Catholic Life curriculum. Thank you for donations, too!
We also had three excited children who have bought a book with their poems in! There were other child who had their work in the book too, from our class and many others!
In Maths, we have been using counters to help our number bonds to 9 knowledge, as well as making arrays to solve multiplication problems.
And Edward shared with us all about his trip to the Natural History Museum. Thank you Edward!
Hope you have a great weekend!
Miss Clarke and Ms Fox x
Just a reminder that the Y6 candidates for Confirmation have a preparation class tonight at 5pm in the Parish Room at All Souls Church.
We look forward to seeing you there.
The children and staff have been busy in Year 5, preparing their hearts and minds for the season of Advent.
Throughout this season of Advent, Year 5 have been given the mission of being a Secret Saint to another member of our class. Each day, they will have special acts of kindness to carry out. This is to help us take daily moments to pause the hustle and bustle of everyday school life and prepare our hearts and minds for the second coming of Jesus.
Today we joined together in prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed as we celebrated mass on the Feast of All Souls.
The children represented the school perfectly and received so many kind comments regarding their impeccable behaviour and beautiful singing. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us.
Today, Year 5 went on a spiritual journey to pilgrimage to reflect upon God’s presence in our lives.
We began by exploring the definitions of ‘pilgrimage’ before making our own physical journey to one of our many special places in school: our assembly hall where we gather together often as a whole school and spend time with God.
Back in the classroom, we learnt about different places of pilgrimage before researching further information to create leaflets about our chosen places.
This half term, we have been focusing on the belief that every person is created in God’s image and that all human life is sacred. We believe in the dignity of each person, who is unique and infinitely loved by God.
In Year 5, we first explored how we are all equal in God’s eyes through scripture, discussing what we can learn from it and what it means for us today as followers of God.
We then began to consider how each person is unique and irreplaceable and that we all matter. When we realised that each jigsaw was missing a piece, we learnt how vital that piece was to the whole picture and so had to convince Miss McGinn to give us them back.
We were then guided through meditation to consider what makes one another so unique before letting that person know. Not only did we appreciate all the other lovely things others had said about us, we also enjoyed putting a smile on each others’ faces.
A lovely way to end our first Half Term. We have been blessed this week with opportunities to spend time with our Prayer Friends, learning, praying and playing together.
We started the week visiting our local library and sharing stories together. To end the week, a group of Year 6 planned and led us in prayer including a decade of the Rosary to continue with our Rosary Challenge.
Happy Half Term!
We’ve had a busy few weeks in Year 2. We have been using dienes to begin to add and subtract 2 numbers.
On Tuesday we had a lovely prayer service thinking about how we can be followers of Jesus at home, at school and on the playground. We wrote these on post it notes and added them to the Catholic Life Book.
Finally, we visited the library! The children were very excited about looking and taking out books. Hopefully next time we will all be able to take books home!
We have added the children’s Times Tables Rockstars log ins to their reading diaries so the children can start practicing their times tables at home.
We have had a great half term and are looking forward to a rest!
The children in Year 5 were thrilled to hear that their letters kindly requesting a new class set of Bibles resulted in receiving the best gift! Huge thanks to Father Paul, our wonderful parish community, Mr Cooke and Mrs McGrath – we promise to look after them well and use them often.
We put our new Bibles to good use as soon as we got them to learn more about the miracles of Jesus and how these encounters changed the lives of the people he met.
