Wishing you all a blessed Christmas.
Thank you for all of our lovely cards, kind words and generous gifts.
All the staff of All Souls x
Year 5 are exploring fractions this half term. Today we used numicon and pompoms to help us convert improper fractions to mixed numbers.
Children from Years 5 and 6 took part in the Small School’s Indoor Sportshall Athletics Competition today. They competed in a range of events including relays, obstacle races, javelin, triple jump and many more. In total there were 12 running races, we managed to place 1st in 8 of these 2nd in two and 3rd in the final two races. This is an incredible achievement – well done everyone who ran. Unfortunately, I don’t know how we placed in the field events but I’m sure the scores were equally as impressive. Overall the team finished in 1st place, they now have to compete in the final to try and represent Coventry West in the County Finals later on in the school year. Congratulations everyone!
Some of the photos are a little blurry – they were moving way too fast for us to capture them.
This half term, in art, Year 5 are exploring typography.
We first learnt about typography and looked at different artists, such as Louise Fili.
Then we began experimenting creating different words out of different mediums – such as irregular shapes and materials found in forest school.
See if you can work out what our creations say…
Year 5 have been brushing up on their geography skills this week as we begin our new topic: ‘Changes in our Local Environment’.
First, we recapped the countries in the United Kingdom and, using Atlases, found out what the capital cities of these countries are. Then we discussed the differences between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and the British Isles – which blew our minds.
Then we began researching more into our region; the counties in the West Midlands and famous landmarks in our area.
Anti-Bullying Week 2023 is coordinated in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. This year it has the theme ‘Make A Noise About Bullying’ and will take place from Monday 13th to Friday 17th November. The week kicked off with Odd Socks Day, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique.
Consultation on Admissions arrangements for the academic year 2025/26
The Governing Body of All Souls Catholic Primary School are publicly consulting on proposed changes to their admissions arrangements for 2025/26.
The consultation period is running for six school weeks, commencing on Monday 13th November 2023 and ending on Sunday 24th December 2023.
A copy of the draft policy can be obtained either from this link or by contacting the school admin team (02476 675 836 / [email protected]) or via the QR code below:
Any comments regarding the admissions policy or proposed changes should be submitted to the school business manager, Linsey Rae either via email ([email protected]) or post (All Souls Catholic Primary School, Abercorn Road, Coventry, CV5 8ED).
A summary of the proposed changes to the existing policy, for the academic year 2025/26 are as follows:
- The inclusion of two addition oversubscription criteria (criteria 5 and 9 in the draft policy) as highlighted below
Oversubscription Criteria
- Baptised Catholic children who are looked after or previously looked after (See Note 3 below).
- Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of The Precious Blood and All Souls who have a brother or sister attending All Souls Catholic Primary School at the time of admission.
- Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of The Precious Blood and All Souls
- Other Baptised Catholic children who have a brother or sister attending All Souls Catholic Primary School at the time of admission.
- Other baptised Catholic children of a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School (see Note 6 below).
- Other Baptised Catholic children.
- Non-Catholic children who are looked after or previously looked after.
- Non-Catholic children who have a brother or sister attending All Souls Catholic Primary School at the time of admission.
- Non-Catholic children of a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School (see Note 6 below)
- Non-Catholic children.
- The inclusion of a note (note 6) which defines ‘a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School’ as follows:
“… a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School is defined as an individual who has been employed by All Souls Catholic Primary School for two or more years prior to the application being submitted or where the staff member has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.”
Over the past 2 days, the children in year 5 have been working hard to plan, design and bake their own savoury rolls.
First, we began researching different types of savoury rolls currently on the market. We conducted our own market research with the aim of discovering the most popular flavours. We then tasted some of the current savoury rolls on the market and quickly discovered we didn’t like a lot of the flavour combinations.
Following this, we began to design and plan our own savoury rolls with flavours we liked. Then, we created a shopping list and took a trip down to Morrisons to purchase our ingredients. We had to work together to find the location of the items in the supermarket and stick to our budget.
Then it was time to get cooking! We practiced our chopping skills and created some fantastic looking savoury rolls!
BUT… our favourite part was the taste test and we LOVED the taste of our savoury rolls!
Successful mission complete – well done year 5!
