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Walk to School Week: 21st May – 25th May

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are encouraging pupils, parents or carers to swap four wheels for two feet and give walking a go this Walk to School Week 21st to 25th May.

As part of the challenge this year, pupils will be encouraged to wear the shoes that make them happiest – whether that is the brightest, jazziest or craziest shoes they own, to celebrate Living Streets’ Happy Shoesday on Tuesday 22nd May when we will be celebrating.

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Our message in school is that walking to school is a brilliant way to get active and healthy. It’s also a great opportunity for our children to learn vital road safety skills and make sure they’re alert and ready to learn at the start of a new day. Walk to School Week is part of National Walking Month organised by ‘Living Streets’.

This year Living Streets is urging families to pledge to walk to school via their website. Please bring a suggested donation of £1.00, to be sent to Living streets, the UK’s only charity for everyday walking. Living Streets say:

  •  parents who walk find the journey to school less stressful,
  •  petrol bill goes down, and pollution
  •  fewer traffic queues and parking issues
  • children perform better at school
  • Children & parents feel healthier and fitter.
  • Teachers report that those pupils who walk to school are more attentive once they reach their desks. 

Over 400,000 pupils took part in Walk to School Week 2017 – and this year is shaping up to be even bigger.

Please join in and support this fundraising campaign!

Click on this link to show your support for this wonderful campaign.

 

Mrs McNamara, Tom and Conrad (Year 6)

Netball News!

Well done to our two teams who competed in the Le Gros tournament at Mount Grace School this week. Our A team came in fifth place whilst our B team gained an impressive second!

Thank you to Miss Pringle for organising the teams.

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Reception Week 29

Today we participated in the May Procession to honour Our Lady.

The children showed reverence as they joined the rest of the school in prayer, listened to the Year 5 children and laid down their flowers by the altar in the Peace Garden.

It was wonderful to see so many of our families joining us.

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In class this week, we have been focussing our learning on space. The children have been busy turning the outside role play shed into a space station. They have also created their own space shuttles from a range of materials and thought about the things that they would need if they were to take a trip to the moon.

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In preparation for our Grandparents Day on May 21st, if possible please provide your child with a photograph of their grandparents, so that they can talk about in class in a special show and tell next week. The photo will also form the basis for some of our other learning over the nest couple of weeks.

Thank you!

Enjoy your weekend,

The Reception Team

 

Week 4: 11th May

IMG_0627This week, we have completed our final versions of the Road to Emmaus and have begun our new English Unit.  In Maths, we have spent our lessons looking at efficient ways of multiplying and learning the formal method of multiplication.  The children’s timestable knowledge has assisted with this work and they have risen to the daily tables challenge!  Well done Year 4.

In Spellings we have moved onto the soft ‘c’ spellings learning that when ‘c’ is followed by: e, i, y it is sounded as ‘s’.

On Friday, the children took part in the May procession to honour Our Lady.  The children brought in flowers to lay them around the statue of Our Lady.  The two oldest children in the school, William and Lily in Year 6 crowned Our Lady with a crown of flowers.  It was such a special morning and the children were reverent and prayerful throughout.  Thank you also to Maria who make a crown for Mary and this was added to the crown used.  

The parish and some parents attended the Procession and refreshments were served afterwards.

Have a lovely weekend.  We will be thinking of Angelina this weekend as she receives Jesus in Holy Communion on Sunday.

Summer 1 Week 4

Today we held our annual May celebration in honour of our lady. The smell of our classroom was beautiful this morning from the wide range of flowers the children brought in to place on our May alter.  Thank you to so many parents who came to join us.

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In science, we investigated solutions. We beg an by looking at 3 different liquids and deciding which one we would rather drink.

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Many were surprised that the dark green liquid (made from food colouring) was the only one you could drink as the seemingly cleanest one was actually a salt solution. The children then created their own sugar solution, analysed data from an experiment and then designed their own.

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Have a wonderful weekend

 

Mrs Lines

 

Home Learning

Write a poem or a prayer about grandparents and decorate it.

Please bring in a picture of grandparents for art activities next week.

As we have not completed our unit of learning on unstressed syllables, the smae spellings should be revised for next week.

Maths:

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Year 6 Home Learning – 11/05/18

Friday 11th May 2018

This week’s home learning (due Monday 14th May) is as follows:

English SPaG: spag.com – KS2 SATs Grammar Test (F)
Spellings Revision on http://spellingframe.co.uk/
Maths

Times tables

Practice test paper – write on the sheet
RE In preparation for Grandparents’ Week (the week after next), please write a poem or prayer about your grandparents. Make it personal and think about special memories you have with them.

Additionally, please bring in a photo of a grandparent of yours for an art lesson on Thursday.

You’ve all put in so much hard work – enjoy your weekend and make sure you get lots of sleep! And remember:

Excellence is not being the best; it is doing your best.

Miss Donatantonio

Blog week 29

The sun shone brightly as the children took part in our May procession in honour of Our Lady. They sang beautifully, and showed reverence throughout. Thank you parents for your support.

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Year 2 Blog Week 29

Bring flowers of the rarest, bring flowers of the fairest

From garden and woodland and hillside and vale;

Our full hearts are swelling, our glad voices telling

The praise of the loveliest flower of the vale.

O Mary, we crown you with blossoms today,

Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May.

Today we celebrated the month of May by holding our May procession to honour Our Lady.  We reflected on the life of Our Lady and processed towards the Peace Garden where we placed our flowers on our May altar.

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Year 2 Blog Week 28

This week we have been learning about 3D shapes and their properties. The children have had great fun looking at nets and making their own 3D shapes.

Guess my shape!

Joseph: I have 6 faces and 8 vertices. What shape am I?

Alice: I have 5 vertices. I have 1 square face and 4 triangular faces. What shape am I?IMG_1785IMG_1780 IMG_1781 IMG_1782

 

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The Dinosaur Has Been Caught!

After a very intense meeting at the Natural History Museum on Friday, it was decided that in order to catch our escaped dinosaur, the army would have to be called in.

Together, they worked alongside the police, using top of the range security tracking devices and on the early hours of Sunday morning, the dinosaur was caught!

Unfortunately, the details of exactly how and where the dinosaur was caught are top secret; all the class have been told is that it was with the help of thermal imaging equipment and a helicopter. Where the dinosaur is now being kept, is also highly confidential.

Although the children had their own ideas about how and what happened, they still really wanted to know the truth and so they wrote their burning questions in a letter to the museum.

They are hoping to get some answers next week!

In the meantime, the children have been designing their own ‘Dinosaur Land’ on paper, in the sandpit and with various construction materials. The class decided that to keep the dinosaur healthy the land should have: lots of space for it to roam, a river to drink from and bathe in, plenty of trees, plants and wild animals to feed on, a cave to sleep in, a secure fence around it and CCTV to keep an eye on it from a distance.

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Next week, we are once again following the children’s interests and will be focussing on the theme ‘Space’.

Enjoy the extended weekend,

The Reception Team