It has been a busy week filled with a variety of festive fun. On Tuesday, we went to the Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime with the rest of the school. Year 5 partnered up with Year 1 and they were excellent role models to the younger children.

On Wednesday it was Christmas jumper day and our Christmas lunch. The food was delicious and everyone had a great time. In the afternoon, the fun continued with the annual talent show. Well done to Liam, Mikey and Maria for representing Year 5.

Today we said good bye to Miss Clapp. It has been wonderful having her in class with us over the past half term. We wish her every success as she continues her training and will no doubt make a fantastic teacher.

Finally, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your generous gifts. I have enjoyed working with you and your children over the past term and look forward to continuing this in 2019.

Have a peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

 

Mrs Lines

I would like to firstly say a big thank you for your gifts. They are extremely generous and I appreciate them very much.

We have ended the term with lots of Christmas cheer. On Tuesday, we all enjoyed watching the Jack and the Beanstalk panto at the Wyllyotts. Your behaviour was outstanding, Year 6, and you were an example to all in the theatre, not just to your reading partners whom you accompanied.

Wednesday saw the festive combo of Christmas jumpers, Christmas lunch and the talent show – what a treat! Well done to all the finalists for displaying such a wide variety of talent.

On Thursday, the children finished their gym routines and performed them to the rest of the class. I was impressed by your excellent team working and the high quality sequences you put together.

The class also joined forces with Year 3 to create 3D star Christmas decorations.

This week, we also had our final 2 groups leading their Acts of Worship – this time on this Sunday’s Gospel reading (The Visitation). We were even treated to a group-composed hymn – well done!

Last but not least, the Liturgy Group have been busy once again. This week, they have been leading a reflection on the Travelling Nativity in each class, which has really allowed us to think about the true meaning of Christmas.

And that’s a wrap for the first term of year 6! Thank you all for your hard work. Have a well-earned rest and I will see you all on the 8th January.

Miss Donatantonio

To start our week, we attended the Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime in the Wyllyots theatre – Oh no we didn’t! OH YES WE DID!

On Wednesday, we put our Christmas jumpers on and we sat down together for a delicious Christmas meal. After lunch, we gathered in the hall for our annual school talent show. Pope Paul definitely has talent! Year 2 had two amazing entries – A Million Dreams and Drag me Down.

 As the wonder of Christmas surrounds us, may your spirit be renewed with special joy at the miracle of his birth.

Thank you for your generous gifts and beautiful cards.

Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas and happy New Year.

Miss Davey

This week, the children took part in the Advent service at Our Lady and St Vincent’s Church.  The children worked well to ensure that the story of Las Posadas was told and sang our Mexican song fantastically!

In RE we have been looking at how Catholics prepare for Christmas around the world; examined the Gospel readings in Luke’s Gospel and how he records the birth of Jesus.

The children have been responding to the Big Question:

How much does the celebration of Christmas today include remembering the incarnation of God?

 

As a special treat, the children took part in a Santa Sleigh Challenge which involved the use of spaghetti, marshmallows, chocolate Santas and reindeer and they were asked to design and make their own Santa sleigh with Rudolph at the helm.  They worked with a partner and the classroom was buzzing with excitement as they tested out their final designs.

 

This afternoon, all the junior children had a special visitor, Vincent, from the Oscar Romero Society.  He is the brother of Mrs Pandeli and his interactive talk with lovely visual items enabled the children to participate in finding out more about Oscar Romero.

Homework for this weekend is:

RE: Research and find out about some of the customs of Christmas which celebrate the birth of Jesus in the different parts of our world.

SPAG: plurals and apostrophes

Mathletics:  log on to see the activities that have been assigned to you.

 

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McNamara and Miss Varga.

We continued on our journey of Advent this week with acts of worship based on this Sunday’ Gospel reading. Thank you to those children who led us in more beautiful reflection. On Tuesday night, the class participated in the KS2 Advent Service at the church and displayed their talents of singing, dancing, acting and reading with reverence and maturity. Well done for being such fantastic ambassadors for our school.

On Wednesday and Thursday,  Year 5 and 6 were treated to music concerts showcasing the talents of the classes’ guitar, vocal, piano and string students. Well done to all the performers: you certainly lived out the school’s mission value of using your talents, and the festive numbers definitely got us all into the Christmas spirit!

Today, we were visited by Vincent from the Oscar Romero Society. He was very impressed with the children’s knowledge of St Romero and the children were interested to learn more about Romero crosses and about his work with St Paul. They also enjoyed trying on the stoles and skull caps!

This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 18^th December) is as follows:

English	Schofield & Sims English Skills : Section 1 Test 5 – to be completed in pink Home Learning book
Spellings	Words from the Y5/Y6 spelling list (see below for word list) – spelling sentences to be written in pink Home Learning book.
Maths Times tables	Mathletics tasks. Continue to revise all times tables and to use prodigygame.com
Reading	Continue to use readtheory.org Daily reading, with parent signature once a week.

Spelling list (to be tested Friday 21st December) Words from the Y5/Y6 spelling list
achieve	amateur
ancient	available
average	awkward
bargain	bruise
category	cemetery
competition	criticise
curiosity	definite
desperate	determined

Well done to all of today’s auditionees for the talent show. Your votes have been counted and I can confirm that the two acts with the highest number of votes and who will therefore be representing Year 6 in Wednesday’s final are:

Francesco, Alessandro, Deya and Claudia

Keira, Keira, Ciara