Entries by Margaret Joyce

Year 6 – 07/05/21

This morning we honoured Mary in our annual May Crowning Procession. Thomas and Tito led us in a beautiful assembly, then the whole school followed Heather and Rory – the eldest girl and boy in the school – into the Peace Garden where each child presented their flower to Our Lady. Thank you for bringing […]

Summer 1 Week 4

During our short week, we planned a narrative in English,  used a formal written method to divide and planned our own science investigations about parachutes. Today we honoured Mary through our May procession. Thank you for the flowers you brought in, they helped to make our outside alter incredibly beautiful. In Re, Year 5 learnt […]

Year 2 Blog 02/05/2021

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 […]

Week 4

On Friday, we honoured Mary by placing flowers around her. The children were respectful throughout. Then the children sat in the peace garden and sketched a picture of Mary. This week we have been learning to order and compare numbers on a number line. If the number line ended in 20, we thought about what […]

Friday, 7th May 2021

Although, it has been only a short week, children were very busy in Year 4. On Tuesday, we made model houses to support our descriptive writing based on the book, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig. Thank you so much to all of you Parents, who sent in beautiful flowers to help […]

Summer 1: Week 4

Year 3 have worked very hard this week. In Maths, they applied their fraction knowledge to create mathematical art work . In English, they have published their  documentaries and created class word banks to support their narrative writing. In RE, the children wrote prayers to St Joseph to remember his feast day and were very […]

Summer 1 Week 3

Year 5 have worked incredibly hard this week. In maths, they have continued to work on fractions by adding and subtracting them and converting the answer from improper fractions to mixed numbers. In English we have thought about how to show the emotion of a character without telling their audience how they feel. We have […]

Year 6 – 30/04/21

Year 6 have worked incredibly hard this week. In Maths, they took a set of test papers (1x arithmetic plus 2x reasoning papers) and showed great stamina and focus in these. In English, they have explored writing tools that evoke fear in the reader; next week, they will plan, draft and edit their own tale […]

Week 3

In Maths, we have continued to solve problem involving multiplication. The children made arrays using counters, cereal and drawing them.   We have been reading the story Click, Clack Moo Cows Can Type. The children planned and wrote their own stories based on this book. On Thursday, we had a cricket lesson, the children thoroughly […]

Friday, 30th April 2021

Year 4 has been very busy this week with lots of opportunities to participate in sport activities. On Tuesday, we enjoyed our first session with Mr Mills, learning core skills in tennis. The children did very well and could complete rallies up to 39 hits by end of our lesson! On Thursday, we participated in […]