It was lovely to meet with so many of you at Parent Consultations this week and celebrate your child’s achievements in all areas of their learning. For those parents who were not able to attend, we will be in touch after half-term to arrange a time with you.
This week the children have continued with their work on division: dividing numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long division (and short division where appropriate) and interpreting remainders as whole number remainders, fractions, or by rounding, as appropriate for the context. They have been answering many worded problems to aid them with their understanding of this topic.
In RE we continued with our work on the Beatitudes and examined the life of a beatitudes person, St Teresa (Mother Teresa of Calcutta) and discussed how she lived her life alongside the beatitudes.
The blessed are filled with God’s joy. Jesus wants all people to be happy. Even if we are not healthy, famous, beautiful, rich, strong or brilliant, the children have learnt that the beatitudes are God’s promise of happiness.
On Thursday the children took part in a very special Liturgy of Preparation with Lorcan for Ash Wednesday. The palms that were collected from the parishioners who received them from last year’s Palm Sunday celebration were burnt in our peace garden and the children saw how they will become the ashes that will be used on Ash Wednesday this year. Thank you to Caroline, Maria and Johanna who assisted in preparing the palms for this liturgy and to the children who did the readings.
In PE, we continued on our theme of motion and before the start of our lesson Vihaan and VJ led us in our warm up. Well done to them. The children displayed their sequences to one another and I was pleased to see how they had incorporated leap frog, cat spring, rolling and jumping into their group’s performance.
This afternoon, the children spent time with their reading buddies and both classrooms were filled with exciting activities and conversations! A lovely ending to a very busy week!
Finally, well done to the members of our school choir who showcased their talents brilliantly during the Young Voices concert in Wembley on Tuesday evening. The choir were buzzing on Wednesday and shared the many experiences they had had from their experience.
There is no home learning for the half-term break but this is a great opportunity for those children to complete any outstanding mathletics or SPAG home learning. I have also created another blog for any children who would like to have an opportunity to look at revision aids.
Wishing you and your family a lovely half-term break.
Mrs Lines Mrs McNamara
