I can’t believe it’s already time to say goodbye — this year has flown by! It’s been such a pleasure getting to know each and every one of you, and I’m incredibly proud of all that you’ve achieved. You’ve all been shining stars, working so hard throughout the year, and I’m truly going to miss having you in Year 5.
That said, I know you’ll continue to make us proud as you move into Year 6. Mrs. Murphy is so lucky to have such a brilliant class, and I’m sure you’ll show her just how capable you all are.
Have a wonderful summer filled with fun and laughter. Stay safe, and we’ll see you again soon — our new Year 6s!
A big thank you for all your lovely kind words, cards and generous gifts. It has been a great year and it has been a pleasure to teach you all! 🙏😊
Mrs McVey, Mrs Hodgkiss and Miss Andrew
Swimming Gala Success
Congratulations to the children who took part in the Swimming Gala on Wednesday morning. They were fabulous role models representing our school and class and had a great time . Well done to William and Callum who both came first in their individual races. 👏🏻 Well done to the whole team, who overall came 2nd place in the competition! 👏🏻
Thank you to the parents who were able to support in driving the children to and from the competition and able to cheer them on. It’s very much appreciated! 🙏
The swimming teachers wanted to make you all aware of free swimming over the Summer for under 16’s …
Academy Trust Art Competition
Earlier this term, we took part in the Academy Trust’s art competition. This week we heard back that Natalia’s art was chosen as the Year 5 winner across all schools and even more special was that she won first place overall. Well done Natalia, we’re delighted that you’re beautiful work was chosen and will now be displayed at the Academy Trust’s offices. 👏🏻
Our Golden Ticket winners…📚
Once again during this half term, children in each year group have been awarded a golden ticket for each three times they have read. Today, each class drew a golden ticket winner in assembly and our Golden Ticket winner for reading this half term was Aibhin for Year 5 along with the other winners, have won a prize which has kindly been donated by the PTFA. Well done Aibhin! 📚🏆⭐️👏🏻😊
Our Lady’s was alive with talent yesterday. Well done to all our performers, you were all fabulous and the show was a great success! !👏🏻🤩👯🎶🎤👏🏻
In the afternoon, we were also treated to a music showcase with performances from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. Then the choir performed some great songs to finish our afternoon off. Well done to our Year 5 choir members, many of which did solos showing off their beautiful voices! 👏🏻🎶🤩🎤👏🏻
Our Reading Champions
Well done to our reading champions this half term who have all completed bookmarks for reading regularly at home…
Our award winners:
Golden Award (LEARN) - Jackson
Writing Award - Emily
Maths Award - Beaux
Our learning this week…
In English the children have worked really hard to write their dilemma narrative.
The focus of our maths this week has been angles.
In history the children have used secondary sources to identify similarities and differences between Athens and Sparta.
In art the children have put the finishing touches to their artwork inspired by the work of Chris Ofili.
In swimming, the children had fun playing Water Polo for their last swimming lesson. Year 5 have made great progress this year in their swimming and should all be proud of themselves!
The BEBCMAT Rock Stars Super League competition will finish today. Good luck everyone!
Our school is currently in 4th place out of 12 schools in the trust and we have scored 1525 points (school average score) so far.
This week’s Our Lady’s Top of the Rock’s Leaderboard:
1st Matilda Year 4 14331 🏆⭐️Champion⭐️🏆
2nd Ronnie Year 6 14061
3rd Macie Year 4 10144
4th Finlay Year 4 7947
5th Olivia Year 5 7424
Well done to Matilda in Year 4 for being at the top of our leaderboard, and well done to everyone else on our leaderboard too!👏🏻
At Our Lady's we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters
Keeping children and young people safe online is one of the biggest challenges facing society today and it is all of our responsibility to ensure that children are educated to make positive, informed choices when they are online.
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
What Parents and Educators Need to Know about AI-enabled scams This free online safety guide explores how AI is being exploited in certain online scams, revealing the risks for young people – everything from phishing and sextortion to deepfake fraud and voice cloning.
We hope you find these guides informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all. Thank you.
To read this week’s Good News Gospel reading, please follow the link to share the Gospel at home with your family. These are really child-friendly resources to share at home. Good News Gospel
Please also have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worship…
