Happy New Year!
Welcome back and Happy New Year to you all! I do hope you all managed to have a wonderful Christmas and New Year…let’s make 2025 the best year yet!
This week has been a joy getting to know my class and I hope they have enjoyed getting to know a bit more about me. This class have demonstrated what hard workers they are I am ending the week feeling very hopeful. Mrs Ormerod and Mrs Owen have done a wonderful job so far and I look forward to joining the class on the remainder of their learning journey in Year 6!
This Monday 6th January, marked the Feast of the Epiphany. The Solemnity of the Epiphany celebrates the arrival of the Magi — also known as the Three Wise Men or Three Kings — who came with gifts to worship the Child Jesus shortly after his birth. They travelled afar in acknowledgement that Jesus was a true King and Saviour. We celebrated this feast with a whole school mass yesterday.
In our RE lesson this week, we also offered up three gifts to Christ. We reflected on what gifts we would like to give to Jesus to show Him that we too believe that he is our King and Saviour. We then explained our choices of gifts, using Jesus teachings from the bible to support this. It was so lovely to see gifts such as charity, tolerance, courage and forgiveness being offered to Christ.
Here is what else we have been up to….
In Maths we started the week revising multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100, 1000 and multiples of 10,100 and 1000. We ended the week focusing on fraction and decimal equivalents.
In English we started our new unit: ‘Classic Fiction’. We started the unit by discussing the question, ‘Can modern literature be classed as Classic Fiction?’; the class were quite divided with their opinions on this! After a class debate, the children then wrote a balanced argument. We have also been exploring some archaic language from the opening of the Classic novel ‘The Wizard of Oz’.
In HRSE we have been looking at online safety . We have focused on sharing information online and when it is safe to and when it is not. Always remember, Take care when you share. If in doubt, speak out!
In Geography we have been idenifiying countires, cities and seas of the UK. We labelled a blank map with as much information as we could, using an atlas to help us. We then used the laptops to further research some kep facts and figures about the UK.
SNOW!!
🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟
The Golden Award went to Tommy for his positive attiude towards his learning and valued contribtuions to class discussion.
The Writing Award went to Lily T for a well-written and well-balanced discussion text.
The Maths award went to Olivia S for her growing cofidence in maths and her contributions to class discussion.
NOTICES:
PE day- Wednesdays.
Homework- I have set homework this week, details of which can be found on the Year 6 Homework Page.
Contact information- if you need to contact me for any reason, please email using year6@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk.
Wednesday Word and TenTen Newsletter
Please have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worships…
WEDNESDAY WORD Please follow this link below to access the Gospel Readings for the forthcoming week, there are also some fun activities to complete, this is a fantastic family resource to share and celebrate with your child at home.
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 & Educators Need to Know about JusTalk Kids This free guide breaks down the potential risks of JusTalk Kids and provides expert advice on how to safeguard young users as they navigate the app.
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.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Murphy, Mrs Ormerod & Mrs Owen
