What a wonderful and reflective week it has been at Our Lady’s with today being a special day in the Catholic calendar as we celebrated both St Vincent De Paul and Our Lady Feast Day. We spent the morning celebrating this together in mass at church, which was led by our special guest for the day- Bishop Paul. Bishop Paul then joined us back at school where he got to witness life at Our Lady’s- in which he was super impressed with. To celebrate this in class, we designed some Our Lady medallions, which will be created into a class bunting for our worship display.
In Science, it was time to get practical to test how to separate different materials from mixtures. The children analaysed all three methods and suggested scenarios when and when not to use each of these. Of course, we had to finish the lesson with our favourite solubility experiment- ‘Sugar or Salt’.
In Maths, it has been all things column addition and subtraction. A method that the children are familiar with in Year 4 but we have applied this to our 6 and 7 digit numbers. We also had to use this method in our angles topic to find the missing angles on straight lines and around a point.
In English, we have been using all of our collective vocabulary from last week and applied this into our complex sentences, using our subordinating conjunctions (I SAW A WABUB) as sentence starters. We then finished the week by begining our planning for our own narrative write by deciding which mythological creature we are going to use in our story. The children put their knowledge to the test with a famous ‘Cornwell Quiz’, with 4 teams coming out victorious.
Kidsafe
Please read the letter below to find out what we did in this weeks kidsafe lesson.
Conversation starters
On Monday, we have continued with ‘My Happy Mind’, with the focus being on ‘Neuroplasticity’ and how we use our brains to store and remember certain information.
This week’s question, “What other techniques do you use to calm your emotions?”
Subject question of the week- In RE, we looked at when we have misused our trust and how we seek forgiveness from whose who we have wronged.
How forgiving are you as a person? How could you improve on this?
Let’s Celebrate
Rory and Isioma for being determined learners: We all know that homework is not necessary everyone’s favourite pastime. Your compulsory homework is always complete which shows your teachers you are committed to bettering yourself but to put in the effort in your optional homework is just outstanding. You have gone above and beyond with your history homework and have created some toolkits that the whole class can use- excellent work.
Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtue start of the week goes to John-Paul. You really are a discerning young man Johnny. Your judgement and decision making has been impeccable this year. You are always making the right choice, even when your friends are not- you know what the right thing to do is and your not to be swayed.
My Happy Mind Champion- Kieran
Lunchtime Certificates
Role Model of the Week- Logan
Marvelous Manners- Grace
Notices
Medical Forms-If you haven’t completed the medical form for this year then please do so ASAP.
Sports Club Opportunities- Information regarding this is available on the sports page of the website. If interested, please complete the forms to register your child for a specific club.
Harvest Festival- For harvest this year, our chosen food for this year is canned meat. Any donations would be hugely appreciated.
Have a wonderful weekend,
From Mr Cornwell, Mrs Barker and Mrs Tierney