Year 6 Weekly Blog 20.09.24 - "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

This week’s liturgy and reflection has been focused around the word ‘servant’. On Wednesday, through the Wednesday Word, we first heard this weeks gospel, Mark 9:30-37, where we hear the disciples arguing over who is the greatest. We then reflected further in our liturgy on Thursday, on Jesus’ response: “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.” We reflected on how we can serve others in our roles around school and how we can put others before ourselves.


 

Collaboration is key - especially in Year 6! This week we have collaborated and shared in every lesson - this has helped us to learn from each other. We have collaborated in our PE playing games of cricket, putting together freeze frames for the prologue of our class novel (see photos below), in our practicing of the assembly and most importantly getting to grips with our new roles around school . Alongside this, we are striving to be attentive and discerning, questioning the world around us and actively making changes where needed. Here is a snapshot of our week…

This whole notion of collaboration will stand us in good stead as we move forward as a class. Earlier this week they each received their positions of responsibility and what a great start to the year they have made! They came back to school on Wednesday ready and raring to go and they have worked together beautifully, what a team they make. It was so wonderful to see how they each celebrated one another! You will see this in full force on Tuesday 24th September 9am for our class assembly. Please make sure they are practicing their lines and song for next week- thank you.

It was lovely to see so many of you there for the Year 6 induction evening on Wednesday. This is such a crucial year for your children and we must work together to ensure each of them reach their full potential and have a real sense of achievement this year. If you would like to refer back to the induction presentation at all, then please feel free to access on the button below:

induction evening

This week, we have done our second kidsafe lesson. This week it was all about the nature of bullying. We learned the acronym STOP Several Times on Purpose. We thought about how bullying can make us feel and what to do about it. Please read the following letter to find out more information:

kidsafe lesson 2

My Happy Mind this week’s focus on what we can do to relax our brain and keep it healthy! We looked at many different strategies and discussed how this helps our brain to be healthy. This week our 3 goals were to 1) do happy breathing as we come in from play times 2) drink more water 3) gratitudes. Our Happiness Hero : Elsie has helped to remind us to do all these things this week! I wonder who our Happiness Hero will be next week …

Science with Miss Drummond:

Today we revisited electricity, we discussed that static electricity is produced when electrical insulators rub together. Opposite electrical charges(positive and negative) will attract whilst similar electrical charges (e.g. positive and positive) will repel. We rubbed balloons on our clothes and hair then drew and labelled a scientific diagram to explain our findings: there is an excess negative charge on the balloon and an excess positive charge on our hair. Opposites attract so our hair moves to the balloon. Can you remember what are the features are of a correctly drawn scientific diagram?


Delving deeper through talk …

How are you going to serve others as part of your role and responsibility around school?

My Happy Mind…

What strategy are you going to focus on to keep your brain healthy and mind relaxed?


Helpers in the mornings:

This week we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Rafe Sophia Rex Millie
 

Leading Learners

Well done to Luke and Esther this week.

Luke- Focused Cooper Crab- Thank you Luke for being so focused, doing your best and being ready to learn! Your effort with your presentation is a delight to see!

Esther- Enthusiastic Bobby Bee and cooperative Roger Robin- Esther you are always full engaged in every lesson and you approach all tasks, no matter how difficult with a smile and positive attitude!

Attentive and Discerning butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are attentive in the way we look at the world and in others, taking the time to notice the big and the small things each day. We will also be spotting children who are discerning, who choose the right decisions with integrity. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Ruby for being attentive and discerning to help others.

Lunch Time Awards …

Marvelous Manners awards … Michael

Role Model of the week … Roseanna

Reminders

·   ·     Please return St Bede’s admissions forms from last week if you have not already.

·         It is our class assembly on Tuesday 24h September.

·         Please encourage children to complete homework on time and handed in on Wednesdays- it is great preparation for High School

Have a lovely weekend with your family.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Carter

Year 6 Home Learning 19.09.24

Homework should be completed and brought back to school for the following Wednesday

History- Please could the children watch the following video about the Tudors and see what answers they can find within the video to answer the questions on their sheet in homework books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ZKbFz7558

Assembly- Please practice your lines for our assembly and the song off by heart!

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! Please complete the following long multiplications in your homework book- setting it out as we have been doing in class.

Spelling - will be practiced throughout the week and the children will be quizzed on the Thursday. There will also be a quiz for you to complete on Purple Mash, once you have spent a good amount of time practicing these spellings throughout the week.

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Football and Netball Teams

A massive thank you for all of your hard work and commitment in coming down to the training sessions (very early) to show us that you are passionate about your sports and representing Our Lady’s.

Please see the list below to see which team your child will be playing in. The timetable for fixtures, including dates and location are available on the sports page.

Netball Teams

All of the girls who trained last week will represent the school teams this year. Following the training session on Friday, squads will be decided, but all girls will play in the fixtures.

Beth, Isioma, Layla, Lily, Bella, Daisy, Cora, Rose, Charlotte, Gabriella, Tilly, Millie, Sophia, Poppy, Faye, Matilda, Rose

Full PE kit and appropriate trainers required

Football Teams

A Team Boys Girls Team

Archie Connor Elsie Burrough

Rex Barrow Cora Hughes

Rafe Barker Bella Swann

Liam Fallows Layla Little

Ben Bonixo Millie Kidd

Benjamin Ellis Faye Whelen

Lorenzo Izzo Charlotte Reid

Logan Donegan- Fearn Beth Cassidy

Daisy Uttley

B Team Boys

With there being so many trailists, all whom showed excellent attitude, behaviour and ability, we have created two B teams so that everyone has the chance to represent the school football team. These teams will rotate weekly with B1 playing the first week and then B2 playing the next. There are 6 league fixtures in total so both teams will get 3 fixtures each.

B1 B2

Gus Bonixo William Davies

John-Paul Leyden Tommy Sale

Jacob Barrow Teddy Couch

Toby Cosgrove Sean Donnelly

Hugo McKenzie Hudson Earnshaw

Ciaran McGow Seth Hoddy

Rory Cuffe Louis Senior


Fixtures

There will be three fixtures this half term, and then three in the Spring term. For this half term, the fixtures and venues are as follows:

Tuesday 24th September - Our Lady v St Peters at LSA High School

Netball A & B Squad, Football A Squad and B1

Thursday 26th September - Our Lady v St Peters - Our Lady to host

Girls Football

Tuesday 8th October - Our Lady v AKS at LSA High School

Netball A & B Squad, Football A Squad and B2

Thursday 10th October - Our Lady v AKS - venue to be confirmed

Girls Football

Tuesday 15th October - Our Lady v Hall Park at LSA High School

Netball A & B Squad, Football A Squad and B1

Thursday 26th September - Our Lady v Hall Park - venue to be confirmed

Girls Football


All children playing will need to be collected from school at 3.30pm and taken to the games. For games at LSA, parking will be available at the old sixth form college, you can then walk to the school from there. Football will be played on grass and netball on the hard courts. LSA young leaders will be officiating the event in order to develop them as leaders. We will respect them and support them in their decisions.

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 19th September

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Nearly half of the class have now quizzed on a book and have begun their journey to their own personal reading targets. Lots of reading to be done this year as we begin on our journey to our end of year target- can you remember what it is?

Times Tables

Lots of TTRS to make sure we are super sharp and speedy on our times tables- these will come in handy this year. The children’s TTRS logins have been stuck on the inside of their homework books.

Spellings

Our focus this week has been words containing the letter string ‘ough’. Lots of these words sound differently to each other so make sure you practice over the weekend so you feel confident next week.

  1. fought

  2. nought

  3. ought

  4. bought

  5. cough

  6. trough

  7. tough

  8. rough

  9. enough

  10. thorough

  11. dough

  12. drought

    Mrs Barker’s group

    1. there

    2. could

    3. house

    4. children

    5. looked

    6. little

    7. she

    8. that

    9. now

    10. her

Optional Homework

History

We have started learning about the Ancient Greeks. One of the most interesting topics that the children love about the Greeks are the vast amount of Gods that they had.

  • Research some of the different Gods of Ancient Greece and compare them to each other.

  • Choose your favourite Ancient Greek God and tell me why.

  • Ask your parents if they know any of the Ancient Greek Gods- do they have a favourite.

This week...

Such a busy week in nursery! The children have enjoyed lots of new and exciting activities, including Fundamental Movement skills with Mr. Nay and Mr. Murray. The introduction of My Happy Mind and much much more. We are all exhausted!

My Happy Mind

This week we started our myHappymind journey to support the children's mental health and wellbeing.  We are delighted to be a myHappymind school! myHappymind is an award winning programme for schools and nurseries, families and organisations. It teaches preventative habits that support mental health, resilience and self-esteem. All the concepts that are taught are based on science and research and grounded in neuroscience and positive psychology. myHappymind is commissioned by the NHS. 

We have set up our own Happiness Heroes team to spread happiness around nursery and school and support others with their wellbeing through techniques such as Happy Breathing.

 myHappymind modules include: Meet the Brain, Celebrate, Gratitude, Relate and Engage.

This week we met Berty and Betty and found our about our brain and emotions.

Next week we will be continuing our journey and be asking the children this question: to plan a nice surprise for a friend or family. Perhaps you could have a little chat at home about what they could do.: maybe sing a song, draw a picture, give a hug or ask a friend to come and play. Let me know how you get on.

Mrs. Gregan will be formally launching the programme on the 25th September with a coffee morning. Keep checking the school blog for further details and and get involved.

In the meanwhile I have attached a Parent pack for you to take a look at. Click on the button below. Enjoy finding out!

Parent pack

Worship

This week we explored how our wonderful world was created.

We stared by seeing what object was in our magic box…it was a globe ball, a good way yo start our conversation. Each day we have looked at what God crated for us to love and look after. I have attached the slides for you to have the discussion at home too. See what your child has remembered (or put in their hippocampus-the memory part of our brain!)

CREATION

Also, we talked about Jesus-who is Jesus? He was a teacher, a healer and a very good person. We are going to try to be like Jesus and be kind and thoughtful to each other. We are doing very well. One friend said on Wednesday“ I am like Jesus”; how wonderful!

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone.

What a wonderful week we have had. Not only have we been growing our brains, but we have had lots and lots of fun doing so.

 The children have been busy getting to know each other and making new friendships. We have been talking about our families, the people we live with, where we live and if we have any pets. The children also drew what we had discussed. They really enjoyed talking about their pets and we found out that a lot of the children have dogs.

To help the children with their pencil grip and control, I've introduced dough disco. Playing with the dough helps to strengthen children's fine motor muscles to enable them to develop their grip which in turn will help to develop their drawing and writing skills. But most of all it's fun! What is dough disco, I hear you say. Dough disco is a fun activity that involves moulding play dough to music and performing different actions, such as squeezing, patting, poking, squashing into a pancake, tearing, twisting, rolling into a ball, rolling into a sausage, and pinching. Here is a link for you to have a go at home. I hope you enjoy, and remember, have fun! Click here.

Also, here is a recipe to make your own dough at home. Mix 2 mugs of plain flour, 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, 4 teaspoons of cream of tartar, 1 mug of salt, and 2 mugs of boiling water, and give it all a really good mix up. You can also add food colouring as you wish. Enjoy!!

Have a lovely weekend, and have a great time if you are going to the kite festival.

See you all on Monday.

Emma 

Michelle’s blog

Hello and welcome to this week’s blog.

Our learning this week has been focused on learning ‘All About Me’. We have explored what makes us unique and what makes us similar.  We used the mirrors to look in detail at our features and then had a go at painting them. We then all drew a picture of ourselves in our new floor book.  This year we are really going to try to ‘Reach for the stars’ and try to do our best. 

We have used our imaginations this week as we explored our role play home corner. We took it in turns to play mummy, daddy, brother, sister and baby. This enabled us to explore families and to think about our own families. We looked at the pictures of our families and found that we are all different, but we know that our family will always love us. Thank you for sending in your family photos, but don't worry if you haven't managed yet, there is still lots of time.  Just email to any of us, or send in a printed copy. We don't mind, but we would love to see all of our families on our family wall.

Here are some fun activities you could try at home. Click here.

Have a lovely weekend

Michelle

I’m sure all our learning will explain why your child is so tired at the end of the day…one or two friends even all asleep during the day!!

I hope that everyone has a lovely weekend in readiness for another busy week next week!

Stay safe and God bless.

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning 12.09.24

Homework should be completed and brought back to school for the following Wednesday

Homework books - Please personalize/ cover your homework book to tells me something about you, I would love to find out more about you! Please ensure that your name is clearly visible.

Assembly- You now have your lines for our Assembly a week next Tuesday. Please learn them off by heart and practice speaking with loudly and with great expression!

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! Please complete the bar model structures homework in your books.

Spelling - will be practiced throughout the week and the children will be quizzed on the Thursday. There will also be a quiz for you to complete on Purple Mash, once you have spent a good amount of time practicing these spellings throughout the week.

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

AUTUMN 1 OPTIONAL LEARNING