Hope in Christ

We looked ahead to the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) this week and celebrated the theme of hopefulness. In this weekend's Gospel, Jesus shares the parable of the corrupt judge - he has no fear of God or man but does eventually yield to the persistent requests of a widow seeking justice. Her hopefulness is rewarded.

Jesus explains that, if corrupt people eventually respond to the persistence of justice, how much more swiftly will God respond when we call on him. We must remain steadfast and hopeful in our prayers. In the same way, we have been insistent with the children this week that our hope in them means that they can achieve more and feel even prouder when they persist in their learning and give challenging tasks another go.

C - 29th Ordinary

Autumn Nursery

The children in Butterfly Class enjoyed exploring the school field to look at the changing colours of the trees. The children also collected different leaves to look at the patterns and then use in their pictures.

Meaninwhile, in Labybird Class, children were thinking about what they are thankful for. We began by learning about ‘The thankful Leper’, who thanked God for making him feel better. From this, the children suggested lots of different things they were thankful for. We wrote them on our thankful pumpkin.

Harvest Time

As part of our Harvest celebrations, the children in the school kindly donated a huge range of food items to be distributed among the community. Year 6 had the privilege of getting out and about and hand delivering these goods to the residents around the school.

It was all hands on deck as they delivered over 60 carefully created hampers. The children thoroughly enjoyed talking to the recipients and presenting the gifts.

Residents from Westway sent a wonderful email praising Year 6 and we couldn't be prouder. 'We would like to thank you and your school pupil's for the harvest festival gifts, it is very much appreciated. The pupils were very well-behaved and well-mannered in the conduct of delivering the festival gifts. A tribute to your school. Once again a BIG THANK YOU.'

Thank you to everyone who brought in a donation, they were all gratefully received.

Balancing Act

In Year 2, the children have been learning skills of invasion games, dance and gymnastics. In gymnastics, some wonderful 'performances' were shown by the children as they worked together in groups to form a sequence including some different types of rolls and shapes, as well as displaying some fantastic balancing techniques!

Old and New

This week in History, Year 1 have been exploring old and new toys. We have been busy learning about timelines and the words 'past' and 'present'. We were then challenged with placing old toys onto a timeline, thinking carefully about which order they could go in. To help us, we used the story 'Lost in the Toy Museum' as well as our own knowledge of what our parents and grandparents played with. We also looked for clues in the pictures!

Autumn Predictions

This week the children have enjoyed exploring the signs of autumn all around us. Luckily around our school site we have some wonderful areas of nature, and the children relished the opportunity to go on an autumn walk. In the classroom we predicted what we might see while on our hunt! The children didn't think we would see any mushrooms or dafadolls, however they thought we would see lots of brown and golden leaves.

Once on the walk, the children loved collecting the fallen leaves, finding lots of acorns by the oak tree and even sycamore seeds (which float down like helicopters)!

When we got back to class, we took a look to see if the children's predictions were correct. Of course we found lots of leaves changing colours, and guess what, we even found some mushrooms sprouting on the field! The children had great fun using their predicting skills, and this skill comes very handy when the children learn science throughout the rest of school.

The Right Tone

Year 4 have enjoyed creating skin tones in art. They loved mixing various colours to create a tone that was similar to their own and were surprised at the lack of 'pink' colouring so often used to portray some skin tones.

Next week, they are using this knowledge to paint their own life-like people.

Masterminds

Year 5 have been busy getting their research and scripts ready to start producing their Anglo-Saxon videos next week. The children have become ‘experts’ in their chosen aspect of this fascinating period of British History. We are really excited to see the end products and share their knowledge and wisdom with the community.

Stone Age Detectives

Year 3’s Stone Age studies continued this week with with an exciting investigation task. The children were presented with a range of historical artefacts to puzzle over. They used their knowledge and understanding of life in the Stone Age to help them uncover what the curious items might be. Much discussion and debate ensued as the children examined tools and everyday items essential for Stone Age living including an axe, pot boilers and a rabbit skin. By examining the items and discussing in groups, they were able to to predict their different uses, recording their thoughts and observations and sketch each item. The axe and rabbit skin were the most popular and correctly identified items.

A Song of Hope

St Ignatius' Class led us in a wonderful worship today, where they shared with us their important message of always keeping faith to achieve our hopes. With confidence and conviction, they shared the ways in which we can keep hope - having perseverance, practising patience, building confidence and having another go - like Bartimaeus who was healed from being blind because of his strong faith and hope in Jesus. Their important message was then celebrated with a beautiful song, learnt and sung by the children of St Ignatius' Class: "There is HOPE in the Lord."

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