This week in school we tried something different!
Instead of our traditional ‘during the school day’ Hallowe’en Parade we opted to invite all pupils to a Hallowe’en Disco on Tuesday evening. This new approach proved very successful, the discos were all very well attended and great fun and enjoyment was had by all. Thanks to our Fabulous Fundraisers for providing the discos, free of charge to every child, and to those who came along to assist on the evening itself. A huge thanks also to the great number of staff who came along to dance the night away with their classes. Their continued support of our children outwith school hours is greatly appreciated. Looks like Hallowe’en Discos will be an annual event on our school.
On the subject of out of school hours activities, this session our Come Clubbing @ Cathedral has become even bigger and better. We are now incorporating lots of ‘Family Learning’ opportunities where our pupils and their parents/carers/grandparents come along and take part too.
Our Physical Education PAHLs are offering sporting expertise, whilst Mrs Sally Wilkinson is busy ‘making family music’, our ‘Dolphins’ continue to develop water safety encouraged by their family members and……coming soon….. Lisa Roebuck, our Community Learning Development Worker (CLD) will be offering a ‘Little Chef’ Big Chef’ class making lots of healthy recipes for all the family to enjoy.
On Thursday we all made our way to O.L.G.A Cathedral Church to celebrate the Feast of All Saints. This was a truly, beautiful Mass concelebrated by His Lordship, Bishop Toal and Fr. Chromy. As always, our children actively participated in all aspects of the Mass and their singing was outstanding. Many of the parishioners, and indeed, Bishop Toal commented most favourably on our children’s behaviour, their reverence and their beautiful voices.
Meanwhile…..in the nursery, there’s been some spooky events. Here’s Mrs MM Murphy will all the details:
This week we continued with our Hallowe’en celebrations with the children exploring the gloopy watertray, spiders and bats in the sand.
The children made a witches house using a range of junk which is proudly displayed in the art area.
In Literacy they used the microphone to sing some spooky action songs which they recorded with the big camera in the performance area.
Each group wrote their own spooky story with a range of scary characters and these are displayed in the group areas.
Outdoors they continued to measure themselves against the giant pumpkins and explored the witches den and cauldron.
In ICT this week the children have been using the Ipads to create some fabulous colourful light pictures which will continue next week as we celebrate Bonfire night and Diwali the Festival of LIght.
On Tuesday we had a fantastic party with everyone getting into the spooky spirit. The children played statues, pass the pumpkin, best dancer, spooky corners and musical bumps. They had spooky snack and great fun games in the hall.
As always, thanks for taking the time to read our Blog, feel free to comment.
Mrs Shields
