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Blackburn Community Centre 50th birthday!

As you may or not be aware, Blackburn Community Centre is celebrating it’s 50th birthday on Friday 25th November.
There are a number of events planned on both Friday and Saturday which will hopefully engage the whole community, past and present.   If you know of anyone  who has been involved in Blackburn Community Centre in the last 50 years, please let them know and ask them to get in touch (see poster).
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Movie Afternoon Quiz

coverTake part and have fun with our movie quiz  answers before Friday 18th November please!

Prizes available for the most correct answers!  From the AAL team in P4/5

  1. What is the name of the song right at the beginning of the movie and who is the artist singing?
  2. What is the name of the grey cat?
  3. What did Max want to get rid of?
  4. Why did the big brown dog lose his owner?
  5. What country is the story set in?

 

Collaborative Learning P6/7 & P1/2

P6/7 were working collaboratively with P1/2 today. P1/2 have been reading a book called Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson and now we are working together to make paper dolls. The P6/7 buddies did a fantastic job of helping the infants colour their dolls and helping them decide on a new story ending. Next week, we’re going to cut out our dolls and use our buddy skills to help create and write new stories about them. We had a great time and showed how mature and helpful we can be when we work with our buddies. Look out for next week’s update!!

Dyslexia Awareness Week

P6/7 looked at and discussed a power point about Dyslexia this afternoon. It told us about the difficulties children with dyslexic tendencies face when they are trying to learn and the strategies they can use to help them. We are an inclusive school in Our Lady of Lourdes and we believe it is important to support everyone so we have ordered the Dyslexia Awareness ribbons to wear.

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P3/4 Thursday……..

Today we had Judo in the Hall.  We also continued to learn about Growth Mindsets and healthy eating.  At the end of the day we watched a clip of how to tie laces!  Tomorrow we are going to try to tie our laces ourselves and for those of us who know how to tie them, we have a challenge to tie them in 1 second.

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Logan and Michal – I enjoyed the Judo.

Marcus – I liked the music with Mrs Lang.

Maddie – The police gave an interesting talk about fireworks.

Lucas and Demi-Lee – I liked colouring the Inside Out characters for display.

Kyran – The Judo was ballistic!

Katie – I had good fun doing the Growth Mindsets.

Here are the links to the clips on tying laces …

Smoothie recipe…by request!………

Image result for smoothie clip art Some children have been asking what was in the delicious smoothies they all tried this week at school! Ultra healthy and can be tried at home if you have any type of blender…

In our smoothies we put, strawberries, raspberries, oranges, bananas, apple, pineapple and spinach! (even had some eating spinach on its own!). Add fruit juice and blend. SUPER FOOD SMOOTHIE OR WHAT!?

Fireworks Safety Talk

A really interesting discussion with PC Chris and PC Carol Ann today.

fireworks2A massive thank you to them for coming in and having a safety chat with us.

Key messages were:

Stay safe with fireworks.

Under 18 year olds are not permitted to have fireworks.

Keep your distance (at least 25 m) from fireworks and bonfires.

Do not return to or go near fireworks which have been lit.

Fireworks are loud and can frighten people.  Make sure pets and young children are kept inside during home displays and be mindful of neighbours.

Make sure your blue bins are out of harm’s way.