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Category: Primary 5
Lent Challenge – Thursday 30th
Today’s challenge: Fast from words and be silent so you can listen. Open your heart to God.
Be quiet. Be still.
Find what friends and family come to mind and listen to what God tells you about them. Think of situations in life and consider the Holy Spirit’s guidance and advice.
Drive or walk to school / work in silence.
Cut back on Facebook, text messaging, technology to make space for God’s voice.
Prayer: Lord, give me the courage to open my heart to you in silence.
Lent Challenge – Wednesday 29th
Today’s challenge : Say a decade of the rosary and ask God to fill us with His Grace, Peace, Love and the Joy of His Presence.
Pray the Glorious Mysteries. http://www.rosary-center.org/glorious.htm
Children can join me at lunchtime at 12.45pm on Wednesday to pray the rosary together.
Lent Challenge – Tuesday 28th
Today’s challenge – Be positive, think positive and say positive words only.
For extra challenge you could listen to this beautiful hymn which reminds us to place our trust in God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc0QVWzCv9k
Lent Challenge – Saturday 25th
Today we pray for the Primary 3 children who will celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Our challenge today is about forgiveness.
Watch this 6 minute video clip about the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_FUlo3WngI
Discuss the Parable with your family. Remember that this Parable reminds us that God is always ready to welcome us back and forgive us, no matter what we’ve done.
Take time to talk to God about the times you have not shown love.
Primary 5 Weekly News
This week has been an amazing week in Primary 5! Everyone has worked really hard and there has been some fabulous learning taking place. In Maths we have been learning about Money and we have been multiplying and dividing and remembering our decimal points!
During our French we have been learning how to describe ourselves and we have been playing ‘C’est qui?’ which is the French version of ‘Guess who?’.
We also took part in the James Young Cluster Basketball Festival on Thursday and we showed what fantastic basketball skills we have! We all scored loads of points and we had a really enjoyable afternoon. Mrs Reeves was extremely proud of us all!
Here are some of our comments:
Bea: This week in Writing we were working on an emotional piece of dialogue. We learnt how to use punctuation for speech and we based our dialogues on the characters from our class novel, The Desperate Journey. It was awesome and mine was read out and shared with the whole class!
Taylor: We met our new deputy head teacher Mrs Smith today and she is amazing! We hope she enjoys being at St Ninian’s!
Lorena: On Thursday we went to Craigswood Sports Centre for our Basketball Festival. It was really fun and active and we all really enjoyed it.
Vanessa: When we were at the Basketball trip, we were split into six different teams and we all tried to earn as many points as we could. I managed to score two points by myself and I was so proud!
Toni: Today Mrs smith came to teach us and we really enjoyed it. She is so nice!
Have a wonderful weekend and Mother’s Day!
Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves
P4/5 Weekly News
P4/5 have had a very busy week. We have been thoroughly enjoying our new numeracy topic ‘fractions’. We are able to find a fraction of a shape or number, order fractions on a number line and recognise that some fractions have different numerators and denominators however they can have the same value. These fractions are called ‘equivalent fractions’. Here is what the children had to say about their learning this week;
Louise “This week in numeracy we have been learning all about fractions.”
Mirren “I know that the numerator is the number of parts of a shape or number and the denominator is how many parts make up a whole.”
Lukasz “The numerator is the number at the top of the fraction and the denominator is the number at the bottom.”
Marcella “When a shape or number is split into 4 they are split into quarters.”
Abi “If the denominator is a 2 then the fraction is a half.”
Finlay “We have been finding fractions of shapes and numbers.”
Aria “We use our knowledge of division to find a fraction of a number.”
Charlie “We have also being revising multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.”
Abi “Some of us brought in red noses today to show our support for red nose day.”
Charlie “In PE this week, we continued our world cup tournament. Portugal came 1st and Columbia came 2nd this week.”
Lewis “In Art with Mrs Thompson this week we designed Easter cards.”
Lukasz “My group got a new reading book this week called cockadoodle doo Mr Sultan. I am really enjoying this book.”
Lewis “We have been focusing on inference questions this week in reading. When answering an inference question we have to look for clues to help us work out the answer.”
Daniel “We have been preparing for our Holy Communion this week. We revised the prayers for confession and talked about how important it is to have your confession heard often.”
Oliwier “For writing this week, we wrote a Viking adventure imaginative story. We focused on our structure making sure we had paragraphs in our story.”
Hope you have a lovely weekend and all of the mummies and grannies are spoiled on Mothering Sunday.
P4/5 and Mrs Wassell
P2/3 Weekly update
In maths we have been using coins to 99p then using our number skills to pay for items up to 99p. We’ve had to use our skills in counting in tens too. We enjoyed playing this game to practice using and counting money http://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
We have also been working on our counting skills, counting forwards and backwards from any number up to 100. This is a good one to work on at home. A handy activity is http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=NumberSequences We’d love it if you leave a comment to let us know how you get on!
In Spanish we’ve been working hard to learn the months of the year now that we’ve mastered the days of the week. We’ve had great fun playing this game http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/spanish/my_calendar/games/magic_cards_months/ Try it at home and see if you can beat the magician.
Everyone worked really hard in our Literacy Carousel on Wednesday. One of our highlights was reading in pairs then giving each other feedback. We also worked on spelling using pipe cleaners, improving our handwriting skills and finding interesting vocabulary in our reading books.
Pupils from P2/3 and P3 paid a visit to St Philip’s chapel on Thursday for their Sacrament of Reconciliation rehearsal. Some of the children have been a little worried about the format so it was really helpful to have the opportunity beforehand to go along. All of the children have worked really hard completing their Sacramental lessons in school as well as their homework tasks. They know their prayers and the hymns well, so we have been reassuring the children not to worry about anything at all!
Some of our other highlights include:
Michelle – I liked writing about my friend. I used lots of connectives.
Matthew – I liked doing Sumdog because I got lots of coins. My maths skills are improving.
Kuba – I liked the maths carousel because I worked hard with number lines.
Oma and Maya – I liked the Health and Well-Being committee because we went outside today.
Alishba – I liked singing with Mrs Steele.
Chloe – I liked it when Mrs Smith came to do maths with us. I learned how to find the difference between numbers.
Levente – I liked learning about responsibility in Health and Well-Being. We thought about it in the school and in the community.
Brooke – I liked the STEM committee because we worked on the laptops to design eggs.
Carly and Angel – I liked preparing for my First Reconciliation on Saturday.
Maeve – I liked learning about Cleopatra and looking at her face so we can draw it in art next week.
Aaron – I liked Technology when I switched on the netbook, logged on, found a website then played a maths game. I used loads of skills.
What a busy week in P2/3. We’d love it if you would leave us a comment.
From Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and P2/3.
Lent Challenge – Thursday 23rd March
“This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command… Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.” (John 15:12-15)
Today’s challenge – Pray for a friend.
Prayer for a Friend
I will pray for you, my friend.
I will name you in my heart before God and ask all His blessing be upon you.
I will be concerned for your rising and your daily mood.
I will be sympathetic to your personal needs and desires in each day of your life.
I will wish you well in your learning, or your work, and your leisure.
I will think of you at the close of each day and pray that God’s peace be with you.
If you have been especially kind or helpful to me then I will make my gratitude known to you.
If you are in trouble or difficulty of any kind, or simply tired and worn down,
I will do all and anything I can to lift your spirits.
I will ache for you in your sorrows and disasters and rejoice with you in your joys and triumphs.
I will love and care for you as I love and care for myself.
~ Author unknown
Lent Challenge – Tuesday 21st March
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27
Today’s challenge: Learn about a different faith or culture. You could even learn a few words in a different language.
#LentChallenge
