Our Lady & St Edward's Catholic Primary School: : Blog items

Celebrating in the Sunshine Room, by Mrs Harris

Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 8:14pm

The Sunshine Room has been loving celebrating Chinese New Year. We enjoyed fortune cookies, we all have good luck coming to us! We have also been making lanterns with lots of different colours!

Special Lunar New Year Lunch, by Mrs Harris

Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:55pm

Happy Lunar New Year! 🏮🎉🧧

Today marks the start of the Year of the Snake, a symbol of wisdom, intuition, and elegance. We're celebrating with a delicious traditional lunch and embracing the joy, traditions, and togetherness that make this festival so special.

We’ve also learned to say, “Gung Hei Fat Choi!” Wishing everyone happiness, prosperity, and a wonderful year ahead! 🐍

#ChineseNewYear #YearOfTheSnake #SpringFestival

#LunarNewYear2025

Celebration of Lunar New Year in Y3M, by Mrs Harris

Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:35pm

Year 3 celebrated Lunar New Year by learning all about how Chinese people prepare for the New Year and all of the traditional things they do to celebrate.

Chloe had kindly brought in some fortune cookies for us all to share and with Scarlet, they explained to everyone what they are and what special surprise to find inside of them!

We then decorated and cut out our snakes - a symbol of wisdom, intuition and elegance.

Year of the Snake in F2, by Mrs Harris

Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:19pm

The children within Mrs McLaren's class have had such a fun afternoon learning all about Chinese New Year. We were able to write our ages using Chinese writing, we built dragons and lanterns using Lego. We also enjoyed making Chinese lanterns using our cutting skills. It is the year of the snake 🐍 and so we all worked to make snake puppets. We had a great afternoon ☺️ 👏👏

Year 3 Jubilee 2025, by Mrs Harris

Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 10:06pm

Friday 24th January was Jubilee 2025 Launch Day! Year 3 took part in a class Jubilee assembly to introduce the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. We reflected on what we can do this year to be pilgrims of hope for our local and global family.

Year 3 Maths, by Mrs Harris

Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 10:01pm

Year 3 have been working hard to divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number by using base 10 to show flexible partitioning. ✖️➗

Year 3 Egyptian Bazaar, by Mrs Harris

Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:56pm

Year 3 have been working towards writing a settling description of an Egyptian Bazaar, based on our focus text 'Flat Stanley'. To help us use our senses to describe, we turned our classroom into a Bazaar! This morning, the children became 'Stanley' and explored the bazaar, thinking about what they could see, hear, smell, feel and taste. We then focused on exciting vocabulary to describe. Well done year 3!

Mr. Potato Head Challenge - Week 1, by Mrs Harris

Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:45pm

Congratulations to the following classes who earned pieces for their Mr Potato Head!!!!!

Y2FW with 97.6% 🥔🦵👂

Y3M with 97.1% 🥔👃🫲

Y2T with 96.4% 🥔👀🦵

Y6W with 96% 🥔👃👀

Be an Attendance Hero!, by Mrs Harris

Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:44pm

✨️ATTENDANCE MATTERS-EVERY STUDENT, EVERY DAY! 🌟

🏆 Be an attendance hero today!

💛 Here

💛 Every day

💛 Ready

💛 On time

#LoveWhereYouLearn #AttendanceMatters #olseps

Year 3M Ancient Egyptians, by Mrs Harris

Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:40pm

Year 3 VM had a truly grotesque experience last week learning all about the Ancient Egyptian mummification process!

They looked at the 8 steps of the process in preparation for the afterlife. Take a look if you dare!!

Taste Testing with the School Council, by Mrs Harris

Date: 20th Jan 2025 @ 10:43pm

Our School Council had a busy and very important afternoon today........taste testing for a new provider of school meat products 😋

School Council was invited to try fresh sausages, freshly made beefburger 🍔, homemade chicken nuggets, freshly made sausage burger, mince and gravy, and chicken breast 👏👏👏👏

Mrs Davies, Mrs Mulvey, Miss Burns, and Mrs McKenzie? We think the children loved ❤❤❤ the new meat dishes!!!!!

After lots of #masterchef worthy discussions, we had thumbs up all around 👍👍👍

#seriousfaces #funnyfaces #bigdecisions

"Lovely sausages- 100%!"

"The burger tasted like a really real burger!!"

"The chicken was tasty!"

Year 2 Setting Exploration, by Miss Hanton-Wise

Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 4:17pm

We had a great day exploring the different settings in our new story 'The Marvellous Moon Map'!

Science Club, by Mrs Harris

Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 9:00pm

Science Club with Mrs McGunigall 🔬🧪🔭

Science club had fun experimenting with plastics. Did you know that plastics are made of many molecules stuck together in a long chain? We discovered that when you pierce a bag with pencils, it breaks the chain, but the molecules of the chain are sticky so they make a seal around the pencil and won’t let the water out! Guess what happened when we removed the pencils! 💦💦💦

Y3K Ancient Egyptians, by Mrs Harris

Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 8:43pm

Year 3K loved learning all about the Ancient Egyptians' beliefs in the afterlife and how they worshipped many Gods and Goddesses. They thought about what items ancient Egyptians would take with them to the afterlife and what they would take with them if they were to make the journey to The Field of Reeds! They then played Top Trumps to try and defeat their opponents with their Gods or Goddesses and the many powers they held.

Kinslee's Homework, by Mrs Harris

Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 10:19pm

Thank you for sharing your homework with us, Kinslee.

Kinslee has done some fantastic research about Ancient Egypt and created a wonderful Egyptian map - well done, Kinslee 👏

A Christmas Trip to Poland, by Mrs Harris

Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 10:11pm

✨ Exciting News from Natasha! ✨

Over the Christmas break, Natasha had an amazing adventure in Poland, where she visited the stunning Illumination Park in Gdańsk. The dazzling lights and festive displays made for an unforgettable holiday experience!

We love seeing our students explore the world and create special memories — thank you for sharing your story with us Natasha and her Mummy ❤️

#StudentAdventures #ChristmasInPoland #GdańskIlluminationPark #SchoolCommunity #MemoriesToTreasure

Y3VM Ancient Egyptians, by Mrs Harris

Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 9:56pm

Y3VM Ancient Egyptians

Year 3 loved learning all about the Ancient Egyptians' beliefs in the afterlife and how they worshipped many Gods and Goddesses. They thought about what items ancient Egyptians would take with them to the afterlife and what they would take with them if they were to make the journey to The Field of Reeds!

They then played Top Trumps to try and defeat their opponents with their Gods or Goddesses and the many powers they held. Year 3 concluded with writing about and drawing their favourite God or Goddess.

Teo's Trip to Slovakia, by Mrs Harris

Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 7:40pm

We’re excited to share some wonderful news! Over the New Year, Teo had an amazing trip to Slovakia to visit his grandparents and cousins. It was a special time filled with laughter and new adventures. He built an igloo and even learned how to ski!!! 🎿 🏔️⛷️