Category: Year 6 – St Francis of Assisi

We came into school, ready and eager to make the most of the first school day of 2022. This is a big year for Year 6 and we are ready for the challenges which lay before us.

We began the day by looking at the arrival of the three wise men who arrived to see the baby Jesus. We learned how the Wise Men are significant as they are symbolic to the fact that Jesus came for everyone- wherever we may be from, whatever our culture or status- Jesus is for everyone.

We then learned about the symbolic meanings for the gifts the wise men brought:

Gold -for a King

Frankincense – for a high priest

Myrrh- to heal the wounds they would be inflicted upon him when he would die for us.

The children then wrote up the information about the religious symbolism in the Epiphany and began to design Epiphany cards

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the kind cards and gifts you gave me and other members of the Y6 staff team for Christmas. We very much appreciate your kindness and support.

I wish you all a very happy new year and a happy Epiphany!

Best wishes,

Mrs Gallaher

During this topic we will explore:

How our networks of friendships and relationships enable human beings to live together.  When a child’s power to reach out, trust and make friends is diminished, they may suffer the effects for a lifetime.  Both children and adults have to discover their ability to reach out and repair what has been damaged.

If human beings are to live together in relationships, there is always a need for reconciliation.

We will learn:

Christians believe that, in Jesus Christ, the world has been reconciled to God.  Through and in Christ, every human being is offered the power to reach out in forgiveness and peace, to receive and to offer reconciliation.

St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians, wrote:

“But now in Christ Jesus, you that used to be so far apart from us have been brought very close, by the blood of Christ.  For he is the peace between us, and has made the two into one and broken down the barrier which used to keep them apart, actually destroying in his own person the hostility caused by the rules and decrees of the Law.” Ephesians 2:14-15

“It is called the Sacrament of Reconciliation, because it imparts to the sinner the love of God who reconciles: ‘Be reconciled to God’.  He who lives by God’s merciful love is ready to respond to the Lord’s call: ‘Go; first be reconciled to your brother’…

Indeed the Sacrament of Reconciliation with God brings about a true ‘spiritual resurrection’, restoration of the dignity and blessings of the life of the children of God, of which the most precious is friendship with God.”  CCC1424, 1468

We will pray:

Our Home Learning Task:

Write a seven day diary for the kind gestures you did every day for a week, when you were specifically demonstrating yourself as a witness for Jesus.

During this topic we will cover this somewhat sensitive theme. The experience of ‘family’ in society today is varied, with many joys and sorrows.  Whatever the experience, family still remains the first place for growth and development, the basic social unit. We will look at questions such as:

• What does the word ‘family’ mean to you?
• What people do you associate with ‘family’?
• What joys and sorrows do you remember of family life?

For Christians the pattern and ideal of family life is found in the Scriptures.  God is the loving parent of the human family and Jesus was born and lived in a human family.  While offering ideals for family life, it is important to acknowledge and respect the real experience of some children which is not ideal.

The following scripture summarises perfectfully what we want to God to reveal to us:

“As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness and patience.  Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive.  Above all clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body.” (Colossians 3: 12-15)

We will ask ourselves:

• In your daily life, how can you be ‘clothed with compassion’ or ‘with love’?
• In practical terms, how can these be expressed?

At the end of the topic, we aim for the children to respond to it by asking themselves and each other:

• What positive message about the family of the school is put across in the classroom?
• How does the school ensure that when it welcomes a child, it welcomes that child’s family?
• In what ways can the partnership between home and school be developed?

I’m sure the children will tell you more about the topic as it progresses over the next four weeks. Do ask them what they have been learning- it’s always nice to include you too.

Mrs Gallaher

Alongside your daily home learning tasks I would encourge you to try and stay active!

You may also want to take this opportunity to become Master Chefs.

Imoves

Imoves is available to access from home.  No login is required and no password. sign up using the link:. http://join.theimovement.com/

Change for life

Change for Life website has activities for Early Years, KS1&KS2.  It has fun food facts, recipes to make and activities for inside and outside for all the family.   https://www.nhs.uk/change4life 

Tenten have made daily prayer resources available for all families . Follow the link below.

Prayers for Home

Please log on to Google Classroom to see the work for today. Remember that you will need to go into designated groups to find the work (Mrs May or Mr Sallis). You will find your English and Maths work under your respective teachers and any other subject work under the Y6 classroom folder.

Today your subjects will be English, Maths and Science. Your new RE homework task is available too. Continue to read daily and use additional resources to practise skills of other key areas.

Remember that you can use the stream to ask questions.

Please log on to Google Classroom to see the work for today. Remember that you will need to go into designated groups to find the work (Mrs May or Mr Sallis). You will find your English and Maths work under your respective teachers and any other subject work under the Y6 classroom folder.

Mr Sallis and I will be setting daily maths and English tasks and I will set you an additional task based on another area of the curriculum.

Today your subjects will be English, Maths and Geography. Continue to read daily and use additional resources to practise skills of other key areas.

Remember that you can use the stream to ask questions.

Those of you who were absent last week need to accept invites to new groups.