Our Lady of Lourdes RCVA Primary School
Fleming Field, Shotton Colliery, Co Durham, DH6 2JQ
This week is Drowning Prevention Week. All of our children have spent some time during their Sports Week learning about how to stay safe when they are taking part in water sports or playing near to, or around, water.
To share some of the important messages the children have been learning this week, here is a link to the RNLI website. The website provides some important tips about how to keep your child safe around water.
Class3 enjoyed writing our own superhero stories and creating our own superhero masks! 
Graham Morris, our local MP, visited our school to talk about making a change in our local area and our country. We talked about how we could change laws. Year 3 listened very carefully and enjoyed the assembly.
We enjoyed celebrating the love of reading with our family and friends. Our class story was ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl and we had a great time completing lots of art activities for our door.
These activities included:
Painting the character of Willy Wonka.
Designing our own golden tickets.
Designing our own sweets and chocolate bars.
Designing our own oompa lo
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Creating our own imaginative door that leads us to the ‘Land of Chocolate’.
We would like to say a big thank you for the adults who came to celebrate our love of reading with us!
Class 3 and 4 attended the Catholic Schools Skipping Festival on 4th May. We are very proud to say that Anya came third in the Double Bounce, Tia came second in the pretzel and our Terrific Ten team of Jude, Lilly, Crystal, Daniel, Cameron, Eve, Tia, Kennedy, Ella and Sophie won Gold in Keep the Pot Boiling.
Gail, from Skipping School, came in to work with year 3 and 4 to practise a variety of skipping skills. She was really impressed with our skills and we had plenty of practise for the festival.
Year 3 had a fantastic time learning about Ancient Egypt. We even saw a large dinosaur skeleton! 
Wow! Class 3 have produced some amazing projects. 
Miss Brack is blown away by all of their hard work. Well done Class 3!
Year 6 children worked extremely hard to create posters and information leaflets about staying safe online. We then went to share our work with other children in school, so that we could share the message about keeping safe online. Class 3 children really appreciated Year 6 children sharing their learning and Year 6 really appreciated how respectful and good listeners Class 3 children were. We all learned a lot about staying safe online.
In maths, Class 3 have been learning their 3, 4 and 8 times tables. We then used our multiplication facts to solve worded problems. Miss Brack hid something in the classroom and the children needed to answer different bronze fluency, silver reasoning and gold problem solving activities to get various clues to help them find it. We then had to put the clues together to find the hidden object. Year 3 were very happy to find Miss Brack had hidden some Haribo’s underneath the sink!
