We are being followed!

If you look to the left of the screen you will notice that we are being followed by St Edward's Catholic primary school in Selly Park.
Our year 3 and year 6 classes will be sharing their preparation for the Sacraments of Reconciliation, Holy Communion and Confirmation. This is a new and exciting development as we not only have faith friends within our own school but we now have faith friends in another part of Birmingham.

It will be interesting to see how this project develops over the coming months.

Have a look at the St Edward's blog by clicking below

http://stedwardssacraments.blogspot.com

Gabriel and Mary

Today we looked at the film of Mary with Gabriel. The was very little speech so we had to imagine what Gabriel said to Mary. We collected our ideas and shared them with our talk partners. We were able to feedback to the class what we thought.
We then compared our thoughts and ideas with an account from the Bible.

We were able to then produce a playscript of what we thought Gabriel said to Mary and what Mary said back.

Times tables resources

Many thanks to Tom Barretts ICT in my classroom site for these times table sites to help us reach our half term targets.
The Multiflyer site is a fantastic site which the player (it really feels like a game) travels around the solar system answering multiplication questions. It can give printout of results and can show progress over time.
http://www.brainormous.com/online/loader_multiflyer.html


A great game which players go on a real adventure. This is great fun
http://www.bigbrainz.com/



I have found another free resource to help the children learn their times tables.

http://learnyourtables.co.uk/

It is a simple site to use and useful to practice your tables. Then have a go on Tutpup to challenge people from all over the world.

Tutpup

We have now registered with Tutpup a basic skills practice site which allows children to compete against others from around the world.

Join our class by logging on yourself and use the code 4646780

Happy gaming.

www.tutpup.com

A reflect upon our first confession.

Today we collected our feeling about the Sacrament of Confession which we made last Saturday, here is a child's view of the service.

On Saturday 22nd November I received the Sacrament of Reconciliation. It is the second Sacrament that I have received. I went to church with my mum,dad and sister. When I was waiting I felt nervous, sick and brave. Father David helped me as God forgave my sins.

By Ola.

Christmas Play songs

Yes its that time of year again and we are busy preparing for our production of "Are we nearly there yet."
We have been learning our songs which have been sent home tonight and we will from Wednesday be practicing with Year 4 so we are ready for our performance on the 3rd December.
You will see on your left we have selected five of the songs for you to vote fo. Please choose your favourite and next week we can see which song is the most popular.

Sacrament of Reconciliation

On Saturday morning the Catholic members of Year 3 celebrated the Sacrament of Reconciliation at Sacred Heart and Holy Souls Parish Church. This marked the end of our preparation programme which the Lost Sheep video below played a large part in.

A short prayer service led by Father David was followed by the children making their first confession and receiving God's forgiveness.

It was a spiritual occasion which was beautifully observed by all who were there.