Feast Day: June 29
Peter, the first pope, was a fisherman from Galilee. Jesus invited Peter to follow him, saying: "I will make you a fisher of men." Peter was a simple, hard-working man. He was generous, honest and loved Jesus very much.This great apostle's name was Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter, which means "rock." "You are Peter," Jesus said, "and on this rock I will build my Church." Peter was the chief or prince of the apostles. When the Roman soldiers arrested Jesus, Peter was afraid. In his fright he committed the sin of denying that he knew Jesus, three times. Peter was terrified that they would kill him too, but before Jesus died, Peter repented totally. He wept over his denials for the rest of his life and Jesus lovingly forgave Peter.
After the resurrection Jesus asked Peter three times: "Do you love me?" "Lord," Peter answered, "you know all things. You know that I love you." Jesus truly did know! Peter was so right. Jesus said kindly: "Feed my lambs. Feed my sheep." He was telling Peter to take care of his Church because he would be ascending into heaven. Jesus left Peter as the leader and head of His Church. Peter later went to Rome to live. Rome was the centre of the whole Roman Empire. Peter converted many nonbelievers there.
When the fierce torture of Christians began, they begged Peter to leave Rome and save himself. Peter started out and on the road and Jesus appeared to him. Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am coming to be crucified a second time." Then St. Peter turned around and went back. He understood that this vision meant that he was meant to suffer and die for Jesus. Soon, he was taken prisoner and condemned to death. Because he was not a Roman citizen, he, like Jesus, could be crucified. This time he did not deny the Lord. This time he was ready to die for Jesus. Peter asked to be crucified with his head downward since he was not worthy to suffer as Jesus had. The Roman soldiers did not find this unusual because slaves were crucified upside down. St. Peter was martyred on Vatican Hill. It was around the year 67. Emperor Constantine built a large church over that sacred location in the fourth century.
To The Ends of the Earth:
Pupils will explore the life of St Peter, making links between key moments in his journey with Jesus, including the empty tomb and his restoration. They will reflect on what his story teaches Christians about forgiveness, discipleship and starting again. Pupils will also learn how the Church continues Jesus’ mission today, understanding its structure and what it means to be apostolic.
Dialogue and Encounter:
Pupils will explore the life of St Paul and his mission to spread the Gospel. They will reflect on how his example encourages dialogue, unity and respect between different communities today.
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
Unit 5: Dignity of Workers
Unit 6: Human Dignity
Lessons Planned and taught by External Sports Company Non-Stop Action.
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P.E. will continue to be provided by Non-Stop Action
Athletics and Rounders:
Use running, jumping and throwing in isolation and in combination. Play competitive games, modified where appropriate. Communicate, collaborate and compete with each other. Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance. Develop an understanding of how to improve in different sports. Learn how to evaluate and recognise success. Compare performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement.
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We need to continue to work together to ensure that our children read ‘outside’ the classroom environment and develop a passionate love for reading books overall. This can only really be achieved with your support.
Even in year four children still need to be listened to reading by an adult daily. They need to engage with an adult talking about events in the book and making predictions about what might happen next. Our children really require ‘conversation’ so that they are able to develop their speaking and explaining skills, answering selected questions in full sentences and doing this at home with an adult, is the perfect setting for ensuring the continued development in this area, twhich school works towards consolidating every day.
Please ensure that your child reads every day with you. 15 minutes every night, is ample time to engage with a book with an adult supporting. Evidence shows that children who read as often as possible, not only become fluent and expressive readers, they are also good spellers and good writers who have creative flair.
We follow the objectives of the national Curriculum 2014 using White Rose Maths
Topics covered this term:
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Decimals: Make a whole with tenths and hundredths, flexibly partition decimals, compare and order decimals, round to the nearest whole number and looking at halves and quarters as decimals.
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Money: Write money using decimals, convert between pounds and pence, compare, estimate, calculate and solve problems with money.
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Time: Years, months and days, hours, minutes and seconds, convert between analogue and digital times, covert to and from the 24-hour clock.
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Weight and capacity: measure using the appropriate tools and units, progressing to using a wider range of measures, including comparing and using mixed units. Make comparisons of measures includes simple scaling by integers.
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Shape, position and direction: Develop understanding of angles as turns, identifying and comparing acute, right and obtuse angles, exploring properties of triangles, quadrilaterals and other polygons. Complete symmetrical figures, using coordinates to describe position, plot and draw shapes on grids, and translate shapes, accurately describing movement and direction.
Humanities: History
The Vikings
Investigating whether the Vikings were raiders, traders or settlers, making boats to see if the Vikings were engineers and exploring causes and consequences. Making deductions from sources, identifying the author’s viewpoint and explaining how this impacts the accuracy of the source.
Reading: Collaborative reading groups to develop confidence and fluency of reading skills.
Big Writing: Develop beginnings to stories, plot developments and endings. Improve use of adjectives. To develop writing different styles and to revise writing in different genres.
Spelling and Punctuation: Weekly spelling homework and tests, ongoing consolidation and revision of punctuation.
Daily comprehension tasks as part of the Literacy lesson: Pupils are taught the skills of skimming and scanning text to look for key information. This is used to develop their skills of inference and deduction in order to answer questions.
Handwriting: exercises to practise and improve letter formation, presentation.
Children will learn to:
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Understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science
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Analyse problems in computational terms and gain experience of writing simple computer programmes in order to solve problems
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Evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems
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Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology
Children will be taught by a specialist French teacher Mrs Ramdarshan.
Pupils will learn to:
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Listen to the French spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding.
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Engage in conversations; ask and answer questions and express opinions
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Speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures
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Develop accurate pronunciation and intonation
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Present ideas and information orally to others
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Read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing
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Broaden their vocabulary
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Write phrases from memory
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Describe people, places, things and actions orally and in writing
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Understand basic grammar.
Living things including humans:
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Reinforce the key learning and facts linked to the digestive system, teeth and food chains.
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Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans
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Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions
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Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.
When working scientifically, pupils who are secure will be able to:
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Compare the teeth of carnivores and herbivores
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suggesting reasons for differences between the teeth of different animals.
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Find out what damages teeth and how to look after them.
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Draw and discuss their ideas about the digestive system
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Compare their ideas about the digestive system with models or images.
We will follow the Life to the Full programme. Each module of work begins with a session on religious understanding.
Module: Created to Live in Community explores the individual’s relationship with the wider world. Here we explore how human beings are relational by nature and are called to love others in the wider community through service, through dialogue and through working for the Common Good. In Life to the Full Plus, further exploration of careers and money lead to understanding that true happiness comes from knowing God’s love and finding our identity and worth in Him.