Our Lady’s May Altar

We  honour Our Lady in a special way by erecting a May altar.

May is a special time in the church calendar when Catholics honour Mary, the mother of Jesus.  The month of May is a time to look forward to better weather and enjoy the flowers and plants which are starting to bloom.  This is a good time to create a small altar at home, to pay tribute to Mary.We will erect a small altar in honour of Our Lady.

April 2013 Class Novel

Lara (Licensed Assult and Rescue Animal), or GM451 by her code name, is the world's first official spy dog. She is a mongrel about the size of a labrador, white with black splodges on her fur, and most distinctively, one ear up and one ear down.

She is unusually intelligent and has exceded beond the usual dog-like stuff like sniffing out drugs. She is a karate black-belt, knows many languages, can use a computer and is also pretty good at the Playstation. She is an agent of the Secret Service and so has to keep her special abilities secret.

During a mission, Lara caught a villain named Mr. Big, however the police let him escape. Lara was seperated from her handlers as the evil man chased her into a wood and tried to shoot her with a gun. However, Lara escaped and, following her orders from Professor Cortex, leader of part of the Secret Service and in ways a mad scientist, she intentionally was caught by the RSPCA to get adopted by a family and await her rescue.

The family that chooses her are the Cook family. There is Mr. and Mrs. Cook, and the three children. The oldest is Ben, then Sophie, and the youngest is four-year-old Ollie. Soon Lara's abilities are known to the kids, as she doesn't know how a normal family dog should act. As part of her orders, she also can't become too attached to her new family as she is to be taken away again. Unfortunately, Mr. Big is also intent on tracking down the "blacted mutt", but not for a good reason – he wants that Spy Dog to be dead.Our Class really enjoyed this dynamic book.

Class Novel 2013

Our  Class Novel this year is Faraway Home By Marilyn Taylor.

Karl and Rosa's family watch in horror as Hitler's troops parade down the streets of their home city -- Vienna. It has become very dangerous to be a Jew in Austria, and after their uncle is sent to Dachau, Karl and Rosa's parents decide to send the children out of the country on a Kindertransport, one of the many ships carrying refugee children away from Nazi danger.Isolated and homesick, Karl ends up in Millisle, a run-down farm in Ards in Northern Ireland, which has become a Jewish refugee centre, while Rosa is fostered by a local family.Hard work on the farm keeps Karl occupied, although he still waits desperately for any news from home. Then he makes friends with locals Peewee and Wee Billy, and also with the girls from neutral Dublin who come to help on the farm, especially Judy. But Northern Ireland is in the war too, with rationing and air-raid warnings, and, in April 1941 the bombs of the Belfast Blitz bring the reality of war right to their doorstep.And for Karl and Rosa and the other refugees there is the constant fear that they may never see their parents again.

Based on a true story -- there was a refugee farm at Millisle and among its occupants was a young boy called Karl.

What are Primary Colours???

Red, yellow, and blue are primary colours. They are the three pigment colours that cannot be made by mixing any other colours. These three colours are mixed to create all other colours and can be combined with white or black to create tints (lighter tones) and shades (darker hues) of these colours.