On Monday, when the children arrived in class they discovered a Nativity scene on our altar, an advent calendar and the lovely chains they made hanging form the ceiling. Our Advent calendar is made of envelopes. Inside each envelope is an act of kindness - we are challenged to do these each day. On Thursday, in preparation for Christmas, we went to Mass celebrating the Eucharist with our Year 4 class partners. Next week we will be joining them again when we complete the “Advent Prayer Journey to the Stable” this has been set up all around school! In the Gospel, at church, Jesus spoke about the man who builds his house on rock and the man who builds on sand. It helped us reflect on all our hard work this term - we are building on firm foundations!
I know you will be aware that we have pulled our little play together this week. It has been tricky and the children have found it all very challenging. I am hopeful that we will remember everything before we perform for you next week. We had a break from the play today, we will come to it all a fresh on Monday.
We are excited to share it with you all!
MAGIC MOMENTS OF LEARNING
Even though the play has taken up four long sessions this week, we have continued to throw ourselves into the learning in class. In history we revisited Mary Seacole, it was great to make the link between her story and that of Florence Nightingale. In the lesson we were trying to decide if she too should have a statue - we all agreed she should! In Maths we have taken very deliberate steps with our representations to learn how to bridge. This is a crucial skill and I’m so proud at how carefully everyone is listening, following and reasoning! In English we have focused on spelling and placing new words in sentences. This week we explored single and plural nouns. All the nouns we studied ended in y. So we have learnt to: “take off the y and add ies”. In DT we finished making our chairs - this has been a fun project. The chairs came in many shapes and sizes - but they had to hold up! I hope all these creations have found good homes! Miss Lavelle is really enjoying spreadsheets and the children thought it magic when the spreadsheet added their numbers for them! We have made more awards for Character Strengths in class and the highlight of the week was watching the Foundation Nativity - heaven!
GOING DEEPER IN CONVERSATION
Statues, we walk past them all the time. There are some interesting statues in Lytham St. Annes. Why not go on a walk to find some. Read the plague and find out who it is remembering and why.
LET’S CELEBRATE
This week our Virtue Star goes to FRANK
Our Learning Awards go to EMILIA and OLIVIA HEYES
Lunch awards Role Model Olivia Howcroft
Marvellous Manners Alfie!
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
PE next week - Wednesday and Thursday - Thank you for your flexibility!
Christmas Cards - everyone loves to send and receive Christmas messages. In the light of the teachings form Pope Francis we ask the children to bring in just one card for the whole class. Even better to make a card for the whole class. This will save on the world precious resources.
Our Nativity Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th - please make sure you have your tickets. If you have missed the letter that came home just pop into the office to see Mrs Nel.
December 13th - CHRISTMAS BAKE OFF DAY!
VOLUNTEERS -MONDAY 16th Dec walking to church to watch the KS 2 Christmas Concert with us we will be setting off at 1:30pm and returning before the end of school.
KS1 Christmas party Thursday 19th December. Party clothes dancing shoes! Please bring a carton/bottle of juice (not fizzy) and a bar of chocolate or packet of crisps (time for an unhealthy snack!).
If you are able to volunteer please drop me a quick email.
Have a lovely weekend form the whole Year 2 team!