‘Reach for the moon, even if you fall short, you will land among the stars.’
Norman Vincent Peale
I cannot believe we are in our final term in Year 1! I am so happy with all the progress the children have made and how hard they have worked and supported each other. We are very busy with lots of exciting things going on and activities to look forward to.
What have we been learning this week……
This week has been all about phonics and we have carried out a range of activities to help prepare for our phonics screening which we have now completed. I am so proud of all children and thank you all for the hard work you have put in at home. On Friday we all enjoyed a little ice pop treat to celebrate our achievements, even Henry had one!
This week in RE we learnt that Christian means a follow of Jesus Christ, we started to look at the features of a church and discussed the parish church we go to. Next Friday we are visiting Father Peter at church so we can look at the different features and why they are important. We will also use this to to ask Father Peter some questions.
Yesterday we had our yoga session in the hall, this was great fun and we all enjoyed it.
In English we worked with Mrs Davis and marked our Peter Rabbit retells, making sure we used capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. Can you ask your child about how well they did, is there anything they could improve in their story ?
On Thursday we discovered a time machine in the classroom and a dinosaur came out of it and then he disappeared. We have had great fun trying to find the dinosaur around school. We thought we saw him in the bushes and we think he has been in the castle, but haven’t found him yet! We have even learnt a new word - Mesozoic , this means middle life, this is the time of the dinosaurs 252 – 66 million years ago.
Conversation Starter
Can you think of how we might find the dinosaur and send him back?
In Maths we created our oen number stories to tell our partners and have been looking at place value, and started our time unit with the days of the week. Next week we will be learning how to tell the time to the hour and half past, can you have a practise at home?
We had a wonderful music lesson on Thursday afternoon with Miss Lavelle, I promised the children I would put the video on the blog. I was very impressed, they all worked together and were proud of their performance, I am too!
This week in RHE we have been thinking about how we can be kind to each other and what we can do it we make a mistake and upset someone. We all thought about a time when we hadn’t made a good choice and we said that it was important to say sorry. We drew a picture about what had happened and then scrunched it up and threw it away. Once we reflect and fix our mistake we do not need to worry about it. If we are truly sorry, God will forgive us.
We then thought about what we can do to be kind friends. In Year 1 we are a team, so we made a paper chain and discussed the importance of each link, if one breaks then the chain will fall apart. When we work together and are kind amazing things happen!
Let’s Celebrate:
Lunchtime awards:
Well done to our Role Model Oscar and Benjamin T for his Marvellous Manners.
Well done to our certificate awardees: two Sadie Spiders for their determination in phonics and their excellent sentences and editing in English
This person is taking Henry home for her brilliant progress, she has only been with us since the end of February, and is learning English. She has worked so hard in school and at home she manged to take her phonics quiz, well done we are so proud of you :).
Well done to these children: Silver and Gold! I know there are lots that are very close, don’t forget to sign in their books.
Trips:
We have some exciting trips coming up this half term.We really encourage parental engagement so it would be wonderful if we could have some adult helpers. If you are free and would love to join us please can you send me an email.
Trip to Church: Friday 21st June leaving school at 10:40 will be back before 12.
Trip to the Farmers Market: Thursday 4th July leaving school at 9, will be back at around 10:30/11.
Trip to the Library: Thursday 11th July leaving school at around 1:45 back by hometime.
Upcoming dates and Reminders:
Sports Day is on Wednesday 19th June at 1:30pm.
Weather permitting GYM JAM JOG Monday 17th June 8am.
As the weather is getting warmer, please can you ensure your child is wearing suncream. Please can you bring in a named roller suncream into school so the children can apply it themselves while supervised at lunchtime.
Please can you continue to bring coats/rain coats in, the weather hasn’t been the best and I only have a few spare. We want to get outside as much as possible.
Please can you bring in water bottles every day and remember to bring in reading folders so we can quiz and change books.
Please can you ensure football/pokemon cards do not come into school. There are lots being passed around and brought out in the classroom, they are best staying at home so they don’t go missing, thank you.
Polite reminder that all children across school should bring water in their bottles and not juice. This is something that we discuss regularly in school as part of our discussions about healthy snacks and healthy lunches. Please can you bring in healthy snacks please refer to the poster for suitable snack, we always have fruit avalible too.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me at:
d.drummond@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk
Thank you for all of your support
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Drummond, Mrs Carragher and Mrs Davis