'Even a small gift can be used to help others when Jesus blesses it’
Anon
We started our week by reflecting on the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5000. We made bread and blessed it just like Jesus to say thank you to God. We retold the story and acted it out we then thought about how we care for each other. We reflected on another miracle that we heard last week in our Wednesday word when Jesus turned water into wine.
What have we been learning this week:
Another brilliant week of Phonics, Please keep reading at home and practising your sounds. Don’t forget to watch the QR codes at home, Fred games are great for practising our blending skills.
Conversation starter
How well have you been listening recently? Why does this matter?
Drawing Club:
Our book this week was Goldilocks and the Three Bears, I set the children a challenge on Thursday our secret code was to write a sentence with capital letters, finger spaces, full stop and on the line. I was blown away with their writing.
Our words this week were:
Demolished: to completely break down or destroy something
Guzzle: to drink or eat something quickly and in large amounts
Slumber: to sleep lightly
Piping Hot: very hot
Frosty: very cold
Uneven: not level, smooth, or flat
Perfect: something is exactly right, without any flaws or mistakes
Cramped: a place is too small or crowded, making it uncomfortable.
Can you remember what the actions are? What do the words mean?
This week we found some messages in our sand tray so we made our own secret codes and put them around the classroom. We thought it would be a good idea to write a secret message for our Year 6 buddies. We snuck into their classroom when they were out for lunch and left them for them to find.
Forest School:
Next week it is Group 2 and Group 3
Wednesday 12th Feb:
Group 2
· Adele
· Daisy
· Harry
· Hope
· Leo
· Lillie
· Noah
· Rosalie
· Tommy
· Ruairi
Thursday 13th Feb
Group 3
· Archie
· Arla
· Diya
· Hugo
· Lily
· Maggie
· Ralph
· Rupert R
· Willow
· Arthur
Don’t forget come into school in forest school clothes and bring uniform in a bag for after. Please look at the forest school blog for more information.
Reception Plea:
If you have any Oats, legumes (dried lentils, peas, beans etc) or rice, pasta etc we would love to have them for our tuff trays we try to create exciting tuff trays for the children each week so we would love anything you could give us, thank you.
Let’s Celebrate:
Lunchtime awards:
Our lunch time certificates are awarded by the lunch time team to those children who they see being wonderful role models and using marvelous manors:
Well done to our Role Model Summer and Willow for her Marvellous Manners.
Thank you both for being such wonderful role models and for remembering those acts of kindness everyday!
Well done to our certificate awardees: a ‘Cooper Crab’ for his focus in Drawing club, you are excited to write and you are remembering what our vocabulary words mean.
Whole School Virtues - Faith Filled and Hopeful:
You could get the star virtue every week. Thank you for being always being a role model to the rest of the children. You share love and kindness to all and think how can I be like Jesus shining your light for all to see.
Henry the Dog: Henry is going home with this person for a brilliant week at school you have been so focused with your spelling in phonics well done :).
Important Information and Upcoming Events
MATHS MASTERY FOR PARENTS -We have become part of the Maths Mastery Parents Project with the Maths Hub. We are running fun maths workshops for parents in Reception Year 1 and Year 2. This project aims to enhance and further parental engagement in mathematics. We are inviting parents into school to learn games alongside their children - these games will then be taken home straight away and in the following weeks as part of each classes home learning. Please complete the booking form below and pop the date for your child in your diary:
Reception: Wednesday 9:00 -9:50 am 12th February
Year 1: Wednesday 9:00- 9:50 am 26th February
Year 2: Wednesday 2:10pm- 3:20 am 26th February
Stay and Play
Thank you for those who have filled in the forms.It has helped me to plan the most suitable days for the majority of parents. Our sessions will be on:
Friday 4th April 9:15 - 10:15
and
Monday 7th April 2:15 - 3:15.
Please fill in the form and select your preferred date. If you can’t make either date any family member is welcome to attend in your place. We are very excited to share with you our learning from our Spring term.
Parents Day:
The available appointments will be on Friday 14th February from 8.30am - 5.00pm. Appointments can be booked by clicking on this link:
For more information please look at Mrs Gregan’s Blog.
Show and Tell:
Please look below to see which day your child can share their show and tell news. We love to celebrate each child’s achievements in class. So we use show and tell as an opportunity to share things that they are proud of, or to share something that is important to them. Great show and tell examples are: sharing photos, bringing in certificates or medals, a souvenir from a trip out or something that they have made at home.
Important Reminders:
Polite reminder that we are a Nut free school. Please can you bring in healthy snacks please refer to the poster for suitable snacks, we always have fruit avalible too.
PE
Our PE days are Tuesday (outside) and Friday (inside). On these days, children can come to school in their PE uniform and will remain in this for the day. We kindly ask that velcro trainers (white, black or navy) are worn as this allows the children to be indepoendent when taking their shoes off and putting them back on. Polite reminder that for health and safety reasons, no jewellery is to be worn on PE days. We kindly ask that this is removed at home before coming into school.Art T-shirt
Please can you bring in an art T-shirt, if you haven’t already, these help us keep uniforms as clean as possible.Jumpers: please can you check that your child has brought the right jumper or PE jacket home, they can easily get mixed up when bags are being packed, there are a few missing in class, thank you.
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 Summersall, Mrs Kroll and Miss Forster