Happy Half Term!
What a fantastic start to the new school! The transition from Reception and play based learning, to the Year 1 curriculum is huge, but our children were so ready for this transition. We could not be more proud of them and how they thirst to learn and absolutely love each step! As we write this we think back to so many special moments: The Evil Pea’s Appearance, learning their own prayer and liturgies, seeing each child’s enthusiasm and excitement to write their spellings each week, creating artwork with nature from God’s beautiful world, filling someone's bucket with another droplet. They are such sponges with a real thirst for learning and care for each other, what lucky teachers we are!
We have been led once again, so beautifully during our child led prayer and liturgy, the children shared a special message about harvest and thanksgiving. Our children chose to sing “If I were a butterfly” which we loved singing along to! In this weeks Gospel we focused how to be humble and what the word meant. We listened to a piece of scripture about a humble tax collector and a proud Pharisee. God teaches us that we should live humbly like the tax collector. We discussed what the word humble meant, and we came to realise that it means to be humble we do not that we are better or more important than others, instead we are honest and say sorry to God if we do wrong.
Going deeper in my learning
As a family, name one of each other’s special God-given gifts, something that you admire in the other person. Then each of you name a gift that you are especially grateful for - it could be a quality, skill or attitude. Decide on a way that you will use that gift to help someone in this coming week.
On Thursday Morning we spent time together as a school community to celebrate our harvest mass. A huge thank you for all the very kind donations, what a difference it will make to those in our local area who need it!
The children have also been busy writing their own stories of Supertato and you will be so proud to see their writing, they have done such an amazing job.
A huge thank you to you all for meeting with us today to celebrate your child’s start in Year 1, there has been so much to celebrate!
We hope you all have a wonderful half term, time to recharge our batteries ready for the next half term as we journey towards Christmas (eeeek!)
Warmest wishes,
Miss Bassett and Mrs Hartley