Worship
This week we have continued our ‘Desert to Garden’ topic with ‘Lent around the World. Our key words this week were CARE, LENT and WORLD.
We were very excited to open up some letters this week! We had 4 letters to open that told us all about how different people celebrate Lent around the World. We heard from Luca in Italy, Sean from Ireland, Anaya from India and Sofia from South America. It was so interesting to hear about the things they did.
Our final letter was from South America. Sofia told us all about what they do at the end of Lent, just before Easter. They make beautiful flower carpets using colourful flowers, leaves and dyed sawdust and work together to make beautiful pictures in the streets. We also watched a video that showed us the Holy Week processions in Guatemala. Click here to watch.
We made our own beautiful carpets in Nursery. They look amazing! The children really enjoyed choosing different colours and adding flowers.
Our child led worship this week was about Palm Sunday. The children remembered lots of our previous discussions and knew that the people waved palms, shouted Hosanna and one of our friends even remembered that we use the palms to make the ashes for next year!
We used our little people and set up Jesus’ procession through the people on his donkey. We all said, Hosanna! Hosanna! Finishing with singing ‘Sing Hosanna!’. We love this song! We spoke about how joyous it must have been when Jesus arrived on his donkey.
Learning landscape
Another week of finding out and experimenting.
We have continued with our investigation of heavy and light using balance scales, we are get good at predicting what will happen and how to rectify problems
We have been exploring ‘capacity by using lots of different sizes containers and jugs to measure water from one container to another, using the words full, empty, nearly full and nearly empty . The children have also been designing their own boats and testing them to see if they float or sing in the large water trough (with mixed results!).
As always we have enjoyed our number work! I am amazed at the mathematicians we have in nursery! I have really tried to trick them with some difficult games, but I can’t.
Mummies I hope you liked you Mothers Day card and biscuits. The children have been very eager to give them to you.
In the garden we have started to plant seeds ready to create a array of colourful flowers in our garden this summer.
The children that visited Forest School with Emma made some beautiful threaded hanging decorations.
To accompany our theme of growing we have made a fruit and veg shop…it’s rather expensive though…hundreds of pounds for an apple!
Food bank donations for March - Biscuits. The foodbank have seen a significant surge in demand at their food bank over the past few weeks, making it increasingly challenging to meet the needs of those who rely on their services. Let’s help where we can!
Easter Events in School
Easter will soon be upon us and in traditional Our Lady’s style we have a new event for the occasion, as well as our Easter Egg Raffle.
On Thursday 26th March we have organised another Pottery Event after school where you will have the opportunity to paint Easter themed pottery. There will be refreshements too. Just like Christmas, it is £10 per person. Please complete the form below booking for this event.
On Monday 23rd March, it is own clothes day but to bring an Easter Egg for the raffle!
Lastly, I think everyone has earned a good rest this weekend! Enjoy the time you spend with your loved ones.
Stay safe and God bless.
Barbara