This week in church we will be celebrating Pentecost, the moment the disciples received the Holy Spirit. Over the past few RE lesson we have been focusing on the Holy Spirit! Last week they made their own Holy Spirit crafts and this week we have explored artwork before creating our own. We have also started to think about how the Holy Spirit can help us. In our prayer and liturgy’s we have shared the gifts of the Holy Spirit such as; kindness, gentleness, self control, peace, courage… and the children have thought about which gift they want the Holy Spirit to give them. We have also been busy learning the Glory Be prayer, understanding that when we say this prayer we are praising God and telling Him how much we love Him.
Going deeper in conversation
This week in My Happy Mind we have been learning all about ‘active listening’. I wonder if you can show your families how to actively listen to somebody.
Magic moments
This week we enjoyed our Forest school take over day which was just fantastic. The children loved spending the afternoon exploring the outdoors and being together with their friends. We had fantastic tree climbing, hammock swinging, craft making, den building, bird spotting and mud splat bee making fun! We are so lucky to have this special environment in our school! We ended our session with some quiet meditation listening the the sounds around us, some of the children were so relaxed that they didn’t want to get up! However, the chocolate biscuits were the perfect temptation!
Let’s celebrate!
At the end of this half term the children have awarded our learner of the Half term certificate to Lillie for such fantastic learning which has been noticed by all of your friends!
And our Star to Daisy who is gently kind, caring and wants to look after others. You do things just to be kind!
Congratulation both, Miss Hennessey and I most definitely agree!
Reminders
Sports day: It is Year 1 and 2’s sports day on Wednesday 10th June at 1:30pm. We hope you can make it!
Phonics screening check: During our first week back it will be Phonics screening, the children are so well prepared and their confidence is soaring. During the half term, please help to keep their confidence high through a couple of daily videos using the Ruth Miskin QR codes (10 minutes a day is recommended). Keep practising with the sound cards, I know a lot of the children are enjoying playing teachers at home with these! Of course, keep reading together, this really encourages a love of reading which is what we really want for our little ones!
Myself and Miss Hennessy wish you all a wonderful May half term, enjoy those two weeks off, and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday 8th June as we begin our final half term together (I cannot believe I have just written that, this year has flown for all the best reasons!)
c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk