“Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God..

Matthew: 15-16

This weekend we celebrate the feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul who did amazing work for our Church. During our times of prayer this week, we have focused on the word CHURCH and what it means. It is a place that brings us together as one family to celebrate of faith and to be with Christ. The children listened to a piece of scripture from Matthew, where Jesus asked Saint Peter “who do you say I am?”. We then reflected on this in class… who do we say Jesus is? The children responded so beautifully: “God… God’s Son… Helpful… Kind…Looks after us when we need help… Loves us.”

Conversation starter

What kind act can you do today to make someone else happy?

What have we been learning this week:

Forest school: Group 3 had their final session this Thursday, bringing reception forest school to an end for the school year. I am sure you will agree that the children have absolutely LOVED their forest school time! It’s a magical place full of wonder, where the children explore their interests and curiosities. We thank you Miss Lavelle and Mrs Tierney for being so wonderful and giving the children these great experiences.

Maths and Phonics: This week we have been super busy creating our story books for The Very Hungry Caterpillar! I was blown away with the children’s confidence writing, carefully listening for the sounds to be able to write each word. We kept helping one another to remember those all important finger spaces. The children are certainly becoming little math’s wizards! They had no problem partitioning the number 6 in every way possible! It was lovely to see them bubble with enthusiasm to share the different ways they could do it!

Stay and Play!

A huge thank you to everybody to was able to attend! It is so special watching the children show you around their classroom and sharing with you their favourite areas!

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our certificate awardee: For being a resilient learner no matter what challenges you face! Daisy we have been so impressed this week with how resilient you’ve been. You’ve smiled all week long, despite not being able to run around and play like you usually do. You’ve still been the best learner you can be and have not let anything stop you from growing your brilliant brain! Well done Daisy-May!

Whole School Virtues - Loving and Compassionate:

Adele, you are always such a kind and compassionate friend, thank you.

Henry the Dog: Henry is going home with Ralph for your independent writing, well done! Keep challenging yourself.

Important Information and Upcoming Events

Star Charter: to recieve our Star Charter one of the tasks we need to complete is to raise money for a charity. The charity we are raising money for is the Little Hearts Matter Foundation, this charity is close to our hearts as they have helped support Annie and her family in Nursery.

To raise money we will have a Film and FUNdraiser, your child can come in their own clothes and we will enjoy watching a film together. Any donation is welcome and you can start bringing in money from next week. Thank you.

This will take place on Friday 4th July.

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 Krol and Miss Forster