'She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus'
Matthew 1:21
We ended our week outside our chapel, to sing a miracle in town as part of our RE. We learnt about how children in different parts of the world celebrate Christmas. In Iceland a tradition they have is to sharing books with loved ones on Christmas Eve. We have done this during advent in school. It also linked with our Understanding the World Family traditions, it has been lovely to see and hear how you celebrate at home.
Each week we will give you a question that we would like you to think about and discuss together at home. This could be over dinner time as a family, at bedtime, on a walk or even in the car. However you choose to discuss this question is up to you, but the idea is that it will help to give an insight in to what we talk about in school, help children to understand more about themselves or others.
Conversation starter:
How will you spread joy to others during advent?
What adventures have we been on this week?
Drawing Club: We read bear snores on linking to our hibernation topic and we wrote our sentences: I can see a den. The bear is not up. I was so impressed we used our sound mats to help us find the tricky words and find the sounds.
Ask your child can they remember the vocabulary and the actions at home?
Bear Snores on vocabulary:
Slumbering: Sleeping deeply (action: Close eyes, arms crossed head resting on arms)
Creeping: moving slowly and quietly (action: tiptoe across the room)
Whirling: spinning or swirling around (action: spin around in a circle)
Flickering: light that moves quickly and softly (action: wiggle fingers upwards to the sky)
Tremendous: Very big or powerful (action: Stand tall, arms stretched wide)
Startled: Surprised or shocked (action: Jump slightly, hand to chest)
Forest School: We loved listening to a story and enjoyed a biscuit by the fire, thank you Mrs Tierney for organising this for us.
Prayer Stations: On Thursday we joined our Year 6 Buddies to go round the school and visit each prayer station.
Cake Bake: Thank you for all of your lovely bakes we enjoyed eating them and well done to our winner who was voted by our class.
Let’s Celebrate:
Well done to our certificate awardee: All the Characters for a brillant start in Reception you demonstrate these characters daily.
Whole School Virtues - Faith filled and Hopeful: You are such a kind and caring friend to all, you share and always help me school with jobs thank you :).
Henry the Dog: What a fantastic Joseph you were last week and you have made such much progress in Phonics, well done.
Important Information and Upcoming Events:
Christmas Party and Film afternoon: On Thursday it is our Christmas Party, you can come in party clothes, in the afternoon we are watching a film together in the hall, you can bring in a snack and a drink to enjoy while watching the film as a treat.
Reception Plea:
Please can you bring in any old socks, shoes and return any you have borrowed from school we don’t have any left so we are struggling if anyone has an accident or gets wet feetfrom being outside in the rain.
We are always trying to enrich our enviroment, if you have any old wrapping paper, christmas cards etc we would love them for our Christmas workshop role play area.
If you have any old baking trays, toasters, kettles, kitchen utensils we would love them for our mud kitchen. Thank you we are grateful for anything you can donate.
These next few weeks are very busy please check the blog and share any information with each other, our text message system was down again this week as it is currently being updated so some people still aren’t recieving messages. Hopefully it is working now, if you have any questions or are not recieving texts please email.
Travelling Nativity: everyone in our class will take the travelling Nativity home, in this bag there is a Nativity book and figures that you share together. You can email us photos to be printed off or draw a picture in the book, please bring the bag back the next day so each child can take it 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.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, Miss Woodend, Mrs Summersall, Mrs Krol and Mrs Ely