'Jack Frost was no longer there, the spell was broken… see you next Winter'
Kazuno Kohara
What another superb week in Reception we’ve had! During our RE sessions, we have continued our discussions about the Three Wise Men and how they followed the star all the way to Bethlehem, where they found Baby Jesus. The Wise Men gave their gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. We’ve also learned about King Herod, who was an angry and unkind ruler, and wanted the Three Wise Men to tell him where Baby Jesus was.
Our two prayer leaders this week led a lovely liturgy session with the theme of gifts. They created some lovely gifts to be placed on our class worship table and enjoyed asking the class how they were going to spread love, just like Jesus did.
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:
The three wise men brought special gifts to baby Jesus—gold, frankincense, and myrrh. If you were visiting a very special baby today, what gift would you bring and why?
What adventures have we been on this week?
We have learnt about Mary Anning and David Attenborough, making our own play dough fossils, writing postcards, observing animals and so much more.
Literacy: On Monday we recieved a letter from Jack Frost, he had lost his hands so we helped him find them, they were outside! We wrote a letter back to him: ‘To Jack I put the hands in the freezer from ….. ‘, we learnt two set 2 sounds ‘ee’ and ‘er’ and the trickey red word to.
We created a word bank as a class for the character and setting descriptions, we used these in our learning landscape to write simple sentences.
Art: We learnt about Barbara Hepworth and made our own inspired clay sculptures, don’t they look amazing! Next week we are going to create landscape pictures using natural resources. If you are out and about and find any exciting Autumn treasures, such as sticks, leaves, flowers conkers etc we would love to use them for our pictures, please bring them in for Monday.
Let’s Celebrate:
Well done to our certificate awardee: A reflective ‘Lizzie Ladybird’ you have had a great start to our new year and your super listening is helping to grow your brain :).
Whole School Virtues - Eloquent & Truthful: Your confidence is growing every day, you always try your best and shine you light just like Jesus.
Henry the Dog: What a super week especially in Maths you were quick at recognising which number was missing in our stair patterns.
Important Information and Upcoming Events:
Vision Screening: On Thursday 12th February it is our vision screening a letter to explain will be in your child’s bag next week, you only need to return the letter if you DO NOT want your child to have their vision screening.
Please send your child in with labelled warm coats, gloves and hats as we try to be outside as much as possible.
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 feet from being outside in the rain.
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.
Important Reminders:
Please can you ensure that long hair is tied back and please keep hair accessories simple, this is part of our school uniform policy.
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 Wednesday (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