‘The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.’
B.B. King
This week in RE, we continued exploring the beautiful message found in Mark 10:16, focusing on how Jesus blessed the children. The children learned that Jesus didn’t just welcome the little ones—He placed His hands on them and blessed them, showing deep care, love, and value for each child.
We talked together about what a blessing means and how Jesus’ actions showed that every child is precious and loved. The children shared wonderful ideas about moments when they have felt loved or cared for, helping us make connections to how we can “bless” others through our own kind actions each day.
In class, we practised giving simple blessings of our own—through kind words, helpful hands, and warm smiles. It was lovely to see how thoughtfully the children reflected on ways they can make others feel special, just as 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:
Who could you give a small ‘blessing’ to in our classroom or at home, and how?
What adventures have we been on this week?
This week we read The Little Red Hen, we wrote about the characters and started to sequence the story. In art we have designed our clay animals and are looking forward to making them next week, we have continued to compare Kenya and England and found them on the globe.
We have been so impressed with our sounds and blending, so please keep practising at home. When your child is learning to blend encourage them to sound out each letter and have a go, to start you may need to sound it out back to them e.g. c a t then slowly blend together c aaaaaaa t to help. It will take time and repeatition is key. They will need to sound out/ read the same word multilple times before they begin to recognise it. If you have any questions or would like to see a demonstration of how you can support your child at home with their reading let me know and I can show you after school.
Let’s Celebrate:
Well done to our certificate awardee: A reflective ‘Lizzie Ladybird’ you are making great choices every day and we are so proud of you :).
Whole School Virtues - Eloquent & Truthful: Your confidence is growing every day, we are so proud of how you have settled into Reception. You are brave to share your thoughts and ideas with others :).
Henry the Dog: You have worked so hard in phonics this week well done :)
Important Information and Upcoming Events:
Parents Day:
Thank you for booking appointments with me straight away, I look foward to sharing your child’s achievements so far in Reception. I will set up the online meetings next week, I will apologise in advance if you get multiple notifications, with the wrong dates and times, I will double check but please email if there are any problems.
If you haven’t already please fill in the form below with your preferred option and time. If you would like a face to face appointment, let me know and I can give you the best time.
Vision Screening: On Thursday 12th February it is our vision screening a letter to explain went home on Monday, you only need to return the letter if you DO NOT want your child to have their vision screening.
World Book Day:
2026 is the National Year of Reading with every child knowing their reading identity- what is it that makes them excited about reading?
On Thursday 5th March For World Book Day your child can come to school dressed as their reader identity. Your favourite book/magazine character/person…you choose your reading super power!!
Mrs Tierney has set up a forest school instagram account click on the button to follow the page.
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