‘ 'My lighthouse shining in the darkness, I will follow you'
Chris Llewellyn / Gareth Gilkeson
Yeasterday we attended Father Peter’s Jubliee Mass, he has been a priest for 50 years! We celebrated by singing his favourite hymns and performed our own version of My Lighthouse, as Father Peter is a guiding light for us. In collective worship we heard the Gospel of the Good Shepherd Father Peter is a shepherd to our parish flock. We showed our love to Father Peter by creating our own cross, we were inspired by the one we have in class.
In RE we learnt about the road to Emmaus, the children retold the story and wrote a few sentences. I was very impressed with their work. Ask them if they can tell you what happened.
Conversation Starter
Each week I will give you a question that I 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.
As we have been discussing the Good Shepherd I would like you to ask:
How can you be a shepherd?
What have we been learning this week……
Science/DT: We discussed signs of Spring and next week we will observe our class tree and go on a hunt to take our own photos of things that we see that are a sign of spring. In DT we discussed fruit and vegetables and where they grow. We cut out lots of fruits and vegetables and thought about if the grow above ground or underground. We learnt how to chop up some carrots and we are excited that over the next few weeks we will be designing and making our own smoothies.
In English we made fact files about Beatrix Potter, it has been lovely to hear the children talk about their learning at home and bring things in from home to share with the class that links with learnnig. A few children have brought in their Peter Rabbit books to share with the class we have enjoyed reading them and are looking forward to reading more next week.
Maths: We were introduced to bar charts and made our own with the multilink and wrote down the equations on our whiteboards. We have been working out what the missing numbers are on different equations, some are very tricky when the equals sign is on the other side ( 7= 3 + some of us thought it was 10 but we realised we were adding 7 and 3 togther). We made sure we checked where the symbols were so we could work out the correct answer. We will be practising more mising number equations next week.
Computing: thank you for those who completed our technology homework, I thought all sheets had gone home last week but I apologise if you didn’t get yours until later on. We shared our homework today and started our spreadsheet unit. We had to put the numbers 1-12 in a different cell and write our names. We did really well and we will continue next week.
This week we have managed to get outside for our PE lessons, the weather has been horrible, we were pleased to see the sun. We have loved developing our fundamental movement skills with lots of different activities.
Let’s Celebrate:
Lunchtime awards:
Well done to our Role Model Henry and Reyan for his Marvellous Manners.
Well done to our certificate awardees: a ‘Lizzie Ladybird’ for thinking about his choices and working hard and a ‘Bobby Bee’ for his enthusiasm with his learning.
This person is taking Henry home for his super RE work well done!
Well done to these children, we now have some children on gold! I know there are lots that are very close, don’t forget to sign in their books
Upcoming dates and Reminders:
Ridgeway Farm
As part of our Geography and Science topic we will be visiting Ridgeway farm for our school trip on Tuesday 21st May. We really encourage parental engagement so it would be wonderful if we could have some adult helpers. If you are free and would love to join us please can you send me an email. Please note It will be a full day trip leaving school at 9:30am and returning by 3pm, you will need to bring a packed lunch and mobile phones can not be used around the children or to take photos of the children. There will be school iPads and photos will be uploaded to the blog.
The cost of the trip will be £15, this is on parent pay.
Lunch Orders:
Please click on the button and fill in the form to let me know if you are bringing in a packed lunch or if you would like to order a school packed lunch. Please fill this in by Monday 29th April.
Please can you bring in water bottles every day and remember to bring in reading folders so we can quiz and change books.
Polite reminder that all children across school should bring water in their bottles and not juice. This is something that we discuss regularly in school as part of our discussions about healthy snacks and healthy lunches. Please can you bring in healthy snacks please refer to the poster for suitable snack, we always have fruit avalible too.
Please can you bring/keep spare uniform in bags, as the weather has been wet recently, children have fallen over in puddles and it can sometimes be tricky finding spare uniform for them in the right size.
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 Carragher and Mrs Davis