Reception Weekly Blog 13.12.24 'The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.'' (Copy)

‘The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.’

W.C Jones


What another busy week, we started our week by watching KS1’s nativity, it was amaing! We have ended this week with our Advent Mass with Year 6 the children sat beautifully everyone who came were very impressed with our behaviour.


What have we been learning this week:

We went on our first school trip to Clarence House with Nursery, a huge thank you to all of our adult helpers, you make these trips possible. We sang all of our nativity songs and spread joy to all the residents and staff. We made Christmas cards and made sure evryone had one. It was a lovely day. As promised here is a video of a few of the songs we performed.


I will always try my best to ensure there are opportunities for you to come into school on days you are free. If you haven’t please could you fill in the form below. If you have any questions please email me.


Phonics: Sound mats have gone home. Please can you make sure they are in your child’s folder so we can tick the sounds your child knows and let you know which sounds to practise at home. I have made RWI QR codes for you to watch the videos at home. They are in your child’s book bag and I have attached them below.

Maths: This week we have explored 2D shapes, circles, triangles, square rectangles and oblong rectangles, we learnt a new word: vertices (corners/points). We counted how many sides and verticies each shape had and found different shapes in our classroom and made pictures with shapes.

Conversation Starter:

What shapes can you see in your house? How many sides/vertices do they have?

Christmas Jumper and cake bake day:

Thank you for evrtone who brought cakes in we enjoyed them during snack, they were all delicious. We couldn’t decide so Steph from Nursery voted for our winner well done :).


Optional Homework Challenges:

It is wonderful that the children are so excited about their learning and to see how keen they are to continue this outside of school. We welcome any opportunity to share these learning experiences with you at home, which is why we have created ‘optional challenges’ across each year group which can be explored over this Autumn 2 half term.

These challenges link to the wider area of our curriculum, there are some activities to help with retrival and some with topics that are coming up.

Below you will find the optional challenges linking to the topics and areas of learning that we will be exploring this half term. These fun challenges are designed to cover a range of skills without being stressful or time consuming for you at home. You are welcome to complete them in any order you wish and it would be lovely to see pictures or examples of things that the children have enjoyed at home.

As always, thank you for your continued support.


Let’s Celebrate:

Lunchtime awards:

Our lunch time certificates are awarded by the lunch time team to those children who they see being wonderful role models and using marvelous manors:

Well done to our Role Model Lily and Roxy for her Marvellous Manners.

Thank you both for being such wonderful role models and for remembering those acts of kindness everyday!

 Henry the Dog: Henry is going home with this person for always making the right choice you are a kind friend and an excellent star guiding everyone in our nativity.

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:

Travelling Nativity: each day a child will take home our travelling nativity, you will receive a text if you child is taking the nativity home. There is a book inside where you can add photos or draw pictures and then return it the next day. You can email any photos to me and I can share them with the class.

Christmas Cards: to help look after the environment if you would like to give Christmas cards, please could you give one to the class, we will display these cards in our classroom.

  • 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 Wednesday (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 Kroll and Miss Forster