‘'If God is the centre of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts’
St Vincent De Paul
Today we celebrate St Vincent De Paul and Our Lady. It is Our Lady’s feast day and we welcomed a very special visitor, Bishop Paul to join us in mass and visit us in school. This week we have learnt about St Vincent De Paul, Mary ‘Our Lady’ mother of our lord and Bishop Paul. The children sat beautifully during mass and Bishop Paul loved coming to visit our classroom and meeting the children.
This week we met our Year 6 Buddies, they came into Reception to join us in our choosing time and we went to them to share a story. Today we walked with our buddies to church. Throughout the year there will be many oportunities for us to meet up and share our learning.
Conversation Starter
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.
Who is your Year 6 buddy? What did you enjoy doing with them?
What have we been learning this week:
Phonics: our sounds this week were ‘t’ (use tongue to make sound just ‘t’ no ur at the end), ‘i’ (short sound igloo) and ‘n’ (nnn).
Can you write ‘t’ , ‘i’ and ‘d’ at home this weekend? What are the rhymes? t- down the tower, across the tower, i- down the body, dot for te head, n- down Nobby, over his net.
Reading Books went home on Monday and will be changed next week, please can you sign to let us know you have read together at home.
Understanding the World: Thank you for the photos that have been sent in, the children have enjoyed seeing their pictures in the home corner. If you haven’t and are happy for your family pictures to be displayed please email your photos:
d.drummond@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk
Maths: this week Percy the pig needed our help counting he was getting all mixed up and kept counting the same thing. We told him it would help if he put them in a line and we remembered that the last number we said were how many objects there were. We then counted the beats of a drum can you count sounds at home?
PE: we have been learning how to hop and jump this week. Just a reminder our PE days are on Tuesday (outside) and Wednesday (inside).
KIDSAFE
In this session we discussed about bullying what it means and what we can do if we see something. We have talked about the importance of telling an adult so we can help, we can say stop if we hear that we need to stop.
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 Henry and Daisy for her Marvellous Manners.
Thank you both for being such wonderful role models and for remembering those acts of kindness everyday!
Well done to our certificate awardees: a determined ‘Sadie Spider’ for not giving up with your letter formations. A ‘Bobby Bee’ for your enthusiasm and excitment to learn and grow your brain each day.
Whole School Virtues - Attentive and Discerning: This half term we will be looking for children who are attentive in the way we look at the world and in others, taking the time to notice the big and the small things each day. We will also be spotting children who are discerning, who think about making good choices. These children are the role models of the school.
Thank you for being attentive in class you always listen carefully and you are a kind friend, keep shining your light for others to see.
Important Information and Upcoming Events
Harvest: We are collecting for our local food bank for our harvest festival. Reception have been asked to bring in tinned fruit. Please bring from Monday onwards.
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 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 healthy and safety reasons, no jewelry 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.
Important Contact Information:
Mrs Hartley: s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk
Miss Drummond: d.drummond@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk
Have a wonderful weekend
God Bless,
The Reception Team