‘Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people'
Roy T. Bennett
We ended this week with a lovely harvest Mass with Nursery at school, thank you for all of your donations. It has been a time to say thank you for the things we have and what God has given us.
This afternoon we took our tinned fruit to our worship area ready to be collected.
Thank you for the photos of your child’s baptism we have loved looking at them this week, we explored the Scripture of Genesis 1. God created everything including us, we should care for ourselves and for each other. We discussed how we can care for ourselves by eating healthy food and exercising and others by having kind hands.
It is Mrs Hartley’s last day today, we are wishing her and her husband lots of love as she starts her maternity leave. We are excited to meet her baby.
I can’t believe we break up for half term next week! The children have settled in beautifully and I look foward to sharing how they have settled in at school at our parents day meetings. Please book an appointment if you haven’t already, the details are at the bottom of the blog.
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.
How have you been kind this week?
What have we been learning this week:
We have turned our home corner into a doctors, the children have loved playing in there. Role play plea: If you have any resources such as bandages, white shirts (lab coat) or masks etc (anything that could be used in our doctors) that you are able to give to us we would really appreciate it. Thank you.
Phonics: our sounds this week were ‘k’ (same as c as in click, sound in throat) ‘u’ (as in the sound an ape makes), ‘b’ (short sound ball) and ‘f’ (ffffff no ur at the end).
Reading Books: please can you sign to let us know you have read together at home. These books will be changed every Monday, please can you ensure reading folders are in bags every day so books can be changed and we can listen to your child read in school.
Enrichment: On Thursday we have our first enrichment with Mrs Harrison, it was ballroom dancing. The children came back and loved telling me what they had been doing.
KIDSAFE
In this session we discussed about how we can keep ourselves safe while using the internet, for more information please read the letter.
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 Harry and Arla 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 ‘Roger Robin’ for thinking about others and including them’. A ‘Bobby Bee’ for your enthusiasm with your learning and for saying thank you to the teachers.
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 come in everyday with a huge smile and make sure you say hello to all of our friends in Reception.
Important Information and Upcoming Events
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.DT- we will start our DT after half term please can you bring in boxes, egg cartons, tubes (not toilet roll).
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
Parent’s Meetings
For more information please read Mrs Gregan’s blog.
On Friday 18th October from 8.30am - 5.20pm. It is our Parent’s meeting please click on the link below to book your appointment with me:
When it asks you to input your child’s class at login please input the following:
Year R
This has to be typed exactly as above for you to enter into the booking page.
When booking, it is crucial that you use your child’s legal forename and surname – those recorded on our school management system. If any part of your child’s name is hyphenated, again it needs to be so when typing in their name. Your own name on Sims is now recorded with one of the following titles Miss, Mrs, Mr or Dr. The system will also ask for an email address so that a reminder can be sent out. If you are having any problems, please do email Mrs Nel on bursar@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk and we will help you next week.
Have a wonderful weekend
God Bless,
The Reception Team