Welcome back to the beginning of a new half term! We began this new half term with the Feast of All Saints Day which we celebrated in church for a whole school Mass. It was a lovely way to start the coming half term and a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the role models that we have around us and what we aim to be each and every day. Receptions’s behaviour in church was fantastic and it reminded me how each of them are little saints and made in the image of God. A super start to the new half term.
Our Learning this week
Phonics - we have learnt four new sounds this week: ‘c’ curl around the caterpillar, ‘k’ down the kangaroo’s body, tail and leg, ‘u’ down and under, up to the top and draw the puddle and ‘b’ down the laces to the heel and round the toe. We have also started word time with the children where we start to teach them how to blend sounds together to create words.
Maths - we have practiced our counting skills to ten this week.
UTW - we learnt about Diwali and the story of Rama and Sita.
Fine motor - the children have been drawing fireworks in glitter. They have also been creating Rangoli patterns with counters.
EAD - the children have been busy with Mrs Debowska making firework art.
Communication and Language - we have started to learn our Nativity songs.
Our theme next week is nursery rhymes.
Award winners
Our award winners this week are:
Golden - Louie
Writing - Patrick
Maths - Bella
Congratulations!
Catholic Life of our School
The following resources are a great way of keeping you all informed of our current liturgy themes and of the weekly Gospel scripture, with some activities that the children can complete at home. We hope you find these resources useful and that they help you to support prayer and worship in your own homes.
https://www.paperturn-view.com/uk/wednesday-word/faithfulness?pid=MTA101634&v=74.6
http://www.tentenresources.co.uk/prayers-for-home/parent-newsletter/
At Our Lady's we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters.
Keeping children and young people safe online is one of the biggest challenges facing society today and it is all of our responsibility to ensure that children are educated to make positive, informed choices when they are online.
This month’s online safety guides give helpful advice about…
The social media site X, highlighting the major changes since its rebrand from Twitter and the related online safety risks.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: a suspense-filled horror game which has nevertheless attracted a relatively young fan-base.
We hope you find these guides informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Heim-Sarac & Mrs Debowska
