In this Fourth Week of Advent, our final days of preparation before Christmas, we ask Christ to forgive us for our sins and, through His grace, to create us anew when He comes. This week is also a time to recollect, to reflect on our Advent journey.
We hope that this last week of Advent is filled with the Love of the Season and you feel the Love of Lord within your homes and families.
Due to our Nativity, we have had a slightly broken week this week, but in between practicing and performing we have been…..
English - we have continued with our RWI groups, working on our own phonics group work. We have been focusing on reading, spelling and own independent writing. We have also been continuing with our Phonics assessments this week which show that the children are all made good progress this term.
Maths - this week has been all about subtraction and using our ten frames to support or work on ‘how many less’. The children have used ten frames and drawings to show how many are left.
RE - this week it has been all about the Nativity story and the birth of Jesus.
Art - has been all about Christmas cards and calendars this week!
Just one award this week….
Golden Award - to all of Year 1 for their AMAZING performances this week in our nativity!! All the children sang beautiful and made us all very proud of them. Great work everyone!! Well done!!
PE will be on Monday and Friday so please send the children into class in the PE kits on those days. No earrings can be worn for PE so please ensure that they are taken out at home.
Water bottles - This will come home each night to be cleaned and re-filled. Please only use the school bottles and ensure your child brings theirs each day.
I will not be in class on a Thursday afternoon, as it is my release time. This will be covered by Mrs Veasey and Miss Sanderson and is also when the children will have Music with Miss Hope
Homework Expectations - please see the Homework page for what I expect the children to do at home…..don’t worry, it’s mainly just reading!! Year 1 News letterYear 1 Homework Expectations - Autumn — Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School (squarespace.com)
PHONICS Support - take a look at Oxford Owl for information about how you can help your child at home with their phonics and reading. This is is a great site in general but the page linked has a super little video showing how the sounds should be pronounced. See how many sounds your child knows! How can I support my child with phonics? - Oxford Owl for Home
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 guide gives helpful advice about…
Top Tips for Setting up Parental Controls on New Devices - This guide provides some valuable advice on setting up new devices so that children can use them safely.
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.
I would like to take this opportunity to say a very big THANK-YOU and WELL DONE to Year 1 for all their hard work in our nativity play. You were all super stars! Thank-you so much for all the support you have provided with learning the songs and home and then joining us in the hall on Monday. Mrs Veasey and I are very proud of all of the children. A lovely way to welcome in the festive season.
Thank-you all so much for our very kind and generous Christmas gifts and cards. The Year 1 are all very grateful and wish to send you a a great big thank-you!.
Mrs Veasey has also asked me to send you all her thanks for the cards, gifts and good wishes she has received on the occasion of her retirement. Today has been a difficult day for us all, but Mrs Veasey leaves us with a lot of lovely memories of your wonderful children and a great deal of love and best wishes. Mrs Veasey is very touched that you have taken the time to come and see her and your kind words have touched her soul. Thank-you very much.
Mrs Veasey, we love you and will miss you more than you will ever know - there will be a Mrs Veasey sized whole in our lives when we return in January. God Bless.
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/
And finally….we wish you all a very Happy and Holy Christmas. May the peace of the Lord be with you all. Mrs Hollinghurst, Mrs Veasey, Mrs Connolly and Miss Murray.
We look forward to welcoming all the children back to school on Monday 8th January - have a fabulous holiday!
