This Lent, Our Lady of the Assumption is looking to fundraise for both CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development) in its campaign to ‘Walk Against Hunger’ and also our local children’s cancer charity – Brian House. We will make it our own ‘Pilgrimage’ during Lent knowing that each little step we take will make a BIG difference. Each class will set its own Lenten walking target and in Year 1 (along with the rest of Key Stage 1) we have chosen to do our walk around the school grounds. Year 1 will set out daily to do a full circuit of the school grounds, thinking about those less fortunate then us with each step that we take. We will do this walk each day for the remaining three weeks of the school term.

As a school are asking parents/families to sponsor their child/children to undertake their special ‘Pilgrimage Walk’. Once we’ve completed our walk, we will add our kilometres to CAFOD’s ‘ Walk Against Hunger Totaliser’. The aim nationally is 40,000 km! This is a massive challenge, but by joining together we can all help stamp out hunger one step at a time. CAFOD is also supporting the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. The children will bring their sponsor forms home on MONDAY 21st MARCH and we asking parents to send in the donations through PARENT PAY (by the end of this term, 8th April) and NOT send the money into school with your child. Please follow the PARENT PAY link you have been sent to set up your account - if you have any problems with this, please contact the school office. Please note you are sponsoring your child for the WHOLE challenge, not each individual, daily walk! Thank you for your support.

Sponsor Form - in case yours never makes it home!

This week we have been learning…..

English - our focus has been our RWI lessons where we concentrate on phonics, spelling, reading and writing. In class we continue to work hard on our pre-cursive handwriting, spelling of the common exception words and our independent sentence construction.

Maths - this week we have focusing in on numbers up to 20 and how to partition them into tens and ones. We have also thought about one more and one less and how to compare numbers using the greater than, less than and equal signs. We have just begun to focus on adding two single digits together crossing the tens barrier and have used our number lines and tens frames to help with this.

RE - we have continued to look at the story of the Good Samaritan this week, completing our independent writing on the story. We have also started to think ahead to Palm Sunday and how Jesus’ followers welcomed Him back into Jerusalem.

Science - we have continued with our weather watching and been looking for signs of Spring! We have looked at photos of the seasons and identified different features of each season.

Topic - we have used our fact files from last week to make a photo timeline of Queen Victoria’s life.

Art - the children have used chalk pastels to create a castle picture.

ICT - we have used the photographs we took last week and started to edit them - with a range of success levels, so we may try this again next week!!

Well done to this week’s certificate winners….

Golden Award - Jacob for having lovely manners and super behaviour for learning - you always try your best!

Writing Award - Frazer for super independent writing about Queen Elizabeth II.

Maths Award - Erin for great addition work with number up to 20.

MASSIVE WELL DONE TO YEAR 3!!!!

Year 3 Bits and Bobs Sale has raised a staggering £655!!!! We are shocked and in awe. It just shows what we can achieve when we all pull together as a school community. We are donating the money to the DEC who are the Ukrainian Humanitarian Fund. The government will match our donation pound for pound so just a phenomenal achievement! Thank-you so much for your support.

PLEASE CONTINUE TO BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR CHICKEN POX AND SCARLET FEVER AND INFORM SCHOOL IF YOUR CHILD IS SUFFERING FROM EITHER OF THESE. See last week’s post for details of symptoms of scarlet fever.

Despite the legal rules on Covid changing, we still ask parents NOT to send their child to school if they suspect they have covid or have any covid symptoms. We know that children are mildly affected by this virus, but that is not always the case for the adults who teach them and the virus remains highly contagious. IF YOUR CHILD IS OFF SCHOOL WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE THEY MUST TAKE A COVID TEST BEFORE THEY CAN RETURN TO SCHOOL.

We ask you to remain mindful of this when considering whether your child is well enough for school. We must still do all we can to keep each other safe. Mrs Veasey and I will continue to wear visors in class and masks in shared spaces to do all we can to keep each other and your children safe - we ask that you do all you can to keep our class a safe space for everyone. Many thanks for your continued support with this matter.

WE ASK THAT PARENTS INFORM THE OFFICE IF THEIR CHILD, OR ANYONE WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD HAS TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID - PLEASE INFORM THE OFFICE AND NOT JUST THE CLASS TEACHER. It matters to how your child’s absence is recorded and also allows us in school to keep an eye out for symptoms in your child, or inform other parents that there has been a positive case within the class.

If your child is isolating from school due to Covid 19, or any other illness and they are well enough to work, you can find their work on the HOME LEARNING page of the Year 1 section of the website. I have been using Oak Academy units as they all contain a little video and a task for the children to complete that does not require you to print anything - your child just needs a piece of paper and a pencil!! And maybe some colours for the art activities! https://www.ourladyassumption-sch.co.uk/yr1-home-learning

Please DO NOT send the work into school with your child on their return, but send photos of it through Class Dojo and add work to your child’s profile. You will each get an invite to this through the email you gave to school when your child was in Reception.

If your child is off school, please inform the office and NOT the Year 1 email or Class Dojo. Many thanks

Any questions or queries either catch me or Mrs Veasey at the gate or email using year1@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk.

Things to note…

Children should have their water bottles each day. Water bottles must be taken home and washed daily. Children can only have plain water in their bottles, not juice or flavoured water.
PE is Monday and Friday
Earrings cannot be worn for PE
Nail varnish cannot be worn for school.
Earrings should only be small, plain, gold or silver studs
Children should have long hair tied back for school
School bags should just be the red book bags you were given in Reception
Please keep reading folders in the children’s school bags so that they have them on the right day - many thanks.
Homework Expectations for Year 1 can be found on the Homework page. https://www.ourladyassumption-sch.co.uk/yr1-homework/2022/1/3/year-1-homework-expectations-spring-term

World Book Day will to celebrated in school on FRIDAY 25th MARCH - not 3rd march due to other commitments in school that day. On that day we ask that the children come to school dressed as their favourite BOOK character. They can even bring the book with them to share in class. (Please ensure that any books brought into school are named). Please do not feel you have to spend a lot of money on costumes - the homemade ones are always our favourites! We look forward to seeing who we have in class that day!!