'Repent and believe in the Gospel.' Mark 1:15

This week Year 1 started their Lent Challenge to walk around the school grounds each day for the rest of the term. We have be blessed with lovely weather - long may it continue - which has meant it has been lovely to take time out of the classroom and just walk. A great start Year 1 - we will keep up the hard work through until Easter! I hope you all received your sponsor forms, if not you can find it on last week’s post. We ask that you collect the money and send it through your PARENTPAY account, not into class. many problems, please contact the school office. Thank-you for your generosity towards our CAFOD appeal.

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. This week our focu has been on number bonds to 20 and how we can spot an number bond to 10 within those facts. This week has been all about finding links and spotting patterns.

RE - this week we have looked at the story of the Paralysed man this week and though about how each person in this story would have felt about what Jesus said. We have also started to think ahead to Palm Sunday and how Jesus’ followers welcomed Him back into Jerusalem. We are also working hard learning The Lord’s Prayer, the children are doing really well with this.

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. This week we went on a Nature Walk around school looking for signs of spring.

Topic - we have used our fact files from the last few weeks about both Queens to sort a collection of facts and put them with the right Queen.

Art - this week’s work is a surprise for all our lovely mummy’s! Happy Mother’s Day ladies.

Many congratulations to our wonderful certificate winners this week…

Golden Award - Cameron for a renewed focus in his RWI work - really lovely to see. Keep up the hard work.

Writing Award - Penny for a super improvement in her handwriting - keep it up!!

Maths Award - Elise for great work creating number bonds to 20.

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. We have had a couple more cases of chicken pox this week - we are not quite done with this yet, so please be on the look out if your child has not had it.

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. We have a number of covid cases throughout school at present - so PLEASE do a test if you are not sure and keep your child at home. Many thanks

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

A huge THANK-YOU for all your help and support with the children’s costumes for our delayed World Book Day dressing up today - the children looked fabulous and we have had a lovely day. Reading is a my favourite thing to do - for my own pleasure and for the pleasure it gives me sharing a story with the children. I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing my favourite stories with the children today and hearing them share their favorite stories with each other. Many, many thanks. (Please see the photos and the bottom of the blog.)

And finally…..have a lovely weekend, stay safe. Happy Mother’s Day ladies….Mrs Hollinghurst & Mrs Veasey