This week in our liturgy we have been talking about John and how he came to pave the way for Jesus. John baptised people with water when they asked him how they could follow the Lord….but told them that soon someone would come who would baptised them with the love of God. We have learnt about how at the Baptism of Jesus people heard the voice of God for the first time and how the gift of the Hold Spirit was seen through the image of a dove.

English - we have continued on with our RWI lessons. During these sessions we all focus on phonics, reading, spelling and sentence development. We have also been working on our pre-cursive handwriting in which we focus on how to write our letters, starting on the line. We are continuing to work hard on our common exception words, reading them in class every day!

Maths - this week we have continued to talk about addition and subtraction, part part wholes and fact families. We have used the three numbers from a part part whole to write FOUR addition and FOUR subtraction questions - making a little family of facts! We have looked at how the whole can go first in an addition calculation and the whole can come after the equals sign in a subtraction calculation.

RE - this week has been all about belonging as we started our new topic on Families and Celebrations. This week we focused on what groups we belonged to, what it means to belong and how we all belong to the family of God.

PLEASE SEND IN A PICTURE OF YOUR CHILD’S BAPTISM, IF THEY HAVE BEEN BAPTISED, FOR OUR NEW TOPIC BOARD. MANY THANKS.

Science - this week we have a started our new topic all about Materials. This week we focused on the difference between an object and the material it is made out of.

Geography - our focus for this half term is all about maps and the various pieces of information that different maps provide. This week we looked at aerial photographs and plans and then made a aerial plan of our classroom!

ICT - this week we continued with our programming unit, using the Bee Bots to move according to our plan. Could we move the Bee Bot from one point to another and record its movements?

Art - This week the children started their Textiles unit by having a go at some weaving!

Many congratulations to this week’s winners…

Golden Award - Marianna for being a shining light in our class. Marianna is king, thoughtful, hardworking and has a super attitude towards all out learning. What a star!

Writing Award - Eris-Rose for beautiful pre-cursive handwriting and super independent sentence construction in RWI

Maths Award - Jamie for being a Maths whizz this week writing eight fact family calculations to match our part part whole and explaining each number and it’s role.

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!! Yr1 Homework — 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

This half term we will be learning all about Baptism. If your child has been Baptised, please could you send in a picture of their Baptism for our display board. You can either send in a copy or email me one to year1@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk. Many thanks.

We are delighted to be able to share with you the Good News Gospel readings for families. Please follow the link to share the Gospel at home with your family. These are really child-friendly resources to share at home. https://www.paperturn-view.com/uk/wednesday-word/faithfulness?pid=MTA101634&v=74.6

Please take a lok at these Ten Ten reosurces to support prayer and worship at home.

http://www.tentenresources.co.uk/prayers-for-home/parent-newsletter/