This week has been all about the story of the Good Samaritan and the commandment to love your neighbour as yourself. We have talked a lot about who is your neighbour and what does what mean through the story of the Good Samaritan. The children have shown a good understanding of the story and Jesus’ message and how they can show love in their daily lives - they make me proud every day.

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 been working on addition through the adding of ones - we have looked to see if we can make a number bond to 10 to help us with our number bonds to 20. We have used ten frames and coloured counters to help us ‘see’ the number bond to 10.

RE - this week has been all about the story of the Good Samaritan. The children have written some beautiful retells of this story and explanations of what Jesus wanted us to learn.

Art - this week the children have been continuing with their mark making unit, using the story of the Three Little Pigs as their inspiration.

Science - this week was all about comparing the season of winter and spring and looking for things that are the same and different about the seasons.

We had a visit from Father Frank on Thursday who brought us a lovely little lamp to have on our prayer table to help us focus our prayers on our feelings about the day. This will be a lovely addition to our prayer time in a morning. (See photos below)

We also took part in our school’s tree planting activity on Friday! All the children had a great time planting the trees - fingers crossed in years to come they will grow in to lovely strong trees!

Many congratulations to this week’s winners….

Golden Award - Natan for a superb ‘can do’ attitude towards all his work, striving to do the best he can and proving to be a wonderful role model for all of Year 1. I an very proud of you Natan.

Writing Award - Willow for a wonderful independent retell of the story of the Good Samaritan and beautiful pre-cursive handwriting.

Maths Award - Marianna for super ‘making ten’ using a ten frame to support calculations work and number bonds to 10/20.

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
Earrings - please ensure these are only small gold/silver studs as stated in the uniform policy - some of the earrings in school are getting a bit too big. Many thanks

FRIDAY 31ST MATCH - we would like to invite you all to join us in Church for Key Stage 1’s Palm Liturgy. We will start off school’s Holy Week celebrations by retelling the event of Palm Sunday. Please join us if you can - 2.30pm in Church.

TUESDAY 4TH APRIL - Key Stage 1 Open Afternoon - we would like to invite you to pop into class between 2-4pm to take a look at your child’s work, chat to them and us about their work and have a closer look at what we do. If you are able to come early (before the end of the school day at 3.10pm) then you will be able to take your child home with you when you leave. We would love to see you and the children would like to share their books with you. Class will be open until 4pm.

Please find attached details of the Being a Parent groups running next term. There will be two 9 week groups starting on Tuesday 25th April

10.00am-12.00pm The HealthWorks, 1 Clifton Street, FY1 1JD

6.00pm-8.00pm Online using Google Meet.

The group is suitable for parents of children aged 18 months – 11 years (priority is given to parents with children under 4 years) and is led by parents. It looks at communication, behaviour management and listening techniques. The group is free and childcare can be paid for to attend the group.

Parents can book their place by contacting Blackpool Learning Rooms on 01253 478131 or learning.rooms@blackpool.gov.uk

Information Flier

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’. 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 we have chosen to do our walk around the school grounds. Year 1 will set out daily during the last two weeks of term 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 last two weeks of the school term. (Start date for Yr 1 27th March - 6th April)

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. The children brought their their sponsor forms home on FRIDAY 3RD MARCH and we asking parents to send in the donations through PARENT PAY (by the end of this term, 6th 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.

Throughout Lent we would like to invite all children and families to join us in the school hall for a short Lenten reflection led by Father Frank.

This will be held once every week at 8:30am and will begin from Tuesday 7th March, continuing until Tuesday 28th March.

We do hope you can join us for this opportunity to gather as a faith community to reflect on the true value and meaning of Lent.

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 look at these Ten Ten resources to support prayer and worship at home.

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