This week we have focused on the events of the Last Supper and the last week of Jesus’ life. We have focused on the Last Supper and the fact that this event was so special it is repeated in Churches throughout the word everyday. We have spoken about how we remember Jesus each day and how we show our love for each other through our actions and our words.

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 Last Supper and the events in the last week of Jesus’ life.

Art - this week the children have been painting spring trees for our Spring display board,

Science - this week was all about Autumn - we recapped all that we know about Autumn and how we can tell others that the season of Autumn has arrived.

History - this week we focused on toys from the past and present and the language we can use to describe them.

We had a visit from Father Frank on Wednesday who lead us in a lovely liturgy with the rest of KS1. We love having a visit from Fr Frank. Our focus was on prayer and all the different ways in which we can pray - today’s focus was through music and singing. Thank-you Fr Frank!

Many congratulations to this week’s winners….

Golden Award - Kacey-Lynne for being a super friend to all in Year 1, showing lovely behaviour at play times and always having lovely manners.

Writing Award - Eleni for superb independent writing in RWI this week and using all her key features in her writing.

Maths Award - Henry for super addition work this week, adding two numbers together and showing how he made 10, to help him make 20!

General pieces of information

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.
Trainers - if your children is wearing trainers with laces for PE they must be able to tie them by themselves. This is a health and safety issue - please ensure your child can tie their laces before sending them in lace-up trainers.
Water bottles - all the children were given a new school bottle this week. 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. Lost water bottles can be replaced at the school office, but I am afraid you will have to pay for those. Year 1 have orange tops.
I will not be in class on a Thursday afternoon, as it is my release time. This will be covered by Miss Evans and Mrs Connolly and is also when the children will have Music with Mrs Watson.
Party Invitations - I am afraid that Miss Evans and I will not be able to give out party invitations in class. Please do not send your child into class with them for them to give out - it creates upset and fuss about something that takes place outside of school.Thank-you for your understanding with this matter.
Key Rings - please do not put key rings onto your child’s school bag, it create fuss in class and then upset if they are lost.
School bag - please continue to use the red book bag that your child was given in Reception, we don not have the room to store large bags. Many thanks for your help with this matter.
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!! HOMEWORK EXPECTATIONS - YEAR 1 — Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary

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…

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about Bluesky Social App. This free guide discusses the growing popularity of Bluesky, a public-first microblogging social media platform, and explores what parents and educators can do to ensure children's safety when using the app.

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. Thank you.

Friday 4th April - KS1 Palm Sunday liturgy - join us in Church at 2.30pm to see KS1 retell the story of Palm Sunday as we begin our Holy Week celebrations.

Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School Run to Rome

Sponsored Event for Cafod

As a school we are together going to run the distance from our school to The Vatican in Rome. We will be doing this by running laps around our field. Together we will run a distance of 2180km.

Our running club have launched the event by running 122 laps and they have pledged to run 1000 more laps.

Each class has been given a target number of laps to run before Friday 25th April when we will celebrate reaching our total and will be sending Miss Heim Sarac off on her London Marathon Event!! Miss Heim- Sarac is running for Cafod. Please support us by sponsoring the run.

We would ask parents to collect sponsorship from friends and family and then pay the total amount through your child’s parentpay account. This event will be added to parentpay account ‘Run to Rome for Cafod’ in order for proceeds to be sent directly to Cafod as we are now a cashless school. Please can all sponsorship forms be returned by Tuesday 22nd April 2025.

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/wednesday-word/good-news?pid=MTA101634&v=163.4