Jon teaches us that love is sacrificial, humble, and constant. Offering one's life for the sake of others is the ultimate expression of this love; however, Jesus does not mean that Christian love is only shown in grand gestures. Rather, it's to be the pattern of our entire lives (John 15:12–13)

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 subtraction off a two digit number. We have looked at partitioning the number and subtracting the tens and then the ones. By doing this we have learnt that when you subtract 10 from a two digit number the ONES number DOES NOT change.

We have also looked at subtracting a one digit number and partitioning that to get back to ten and then subtracting the rest of the number so 12-5= we would subtract 2 first to get back to 10 and then subtract 3. This has emphasised the need for the children to LEARN their number bonds to 10. Please continue towork on these at home.

RE - this week has been all about Jesus returning to His disciples, the worry they felt about Jesus leaving them. We have talked about these feelings and the ole that the disciples were given by Jesus to spread the Good News.

Art - this week the children have continued their Sculpture Unit through the medium of clay! Great fun had by all!!

Science - this week we continued our new unit all about Plants by focusingon garden and wild plants and the differences between the two.

Topic - this week we started our new Geography unit about the four countries that make up the UK. We continued this week by focusing in on Blackpool and the features of the town the children live in.

Well done to this week’s winners…….

Golden Award - Philip for making the first steps towards blending his sounds to read words independently.

Writing Award - Noah for super RWI writing, remembering the features of capital letters, finger spaces and full stops AND using his own ideas in his sentences.

Maths Award - Mabel for super subtraction with subtracting 10 from a number and knowing that the ones number remind the same.

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 - 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 white tops.

I will not be in class on a Thursday afternoon, as it is my release time. This will be covered by Mrs Gilheaney, Miss Simons and Mrs Connolly and is also when the children will have Music with Mrs Watson

Party Invitations - I am afraid that Miss Simons 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’t 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!! Yr1 Homework — Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School (squarespace.com)

If you have any empty cereal boxes or cardboard boxes at home please could you send them in for Art on Thursday - many thanks.

PHONICS SCREENING - Year 1 Phonics Screening will take place the week of 10th June. (First week back after our half term holiday) Please ensure your child is is school this week as each child must complete an individual phonic assessment at some point during this week. I will carry out the assessments and decide which day your child will complete the assessment based on a range of factors, such as mood that day, readiness for learning etc.

I would like to invite you to a short meeting on TUESDAY 7th MAY at 2.40pm in the school hall where I will go through the details of what will happen and how you can help during our two week holiday to ensure that your child is ready for this on their return to school. If you can’t make the meeting, don’t worry I will be sending home an information pack with each child. 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 look at these Ten Ten resources to support prayer and worship at home.

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