Advent Reflection

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

This will be held every Tuesday morning at 8:20am and will begin from Tuesday 29th November, continuing until Tuesday 20th December 2022.

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 Advent.

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.

With Christmas nearly here and perhaps with presents including new technology or related games being received, we thought we’d share some helpful advice in setting up appropriate parental controls. Parental controls can help to protect your child from seeing something that they shouldn’t – although it is important to emphasise that no system is effective all of the time so it is important to engage with your child and talk to them about their online life regularly.

We hope you find this Newsletter informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all.

Online Safety Newsletter December 2022

Our learning this week…

In RE, we have been learning about the the first Christmas story of the Nativity of Jesus. We have been exploring the important messages for Christians and considering why this is such a special time in the church calendar.

In English the children have been continuing their work linked to the story ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. This week we have started to write and edit our own pieces of narrative relating to the approach of the Iron Man.

In Maths the children have been continuing to explore the links between division and multiplication. They have been encouraged to use a range of maths resources to explain their own mathematical reasoning.

In PE Year 3 have been using their throwing and catching skills to complete small-sided dodgeball and tag rugby games. We have also been focusing on the importance of team work whilst playing invasion games.

In Science, we have reviewed our investigation to answer a scientific question based on our previous work of the human skeleton. ‘Can people with longer femurs jump further?’ The children were able to use the results from their experiment to draw conclusions and to support their own viewpoints.

WEDNESDAY WORD

Please follow this link below to access the Gospel Readings for the forthcoming week, there are also some fun activities to complete, this is a fantastic family resource to share and celebrate with your child at home.

Wednesday Word

KS2 ADVENT SERVICE

On Monday 19th December at 2pm, KS2 will be taking part in an Advent Service in Church. All families are invited to join us as we sing some traditional carols and listen to the Nativity story.

NON UNIFORM DAY - 20TH DECEMBER

Our Lady's PTA would like to invite all children to come to school on our last day of term - Tuesday 20th December in their Christmas clothes.

Children are welcome to wear their own clothes and include anything Christmassy they would like - for example Christmas jumper, Christmas dress, party dress or Christmas accessories.

Please don't buy anything special for the day, you can always be creative with decorations and tinsel at home to create your own accessory to wear with your own clothes!

There will be a £1 donation set up in Parentpay to raise money for PTA funds.

CLASS REMINDERS

PE days are Tuesday and Thursday
The children will have a spelling and times tables test on Monday 12th December as normal, there will be no test on 19th December.
Reading books and Reading Records to be brought in daily, Reading books changed when needed.
TTRS login to be used to access Times Tables activities