This Sunday 3rd December marks the first Sunday of Advent and the start to the Church’s new liturgical year. On this day, the Hope candle will be lit. Advent comes from the Latin word meaning "coming." Jesus is coming, and Advent is intended to be a season of preparation for His arrival. While we typically regard Advent as a joyous season, it is also intended to be a period of preparation and penance. In Year 3, next week we will be making our Advent Promises.
Here is what else we have been up to this week…
In Maths we have been focusing on multiplication and division, with a particular focus on using our 3 times table knowledge. Speedy recall of our timetables is vital for this.
In English, the children have planned their own fable, ready to write next week.
In Science, the children have labelled the bones in a human skeleton.
In Geography, we looked at the major capital cities of Europe.
In PE, we enjoyed managing to get outside this Thursday and were able to do some dodgeball games.
🌟 AWARD WINNERS! 🌟
The Golden Award went to James
The Writing Award went to Austin
The Maths award went to Frazer
📌NOTICES 📌:
Dates for your diary:
Friday 8th December 2.00pm-3.15pm - SEND Coffee Afternoon in the Church Hall.
This is a follow up from the successful SEND afternoon and will focus on deciding what professional parents would like to hear from and areas that they need support in. Mrs Ormerod will speak to you about how to navigate the FYI directory and how APDR/ graduated response works in school. There will also be members of the Blackpool parent forum in attendance. There will also be people there to discuss support around the cost of living.
Wednesday 20th December - Christmas meal & Christmas jumper day.
Children are invited to wear their own clothes for the day, and this can include Christmas jumpers, dresses or accessories if they would like - but please don't buy anything especially. We would like to support Save The Children with the Christmas jumper day, and will add a voluntary contribution of £1 to Parentpay for donations to this charity nearer the time.
Please see the Year 3 - Homework tab.
Wednesday Word and TenTen Newsletter
Please have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worships…
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.
E-Safety at Our Lady’s
At Our Lady's we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters.
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…
Smart TVs As these internet-enabled entertainment systems rapidly become standard, find out how to guide children in using such devices safely.
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.
I hope you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Holden and Mrs Dunford
