We have started to practise for our Christmas Nativity.  The children all have lines in their reading bags.  Please would you help them to practise them.  Thank you Reception staff.

We had great fun on Friday afternoon dancing in the hall to the music and disco lights.  It was thirsty work so we had a break half way though to have a snack and a drink.  We have some children with very good rhythm and dance routines!

Next week we are counting irregular objects and designing posters for the cinema.  We would be grateful if you have any toilet rolls we could have, we would like to use them for an activity  in the class.

Reception will be taking part in non uniform day this Monday.

We ended half term with a party to celebrate the life of our class saint, Saint Teresa of Calcutta.  We made a model of St Teresa and talked about how she dedicated her life to others.  Thank you for supporting your child to give up a toy to help raise money to help others in need.  They were taken to Myton Hospice Charity shop who were very grateful.  We held a prayer service to pray for those people who are not as fortunate as us and then shared our party food.  Below are some photographs of the day.

We hope that you all enjoyed half term and look forward to seeing you on Monday.

We have been exploring our class Saint. We watched a video of Saint Teresa and talked about the good work she did. We decided we are going to be thoughtful and kind just like her.

We have been looking at rhyme and completing rhyming strings.  In PE we have been exploring how to travel across the floor.  We ran, jumped, skipped and rolled

Please remember that Friday is our Saint’s celebration day and we will be having a party and wearing non-uniform.

Thank you for coming to the Welcome Mass this morning.  It was lovely to see so many of you there supporting the children.  Their art work was bright and cheerful and their singing great. We had a busy week counting and matching objects, building, painting and model making.  

We also have been looking at how and why we use Rosary beads and thinking about what we can do to be generous and giving out in the community.

The children have had great fun this week exploring our new area of the classroom, our Finger Gym. This area has been set up to strengthen their hands to make writing a little easier. Activities will change weekly.

We have been looking at how to label in literacy and this will carry on next week.  In mathematics we have been ordering by length and height.

In our RE lessons this week we have been thanking God for our wonderful world.  We have collected some of the things God created in our environment and have started to use art and craft to make a display of the creation story.

PE – Help needed

Please will you take some time to help your child learn how to get dressed and undressed.  We struggled to get ready for PE and getting dressed afterwards took so long we missed out next lesson.  We do not mind helping to turn clothes the correct way round or doing top buttons up but we do not have enough time to take jumpers and shirts off nearly every child.  Thank you for your support in this.

Reception will be taking part in the colours for CAFOD this Friday.  Children can wear their most colourful clothes, the brighter the better!

We had a very busy week.  We made Kipper’s Cake (YUK!) and also followed a recipe to make a real cake (YUMMY!).  We went on the bus to town and visited the shoe shop.  They made us very welcome and we found out lots of things about shoes and our feet.  In mathematics we have been looking at 2d shapes.  We also had a lovely prayer service with our Year 6 prayer friends.

We have been busy practising recognising and ordering numbers.  We used shapes to make pictures and sorted b and d onto the correct grid.  We had our first dance lesson and enjoyed lunch in the dinner hall.   On Friday we met our prayer friends and spent time outdoors getting to know them.  Next week we are looking forward  to our visit to the Shoe shop.