Today, we were lucky enough to receive a visit from Chris, who works with CAFOD; she came to deliver an assembly about what we can do this year during Lent to help and support the charity. Our Chaplaincy team have already started putting some ideas into place.
We had a very busy week writing sentences, learning about addition and all about the Presentation in the Temple. We ended the week playing games. This was fun but also a learning experience because the children had to sort themselves out in groups, taking turns and sharing. Some of them managed this very well.
Next week we will be exploring subtraction, writing and learning about how to keep safe on the internet.
We were very lucky to have Monsignor Keith, Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, join us for assembly this morning. Well done to the Year 5 GIFT chaplaincy team who took the floor to explain their new roles within the school and how they plan on supporting us to Grow In our Faith Together. The children loved talking to Monsignor Keith about our school’s mission statement, ‘Christ is our Light’ and felt very privileged to have been gifted with some precious time out of his very busy schedule!
Thank you to Melania, Maddy and Assumpta who planned, preapred and delivered a lovely prayer service today on the theme of ‘Follow Me’. After reading The Calling of the Fishermen according to Matthew: 4 (18-22), they explained how we too have jobs to do as followers of Christ.
‘The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library!’ (Albert Einstein)
Year Six were super excited to take their prayer friends in Reception to Earlsdon Library on Monday. They were all ready to create their very own accounts, take out their first books and read a chosen story to their prayer friend. We all had a really lovely time and can’t wait to delve further into the world of books!
Reading stories with our prayer friends:
Taking their first books out:
Thank you to all Earlsdon Library’s staff for being so welcoming and helpful.
On Friday, we held our first ever All Souls’ Spelling Bee in which children competed in house groups to try and win Autumn term’s Spelling Bee certificate – the winning house group will be announced in Monday’s assembly!
We were completed amazed by some of the words that children confidently spelled back to us; we’re already super excited for the next one (so get practising!).
This week the Reception children walked down to Morrisons to look at the different kinds of fruit they sell. We chose some fruit that we had not tasted before to bring back to school to try. We took it to the checkout and the manager said that they would treat us and pay. This was very good of them and we are going to write a letter to say thank you. We tried the fruit back at school and then made a graph of our favourite. Blueberries were the most popular and the figs and olives the least popular. The fruit came from all around the world and the children were interested in finding out where they were and what they were like. Next week we are going to look at the different countries using the internet. We had a great time and this one visit provided a literacy lesson, mathematics lesson, understanding the world lesson and a physical lesson!
Below are a few photographs of the visit and the tasting.
Frank, Izzy and Rebecca planned and led a beautiful prayer service to the rest of Year 6 and their prayer friends in Reception on the theme of ‘Gifts’.
After reading the story of the ‘Three Wise Men’, children then shared with each other what gifts they had to offer before recording them on angels and sending them up to God.
We have started to look at our new topic of Healthy Eating. We changed the role play area into a Fruit and Vegetable Shop. The children have enjoyed writing shopping lists and then buying the fruit and vegetables they need. We are going to walk to Morrisons on Wednesday morning to look at the different fruit and vegetables they sell. We will buy some of the more unusual fruit to taste back at school. We will also buy some vegetables to make soup with. `
In literacy we have been making up rhyming strings, this was a little tricky for some of us but we will keep practising. In mathematics we have been ‘climbing’ up the ladder adding one more. We had fun pretending we were fire fighters climbing a ladder and this really helped us understand one more. Below are few photographs of our week.
We would still welcome any unwanted outdoor toys or games you may have to help us replace the damaged ones. Thank you.
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