Reception blog | All Souls' Catholic Primary School

Studybugs – report absence securely and help improve children’s health

13th March 2023Mr A Cooke

Dear parents/carers,

We’re pleased to announce that All Souls is introducing a new, more efficient and secure system for reporting your child’s absence due to illness, called Studybugs. Over the next few weeks we will be moving from our online Google From based absence reporting to StudyBugs and after the Easter holidays, the current form and link will be removed.

We are therefore asking all parents to download the free Studybugs app, or register on the Studybugs website, and use it to tell us whenever your child’s ill and unable to attend school. In school, over the same period, we will be moving from taking paper registers each day to doing so electronically.

Get the app or register now (https://studybugs.com/about/parents)

Thank you,
All Souls Catholic Primary School

Top 3 reasons to use Studybugs
1. It’s integrated with our systems so we know right away if your child is unaccounted for.
2. It’s quick and easy to register and use and automatically reminds you to keep us posted.
3. You’ll be helping the NHS and other public health organisations improve children’s health. (https://studybugs.com/about/schools)

Shared activities

29th January 2023Mrs S JILKS

We had a lovely afternoon on Wednesday working with our Year 6 Prayer friends. They helped us to complete some craft activities and we all had so much fun. Thank you Year 6 for showing us what to do and having a lot of patience!

Ice Experiment

20th January 2023Mrs S JILKS

The Reception children have been making the most of the weather and conducting some experiments. We left out some cups of water of different heights/capacity to see what would happen. The children predicted that they would all freeze. When we went out to look the next morning all had frozen but some had not frozen to the bottom. The children decided that this was because there was more water in those cups.

Spending time with our Prayer Friends

By Roisin McGrath23rd October 2022

A lovely way to end our first Half Term. We have been blessed this week with opportunities to spend time with our Prayer Friends, learning, praying and playing together.

We started the week visiting our local library and sharing stories together. To end the week, a group of Year 6 planned and led us in prayer including a decade of the Rosary to continue with our Rosary Challenge.

Happy Half Term!

God made us beautiful

By Mrs S JILKS20th October 2022

Today Reception have been celebrating how we all belong to God’s Family. We drew our picture onto a heart and then placed our heart in the middle. The other children told us how beautiful we are. We ended our activity with a song “God made me! “

Healthy Me!

By Mrs S JILKS17th October 2022

We became scientist today to conduct an experiment to find out which drink is best for our teeth. We used chalk to represent our teeth (the children were not keen on Mrs Jilks pulling out one of theirs !) and put them into water, cola, milk and black tea. We put one in the cup without anything to use as our test. We are going to look at what has happened at the end of the week.

Hats on 4 Mental Health

By Mrs J Hartwell11th October 2022

Thank you to all the children who put on their hats for World Mental Health Day yesterday to raise awareness and money for the charity, Coventry and Warwickshire Mind.

We have raised over £200!

Thank you for your generosity.

Hats on 4 Mental Health 2022

By Mrs J Hartwell9th October 2022

As a school, we will be raising money for the charity ‘Mind’ this Monday 10th October as part of World Mental Health day 2022. Children may come to school wearing a hat of any kind in return for a donation to ‘Mind’.

Time spent with our Prayer Friends

By Roisin McGrath7th October 2022

We felt very lucky to be able to spend time in prayer and reflection with our prayer friends this afternoon.

We spoke about Mission Month and prayed for God to help us make our school, homes and community a better place.

We then looked at the Month of the Holy Rosary and made a class set of Rosary beads, one for Reception and one for Year Six, to help us to pray the Rosary in our classrooms this.

Music of the Week – 26/09/2022

By Mr A Cooke26th September 2022

During our morning assembly today the children were introduced to our new ‘Music of the Week’ initiative. A piece of music has been carefully selected for each week of the academic year and the music will be playing as children enter and leave assemblies throughout the week. The music has been selected from periods in history dating back to the Baroque period (approx 1600AD). Details of the name of the music and composer will be on display in the school hall all week and teachers also have access to the weekly poster and music so may also share and use the music within the classrooms. I will also aim to share the music and a link on the school website so that you can listen to and share the music at home with your child.

This week’s piece ‘Aquarium’ is was written by French composer Camille Saint-Saens in 1922 and is from his musical suite of fourteen movements, The Carnival of the Animals. You may recognise it as it has been used many times on television and in film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCBDlC0N8Rc