Spring Term 2, Week 6
This week we have started our Phase 4 phonics and have been learning adjacent consonants, such as: lt (tilt) ft (soft) lk (silk) ld (held). We have learnt new common exception words (CEW): have, said. Help us to REACH by seeing if we can use these at home in the coming weeks.
In Literacy we have showed our confidence with our writing when doing a retell of the story ‘What the Ladybird Heard’, we have been writing labels, captions and even sentences with adjectives in! Wow! We have been aspirational with our writing.
For our Outdoor Learning we have been creative and made our own paint from natural materials to paint daffodils. We have also been painting daffodils in the classroom with water colours.
We have been resilient with our learning this week in Maths as we are counting bigger numbers, have been counting sounds, objects and pictures to 20.
With empathetic hearts we have grown in faith and love by learning that Jesus rose from death, giving us hope. As part of our learning for this we made tomb, with a rock on, and added cress seeds to symbolise new life.
We adored having Year 2 share their DT work with us. They made amazing hand puppets for us to use for some story telling. We cannot believe the aspirational creations they achieved.
Mystery Reader: Mrs Bence
Spring Term 2, Week 5
This week we extended our faith outside the classroom and got to attend mass with some of Y6 buddies and reflected on our amazing humans that surround us who looking after us through ‘mothering’ us. We lifted them up in our prayers, grateful for knowing love. In celebration of this Father Phillip explained that his robe was ‘rose’ to represent Mary.
We have animatedly compared our school to one in North Carolina, where Mrs Daly friend teaches, and we got to ask lots of questions and see what is the same, and what is different. We were so surprised to hear that they are start school at 7:40 and finish at 2:30 and their parents drive up to the gymnasium and their name is called on the microphone to be taken to the car waiting outside. We enjoyed seeing how we share a likeness for high expectations and an aspirational love for Understanding the World (Science)
We have been resilient over the passing weeks while working on a special project for our marvellous mummies, and we cannot wait to gift these to you and hope you treasure what we have made as much as we treasure you! Mrs Daly is so proud of how hard we worked, even when we got ourselves in a pickle. We are now demonstrating our confidence as we embark on our woodwork skills.
We have been impressing Mrs Howells this week with our confident doubling skills in Maths, and are really enjoying being the best we can be with our writing skills in Literacy.
Our RE lesson taught us how Jesus died on a cross, and that the whole world felt sad, as it went into darkness. We looked at symbols of the cross, and enjoyed some hot cross buns, learning more about the cross, as well as creating empathetic watercolour artwork for this learning too.
Mystery Reader: Miss Read
Spring Term 2, Week 4
This week we are all continuing to work hard to be the best we can be as we auditioned and practiced for the House Singing competitions. It will be a wonderful chance for us to showcase our confidence when we get to perform in a couple of weeks.
We have delighted in a very exciting set of special visitors: firefighters! As a class we have been able to experience their flashing lights, trying on the jacket and helmet, climbing into the big fire engine, looking at the equipment and most excitedly using the hose. We displayed our REACH values in all their glory, and are now being aspirational with our learning by creating our own fire engine big builds – thank you Mr Barron for our huge boxes to use for this.
We have demonstrated faith and high expectations through in our RE where we have celebrated and role played Jesus arriving in Jerusalem on a donkey, and really enjoyed sharing this learning with Year 3 and later Year 5.
With joyful hope in our hearts we went to whole school mass to celebrate St. Joseph’s Feast Day. Thank you Mrs Howells for our feast of sweet treats!
Thank you for the generous donations for the Easter raffle prizes! Don’t forget to buy tickets as they are going to be amazing.
Mystery Reader: Mrs Carr
Spring Term 2, Week 3
British Science Week
Thank you so much to the parents that came to see our floor books and listened to our love for our learning in St. Mary’s. We hope you enjoyed getting a glimpse of the work ahead of Parents Evening next week. Our vet clinic has been very busy, with some very urgent cases for our little vets to look into.
For those that didn’t make it, we have been celebrating our faith this Lent by creating a beautiful garden which reminds us of the hope Jesus brought when he rose again at Easter.
We are growing with confidence in our Maths, knowing what makes 7 and being able to solve number problems related 7, we have enjoyed singing the rhyme ‘7 little ducks’ and creating pond representations of this song.
We have been stretching our aspirational thinking with STEM activities this week – thank you Mr Connolly for an amazing introduce to the science behind aircraft - we had lots of fun designing our own tail for a plane.
We have demonstrated high expectations with our Literacy work this week, doing special work in our Purple Books. Our letter formation is continues to look neater all the time. Thank you for everything you do to help us with our learning journey!
With empathy we have thought of others that may need our love and prayers while making some Lent inspired stained glass windows, which we are so excited to see go up in the classroom and role played the story of the Good Samaritan.
We are really looking forward to next week, where we will be looking the Fire Service in the topic of ‘People that help us’ and know we can be resilient as we continue to explore in our Outdoor Learning.
Mystery Reader: Mrs Davis
Spring Term 2, Week 2
Wow! How amazing has this week been? We really enjoyed everything that came with World Book Day. We have shone with confidence writing shape poems to share in the assembly, we have oozed with empathy as we explored what it means to have the feelings we were dressed as for World Book Day – thank you all so much for making a fantastic effort for the children’s outfits, they looked amazing and was a really lovely celebration of everything the book is about. If you don’t own a copy, your local library may have one in circulation: The Emotional Menagerie - The School of Life.
Aside from a very exciting World Book Day, we have loved growing our resilience with our Outdoor Learning, building amazing tents/dens, showing resilience to overcome some tricky builds and working together with high expectations.
For Mathematics we have been continuing work on the staircase patterns and enjoyed some creative counting games both inside and outside showcasing our aspirational counting ready for our next steps of learning.
Thank you so much to all the parents, and grandparents that came in to read with the children, and supported the Chaplaincy/School Council Fundraiser through hot chocolate purchases. We are so grateful!
Spring Term 2, Week 1
In St. Mary’s Class we have returned to school for the second half of our reception year radiating our REACH values. We are having so much fun in the new role play area; St. Mary’s Vet Clinic where we are looking after a lot of animals, and are grateful to have been guided by an email exchange from a real life Vet. Dr D who lives in North Carolina, and is Mrs Daly’s best friend, so she has given us pictures of her daily life as a vet – including an x-ray of a dog that had eaten not 1, but 2 golf balls. Having been inspired by the x-ray images we have created our own with black paper and chalk.
We are really enjoying being aspirational with our Mathematics, and have created staircase number patterns, practicing our cutting, counting and ordering skills.
We have celebrated our faith with love and confidence in RE by learning about and sharing a Mardi-Gras inspired parade and showing this to Year 6.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to our classroom in a few weeks to look at all our learning in our floor books.