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.