Week 8
We have had such an exciting final week of our very first term we have had. This week we have continued our aspirational learning in our provision. We have been confident with our new phonic sounds, and resilient using the tripod grip for writing sentences with these sounds in.
The children have demonstrated their empathy in RHE considering how we are the same and how we are different with what we like and love. Finally we have shown high expectations in our outdoor learning and RE, recognising stories of the catholic faith in our work and retelling them, and sharing creative pictures of them.
For outdoor learning we loved making autumnal leaf crowns and have really enjoyed some silly rhymes and poems we have been listening to in class. We tasted cooked rice and rice crackers as part of our exploration of Awe and Wonder: Sikhism - and looking at a Sikh Scientist.
For maths we have been counting sounds, such as objects dropping into a box, clapping hands, and stamping feet. This is something you could practice at home.
The children have worked so hard in school this term, and are all settling in so well. Enjoy your half term St. Mary’s Class.
Week 7
What a fantastic week we have had, celebrating Harvest in our assembly, shining with confidence and high expectations in our first performance to parents, we are so proud of you St. Mary’s class. Mrs Howells came in after to share her delight how well we had all REACHed!
The children have enjoyed Year 6 buddy time in abundance this Friday, living out our school faith through praying the rosary together, as part of the 1 million children praying the rosary initiative – thank you Mrs Barron for sharing this opportunity with us to focus and share hope and love across the world. In preparation for our shared Remembrance Assembly with Y6 we have written empathetic lines for a poem with our buddies
The children are continuing to explore both their indoor and outdoor learning environment, making aspirational WANTED posters inspired by the Leaf Thief and sharing creations of various kinds for our RE focusing on the creation story with confidence.
We had great fun experimenting with how germs can spread in the next instalment of our eBug series.
Keep focusing on encouraging that tripod grip – it is hugely helping the children’s writing.
Week 6
Another incredible week of learning for your amazing, resilient children. They are always ready for learning and being the best they can be. Well done St. Mary’s Class.
We have been confidently sharing stories of the bible, making an our own Arc, and using the method of collage to create turnips for our Harvest Assembly next week.
We had an amazing assembly from Morwenna, a harpist, who allowed us all to have a go, we made such beautiful sounds.
We have been busy making potions, playdough and building aspirational builds in our construction areas.
Week 5!
We have had a really exciting week with our outdoor learning environment being updated. We have been confidently creating in the mud and potion kitchens. We have showed resilience with our den building and construction areas and we have been putting on aspirational performances for Mrs Daly, Mrs Piper and Mrs Frankcom – we even have even had Mrs Howells and Ms Gardiner getting tickets to watch us. Thank you Mr Barron for working so hard to create us such a fun and creative space to perform on.
Through RE we have been looking at the virtues of love and faith and how the creation story brings us all together as one church family.
Thank you to our first mystery reader, Mrs Beaven, we loved having you visit our classroom for a story!
Our high expectations continue to see us show casing our phonics in super sentences. Keep being resilient with that tripod grip St. Mary’s Class.
Finally, we have had a brilliant buddy time making magical maths wands for our number work and counting.
If you wish to extend your child’s learning, our super sentences and cations this week has been:
Reading: Nip to the tip. rat on a sack
Writing: Pack a sack. Sit in mud. Kick it.
Week 4
Unbelievably, we are half way through our very first term of school and the children continue to REACH in all they do.
This week, the children were superstars as we attended our first mass being the best we could be, a whole school Mass, celebrating name days, talking about how Mary and Joseph demonstrated our virtues of Faith, Hope and Love.
We have been continuing our amazing learning with confidence in Outdoor Learning on a nature hunt and creating some inventive and aspirational designs with our geo-sticks.
We have been loving one another during our buddy time. We have been resilient in our Maths when spotting different arrays of 5.
Finally, we have really enjoyed celebrating International Languages Day by listening to 2 stories in another language.
Week 3
Another incredible week of our Super St. Mary’s class REACHing in all they do, especially with their resilience as they are now in for full days. What a joy it is to be teaching your children.
The children continue to love their time with their Y6 buddies, and we are delighted to say that Y6 will continue to have their lunch on a Friday with St. Mary’s Class.
This week we have continued focusing our mathematics on the number 5, and have created some aspirational cube cities in our provision.
We have blown Mrs Daly and Mrs Piper away with our high expectations on our writing, developing our confidence with our tripod grip and already reading and writing s a t p i n m d! Wow! What superstars!
We have been showcasing our confidence in the Creation Story by creating creation scenes in the small world area, on the tinkering table, through collage and drawings.
With empathy the children shared the beautiful ways that people light up their world in our class prayers.
Week 2
St. Mary’s Class have been so busy this week with aspirational learning! The children have been sharing their counting with confidence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and knowing what one more than would be. We have also been learning our first 4 letters and sounds (s a t p), and showing resilience with their tripod grips! Well done St. Mary’s Class.
We have been continuing our super scissor work and creating fantastic fuzzy face monsters, with different expressions and some with up to 5 eyes! We have also been focusing on empathy as we have created these faces with different emotions and talking about what these feelings feel like.
We have continued to explore the classroom environment creating groups of 5 on our tinkering table, and Mathematics area.
We have been demonstrating amazingly high expectations through our whole school assemblies, as we move around the school, enjoying lunchtimes in the hall and by just being the best we can be!
Finally, much to the Year 6’s delight, we have met, and enjoyed lunch with our Year 6 buddies. We have had great fun getting to know them, and we are excited for you to see our future projects together over the coming year.
My First Day in St. Mary’s Class at St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
Wow!!! What superstars our St. Mary’s class are. Already REACHing in all they do, and it’s only been their first day. Lots of children have been earning marbles for marvellous manner manners, limitless learning, super sitting and lovely listening.
The children have been showcasing their confidence as they explore their classroom environment, and demonstrating high expectations as they moved around the school on a whole school tour. We even went into Mrs Howells and Mrs Guoite’s Office to see where they work and are excited to be going in there over the coming months to show off our learning.
We have blown Mrs Daly away with our super handwriting, completing our first piece of work in our Purple Books and have started sharing our Teddy Bear Summer Adventure Passports.