Year 1 had a lovely afternoon on Wednesday as we invited our parents, carers and family members into class. We enjoyed planting sunflower seeds together and painted observational drawings of beautiful flowers. This all linked into our science topic on growing.
The children and adults had a great time working together. We could see where our children’s artistic talents came from as all of the adults created beautiful pieces of artwork.
Thank you so much to everyone who came and got involved!
Key Stage One were the first to enjoy Sports Day this year. We had glorious weather for our morning of throwing, dribbling, jumping, sprinting and cheering on our teams.
The children showed excellent team spirit as they tried to win points for their house teams. The winning house this year was the house of JOHN!
Thank you to all of the parents, friends and family members who came to cheer us on.
Well done to the Year 2 Celebration of the Word team and the two team guests from Foundation Stage One – they spoke clearly and proudly to guide us through our understanding of the word ‘Vocations’. One child explaining:
‘Vocation is God’s plan for you’
TTRS and Numbots!
Mathletics Results
Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed a week of celebrating books! We love to read and we made sure that there were lots of opportunities to read our favourite books and discover some new ones too.
One World Book Day, the children dressed up as their favourite characters or ready for a bedtime story in pyjamas. We wrote about our favourite stories and some children visited the reading care with their adults.
The children waited patiently for a mystery reader to visit us with a special story. On Friday Mrs Bathgate read Room on the Broom to us. She choose this story because Year 1 have been taking part in yoga sessions linked to this book.
What a wonderful week!
Year 1 presented their class assembly to the whole school and their parents last week. They told everyone all about their learning in Year 1 so far.
They confidently retold the story of the Three Little Pigs, explained how we have been watching the changing seasons, described how Guy Fawkes plotted to kill King James I and preformed poetry. We even had time to talk about how Maya Angelou inspired us with messages of hope and determination.
The Year 1 children are growing in confidence, learning so many new things and blowing us away with how they rise to every challenge. They make us so proud!
This was a wonderful joint celebration with children from KS1 and EYFS leading their friends through prayer, song, dance, time to think and talk, meeting together with Jesus, getting to know his friendship even more.
Year 1 had a wonderful visit to Nottingham Castle last week. We went to see an exhibition in the art gallery called Kaleidoscopic Realms. Year 1 are learning about colour in our art lessons and the exhibition was all about the use of colour in contemporary pieces of art.
The children enjoyed looking at the beautiful creations and were able to talk about what they liked about each piece. One piece of art was all about looking after planet Earth. This piece inspired the children to think about God’s gift of the world and how we should look after it. They created their own designs with this in mind.
Whilst at the castle, we visited the adventure playground to burn off some energy, visited Robin Hood’s Adventure and had a look around the beautiful gardens.
What a fabulous day!
Three children from Year 1 led EYFS and KS1 in a Celebration of the Word this afternoon. They helped everybody think about our wonderful world, to feel God’s presence and to both say sorry for mistakes we have made and give thanks for our world.
It was a beautiful, holy way to start our Friday. We joined parishioners and parents to celebrate Mass together. Children from Year 1 and Year 2 confidently and clearly led our bidding prayers and all the children joined in with the singing of ‘It’s Me that Builds Community’ song – with actions, of course!
