Church Visit
Today, we have visited St Joseph’s Church in Wetherby. Father Nunon showed us around the church and we asked lots of questions. We learnt about how forgiveness is portrayed within the Catholic faith and we explored similarities and differences between St Joseph’s Church and St James’ Church.
Well done…
Foundation had another great half-term of learning! Enjoy a lovely break with your family and friends and don’t forget to fill in those Time to Talk sheets (sent home on Friday), so that we can hear all about it when we return to school on Monday 19 February.
Great grammar games
Here are some good links to help revise some grammar and punctuation concepts that we have been learning in school.
Creative Homework
This week, Years 5 and 6 have been learning all about how to stay safe online. It was also a topic for their creative homework this week. Here are some fabulous creations they have brought into school.
Hand to Mouth visit
On Thursday, Hand to Mouth, who are a Christian organisation which visits schools offering ‘reflective journeys’ on different topics and workshops with the children, visited our school to work with each of the classes.
Year 1/2 participated in a Lent reflective journey. The children took a journey with a partner or on their own, helped by volunteers from St James’ church to learn about Lent – step by step from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Sunday. The children visited 6 different stations, and if they wanted to, completed an activity at each station: Things we’ve got wrong, saying sorry for our mistakes, our hurts, the poor and what we can do to help, I wonder where Jesus is now? and God loves you.
The children also enjoyed a workshop learning about the creation story. Then, they made puppets of some of the creatures God created.
Below are some quotes from the children, after completing the journey, and some pictures.
“I feel happy because I learnt something”
“I learnt not to be a bully”
“It was fantastic”
“I liked writing prayers to God”
Getting active
The last couple of weeks have been very active indeed. We’ve launched our 30:30 challenge. This involves getting 30 minutes of physical activity at school, which is then carried on with 3o minutes at home on as many days as possible. It’s great to see that so many children are already well on with the challenge with ten full days of activity recorded.
To go with this big push on physical activity, we had a judo workshop where children experienced this interesting and technical sport first hand.
We also got physical with our Life Forces topic. After deciding how we could help wildlife around school, we hung up bird feeders and made bug hotels in the hope of being able to study some creatures close up.
The Story of The Creation
Foundation enjoyed an incredibly fun and interactive workshop this morning, presented by Hand to Mouth Ministries.
The workshop focused on the story of The Creation, with a particular emphasis on how special all of God’s creations in nature are. The children discussed how individual and special we all are, especially to the people who love us.
Take a look at the pictures below which capture some special moments from the experience.
What can your child tell you about the story they heard today?
Pure Sounds- Phonics
F2 children have now learnt all Phase 2 phonics sounds and are moving on to Phase 3.
It’s really important that children pronounce ‘pure sounds’ when practising and using their phonics in reading and writing.
The video posted below has been created by teachers Mrs Flynn and Miss Eckersley, who teach Reception at one of our federation schools. (You might recognise Mrs Flynn!) It gives examples of both the correct pronunciation of each phase 2 sound and the actions we use in class to remind ourselves of the sounds.
Please use this video to help support your child’s learning at home.
A taste of judo…
On Tuesday morning, Year 1 and 2 enjoyed a fantastic trial judo session by Sportif Judo.
The children enjoyed learning some of the throws and hold downs taught by Glynn Fidgeon, who is a British and Commonwealth Medalist. Glynn was here to tell the children about the beginners Judo classes at St. Joseph’s Church Hall – have a look in your child’s bookbag for a leaflet with more information.
Judo
We all enjoyed our Judo trial session this week!
