The crowds asked John, “What, then, shall we do?” And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Luke 3:10-11
Key Messages for Whole School Worship
Key Messages
Children will understand that:
We are called to open our lives to Jesus through our words and actions, at Advent and beyond.
Jesus changes those who invite Him into their lives.
Our actions can share the love, kindness and generosity of Jesus to others.
Please have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worships…
At Our Lady's we like to support our parents/carers in Online Safety matters.
Keeping children and young people safe online is one of the biggest challenges facing society today and it is all of our responsibility to ensure that children are educated to make positive, informed choices when they are online.
This month’s online safety guide gives helpful advice about…
What Parents & Educators Need to Know about Snapchat. This free guide brings you up to date with the risks associated with Snapchat, and lets you know how best to safeguard young people who use the app.
We hope you find these guides informative and helpful in promoting the positive use of technology to make the online world a better and safer place for us all. Thank you.
Please follow this link below for more information on this week’s Gospel and to share some interesting activities at home.
Our learning this week…
In RE, we have been continuing our topic ‘Prophecy and Promise’. This week we have explored the meaning of the Advent candles, considering the themes of hope, peace, joy and love. The children enjoyed reflecting on ways we can ‘live out’ these qualities during Advent, and then wrote their own Advent promises.
In English we have been busy writing our own fables, following our story mountain plans and including a range of vocabulary, to develop use of detail and description.
In Maths we have been consolidating our knowledge of multiplication and division, We have been using multiplication and division grids and we have also focused on strategies to support finding remainders in division.
In History, we have been continuing our topic on ‘The Stone Age’. This week we have been considering the differences and similarities between Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age with a particular focus on Houses and farming.
Dates for your diary:
🗓 Tuesday 17th December - Christmas meal & Christmas jumper day.
Children are invited to wear their own clothes for the day, and this can include Christmas jumpers, dresses or accessories if they would like - but please don't buy anything especially. We would like to support Save The Children with the Christmas jumper day, and will add a voluntary contribution of £1 to Parentpay for donations to this charity nearer the time.
🗓 Thursday 19th December @ 2.00pm - KS2 Advent Service in Church.
Parents are invited to celebrate the KS2 Advent Service over at Our Lady’s Church in the afternoon of the 19th December. We will be singing some Christmas carols as we tell the story of the Nativity. We do hope you can make it.
🗓 Thursday 19th December - we break up for Christmas at usual finishing time, 3.15pm.
Spellings, times tables and homework
The children will be coming home with their spellings and homework on Monday 16th December, this needs to be returned by Monday 6th January.
Please can you encourage your child to access the TT Rock Stars online, logins have been sent home this week.
PE -
Please note, PE days are Tuesday and Thursday
Award winners
Golden: Luke
Maths: Antonio
Writing: Fionn
And finally, wishing you all a relaxing weekend
Many thanks for your continued support.
Mrs Parker and Mrs McCooey
