Happy New Year!

Enjoy Arthur as he tries to stay up for New Year's Eve!

What is Kipper doing?

Enjoy Mickey Mouse!

Remember that on Christmas Day we celebrate the birth of Baby Jesus.

Father David gave us a special message at Mass.....

"Don't forget to go to Mass and visit the crib."

Merry Christmas to all our wonderful children in Year One!

Many thanks for all your kind messages, cards and gifts.

Have a lovely Christmas holiday!

Well done children~you were fantastic in our

Christmas Nativity.

Next week we will be using the story One Snowy Night in our reading and writing work.

Who is the main character in this story?

Where does he live?

One Snowy Night~Part One

One Snowy Night~Part Two

One Snowy Night~Part Three

On Sunday we will celebrate the First Sunday of Advent. 

The Advent wreath will be blessed and lit in church. 

How many candles are on the wreath?

Which candle will be lit ?

We welcomed Advent at school on Thursday. We wore bright Advent colours and made Advent wreaths,decorations and prayers. We gathered in the hall and blessed our wreaths and candles and lit the lights on our Christmas tree.

Well done to all our children who supported our Family Mass this morning on The Feast of Christ the King. We'll done to year 6 and year 3 who read beautifully and the choir who sang so well. Fr Craig celebrated our Mass and asked us to be kingly like Jesus in what we do and say. 

Next Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent.

Today we closed The Year of Faith in school.
Which Pope launched the Year of Faith?
Which Pope closed The Year of Faith?

 This is the final week of The Year of Faith.

Here are some of the activities we did to help us in our faith journey.

We will gather together on Sunday 24th November at 10 am for The Feast of Christ the King and to close The Year of Faith.

In Maths we will be counting in groups of 10s. We will be partitioning numbers into tens and units and counting on in 10s from a given number.

Have a go with this counting game.

http://www.ictgames.com/fairyfog10s_v2.html

LIGHT AND DARK

Our new topic in Science will be light and dark.

Have you noticed that it is dark in the mornings and dark when you go to bed?

We will be learning about light sources~natural and manmade.

Can you name any natural light sources?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/light_dark.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/science/light/play/

Enjoy Kipper and the magic lamp!

Well done Year One for all your hard work this half term.We have enjoyed all our new learning and challenges. Have a wonderful half term.

PRAYER

PRAYER

Next half term in RE we will be learning about prayer.

Which prayers do you know?

Where and when do you pray?

Do you use anything to help you pray?

During half term have a go with all the activities below.

Maths

http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum.html

http://www.ictgames.com/octopus.html

Literacy

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaursEggs/index.html

http://www.ictgames.com/wordreader.html

Let us know which games you like!

Come and join us for our Key Stage One Awards on Tuesday at 8.50 . We will be celebrating all the wonderful work you have been doing this half term.

Next week we are learning about poetry. We will be writing a list poem about Autumn.

What did we see on our Autumn walk?

What did we hear?

What did we smell?

How did the leaves feel?

Well done to Year 5 who led our Parish Mass yesterday. Father Craig presented the children the Act of Charity.

Maths is fun!

In Maths we will be learning about the properties of shapes. We will be learning new vocabulary.

sides, faces, corners, curved, straight

Well done to all our reception children and our wonderful choir for a beautiful celebration at Mass this morning. A big thank you to all the staff who helped.

In Literacy next week we will be

 reading and writing about the story~Where's my Teddy?

Have a look at the video link below.

How did Eddy feel when he lost his teddy?

We will also be reading and writing about the Pizza Princess.

Which words did the Princess not use?

School closed

School will be closed on Friday 20th September for all children.

Next week

On Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock we will be having

 Key Stage One Sports.

Please join us in the playground.

In class we will be reading and writing using this book.

One world week

We will be learning about the story of the Maccabees and what happened to the oil and the menorah.

How are drinks  made for your packed lunch?

We are reading and writing using lots of interesting books. We love sharing Julia Donaldson books. Which story is your favourite?

http://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/

Have a go at this fun game~odd or even.

http://www.ictgames.com/dragonmap.html

http://www.primarygames.com/storybooks/even_odd/start.htm

On Tuesday the school choir will  be visiting St Chad's Cathedral to lead the music  for The Good  Shepherd Appeal Mass.

The Mass will be celebrated by Archbishop Bernard Longley.

They will be presenting our Lenten charity money~so well done for all your hard work and generosity!

We are learning how to share in Maths.

This week we found out that sharing into 2 groups is

 the same as halving.

Have a go with these doubles and halving games.

http://www.ictgames.com/rhoodbeyond10.html

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurDentist/index.html

On Tuesday and Wednesday evening our Year 6 friends will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.

We will be praying for everyone.

Archbishop Bernard Longley will visit and confirm the children from Holy Souls School for the first time.

What will Archbishop Longley have on his head?

What will he hold in his hand?

In Science we will be learning about SOUND.

Which sounds do you like?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/sound_hearing.shtml

In Maths we will be learning about sharing and DIVISION.

Can you solve this problem?

Mrs Parker has 10 apples. She shares them with Mrs Taylor and Mrs Aldred.

How many apples does she give to Mrs Taylor?

How many apples does she give to Mrs Aldred?

In RE we will be finding out how and why the disciples were called to follow Jesus and how they shared in his life.

How many disciples did Jesus call?

Who were the first group?

We hope you have all had a lovely half term and enjoyed the weekend sunshine!

We have a busy, exciting half term ahead.

Tomorrow is our school trip to Cannock Toy Museum.

Don't forget to be at school 8.30 in your school uniform and trainers.

Please bring your packed lunch in a plastic bag.

Remember to go to bed very early ready for a fun, exciting day tomorrow!

In Science we will finding out about what

conditions a plant needs to help it grow.

In Maths we will continue our work on addition and subtraction and solving problems.

http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum.html

http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum20.html

In RE we will be revisiting the journey of Jesus

from Palm Sunday through to the Ascension.

What does the word ascend mean?

Where was Jesus going?

What did Jesus promise?

Today we are going to Parish Mass at

Sacred Heart and Holy Souls Church.

We are going to look at the Easter Candle

and the statues of Mary as it is the month of May.

In RE we will be learning about LENT.
We will make a promise and you will receive your 
 WALK WITH ME CALENDAR.

What does Jesus ask us to do during Lent?

We are learning about our food and where it comes from.

We have learned about the journey of MILK.

Which food products are made from milk?

In Literacy we will be reading and writing about The Rainbow Fish.

What does  Rainbow Fish look like?

How does Rainbow Fish change?

Next Week

In RE we have made our own Easter candles.

Which signs and symbols are on the candle?

We are learning about Easter and the signs and symbols

 we can see.

Have a look  at church  this weekend.

Can you find the Easter candle?

What signs and symbols are on the candle? Why?

In Science we will be learning about growth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/growing_plants.shtml

Please join us for Mass on Sunday at 10 o'clock. 

Our friends in Year 2 will be leading us in our readings and prayers.

In Maths this half term we will focus on subtraction.

Have a go with these activities.

http://www.ictgames.com/football2.html

http://www.ictgames.com/targettakeaway.html

Next week in RE we will be finding out what happened

on Easter Sunday.

How did the friends of Jesus feel when they found the tomb empty?

Have you visited the Easter Garden at church?

Tomorrow we will learn about the last journey made

by Jesus on earth.

We tell this journey through The Stations of the Cross.

In Literacy we will be reading and writing using the story

 Little Lumpty.

Little Lumpty did not listen  to him mum and got into

alot of trouble.

We have a new Pope.

His name is Pope Francis and he comes from Argentina.

What colour was the smoke from the chimney?

Who was the first Pope?

We are looking forward to Mrs Parker's Class Assembly on Tuesday at 9.10am. Please join us in the  school hall.

Happy Mother's Day. We hope you have helped your mummy today and spoilt her. 

Next week we will be finding out about Forgiveness through the story of Zacchaeus.

What kind of man was Zacchaeus before he met Jesus?

What kind of man was Zacchaeus after he met Jesus?

Well done for a beautiful family Mass today. 

In Literacy we will be reading and writing using

Little Red Riding Hood.

Which characters are in our story?

What happens to Grandma?

What would happen if the wolf was friendly?

In RE we will be entering Lent.

What is the first day of Lent called?

How long does Lent last for?

What colour will our focus change to?

Well done children for a fantastic assembly.

What kind of light can you be?

We are  all called to be followers of Jesus.

Thank you to all our grown ups who came to support us today.