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!