Entries by Margaret Joyce

Friday 22nd November, 2024

This week we have been auditioning for singing parts in the Advent Service (Wednesday 4th December).  The children have been so fantastic in having a go in front of their peers.  Every child has been given a printed song sheet to learn over the next two weeks for their home learning. The lyrics and links […]

Autumn 2 Week 3

This week we have been learning about the Jewish celebration called Hanukkah. The children made menorahs with their hand prints. They wrote sentences about the celebration and drew pictures of a synagogue. We read the story Whatever Next by Jill Murphy. The children acted out the story using props. They made rockets and wrote sentences […]

Friday, 22nd November 2024

The children in Year 2 this week wrote informal letters as Duncan to one of the Crayons from our class book, The day the Crayons quit, applying conjunctions and persuasive words/phrases. They also edited for punctuation including apostrophes for omission and contraction. In Maths, we used BBC’s Number block song-Ten again- to recall number bonds […]

Year 5 – 22/11/24

Yesterday, we enjoyed a trip to see Shrek The Musical at Mount Grace School. The children loved it, especially meeting the cast for high-fives and autographs afterward! In Science, we researched the planets of the Solar System, while in Maths, we wrapped up our addition and subtraction topic. In English, we used figurative language to […]

Advent Service – lyrics and links

LIKE A CANDLE FLAME (ALL) Like a candle flame Flickering small in our darkness Uncreated light Shines through infant eyes God is with us, alleluia (Y3-5) God is with us, alleluia (Y6) Come to save us, alleluia (Y3-5) Come to save us (Y6) Alleluia! (All) Stars and angels sing Yet the earth sleeps in shadows […]

Year 5 – 15/11/24

Another week has gone; here are some of the highlights from Year 5! On Monday, we joined the school for a Remembrance pilgrimage, reflecting on those being remembered in this month of November. Year 5 walked with Year 1, showing great respect throughout. Tuesday marked Odd Socks Day, where we explored this year’s Anti-Bullying Week […]

Year 1 Week Beginning 15.11.24

This week started off with a short remembrance service, where the children observed two minutes silence with the rest of the school; this was followed by a pilgrimage around the different classes, where the children had the opportunity to see the different remembrance prayer tables around the school. In Phonics the children began learning some […]

Friday November 15th

We began our week with a special remembrance assembly, followed by a pilgrimage around the classrooms to take a look at the prayer tables in each class. Well done, Year 6 for the way you supported your reading partners. This week the children have been very mature in their approach to their first set of […]

Autumn 2 Week 2

This week was anti-bullying week. We spoke about what bullying is and what we should do if we think we are being bullied. The children wrote names in a hand print of the people they could tell if they were feeling sad. We read the story The Ugly Duckling and talked about the duck being […]