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Mother’s Day preparation and amazing miracles

This week has been Mocks week, which was a practice run for SATs week in May. The children coped remarkably well with the changes to routine and we are very proud of them all.

However, we found time to prepare for Mothers Day- after all we recognise the amazing impact all our Mums have on our lives. We each made 3d Mother’s Day cards in art and another one in French.

We have also been practicing for our performance at the Mother’s Day assembly. The children worked together to write their own lyrics for their own version of Mamma Mia. We think our Mums will be pleased with the result when they see us perform it at Friday’s assembly.

In RE, we read and analysed the amazing miracle Jesus performed when he raised his friend Lazarus from the dead. We looked at how the Holy Spirit helped Jesus and what it must have been like for witnesses to this spectacular event. Some members of the class imagined they were characters from the story and we interviewed them by putting them in the Hot Seat. 

Ultimately, we realised that Jesus, and only He, could have performed such a miracle. Through this miracle we learn about God’s power over death and His promise of eternal life for us. Jesus said, “ I am the resurrection, He who believes in me will live.” 

So despite all our hard work, we have much to celebrate: our successes, our mothers and our faith.

It’s been another busy week for Year 1 this week. We have enjoyed focusing on plants this week in Science, focusing on both wild and garden plants. The highlight was hunting for wild plants within our school. We found lots of daisies and dandelions, keeping tallies of what we discovered.

We have made some beautiful Mother’s Day cards during learning through play this week. We used forks to to print flowers onto cards, completing them with thoughtful handwritten messages. We hope you enjoyed the Mother’s Day assembly, we really enjoyed performing as both a school and a class, even though we might have been a bit shy!

Also during learning through play, we have been acting out the Preparation of Gifts. We really liked dressing up and blessing the bread and wine (Jesus’ body and blood), just like a real priest.

Have a fabulous weekend,

Miss Battams 🙂

Monday was our St Albans wide Reach Out for Refugees Day. We read the very poignant story of Lubna and Pebble and reflected on how difficult it must be to leave the place, people and possessions that you love.

As part of our English learning on the book ‘If all the world were …’, we have each written a poem and here is our very thoughtful class poem, which includes a verse from every member of the class.

If all the world were …

If all the world were scary, I would hug, hug and hug until the scary darkness was gone.

If all the world were poor, I would welcome the poor into my cosy house.

If all the world were awful, I would pick a red, shiny rose and smell it so I try and forget about it.

If all the world were hideous I’d suck it up and fill it with happiness.

If all the world were darkness, I would light the world up.

If all the world were poor I would give everyone a home.

If all the world were wonderless, I would hug my family.

By The Amazing Alligators

If all the world were …

If all the world were sorrowful, I would give away my teddy bear.

If all the world were poor, I would fly to them to give them a blanket to sleep with and some more money.

If all the world were empty, I would give the poor love.

If all the world were full of worry, I would bring some people to the sandy, windy beach to see the sun set.

If all the world were sad, I would give people my teddies.

If all the world were unhappy, I would give people my shiny money. 

By The Fabulous Foxes

If all the world were …  

If all the world were death and destruction, I would fill it up with love.

If all the world were sad, I would give away my teddies.

If all the world were full of poor people, I would give them medicine.

If all the world were selfish, I’d stand up for people.

If all the world were scary, I would give people my teddy.

If all the world were miserable, I would try to cheer people up and make a better place.

By The Marvellous Monkeys

If all the world were … 

If all the world were horrible, I would give someone a great, red and beautiful rose.

If all the world were empty, I would fill the world with love.

If all the world were war, I would give them a home.

If all the world were poor, I would empty my money box for charity.

If all the world were worrying, I would tell people that they’re the winners.

If all the world were painful, I would wrap my lovely sisters, mummy and daddy in a warm blanket.

By The Wonderful Wolves  

What an amazingly creative and talented group of poets we have in Year Two!

If you would like to hear the story of Lubna and Pebble again, then follow the link below to hear it read by the author herself.

Today, children in Year 4 have come to school dressed in yellow and blue in support, not only of children and families in Ukraine, but of all people in the world who are seeking refuge.

We wrote prayers, asking God to help for those who face such danger in their lives that they must flee to seek safety elsewhere. We also gave thanks for those who keep us safe and protect us from harm.

Lily’s prayer:

Dear God,
Thank you for reminding us about the good and bad in this world. Make sure we know about the unseen as well as the people we can see.
Help us to not be selfish and let us recognise what is happening in the world. We have all been selfish before, but please forgive us and change us into good people of the world who care and share.
We all know what’s happening in Ukraine, but help us to remember the others in the world who have no choice to flee their home country.
Forgive us for forgetting but then let us see the right path. You can help us to change our ways through your Holy Spirit.
Amen

Jessica’s prayer:

Dear God,
Help the people who are in need in Ukraine to find a lovely and nice place to stay. Sorry, God, for when I have not given safety or love to people who need it. I wish everyone could have the same safety as I do so nobody gets hurt or harassed.
Amen

It’s been another exciting week in Year 4 with the class a riot of colour as we dressed in green for St Patrick’s Day, followed by wearing red in support of Red Nose Day.

This week is British Science Week. As part of our science learning we found out that if you’re infected with a virus, your body is ready to fight using antibodies which stick to a virus and encourage immune cells to attack and destroy. We grow specific antibodies during an infection or after vaccination. We then had a go at making antibody and virus origami – It was really tricky!

On Friday, we had a workshop from Rock Steady. We all played our virtual drums and air guitars and some of us got to try out the instruments and form an impromptu band. The children have letters about this in their book bags if you would like to sign them up on line to take part in these in-school lessons.

Our new class library books continue to be really popular and it is lovely to see the children so keen to read. Thank you all for your support with this. I have marked each book with a special sticker to show that it is one of our ’50’ top books to read in Year 4. My next step is to make each child a book mark so they can tick of their progress towards reading them all.

Currently, you have donated an amazing 22 books from our ‘wish list’ – Thank you! If anyone else would like to donate a book to the class, the children really would love it. You can click on the link to see our amazon wish list. Books disappear from the list once they have been purchased, so there is no need to worry about duplicates.

It’s been another busy week for Year 1 this week. We started off the week by celebrating British Science Week. As we are learning about Plants in Science, we took the theme of ‘growth’ for science week and planted our own beans. We will start to track the growth of the beans over the coming weeks.

We then celebrated St Patrick’s Day. We learnt the story of St Patrick and made hats to celebrate. We also wore green to mark the occasion.

At the end of the week, we all wore red to celebrate Comic Relief. This went hand in hand with learning about the common good and helping others whenever and wherever we can. We created our own red nose designs to mark the occasion.

To top off the week, we had a session with Rocky Steady. Rocky Steady provide opportunities for children to learn new musical instruments within school. Please see the letter sent home with your child if you’re interested in more information. We had so much fun and even got to make our very own class band!

Have a restful weekend,

Miss Battams 🙂

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!

The children loved wearing green to celebrate the Feast of St Patrick. Thank you to you all for supporting us in this.

The news about the Ukrainian war has been upsetting and the children in Y6 felt that they needed to speak up to urge the Prime Minister and his government to act more decisively.

The children felt that developing peace between Russia and Ukraine and offering assistance to the people of Ukraine during their terrible ordeal was of the utmost importance.

So a couple of weeks ago the children wrote letter to either the Prime Minister or the Foreign Secretary, Rht Hon Liz Truss MP, to express their views.

Earlier this week, we received a reply from the Prime Minister’s correspondence officer with a very detailed reply. Not only was the Prime Minister and his team very impressed with the children’s letters but they agreed that peace was very important and that the Prime Minister was doing his best to broker this. The letter went on to say how the people of Britain would be able to welcome Ukrainian refugees into their homes. This news has now been released in the press for the country- but we heard it first in our letter from him.

From this experience, the children have learned that speaking up for what is right and letting their voices be heard is so important.

Well done children- you are the future of our country. 

Who knows- maybe one day you will be in government and you will have the chance to make a real positive difference in our world!