Today the Reception children were really lucky to have a visit from Reverend John Armstrong and the Lay Minister Stephanie Peake from St Mary's Church in Wombwell.
Many of the children had never met a vicar before and were interested to learn about his role in church. He began by explaining what can happen at church, which includes baptisms, weddings, funerals and Sunday services. He told us about other things that happen at church including a food bank and special groups for children. Stephanie then explained her role and said that she looked after children at church including toddler groups and after school groups. Stephanie also said she is a Lay Reader to help run church services. Both told us that people who attend church services believe that God loves us and wants to be part of our lives. They showed us what they wear for services including a cassock, surplice and prayer scarf. Stephanie also showed us what she wears for her children's groups and read the words on the back and told us what they meant; "engaging, nurturing, disciplining." The children were keen to ask lots of questions including "Why do you wear special clothes?" "What do you do at church?" "What food do you eat at church?" and "Is Jesus real?" These opened up very interesting discussions from our visitors, and the children are looking forward to them returning in a few weeks to learn more!
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In Science, we began work on our new topic ‘Everyday Materials’ – we learnt the names of different materials and we were distinguishing between the object and the material it is made from.
This week has been ‘Mindfulness Week’ in school. We learnt that practising mindfulness can help us feel good about ourselves. We have used the Mindfulness Monsters to give a focus to our mindfulness sessions. On Tuesday, we were ‘positive’ with Giggles, we learnt what a compliment was and then gave compliment to the friend sat next to us in the circle. On Wednesday, we practised concentration with Thinky – we started by counting how many teeth we have with our tongue. We then learnt that we have the super power of smiling – we passed a smile around our circle and spoke about it made us feel good inside. On Thursday, we practised creativity with Sparky. We started by sitting with our eyes closed listening to a piece of music and took our pencils for a ‘walk’. We then opened our eyes and used colouring pencils to colour in between the lines we had created whilst taking our pencil for a 'walk'.
Team EO staff hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year, we would like to say a huge welcome back to everyone, it has been wonderful to see you all back this week, happy and eager to learn!
This half-term our topic focus is ‘Magical Storyland’ where we will explore a variety of traditional tales and fairy tales – we will look at the characteristics of these tales and alternative versions. Our core book for this half-term is ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. This weeks’ story has been ‘The Three Little Pigs’. Children have enjoyed using puppets to retell the story in our small world area, we have been writing speech bubbles to show what the 3 Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf say and children have been putting their creative skills to the test to create a model of one of the houses from the story with a focus on adding detail to ensure our houses look like a house! Our funky finger activity this week has focused on scissor skills – we have been cutting out clothing and sticking them onto the pigs! |
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