Every Wednesday in class, the children will take part in a collective worship which will be teacher led. We will be posting the PowerPoint for you to join in at home if you wish.
The Christian values for this half term are: Faith and Belief. Each week the teacher led collective worship will focus on the Christian Values, with a story from the bible and a link to the wider world. We encourage all children to take part in the discussions and come together to sing, listen to stories from the bible, pray and reflect.
The first collective worship is by Miss Hutson which has a focus on Genesis 1-2- Creation and the faith and belief that God put in humans to care for the world he created. This also links in with Earth day on the 22nd April 2021.
Please see powerpoint below for the collective worship.
I hope you are all well, staying safe and enjoying the Easter break. I wanted to tell you all what our topic will be Towers, Tunnels and Turrets! Here is our curriculum map showing you what we will be covering in Lawley over the next half term:
It would be very useful if you could research local castles, find out about how they are built, what life was like living in a castle, and the different jobs within a castle.
Here is a video clip with Barnaby Bear visiting Edinburgh Castle.
Here are some key words we will be learning and using in class over the next half term. It would be useful to research the meaning of these words.
Finally, here is a recommended book list for our topic.
Enjoy the rest of the Easter break and we are looking forward to seeing you all on Monday, 19th April.
We have had another busy week in Lawley, with our English focus being on a new text called How to Heal a Broken Wing. In class we have been annotating pictures and using adjectives to describe what we see. In Maths, we have been recognising 3D and 2D shapes, as well as counting the sides and vertices of 2D shapes. In Science, we looked at fossils and in RE we concentrated on recapping the Easter Story. We have also completed some Easter artwork by painting our hands in preparation of making a cross, and in our comprehension lesson we learnt about The Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
We have finished the week off our monthly birthday party, celebrating the birthdays of Elisa, Kaden, Scarlett, Jack, Odin, Kobie and Karla-May.
Well done to Simon for receiving our Star of the Week. Simon has been working incredibly hard in English with his writing, using full stops, capital letters, phonics and neat handwriting, as well as being imaginative creating a pirate, sea monster, pirate ship and treasure for our pirate stories last week. Great work Simon!
In Lawley this week we have been busy with our pirate theme. The children have planned and written pirate stories, written a message in a bottle, and had a pirate dance and walk the plank PE session! In maths, we have been learning about pictograms and block diagrams, and in Science we went on a nature walk looking at different habitats.
Everyone has been working hard and this week we were lucky enough to win the Key Stage One attendance award!
Congratulations to Leo on receiving our Star of the Week award! Leo has been working hard, listening well and making the right choices, well done Leo.
Please remember to provide your child with time to read and practise their spellings. We have noticed since returning from lockdown, this had reduced dramatically.
Have a good, safe weekend and I am looking forward to next week.
Good morning, so it is our fourth and final instalment of our whole school collective worship, please feel free to share with your children at home or in class.
This week the focus is Perseverance.
2 Chronicles 15:7
“But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.”
As we develop this week’s value of ‘perseverance’ as a school community, we will consider the following:
How are we encouraged and given skills to persevere through difficult times?
How does our learning and teaching encourage and motivate children and adults alike?
Do we all understand that hard work and perseverance in all aspects of our lives is worth the effort?
A Christian Perspective on Perseverance:
Jesus frequently encouraged his disciples to “endure patiently” the difficulties and obstacles they encountered and to persevere in the face of adversity. He himself trusted in God even when his enemies tried to stop his work and plotted his death.
Please click the link for information and a worksheet on Perserverence – perseverance
Please have a go at the Growtrh Mindset learning zone and see what pushes you to out of your comfort zone. This activity is fort you to discuss where you feel comfortable with an activity and where you push yourself, never give up, persevere to achieve what you want. Comfort zone
E.G I feel comfortable writing sentences with capital letters and full stops I am in my danger zone when asked to write sentences with expanded noun phrases .
E.G I am in my comfort zone when kicking a ball, I am in the danger zone when asked to go in goal.
I have included two songs for you to listen to the lyrics focusing on never giving up: –
Inspirational people who never gave up!
Walt Disney – Disney was turned down 302 times before he got his dream of creating “the happiest place on Earth”, better known today as Disneyland.
Michael Jordan – Jordan is widely considered to be the greatest basketball player of all time, however he was cut from his high school varsity basketball team during his sophomore year. That only inspired him to work harder.
In his words: “I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that’s precisely why I succeed.”
Let us pray :-
Lord Jesus,
When I feel worried about facing a new challenge, help me to persevere. When the going gets tough, help me to persevere. when I feel like giving up, help me to persevere.
Wow, what a week! It’s been fantastic bring back together and seeing the children so excited about school. Everyone in Lawley had come back with a brilliant working attitude and eager to learn, we have been over the moon.
This week we have been looking at tally charts and pictograms in Maths, pirate stories in English, feelings in PSHE, animal offspring in Science and Mother’s Day art.
Congratulations to Jessie who received our Star of the Week. Jessie has been eager to get this award for a long time, and has been asking how she can achieve this. Jessie has taken on board everything I have said and worked hard with her sentence structure, punctuation and handwriting. Well done to Jessie.
We issued new reading books on Friday so please do complete daily reading with your child. We also handed out our new weekly spellings, ready for our first spelling test next Friday.
We will be having PE on a Monday and Friday from next week, so children need to be sent to school in their kits. However on Friday, we are having a whole school pirate day, so this will be instead of PE kit.
I hope all mum’s, step mums and nanny’s had a wonderful Mother’s Day.
Remember, please contact me on Dojo if you have any questions about anything in Lawley or regarding your child.
Good morning, so it is our third installment of our whole school collective worship, please feel free to share with your children at home or in class.
This week the focus is Forgiveness.
A Christian Perspective:
Forgiveness is the means by which damaged relationships are restored. It is an act of the will, motivated by love.
For Christians, Jesus’ death on a cross it the ultimate revelation of God’s all forgiving love, and his sacrifice stands a source of inspiration to forgive others, no matter what the cost.
Luke 6:37 – Do no judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
We have a wonderful video from Holy Trinity Church for you to watch: – https://youtu.be/FpgNeZLLNEg please click the link. Within the video we focus on the ‘The Parable of the Lost Coin’ which appears in Luke 15:8–10.
As a school, over the next two weeks we unpicking Jonah and the Whale from the old testament. We will focus on the importance of saying sorry and asking forgiveness.
I have included a song for you to play and reflect upon, please listen to the lyrics and think about the following:
Talk together about:
-A time when you needed to say sorry
-A time you didn’t say sorry but wish you had
-A time when you had to forgive someone who had hurt or upset you
-How it feels when you are given a new start because someone has forgiven you
Here are lots of interesting things to do linked to the Christian value – Forgiveness – click to download your copy – forgiveness
Thank you that you offer us forgiveness to all through Jesus. Sorry for the times when we have been slow to say sorry to others or not quick enough to forgive.
Please help us to ask for forgiveness when we make a mistake and accept our apology kindly.
Thank you everyone for helping to make World Book Day 2021 so successful. It was wonderful to see staff and pupils dressed as their favourite characters both at home and in school. Here are just a few examples:
We were very excited to receive our books from Booka Bookshop following our live author roadshows yesterday. You can watch a recording of the Roadshows by following the links below:
Normally we visit Booka in Oswestry for World Book Day, however this year has been very different. We were all so amazed by your wonderful costumes yesterday, well done. Yesterday, Booka held a Big Book Bonanza where authors discussed their books, as well as sharing what it is like to be an author and an illustrator.
Here is the link for you to watch this event at home.
At Holy Trinity we absolutely LOVE reading and we wanted to share with you some of our favourite books. Watch the videos below to find out about the books we love to read.
We can’t wait to hear about your favourite books too. Send your video to your class teacher on Class Dojo or on your class email.
On Thursday staff at Holy trinity will be holding live Story Time sessions on Zoom throughout the day. You can choose who you would like to listen to. The invites will be sent out by your class teacher on Dojo. We can’t wait to see which character you have chosen to dress up as, I wonder who the teachers will be?
Introduction to World Book Day with Miss Wright
Mrs Allcock shares her favourite book
Find out what Mrs Meddins’s favourite book is
I wonder which books the Early Years Team most enjoy?
Mrs Platt’s favourite book
Miss Hutson tells you about her favourite book
Miss Younger shares her favourite book
Miss Roberts talks about her favourite book
Miss Scoltock shares her favourite read
Can you guess which book is Mrs Kunne’s favourite?
Mrs Thompstone’s favourite book
Miss Kerr shares her favourite book
Mrs Phillips shares her favourite story
Mrs Morgan talks about her favourite book
There are also some great books to listen to on the World Book Day website below:
