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Today we were lucky to receive a Toolbox Talk from Steve and Steve who are busy making our wonderful new castle.  They showed us how they use plans that are drawn out to help them organise their work.  They talked about the materials they were using to make the castle and where they come from.…

Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their taster session of cricket this week with a visiting cricket coach. This was a good introduction to cricket in preparation for their P.E. lessons next term. 

On Friday 19th March we celebrated St. Joseph’s day.  We all wore red because it’s a special colour associated with St. Joseph. We enjoyed a break time Jammie Dodger which went down a treat. We had fun learning some facts about St. Joseph’s life.  In the afternoon we created paper lilies, we…

Year 3 enjoyed making Shrines to St. Joseph, praying to him and researching his life online. They ended the day munching on Italian breadsticks and eating mozzarella cheese.

Year 1 enjoyed learning all about St. Patrick the Patron saint of Ireland.  We enjoyed researching then writing facts about St.Patrick inside shamrocks.  We created some super spiral snakes because they are in his story.  We learnt how people around the world celebrate the feast of St. Patrick…

Year 4’s class saint is St Joseph which is celebrated on March 19th each year but Pope Francis proclaimed that we celebrate a Year of St Joseph. Today we learned about Saint Joseph and about why the Pope admires him. We also researched the different ways that the feast of  St Joseph is celebrated…

While Year 4 were learning about carpentry, they compared the methods and tools Saint Joseph might have used with those used by carpenters today.  

Here are our completed Stars of Bethlehem.

St Joseph was a carpenter so today Year 4 were working with wood to make a Star of Bethlehem. They learned that carpentry requires the use of different skills, an understanding of safety and a lot of concentration. They also discovered that having an extra pair of helping hands is very useful. 
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On 19th March the people of Italy honour and give thanks to St. Joseph, the patron Saint of Workers.  As 2021 has been declared the Year of St. Joseph, we too have celebrated St. Joseph.  We all wore red.  As he was a Carpenter, we have built with wood, dressed up as St. Joseph, made models with…

This week we have been reading the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. The children have then been making their own caterpillars out of bread and even adding some raisins for eyes. Over the next few weeks we will be learning more about caterpillars and butterflies. 
 

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Year 5’s class saint is St. Patrick so we had a wonderful day on 17th March learning all about him. Mrs. Smith told us all a about the celebrations that occur in Ireland on St. Patrick’s day and we were surprised to hear that it is a national holiday on that day! We were also treated to some Irish…