Welcome to the Year One Class Page
Our class teacher is Miss Brown
Our teaching assistant is Mrs Betts
Our Google Classroom link: https://classroom.google.com/c/Nzg4NjY1MjcyMzAz?cjc=vicngkfh
In Peaceful Players, we always try our very best in our work and try to be the best young people we can be. We promote peaceful play just like our class saint John Paul II promoted peace amongst all. We do this through using the Character Strengths of being kind and loving. This means that we are friends to each other, make good choices and look after one another.
Information
Our PE days are Monday and Thursday with Mr Taylor
We have Music and Computing on a Friday
Homework:
Homework may be sent out with your child but it will also be posted on Google Classroom for you to refer back to.
Reading – Our Big Cat Collins reading book and reading for pleasure library packs are sent home on a Friday to be returned the following Friday.
From the Spring term, CLIC (Beat That) challenges are sent home on a Friday.
Half termly RE and Curriculum Journey will be sent home surrounding the topics we will be covering.
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” —Garrison Keillor
Uniform – please ensure your child wears the correct school uniform and all items are clearly named.
A reminder that from September 2024, school moved to a single active uniform which will be rigidly enforced. The uniform will be as follows:
- Royal blue jumper or cardigan with school logo (purchased from school uniform shop)
- Plain black joggers, leggings, shorts or skorts
- White collared polo shirt – this can be with the school logo if parents wish but not compulsory
- Plain black socks
- BLACK shoes or trainers that are appropriate to wear for all active sessions including PE
Parents will need to ensure their child has in school every day:
- A change of bottoms (joggers/leggings etc.)
- An old pair of trainers that can be worn on the school field and will get dirty
- A pair of wellingtons – without these children will be unable to join in with Forest School
ALL CHILDREN will be expected to wear the correct uniform so they feel part of the school community. Any child not attending in the correct uniform will be given items from the uniform bank to change into.
Please ensure your child brings a water bottle with fresh water (no squash or juice please) with a straw or closed lid everyday, along with their reading diaries and reading books.
For more information, follow us on Facebook and be sure to check in with Google Classroom, as Miss Brown posts regular updates there.
RE
We love to learn about Jesus’ life and how his message can help us to lead better lives. During the school year we look at:
- Creation -This unit is designed to develop the children’s appreciationof themselves and the world around them as part of God’screation. It also helps the children to reflect on the need tothank and praise God for his many gifts.
- Families and Celebrations – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of what it means to belong to, andcelebrate as, a family.The unit will focus on the Mass, thestories of the Presentation and Finding of Jesus in theTemple and the Wedding Feast at Cana as importantcelebrations in the life of the Church and Jesus.
- Prayer – This unit is designed to develop the children’sunderstanding of prayer as a special way of spending timewith God. In the unit the children will also explore thevocabulary, actions, places and aids associated withprayer, with particular reference to the prayer of praise andintercession. The children will also explore how Christiansgive praise to God in the psalms and in prayers like the“Glory Be ToThe Father” and the “Our Father”.
- Advent – This unit is designed to develop the children’sunderstanding of Advent as a time of waiting andpreparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus and hiscoming again. The unit also develops the children’sunderstanding of Advent as a joyful liturgical season andallows them to participate in a special liturgy.
- Christmas – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of Christmas as a celebration of thebirth of Jesus. The unit also develops the children’sunderstanding of the importance of the birth of Jesusthrough the events that happened before and after, and theimpact it had on the people involved.
- Jesus: Teacher and Healer – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of the person of Jesus and his ministryas a teacher and healer.The unit will also develop theirunderstanding of what Jesus’ministry reveals to us aboutGod, how the Church continues that ministry today invarious ways and how Christians are called to follow theexample of Jesus in their lives.
- Forgiveness – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of the importance of forgiveness as agift we receive and as a way that we can show love toothers. The unit will also explore the choices that childrenmake, that these can be good or bad and theconsequences that arise from them. The unit will alsodevelop the children’s understanding of the need to saysorry when bad choices are made.
- Lent – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of Lent as a time of change and ofgrowing to be more like Jesus by following his example. Inthe unit the children will explore various aspects of Jesus’message and ways in which Christians can apply these toreal life situations.
- Holy Week – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of the important events of Holy Weekand how they tell of the last days of Jesus’life on earth.The unit focuses on Palm Sunday, the Last Supper and theStations of the Cross.
- Easter – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of the season of Easter as a celebrationof the Resurrection of Jesus. The unit focuses on theimportance of the Resurrection and its message.
- Pentecost – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of Pentecost as the fulfilment of Jesus’promise to send the Holy Spirit. The unit focuses on thecoming of the Holy Spirit as a promised gift that broughtabout a change in the lives of the disciples and how wecelebrate and receive that gift in our lives today.
- Sharing Jesus’ Life – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of the way in which, as Christians, weare called to share in the life of Jesus. The unit focuses onJesus choosing and calling the disciples and how they arean example to us of what it means to be a disciple orfollower of Jesus and share in his life.
- Following Jesus Today – This unit is designed to develop the children’s knowledgeand understanding of what it means to follow Jesus today.The unit develops the children’s understanding of how, asfollowers of Jesus, we belong to the Church and thedifferent ways that the Church, and the different membersof it, follow Jesus.
If you would like to pray at home with your child, this web page has a great list of short, child-friendly prayers:
https://westtnliving.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/nice-short-prayers-to-the-lord-for-children/