St Philips Avenue, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS10 3SL

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St Philip's Catholic Primary and Nursery School

"In the light of Christ, where everyone is valued and learning is celebrated"

Welcome to the exciting world of the Wonderful Ones!
We are full of fun, laughter, enthusiasm and love.
There are 33 of us including Mrs Morland, Miss Corrigan and Mrs Watt. 

'For the spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but just gives us power, love and self-discipline.'

(2 Timothy 1:7)

November is the month when we remember those who have died and gone to be with God. We know that poppies are a special flower at this time of year and so we worked creatively to make our own.

 

Today we had a special class worship. We stopped and said special prayers for those we wanted to remember.

We even planted our own poppies and all through November we are going to care for them. As they grow, we will take time to remember all those important to us.

The Marvellous Mr Burt!
Every Thursday, we sing with Mr Burt and it is one of our favourite parts of the week. We are starting to learn about rhythm and how to change the pitch of our voices when we sing. We have learnt lots of new songs and our favourites are ‘The Little Green Frog’ and ‘Hallelujah’. Watch the videos below for a little taste.

Some of us are even brave enough to sing on our own. Have a listen to some of our beautiful voices….

We are Thankful 18.10.24

Today we led the whole school worship and we reminded everyone how important it is to be thankful. We shared the creation story and then we asked our friends to close their eyes and reflect on what they had heard

We ended our worship by sharing one of our favourite songs called ‘If I Were a Butterfly’. Watch the video below to hear a little taste….

Marvellous Middleton

This half term in Geography we are learning about our local area. So far we know that we live in a city called Leeds and we live in a town in Leeds called Middleton. We used aerial photographs to describe Leeds and Middleton and then we found the streets where we live on a street map of our area. 

 

Today we explored our local area around our school. We found our school, our nursery, our church, houses and shops. We used what we saw to draw our own maps. We added the names of the different types of shop such as a butchers, an optician and a pharmacy. We also added street names and other features like traffic lights and zebra crossings. Back in the classroom, we used our maps to tell our friends about Middleton.

We are now experts on our local area! After looking at a street map of the area around our school, we our knowledge and what we had seen on our walk to create our own 3D maps. When we had made them, we used directed small world people to different places. This helped us practice our geographical vocabulary and check that we had now missed our any important features that make Middleton marvellous!

We are all Readers

We have lots of books that we enjoy going back to over and over again. We recommend ones to our classmates and share others with our friends like this….

Acrostic Poems

In English, we have started learning about acrostic poems. We discovered that each line starts with a capital letter and those letters spell out the theme of the poem. We used this knowledge to reorder a poem that had been jumbled.

To get ready to write our own acrostic poem, we practiced forming capital letters correctly. We started by warming up our muscles with special exercises then we practiced each letter in each different family.

We have read several acrostic poems and one of our favourites is N is for Nature by Angie Turner. We set ourselves a challenge to learn it off by heart and we put actions to each line to help us remember the words. Watch the video below and enjoy…..

Our Prayer Garden

This week Father Polland came to bless our new and improved Prayer Garden.

Year One went to visit to see what it was like and we noticed lots of prayers and other objects that will help us when we worship.

We decided to have our class worships out there. As well as saying our prayers, we created our own prayer with each one of us saying what we would like to thank God for.

What a Wonderful Week!
We have had a very busy first week in Year One and we are already learning so much!

In RE, we went outside to look for all the beautiful things that God has created and we had a special class worship to say thank you to him.

In Maths, we sorted objects in different ways. We decided to line up the objects once we had sorted them to make them easier to count.

In Art,  we experimented with spirals and we used lots of different materials to create them.

Finally, we spent some quiet time in the library choosing ourselves a new book to share with our grown ups. The library is one of our favourite places in the whole school.
Phew, we 
are shattered but we have had lots of fun!

Meet the Teacher Meeting 05.09.24

It was lovely to meet so many of you on Thursday, some familiar faces and some new! Please find the PowerPoint below with all the information that we discussed. If you have any questions, please ask one of the Year One team.