We hope parents and children are enjoying using our Travelling Crib kits that are coming home. Please use the candle, reflections, reading and figures of The Holy Family to offer a place for Mary & Joseph to stay in your home for the night.
Please let us know if there is any improvements we can make to our new Advent Crib tradition.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
by your intercession, love, and holy example,
make our family and home more and more like Yours,
until we are all one family, happy and at peace as we reach out to those seeking refuge or shelter.
Amen
Please make every effort to attend this week to support your child’s learning or spirituality. We can’t wait to see you.
In school, we use these resources for prayer, liturgy and RE. We hope you find these useful to use at home too this half term. Look out for the weekly Wednesday Word emails you receive too.
After visiting SS Mary & John’s in town last week, Y2 children invited Father Pawel to come and join them in their class. He spoke about the role of the church as well as recapping the parts of our church fused to celebrate Catholic sacraments. Children then prayed together in a liturgy. Thank you Fr Pawel! 
Today, we have a spiritual retreat focusing on the Lord’s Prayer. Children have explored; what the lines of this universal prayer mean to them; saying the prayer in different languages; religious artwork,; using Makaton to sign the prayer that Matthew’s Gospel teaches us from Jesus’s sermon 2000 years ago; meditating upon words of importance and more.
Children have been reflecting on scripture that shows us how to be welcoming to our brothers and sisters. Refugee Week has helped us understand the importance of a welcoming smile and people who help you settle in a new, safe place. Thank you to the children who have designed posters of welcome to display around our school community,.
Our May Procession is on Friday 10th May at 9.30am. All welcome. Children can bring a flower to honour Our Lady. Our daily prayers include Marian devotions throughout May. Join with us from home using this resource https://therosary.online/
All children in Y3, Y4, Y5 are reading their new class novels. We buy sets of 15 books so children can share a book with a partner and read along with their teacher. Y4 and Y5 books have been chosen due to the shared theme; war and fleeing your home country. So far, the feedback is amazing! They can’t wait to read the next chapter of ‘The boy at the back of the class’ or ‘You don’t know what war is’ by Yeva Skalietska, a 12 year old girl from Ukraine. Year 3 are also engrossed with ‘Stig of the dump’ a modern classic for children. Ask your child to summarise the plot so far for you at home.
Children and adults with special educational needs and disabilities can make a splash with swimming lessons at the City of Wolverhampton Council’s leisure centres. Click below to sign up:
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