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In school this week, to mark the start of Advent ever child has made a Star of Hope. On the star we have written our hopes and dreams for the future. We are praying about these intentions during Advent.
We decorated our stars and placed them on the school fence to share with the whole Byker community.
Each year in St Lawrence’s School we enjoy taking home the Travelling Crib during Advent. This year we are unable to do this due to Covid. We were keen to continue this tradition and so we have put together over 200 travelling cribs; one for each child in our school. Inside the pack is a… Continue Reading
We created a whole school art display to celebrate Remembrance Day and brighten up the exterior of our school. Every child in school created their own poppy using a range of media and techniques. The Nursery children made collage poppies using assorted paper and pva glue, they also experienced print making for the first time… Continue Reading
Our Friendship Bus Stops were launched this week and have proved very popular with the children. Friendship Squad members have been on the look out all week for anyone standing at the friendship bus stop in need of a friend. Continue Reading
Year 1 and Year 2 have been learning about the Sacrament of Baptism. We have learnt all about the signs and symbols of Baptism and what they mean. On Tuesday Father Shaun came to school and did a mock Baptism with Years 1 and 2 in the hall as we are not able to go… Continue Reading
Year 2 have enjoyed taking part in friendship week this week in school. We started the week by looking at how we all have similarities and differences. On Monday we came to school dressed in odd socks to remind us that we can be different in many ways but that we can all be good… Continue Reading
In music this half term we have been finding out about the composer Alan Menken. We looked at his composition of Aladdin. Firstly we read the story of Aladdin. We then listened to the music and tried to imagine which part of the story the music would fit with. We sequenced the story in groups… Continue Reading
Father Shaun visited school today and lead a prayer session with KS 1. He read the story of The Lost Sheep to the children. Father led the children in prayer and asked the children how they could take this message of kindness into the playground. The children shared some lovely ideas about how they could… Continue Reading
Year 2 have enjoyed working on a Literacy unit this week about poetry. We based a lot of our work around describing fireworks. We have been learning all about the power of using adjectives to describe nouns in the genre of Poetry, We wrote some fabulous poems about fireworks. We also learnt all about Acrostic… Continue Reading
At St Lawrence’s we will be holding our Friendship Week from the 16-20th November, as part of the national Anti-Bullying Week. We will start the week by taking part in Odd Socks Day on Monday 16th November. Children can wear the weirdest and wackiest odd socks they can find to celebrate that we are all… Continue Reading
