Our Lady & St. Werburgh's Catholic Primary School

Welcome to the Reception class web page. Here you can find further information about life in reception class. If you have any questions or queries please contact me.

Each term, the children have a Big Question, which all their learning centres around, and they will explore and answer. The Big Questions are based upon Catholic Social Teaching.  The Big Question for the Summer term is Who cares for God's World?

Children learn through carefully planned play, based upon their current interests as well as the Big Question. They experience a range of child led, child initiated, adult initiated and adult led activities throughout the day.

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Our Virtues for this term are: Curious and Active and Intentional and Prophetic.

The children will continue to learn about God and Jesus following the Birmingham Diocesan Curriculum "Learning and Growing as the People of God". Our units of work for the Summer term are: Easter, People who care for us, Pentecost and continuing with prayer. We shall also be learning about St George, the patron saint of England, whose feast day is celebrated on 23rd April.

The children also will listen to a variety of Bible stories, learning about key people in the Bible and why they were important and relevant to us today, linking with our Big Question. 

Reception have their own class prayer:

Let us thank you O Lord,

For this wonderful day.

Help us as we learn and play,

Help us to be kind to all

And catch us when we fall.

Teach us to love and pray

As we move through the day.

Amen

The children also learn a variety of prayers through our prayer of the month. Our prayer of the month for April is Prayer to the Guardian Angel

Angel sent by God to guide me,

be my light and walk beside me;

be my guardian and protect me;

on the paths of life, direct me.

Amen

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 All the prayers the children will be learning in class can be found at the top of the page.