Christmas Jumper Day On Friday, pupils and staff across the school supported Christmas Jumper Day. A £1 donation was given, this will be counted and the total amount presented to Dr. Paul Lyons from Save The Children, Gibraltar.
Pen Licence Congratulations to these super Year 4 pupils for receiving their pen license last Friday. They now can begin to use a pen for their writing. Keep up the neat handwriting!
Jumper Designs Class 1B had fun designing Christmas Jumpers this week, ready for Christmas jumper day. Then we wrote some simple descriptive sentences to match them.
Year 3 Hanukkah Talk Uri spoke to his classmates in Year 3 about Hanukkah and how he and his family celebrated the Jewish holiday. He spoke about the history of Hanukkah and explained how the menorah is a special candelabra with 9 candles. There are Jewish songs and hymns that are special for Hanukkah. One of them is the Maoz Tzur which is sung each night after the menorah candles are lit. Uri talked about the special foods that Hebrew people eat during this time. They enjoy doughnuts stuffed with jam and fritters. Uri and his family kindly provided doughnuts for his peers to enjoy last Friday. Thank you Uri!
First Aid This week, six members of our staff attended a first aid in the workplace course, led by Emma Wood, a parent! The staff members have now been fully updated about new practices and procedures.
Mr Reader Our Mr Reader awards scheme is well under way. Our pupils have had their badges presented to them by our Library Prefects, well done to everyone and keep reading those books. Year 2
Arthur Murphy 2nd Reader Badge
Isabel Moreno Rodriguez 2nd Reader Badge
Sixto Parody 3rd Reader Badge Seema Aswani 3rd Reader Badge
Jaime Ortiz Pinero 3rd Raeder Badge Year 3
Harry Spencer Starter Badge
Martina Ramirez 1st Reader Badge Luna Fernandez Recio 1st Reader Badge Keanu Zafari 2nd Reader Badge Louis Stocker Sanchez 4th Reader Badge
Jesse Tree This year, the children at Loreto have created a Jesse Tree in the school hallway. Each class from Nursery to Year 6 have made a decoration with a biblical symbol for the tree. The Jesse Tree tradition is believed to stem back to medieval times and is rooted in Isaiah 11:1: “A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.” Jesse was the father of David, Israel’s greatest king. Jesus is descended from the line of David; he is the branch God promised would grow from Jesse’s family tree. Each symbol represents a story from Hebrew Scripture and sees our God setting the stage for the birth of Jesus.
Gold Book Well done to pupils in Lower Primary and Foundation Stage 2 who were presented with their Gold Award certificates and gold pencils.
Yr. 5 and Yr. 6 Advent Mass Fr Paul celebrated mass in the school chapel for Year 5 and 6 during this holy season of Advent. Pupils took part in the readings and offertory and listened to a beautiful homily about God’s great love for each and everyone of us.
What Stars! The Gardening Club's Christmas tree had something missing?! Lottie and Amabel took it upon themselves to make a star to place on top of the tree. Mr Devincenzi-Clemens set them the challenge to make it from as much recycled material as possible. They used a milk container for the inside, rolling cones from scrap pieces of yellow paper to form the points of the star. They even managed to find an old set of battery powered tree lights in a bin! A great effort girls, our LSSC will be proud!
Christmas Performances As you will be aware, our festive productions are currently well underway, with the final scenes being filmed next week. These performances will be released after Thursday 16th December on your child's Teams account. (Files, Christmas 2021). If you are unable to remember the password, please email our support here with your name, child's name, and class and this will be reset for you.
‘Holyday’! The pupils had a day off school on Wednesday the 8th of December to honour the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The feast celebrates Mary's Conception in the womb of St Anne without the stain of original sin.
Faith Diary The third Sunday of Advent is also called Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete is a Latin word that means “rejoice.” This name is taken from the entrance antiphon for Sunday's Mass, which is also echoed in today's second reading from the Paul's letter to the Philippians. This Sunday is marked by lighting the pink candle instead of a purple one on the Advent wreath. It is a reminder that the Advent season is a season of joy because, as John announces in today’s Gospel, the Saviour is coming.
Young Horticulture We are delighted that Florence was a prize winner at the Horticultural Society Christmas Flower Show. We look forward to Florence bringing in her certificate and medal into to school to show her class. Florence's mum and grandmother were also presented with prizes - three generations worth of awards. Florence is the youngest ever member to enter the competition.
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