Year 5 and 6 Swimming Gala- Friday 22nd May

This will be taking place at Palatine Leisure Centre in South Shore.

207 St Anne's Rd, Blackpool FY4 2AP

This event will be taking place in the morning so parents will have to take their children straight to Palatine- WE ARE NOT MEETING AT SCHOOL.

Arrival time is between 8:30am-8:45am. We will be getting changed at 8:50am so please arrive before this time.

Parents are welcome to stay and watch as there is a seating area up above the pool.

The event will end between 12:00-12:30 so parents will have to take their children back to school ready for lunch and the afternoon at school.

Please make sure you have your swimming costume, goggles (if needed), a towel, and a swimming cap (nessessary for girls) and any medical requirements if needed.

The children taking part are;

Year 5

Lettie, Phoebe, Emilia, Ellie-Rose, Mia-Grace, George C, Jackson, Nathan, Hugo H

Year 6

Charlotte, Rose, Beth, Logan, John Paul, William, Louis, Jacob, Rory, Tommy

Year 2 Home Learning to be handed in on Monday 18th May

Dear Parents,

I have apolgised to the children for confusing them and yourselves when placing my division films onto the homework page. I inadvertantly added the same film twice and I thank Mrs Cronin for her kind email to inform me. Not only that, I had a typing error on the questions and this led to a remainder and this was not my intention. I have given the same type of questions again for maths with the correct film. Sorry

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MATHS

Division - sharing (partitive structure) using tallying and skip counting. See problems in books

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READING

Lots of children reaching their reading target this week - we are all on a mission! Please read everyday.

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SPELLING and HANDWRITING

Apostrophes for possession. We have introduced the apostrohes for possession this week in our spelling and grammar lessons. Please complete the two worksheets in your homework book. Make sure you use your best handwriting

Worksheet is double sided.

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Year 5 Weekly Blog 08.05.26- 'The natural word is the greatest source of excitement, visual beauty and interlectual interest'- Sir David Attenborough

What a week it has been in Year 5! A shorter week in days but still feeling like a long week in activites. Learning has continued to flow with us finishing off our focus of apostles and the apostolic mission in RE, as we looked at the stature of the church and where hiarachy of the laity and apostles in our Catholic Church. On Thursday, we took a grip to the Grand, along with Year 6, to see ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’. This is a powerful novel, based on a true story and current real life events, that the children will read in Year 6 next year. We ended our week in celebration of Sir David Attenborough. We came into school in our earth coloured clothes and we wrote biographies about our chosen icon. We finished this off by watching some of his classic documentaries from ‘Planet Earth’. Well done to chose children who entered the arts and crafts competition for this, your creations were beautiful!

Conversation starters

RE- If you wanted to become the next Pope, which 6 other roles within the Catholic Church would you have to have first? Can you remember the order of the stature of the Church?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. With no whole school assembly today, the winner of star of the week was voted for by the children. This week, the stars of the week are Myles and Scarlett- both recieving the most votes.

Notices

• Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

• Trip to Lancaster Castle and Police Museum 14th May- Please go over to this blog to complete the lunch options and also to see for departures and arrivals.

• Swimming Gala Friday 22nd May- details are live on the sports blog of the school website for those children interested in taking part in the Lytham St Annes swimming gala.

• Gym Jam Jog Friday 12th June- This will begin at 8am.

• Sports Day Wednesday 17th June starting at 1:30pm

• St Bedes Taster Day Wednesday 1st July- Children will need to come to school in full school uniform (no PE kits) with their own pack lunch.

Year 1 Weekly Blog 8.5.26 - "Let your Holy Spirit be your helper and guide" - Pope Saint John Paul ||

In this weeks Gospel we hear Jesus telling his Disciples to let the Holy Spirit to be their helper. We have reflected on how the Holy Spirit is our helper too as we continue to spread the good news, that God loves us all. In RE We have been thinking about the church’s mission and how it is our job now to share the church with everyone. Year 1 thought of lots of ways that they can do this, such as by helping people who are sad. They each completed a checklist with ways they are going to share our church’s mission and throughout the week they have been ticking their kind actions off.

Going deeper in conversation

How will you be God’s helper at home? What kind actions can you do that will help somebody in your family?

Magic moments

This week we have celebrated David Attenborourgh’s 100 Year birthday! To celebrate we watched clips of his documentaries and the children then all thought about their favourite living creatures. We then created our own artwork to celebrate our beautiful world.

Certificates

This week we say goodbye to our wonderful student teacher Miss Charnley. Miss Charnley has been such a wonderful part of the children’s learning over the term and she has really loved being a part of their learning journey. We know you are going to have a wonderful teaching journey!

PE days - PE days are back to usual next week. PE will be on Monday and Wednesday. Thank you.

Monday 11th: We have our phonics drop in. I have created a little pack which I will be giving to you. It is for you all to use during the half term.

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 6 Weekly ‘the future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action’ David Attenborough

In this week’s gospel,John 14:15–21, Jesus teaches that loving Him means keeping His commandments, and He promises that God will send the Holy Spirit to guide and be with His followers forever. This reading reminds us that our relationship with God is built on love, trust, and obedience, and that we are never alone because God is always present in our lives. It helps us understand that by following Jesus’ teachings, we grow closer to God and reflect His love in the way we treat others.

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Sir David Attenborough is one of Britain’s most loved naturalists, famous for his inspiring wildlife programmes that help us understand and protect our planet. As he reaches his 100th birthday, we felt it was really important to celebrate his life’s work, which has encouraged many generations to care about nature and the environment. Today, Year 6 marked this special occasion by creating artwork inspired by his documentaries and taking part in a special live assembly. We were even joined by a fun guest appearance from Mrs Marshall’s monkey teddy, making the celebration even more memorable!

We had some wonderful entries in to our competition, where children had clearly spent a lot of time and effort making their creations- it was so difficult to choose our overall winner! Well done to our winner… Tilly!

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We had a wonderful time at The Grand on Thursday to watch ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ …

After working with the children this week, we feel nothing but pride. The way the children have come in to school every day and giving their absolute best, no matter how they are feeling on the inside, is truly amazing! Each one of them are overcoming barriers and challenges, no matter how big or how small and this process is making them see, that hard work, over a long period of time, really does pay off. This week we celebrated all the children, not on their marks of their final practice papers, but on the progress they have made and for some, this has been huge! We have worked SUPER hard this week on the areas we needed to, and the children couldn’t do any more, other than remember what we always say in class… YOUR BEST IS ALWAYS GOOD ENOUGH.

Going Forward …

Monday will be the start of the children’s SAT’s journey and they are extremely ready for this! There will, of course, be some nerves and anticipation this weekend on the run up, but the most important thing to do over the next few days is to relax, exercise, have plenty of sleep and eat healthily. We need those brains ready and raring to go! It would be a good idea if the children, did a little revision (small doses) to keep their learning ticking over a punctuation revision map and spelling task to prepare them for their grammar on Monday, they need to keep their reading going over the weekend and a short arithmetic task ready for Wednesday- if they wanted to do a bit extra on the areas they find most difficult then they could always have a look at ANTON or ‘maths is fun’ for their maths. It may just give them a bit of practice and confidence before the week begins. On Friday, the children set up the hall ready for Monday, so they all know exactly what they are walking in to and where to sit - I think there was even some excitement by the time we left the hall!

At the end of the day today we shafred this important poem, SAT’s is only one snapshot of your child and while we urge them to do the best we can, we celebrate way more about each and every one of your children than any test results…

Next week’s timetable is as follows so that you know which each day holds. Please ensure that your child is in school on time after a really good night sleep and a substantial breakfast…

 Monday am: Grammar, punctuation and Spelling test.

               pm: Reading revision focus

Tuesday am: Reading test

                Pm: Maths revision focus

Wednesday am: Arithmetic and Reasoning 1 test

                      pm: Maths revision focus

Thursday am: Maths Reasoning 2 test

                  pm: read through of script (yey!)

Friday am - auditions for the play!

The following week is residential and Thursday will be the interview for jobs around school (dress to impress)

Onwards and Upwards…

The following Monday, of course, is their forthcoming ‘holiday’ to Bowrick Hall. The teachers are all getting ready and looking forward to spending a few days with Year 6, it is the perfect way to end this half term- making memories, with the class and teachers, they have gone through school with, as well as pushing themselves to do things they have never done before. These children are capable of great things and I know we are going to have a great time away with them.

I have listed some essential information below which you will need to think about and know. Again, if there are any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me.

• On Monday 18th May, the children need to arrive at school through the normal way (playground) at 8:45am. Please bring all bags and drop them off in the ‘All Stars’ room, next door to Year 6. Parents on this day are able to bring the children in to school via the playground with their bags where they can then say their goodbyes. There will be members of staff there to help and direct you. The children will need one case/bag with their main clothes in and a back pack for the coach with any smaller items in.

• All children must bring a packed lunch with them for the first day. Please make sure there is plenty of water and no fizzy drinks please. The packed lunch box they will use on this day, will then be re-used to put their sandwiches in on Thursday. So please make sure you pack a proper Tupperware.

• If your child needs any medication for the week, this needs to be in a separate bag - clearly labelled - and given to the member of staff who will be at the medicine table in the ‘All Stars’ room. The form below needs to be completed which will indicate the medication, when it needs administering and how much needs to be administered. Please bring this with you on the day with the medicine (not before).

• Talent Show - Next week, I will be asking the children what their talent show act is and if they have any music etc. Please can you ensure that the act your child is doing is totally appropriate. I will be checking this next week. Anything that the children need for the talent show needs to be brought in on the morning of departure. If it fits in your child’s case - brilliant! Please ensure that they have any music that they need too.

• Final balance - please ensure that the final balance has been paid please- any difficulties please speak to Mrs Nel.

On the Wednesday, our coach will be picking us up from Borwick Hall at 2pm, so we aim to arrive back between 3-3:30pm at the latest. However, this is traffic dependent, so therefore, we will be in contact with school to give a more accurate time and then you will receive a text message, so you know when to come and collect them.

I know you have a kit list list which I am sure you have all studied, but just a couple of reminders of the vital items:

• no valuable or electrical items please (apart from a hairdryer if necessary)

• make sure all clothing items are labelled with names

• does your child suffer from travel sickness, if so they are able to take travel sickness tablets to avoid illness but please make sure it is added to the medical form.

• packed lunch box and refillable bottle

• indoor and outdoor shoes

• sun cream and sun hat!

• a book or a notebook to write in for quiet time.

• talent show- if music is required, then please send the song either as a mp3 file, USB stick or a CD as their is not a great Wi-Fi connection at all.

• bags will be carried by the children and have to be lifted up stairs by themselves up to their rooms, so please make sure you pack lightly.

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Delving deeper through talk …

What have you done this week to make you feel proud of yourself?

What are you looking forward to most in these final weeks of Primary School?

This week we will take a break from helping in the mornings and start again after the half term!

Have a lovely restful weekend ready for a busy couple of weeks.

The Year 6 team

Year 5 Homework- Due Friday 15th May

Reading

New reading targets have been reset so lets get reading to beat those this half term! Remember, we are also trying to beat our 15 million word target for the whole year- we can do it! Minimum of 20 minutes per day is vital in our reading and writing progression.

Maths- ANTON

To complete the pinned task of ‘Fractions of amounts’ folder on ANTON. There are 5 tasks to complete in the folder.

English- SPAG

The children will go home with around 10 SPAG questions every week to practice with. We will be going through these questions in class together and peer marking so it is vital that everybody has a go at these before Thursday. These have been stuck in their homework books already.

Spellings

These are the next 10 spellings of the Year 5 and 6 spelling list that we are working towards as we get closer to Year 6. Use a variety of our spelling games to help you practice at home such as square spellings, stair spellings and mock spelling tests.

1. determined

2. develop

3. dictionary

4. disastrous

5. embarrass

6. environment

7. equip

8. equipped

9. equipment

10. especially

Year 4 Weekly Blog Friday 8th May. "Let the Holy Spirit be your helper and guide. He will not fail to lead you to peace." (Pope John-Paul)

This week in Year 4 has been very special - our final preparation for making first Holy Communion. Children are ready to take the next step in their journey towards Christ with the Holy Spirit as their guide. This week, in RE they learned about the church being ‘apostolic,’ which means following the teachings of the apostles and spreading the good news of Jesus like them. We had a beautiful worship by Bonnie, Sasha and Bella where we celebrated Mary and crowned her with flowers - our queen of the May.

We are continuing our understanding of fractions in maths and also our ability to trasnslate shapes. We have finished our Science topic on sound - next up, Electricity. In class, we are contiinuing to rehearse hard for our Times table test in June. This week they have tried the ‘Try it out Check’ which mimics the real test and gets them used to it. In History, they have learned to see the Vikings in a better light - focusing on their achievements and lifestyle.

Conversation starters

RE

What does making your Communion mean to you?

History

Were all Vikings bloodthirsty warriors? What else did you learn this week, which gave you a wider view?

Let’s Celebrate

Music stars this week: Vincent and Isla

PE stars this week: Elsie and Barnaby for some creative moves!

Holy Communion Saturday 9th May and Saturday 16th May

Please can children come to the priest’s house (at the side of the church) at 9:15 on Saturday morning. I have reattached the Group list just to be doubly sure. You can drop them off here and then get seated in church on your allocated pews.

Upcoming trips and events:

Wednesday 20th May Year 4 Streetlife Charity beach Walk.

As a class, we have talked lots about people in our society who are marginalised. Children have decided they want to collect for Streetlife - a charity for the homeless. On this day, we would like children to fill their school bags with items for Streetlife’s foodbank (eg pasta, socks, pot noodles and other light items) with the aim of carrying these to the beach- so they can see what it feels like to carry your belongings on your back! As streetlife’s colour is PURPLE, we would love it if children could wear something purple on this day - so they can wear comfortable clothes with maybe a purple top, purple cap or even a purple hair bobble.

Once on the beach, we have lots of plans to do things that link to homes and homeless - such as building a group sandcastle creation, painting pebbles and making beach collages. I am sure we will have an ice-cream too! There is no cost to this trip - other than £2 on the day for an ice-cream.

Wednesday 17th June Sport’s Day Year 3 and 4 9:15am

Friday 19th June Anglo-Saxon and Viking dress up day.

This takes place in school and children will be doing lots of things to consolidate their understanding of these two important invaders to our shores. It is always such a fun day! They will need to come to school dressed as either an Anglo-Saxon person, a Viking person, or a Viking god/ goddess, elf, giant or creature! We are giving you lots of time to plan a costume - please don’t feel you need to buy one. Here are some examples of made costumes below.

We have 2 very exciting trips in July. Although this is a way off, we thought we would give you lots of preparation time and so have popped them on parent pay early. These are:

Thursday 2nd July UCLAN Electricity in Science trip

This trip consolidates our learning in Science. The cost of the trip is £20 payable on parentpay from today

Thursday 9th July Cuerden Valley Park Rivers Trip

This is linked to our Geography unit about Rivers and is a brilliant trip to discover the features of a River. This is £25 payable on parentpay from today.

Friday 3rd July St Bedes Prayer Day.

We are going to St Bedes for a day of prayer. This is a lovely chance for children to encounter their potential high school for the first time, whilst celebrating Jesus’s love.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Lyons, Miss Edwards and Mrs Carragher

a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

This week...

Worship

This week we have continued our branch ‘To the Ends of the Earth’. Our key words this week were parish family, Holy Spirit and Pentecost.

We continued talking about Pentecost, looking at some clues to see what we could retrieve from our learning last week:

I am bright but not the sun, I flicker, dance, and warm everyone. At Pentecost, on heads I came, can you guess my fiery name? Flame

I dance in the trees and make kites fly, you cannot see me, but I rush by. At Pentecost, I blew so strong, bringing the Spirit to everyone! I am… Wind

We then watched Little Liturgies from The Mark 10 Mission, all about Pentecost: Click here.

Our child led worship this week was about ‘Mary Queen of Heaven’. May is traditionally dedicated as the Month of Mary. We had a look at different images from different countries showing Mary and Jesus. They were all different but the children still recognised them as Mary and Jesus.

We watched this video all about The Queenship of Mary: Click here We ended our Worship session in our prayer garden, using our Rosary beads to say the Our Father, Hail Mary and the Glory Be.

We watched this video all about The Queenship of Mary: Click here . We ended our Worship session in our prayer garden, using our Rosary beads to say the Our Father, Hail Mary and the Glory Be.

Learning Landscape

A shorter week but no less learning!! We have:

• made an ice cream parlour

• explored 3D shapes- cone, cube, cuboid and sphere!

• played ‘what’s my number’ with numicon patterns

• made ‘what’s my number’ with number blocks

• been exploring with our explorer bags!

• visited forest school and made wind socks

• made Mary, Queen of Heaven paper models as well as paper flowers for the school worship area

• made the biggest rosary ever!!!

• built and balanced sparkle bricks to make a castle for our fairy tale people

  and so much more…all in four days!!!!

Nursery sundries donation

Could everyone please ensure that your termly £10 sundries donation is paid for via Parent Pay and not with your nursery fees. Thank you for your cooperation.

Upcoming dates for your diary!

Silly hat and sock week week commencing 18th May. Come to nursery everyday wearing silly socks and a silly hat and pay £1 each day. All proceeds to Lymphoedema Support Network. Let’s make our charity event a huge success!

Half Term holidays. School closes Friday 22nd May until Monday 8th June

Sports day Wednesday 3rd June 9.15 am. All children to be in nursery no later than 9 am! If it is not your usual session please collect your child immediately afterwards. Please make sure your child is wearing shorts, t-shirt, trainers and has a water bottle and sun hat!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and I will see you all on Monday.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 14th May

Holy Communion

Please complete your books to the end now

Maths

Please go on ANTON app and complete the unit ‘Calculating unit fractions of Quantities.’

English

Complete Anton unit on ‘The Progressive tense’

.Spelling

Group 1 with sub and super as prefixes:

submarine subway submerge substandard

superhero supersize supervise supermarket

Group 2

any anything anyone friend for before going doing goes does

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 12th May

Spellings

This week we are focusing on words with mis, re or dis prefixes

1. mistaken
2. dishonest
3. misplaced
4. disapprove
5. reacted
6.redecorate
7. mistreated
8. recycle
9. disappointed
10. reassure

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Reading

Reading targets have been reset, please encourage your children to read at home daily for 15-20 mins. You can check children’s quizzing and progress towards targets on their AR Reader pages.

Our Lady HAS Got Talent

What a response we have had! I thought it would be good - but I did not think it would be this good and next time, we will definitely do a KS1 and a KS2 one separately. But for this one - it is one gigantic event.

There are 41 entries - and 60 children wanting to take part on Thursday 21st May at 6pm here in school. Given the amount of children wanting to join in - they are all in, I don’t have the heart to turn anyone away. The show should be finished around 8.30pm with a short interval.

Rules for the event:

• Each performance can be no longer than 3 minutes. Think about the music and song entries.

• All music used must be completely appropriate in terms of language.

• Think carefully about costumes/clothes - anything can be worn -as long as it is appropriate.

Look carefully at the entry list. If there is music that is to be added, please can you let me know so that I can add it to the list. Music will have to be sent to me, or if on Spotify, let me know which song and the time required. The children will be mixed up into a running order; programmes will be available on the night.

Tickets will be on sale next week. Due to the amount of children taking part, it will be 2 tickets per family initially, priced at £3 per ticket - we can then release more depending on space. These will be on Parent Pay.

Let’s see what the first talent show brings!

Year 1 Weekly Blog 1.5.26 - "Those who trust in God can do all things." - St Alphonsus Liguori

In this weeks Gospel we hear how Jesus prepared the Disciples for His departure and told them not to worry, but to trust in Jesus. We have been focused on this in our RE learning, the children have all been busy acting out Pentecost, showing great knowledge about what happened. We have also been learning about Holy days and what this means. The children loved sharing their own experiences and memories of their own holidays, before hearing about how other countries celebrate the special Holy Day which is Pentecost.

Going deeper in conversation

This week we have discussed the word, ‘Trust’. Can you remember what it means to trust someone? Who do you trust and why? Can you remember a time when someone trusted you?

Magic moments

This week had such fun in our PE lessons! The children love to challenge themselves! We have been developing our throwing skills, in particular our rolling and under arm throws. Enjoy the photographs of our indoor PE lesson this week!

Certificates

A huge well done to Sadie. You are a fantastic learner and concentrate so brilliantly during our lessons. When it comes to your independent tasks you get stuck in with such determination to do your best. Your hard effort really shows in your wonderful writing! You are a real joy!

A huge well done to Henry who has been awarded our Star virtue award for being Attentive and Discerning. You always go out of your way to help others in our class because you love helping people. You really value kindness and it fills me with joy watching your face light up after you have helped someone, or someone helps you in return. You have a heart of gold!

Reminders

Parent drop in: After school on Monday 11th May. We would like to welcome you into the classroom for a brief talk about phonic screening. To share some tips for ways you can support your child on the build up and during the half term holidays. I will also be providing you with some sound cards and different activity sheets to use at home.

PE days - This week only! Outdoor PE Monday. Indoor PE FRIDAY! Please bring shorts. Thank you

Please check Mrs Gregan’s blog - There is important information!

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 5 Weekly Blog 01.05.26- 'Mary shows us that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are most humble'

April has certainly flown by and by some miracle- We are in May! In RE, we have continued our work with learning about the apostles and their apostolic mission, in particularly ‘The Apostles Creed’. We have been analysing dogma by dogma to really understand the meaning of the statements and how that reflects with our Catholic beliefs.

Learning has continued to flow this week, particularly in Maths as we are flying through our fractions unit, with this week us looking at unit fractions of amounts. We have begun to plan our first discussion text write up by creating arguments and finding research about ‘Should all children learn how to swim?’

Children have continued to show their creativity in our gymnastics unit of balance movements with apparatus, by showing some excellent teamwork skills.

Conversation starters

RE- Can you remember what you chose for your badge for the Apostolic Mission, what would your parents choose to do in order to keep this mission?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. This week our star goes to Alana. You are just so discerning Alana, particularly when out on the playground. I always see you playing with different people, in order to make sure everyone is involved. You are always making sure your friends are okay and are helping resolve situations- rather than be at the center of them.

Learner of the Week for being a focused and enthusiastic learner goes to Louisa. Changing Maths/English places, along with base camp places, can make it difficult to focus with new learning partners and potential distractions. You have shown that this does not affect you and your level of focus remains the same throughout these changes. This has given you more confidence with your learning and you are seeing the results.

Notices

• Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

• Trip to the Grand 7th May- We will be seeing a live performance of ‘The Boy in the Back of the Class’ - a novel in which the children will be reading in Year 6. Payment is now live on parentpay. Children will be leaving school at 1pm and we will be picked up via a coach at 4:30pm. We will be back at school around 5pm. Please make sure your child has provisions for being picked up at this time.

• Trip to Lancaster Castle and Police Museum 14th May- Please go over to this blog to complete the lunch options and also to see for departures and arrivals.

• Swimming Gala Friday 22nd May- details are live on the sports blog of the school website for those children interested in taking part in the Lytham St Annes swimming gala.