Year 6 Home Learning 25.09.25

Homework should be completed and brought back to school for the following Wednesday

Read- Read as much as you can this week- let’s get quizzing and get to target by half term! Three people have made it already!

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! Please complete the maths sheets in your books.

Spelling - will be practiced throughout the week and the children will be quizzed on the Thursday. Please complete the spellings in your book and really focus on the rules that it is asking you to complete.

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 24th September


Spellings

This week we have been focusing on the suffix ‘ly’.


1. gently
2. greatly
3. merrily
4.lazily
5.actually
6.importantly
7.wrinkly
8.sleepily
9.easily
10. horribly

Reading
The children are making great progress towards their reading targets, please continue reading at home. Please remember to send your child’s reading book back into school daily - a few children have been without their books this week.

Autumn 1 Optional homework





Year 1 Homework to be handed in Monday 29th September

Thank you for the wonderful homework last week. It was lovely to look at all the different decorations/ photographs, it really made me smile!

This week you will find two sheets to complete: one spelling sheet and one handwriting sheet. Alongside this you have your reading books.

You will notice below that I have added some extra challenges relating to each task. This is by no means a MUST, it is simply there as an extra option.

Extra challenge: Could you write a sentence about your book?

Extra challenge: Could you put one of these words (or more!) into a sentence? Could you make these words out of playdough?

Extra challenge: How many swirls and circles can you put inside the sheep?

Year 5 Homework due Thursday 25th September

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Everyone has now completed their star reader assessment and has been to the library to choose a book. Lots and lots of reading to help achieve our class word goal and to also help bring your writing skills alive!

Times Tables

Lots of TTRS practice to keep being super speedy- a large majority of the Year 5 Maths curriculum is based on solid times tables knowledge so keep practicing- even if you have already gone green!

Spellings

The children have a spelling sheet to complete which is based on this weeks spellings. The children should be familiar with how to complete this as we have practiced this in our spelling lesson.

Vocabulary check- Our tricky Year 5 spellings are the final 5 spellings on our test. Use a dictionary to find the definitions of these words and write them in your homework book.

  1. shout

  2. three

  3. chew

  4. bicycle

  5. medicine

  6. question

  7. potatoes

  8. children

  9. heroes

  10. people

  11. amateur

  12. communicate

  13. familiar

  14. physical

  15. twelfth

Optional Homework

History- Houses of Parliament

Write a letter to your local MP, Andrew Snowden (representing Fylde) about some changes that you wish to take place in your area. This can be anything to do with:

  • Education

  • Eco-environment

  • Road safety

    Or anything that you feel passionate about that you would like to raise with a member of parliament.

Year 6 Weekly Blog 19.09.25 - "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

This week’s liturgy and reflection has been focused around the word ‘stewardship’. On Wednesday, through the Wednesday Word, we first heard this week’s gospel, Luke 16:1-13, where we hear the parable of the dishonest steward who serves a lesson in using worldly resourceswith shrewdness but more importantly it teaches us an important lesson that one cannot serveboth God and money. We then reflected further in our liturgy on Thursday, looking at how our choice shoudl always be God over anything and serve him faithfully, by being stewards and not being wasteful. We reflected on how we can serve others in our roles around school and how we can put others before ourselves.

Thank you to the following children who led us in a beautiful liturgy earlier this week. The children led us through deep prayer and reflection…

 

Collaboration is key - especially in Year 6! This week we have collaborated and shared in every lesson - this has helped us to learn from each other. We have collaborated in our PE playing games of cricket, in our practicing of the assembly and most importantly getting to grips with our new roles around school . Alongside this, we are striving to be learned and wise, learning about the world around us and using what we have learnt to make changes where needed. Here is a snapshot over the last couple of weeks …

This whole notion of collaboration will stand us in good stead as we move forward as a class. Earlier this week they each received their positions of responsibility and what a great start to the year they have made! They came back to school on Tuesday ready and raring to go and they have worked together beautifully, what a team they make. It was so wonderful to see how they each celebrated one another! You will see this in full force on Tuesday 23rd September 9am for our class assembly. Please make sure they are practicing their lines and song for next week- thank you.

Message from Mrs Gregan

Whenever we start a new school year, we always have to migrate pupils and staff into their new class. This year, the technology that we use to do that has not been as successful for the teachers as it has been for the pupils. As a result, we have lost access to the Parental Consent forms that so many of you filled in prior to Induction Night. These have been deleted as groups have changed. Please can you spend another 5 minutes completing the consent form again this weekend. We are really confident with the information that we gathered before the forms disappeared, we just want to double check and make sure all information gathered is 100% correct. There was still some outstanding forms to be completed too. We are really sorry for the inconvenience and really appreciate you spending a little bit more time to ensure everything is as it should be. 



This week, we have done our second kidsafe lesson. This week it was all about the nature of bullying. We learned the acronym STOP Several Times on Purpose. We thought about how bullying can make us feel and what to do about it. Please read the following letter to find out more information:

Delving deeper through talk …

How are you going to serve others as part of your role and responsibility around school?

Helpers in the mornings:

This week we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Louis Hugo Rose Isioma
 

Leading Learners

Well done to Daisy this week.

Daisy- Enthusiastic Bobby Bee- Daisy you are always fully engaged in every lesson and you approach all tasks, no matter how difficult with a smile and positive attitude, trying your absolute best and taking great pride in the presentation of your work. We love how you deeply care about your learning and will do everything you can to do your absolute best. Thank you for always being there to lend a helping hand to any in your class, nothing is ever too much trouble!

Learning and Wise Stars

This half term we will be on the look-out for all the children that are learned in their actions, finding God in all things. Those who are wise, who use their learning for the common good. These children are the role models of the school, who drive their own learning and who have the wisdom to know when and how to apply one’s learning. This week we thank Finley for working for the common good of our classroom this week.

Reminders

Reminders

  • Please complete and return St Bede’s and Castelrigg medical form on Monday.

  • Biekability (7th and 14th November): please complete the form online whether your child would like to complete this certficate or not. Please also state whether they have a bike or not- if your child does not have a bike then they can provide one for the day. Deadline is 25th September.

  • Check the sports page on the website through Engage.

  • It is our class assembly on Tuesday 23rd September at 9am.

  • please encourage children to complete homework on time and handed in on Wednesdays- it is great preparation for High School

    Have a lovely weekend with your family.

    Mrs Harrison, Mrs Barker and Mrs Tierney


Year 5 Weekly Blog 19.09.25- 'Demorcacy is not guaranteed. Every generation should preserve it, defend it and fight for it'

It has certainly been a week to remember this week in Year 5. One of the most talked about trips in school took place as we all spent the day in London at the Houses of Parliament! Our day started super early with us arriving at school at 6:45am with everyone on time! We then got the coach down to Preston station and caught the train to London Euston.

It was then the mad rush of the day as we made our way down to the underground and hopped on the tube to Charring Cross. From here, we took a lovely walk up Whitehall, passing famous statues along the way and also 10 Downing Street. This took us up to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. We were then taken on our tour of the Houses of Parliament in which we got to visit both the Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords. Unfortunately, we were not allowed any photography in any of the houses. We then ended our visit with a school style workshop with activities based on what they had learnt on their tour.

After the Houses of Parliament, we had lunch in the Victoria Gardens outside of the Houses which had a lovely view right by the river Thames. We then talk a lovely walk up to ST James Park, where the children had some relaxing time to play. Our last bit of sightseeing was to Buckingham Palace where we saw that the King was in as the flag above was flying high, along with visits from lots of world news stations report the arrival of President Trump.

The children were full of energy and enthusiasm throughout the whole day (even on the coach journey back to school). I can not have asked for more in terms of the children’s focus, responsibility and respectfulness towards the people they interacted with. Here is to many more fantastic trips this year!

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

What starts with e

Ends with e

but only has one letter in it?



Question of the Week- conversation starter

What was your favourite part of our London trip?

What did you learn on the trip that you found interesting and has stuck in your memory?




Let’s Celebrate

Our certificate and star winners this week are…

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Emilia. You have been an absolute delight to have in Year 5 Emilia. Your love and kindness towards everyone you interact with is just a joy to see. You apply this into your lessons when working with your learning partner and it allows you to get so much learning from these tasks. Excellent work!

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Alice for being a focused and curious learner. You have blown me away Alice with how focused you are during lessons, you limit your distractions and you are always sat up correctly and tracking the teacher, an excellent ambassador for our STAR expectations. You carry this level of detail into your book presentation and creative writing which has been a joy to read and mark. Keep it up!


Message from Mrs Gregan

Whenever we start a new school year, we always have to migrate pupils and staff into their new class. This year, the technology that we use to do that has not been as successful for the teachers as it has been for the pupils. As a result, we have lost access to the Parental Consent forms that so many of you filled in prior to Induction Night. These have been deleted as groups have changed. Please can you spend another 5 minutes completing the consent form again this weekend. We are really confident with the information that we gathered before the forms disappeared, we just want to double check and make sure all information gathered is 100% correct. There was still some outstanding forms to be completed too. We are really sorry for the inconvenience and really appreciate you spending a little bit more time to ensure everything is as it should be.

These are available on last weeks blog. If there are any more technical issues then please let me know.


Notices

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



  • Forest School- Those children attending forest school, a letter has gone home this week. We will be having our whole class forest school day on 3rd October. Those children attending weekly forest school sessions, you will be sent a text the night before as a reminder.

    Here are a few reminders for any child attending forest school:

    • Those wanting to climb the climbing tree, this cannot be done in wellies. You will have to bring a pair of trainers with you.

    • Children need to get changed for forest school at lunchtime because sessions are to start at 12:50pm which is also the end of lunchtime break.



  • Sports Timetable- A full timetable for all of the sports opportunities this half term is available on the sports page of the school website [engage-sport] along with sports fixtures for this half term.



Sporting Fixtures for Autumn Term

Training is underway and after meeting with PE leads from across the cluster last week, the fixtures are ready to go. This year we are operating slightly differently and having mini tournaments instead of a running league. We have been put into a tri-fixture with other schools near us. We will be playing Heyhouses and St Thomas’s meaning two fixtures on one night, instead of consecutive weeks. This will then be repeated in the Spring term. All of the dates for the fixtures are below. Each tri-festival will be played at Heyhouses - please get the children there as soon as you can after school. The event will finish around 5:15pm.

Teams will be published on Monday so that arrangements can be made for the following weeks.

There is also additional football tournaments this term, which you can see below. We ask for parents support with transporting the children to these events. They are well ahead of time, so pop them in your diaries now.

You will also see that there will be a Year 4 Football Festival. We are really trying to broaden our offer in the cluster. This will be after half term. More details about training etc will be released nearer the time.

This week...

A bit of a soggy and windy week but we have not been deterred from our learning and finding out. We have been sorting socks (and hanging them up) shoes and buttons. It was really tricky because we had to sort them according to size shape and colour… guess what we were fabulous!! We have been working hard to recognise some shapes and their properties, we know that circle have no corners, triangles only have three sides, rectangles have two long sides and two short sides and four corners! Squares have four side which are all the same length…we even recognised a five sided shape and a six sided shape, wow! Listen to the shape song here.

Worship

This week in Worship we have continued our Creation and Covenant topic with ‘God Made Me’. Our key words were LOVE, SPECIAL and FAMILY.

We took a trip to our forest school area to explore our senses. We had a look in the pond to see our reflection, closed our eyes to see what we could hear and also thought about what we could smell. Our bodies are wonderful!

We revisited our story of creation which ended with God making wonderful us! We painted pictures of all the things that God made in our wonderful world to join our self-portraits for our displays in the classroom – we can’t wait for you to see them!

Here is a link to a song all about the things that God made. Click here.

We are so thankful for all that God has given us. Click here to listen to a story about God’s Wonderful Earth.

This week we kept our promise to Mrs. Tierney, Mr. Cornwell and Mrs. Nel and delivered their hand made with love crosses that we made with Justine from the willow growing in nursery garden, they loved them and they are now hanging in their classrooms. Mrs. Gregan wants us to make one for the hall as they are so beautiful!

Meet One

This week we met One. In the episode a little block falls from the sky, meets her numberling, one, and discovers one wonderful world of numerous single things that appear during the song, e.g. one sun, one smile. One also sings about being first in line and being lonely. Click here to watch.

Counting to 1

Saying ‘one’ when there is one thing to be counted

Concept of ‘oneness’

One is a single unit. If one is the quantity then what is being counted is arbitrary, and the size of the one is also arbitrary. e.g. one sun or one ant- there is one of each even though the sun is bigger than the ant. One is represented as a Numberblock, as a finger, familiar things, as a spoken word, as a movement (one hop), as a numeral. Related words for oneness, e.g. first and alone.

We have also been practicing write the numerals 0 and 1. Watch out for the sheet coming home with all the rhymes to help your child write numerals.

0 - round in a loop like an empty hoop

1- one line down like a stick makes a 1 that was quick!

Good luck!

Parent Meetings

This half term Parent Meetings will be held on the 9th October and the 16th October from 3.45pm -5.30 pm.

It is a great opportunity for you to meet up with myself and your child’s key person and have a chat. We therefore ask that you do not bring your child along with you unless absolutely necessary. Time slots will be in 15 minute intervals. The appointment time sheet will be available from next week. We look forward to catching up with you.

Our Body

Over the next few weeks we will be finding out about our body. We have got our skeleton out of the cupboard and looked at all the bones that are hiding inside our body. We have even chalked pictures of our skeleton, take a look. Here’s a short video to watch at home, click here.

Finally, we have learnt a new sound this week ‘s’ AND we have been learning how to write it - ‘slither down the snake’. Have a go at home and don’t forget to use duck fingers to hold your pencil.

Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you on Monday, hopefully for a sunny week.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning 18.09.25

Homework should be completed and brought back to school for the following Wednesday

ASSEMBLY PRACTICE:

Please learn your lines off by heart for the assembly next Tuesday. Could you also make sure that you learn the song given out last week to the tune of twinkle twinkle. We have an additional song to practice and learn- please watch the you tube clip and try to do it without using the words:

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! Please complete the following long multiplications in your homework book- setting it out as we have been doing in class.

Spelling - will be practiced throughout the week and the children will be quizzed on the Thursday. Please complete the spellings in your book and really focus on the rules that it is asking you to complete.

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 17th September


Spellings

This weeks spelling are irregular past tense verbs. In addition to the look, cover, write and check activity, the children will need to fill in the table changing present tense verbs to past tense verbs. It can help to say the word in a sentence out loud in the present tense, then in the past eg. Today I will sing. > Yesterday I sang.


1. broke
2. found
3. told
4.held
5.heard
6.thought
7.bit
8.blew
9.came
10. ate

Reading
Please continue reading at home each evening. I have reminded the children that taking their book home each day is their responsibility, so hopefully they will be coming home regularly.
The children have started making their way up the reading target wall and some children have already claimed a prize out of the prize box for achieving five 100% scores in their reading quizzes.

Autumn 1 Optional homework





Trip to London Thursday 18th September 2025

On Thursday, we will be going to London to visit the Houses of Parliament in line with our British values within our national curriculum and also linking to our Ancient Greece topic in History.

Here are the key times for arrivals and departures for the day:

6:45am- arrive at school.

7:00am- Coach departs from Our Lady’s to Preston train station.

8:00am- Train departs from Preston station to London Euston.

4:30pm- Train departs from London Euston to Preston train station

6:40pm- Coach departs from Preston train station back to Our Lady’s

7:15pm- Coach arrives back at Our Ladys

If you were to miss the 7:00am coach departure, school will ring you and liase for you to meet us at Preston train station for the 8am train departure.

Children are to arrive in their PE hoody’s with joggers/leggings. Children are to wear their white school polo shirt underneath their hoody. Children will need to bring a coat as there is a chance of rain on the day. The temperature is still quite warm so a thin lightweight but waterproof jacket is recommended.

Children will need to bring 2 packed lunches for their lunch and dinner for the day as we will not be stopping anywhere to buy any food- therefore no money is required on the day to be brought in. Lots of healthy snacks are recommended, along with lots of water, as there will be plenty of times throughout the day to snack but no chocolate, sweets or fizzy drinks are to be brought in- water only

No electronic devices are to be brought on the trip

Children are allowed to bring small items to comfort and entertain them whilst they are on the train such as:

  • reading book

  • deck of cards/card games

  • small notepad and pencils

  • mini transportable games

  • small teddy bear

Whatever item the child is bringing, it needs to fit in their bag as they cannot carry any items around in their hands throughout the day.

If your child suffers from travel sickness, travel bands are recommended to be worn to help aid your child. If there travel sickness is more severe, then any medication used on long travels needs to be brought in on the day in a sealed bag with your child’s name on with timings of when the medication is usually taken.

According to Transport for London, National Rail and Avanti West Coast, there are no planned train/tube strikes for any of the lines and stations that we are attending on the day of travel.

If you have any questions in regards to the trip, then please email me at c.cornwell@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk