Year Three Weekly Blog 04.09.26

What a wonderful and wholesome start to the new school year! The children have come back so eager to learn new things, embrace all of the new challenges coming their way and continue to keep blossoming into the lovely young people they are! I feel incredibly lucky to be their teacher and cannot wait to see what this year brings.

We have begun our year by talking through our new routines and what is expected of us now we are in the juniors. As a team in Year 3, we have taken on some new and exciting responsibilities, which I know the children will take very seriously and be wonderful with! Some have chosen to be a part of the ‘cloakroom crew’ whereas others have chosen to embrace roles such as the ‘Equipment Experts’ or ‘House Point Chiefs’. Alongside this, we have also looked closely at some of the really meaningful messages, such as kindness, in one of my favourite books - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. The children have all discussed what characteristics they would like to work on in Year 3 and we shared this together as a class.

GOING DEEPER IN CONVERSATION…

During our RE lesson today, we have revisited and remembered the Creation Story from Genesis. We thought carefully about the different stages of creation and discussed the Christian belief that God created the world and everything in it. The children worked together to recall the story and explored some of the key messages within it, including the importance of caring for our wonderful world. They shared thoughtful ideas about how we can show gratitude for creation and discussed ways we can look after the environment and the people and animals around us. It was lovely to see the children building on their previous learning, asking thoughtful questions and making connections between the Creation Story and their own lives. A wonderful opportunity to reflect on the world around us and our responsibility to care for it!

The children then made links between the Creation Story and the message of Pope Francis in Laudato Si’. Pope Francis reminds us that our world is a precious gift from God and that we all have a responsibility to care for our “common home”. He encourages us to think about how our everyday choices can help protect the Earth and look after the people, animals and natural world around us.

At Our Lady’s, caring for our common home is something we are working so hard on as a school family. We want our children to understand that caring for creation is not just something we talk about in RE, but something we can live out every day through our choices, our actions and the way we care for one another and the world around us.

LET’S CELEBRATE

As agreed, through our school council, our learning awards will no longer be handed out in our celebration assemblies on a Friday afternoon. We now have little versions of these certificates for learning, which can be given whenever we spot some amazing learning in class. Keep an eye out for these - many will be coming your way!

The Virtue Star remains and will be awarded next week during the Friday afternoon assembly. We are trying our very best to be Loving and Compassionate.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

Please complete the following consent form for the year ahead. This gives your permission for various things, such as school trips, usage of technology and photographs to be put on the website. In addition, if your child has a medical condition such as asthma or an allergy that we need to know about, then please complete the medical form below. Thank you for those who have already completed.

Year 3 Permission form 202627
IF YOUR CHILD HAS A MEDICAL CONDITION

Please also note, our first PE lesson back will be on Monday 7th September. On Tuesday 8th September, I will also be sending home the homework books for this school year! The children have been given the very creative and exciting task of decorating their homework books! We can’t wait to see the finished designs! If possible, please can I ask that you decorate around the printed label already stuck on the front cover - thank you! The homework books will be due back in on Monday 14th September.

Lastly, I’d just like to say the biggest thank you to you all for being so supportive and welcoming me so kindly into the Our Lady’s school family. If you ever need to contact me directly or wish to ask me a question, my school email address is:

e.brookes@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend with your little ones and I’ll look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Miss Brookes & Mrs Austin

Year 3 2026-2027

I hope that you are all having a wonderful summer holiday. The weather has certainly helped; I cannot remember a summer quite like it.

I just wanted to update you all on two things ready for the children coming back in a couple of weeks.

You will be aware that Miss Drummond was unwell last year and has been absent from school since Easter. Whilst she has been recovering at home in this period, she has informed us that she is not well enough to return to school for the start of the academic year in September and will require some additional time off. We continue to send her our best wishes and our prayers - hoping that she will be back with us soon.

When a key member of the staff team is off, especially as we head into a new academic year, my absolute priority is getting someone in place to ensure that the children feel settled and welcomed as they start their new year group. Having a familiar teacher in place is absolutely essential. I am delighted that Miss Brookes will be joining us and taking charge of Year 3 in Miss Drummond’s absence. The children know Miss Brookes incredibly well as she taught them in the final term of Year 2 as she completed her teaching qualification. She can literally hit the ground running with them; she is so very excited and has done a wonderful job of getting the classroom ready. Miss Brookes is the perfect teacher for this role and we are very lucky to welcome her to our class team. All of the teachers will be writing a welcome blog in the coming weeks so I will let Miss Brookes take over then. I know you will all support her and welcome her formally to Our Ladys.

Secondly, you will be aware of the closure of St Annes Swimming Pool, which now appears to be closed for some time. Year 3 is our school swimming year and St Annes is the swimming pool that we use; infact, all of the schools in our cluster use it. As a team of Headteachers, we have been trying to problem-solve what we can do to ensure that our children keep swimming as the information from Fylde came to us quite late. We are currently in the process of working with Palatine Swimming Pool in Blackpool to see if they have a slot in which they can accommodate us; which we think they do. This is just taking some time to organise the logisitcs. As soon as we have a plan, we will let you know when the children will be swimming. The curriculum requirement is that all children should be able to swim 25m by the end of primary school; we want to do that as soon as possible, given where we live. If your child does not have swimming lessons, I wuld urge you to get them swimming as soon as possible then as soon as we have a school swimming plan, it will help the children further.

I am really looking forward to welcoming the children back in September. Enjoy the last few weeks of your Summer!

Mrs Gregan

Year 3 Weekly Blog Friday 21st May

We have had a lovely final week of the half term. It’s been cram packed with fun, smiles and the sunshine even made an appearance half way through the week just in time for our forest takeover session.

In RE we made beautiful bunting asking for Mary to keep our friends and loved ones in prayer, interceding just as she did with Jesuses disciples at Pentecost.

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