Year 1 Weekly Blog 17.3.23

‘There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they will take you’

Beatrix Potter

It has been lovely to come back to school this week and find out everything the children have been up to whilst I have been away. I really missed them and it was nice to hear about how excited they were when they knew I was coming back. A big thank you to Miss Lavelle, Miss Johnson, Mrs Carragher, Mrs Davis and Miss Forster who have been very busy helping the children with their work.

We have had such a busy week again with lots going on. It was great to chat to some of our parents at parents evening and share how much progress everyone is making and how hard they are working and how proud we are of them.

This week we have been practising our assembly, I have been very impressed with them, they have remembered their lines, songs and worked hard. We are very excited to share our hard work with you on Tuesday.

English: we have continued our wonderful work on Beatrix Potter, we read Peter Rabbit and hot seated him, the children loved thinking of questions to ask him.

Maths: We have continued looking at wholes and parts in maths and represented them by using a part-part-whole cherry diagram. We manipulated 6 multilink from whole to parts, to find all the different ways we could make 6 with two parts. We even drew our own cherry diagrams!

Music: We used the xylophones to play the name song, we had so much fun, we love our music lessons.

We loved our trip to the library, we met Stefan and he read Pirate Pete’s Talk like a Pirate, Miss Forster, Mrs Davis, Mrs Carragher and I had our own lines! Unfortunately the children decided we had to walk the plank, they thought this was hilarious. They had some brilliant pirate voices so we decided they could stay on the ship :). Although a few children wanted to walk the plank so they did at home time. We also had time to listen to the Snail and the Whale. The children were a credit to the school and so well behaved we have been invited back to the library. I am sending home a slip for you to fill in and attaching a copy on the blog for you to complete so your child can have their own library card. So next time we go they can choose a book to take home. If you already have a library card you can bring it in to school.

I have attached two versions, a PDF and word document, you can only open the word document on a computer or laptop.

D&T: the children loved their design and technology lesson today, Miss Neves has sent home an envelope for the children to do at home, cut out the person and attach the arms with the split pins enjoy.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our certificate holders this week:

Lizzie Ladybird for working hard in Maths and listening well on the carpet.

Sadie Spider for being focused during our practise and using lovely expression when speaking.

Well done to these two children, Henry went home with this person last week for a super week in school, he is thinking about how he can make good choices and this is being demonstrated in class.

Henry is going home with this person this week, for a brilliant week! I have been really impressed with your independent work and your organisation during our assembly practise you know your lines and when you need to be on the stage and have been supportive to your friends.

Reading Challenge:

I have been blown away with all of the children’s enthusiasm with their reading, it is lovely to see their excitement and they regularly update me with where they are up to on their chart.

I can’t believe we already have bronze certificate awardees well done .

Lenten Promise:

As a class we voted to have a craft day at school this will be on Friday 31st March, we will be making a range of crafts and Easter cards for the residents at Stella Matutina and the parishioners. To help raise money for CAFOD we are going to sell tickets for you to come and see our exhitbition in school. I will let you know the date of the exhibtion ASAP.

Cake Sale:

On Monday Year 6 are having a cake sale for their Lenten promise to help raise money for CAFOD, All cakes will be sold for 50p. If your child would like to buy a cake please bring money in. Thank you.

Easter Egg Competition

The school council have decided that they would like to have an Easter Egg Competition, to raise money for CAFOD. Decorate a boiled egg in any way you would like, it is £1 to enter the competiton, eggs need to be in by Wednesday 5th April.

Reminders:

• Don’t forget it’s the second parents evening on Wednesday 22nd March.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Please can you ensure that your children do not bring any valuables into school as they can easily go missing.

  
  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 10.3.23

What another busy week! The children have worked very hard and have adapted well to the changes this week. I am looking forward to coming back next week, I have missed them :).

In science we were looking for signs of Spring, however we have had very strange weather this week as it normally snows in Winter not Spring! Look at Mrs Gregan’s newsletter to see the video of the children playing in the snow today during break, they had so much fun. We learnt about deciduous and evergreen trees and discovered our class tree is a deciduous tree because it loses it leaves in Autumn and Winter. We drew and labelled our own trees in our books.

Newsletter Blog

English: We researched Beatrix Potter in groups, using the iPads and we had to read some information about her. We then used this information to make a fact file about her. We are starting to read her the tale of Peter Rabbit books and are excited to retell and rewrite them.

Maths: We have continued looking at wholes and parts in maths and represented them by using a part-part-whole cherry diagram. We have manipulated different objects from whole to parts, to help the children recognise that the whole and the two parts are the same quantity.

The children loved the origami workshop on Wednesday.

Trip to the Library:

On Thursday 16th March, we are going to visit St Annes library, we are very excited. We will be walking there so please ensure your children comes into school with a suitable coat.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to Patrick for being focused in Phonics and Blythe for her enthusiasm with her reading. Keep up the hard work.

Assembly:

Unfortunately due myself being ill this week, we have postponed our assembly to Tuesday 21st March. There will be two showings of the assembly: 9.10am and 9.35am. This gives myself and the children chance to enjoy putting it together and takes the pressure off. We will be practising next week and are excited to be performing to everyone again :). Thank you for your understanding.

Reminders:

• Please book your parents evening slots, if you haven’t already (online) Wednesday 15th March and Wednesday 22rd March, from 2.00pm-5.30pm - book here

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Please can you ensure that your children do not bring any valuables into school as they can easily go missing.

  
  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 3.3.23

It was lovely to see so many grown ups on Wednesday for our book look, the children loved looking through their books and felt proud to share their hard work with you.

On Monday we discovered a red door in our classroom, we made predictions about what we thought might be behind the door. Over the week we found out it was the red door from the book: The Journey by Aaron Becker. The whole school has had this book to use in English this week.

We looked at the first page and discussed what we coud see and how we thought the little girl (we named her Rose) was feeling.We created our own worlds behind our own red doors and wrote what our world was called, who we would bring and what we would take with us. I was very impressed with the children’s indepedent writing. We then worked in groups we each had a different picture, wrote what we could see and thought of our own sentence for the picture to create our own story.

We loved sharing our stories with the Year 5 children yesterday afternoon, everyones outfits were amazing! We also enjoyed some world book day activities too!

We had some very tricky challenges in Maths, we all had a piece of paper and we had to cut it in 4 parts with 1 part being bigger than the other 3. We had a few misconceptions as some of us were counting as we cut but forgot about the other part in our hand so we ended up with 5 or more parts, but with lots of practise we got there.

We have also been looking at a whole group using egg boxes and other objects, we had to say if it was whole or not whole. We were all very good at this even when I filled the containers with different objects and used different colours, we could see it was whole because there were no spaces. ‘This is a whole group of…. because I have all of them none of them are missing’

In RHE we discussed some good secrets and bad secrets and helped Susie, we decided on things that we could keep to ourselves such as a surprise birthday card and things we should tell an adult such as another child taking our snack and saying that we shouldn’t tell anyone. We were all

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees for being very creative thinking of lots of different actions for our poem and song, and for your enthusiasm with your reading, you have read lots this week and have ben excitied to change your books.

Henry is going home with this person for a brilliant week at school.

Well done to our PE superstars for excellent teamwork :).

Assembly:

On Tuesday 14th March it is our class assembly at 9:10, we will be practsing next week and are excited to be performing to everyone again :).

Reminders:

• Please book your parents evening slots, there is more information on Mrs Gregan’s newsletter.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Please can you ensure that your children do not bring any valuables into school as they can easily go missing.

  
  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 24.2.23

First of all I would like to say a huge thank for those who came to our Phonics stay and play, the children loved showing you around the classroom and they enjoyed playing all the different phonics activites with you. I understand it can be difficult to leave work during the day so if you would like more information or have any questions please send me an email.

I have uploaded the PowerPoint and all the activities in the help your child at home area. Click underneath to go straight there.

Help your child – Year 1

In Maths we have been looking at different ways to make 6 and wholes and parts, the children had playdough and had to listen to my specific instructions:

• cut your playdough so you have two parts that are different sizes.

• cut your playdough so you have two parts that are about the same size.

• how can you cut your playdough to give you the biggest possible part? what do you notice? we found out we had one large part and one small part.

• if we put our playdough together will it be whole? We combined the parts to make a whole.

• I then asked a challenge question can you cut your playdough so one part is bigger than the whole? We realised that this was impossible!

On Wednesday Father Peter came to school for our Ash Wednesday Mass, we also exchanged out Lenten boxes with Year 5. The boxes looked amazing it was lovely how you had thought about your partners likes and created a box specially for them.

In Science we have started looking at seeds and plants, we found out about the different fruit and vegetables that can be grown in our gardens. We tasted apples and pears, cut an apple in half and drew it. Our observational drawings were brilliant, we talked about all the details and the colours we needed to use.We were inspired and wanted to know if we could grow an apple tree from the apple seeds, so we researched it. We found out you can but it takes years! You have to first germinate the seeds by putting them in a tub with damp paper towels then leave them in the fridge for three weeks. So we thought we would conduct an experiment to see what would happen to our seeds.

We went on a flower hunt outside and all took our own photos on the iPad of the flowers we found, there were crocuses, daffodils, daisies and snowdrops.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees for great improvement with her reading and super listening this week and for working hard in RWI you always join in and stay focused.

Henry is going home with this person for her brilliant artwork and fantastic sentences :).

Well done to our PE superstars for excellent teamwork :).

It was lovely to go the Lytham Heritage Centre to view our amazing artwork and see two of our children recieve their highly commended awards. Well done :)

Important Dates:

Year 1 Coffee Afternoon and Book Look

On Wednesday 1st March at 2:20-3:20 you are invited to come into school to have a look at your children’s books, they will pick their books and work that they are proud of and want to share with you.

Assembly:

On Tuesday 14th March it is our class assembly at 9:10, we will be practsing next week and are excited to be performing to everyone again :).

Reminders:

• Please book your parents evening slots, there is more information on Mrs Gregan’s newsletter.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Please can you ensure that your children do not bring any valuables into school as they can easily go missing.

  
  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 10.2.23

We love our music lessons with Miss Lavelle, on Monday we had to keep to the beat to the sparkle song, we made our own orchestra and had to take it in turns to play our instruments.

On Tuesday it was Online Safety Day we had a lovely day filled with lots of different activities. We made our own online safety posters, listen to the story of Hanni and the Magic window and created our own windows and learnt this online safety song to help us remember how to stay safe online.

On Wednesday we went to church to see Father Peter and learn about Baptisms and look at the features of a church. We asked him some questions and found out lots of information. We enjoyed our Baptism of baby Elizabeth, we even had parents and God parents to help with the ceremony. We celebrated her being welcomed into God’s family by having a party today, she even had her own cake! It was lovely to see and discuss our own Baptisms, thank you for completing the homework.

We loved looking at our amazing display in the worship area and finding all of our work, we felt proud to see it displayed for the whole school to see.

We orally retold and wrote the story of Where the Wild Things Are in English. We are looking forward to our next topic Peter Rabbit after half term.

 Today we went into Year 5 to meet our Lenten box buddy’s, your child will have a slip of paper with their buddy’s name and their interests to help you with your decorations. I am excited to see your Lenten Boxes, please bring these in during the first week back to school.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees for super sentence writing in English and for using lots of expression when reading in phonics.

Henry is going home with this person for a super week well done :).

Well done to Sasha who has won the highly commended prize for her ‘The Beach’ artwork, I am looking forward to seeing you recieve your prize at the Lytham Heritage Centre.

Phonics Stay and Play

We are delighted to invite grown ups to our Phonics stay and play. These will take place on Tuesday 21st February and Thursday 23rd February at 9:15-10:15.

Please click on the link below to find your date.

Reminders:

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

  
  
  Have a lovely half term

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 3.2.23

On Tuesday it was Mental Health Day we had a lovely day filled with lots of different activities.

We discussed the importance of looking after our minds and bodies, by finding out how we can stay healthy and we helped Rodd learn about getting enough sleep if we don’t, we can become forgetful and it can affect our mood.

 First we drew something that made us happy, something we were good at and something we enjoyed. Then we loved our yoga session with Little Yogis. We read Ruby’s worries and created our own, thinking about things that made us feel worried and what we can do to help us feel better.

 We thought of things we were grateful for, said what had gone well for us on Tuesday. Went on a mindfulness walk around the playground with a partner, where we had a chat and discussed our surroundings. We made collage rainbows to remind us to stay calm and take a deep breath, drew our happy place, created and coloured in our own colour monster, made feeling faces with playdough and on the computers, listened to music, danced before lunch. Worked together to pass a spoon with water on to each other and finally at home time listened to ‘be the pond’ the fish are our feelings if we remember to be the pond and not the fish they can swim away. The children were told their secret friend, they made sure they were extra kind and we guessed who they were today.

 The second group finally went on our Geography school trip, we had to look for human and physical features around St Annes, and they were brilliant. We even enjoyed a few games on the beach before coming back to school.

We have been busy in Maths and English continuing our more than, equal to and less than symbols and we started to look at what whole meant ready for next week. We have also started to partition numbers up to 7 practically and writing our answers down in a part part whole model. We made up our own actions to retell ‘Where the Wild things are’ and wrote the begining of the story. We also started to mark and edit our own work! Focusing on full stops, finger spaces and capital letters, we did this in pairs and decided if we had met the objectives and what our next steps would be when we finish our story next week.

We loved sharing our Purple Mash homework in class and have enjoyed our computing lessons, please practise logging on and off independently as much as possible so we can spend more time on our lesson and learn new skills.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees for super sentence writing in English and for remembering their chatty friends in phonics.

Henry is going home with this person for a super week well done :).

Reminders:

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Don’t forget Mrs Gregan’s online safety competition, look on the homework blog for more information.

  
  
  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 27.1.23

We have started our computing topic this week, please can you practise to log on and off at home and complete the homework I have set on purple mash. This will ensure we can teach the skills and have more time to complete the activities. Look at our amazing ginger bread men pictures we have created.

To help us think of some adjectives for our writing we went outside and pretended we were in the deep dark woods. Every time the tambourine rang we froze then someone would tell me what they could see, hear or feel. This gave us lots of great ideas and was reflected in our writing.

We have continued looking at the less than, equal to and more than symbols in Maths and we are all working hard on this. We have subitised the numbers 5–9 and represented them on a rekenrek and identified different ways of seeing parts within a whole. Using the stem sentence_____ is the whole; _____ is a part and _____ is a part and _____ can split into _____ and _____ ; _____ and _____ combine to make _____ . I was very impressed!

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees for super sentence writing in English and self assessing their work and using a purple pencil to fix it.

Henry is going home with this person for a super week well done :).

Reminders:

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework, It is really important that you are reading reguarly at home so your child can make good progress with their reading especially as they will have their Phonics screening in June.

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• School Trip, our second half of the children will be going on their Geography school trip on Friday 3rd Feburary. Please wear school uniform and make sure you bring appropriate clothes and shoes for our walk to the beach.

  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 20.1.23

We have had another super science week, this week! We continued discussing different materials and their properties and groups some objects together by their properties. Then the Three Little Pigs left us a letter asking for our help! They needed to go to the shops but it was raining so we decided they needed an umbrella. We had to test different materials to see which would be the most suitable then we designed an umbrella for them. To make it a fair test we used a pipette to drop 6 drops of water on each material to see what would happen. The plastic bag was the most suitable because it is waterproof and strong. We have started our Winter Weather Chart and discussed signs of Winter and observed our class tree we discovered our tree is a deciduous tree because it loses its leaves.

We created our own Monster and made a poster in English writing descriptive sentences. We started to look at the book Where the Wild Things are, before we started reading we looked at one page and thought of different questions we could ask. We learnt a new saying to help us remember to use capital letters, finger spaces, stay on the line and use a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark. Ask your child to show you.

We have continued looking at the less than, equal to and more than symbols in Maths and we are all working hard on this. We discovered that you can make even numbers with two even numbers or two odd numbers, but to make a odd number they could only be made with one even number and one odd number!

In RE we discussed the special occasion of Mary and Joseph taking Jesus to the temple as a baby and we learnt about Simeon and how he knew that this baby was God’s special gift to everyone. We acted out the story. We have also been thinking about how we can show the Light of Jesus’ Love in our class and why Jesus is the Light of the World.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to Ruth for being such a good role model in class and Patrick for supporting his partner during RWI by using his story voice and encouraging his partner to do the same.

We all learnt a gymnastics routine, we walked to the mat, did a pencil roll, then a star jump and caterpillar walked back. These PE superstars worked well with their partners and listened to the instructions well done.

Henry is going home with this person for working hard on their reading they have not given up even when they have found it challenging, well done.

Reminders:

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework, It is really important that you are reading reguarly at home so your child can make good progress with their reading especially as they will have their Phonics screening in June.

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• School Trip, our second half of the children will be going on their Geography school trip on Friday 3rd Feburary.

  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 13.1.22

We had a super science week, this week! On Tuesday we started by reading and acting out the Three Little Pigs. Then we had the challenge of making our own houses in groups, each table had a different material: straws, paper, hay, lolly sticks and bricks. We predicted that the bricks would be the most suitable for the house because they are ‘strong and can stand up on each other’. We thought that they hay would be the most difficult because it is hard to stand up. After we made our houses the big bad wolf tried to blow them down and we helped too! The bricks were very strong, but they hay group managed to compact their hay and put lots of tape around it, although at the start they found it very difficult to stand up. We thought that if they hay went outside it would blow everywhere.

Then we went on a material hunt to find objects made from: glass, metal, wood and plastic, we discussed their properties and used the labels to help us decide.

In English we have started writing our sentences independently, Miss Drummond was very impressed. We are applying our phonics knowledge and remembering how to spell our tricky words. We answered questions about Owl or Snake and started to make our wanted poster for the Gruffalo.

We have started to look at the more than, equal to and less than symbols practically making two towers and using our lolly sticks to make the symbols. We have continued comparing different amounts and looking at the number 9. Ask your child if they can tell you all the different ways to make 9.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our certificate awardees for foucing on their letter formations and not giving up when they find it difficult and for super writing in English.

We had five PE superstars today, we focused on our bear walk and crab walk, all the children worked really hard with their partners, well done.

Henry is going home with this person for working hard on their reading they have not given up even when they have found it challenging, well done.

Reminders:

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework, It is really important that you are reading reguarly at home so your child can make good progress with their reading especially as they will have their Phonics screening in June.

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Medical cream/lip balm: some children have been sharing lip barm at playtime and lunchtime, so lots of germs are being spread around the class. Please remind your child that their lipbarm is only for them and they are considered medical in school. So they need to hand them in to me and they can applied when needed. They can either stay in school or be handed back at the end of the day.

  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 6.1.22

What a great start to the week, although we have only been in for three days we have been very busy.

In Maths we have looked at how to make 7 in different ways.

Our English topic is monsters, we read the Gruffalo and retold the story outside. We then had some special visitors in Class and we asked them lots of questions.

We disscussed that there are lots of different families, and talked about our own in RE, we drew our families who live with us and our other families members.

We had a lovely Mass service today. The three Kings arrived to see baby Jesus with their gifts and Logan was one of the kings he was amazing he had the special job of giving his gift to baby Jesus.

Let’s Celebrate:

Henry is going home with this person for super handwriting well done :).

Reminders:

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework, It is really important that you are reading reguarly at home so your child can make good progress with their reading especially as they will have their Phonics screening in June.

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond and Miss Johnson

Year 1 Weekly Blog 20.19.22 Wishing you a Merry Christmas

It was our Christmas party on Monday, we had so much fun, everyone looked lovely in their party clothes.

Today we made chocolate tiffin together, its a special treat from myself, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson.

Here is the reciepe:

• 175g shortbread

• 75g glace cherries

• 100g milk chocolate

• 100g dark chocolate

• 100g butter

• 2TBSP syrup

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to Eliza and our ‘Bobby Bee’ for working very hard during our nativity and for their super dances.

Henry is going home with this person for a super week at school well done.

Have a lovely Christmas Break :), thank you for all the wonderful presents.

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Year 1 Weekly Blog 16.12.22

I am so proud of how hard the children have worked for our Nativity, they were amazing! and a huge thank you to Miss Liddell for teaching the children all the brilliant dances. This was mine and Miss Liddell’s first time organising a Nativity so it was extra special for us.

This week in Geography we looked at our addresses and wrote our address on a blank envelope. In RE we finished writing the Christmas story and made each other a Christmas card look out for the post they should arrive soon.

In Maths we have continued looking at number lines and counted different objects by placing counters on top of them, then moving them to a ten frame to see how many there were.

Let’s Celebrate:

Our certificate awardees will be announced on Tuesday :).

Henry is going home with this person for a super week at school well done.

Reminders:

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for the Christmas homework.

• It is our Christmas party and christmas lunch on Monday, please come in party clothes.

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Year 1 Weekly Blog 9.12.22

It was a lovely start to the week as we watched the Reception and Nursery Nativity, it was brilliant! We have been practising all week so we are ready for our performances on Tuesday and Wednesday we are excited to show you how hard we have been working on it.

In Maths we have continued counting to 10 in different ways. Starting at a specific point and spotting mistakes, I counted some animals Infront of the class, I said there were 7 but there were 8! I forgot to count the big teddy bear. The children helped me each time to ensure I counted all the animals.

On Wednesday we went to Christmas Mass at church, we paired up with the Year 5s it was lovely to hear lots of different conversations between the children. We sat beautifully and prayed for our loved ones and thought about how important it is to be kind to each other. In RE we have been discussing the Christmas story.

We have loved reading the book Dangerous, we have retold the story both orally using our story maps and written it down in our English books. We even remember to say when we needed a full stop of exclamation mark!

Before we went on our school trip we learnt about human and physical features and worked in groups to identify them. We enjoyed our Geography school trip to St Annes Beach we filled in our sheets to identify human and physical geographical features along the way. The rest of the children are excited to go next Thursday. Children will not need to bring anything extra with them for the visit and should come to school in their normal uniform. If you do not already have wellies in school please can your bring in a pair or bring in suitable footwear such as trainers or walking boots, as we will be going on the beach. Please ensure your child has a warm coat as we will be outside for the whole trip

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our certificate awardees:

Cooper Crab you have been very focused this week especially in Maths.

Sadie Spider You have worked hard in your Read Write Inc sessions and not given up.

Henry is going home with this person for her super singing in our Nativity you know all the lyrics and always sing with a loud clear voice, well done 😊

 Reminders:

Christmas Dinner - Monday 19th December

Staff will join the children in this festive feast!

We need to know the precise numbers for Jacqui, our wonderful chef!

Could you PLEASE take a few seconds to complete the form on today’s newsletter blog on the school website.

The meal is free for all Key Stage 1 children and for all those children on free school meals.  

Key Stage 2 children NOT on free school meals pay £2.40 - this should be paid in advance on ParentPay.

Please complete the form FOR EVERY CHILD in school, both Key Stages, whether it is a yes for a meal or a no - that would really help us!

Do please ensure you have completed the form by Monday Morning, 9am.

Thank you so much – The Office and Catering Teams

• Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for this weeks homework.

• Our Nativity performance at school will be on Tuesday 13th December and Wednesday 14th December at 9:30am.

• If you haven't already please bring in an addressed envelope with a stamp. For our topic we will be making Christmas cards for another child in our class.

Scarlet Fever and Group Strep A Infections - Guidance

Dear all,

There is growing concern amongst the community regarding iGas/Scarlet Fever, we have placed here the guidance school has received to share with you. Thank you for always communicating with us illnesses and absences. This is so important as it helps us to build a picture of the whole community and from this we are able to take any action should it be required.

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Year 1 Weekly Blog 2.12.22

This week we have continued our Science topic, looking at the structures of a variety of common animals and discussing the similarities and differences. We have also grouped these animals into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

 In RE we have been discussing Advent, we know it is a time when we prepare to celebrate the birthday of Jesus. We created our own advent wreath and discussed that the circle of evergreen branches is a reminder that God does not change. A new candle is lit each Sunday during Advent until all four candles are burning. Each candle has a different meaning. The final white candle is lit on Christmas day to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Each Monday we are lighting our candle to show the passing of time and our closeness to Jesus’ Birthday.

 We have also discussed the journey Mary and Joseph took to Bethlehem and that the shepherds were the first to hear about the birth of Jesus. We interviewed the shepherds. Year 1 asked them lots of curious questions such as: 

How did you feel when you saw the angels? “We felt shocked and surprised.”

What did the angels tell you to do? “The angels told us to go and find baby Jesus.”

How did you get to the stable? “We followed the star in the sky.”

What was it like when you saw baby Jesus? “It was wonderful and exciting!”

When you left the stable, what did you do? “We told everyone the good news.”

 We have enjoyed lots of practical Maths this week investigating the number 10. We also finished off our measuring unit by asking some challenging questions such as can you find me something that weighs more than a glue stick but less than the scissors? Which is longer three rubbers of two pairs of scissors?

 On Thursday when we arrived to school, we discovered an advent calandar and some wrapped presents. Each day two children will get to open the advent door for a treat and to find out what our advent promise will be for the evening or the next day. It may be something like saying hello to everyone or helping out at home. Ask your child if they can remember what the advent promise is for the day? We found out that the presents are Christmas books and we are excited to find out what book it will be each day and listen to a story before we go home.

 Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our certificate awardees:

Lizzie Ladybird you have been a determined learner in our handwriting sessions, practising your letter formations and taking your time when writing.

Sadie Spider You have worked hard in your Read Write Inc sessions and listening well during carpet input.

Henry is going home with this person for working hard in Maths counting to 10 well done :).

Show and Tell:

From next week if your child has something exciting to share with the class such as a recent certificate or medals. They can bring them in to share with the class on Fridays. We are looking forward to hearing your exciting news.

School trip 

On Friday 9th December and Thursday 15th December we will be walking to St Annes beach for our Geography topic to identify human and physical geographical features along the way. The class will be going in two groups of 15 children. The rest of the class will be in school with Miss Lavelle. The class will be leaving school on foot at 9:10 am and will return on foot to school at around 11.30am.

 Children will not need to bring anything extra with them for the visit and should come to school in their normal uniform. If you do not already have wellies in school please can your bring in a pair or bring in suitable footwear such as trainers or walking boots, as we will be going on the beach. Please ensure your child has a warm coat as we will be outside for the whole trip.

 Reminders:

• Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for this weeks homework.

• Our Nativity performance at school will be on Tuesday 13th December and Wednesday 14th December at 9:30am.

• If you haven't already please bring in an addressed envelope with a stamp. For our topic we will be making Christmas cards for another child in our class.

• On Friday 9th December we can come into school in Christmas colours or a Christmas jumper or decorateyour clothes for Christmas you can choose. In return please can you bring in at least £1 so that through CAFOD, we can buy animals for people in need.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Year 1 Weekly Blog 25.11.22

This week we continued with our science activities focusing on animals, we have identified and classified them into: mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish and birds.

 In RE we learnt about Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth. As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary, her baby leaped with joy. Elizabeth said that Mary and her baby were very blessed by God. We reflected on the good news and drew a picture of Mary and Elizabeth and explained what had happened.

 We have continued measuring in Maths, we love all the practical activities and when we were weighing we discovered that sometimes the biggest object isn’t always the heaviest. We have also been focusing on the number 8, ask your child how many different ways they can make 8? Or if I have… how many more do I need to make 8? Practise the stem sentence 8 is made of ….. and …./…. and …. make 8.

Today we had a whole class art lesson together, we create our own winter trees, don’t they look amazing :).

 KidSafe

 We had our fifth KidSafe session this week about what to do if your trusted adults are arguing and how this can make us feel. We also recapped the last four sessions and the children evaluated their understanding of this important learning.

Please click the button below to find out more details about this session.

Show and Tell:

From next week if your child has something exciting to share with the class such as a certificate or medals. They can bring them in to share with the class on Fridays. We are looking forward to hearing your exciting news.

 Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our certificate awardees for excellent work in Phonics especially for her super neat handwriting and using this knowledge to help support her spellings.

This week you have reflected on yourself and your learning and have not giving up even when you have found things challenging.

Henry is going home with this person for always being a fantastic role model to our class, you always work hard listen and support your friends well done.

Our Pe superstars are:

 Reminders:

• Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

• Please check the home learning section for this weeks homework.

• Our Nativty performance at school will be on Tuesday 13th December and Wednesday 14th December at 9:30.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Year 1 Weekly Blog 18.11.22

This week we have been busy with lots of different science activities. We have: discussed signs of Autumn, have started a daily weather chart, used our senses on our Autumn walk, tasted crisps, labelled our body parts and even investigated if you are the oldest in the class you will also be the tallest, as you get taller as you age. We discovered that just because you are older, it does not mean you are taller. We all grow at different rates and because we are all unique, we are all different height. This also linked with our RHE lesson about our bodies. We have also picked our class tree to observe through all of the seaons.

In Maths we have been comparing objects and saying if they are longer or shorter, we have loved all the practical activities and comparing a range of objects.

Staurt Robinson

We loved Wednesday, we were inspired by gold medallist wheelchair rugby champion Stuart Robinson. We supported Year 2 and loved cheering and waving our flags to encourage them to keep going with the activities. We were very resilient and kept going even when we found it difficult and were hot and tired. Reception and Nursery then came in to support us while we completed our challenges.  After the whole school came together for an assembly, where Stuart told us his amazing story of his determination and bravery. We all agree that anything is possible is you put your mind to it and do not give up! Please can you bring in sponsor forms and money in on Monday, thank you :).

 We had our fourth KidSafe lesson this week. We discussed the importance of keeping our bodies safe and what to do if we have those yukky feelings. Please read the letter below to find out more.

We loved our PE session today we started our Gymnastic unit, we walked tall like gymnasts and performed a simple routine, four steps, a pencil roll, caterpillar walk and a jump. Miss Liddell and I were very impressed with the children’s routines.

Curriculum Evening

 Thank you for those who joined us at our Curriculum evening, it was wonderful to see everyone enjoying all the different activities.

Thank you for everyone who brought a £1 in for Brian House, we have enjoyed wearing our Pyjamas and loved listening to a story with our teddies.

Let’s Celebrate

 Well done to our awardees: for super sentence writing and applying their phonics knowldge to support them.

Henry is going home with this person because they have has a super week at school, listened well during carpet input and tried their best.

This week I have started PE Superstars, these are awarded to children for working hard in their PE lessons. I will pick two children from each group, well done to these children for super routines and not giving up!

Reminders: 

• Sponsorship forms - Monday

• Art project – Thank you for those who have already brought in lots of cereal boxes. Mrs Neves, our art teacher, is running an art project and needs your rubbish! She has asked if over the next week or so, Year 1 could bring in any empty cereal boxes, they have planned what they will be making next week. I am excited to see their final products.

• Please check the home learning section for this week’s homework.

 Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Drummond, Miss LIddell and Miss Johnson

Year 1 Weekly Blog 'Lest we Forget'

What a great start to the week, with our class assembly, all the children were brilliant. They were clear when saying their lines, didn’t need any reminders to come on the stage and sang beautifully. I am so proud of all the children, they all worked incredibly hard well done!

In Maths we have been busy leaning about odd and even numbers up to 10, we discovered that even numbers all have a pair and odd numbers have an odd one by itself. Ask your child if they can tell you about how they know a number is odd or even. We also compared objects using measurement, we set up different stations for the children to measure practically. We measured height, weight, length and distance.

We read the book Dangerous by Tim Warnes in English and learnt about nouns and adjectives. We used nouns to label things inside and outside our classroom. We all wrote adjectives for our main characters, we will use these next week to write sentences about Mole and Crocodile.

We have loved our Geography lessons this week, we discovered we live in the continent Europe, we found the UK on a world map and learnt about each country. What can you remember?

This morning, we gathered as a class to share a Remembrance Day prayer. We remembered those who have fallen in war and conflict and said prayers for all those who need our help around the world. We watched ‘Poppies’ and drew our own poppy fields. The children had a choice of using crayons, water pencils or oil pastels to create their artwork.

We had our third KidSafe lesson this week, where we learned all about how to keep ourselves safe when using technology. Please read the letter below to find out more.

Curriculum Evening

On Thursday 17th November at 6pm, we will be welcoming both parents and children into school for a Curriculum Evening where there will be a variety of interactive stations around school for you to engage with. These activities will share information regarding aspects of our curriculum, our school’s virtues and Read Write Inc Phonics.

This will be a wonderful evening and an exciting opportunity for you to learn more about our schools curriculum and how we can work together to support your child throughout their learning journey. We are really looking forward to coming together as a whole school community once again to share how we promote that love of learning in the children.

We hope you can make it!

Celebrations:

Well done to our Tommy Turtles for excellent Maths work this week.

Well done to all of Year 1 for an amazing assembly.

Henry is going home with this person for excellent concentration and focus this week.

Keep it up :)

Important Notices & Polite Reminder

• On Friday 18th November we are having a pyjama day to raise money for Brian House who support children in need in our local area. Children can come to school in pyjama’s and trainers and we kindly ask that they bring a £1 donation which will be given to Brian House.

• As explained in a previous message sent out by the school, Stuart Robinson will now be joining us in school on the morning of Wednesday 16th November for our sport session.

• Reading Books - Polite reminder that reading packets and books must be brought to school each day so we can read with the children in school. Thank you for your support with reading at home, it is really important that they have regular opportunities to read and build on these skills.

• Art project - Mrs Neves, our art teacher, is running an art project and needs your rubbish! She has asked if over the next week or so, Year 1 could bring in any empty cereal boxes/cereal bar boxes All will be revealed to the children in their next art session! Again, thank you in advance!

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Year 1 Weekly Blog 4.11.22

Welcome back, what a busy week we have had, we have been practising our class assembly every day. We are excited for you to watch us on Tuesday. I have been very impressed with the children learning their lines, and they have been working hard on making sure their voices are loud and clear, they have been brilliant!

As it was All Saints Day on Tuesday, we have been inspired by the Saints, we learnt about a different Saint each day: Saint Clare, Saint Pio, Saint Frances, Saint Martin and Saint Therese. We attended Mass on Tuesday to celebrate all the Saints . The children sat and sang beautifully and it was lovely to hear positive comments from other members of the church about our children.

The children are enjoying their phonics sessions and are making good progress, keep reading lots at home and please remember to bring reading folders in every day.

Today we discussed Fireworks and Bonfire Night and how we can all stay safe, we were excited to have Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 together. We enjoyed our creative activities and we learnt a poem!

Firework Fun! from Our Lady Star of the Sea on Vimeo.

In Art we learnt about Andy Goldsworthy and how he uses the environment to create his own art work. We went outside and created some wonderful art using resources we found outside.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to these children for super listening during our assembly practise, they know their lines, when to come on the stage and have supported the children around them.

Have a lovely weekend with Henry :).

 Reminders:

• Our Class Assembly is on Tuesday 8th November at 9:10 for KS2 and 9:35 for EYFS and KS1, you can stay for both performances if you would like. Please continue to practise lines and songs.

• On Friday 11th November, we will be visited in school by Stuart Robinson. Stuart is a gold medal-winning Paralympian, who represented GB in the recent Olympic games in wheelchair rugby.
  Stuart’s visit is part of an event for Sports for Schools. This is an opportunity for the children to take part in a sporting event organised by Stuart, and to then hear about his story as part of an assembly. He will be with us all afternoon. This event is also an opportunity to raise money for our school - for PE, Sport and Active Learning.
  The children have all brought a sponsor form home for them to collect as many sponsors as they can before the event next Friday. Please can all children come in their tracksuits on this day - Friday 11th November.

• On Thursday 17th November at 6pm, we will be welcoming both parents and children into school for Curriculum Evening. We’ve been unable to hold the event for the last couple of years due to Covid, so we are looking forward to comingtogether as a whole school community once again to share how we promote that love of learning in our children. More information will be given about the evening.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson