This week...

Great news, our butterflies have emerged!! We found out that they are call Painted Lady butterflies. They are very beautiful.

We had to give them some sugary water to drink and pick some flowers for them to get the nectar from. The butterfly's primary source of food is nectar which it gets from plants and flowers

We also found out that Butterflies eat by extending the proboscis deep into a flower to sip nectar. Butterflies also use the proboscis to drink water and juice from rotting fruits.

Before we released the butterflies we managed to hold one on our hand, they felt so lovely. Take a look at our photos

One of our friends even made a butterfly picture using the peg boards. Well done!

Look out for the half term challenge sheets being sent home today….butterfly spotting! Good luck!

If you ten minutes spare click here to watch the The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

It may come as no surprise that hatching caterpillars and waiting for them to emerge as butterflies was fascinating. With that in mind we intend to repeat the cycle again after the holidays as well as expanding our investigative impulses by finding out about other insects and minibeasts. Maybe you could get ahead of the game and explore in your gardens to see what is living there. We’ve already started looking in the nursery garden!

Download the garden spotter sheet to help you out!

The children were excited to find deep at the back of the cupboard a big marble run game. It took us ages to fathom out how it fitted together, but we got there in the end. We have had endless fun experimenting how it works.

We have also been given the most fabulous road and train track, great fun!

Our passion for number is going from strength to strength and this week we had a new number puzzle arrive. We have made it over and over again. We LOVE number challenges!!!

Everyone had a good time playing a rhyming game with lots of fun objects (especially the snake in a box! Arghhh!)

…and now for our photos of the week!! They include balancing, block play, birthday celebrations, garden watering (our strawberries are amazing!), water play and mark making. Have you noticed how well the children are doing forming letters?

I must remind everyone that Sports’ Day will take place on Monday 14th June (Health and Happiness week). Unfortunately, owing to restrictions, we are unable to invite you to join us at this event but rest assured we will take loads of photographs to share with you. Please make sure that you send your child to nursery wearing shorts, t-shirt and trainers on that day. We have their special personally designed t shirts here. All the children are invited to take part, when I know the times I will text everyone!

It is IMPORTANT that before you wash your child’s Sports’ day shirt, you MUST press it for at least three minutes to seal in the colours.

Lastly, can I thank all of you for your wonderful support of nursery and your child’s learning. All the team are very proud of each and everyone’s journey this year, long may it continue. We hope that the sun shines on us over the holidays and you create some magical memories with your loved ones that will last forever.

See you all on Monday 7th June bright eyed and bushy tailed.

The Nursery Team

Year 3 Friday 14th May 2021 “Hard work always pays off, whatever you do” Dustin Lynch

It has been lovely to speak to you all about your wonderful children over the last few days. Thank you.

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The children have been very enthusiastic in their work this week. Maths has been all about reading different scales and measuring. In English this week we have been writing information leaflets all about the Romans. The children have certainly learned lots about the Romans and have worked hard to apply different grammar skills in their writing. Well done everyone. Neat handwriting has continued to be a focus and on Wednesday we celebrated our first Pen Licence - see our celebrations below. I’m sure that there will be more before half term. In RE, we have been thinking about how Jesus friends must have felt after his death and also about Jesus’ ascension into Heaven. More magnet work in science.

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Let’s Celebrate:

This week we celebrate Owen (again), Christian, Matilda and Evan who have achieved their 100% reading target this week. Well done children - keep up the good work!

We have celebrated our first pen licence this week and Matilda is now able to use a pen in her written work. Well done Matilda - keep up the lovely handwriting.

This week we have gone for a cheeky three certificates and we are celebrating Edi, Ruby-Lilly and Alex who receive our class certificates this week. Edi receives a Tommy Turtle certificate for always being such a brave learner and always eager to have a go. You always have your hand up to answer questions and you will always try again if you make a mistake. You have a great growth mindset. Keep up the good work Edi and keep believing that you can do it. Our second certificate goes to Alex, who also gets a Tommy Turtle certificate Well done Alex. You are being such a brave Tommy Turtle with your learning at the moment and you are being so enthusiastic too and having a go with a smile. We are so proud of you. Keep up the good work. Our third certificate goes to Ruby-Lilly. Well done Ruby-Lilly, you are such an enthusiastic Bobby Bee and you always bring a ray of sunshine into our classroom. You love to learn new things and always try hard with your work. You are also a lovely learning partner too and a great help in the classroom. Thank you.

We are also celebrating Edi who gets lunchtime Role Model of the week (Wow Edi what a fabulous week!) and Iris who get Jacqui’s Marvellous Manners. Well done to you both.

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Things to Note:

• Please check the Home Learning page for this week’s home learning. Thank you.

• Edi has misplaced his tracksuit top. Please can you have a look at home and return it to school if you have the wrong one. We have looked in school and haven’t located it. Many thanks.

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We hope that you all have a lovely weekend.

Take care and stay safe,

The Year 3 Team     

Miss Brisco, Miss Edmondson and Miss Woodrow

Contact us at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 3 Home Learning 14th May 2021

Please make sure that all homework is completed by next Thursday. Many thanks.

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Reading:

Read at home every day. Make sure that you quiz when you have completed a book.

(Parents: Don’t forget you can check on your child’s progress on Accelerated Reader -  this will let you know which books they have read and quizzed on and also their progress towards their reading target.)

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Maths:

TT Rockstars - please keep practising your tables facts. How fast can you get at these?

IXL—the units of measurement units S1 - S8

Play the Mostly Postie games  using the link below:

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/mostlyPostie/index.htm

Can you do some measuring of length, volume and mass? Draw some lines and then measure how long they are using cm and mm. Measure how much water in a jug. Weigh different objects on a weighing scale. Make sure that you read the scales carefully. Don’t forget to use the correct units of measure.

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Spellings:

Spellings—children have been given a spelling sheet to practise. Please make sure that these sheets are  completed using the look, say, cover, write, check method.

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This week....

Box monster came to nursery this week and scared our socks off! Instead of playing ‘What time is it Mr. Wolf?’ and ‘Trollie, Trollie can we cross your river?’ we changed the name of the games to Box Monster, Box Monster can we cross your river?’ and ‘What time is it Mr. Box Monster?’ We had such good fun!

We also had a special deliver of a dragon. It came complete with instructions on how to care for it, what it ate and if it was friendly or not! We hoped it didn’t breath fire and eat children and nursery ladies! The children decorated the box it arrived in to make sure he had a cosy bed to sleep in.

Have you noticed how good the children are becoming with their mastery of number. We are all very impressed. This week Clare played lots of tricky problem solving number games to try and catch the children out….but she couldn’t. We will have to challenge them even more!

The children have been practicing writing numbers. They were inspired after watching an episode of Numberblocks which explained how to write the numbers using simple rhymes. Click here to watch and have a go!

On Wednesday it was so sunny in the garden that we decided to have a building day. We got out the large bricks, small bricks and the waffle bricks. Everyone worked so very hard. We even found the game ‘Jenga’ to build and play, we were fantastic at choosing the correct brick to take out so that the tower wouldn’t collapse. Although it was fun to shout ‘Jenga’ when it fell down!

We have no news to report with regards to our butterflies yet. We have learnt a new word this week...metamorphosis. Click here to find out what it means.

However, we have been looking all over the garden for insects and mini beasts. We have found woodlice, moths, spiders earwigs and slugs. This is clearly going to have to be explored further after the half term break. Watch this space!

As you already know we are never still at nursery. We see every second as an opportunity to learn, explore, discover more about EVERYTHING! Here is collection of learning which is ongoing, has been triggered by the children’s curiosities and fascinations. As you can see we are all interested in different things so life at nursery is diverse and very exciting!

Finally, I would like to finish this weeks blog by sharing some joyous news with you all. Our lovely Sarah has had her baby! I’m sure you will join us in sending Sarah and Liam huge congratulations as they welcome Baby Jude. Everyone here are soooo excited and hope to meet him very soon. Both Sarah and baby are doing well.

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

The Nursery Team

Year 4 blog "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart." (St Paul, the apostle)

This week I have enjoyed so much sharing your children’s great success on returning to school after such a tumultuous time and yet making such amazing progress! It has been so nice to put faces to names - I feel like I have finally met you all properly, albeit towards the end of the year! If you feel there was anything you needed to ask and didn’t, please feel free to email me and I will do my best to help.

This week in RE, children learned all about Saul and his conversion to St. Paul. This story gave them such a good opportunity to talk about how they have changed and grown this year in so many marvellous ways as individuals and as a whole class team! There is a real atmosphere of love for their work - like he quote above.

Children written with great love of words and enthusiasm this week - character descriptions of the Goddess of the Emerald Lake and Razvani the Fire-Fiend, from our novel. I had to include some below as they are really special and showcase many of the year 4 skills mastered this year, used effectively to impact the reader.

In maths this week we have done all sorts! Doubling, halving, reading various scales, solving lots of number problems using all of our methods… Next we will move on to understanding shape, angles and symmetry.

We have also had a super time learning about weathering and erosion of rocks in Science. We shook different types of rocks for 400 seconds and then observed which had eroded to decide on the rock type which erodes the easiest. Children had a lot of fun shaking!

Let’s Celebrate!

A beautiful, creative worship about the Holy Spirit was led this week by Esme, Kiefer and James. It had a lot of nice touches, such as a minutes silence to talk to God at the end. Well thought out you three!

This week it is Sadie Spider Certificates for facing all the challenges I have set with determination and grit! This week 3 certificates have been awarded to Hollie-Rose, Julia and Saul for persisting at challenges and being determined to succeed. I am very, very proud of you!

Music stars this week were Kiefer and Max.

PE stars this week were India and Kiefer.

Marvellous manners certificate from the lunchtime team went to Hollie-Rose and Thomas.

Notices

Next week on Friday the winning house team will be able to come in their house colours or own clothes. I will let you know the winning team by Wednesday evening.

Please could I ask that all Holy Communion slips be in early next week - we have most of them.

Let’s go for it with the reading targets this weekend- one more week!!