Year 4 blog. "There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude - a quiet joy."

There has been so much to be thankful for this week! On Wednesday the children took part in their sports day. Wow - they gave it their absolute all! Our wonderful Year 6 helpers timed each event, to see which house won. Although it was sad not to hear parents cheering and supporting, you will be happy to know that the children did it for you! Children were even cheering for the other teams and cheered Year 3 on when watching their sprint event! Here are some pictures and there will be a video on the main blog page. It was lovely gathering as a whole school (socially distanced) to find out the results. It has been such a long time since we have all been together!

Other highlights this week include continuing our work on Road safety in RHE, where we learned about how to keep safe in a car and on a bike. We stressed the importance of wearing a helmet. We also practised our Green Cross Code. We have started our new topic in RE which is all about the church. We took apart the Apostles Creed to establish what catholics believe. We will be going over with the children, what to do at Holy Communion, next week. We also witnessed a lovely worship, lead by Abi, Harriet and Mason about worries.

In maths, children have been learning all about symmetry this week. In English, children have been busy writing their Viking non-fiction books. They are fantastic! We have also started our class novel, “The Snow-Walker’s Son’ which has some very spooky characters in it! Today, we learned about the nine realms that the Vikings believed in and next week, we will be delving into our Viking myths, to see what trouble all those Viking gods and goddesses got into, before writing our own stories.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week there were three certificate winners! We have two Roger Robins who really did stand out in their level of support to others and their good cheer when their team didn’t win. Well done Jess and James!

India has received a Kiki Chameleon/Sadie Spider certificate for putting so much effort and thought into her work. Well done all of you!

PE stars this week go to the whole class - you were all so superb in sports day! I was very proud of you!

Music stars this week were Olivia and Christian and James was our French star!

Notices

Today, the boys have come home with their ties for Holy Communion. Please keep them in a safe place ready for next week or following week.

Below is the information regarding protocols for Holy Communion - there should also be a letter in your child’s bag. Some children have also come home with bidding prayers to practise. They do not need to know them off by heart - a copy will be on the altar to read.

Year 4 will be having a Viking dress-up day on Thursday 8th July. Children can dress up as Viking warriors, gods, goddesses or any other character from the Viking world such as giants/giantesses. I will give you more ideas nearer the time. Children are loving this topic and even play it at breaktime!

Have a lovely weekend everyone. God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Forster

Year 3 Home Learning Friday 18th June 2021

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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Holy Communion Prep:

Please complete up to p23—41 in the “Called to His Supper” workbook

Think about what you want to say when you make your first Reconciliation next Wednesday. Revisit p34 -37 of your Making Things Right book to prepare for Wednesday.

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Maths:

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

IXL—please complete any multiplication and division units that have not been completed during the year.

Year 3 Friday 18th June 2021 Don’t practice till you get it right, practice till you can’t get it wrong. – McKayla Maroney

It was wonderful celebrating sports day this week. The children were super and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Working together as a team to earn points that we were then able to add to whole school total was wonderful and the children really tried to work together. Plessington were the winners for our class, followed by Marsden, Harcourt and then Bamber. When our points were added to the whole school total, the overall winner was Plessington followed by Harcourt, Marsden and then Bamber. It was sad that we could not invite you to celebrate with us but we hope that you enjoy the photos, in the little video below showing how much the children enjoyed themselves.

This week, we have continued to explore our poem of the Spider and the Fly and this is proving really popular and exciting. We have had great fun reciting the poem and using different voices for both the spider and the fly. Connor Sean and Tabby, you were absolute stars! Well done also to Charlie who enjoyed doing this so much he went home and performed for his family. We really loved the little video of you reciting it that you sent via email.  Thank you. In Maths we have revisited our addition and subtraction facts thinking about number bonds and strategies. We have continued to think about being a Christian in our RE and what Christians do to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. In Science the children have continued to learn about magnets and how they can be used as compasses.

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Let’s Celebrate:

This week we celebrate Franek, Max, Connor Sean,  Lily-Mae, Leo and Evan who have all reached their 100% reading target this week. Well done children, I have reset your targets and I know that you are all going to keep on trying so that you can get there again.

We have also celebrated another pen licence this week—well done to Iris. She is now able to use a pen in her written work. Well done - keep up the lovely handwriting.

This week we our certificates have been awarded to Harvey and Evan.                

Harvey receives an Enthusiastic Bobby Bee certificate for his enthusiasm and smiley face this week. You are trying really hard with your work at the moment Harvey and really bubbling with your enthusiasm and willingness to try new things and get involved with your learning. You are also showing how sensible and supportive you can be too. Well done Harvey.  Evan received our other certificate, a Resilient Sadie Spider. Evan you are always so brave and resilient and eager to find ways to do things that are tricky. You never give up and you just love a challenge. You amaze us all—well done!

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 Things to Note:

• Father Peter has arranged to come into school and celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation with the children next Wednesday—June 23rd. Please chat to your child about this and encourage them to think about what they are going to say. We will be talking about this in school too. Hopefully the children will be able to celebrate their First Holy Communion at the beginning of the Autumn Term. Please read the letter which has come home today and return the form to school by Monday. Many thanks.

• PE on Fridays is going to be outdoor PE this term so please make sure that the children have trainers and their PE kit. Many thanks. (Monday and Tuesday outdoor PE lessons will continue as normal.)

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

Sports' Day Special!

As promised last week here is your Sports’ Day Extravaganza!

I know many of you were disappointed not yo have been able to attend our sporting event of the year but we have taken a huge amount of photos for you to get a ‘feel’ of the day. The children were very excited to be assigned a school ‘House colour’ to compete for.

We had:-

Red- Plessington

Blue- Harcourt

Yellow-Bamber

Everyone was super competitive, each team really wanted to win the cup!

Mrs. Greghan was our compere for the afternoon, the flags were up and we competed to the best sporting music from yesteryear! The scene was set!

Click on the button below to see all the vents we took part in!

Here comes the photos!

Didn’t we have fun! I do hope you manage to get a feel of what was a truly fantastic day. The children all loved joining the main school. In fact they are still talking about it! It was so much more exciting than the Euros!

You will be pleased to know that Miss. Lavelle (the Reception teacher), is as we speak compiling a video of all the Key Stage events from throughout the week (including Nursery). When it is complete I will post it for you all to watch!

Finally, I can announce the overall winner of the whole weeks events….it is Plessington. Well done Plessington!

It remains for me to say to you all, have a lovely, restful weekend. Perhaps you could do a mini Sports’ Day at home? Send me some photos!

The Nursery Team

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 16th June 2021

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Next week we will be starting our local history unit of work on Blackpool, but what do you know about the history of Blackpool? How did it become the seaside resort that it is today? How did the iconic landmarks get built and when did they get built?

I have set you a To Do on Purple Mash for you to record your findings. Don’t forget to use images to support your research. Think about the detail needed and how you will present your work.

This website will get you started on your research.

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Have you finished all of your Purple Mash and IXL strands from this week? Make sure that you are up to date and ready to start learning for next week.

Reception Home Learning 11.6.21

Country Research

This morning, we have done a Reception sweepstake ahead of the Euro 2020 Tournament starting this evening. We had lots of drum rolls and excitement as we each picked a team. I have asked the class to research the country they have chosen and write down one fact and draw a picture with a label.

They could think about flags, location, geography, food, the possibilities are endless!

We will add these facts to out wall chart display next week. Please send the facts in via reading folders by Wednesday (16th).

As always please let the children write as independently as possible using the sounds they know. Some words might look strange to me and you but they will be phonetically correct!

Fundamental Movement Skills

Our sports day will take place on Monday afternoon, we have been practicing all week. Over the weekend the children could sharpen up their rolling a ball technique ahead of Monday’s fun!

Thank you and have fun,

Miss Lavelle

We are happy to be back together again!

Welcome back! I trust everyone has had a restful break?

We have all hit the ground running this week, blessed with the glorious sunshine.

This half term we will be exploring and investigating the mini beast world. Have a quick look at our plans.

We began our investigation by watching a short video all about ‘What is a mini beast. Click here to watch. We decided that we already knew quite a lot! Everyone thought it would be a good idea to make a display using mini beats resources and factual books. These would help us to learn lots of new facts.

We then took the viewing tubs and magnifying glasses and went on a bug hunt in the garden.

As the weather was so warm we got distracted and hot so we all went paddling to cool down. Wow, that was such good fun, even though we did get very wet!!

To mirror our new learning of ‘lots of water’ Clare suggested painting shells so we could make an under water mermaid lagoon. Fabulous!

You can never have too much water play! Look at our fantastic water machine we made! The children worked so hard to join pieces of tubes and guttering together to direct the flow of water. Once more very wet, but great fun!

The children were very excited when we had a delivery of linking blocks to help with our number work. There are soooo many! We measured each other, made shapes and one friend counted the bricks to 33 all by themselves!

As has become a regular feature here are all the other activities and learning that has taken place at nursery this week. We made a sand café, mark making and picture making (a firm favourite), big building with soft shapes. physical activity practicing for Sports Day and then just having a jolly good time with our friends. I hope you enjoy looking at them.

Two final things to share with you.

Next Monday afternoon is Sports Day 1.30 -3.15 pm. All the children are invited to take part but I am sure you will understand that owing to Covid parents will not be able to attend. Don’t worry, we will take lots of photos. If it is not your usual session, please make sure that your child is in nursery no later than 1.15 pm and then collected promptly at 3.15 pm. Could all children please wear shorts, t-shirt, trainers and lots of sun cream!

Lastly, I would like to say a BIG welcome to Hannah who has joined the nursery team this week. She has been a huge hit with all the children, I’m certain your child will have told you all about her. Hannah will be working in nursery on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and all day Wednesday. When you see her say hello and introduce yourself.

Have a lovely weekend, I hear the weather is going to be fantastic! Fire up the BBQ!

The Nursery Team