Year 4 Important notices 21st March

School trip Rocks Tuesday 29th March

Please could all children bring a packed lunch in a strong plastic bag and wear their tracksuits on this day.

If you wish Jackie to make them a packed lunch please inform me by email by Tuesday (tomorrow)

Class Assembly

All being well, our class assembly is on Wednesday 6th April at 9:10 am. There will be two allocated spaces per family so that we can spread out and keep up distancing rules.

"Let your roots grow down into Him and let your lives be built on Him."

This week Year 1 had a surprise visit; I wonder if you can guess who it was…
He has two floppy ears, a twitchy nose and a new blue jacket with beautiful brass buttons. That’s right, it was Peter Rabbit!
He was very mischievous and squeezed under the gate of our outdoor classroom but he didn’t come for carrots and radishes, instead, he left some clues which led us to the words he had hidden outside!

Being the enthusiastic Bobby Bee’s that they are, Year 1 used these words to write some super sentences. The were so focused and had so many fantastic ideas they just couldn’t stop writing! They were so proud of their work and can’t wait for grown ups to see it during our book visit next week.

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What have we been learning this week?

In Maths we have been exploring measurements and had great fun measuring different objects around the classroom using both standard and non-standard units of measure. We wrote comparative sentences to compare the objects we had measured and noticed that the language we uses changed depending on if we were describing the height or the length.

In Science we have begun our new ‘plants’ topic and started with a hunt around our school to see what different plants we could find. Then we looked closely at different types of plants and thought about the similarities, differences and how we can describe them.

In RE we listened to the story of Jesus travelling to Jerusalem. We thought about what we would do if someone special came to our school and how we would make them feel welcome. We talked about the story together and discussed what Jesus’s followers did to make him feel welcome.

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Hip-Hip-Hooray!

Certificates:

Enthusiastic Bobby Bee’s: Congratulations Year 1!

This week it was too difficult for Mrs Hartley and Miss Liddell to choose just two children to receive the certificates. We were blown away by how focused Year 1 were during their English lesson on Thursday, everyone produced a fantastic piece of writing; they were so focused and wrote with great enthusiasm and determination. Therefore, we decided that the whole class deserve the certificate this week and have displayed it proudly in our classroom!

Huge congratulations Year 1, we cannot wait to see what you achieve next!

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Walk for Hunger

Year 1 continue to be so determined in their mission to support Walk for Hunger and have not let the rainy weather dampen their space walks! We have had some wonderful class discussions about how we can show our gratitude for the things that we have and what we can do to help others.

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Notices

• A polite reminder that on Friday 25th March you are invited to come into school to look at the children’s learning in their books. If you would like to come in, please book this through the ‘Response to Learning Invitation’ button which can be found on Miss Hornby’s blog from last week.

• As always, if you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to email me s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

  Have a wonderful weekend,

Mrs Hartley and the Year 1 Team

Year 4 blog Friday 18th March "Christ has no Body now but yours; no hands, no feet on Earth but yours." St Teresa of Avila

It really is a pleasure to teach these wonderful children - they have worked so hard this week and are such a resilient, hard-working bunch of students!

We have loved our Science this week, where we learned about Weathering and Erosion and together, devised a class test to investigate which type of rock erodes the easiest.

In English this week, we have been busy writing persuasive letters and also character descriptions of the main characters in our novel.

In History we had a mystery to solve- whose ship burial ground was found at Sutton Hoo in East Anglia? Children looked at all the evidence and deduced what member of society may have owned the items. They then narrowed this down to a Super King or Bretwaelda King Raedwald.

In maths, we have been consolidating all the times tables learned so far and also learning some important elements of multiplication and division - namely the Distributive law eg 6 x 8 = 4x8 + 2x8, how to mutliply numbers by 0 and 1 and how to divide numbers by itself and 1. We are also learning about multiplying and dividing by 10. We have been able to make some generalisations about our discoveries too.

We have got into full flow with our Walk Against Hunger this week. Already, we have walked between us over 400km! On Monday, children were so jolly walking around the block, singing to Encanto!

In RE we learned that Jesus is fully God. We reflected on the prayer by St Teresa of Avila, “Christ has no body now on Earth but yours,’ and children wrote about what this means for them. We have also been learning about the key events of Holy Week and trying to understand the feelings and motives of different people, but especially those of Jesus, himself.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are as follows:

A Cooper Crab certificate goes to Franek for listening so carefully and really working on managing your distractions. You focus so well that you get a lot done!

A Bobby Bee certificate goes to Angel for always going that extra mile and giving more than expected. You always put full effort and enthusiasm into everything. What a hard- worker you are!

A Tommy Turtle certificate goes to Connor-Sean for giving everything his best effort and having a go at whatever challenge is presented. You are such a joyful learner and a kind soul.

Swimming stars were Angel, Franek, Edi, Georgia, Millie, Molly-Ann, Max and Lily-Mae.

Music stars were Betsy and Ruby-Lilly

Notices

Monday and Friday after school classes will be coming to an end on Friday 1st April. We have been so pleased with the children’s dedication and progress in these booster sessions. It has really made a difference. Thank you so much children for your extra time and to parents and staff for supporting them. We are hoping in the Summer term to offer some maths booster classes after school to children who need it.

SCHOOL TRIP NEWS - Tuesday 29th March. We are walking through St Annes square and onto the beach to examine rocks, look at buildings and find fossils! There will be no cost to this trip but we are hoping to have our lunch on the beach, so a packed lunch in a plastic bag will be needed. They will be using the plastic bag to carry their rocks back to school.

MORE SCHOOL TRIP NEWS - Friday 22nd April

I thought I would give you a heads up for this trip to Tatton Park. As it is to enhance our History learning, children will be able to dress up for the day as either Anglo-Saxons or Vikings! I will let you know more details nearer the time but thought you may like to plan costumes.

SWIMMING CONTINUES on Mondays and Thursdays - prompt at 8.30am. Many children are borrowing goggles at the swimming pool which do not fit properly and then we spend lots of the lesson adjusting and swapping them, rather than helping them to swim.

Please could you talk to your child about goggles as from next week children will not be able to borrow them.

Enjoy your weekend everyone. God Bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Year 3 Weekly Blog "No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank

What a special moment it was on Wednesday! Our Year 3’s were so excited for you all to see their books and to share some of their favourite pieces of work so far. We have definitely missed your presence in school during the past year and a half. Having you in school to look at your children’s learning was just magical!

In class the children have been working very hard! The BUZZ of excitement during science has been infectious. This week our apprentices have had to work with their group to make a motor and a buzzer work. The children have worked together, listening to each others’ ideas and had problem solved when things haven’t gone to plan. Some groups had a few ups and downs as they needed to rethink their ideas.. but not one person gave up! Hearing their cheers of happiness and seeing their smiles when they have succeeded has been one of those wonderful teacher joys!

In English we have been continuing our learning of how to use inverted commas for speech and Maths we have grappled with some large numbers, looking at represented them with concrete apparatus and then using our reasoning skills to problem solve.

Our History has got in to full swing this week, as we thought carefully as to why Emperor Claudius may have wanted to invade Britain, after Julius Caesar had two failed attempts 98 years earlier. The children enquired and analysed explanations, looking for key evidence!

Let’s Celebrate!

Isaac…For always showing such interest and excitement towards learning. During your science this week you have shown great focus, resilience and so much enthusiasm towards making your circuits work. Seeing your face light up was an absolute delight! You have also made such great progress with your throwing and catching and we could not be more proud of your effort with this.

Pippa… We have been so impressed with your wonderful determination and ability to reflect on your work. It is an absolute pleasure teaching you. Your humour, kindness and your friendly way with others is so welcomed in our classroom. You listen carefully during discussions and we see this in your writing. A huge well done Pippa!

Notices…

• Don’t forget the next parent meeting appointments are taking place on Wednesday 23rd March from 2:30pm - 5:30pm.

Year 3 Home learning 18.3.22

Spelling:

This week our focus has been: adding the prefix ‘anti’. We have discovered that this tends to mean ‘against or opposite’.

1. anticlockwise

2. antiseptic

3. antisocial

High frequency spellings:

4. little

5. come

6. again

7. want

Year 3 key spellings:

8. business

9. breath

10. breathe

Science:

We have been learning all about electricity here in class and have been creating simple circuits. Your homework this week is to create a poster for children, to teach them how to stay safe when using electrical equipment. You will find this homework as a 2do on purple mash.

Maths:

Please complete these math’s areas on IXL:

K.1 - Count in equal groups

K.2 - Identify multiplication expressions for equal groups

K.3 - Write multiplication sentences for equal groups

K.4 - Relate addition and multiplication for equal groups

This week.....

I have only one word for this weeks learning…truly magical. On Monday a Dragon came to nursery to lay her eggs in a dragons lair….ooooh eggciting (sorry I couldn’t resist!).

On Tuesday we had two tonnes of sand delivered, so we decided to make a beach!!! I must say moving that amount of sand was hard work! Needless to say we did it and we now have the most wonderful beach, although the children now are asking where the sea is!!!!! I’m not sure what I can do about that, I will have to put my thinking hat on!

We have been continuing our mathematical journey by exploring shape, space and measure. We have made obstacle courses, visited new areas around the school, drawn maps, read books using spatial language, spotted patterns, made patterns using natural resources, predicted routes to get to places and used small world to practice position and direction. There is so much to learn! Watch out for the handout about Spatial Reasoning I will be sending home, it may give you some ideas for activities at home.

Our exploration of number five is fabulous. The children now understand that ‘5’ can be made up of five ones, three ones and two more, four ones and one more… Click here to watch ‘Where are Five & Friends?’

Next week we will start exploring number 6.

Worship

This week we have continued our Easter Story by reading about ‘The Last Supper’. The children were concerned that Judas made a bad choice. Everyone was so eager to know what happened next we had to read on! One of our friends also brought his Easter story for us to read.

If you click on the button below there is the Easter story in sequencing cards. Perhaps your child can cut out the cards, tell you the story and put them on the correct order? Wow, that would be great. Let us know how they get on.

Also, each day we have been doing our Cafod walk for Hunger by walking twice around the school field. We can’t believe how much we have raised already for our Lenten collection. As of today our total is….£92.11. We are all blown away by you generosity, let’s see if we can get above £100!

Key Persons Blog

What another busy week here at Nursery! Our magical quest has continued with the arrival of a Dragon on Monday! Underneath the Dragon was a basket of eggs...the children counted 12!! We closely examined them (gently of course) and are watching and waiting to see if any magic happens.  We have made a Dangerous Dragons display and have ben very creative painting our own dragons. We made sure we looked really closely at  the colours of dragons. Our dragons are even breathing fire.

Click here to listen to Zog the dragon story.

We didn’t forget to make more fairy playdough (we all had sticky blue hands this time….not sure if we followed the recipe as closely as last week!!!). We have also learnt how to write like fairies using magic fairy dust and magic wands.

There has been a lot of music in the air this week and have been singing a song about ‘Leafy Green’ who has a body made up of healthy foods (not chocolate I’m afraid!).

We have also been rally busy on a top secret mission involving plant pots and chocolates. Shhhh! (All will be revealed!)

Using our open ended resources there has been some wonderful creative play in the garden. Building towers from the coloured bricks and plastic reels and also making cubes from the large waffles. We have also enjoyed singing and dancing in the garden, enjoying the sunnier days.

 Colette, Michelle, Hannah, Justine and Frances

I believe it’s going to be a lovely weekend so enjoy the sunshine and have lots of fun! We will see you on Monday, who knows maybe one of our dragon eggs may have hatched!!

P. S. The children will need an early night on Sunday as we have lots of learning planned for next week. Don’t forget Colette’s Parent Meetings on Monday and Hannah’s on Tuesday. We look forward to ctaching up with you all.

Stay safe

Barbara