Year 4 blog Friday 25th March "Protecting your body with food, exercise and rest is a way of expressing gratitude to God for the gift of your body."

A lovely week in Year 4 - lots of togetherness, hard-work and joy.

We have continued to study our history topic where this week we learned about how Christianity came to our country and began to spread. We then learned about the dawn of Viking England and we made a living graph to discover how bad a threat they were in our country - how much of it did they control at different times? Finally, we learned about King Alfred of Wessex, who did prevent Vikings from taking over the Last Kingdom of England. But how ‘great’ was he really? Children looked at the evidence to answer this question - trying to provide a balanced point of view.

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This week we imagined that someeone had given Mrs Lyons a lovely gift- then she trampled and jumped on it! We used this analogy to think about how our bodies are a gift from God and we need to take care of them. We looked at lots of different ways that we could do this and we thanked God for our bodies. With Mrs Mather in Science, children learned all about how fossils are formed and even looked at Mrs Lyons’ collection! Next week, children can bring in a rock if they have one at home they would like to display on our rock table.

In English this week, we have been busy writing lots of character descriptions this week, as well as practising vital reading skills involving inference.

In maths, we have learned about multiplying and dividing by 100 and also had a really good crack at the 7x table. We are starting to think about multiplying with multiples of 10 eg 5 x 70 and we have learned to make the answer 10 times bigger.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are as follows:

A Roger Robin certificate goes to Georgia for knowing when to stand up to injustice and for feeling compassion for others. You are becoming such a mature young lady.

A Bobby Bee certificate goes to Nicola for striving to meet her reading targets and push herself. Well done for putting in the time Nicola and for being so enthusiastic in your learning.

Swimming stars were Millie, Owen, Franek, Anncia, Christian, Leon and Nicola

Music stars were

Notices

Choir

Year 4 children are now invited to join choir which takes place on Mondays after school until 4:00. It will be from Monday 4th April.

If your child wants to join, please fill in the form below.

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.

SCHOOL TRIP - Friday 22nd April Tatton Park.

The cost of the trip is £26 however, school are subsidising £6 so you have £20 to pay on Parentpay. We will need children to be in early on this day - 8:30 and they will return to school at approximately 3:45pm

To enhance our History learning, children will be able to dress up for the day as either Anglo-Saxons or Vikings!

SWIMMING CONTINUES on Mondays and Thursdays - prompt at 8.30am. It will finish at Easter but we are hoping to take swimming back up in June, in the final half term. I will keep you posted.

Enjoy your weekend everyone. God Bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Such glorious weather......

The fabulous weather this week has meant that we have been able to take full advantage of the garden. You may have noticed the building works happening on the top part of the garden. We are having a new (even bigger) made, new planting boxes and a stage for budding West End performers! Hopefully it will be completed by the end of next week, we are all very excited.

Thank you for your continued support of our Lenten appeal. To date we have collected £115.06! Wow that’s fantastic, thank your so much for your generosity.

It was lovely to see some of our families face to face at the Key Person meetings this week. Thank you for all your kind words in support of nursery, it is really appreciated. Michelle meetings are on Monday, if you haven’t managed to book an appointment yet just drop her an email. I also will look forward to catching up with you.

Key Persons Blog

Another exciting week in nursery with lots of outdoor play whilst the sun is shining. We have continued to enjoy our beach area with all the lovely new sand we had delivered. We have also got a bit wet with our outdoor water play area but we soon dried off in the warm weather.

We’ve continued to practice our fundamental movement skills with hopping, jumping, running and throwing and catching. This lovely weather has enabled us to enjoy our Cafod ‘Walk for Hunger’ around the school field. We’ve even had snack times outside enjoying the sunshine.

The children have continued to explore the fantasy/mythical theme and have made their own magic wands so be careful you don’t get turned into a frog and listen out for spells being cast by your little budding wizards and witches.

The children have also made their own dragon egg. We will be sending them home next week for them to take care of. Our eggs at nursery have hatched and we now have baby dragons somewhere in the garden!

This week we have introduced a new Number Block friend ‘number 6’. We have been practicing number recognition skills through playing games such as snakes and ladders and throwing a giant dice. Why not have a games evening at home, it’s great fun ( and sometimes rather competitive!).

Click here to watch the Number 6 video.

All the children have been very busy making some wonderful treats for a very special day on Sunday. It has been lovely to hear why the children love their mummies so much, enjoy your weekend.

Colette, Hannah, Justine, Michelle and Frances

Some of our parents have been asking about letter formation. I have sent home this week a Read, Write Inc letter formation sheet to help you at home. If you haven’t received it click on the button below.

As promised last week here’s a little teaser for the children, Where is Fairy Love? I wonder if they can tell you where in nursery or school she is?

Worship

This week we will be continuing our Easter Journey. click on the button below to read the story at home.

We have also started to learn the Hail Mary. One of our friends bought us a beautiful book to help us remember the words. It is called ‘Hail Mary. A book of Prayer’, illustrated by Julianna Swaney.

This week when we visited the chapel it was truly joyous. We all sang like angels whilst Colette played the guitar. It is so moving to see the children’s faces as they sing. Next week we will try to take pictures but we really don’t want to spoil the moment.

Next week we have lots of Easter activities planned including eating hot cross buns…mmmmmmm. Watch this space.

Lastly, I have it on good authority that the weather is going to be splendid this weekend so enjoy it and have some family fun!

Stay safe

Barbara

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.