Year 4 blog. Friday 1st April ‘Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.’

What an exciting week we have had! What with 2 swimming lessons, practising for our Easter assembly and a great school trip as well - we have been kept very busy and have learned so much!.

Children were so well behaved on the school trip. It was fantastic to hear them noticing all the things learned about in Science - spotting weathered rocks and theorising which type of rocks different buildings were made out of and why. The excitement at seeing fossils on the front was just magical! Also we managed to have an ice-cream with 4 different choices of sauce!

History has been brilliant this week as children interpreted evidence to explain about King Alfred - how great really was he. We definitely have some budding historians!

In English this week, we have been learning about 2 formidable and contrasting characters in our novel - the goddess of the Emerald lake and Razvani the Fire-Fiend. Children were really putting their Year 4 writing skills to the test to see if they could create a picture in the readers’ heads using all their techniques and of course choosing vocabulary carefully.

In maths, we have learned about multiplying with multiples of 10 eg 5 x 70 and we have learned to make the answer 10 times or 100 times bigger. We have learned the 11x tables which were easy! We have also done the 12x and we have moved on to multiplying larger numbers by partitioning - eg 57 x 6 = 50 x 6 and 7 x 6.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are as follows:

A Roger Robin certificate goes to Lily-Mae for being a person who always strives to do good and notices the good in others too. You can always be trusted to be mature and sensible. You are self reflective and try so hard to improve. You are a role model in our class.

A Roger Robin certificate goes to Charlie who was Lily-Mae’s partner on our school trip and also our cameraman! Super pics! You can always be relied upon to be mature and responsible Charlie. You again are a compassionate and caring member of our class - another role model!

A Sadie Spider certificate goes to Leon for really try, try trying to do super work and listening carefully. You are trying so hard to improve in so many ways.

Swimming stars were Stanley, Christian, Daisy, Tabby, Molly-Ann and Ruby-Lilly.

French stars were Millie and Lily-Mae. What great pattern spotters you were when learning forms of french verbs.

Music stars this week were Alex and Stanley.

Notices

1. SWIMMING IS NOW FINISHED FOR THIS HALF TERM. We are not going after Easter but will return on Friday 10th June after the Spring bank 2 week holiday; for the final half term.

2. CLASS ASSEMBLY

This is on Wednesday 6th April at 9:10am. Due to Covid restictions, we need to limit this to 2 people per family. Please fill in the online form below to let us know how many are coming - so we can prepare chairs.

3. PLESSINGTON AND HARCOURT have come joint first for housepoints this half term - so can come in their own clothes on Friday. WE break up at 2:00

4. 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.

5. 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!

Have a lovely weekend with those beautiful children of yours.

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Year 2 Weekly Blog - 'Alleluia, how the people cheer and palm leaves rustle as the King draws near'

This week has been an incredibly busy one! I have been blown away by how well the children have learnt their lines for our Easter assembly and I know how excited they are to perform for you on Monday. We had our final dress rehearsal this morning and the children performed with great confidence and passion - I can’t wait for you to join us in school on Monday to see just how much they’ve grown! Please keep practising saying those lines clearly and loudly over the weekend!

In amongst the practising, we’ve also completed lots of great learning. In English, we brainstormed lots of creative ideas for who else Plop the baby barn owl could meet in the story and what they would teach him about the dark. I was amazed by the children ideas; from the tooth fairy to trick or treaters, and angels to wizards, I can’t wait to see how the children will use their ideas to write their chapters next week.

In Maths the children have learnt all about halves and quarters. They are able to confidently recognise these in shapes and are beginning to develop strategies to help them when finding fractions of number. We’ve been using pizza and cake representations to help us with our learning and the children had a bit of a light bulb moment this week - the larger the denominator of the fraction, the smaller the equal part!

In Outdoor PE we have continued to develop our bat and ball skills. We started by working in partners to pass a shuttlecock to one another before moving onto a tennis ball. I have noticed HUGE progress in both the children’s catching skills and their ability to strike successfully using a racket - well done Year 2!

Yesterday afternoon, we enjoyed another child-led worship centered all-around gratitude. The group shared the story of Jairus’ daughter before asking their peers if they had ever felt grateful. Thank you, children, it was such a lovely worship. I’ve also attached photographs of last week’s child-led worship below.

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Let’s Celebrate

What a Focused Cooper Crab you have been this week Louis!  You have tried really hard to manage your distractions in every lesson and have listened really carefully to the learning taking place.  It’s been wonderful to see you taking ownership of your own choices and really wanting to please by making positive choices within our classroom.  Well done!

Wow Lorenzo – you have been such an Enthusiastic Bobby Bee this week!  You have really thrown yourself into your learning and have kept going and going when things have been a little tough.  You have been an absolute delight in our assembly rehearsals, really trying your best to stay focused and singing out with great enthusiasm and passion.  Thank you Lorenzo!

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Notices

As you know, up to two people from each child’s family are able to come and watch the children perform on Monday 4th April at 9:10am. The gate at the school entrance will open just after 9am for you to take your seats. Please complete the form below so that we know how many chairs to put out in the hall. Thank you.

Due to other assembly practises taking place in the hall, indoor PE will not be taking place on Monday and Tuesday. Please can all children come to school in their full uniforms on Monday ready for our assembly, but if your child is a disciple, please could they have their PE shorts with them.

Year 2 trip to ‘Bring Yer Wellies’ - On Thursday 12th May, Year 2 will be going on a trip to Bring Yer Wellies in Preston. Here we will be planting different seeds and learning all about plant growth. The cost of the trip is £16, to be made via ParentPay. More information regarding the trip will be given after the Easter holidays.

Well done to Harcourt and Plessington for being awarded the most learning points across the school this term. You can come to school wearing your house colours/own clothes on Friday.

School closes for the Easter holidays at 2pm for Harcourt and Marsden and 2:10pm for Plessington and Bamber.

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Have a lovely weekend.
God Bless.
Miss Woodend and the rest of the Year 2 team

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 7th April

Online/Book homework this week

Walk against Hunger

We are doing quite well in class - so far we have walked 612km. However, we need help to meet our target! Why not go on a walk this weekend with your family and measure the kilometres? You can include all family members’ kilometres. Tell us how far you went in total on Monday and we will add them to our total.

Maths

11x and 12x tables booklet to complete - the more work you put in, the more confident you will be.

This week TT Rockstars has been set to 11x and 12x tables

Assembly SONG and parts—The Garden of Gethsemane

The assembly is shaping up well! Please make sure you know your part and the song ready to perform on Wednesday. Remember 2 members of your family can come. It begins at 9:10am.

History

 Time for you to do a little research. You will already know quite a bit about Anglo-Saxons, but to finish off I would like you to read about aspects that interest you from the site below.

I have set you a task in Purple Mash to write an information book about Anglo-Saxons. Make sure it is in your own words—no copying and pasting!

You could have a different subheading on each page. See if you can now become experts! Please include images too.

Science

On Thursday 8th April, please can children bring in a small (sandwich bag size) of soil from their garden or local area. We will be studying the samples on a lesson about soil.

Spellings

We have been learning versions of the ‘ai’ sound.

Key words: often special suppose guide various perhaps

‘ai’ words: rein weigh neighbour obey sleigh freight

Music

Carry out the tasks set in Charanga by Mrs Maddocks

Reading

One week left to meet your reading target this half term. Many of you are very close. Some have met it twice over now! Keep trying.

Year 6 Weekly Home Learning - Wednesday 30th March 2022

With just 5 and a half weeks until the end of year assessments, we have ramped up learning in class. The children are very clear about what they need to do and the areas that they need to develop. I have updated the ‘How to Help Your Child’ button on the Year 6 page. There are lots of resources for the children to access as well as the revision boxes that are in the classroom.

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Maths - Please complete the reasoning paper that I sent you home for homework. There is a good mixture of questions in the booklet that will challenge your reasoning. Read the question carefully!

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GPS - Have a go at the GPS paper that I have sent you home for homework. I will also be giving you a random spelling test based on the spelling rules that I sent you home in your revision folders.

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Geography - Edinburgh

Imagine that you have visited Edinburgh for the weekend. Write a postcard back home telling them about all of the wonderful things that you have been up to!

Vision Screening

Dear Parents,

Schools in Lancashire are being asked to take part in the National Vision Screening programme. At Our Lady’s this will take place with Reception children on Tuesday 5th April. Below is further information for you to read. If you are happy for your child to take part in the programme next week you need to take no further action. However, if you would like to opt out please see the button at the end of this blog and return the signed letter to school.

We send our love to all those poorly children at home and wish you all a quick recovery. Children, we are all missing you!

Vision Screening in Lancashire Schools

What is vision screening?

Vision screening is when a specially trained person checks your child’s vision to make sure they can see without any problems. The aim of the service is to detect reduced vision early, to reduce the risk of defects developing into visual impairments if left untreated.

What is involved with vision screening?

Your child’s vision will be assessed using a letter matching test. The test is fun and your child does not need to know their letters to complete it. During the test a pair of glasses with one eye blanked out will be used or an eye patch will be placed over one eye to test each eye separately. The test is entirely safe and children enjoy playing the letter matching game. It takes approximately five minutes and the screener is trained to make this fun for the child.

Who does the screening?

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provide specially trained vision screeners go to every school in Lancashire and see children in the reception class. As NHS staff they are all DBS checked, (Disclosure and Barring Service. This check was previously known as CRB, Criminal Records Bureau).

Does my child have to be screened?

No. However, we strongly recommend that your child is screened for vision defects; however you have the right to decline the assessment. No screening will take place without your consent. A letter will be sent home with your child informing you about the screening; this is an Opt-out letter and only needs to be returned if you do not wish for your child to be tested. If you do not receive a letter please ring the school for a copy.

What happens if my child is absent on the day of screening?

An appointment will be offered at a local health centre for your child to be tested. A member of the vision screening team will send an appointment letter to your home address for this.

Services provided by:

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

What will happen during the vision screening assessment?

Your child’s vision will be assessed using a letter matching test. The test is fun and your child does not need to know their letters to complete it. During the test a pair of glasses with one eye blanked out will be used or an eye patch will be placed over one eye to test each eye separately. The test is entirely safe and children enjoy playing the letter matching game. It takes approximately five minutes and the screener is trained to make this fun for the child.

What happens if my child passes the assessment?

If your child passes you will receive a letter informing you of the result. This means that at the moment their vision in both eyes is as expected for their age. This result does not rule out potential future eye problems. Children’s eyes change as they grow so if you have any concerns about your child’s eyes at any stage in the future, contact your local optometrist (optician) or GP.

What happens if my child does not pass the assessment?

If your child does not pass, you will receive a letter informing you of the result. Your child will be referred to your local orthoptic department and you will receive a letter in the next few weeks from the hospital inviting you to an appointment for further tests.

It is important to attend the appointment for further tests to confirm your child’s results and if treatment is required. Reduced vision may be caused by the child needing glasses or a turn in the eye (squint). Glasses and/or eye patches may be recommended as treatment for these problems. These tests could be carried out by an Orthoptist, who manage visual disorders related to eye development or misalignment, an Optometrist who can prescribe glasses if required, or an Ophthalmologist, depending on the results of the screening.

Sometimes a child does not pass the screening because they are tired or not able to concentrate on the day of screening. If the vision screener feels this may be the case on the day, you will be asked to attend another appointment for a recheck.

Contact details

Lancashire Vision Screening Team at Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Tel: 01253 953457

Email address: bfwh.lancashirevisionscreeningservice@nhs.net

Year 3 Home Learning 25.03.22

Spelling:

This week we would like you to focus of the Year 3 spellings:

1. centre

2. accidentally

3. appear

4. actual

5. accident

6. bicycle

History:

We have started our learning on the Romans now, and you were so keen to find out more …

Please go on to purple mash and search, by typing in at the top, ‘Roman Life Slideshow’ and the following tab will appear …

Click on it and have a read of the Roman way of life. Please could you write three of your most favourite facts, ready to share in class next Wednesday. Thank you!

Maths:

Please make sure the following areas are completed for next week:

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

Also look back at the IXL areas from last weeks homework and make sure these are completed.

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.

RHE

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