Year 4 blog Friday 17th June " Happiness is only real, when it is shared.'

These lovely children planned and led a really well-thought out worship to the class this week. It was all about God’s Power and they read the story about Jesus calming the storm.

On to other storms - we have been very excited to begin our unit in English on Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest.’ We have some very dramatic children! They will be given opportunities to link their writing to this over the coming weeks. Watch the video below to see them immersed in the play already!

This week has been our health and happiness week in school. In year 4 we thought about what happiness really is. Children asked questions such as, ‘Can you choose to be happy?’ ‘Are richer people happier,’ and ‘Can you feel happy and sad at the same time?’ We then looked at Jesus’s teaching about happiness, ‘The Beatitudes.’ We realised that Jesus wants us to make others happy and this in turn does bring happiness for all. We witnessed this on Wednesday, when we had our fantastic sports afternoon. The children really supported each other whilst racing, jumping, throwing and many other things. They made each other feel comfortable and happy! Thanks for your wonderful support. You were a fabulous audience and it was lovely to welcome you back into school! You can come back again for our Gym Jam Jog!

We also had a big focus this week on keeping safe when in the car, on a bike and as a pedestrian. Children learned the Green Cross Code and practised many elements of road safety, such as finding safe places to cross, identifying hazards and learning about different crossings.

In other news, we continued our work on Sound in Science and children discovered what causes sound through lots of investigations. We proved that sound is not matter - as some children theorised, but vibrations in the air.

I will include pictures from our exciting golf experience today on next week’s blog.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are:

Connor-Sean who both received a Bobby Bee certificate for really believing in himself and doing so well with his maths this week. Excellent thinking and great explanations too. Well done!

Stanley who received a Kiki Chameleon certificate for having such super ideas in drama and in all lessons in class. We love your confidence and you read out beautifully to the class this week.

Music stars this week were Tabby, Ruby-Lilly, Angel and Georgia

Notices

1. Monday is our times tables check test. Please keep practising over the weekend.

2. GYM JAM JOG NEXT FRIDAY 24th June. This is our ANNUAL GYM JAM JOG (sadly postponed since 2019!) Below are the details for all joggers, old and new:

   • The children are invited to school in their PYJAMAS plus cuddly friend.

   • We arrive super early!!! The gates will open at 8 O'clock.

   • The children are then invited to run with their friends or their parent (pyjamas not essential). It is important that you count the laps.

   This is a sponsored event. There has been much debate at school council level about what the children want in their playground and they want a castle!!!!

   A place where imaginations can run wild! Needless to say, we need money for the build - we know as a community we can do this!

   Use the sponsor form sent home this weekend to ask family and friends to sponsor you for each lap or to donate on the promise that you will jog your heart out!!!

   We will jog right up until our swimming lesson so children will need a good breakfast before school. They will get a school breakfast when they return from swimming too!

   We can't wait to share another event with the whole school family together!

Have a nice, restful weekend in this baking hot sun.

Mrs Lyons and Mrs Mather

Year 3 - "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." - Phil Jackson

It was just wonderful to welcome you all to celebrate our sports day once again! The children were so excited to show you how hard they have been working in PE. We were all so proud of them and how they supported and encouraged each other! A huge well done Year 3 and a big thank you parents for being a brilliant audience to spur us on! Having you there to watch the children this year was so special and created such a wonderful and exciting atmosphere. The children were beaming as they came back into class… I heard so many of the children saying, “that was my favourite sport’s day!” so a huge thank you for coming to celebrate this special school event with us!

We are such book lovers in Year 3 and on Monday we were super excited to finish our class novel, ‘The Iron Man’. We have then started to plan our own stories based on this book. We cannot wait to read your stories next week and to see all of those wonderful grammar skills that we have worked on throughout the year… I know Mrs Harrison will want to take a peak too.

Certificates

Co-operative and Determined Ella … You are such a delightful girl Ella! We loved seeing your determination during our sports day this week! You tried so hard and really spurred on those around you! We have seen this determination each and every day during our classroom learning. You try so hard and when things get tricky, you never give up! Because of this, things that you once found a challenge, you can do no problem. A huge well done Ella!

Co-operative, Focused and Enthusiastic Rafe … You are such an enthusiastic and focused learner, who we have thoroughly enjoyed teaching this year! Every single day you come into school with the most wonderful excitement and interest towards the days learning. You are such a Bobby-bee! You value everybody in our class, and in our school. You know that everybody is special and has something unique to offer. You have been a beautiful learning partner, supporting and encouraging those around you.  The biggest well done Rafe!

Gym Jam Jog!

Next week Friday 24th is our ANNUAL GYM JAM JOG (sadly postponed since 2019!) Below are the details for all joggers, old and new:

• The children are invited to school in their PYJAMAS plus cuddly friend.

• We arrive super early!!! The gates will open at 8 O'clock.

• The children are then invited to run with their friends or their parent (pyjamas not essential). It is important that you count the laps.

This is a sponsored event. There has been much debate at school council level about what the children want in their playground and they want a castle!!!!

A place where imaginations can run wild! Needless to say, we need money for the build - we know as a community we can do this!

Use the sponsor form sent home this weekend to ask family and friends to sponsor you for each lap or to donate on the promise that you will jog your heart out!!!

We will jog right up until school starts when we will say goodbye to parents and jog into class - ready for breakfast!

We can't wait to share another event with the whole school family together!

Reminders:

Two groups have now experienced Crown Green bowls and all have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in this fun outing! Our group of bowlers next week will have a rather busy morning! With the Gym Jam Jog before school and then their trip to Ashton Gardens later on that morning.

Please make sure you bring your PE kit with you as you will be wearing your pyjamas!

PE DAYS!

Our PE days will now be on a MONDAY and THURSDAY. Please make sure you wear/bring your kit with you on these days. Thank you!

Year 3 Home Learning 17.6.22

Spellings

1.picture

2.nature

3.creature

4.furniture

5.moisture

6.unsure

7.measure

8.pleasure

9.treasure

10.pressure

Quiz The Iron Man

This week we finished reading our class novel The Iron Man. I know the children are itching to quiz so this is one of this weeks tasks.

Next week we will be writing our own versions of the Iron Man.

1. Can you collect some adverbs that you might choose to include in your writing.

2. I would also like you to write a complex sentence to describe your new character (remember mine was the Iron Bird)

IXL: Angles

Z.7 - Angles: greater than, less than or equal to a right angle

Z.8 - Angles: acute, right or obtuse

Z.10 - Parallel and perpendicular lines

“Send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us, God save our Queen”.

It’s been a wonderful first week back and a very exciting start to our final half term in Year 1!

On Wednesday, we had a fabulous day celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and it was wonderful to be able to celebrate together as a whole school. Our playground was a magical sea of red, white and blue and the children thoroughly enjoyed being together. Our amazing kitchen team prepared fantastic jubilee lunches, the sun was shining and we were able to enjoy a special picnic together outside. In the classroom, we did lots of activities to mark this very special occasion.

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What have we been learning this week?

In Maths, we have been exploring numbers from 20 to 100. We have been deepening our understanding of those numbers, the relationships between them and how they are made. When counting, we have begun by grouping the amounts into 10’s and counting on.

In English, we have begun our new unit, ‘How to train a train’. This week we have been discussing different animals and pets and the children have worked in teams to research and write about their findings.

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Hip-Hip-Hooray!

Certificates:

Focused Cooper Crab: Lena!
Lena, you have been so focused and have done some fantastic independent writing this week. You have been thinking of ways to make your writing even better and have taken on challenges with a big smile and positive attitude. We are really proud of you Lena, well done!

Co-operative Roger Robin : Fletcher!
Fletcher, you are always thinking about how you can be a positive role model for others by setting a good example in everything you do. You always try to be a supportive learning partner and caring friend. Well done for being such a good role model for our class and our school.
 Well done Fletcher!  

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Sports Day

We are very excited for our Year 1 sports day which will be on Tuesday 14th June 13:30 - 14:45.
Grown ups are welcome to come and watch and we look forward to sharing a fun afternoon with you!

Ready, Steady Go…!

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Notices

• This term the children will need to wear their PE kits on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

• 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 10th June "Send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us. God Save our Queen!"

We have had a delightful week where her main focus has been on her majesty, the Queen. We have learned all about our Royal family and children have written a biography all bout this wonderful lady. We have also learned all about the Commonwealth and what it is. Children made flags for different commonwealth countries. They also made portraits of the queen. Even maths has been linked in some lessons to the Jubilee this week! We have had flag symmetry, dressing the queen in different combinations of outfits and bar charts showing which monarch has ruled the longest.

On Wednesday, we had our wonderful picnic lunch to celebrate. What a joyful experience as all children in the whole school mixed for the first time in YEARS! All children were give a special coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee.

In other news, westarted our new Science topic on Sound. We also finished our novel - Odd and the Frost Giants. Children now have reading fluency partners for the last half term and we are working on our fluency -this involves reading at a quick enough pace to get meaning, being able to decode every word they read and reading with expression, using the punctuation. Please practise this at home too.

In our worship this week, we have learned about how we can use the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We also watched a lovely worship about faith prepared and delivered by these children:

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are:

Leo and Evan who both received a Sadie Spider certificate for really going for it this week. You both have completed so much work in a focused and independent way. Well done!

Matilda who received a Bobby Bee certificate for havng such glowing enthusiasm for all she does and for cheerfully redoing her computer work when it refused to save!

Music stars this week were Matilda, Ruby-Lilly and Evan.

Notices

1. Year 3 and 4 Sports day will take place next Wednesday 15th June in the afternoon at 1:30pm. We are pleased to say you are all most welcome to attend and cheer your children on! They need to be in PE kits on Wednesday and have sunhats/suncream if needed.

2. GOLF trip. Next Friday, Year 4 have been invited to play golf at Royal Lytham and St Annes golf course. Lunch will be provided by the club.

There is no cost as it is just around the corner - so we will walk. The last event is a certificate presentation at 3:00 so children will be late back to school.

Please pick up children from school at 3:30. If it is later, a text will be sent out.

3. SWIMMING continues now each FRIDAY MORNING. Children need the usual things and to be at school for 8:30am.

Please look at the calendar for other events coming up in June.

Also please help your child practise times tables each day - children are doing so well. We will be taking our times tables assessment on Monday 20th June.

Have a lovely weekend - we will cross our fingers for some sun!

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Jubilee special!!!!

Welcome back everyone. It’s hard to believe it is the last few weeks of the year!! The children have been full of interesting things that they have been doing at home to celebrate the Queens 70th Jubilee. It sounds that you all had great fun!

Our favourite bit of the celebration was Paddington have tea at Winsor Castle with the Queen. If you didn’t manage to see it click here, it was truly magical.

As you know we had our Jubilee Afternoon Tea Party before the holidays. It was such good fun. We played lots of ‘Royal’ party games (including ‘pin the Tail on the Corgi1), danced to all our favourite songs, stood smartly for the National Anthem and ate lots of yummy food!!!!

Have a look at all our photos!

We were also lucky enough on Wednesday to receive and invitation from school to join in their Jubilee Picnic. We then had a chance to play with everyone in the whole school on the field! It was such great fun to play with big sister and brothers, cousins and friends. We even got to play on the big climbing equipment! It was lovely to all be back together again!

It has been another splendid week at Nursery, the children have come back full of energy and ready to learn. There have been some avid explorers spotted in Nursery garden who have been surveying the environment along with their backpacks and binoculars! There have been a few minibeasts spotted along the way!

The explorers are aware that there is so much to do, in our garden. As well as looking after all our plants and flowers we have some new additions to our Nursery family. Firstly, we have some tadpoles to care for. The children have helped to make them a new home and we will be examining them closely over the next few weeks to see if there are any changes….watch this space!

Naturally, not being satisfied with just the tadpoles, we went on a snail hunt and made them a new habitat with supplies of lettuce so we can observe those too. More??? Absolutely! The next mission was to build a wormery with layers of sand and soil so that we can observe the worms too! Last but by no means least Thursday saw the postman bring us a delivery of baby caterpillars so that we can watch their journey as well!

In addition to all this there has been some painting of minibeasts, music, practising for Sports Day and we have been introduced to the Numberblock Eight the amazing Octoblock! Click here to watch. 

 Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Barbara, Michelle, Colette, Justine, Frances and Stephanie.

You may have noticed a new name on our Key person blog. Stephanie has joined our happy band of learners at nursery! I’m sure you will have chance for a chat at the gate and to introduce yourself. Like the rest of the team I’m sure you would like to say a huge ‘welcome’.

It has been a full on week of learning and the children are starting to flag. Hopefully you will get some rest at the weekend?

It’s been good to see you all after the holidays, enjoy your weekend.

Barbara

Year 3 Homework 10.6.22

Spellings

1. jubilee

2. monarch

3. carriage

4. serve

5. royal

6. coronation

7. celebration

8. nation

9. national

10. position

The Queen’s Coronation:

From our learning this week I would like you to do a little more research about the carriage that took the Queen to Westminster Abbey during her Coronation. After this research please go onto Purple Mash and find your 2Do called, “2Do: 2Design and Make The Coronation carriage”. Using your mouse control and creativity I would like you to recreate the cart she travelled in. I know you will enjoy this task!

Maths:

Can you explain to a family member the strategies that you would use to answer these questions:

87 + 5 = 53 - 6 = 80 + 50 = 120 - 40 =

Remember your bonds to ten - these can help with all of these sums.

Think, “What could I split one of these numbers into to help me find the answer?”

Record your answers in your homework book.