Year 2 Weekly Blog Friday 23rd June 2023

Year 2 Weekly Blog Friday 23rd June - ‘Sun is shining, weather is sweet, yeah!’

What a rollercaoster of a week! The children were so excited about sports day but unfortunately the weather had other ideas. The Key Stage 1 Sports Day has been rescheduled to Thursday 6th July.

In Science, the children have been sorting materials into natural or humanly made. We’ve also been thinking about the properties of materials. On Thursday afternoon the children carried out an investigation with lots of materials, testing to see which materials were squishy, could be twisted, rolled, stretched or bent.

This week in our Geography topic ‘Around The World’, Bobby the Bee, visited China. We saw pictures of the Great Wall of China, The Terracotta Army and learnt that China is the home to the endangered Giant Panda .We had a go at writing numbers in Chinese and even tried to solve some maths problems. The children enjoyed making their own Chinese dragons - a legendary creature in Chinese mythology. I wonder where Bobby Bee will take us next week!

In English, we have written, edited and published our own ‘You ain’t never had a friend like me’ poems. It was lovely to hear the children talk about the qualities of their friends and the qualities they have to offer their friends.

Next week ( Wednesday 28th June) in Design Technology, the children will be making wrap with Miss Neves. They have been learning about healthy balanced diets.
Your child will need to bring into school ingredients to fill one wrap. Miss Neves will provide wraps, lettuce and humous. Children should bring in a fruit or vegetable, a dairy product (cheese or yoghurt) and a protein (meat, fish or meat alterative) and a container to bring their wrap home in.

On Wednesday morning, we continued practising our kicking skills on the school field. Three stations were set up and the children worked in small groups supporting and encouraging each other.

On Friday morning the children thought of questions they like to ask or find out about year 3 and the juniors.
Half the class went with their learning partners to bowl at Hope Street Park and the other half of the children teamed up with their Year 4 learning buddies to find some the answers. The children worked together to build concept maps on Purple Map showing their questions and answers. It was a good opportunity for the children to use their computing skills whilst finding out about the juniors.

Let’s Celebrate

Well done to our certificate winners this week!


Albert
Albert, we have noticed how hard you are trying with your reading. You are remembering to check your reading level before picking a book and checking with an adult when you are not sure. You got 100% in one of your reading quizzes this week, this is because you took your time and read the questions carefully and really thought about the answers instead of guessing. We’ve also noticed that you’ve been putting your hand up more in class to answer questions even when you’re not sure, you’ve been having a go like Tommy Turtle.

Ellie-Rose

What a Co-operative Roger Robin you have been this week Ellie-Rose! You have work wonderfully with your learning partner. You are always helpful in class not only to your friend but the adults too I can really tell you are getting ready for Year 3, thinking about what you need to do to be the best you can be.

This week’s Star Readers are Anna, Isaac and Hugo

Virtues Butterfly - George C

Notices

Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday
KS1 Sports Day - Thursday 6th July 1.30pm - PE kits to be worn please.
Visit to Hope Street Park Bowls - Friday 30th June (2nd Group)
Library visit - Wednesday 5th July
Zoo trip - Monday 17th July - please note this has changed

Reminder - We try our best in school to be a ‘nut free’ zone, there are a number of adults and children in school who have severe nut allergies. Please ensure that snacks and packed lunches are nut free.

As the weather gets warmer we’re hoping to spend more time learning outdoors. Please send your child in with a suitable sunhat with their name in it and apply suncream before school. Please ensure your child brings a water bottle into school.

Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Marham, Mrs Maano and Mrs Carragher

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 29th June

Maths

1. Please complete IXL level from YEAR 5 Z24 all about converting from improper to mixed fractions. We have learned this really well in class

Music

It is 3 weeks until our Clarinet performance - we need to practise lots at home. You have all been given your Charanga log in again in case you forgot it.

Please visit Charanga and practice all songs that Mrs Maddocks asked.

Road Safety

We have learned all about the Green Cross Code this week as part of our healt and happiness week. Please study together the sheet you started in class and finish it if unfinished. Discuss with your adult about how to cross the road safely. Then go out together and practise. See if you can spot good places and bad places to cross. Remember your green cross code.

English - Limericks

In your homework books, write me a limerick. We did this in class last week. It can be about anything - your pet, your brother, Harry Potter, your teddy, Your favourite country…

Here are some screens to help you with the rules to writing a 5 line limerick. THey are so much fun!

Swimming Gala Information

Apologies for this coming out a little later than planned, I needed to confirm the logistics with the swimming pool.

So, you will need to bring your child to Palatine Swimming Pool for 8.45am on Friday morning. Some parents combine and share lifts if there is other children that need dropping off at school first. If the children could come ready in their costumes, then it is the quickest change when they get there.

Can the children have in their bags:

Swimming hat, towel, hair brush and lots of water. Please ensure that they have their uniforms in their bags for after the event to change into.

Parents are encouraged and welcomed to stay and support - the more the better.

We are hoping that the gala should be finished around 12pm. At this point the children will get changed and then be needed to be dropped back off at school ready for them to have their lunch there. If another parent is bringing your child back to school, please can you email Mrs Gregan and let her know.

Year 1 Weekly Blog 16.6.23 'The world belongs to those who read.'

‘The world belongs to those who read.’

Rick Holland

Wow, the children have been so resilient this week, it has been very hot and we have had our Phonics screening. I am so proud of everyone they have all worked incredibly hard and stayed focused.

As a treat we enjoyed ice pops and a film this afternoon, thank you again for all of your hard work at home, it has shown this week and I can’t believe how much progress has been made.

Maths: We have revisited teen numbers again and used the rekenreks to make these number remembering 10 and a bit. Our stem sentences we have been practising are 10 needs …… to make…. ….. is made from 10 and ….

English: We have started editing and marking our wonderful work from last half term, we are looking forward to our new topic next week Pets and Trains all will be revealed in the next few weeks :).

 PE: We practised our bouncing skills on Monday and on my duties I brought the balls out so we could practise during playtime, we loved it! Today we practised our Sports Day activities and races, we are excited for our Sports Day on Tuesday.

RE: We loved our lesson with Mrs Hotchkiss, we learnt that Jesus showed his great power when he calmed the wind and waves. We reflected that we can ask Jesus to help us when we are afraid. Here is our re-enactment of Jesus and the storm.

Upcoming Trips:

Library

Our final trip to the library will be on Friday 23rd June, please bring in your library cards, if you would like your child to take a book home.

Ridgeway Farm:

On Tuesday 4th July we will be visiting Ridgeway farm. Please can you fill in this form so we can order packed lunches. The price of the trip and more information will be available next week.

Let’s Celebrate:

As we have all been amazing, we couldn’t pick two children for our certificates so it is for the whole class for all the learning characters:

Well Done Year 1, it has been a very busy week, You have shown enthusiasm and creativity in our Phonics sessions. You were all focused during the screening, we have worked hard together and supported each other. We were determined to remember our ‘special friends’, ‘Fred talk’ and ‘read the word’ and were reflective with our learning to keep improving. I am so proud of each of you and for all of your hard work.

 Keep it up :)

Henry is going home with this person for a brilliant week, you have been focused this week in all lessons, well done :).

Reading Challenge: Well done to these children who received their certificates, there are so many that are very close, keep up the hard work :).

Sports Day is on Tuesday 20th June Weather permitting at 1:30 we are looking forward to seeing you :).

Gym Jam Jog is on Wednesday 21st June at 8am don’t forget your sponsorship forms and come in your pyjamas.

Reminders:

• Preparing for the weather: As the weather is improving children are allowed to bring in a sunhat, which can be worn at break times and any sun cream that is brought in must be applied by the child themselves, roll on sun creams are easier to apply. We also ask that no sunglasses are to be brought into the school. Thank you.

•  Please can you try and bring in healthy snacks for your children to eat at break times, we always have fruit in school that the children can have.

• Please can you double check that all items of clothing are labelled.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Please can you ensure that your children do not bring any valuables into school as they can easily go missing.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 5 Weekly Blog 16.06.23 ' There is no such thing as impossible, only inprobable. The thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination'- Cressida Cowell

After a scorching two week break, we had no idea how the children were going to settle back in but they have been fantastic! As soon as they arrived back on Monday morning, they were straight back into the school routine and were eager to get on with the learning.

On Monday, we stepped up our preparation for our end of year music concert as we focused on practicing our chosen songs. The children are becoming really fluent with both the singing and playing side of the songs. The children have begun their next DT topic of food technology- don’t worry, the cooking won’t start for another couple of weeks. The children will be taste testing different foods over the next few weeks so if anyone has any issues regarding this then please email myself or Mrs Mather.

On Wednesday, We began our final RE topic of learning about other faiths around the world and focusing on the ‘Big 5’. This will also tie into our new History topic of Islamic Civilization. We also began our preparation for sports day in the form of athletics in PE. The children gave it their all in what was some very tricky running conditions- luckily we stayed hydrated and had lots of breaks in between.

Thursday saw us take our first trip of the summer and it was to the Winter Gardens for a special reading celebration. We were lucky enough to attend Cressida Cowell’s 20th anniversary of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. The author and illustrator of the famous series shared her upbringing and journey towards becoming a world renowned writer and gave us some advice and inspiration of how to become a writer. The children all received a signed copy of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’- a limited edition including an unreleased additional story.

Let’s Celebrate

Nicola for being an enthusiastic and focused learner: Nicola, even at this point of the year, you are still super focused throughout all of our lessons and are ready to learn. Your eyes are always fixed on me when I am teaching and your hand is always up ready to share your knowledge. You have really set an example of how to engage in the lessons. Brilliant work!

Max for being an enthusiastic and brave learner: Ever since your performance on Wednesday night, teacher after teacher have come up to me to tell me how impressed they were with you. It takes a lot of bravery to perform on stage in front of lots of people but you did this with such enthusiasm and passion. The audience was blown away of how ‘in the moment’ you were and that resembles your commitment to any activity you are given.

Virtue butterflies: This week it goes to Harvey for being intentional. The class is fully aware that we have been low on stationary supplies recently which has meant that children have had to share equipment- the main one being glue sticks. Over the half term, Harvey went out and bought a full set of glue sticks (with his own money!) so that everyone had one which was such as lovely and thoughtful gesture.

Notices

• Extra Curricular Activities: The schedule for Summer 2 has been posted on the sports page of the website [engage-> sport] . This includes cricket club on Tuesdays after school (3:30-4:15) which you will have to sign up for and athletics which will take place on Wednesdays at lunchtime. These are to prepare for two upcoming competitions which are also on the timetable.

• Gym Jam Jog: Is on Wednesday 21st June. Children are to come into school earlier in their pyjamas annd jog around the field. The children will then have lunch in the hall. This is a sponsored event and the money raised is going towards the school budget for building and extending the outside playground for the children so it would be great if everyone took part.

• Sports Day: Will take place on Wednesday 28th June at 1:30pm.

• Clarinet Concert: Will take place on Monday 10th July and parents are invited into school to watch and will start at 2:00.

• LSA Open Evening: Lytham St Annes High School are hosting an open evening for Year 5 children on Thursday 22nd June. More information is available here.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in by Thursday 22nd July

Spellings

1. harass

2. hindrance

3. identify

4. immediately

5. individual

6. interfere

7. interrupt

8. language

9. leisure

10. lightning

11. marvellous

12. mischievous

    Mrs Mather’s group

    1. girl

    2. grow

    3. leave

    4. miss

    5. mountain

    6. real

Music

The date for our music concert has been set which is Monday 10th July. All of the songs have been posted on Charanga under ‘Music Concert 2023’. Children are to practice singing these songs and also playing them on the clarinet.

These are the songs that we will be singing for the end of year play in Year 6’s performance of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The children have all been given a copy of the lyrics for each song as these have been adjusted slightly to fit the theme of our play.

DISCLAIMER- The songs that we are singing will be slightly slower than the original versions of these songs so I would recommend slowing the audio down on the video.

Money, Money, Money

Flash Bang Wallop What a Picture

Design and Technology

Mrs Mather has set you a task to prepare for the next lesson. This needs to be brought in on Tuesday 20th June.

Mama Mia, Spaghetti Bolognaise!

Design and Technology Task.

Dear children,

In readiness for next weeks lesson, I would like you to collect Nutritional 

Value  labels from Spaghetti Bolognaise jars, packs and ready meals.

 You can either:

Have a look in your cupboards, fridges and freezers.

OR

You can search on line for examples.

Please bring these with you on Tuesday, as we will be using them in the

 lesson.

Please feel free to email any photos to me on

s.mather@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

It will be wonderful to see how many examples we can collect!

Have fun with it

Mrs Mather

The sun has got his hat on.....

A huge welcome back to the last half term of the year. It is hard to believe that we have been together for a whole year already.

Wow, what a glorious (and hot) week. Although the sun certainly has been shining we have found it too hot at times and decided to stay indoors. The children are very sensible and hunted out the shaded spots in the garden. Luckily we have a lovely canopy of trees!

Barbara and Emma’s blog

Hello and welcome back. I hope you all had a fabulous half term enjoying the sunshine.

 We have been busy this week working our brains and bodies. We have been practicing our sports’ day games, getting ready for next Monday. We have been throwing under and over arm, catching, jumping over mini hurdles and running. We saved the best until last, an obstacle course. We have definitely been working our bodies and have had lots of fun doing it!

 As it is a new term, we are starting to explore ‘mini beasts’ (as per the children's request). The children got their explorers backpacks on packed with all their investigating equipment inside. They had cameras, binoculars, notepads, pens and magnifying glasses. We went outside hunting for bugs under rocks, stones and plants and we found all sorts of mini beasts; slugs, woodlice, a green spider, and a family of snails! We talked about how many legs they had, where they lived, how many eyes and what they ate. We even learnt a new ‘wow’ word - arachnids! We found out that arachnids have eight legs and insects have six legs. The children loved being little bug investigators.

The children have enjoyed playing a ladybird game on the touch tv, counting spots and helping with their counting and number recognition. The link below is for the game should any of you wish to play it at home. Click here to play at home.

 We are really excited to welcome back some of our sunflowers. We were surprised to see how much they had grown! Well done everyone! The children have enjoyed digging large holes ready to plant their flowers.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I am looking forward to finding more bugs with our intrepid bug investigators next week.

 Emma

Michelle’s blog

Welcome back everyone. Hope you all had a wonderful half term break. We have started our final half term this year with a bang, we can’t believe we only have a few weeks left before the end of the year. This week we have carried on with learning about the sun, and how to keep safe in the sun.

Here is  a song about putting on suncream. Click here.

We then watched a story about the wind and the sun, and how they argued about who was stronger. We predicted who we thought would win the competition. Click here to watch

We have had lots of practice for Sport’s Day this week. We are so excited to take part on Monday afternoon.

This week has been so hot but we have found lots of ways to cool down, our favourite was the foot spa in the garden.

We have begun our new topic of minibeasts this week and we were very excited when one of our friends brought in their butterflies that have just hatched. We are looking forward to hatching our own butterflies.

Have a lovely weekend,

Michelle

Steph’s blog

Hello everyone

What a lovely week in the sunshine! We have spent so much time playing with the water in the garden and keeping cool under the big trees at the end. We especially love using the syringes and shooting the water in the air to cool us all down.

We have enjoyed telling our friends and the nursery ladies what we got up to in the holidays. It was lovely to hear about all your adventures and we are so good now at waiting for our turn to speak as we go around the circle. We are definitely getting ready for Reception!

We have started our mini beast topic this week and started with a quiz. The children enjoyed seeing if they could guess the mini beast after one clue, but sometimes we needed two or all three clues! Here is the quiz if you like to have a go at home: Click here

We have been ordering numbers this week to complete our mini beast puzzles. If we get them in the right order then the mini beast picture will appear! We also tried this game ordering numbers on the caterpillar: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering . We chose sequencing and numbers 1-10. Let me know how you get on!

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you next week!

Steph

…..and just a few from Justine!

Worship

Living in the wider world

Living in the Wider World helps the children to extend their understanding of the communities we discussed last term and about the responsibilities we all have to people, places and the planet now and increasingly as we get older.

The children will begin to explore the working world of jobs, focusing on their current strengths and aspirations. Money is also introduced, with both underpinned by the religious understanding that our true value comes from God.

Click here to visit the parent portal.

Sports’ Day

Don’t forget that Foundation Sports’ Day is on Monday afternoon (weather permitting). Everyone is welcome!

If it is not your child’s usual session please ensure they are in nursery no later than 1.00 pm (and if you could collect them promptly when it has finished that would be great). Children are to wear shorts, t shirts, suncream and trainers. We have the children's bespoke sports’ day t-shirts here at nursery, we will change them when they arrive.

PLEASE NOTE: BEFORE WASHING THE CHILDREN'S DESIGNED T SHIRTS YOU MUST IRON THEM FOR 3 MINS TO SEAL IN THE COLOUR!

Sunflowers

Well done and a big thank you for nurturing the sunflower seeds we sent home last term. The children have planted them in the garden and have been watering them daily.

Lastly, have a wonderful weekend, let’s hope the sunshine continues. We will see you all on Monday.

God Bless

Barbara

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 16th June "Some old-fashioned things, like sunshine and fresh air are hard to beat!"

I think we can safely say that Summer is here! We have had a hot, but lovely week in Year 4 - in our final half term together. This week, in RHE we have been talking about how our bodies are a gift from God and so we should respect and look after them. We talked about the importance of getting outdoors, how to be adventurous but careful and how to try to nourish and hydrate our bodies with healthy food and drink. This leads us nicely into our Health and Happiness fortnight which begins next week.

Despite the heat, children have again worked their socks off this week. On Tuesday they all took their Multiplication Test - and it was lovely to see their confidence. All the hard work has paid off! We have loved delving deeper into fractions above one whole this week in our maths lessons. Please could you practice telling the time at home with your children, as this will be a focus over the coming weeks.

In English this week, children have been busy using all their Year 4 techniques to describe characters and settings from our novel. They are amazing! They have also written some super limericks about the characters too! Here are some examples of their work below.

On Wednesday night, members of our choir sung at North Pier. They were so entertaining. Well done Ola, Rex, Esther, Arthur, Niamh and Layla. You were wonderful.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, Liam has received a Cooper Crab certificate for excellent focus leading to excellent work!

Rex has received a Tommy Turtle/Roger Robin certificate for giving everything his best shot and being co-operative.

PE stars this week go to Dominic and Esther for being so supportive to their team members.

Attentive and Discerning butterflies

This week we thank Jacob, Michael and Benjamin for helping out when nobody is looking - for the greater good of your class! What beautiful children.

Notices

THERE HAVE BEEN SOME DATE CHANGES SO PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!

DATE CHANGE Wednesday 21st June Gym Jam Jog. Children come in early wearing their pyjamas and bringing a teddy. We jog around the field as many times as possible and children can have breakfast in the hall. All sponsor money goes to building and extending our outside castle for the children - so please bring in on Wednesday.

Friday 23rd June and Friday 30th June. Children will be going bowling at Hope St park for the morning - half class at a tie, with the Year 2 chldren

Monday 26th June: Year 3 and 4 Sports Day 1:30pm

Thursday 6th July: Year 4 Viking and Anglo-Saxon dress up day! Come to school dressed as a Viking, Saxon or a Viking god or goddess.

Monday 10th July: Parents are invited at 2pm into school to watch Year 4 and Year 5 Clarinet concert.

DATE CHANGE Friday 14th July. Parent occupations day. As part of our Year 4 geography topic, we are exploring the world of work and industry. We would love parents to volunteer to come into school at 2:00 to be interviewed and quizzed by groups of children about their occupation. This will help them understand the world of work! Here is the form for you to register your interest in this event.

Have a beautiful weekend in the sun and Happy Father’s Day to all the daddies.

God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Hennessey

Year 3 homework to be handed in on 22.6.23

Maths IXL

Please complete the subtraction strands: F1, F2 and F3

English - Expanded noun phrases

This week we have focused carefully on expanded noun phrases and we are now super confident in not only identifying these, but also writing these in our stories and sentences.

Use your homework books to have a go at improving the following sentences by adding expanded noun phrases.

Ingredients for Food Tech

Miss Neves has asked that the children come to school with the following ingredients next Wednesday.

Sports day warm up!

In our obstacle race we have a tricky skipping section. Why not get out in the sunshine and practise your skipping skills. Can you do 5 consecutive skips or more?

Year 1 Homework 16.6.23

The children have worked very hard this week and deserve a treat so my homework is to enjoy your weekend and have lots of fun, hopefully it stays sunny.

 Once again thank you for all of your support, the children have made so much progress this year and I am incredibly proud of them :)

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 22nd June

Maths

Well done on taking your multiplication check - all your hard work will have paid off! Keep your times tables ticking along so you dont forget them before year5! Results will be here in a few weeks.

1. Please complete IXL levels from YEAR 5! (this consolidates what we have been learning in class)

   Z4 and Z15

2. I have set you FRACTONIO’s PIZZERIA game on level 2 in Purple mash. Can you do it?

Music

It is 4 weeks until our Clarinet performance - we need to practise lots at home. You have all been given your Charanga log in again in case you forgot it.

Please visit Charanga and practice - We Will Rock You, Three Little Birds and th musical riffs piece.

Spelling

We have completed our last two units. These were the spelling patterns sion and ssion. Please complete the sheet and stick it in your homework book.

Year 2 Weekly Blog Friday 16th June 2023 - Shine like the sun!

Year 2 Weekly Blog Friday 16th June - Shine like the sun!

Welcome back! I hope you’ve all had a lovely half term, it was great to see the children come back into school refreshed and ready to learn. The last half term is always busy…we’ve already got the Gym Jam Jog, Sports Day, a library visit and a trip to the zoo booked in. You’ll find all the dates you need for your diaries at the bottom of this page.

The start of a new half term has meant the start of new topics in science and geography.
In science we will be learning about materials, their properties and their uses. We started the topic thinking about what we already know and what we’d like to learn. The children had some interesting questions including: How are bricks made? What makes paper strong? How do you make concrete? How are materials turned into objects?

Our attempts to grow beans has been a partial success! When we returned to school on Monday some of the beans had grown over the half term holiday, we’ve continued to water and care for them and hopefully we’ll see some more beanstalks appear.
The children were excited to tell me about the sunflowers they have been caring for over half term - please send any photos you have to lmarham@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Our new topic in Geography is ‘Around The World’, this week we were introduced to Bobby the Bee, who lives in the UK. Bobby explained that he would like to visit a country in each continent over the next 6 weeks. This week the continent was Europe and the county we focused on was France. We heard about lots of famous french landmarks and types of food that are popular in France. I wonder where Bobby Bee will take us next week?

In music, we learned to play glockenspiels to ‘The Friendship Song’. Check out our video!

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In Maths we’ve continued working on our 5 and 10 times tables and we’ve managed to find a 5 times table song to the tune of one of our favorite songs! The children have really impressed me with the times table knowledge - I wonder if you can challenge them at home with the 2s, 5s and 10 times tables.

We’ve nearly reached the end of our Aladdin topic in English - this week we have looked at The Cave of Wonder. We identified items that Aladdin and Abu came across in the cave and wrote noun phrases. On Thursday we used these noun phrases to independently write a description of the cave. Next week we’ll be joining Aladdin and Jasmine on their magic carpet ride, thinking about what they can see and hear on their magical journey.

On Monday we had a relaxing indoor PE lesson, we made use of our lovely big classroom and took part in a yoga session.

On Wednesday morning, we practised our kicking skills on the school field. We set up a number of stations and the children worked in small groups focusing on kicking and stopping a ball with control, Kicking the ball with accuracy between 2 markers and kicking the ball in a straight line.

Let’s Celebrate

Well done to our certificate winners this week!

Lena
Lena, what a ‘Curious Clara Clownfish’ you have been this week! You have been asking some great questions in lessons to clarify your understanding and extend your learning. You are growing in confidence every week, well done!

Heath

Heath you have come back to school focused and ready to learn. You have been making sensible choices and managing any distractions around you. I’m really looking forward to a successful and productive last half term with you in Year 2.

This week’s Star Readers are Nathan, Joseph and Martha.

Butterfly - Alana for being intentional.

Notices

Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday
KS1 Sports Day - Tuesday 20th June 1.30pm - PE kits to be worn please.
Gym Jam Jog! - Wednesday 21st June 8am
Visit to Hope Street Park Bowls - Friday 23rd June (1st Group)
Visit to Hope Street Park Bowls - Friday 30th June (2nd Group)
Library visit - Wednesday 5th July
Zoo trip - Thursday 13th July (more info to follow)

Reminder - We try our best in school to be a ‘nut free’ zone, there are a number of adults and children in school who have severe nut allergies. Please ensure that snacks and packed lunches are nut free.

As the weather gets warmer we’re hoping to spend more time learning outdoors. Please send your child in with a suitable sunhat with their name in it and apply suncream before school. Please ensure your child brings a water bottle into school.

Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Marham, Mrs Maano and Mrs Carragher

Year 2 Homework Friday 16th June

Maths -
Complete the 5 times tables activities in your home learning books.

Science -
Research famous materials inventors - what did they invent? What is their invention used for?

Geography-
Can you find some fantastic facts about France?

Keep logging on to numbots - click the image below to go straight to the numbots website.

You can also log in to TT Rockstars using your Numbots log in, Click the image below to go staight to the TT Rockstars log in page.

Please continue reading at home - 20 minutes daily.
Reading targets have been reset for our final half term.

This week’s spelling for spelling quiz Friday 23rd June
around wanted going well kind path gold money door wild

Amazing opportunity for budding actors!

An exciting opportunity is on offer at the Grand Theatre that you may be interested in. Between 26th-29th July, they will be hosting a free Musical Theatre workshop day for children aged between 11-17.

You’ll get to learn songs from your favourite musicals with expert practitioners and have your say on the arts in Blackpool.

Here is the digital invite and document that provides more information…

Places are on a first come first serve basis. Please share this widely with any young person you think might be interested. They can register their interest here: https://forms.office.com/e/tCdqJH4Z4P