Year 5 Weekly Blog 21.06.24- ' Everything is better in pyjamas'

What an action packed week it has been! No better way to start the week than in our PJ’s for our annual Jim Jam Jog. Luckily, we were all good in terms of weather and both children and parents came into school in such good spirits. We raised so much money for a charity very close to the Our Lady’s and it was brilliant to have our firefighters with us on the field- joining in with our morning run.

This week also celebrated our much anticipated ‘Italian Day’. All of these preparation over the past few weeks in DT has led to the children cooking their spaghetti bolognese. A task that I had absolutely no impact on- all of the hard work came from Mrs Mather, Miss Neves and the children. However, myself and Mrs Gregan got to taste test their creations and there were truly delicious- very impressive I must say.

In English, we have finished our plan for our newspaper articles and have began to write up our final edition of the newspaper. The children have loved playing the role of a journalist in choosing their own professional title, choosing which newspaper to work for and creating some puntastically creative headlines.

In Maths, we have delved deeper into our fractions topic and looked at the connection between improper fractions and mixed number fractions and how we convert between the two.

Lots of Geography this week as we have looked into Britain’s natural resources and how we use these. This has been a great insight into how these resources affect our environment and how we as the eco class can positively impact this.

Let’s Celebrate

  • Cora for being an enthusiastic learner: It may be the last half term of the year, but you are still just as eager to learn than you were back in September. You have thrown yourself straight into our new fractions topic along with putting in the extra effort so early on into our play practice. You have also represented our school excellently in sports competition- playing with such enthusiasm and respect.

  • Rose and Pippa for being creative learners: Your creativity in our writing lessons always blow me away. All of those reading hours have been paying off. Creating catchy headlines, using puns, was a match made in heaven task for you two. I can’t wait to read the rest of your articles.

  • Virtue Butterflies: Our new virtues for the half term are grateful and generous. This weeks butterfly goes to Elsie and Michael. Elsie, you are always so generous towards the adults in our school. You are always offering to assist any member of staff in a task and you never mind doing a job when asked. Michael, you are so generous towards the other children in our class and are there to always offer a hand when someone needs cheering up.

Lunchtime Certificates

  • Marvellous Manners- Luke and Sophia

  • Role Model of the Week- Roseanna and Bella

Notices

  • Assessment Week- This week, the children will be completing their end of year assessments. Due to the children being so close to Year 6, the children will be completing 6 SAT style papers but tapered to the Year 5 curriculum. I have emphasised that this is more of a celebration of what the children have learned over the year and these scores do not contribute towards any outcome- so there is no need worry. One of these papers will be a spelling test so there will be no spelling homework this week.

  • Wednesday 10th July Music Concert- This will take place at 2pm of this day to celebrate what the children have learned this year in music.

  • Thursday 11th July- We will be spending the day at St Bedes, along with many other schools in our area for a ‘PE Day’. Children are to come into school in their PE kits so there will be no need for watches and earrings. Plenty of water will be needed.

Year 5/6 Dynamo Cricket Tournament

First of all, apologies for the late notice. We were given the wrong date initially and have only just been made aware of the actual date.

The tournament will take place this Tuesday 18th June at Lytham Cricket Club- starting at 1pm-5pm.

Due to late notice, we will offer transport to the cricket club but we can not offer transport back to school after the event. So if this option is chosen, we will take your child to the cricket club and then parents would take the children home from the cricket club, after the event has finished. You can pick your child up from school at 12:30pm and take them to the cricket club if you would prefer.

Lunches will be as normal, the children will have their lunch in school slightly earlier. Unfortunately, only 10 children could be taken to the event.

The children chosen to take part are:

Stanley, Evan, Owen, Leo, Edi, Archie, Ben B, Cora, Bella, Sophia

Please complete the form below so we know how each child is getting picked up from school.

If your child can not take part in the event then please let me know ASAP

Transport Form

Year 1 Homework 14.6.24

First of all thank you for all the phonics work you have done at home, it has been a very busy week and I am so proud of everyone, they have made made so much progress.

My homework this weekend is to enjoy it together and catch up on some reading. The children will be back to their normal RWI groups on Monday, so books have gone home.

Reading

Please continue to read regularly at home and sign the challenge boxes, just a reminder it is one box per day.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 5 Weekly Blog 14.06.24- 'Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must. Just never give up'

What a way to kick off our final half term of the year than with Sports Day! I’m sure it is not just my favourite day of the school calendar but it will be many of the children also. Luckily, the weather held out for us and even the sunshine was present during the later stages of the afternoon. We could not fault the children’s effort levels and also their attempts to cheer on their houses. Feeling very tired and sore the next day, they were not thrilled to find out that we were running in their PE lesson on Thursday. However, the children got to experience yoga to also celebrate health and happiness week. This relaxation session, along with some vital stretching , I’m sure contributed towards their recovery

In English, we have began planning our newspaper article and keeping with the sports day theme, along with it being the Olympics year, our article will be around the events of ‘Super Saturday London 2012’. The children have read and responded to a celebratory article about this day, to help collect some background knowledge on the events of this day.

In Maths, we have began our final topic of the year- and it’s a big one in fractions. We began by creating a keywords glossary, in which the children can refer to over the next 5 weeks. We then have used pictorial diagrams to compare fractions and using our knowledge of denominators to add and subtract fractions.

Conversation starters…

In Geography, we have been looking at natural resources and some of Britain’s most valuable resources such as coal, petrol, natural gas and oil.

1) Research the current price for petrol in 2024

2) Discuss with your parents how this price has changed over the years

Let’s Celebrate

  • Arthur for being a determined learner: After two last minute pull outs- you were required to step up and swim far more than you were expected. You kept going all of the way and never stopped in the swimming gala (even with your goggles breaking). You showed such a positive attitude through out the whole morning and you cheered your teammates on throughout their races.

  • Faye for being a focused learner: I have notcied a real improvement in your focus with week Faye. You are becoming less tempted to turn around and chat to your friends- knowing when it is/isn’t the right time to do so. Thank you for taking on this advice and for reflecting over half term. This has given you more confidence in lessons in understanding the work and your hand is shooting up ready to answer questions.

  • Virtue Butterflies: Our new virtues for the half term are grateful and generous. This weeks butterfly goes to Esther. You are so grateful for your learning and any opportunity that comes your way.

Lunchtime Certificates

  • Marvellous Manners- Niamh

  • Role Model of the Week- Isaac

Notices

  • Monday 17th June Jim Jam Jog- This will start at 8am on the school field. Children to be in their pj’s for the run (parents feel free to also wear your pj’s). The money that you have been raising, can that be brought in as well.

  • Thursday 20th June Year 5 Italian Day- This will be the day that the children are cooking their Spaghetti Bolognese in food technology. All ingredients needed for this will need to be brought in.

  • Tuesday 25th June- The Year 5/6 Dynamo Cricket Tournament will take place at Lytham Cricket Club starting at 1pm-5pm. Please check the sports blog in the upcoming days to see if your child has been chosen to take part.

Year 3 Weekly Blog 14th June - "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James

Our class worship was led by Alana, Louisa and Lucia, they read “A miracle at the temple gate’ Acts 3,4 and we enjoyed singing Shine Jesus Shine. Our word of the week has been Growth, we read about how a tiny mustard seed grows into a huge tree and how this showed us the importance of something so small. We compared it to small acts of kidness that make peoples day, small jobs that add up to something much bigger and small words that often show love and kindness. Next week we will be planting our own tiny seeds and nurturing them to help them grow into something much bigger which we hope will bring you some joy.

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Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 20th June

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. sacrifice

  2. secretary

  3. shoulder

  4. signature

  5. sincere

  6. sincerely

  7. solider

  8. stomach

  9. sufficient

  10. suggest

  11. symbol

  12. system

Maths

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

Final reading target of the year! Let’s go out with a bang and reach our target to top off an excellent year of reading. The children will receive their new ZPD codes on Monday to help them pick books when in the library.

This week...

Welcome back to our final half term of the year!

Everyone was eager to get back to nursery and to see their friends and to see what we will be learning this half term.

Click on the button below to find out!

Planning

This half term is always very busy so keep a look out for texts and remember to read the blog weekly. We would not like you to miss anything.

Our learning thread ‘all about mini beasts’ kicked off this week by everyone sharing what they already knew. We then watched this short video which asked ‘What is a mini beast?’ Click here to watch at home. Maybe you could go on a mini beast hunt in your garden or at the park?

Worship

This week we have discussing ‘growth’ and what small things we can be doing in our lives that have the potential to grow and spread; what can we do more of in nursery?

In the Gospel Jesus tells us the parable of the seed that grows and the parable of the mustard seeb. The readings focus on faith, growth andhumility. The messages show God’s power to nurture and transform lives, encouraging us to trust and follow him.

Number 10

Click here to watch

This episode introduces a big idea that is fundamental to understanding our base 10 system. Ten is both ten ones and also one ten. This introduces the concept of unitising. Ten is both ten ones an done unit of ten. Young children need lots of experience of exchanging ten ones for one ten and recognising their equivalence( they have the same value). Notice the gridlines marking ten sometimes disappear, to mark the fact that she is one ten and plays a special role in other numbers that follow, e.g. 11 is one ten and one more. Wow, who knew we were learning all that!

Sports Day

Mr Cornwell has been busy planning this year’s Sports Days. This morning, for the first time in a long time, we have had a track painted on the school field. Practise is well and truly underway! Please make a note of this year’s Sports Day time and date.

Our hymn of the week is ‘This little light of mine’. Click here to sing and watch at home.

Tuesday 18th June at 1.30pm - Nursery & Reception Sports Day

As with the good old British weather, we cannot rely too much on forecasts. It is looking dry and bright this week; hopefully we will be able to get this week’s event completed. The children are always the priority and we want to ensure that they enjoy the events. If there has been rain or it is forecast, we will look at how safe the ground is for them to compete. If we need to postpone the event because of the weather, we will do so at 11am. This will give all parents the chance to rearrange work or to make plans. It has been deliberate to put the events in quickly when we have returned, just incase there was any rearranged ones needing to take place.

Just a reminder that we are collecting for The Manchester Children’s Hospital in honour of our Dominic. Please bring change with you for our collection buckets!

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone, and welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful two weeks off.

The children have got right back into their learning and have been having lots of fun with their friends. 

We have been very busy practicing our sporting activities in preparation for sports day; throwing bean bags in the hoop, relay races and much more. The children have worked so hard with listening and understanding the rules of each of the games. It’s going to be very exciting for the children on the day.

We have started a new topic this term; we will be learning about mini beasts. The children are very excited as they already love looking for different mini beasts in the garden. We have started to look at the life cycle of butterflies and frogs. On Wednesday our baby caterpillars arrived. We have to nurture and look after them so they grow in to butterflies. We are so excited to see this happen. I'll keep you all posted. 

Keeping with this thread of learning, we have been looking at how butterflies have symmetrical wings in terms of colour, shapes and patterns. I drew a large butterfly and the children had to work out if my butterfly was symmetrical on both side of the wings. We used pom poms and coloured shaped gems and the children found it a bit tricky as my butterfly wasn't quite right, but working as a team we worked it out.

We also met number 10 this week. The children were over joyed as they have been looking forward to meeting this number. 

We worked out as a group how many 1's were in 10, and that we had 10 fingers and toes. 

Here is a ladybird counting, matching and ordering game. Have fun. Click here.

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday. I wonder how big our caterpillars will have grown?

Emma

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog.

What a busy first week back we have had! I hope you all had a nice rest over half term as we are going to be busier than ever for the last half term of the school year.

We were very lucky this week to have had a visit from a lovely fluffy puppy, as one of our friends brought in their puppy to show us. We had lots of questions, like what does she eat, why do dogs chase cats and why does she have paws and not hands. We were so excited that we got to give her a stroke. She was so good, I think she really liked it at nursery. We hope she can come back and see us again.

We did have a challenge this week that our Year 6 friends had to help us with. Barbara brought back a kite from her travels and we tried really hard to get it to fly. Turns out it is really tricky to fly a kite but we did get it off the ground a little bit. We hope to keep practising until we are experts.

We also met Numberblock number 10 this week and have been trying to think of lots of different ways to make 10. Watch here.

We have really grown our brains as we work out how many ones are in bigger and bigger numbers, we even got to one billion!

We have started a new topic this half term – we will be learning all about mini beasts and have started by discussing what we know already about different minibeasts. We loved the butterflies and loved the fact that the wings are the same pattern on each side. We painted our own butterflies, making sure they were symmetrical. We then explored symmetry further with the loose parts in the garden.

We have also found time to practise for sports day which is next week, hope to see you all there.

Have a lovely weekend

Michelle

Jim Jam Jog

Don’t forget to join us for the Jim Jam Jog on Monday at 8.00am! Every Summer, 240 children, staff and parents come dressed in their pjs ready to run as many times around the school field as possible. The funds raised always go towards the development of the school; this year that is our outside area and break time equipment.

In addition, this year we wanted to help another cause. It is very important that our children are aware of their community and causes that are close to them and us. There have been a number of significant events that have really made us stop this year and reflect. We hope that this summer, we can raise money for them both.

On 15th September 2023, we lost a very dear former pupil of ours, Harrison Bretheron. In a couple of week’s time, the family and friends of Harrison will be running his 22nd mile. Harrison never made it to 22 years of age; this is their tribute to him. All money raised from the run will be donated between Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and The Firefighter’s Charity; both of which have supported many of our current and former families. So far, they have raised over £15,000 - it is remarkable. We want to do our bit as well. Please support this event as much as you can - get your pjs ready!

We will be hosting a second charity towards the end of the year which our Year 5 children will tell us all about in a few week’s time.

Finally, have a fabulous weekend and I will see you all bright and early on Monday morning.

God Bless

Barbara

Year 3 Homework- Tuesday 10th June

Spellings

This weeks focus is common exception words
Spelling quiz will be on Monday 17th June

  1. appear

  2. material

  3. library

  4. perhaps

  5. sentence

  6. various

  7. regular

  8. bicycle

  9. possess

  10. caught

Reading
Reading targets have been reset! On Monday and Tuesday the children completed their Star reading assessments - thier new reading levels have been noted in the front of their homework books and on their log in cards in class.

Summer Term Optional Homework

New Summer 2 homework task will be online next Tuesday.





Swimming Gala Selections- Friday 14th June 2024

Friday 14th June, which is the first week back after half term, will be this years swimming Gala at Palatine Leisure Centre, Blackpool, FY4 2AP.

We were limited to around 4 children in each category.

Well done to the children chosen to take part.

Year 5 Girls:

Elsie, Niamh, Ella, Sophia, Esther

Year 5 Boys:

Benjamin, Luke, Isaac, Arthur

Year 6 Girls:

Millie, Iris, Tabby, Daisy

Year 6 Boys:

Owen, Max, Stanley, Edi

Arrival will be 8:45am as we are in the first slot for the changing rooms. Parents are to take their child straight to the leisure centre and then back to school. Scheduled finish time is 12:30pm so the children will have lunch at school.

Parents can stay and watch with their being a seated stand at the leisure centre.

Children to come wearing their PE kits (with their hoodies) and are to bring their swimming costume, towel, goggles, swimming cap for anyone with long hair and plenty of fluid to stay hydrated. Isotonic drinks are acceptable. No energy drinks. Water is advised.

Make sure to have a fueling breakfast as snacks are not allowed during the gala due to the children being poolside.