Year 6 Weekly Blog - 'The best is yet to come. The start of a New Year is the chance to rewrite your book.'

Welcome back…

Wishing you all a very happy new year. It has been so lovely to welcome the children back to school this week, despite the bitter cold. The most important part of any school is the people within it. We have loved seeing the smiles and listening to all of the wonderful stories that the festive season has brought. On Monday we celebrated as a whole school the feast of the Epiphany in liturgy. It was an opportunity for the children to spend a few minutes reflecting on what a miracle the baby Jesus was.

The children have been thinking about what 2025 might look like for them. The children have all reflected on their year ahead and thought about their new year’s resolutions- what do they want to improve this year and what are they going to do to achieve this. They are all going to come across some monumental experiences and opportunities this year. Some of them will be challenging, some will be exciting, some they will be anxious about. Whatever happens, they know they have the skills to tackle it with great resilience and determination. I have to say, they have all come back to school extremely well rested and ready to take on all the challenges they come across in their learning- I am so proud of them this week, they have worked so hard!

This half term, we are looking at what it means to be faithfilled and hopeful. Both of these qualities will be really important as we journey towards half term, having faith in oursleves, others and most importantly God. With faith and love, comes hope, hope that we can achieve the things we want to and hope in others.

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This week we have done lots of work on multiples to 100,000, as well as working on the accuracy of our arithmetic work. Our focus in English has been on gathering content and analysing biographies, adding vocabulary and it’s features to our working wall. Next week, we will spend each day writing a paragraph on our class biography of Henry VIII, I can’t wait to see how they put everything they have learnt in to practice.This week in indoor PE we have been practicing and developing our athletics events and trying to beat our personal best in speed bounce, standing long jump and triple jump.

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Leading Learners

Well done to Pippa.

Pippa, you work tirelessly in lessons to be the best you can be and I love teaching you as you are always so focused and engaged, with your great attention, you have the ability to think deeply about subjects, taking your learning that step further! Your thirst for learning is contagious and how you strive to challenge yourself in your work is wonderful- keep this up Pippa!

Faithfilled and Hopeful butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are intention in their actions. Children who show great faith in themselves, others and God. We will also be spotting children who are hopeful, who show hope for the future, enabling us to trust ourselves and those around us with the decisions that will shape our future. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Layla for being faithfilled and hopeful.

 Lunch Time Awards …

Marvellous Manners awards … Liam

Role Model of the week … Elsie

Helpers in the mornings:

This week and for the first week back after Christmas we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Ella Luke Michael Elsie

Notices

Indoor Athletics Competition- Will take place on Wednesday 15th January at Stanley Park Sports Centre in Blackpool. Those that have been picked will have been informed and information will be on the sports page.

PE is now on Tuesday and Wednesday. Indoor PE is Tuesday and outdoor is Wednesday at 9am.

Homework is handed in every Wednesday and goes out on Thursday.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

Year 6 Home Learning 9.1.25

Homework should be completed and brought back to school for the following Wednesday

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! In your books please also complete the maths questions that are stuck in.

English- Please complete the reading comprehension on Barack Obama, a biography that will help our writing next week!

Spelling - Please complete the spellings rules sheet in your books- we will practice these throughout the week in class but you also need to practice them at home ready for our quiz on a Thursday!

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

Consent for photographs to be taken at the Grand theatre

Dear Parents,

Year 4 children will be visiting the Grand on a few occasions in the next few weeks. We will be going for our storytelling festival on Monday 3rd Feb and also in March to perform our section of ‘The Tempest,’ on stage.

Please could you fill in the form below to give your consent about photographs? The Grand theatre has outlined what these are used for and I have added it to the form for you to read.

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 8th January

Spellings

This weeks focus is common exception words - here’s the next set of these tricky words that we just need to learn…no patterns or special rules.

1. promise

2. quarter

3. describe

4. answer

5. arrive

6. notice

7. decide

8. library

9. address

10. believe

Reading

Reading targets have been reset, please listen to your child read at home for 15 minutes each night - it really does make a huge difference.

Purple Mash - Optional activities linked to our learning will be added to purple mash each week.

TT Rock Stars and Numbots - please encourage your child to log on to and practise number skills and times tables.

Spring 1 Optional homework - below is the link for this half term’s optional homework. These task link to our learning in class.

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Year 5 & 6 Indoor Athletics Competition- Wednesday 15th January

This is to take place at Stanley Park Sports Centre, Blackpool, FY3 9HQ on Wednesday 15th January.

The event will start at 12:30pm-4:00pm

Children will have lunch in school as normal and will be taken to the sports centre via a coach- provided by school. The children will need to be picked up from Blackpool Sports Centre when the event finishes.

Children are to wear their PE kit and to have plenty of fluids. Water is highly recommended but the children are allowed an isotonic hydration drink.

Parents are welcome to come and watch the event

The children taking part are listed below

Girls Boys

Elsie Archie

Cora Rex

Bella Dominic

Faye

Millie Jacob

Layla Ben

Gabriella Gus

Erin Liam

Sophia Benjamin

Niamh John Paul

Daisy Lorenzo

Charlotte Seth

Rose Logan

Beth

Matilda

Spring 1 Extra-Curricular Opportunities

Here is our Spring 1 extra-curricular offer. Please click on the button below to see what is available and what your child can sign up for. If you child attends the All Stars Wrap Around Care at school and would like to take part in the clubs, please still complete the form so that we can amend registers. Children will be able to attend All Stars before of after the clubs.

As per previous terms, the Mini-Vinnie group will continue to run on a Monday after school and Choir on a Thursday whilst they prepare for The Big Sing at Lowther Pavillion on the 5th March. On a Tuesday after school, Mr Nay will be working with our All Stars children as part of our club offer there.

Please sign up to the clubs using the buttons below.

Year 2 Home Learning to be handed in on Monday 13th January

Welcome back everyone.

It was lovely to see all the children excited to see their friends and ready to learn again. We have dived straight back in!

CHANGES

There are some changes to the home learning. We now combine the spelling and handwriting together. We also introduce sentence dictations. This allows the children to listen, sound out and check over. In Maths we will be introducing fluency games to play at home. I’m just waiting for some training on this for myself and then I’ll introduce it to you and the children. This week we have a video explaining the bridging we are doing in class.

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READING

Please make reading your priority each evening. Allow your child to build up their fluency and please do read to them - this is were new words and worlds open up!

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HANDWRITING/SPELLING

Please watch the film here you will find CAPITAL LETTER PRACTICE and the dictated sentences.

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SPELLING

Spelling rule this week changing single nouns to plurals - change the y into i and add es.

Play “Ping Pong” You say and show the word single. Then the child says the plural and writes the plural - this time dropping the y and adding ies.

cherry cherries

baby babies

family families

story stories

army armies

WHAT MY BOOK LOOKS LIKE

MATHS

Before half term, the children were learning how to bridge through ten when adding two numbers. We broke down this process over a number of lessons. We revised it immediately on our return. Some children are finding it tricky and it highlights our need to have automacitiy with all number bonds for numbers below ten. I have made a film especially for you so you can see how we are recording the bridging process. You will see how, over time, and with lots of practice this bridging becomes a mental strategy.

We have glued the maths sheets into their book - if the book was in school. If not it has been handed to the child and placed in their bag.

Having explained all this - we have a number of children in class who can already mentally bridge through ten. For those children it would be good for them to continue with their numbots.

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Below is the button for our optional extra learning opportunities. These tasks link into the learning taking place over the next 6 weeks. We love to see your work and it is lovingly displayed in class.

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Enjoy!

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 20th December 'Its the most wonderful time of the year!"

It has been a glorious week full of Christmas memories in year 4 this week! Monday saw us first engaging in worship around the gospel of great joy. This was followed by doing our Carol concert in church and I am sure you would agree, they gave us all goosebumps! The rest of the week has seen us have parties, do numerous festive crafts, make ice-cream, watch movies and have enrichment too. Far too many photos this week - so instead there is a video below of all the magic this week. There is also a special Christmas flute performance for your viewing pleasure.

Let’s Celebrate!

Lunchtime awards:

Role model: Eliie-Rose

Marvellous Manners: Jackson

This week, the children have voted for the certificate winners in class. They were asked to think of children who go above and beyond and demonstrate every learning character. It was tricky, as so many children do this in Year 4.

However, joint boy winners were Liam and Rodnie.

Rodnie it was said you have excellent focus and you participate fully in all learning. You are a super listener.

Liam, your friends said you are always so polite. You also have excellent focus. Your friends said you are friendly and kind.

Girls, it was close but our winner by one point was Phoebe. Your friends said you are always kind and you manage your distractions. They said every breaktime you help people!

To be chosen out of all the beautiful children in Year 4 is praise indeed! Well done.

Notices

Egyptian trip

On Thursday 16th January we are going to Bolton museum for an Egyptian workshop. The cost of the trip is £16 and it is payable on Parentpay. The children have simply adored this topic.

Have a happy, holy and special Christmas together. Thank you for the privilege of teaching these lovely children.

Mrs Lyons and Mrs Carter.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 20.12.24- It's not what's under the tree that matters, it's who is around it'

Quizzes

Xmas cards

Party

film afternoons

Notices

• Make sure to keep on track with your reading and your times tables

• We come back to school on Monday 6th January

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo

I cannot believe we have arrived at the end of the second half term! What a wonderful term it has been, as we switched our attention to Design and technology and structures. We have had such fun experimenting and exploring a range of techniques with a plethora of tools to create a range of models. From joining various materials using different techniques and resources , to produce a windmill and a chair. We have learned that a structure needs to be; strong, stiff and stable ( the three S’s) to be a viable structure. They have discovered that cylinders are stronger, stiffer and are more stable than other 3D shapes. Have a look at our paper cylinder chair that we made in groups! The children have been so enthusiastic to share their thoughts on processes, discuss why the three S’s are so important in construction.

It has been an absolute pleasure working with your children and I cannot wait for the New Year, where we turn our focus to painting and mixed-media!

Have a wonderful, magical, Holy Christmas

God Bless

Mrs Mather

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo

I cannot believe we have arrived at the end of the second half term! What a wonderful term it has been, as we switched our attention to Design and technology and Textiles. The children have, followed a design criteria to plan, create and produce a soft, stuffed toy. Sewing is a very tricky skill and they have shown such resilience and determination to apply their new knowledge of blanket stitch to their work. The results were fantastic! We also had a snippet of time to have a go at some embroidery!

Next half term, we will be turning our attention to painting and mixed media and I cannot wait to see the wonderful work the children will produce! Please can you ensure your child has an art shirt in school, as we will be getting mucky!

Have a wonderful, magical, holy Christmas.

God Bless

Mrs Mather

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo

I cannot believe we have arrived at the end of the second half term! What a wonderful term it has been, as we switched our attention to Design and technology and structures. We have had such fun experimenting and exploring a range of techniques with a plethora of tools to create a range of models. From joining various materials using different techniques and resources , to practicing our cutting skills with cooked spaghetti and shaped scissors! The children have been so enthusiastic to share their thoughts on processes, discuss why they have chosen certain resources and for what purpose. And to finish the half term, a sliding mechanism Nativity scene.

It has been an absolute pleasure working with your children and I cannot wait for the New Year, where we turn our focus to painting and mixed-media!

Have a wonderful, magical, Holy Christmas

God Bless

Mrs Mather

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo

I cannot believe we have arrived at the end of the second half term! What a wonderful term it has been, as we switched our attention to Design and technology and Textiles. We have had such fun experimenting and exploring a range of techniques with a plethora of tools to create our Nativity hand puppets. From joining various materials using different techniques and resources , to practicing our cutting skills when working with fabric. The children have been so enthusiastic to share their thoughts on processes, discuss why they have chosen certain resources and for what purpose. And to finish the half term, we have learned to thread a needle and use running stitch to make a pouch.

It has been an absolute pleasure working with your children and I cannot wait for the New Year, where we turn our focus to painting and mixed-media!

Have a wonderful, magical, Holy Christmas

God Bless

Mrs Mather

Year 6 Weekly Blog 'It's the most wonderful time of the year'

I think you will all agree that Monday’s concert at church was so magical and a real thought-provoking evening for us all. We were so unbelievably proud of the children; the way they spoke and the way they sung was just beautiful - it really started Christmas for us all. Thank you for coming and joining us in this celebration.

Amidst all of these performances and our own rehearsals, the children have continued to work incredibly hard. We have have been analysing biographies, using adjusting to subtract decimals and large numbers and been learning all about networking in computing!

We finally finished our class novel ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ and I have to say it was most definitely worth waiting for! It was quite a dramatic ending with lots of emotion. I am sorry to those that missed the ending- please don’t worry you can borrow the book to finish after Christmas or if you can’t wait, I have attached the PDF below:

On Wednesday was our well-deserved Christmas Party, where we danced, played games and laughed …ALOT! It was so lovely to relax and enjoy this time together as a class, followed by a nice treat, relaxing in front of a film!

We loved meeting up with our reception partners on Tuesday to complete our pilgrimage, have a play and then listen to the Christmas Story in the chapel…

Thank you to all of the children for their hard work this term, make sure this Christmas you get plenty of rest and re-charge those batteries ready for a busy, hard-working next half term- they are more than ready!

LEARNER OF THE HALF TERM

Voted for by your classmates for being an excellent learning role model within our classroom. The class think you have shone this half term …

Isaac and Bella

Lunch Time Awards …

Marvelous Manners awards … Esther

Role Model of the week … Ben B

Helpers in the mornings:

The first week back after Christmas we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Cora Roseanna Millie Arthur

Have a lovely Christmas full of fun, family-time and relaxation.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Carter.

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo

I cannot believe we have arrived at the end of the second half term! What a wonderful term it has been, as we switched our attention to Design and technology and structures. We have had such fun experimenting and exploring a range of techniques with a plethora of tools to create and manipulate boxes and cartons to produce a castle out of junk. From joining various materials using different techniques and resources and constructing 3D shapes to form a part of the building. We have learned that a structure needs to be; strong, stiff and stable ( the three S’s) to be a viable structure. They have learned about the various parts of a castle and for what purpose they served. The children have been so enthusiastic to share their thoughts on processes, discuss why the three S’s are so important in the construction of buildings.

Next half term, we turn our attention to painting and mixed media, I cannot wait to work alongside the children to see what wonderful work they produce1 please can you ensure, your child has an art shirt in school, as we will get a bit mucky!

Have a wonderful, magical, holy Christmas.

God Bless

Mrs Mather