This week...

A fabulous but bust week at nursery…again! The sun has been shining and we have enjoyed every minute of it! We even got the BIG water play out in the garden, it was so much fun!

Mrs. Tierney from year five brought us some frog spawn this week…and we made a pond! Already, the eggs have started to hatch into tadpoles. We have been watching very carefully for when they grow their back legs…then front legs…their tails to shrink… and their lungs to develop. We watched a short video which explained the life cycle of frogs. Click here to watch at home.

Emma’s Blog

Hello everyone. It has been another great week for learning in the sunshine.

We are super excited about our new visitors in the nursery garden. We have a family of tadpoles! A big thank you to Mrs Tierney for bringing them for us.

We have continued to explore Lucky Number 7 this week. The children have been making rainbows in our floor book representing the 7 colours of the rainbow. We have also noticed that each colour of a rainbow matched the colours which make up ‘7’. The children also have been practicing writing number 7.

Here's a number 7 game. Click on number 7 to start the game have fun. Click here.

The children have been very busy in the garden, building with LARGE bricks and Waffle bricks. They have built tall towers and short towers as well as houses. They used their structures to retell the story of The Three Little Pigs! The brick house gave them somewhere to hide from the wolf!!! We also played ‘Wolf’s Coming’…our favourite story! We also played Wolfs Coming in the school castle.

 I cannot believe we have only one week left at nursery before we break up for Easter, see you all on Monday. Have a lovely weekend everyone. 

Emma 

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog 

The sun has definitely been shining this week which has meant much of our learning has taken place outside in the garden.

We continue to be meteorologists as we discovered our shadows only come out in the sun. We will explore more next week.  

We were excited this week as we now have frogspawn in the garden. We are learning about the lifecycle of a frog and this made us think about babies, and how they all have different names. We were surprised to find out that a baby rabbit is called a kitten. We have been painting our own baby animals.

We met number block lucky number 7 last week and this week we continue to practice writing numbers and counting up to 7.

Here is the rhyme if you would like to have a go at home " A line in the sky then down to the ground, that's how lucky 7 can be found". Don't forget your duck fingers!

 Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Michelle

Worship

This week we have continued our pilgrimage to the cross by going tot the chapel. We took our rosary beads with us to hep us to focus our thoughts. We are trying hard to learn the Our Father and Glory be prayers. Our prayer leaders are a great help.

Next week will be Holy Week in school. Each assembly will be portrayed by year 2 to year 6.

Monday- Palm Sunday

Tuesday- The Last Supper

Wednesday- The Garden of Gethsemane

Thursday- The Crucifixion

Friday- The Resurrection.

They start at 9.15am each morning if you would like to come and join us.

During our final week of the term, we will be joined in school by statues that belong to the Pilgrims of Grace. This special initiative involves three statues of Our Lady of Lourdes, patroness of our diocese, visiting every school in the Diocese of Lancaster. The tour culminates in October with representatives from all our schools gathering at one of three diocesan sites: St. Mary’s, Cleator, St. Mary’s, Ladyewell, or Sacred Heart, Blackpool. During the week we will be coming together to worship alongside the statues before taking them to their next school; St John Vianney. The statute will be positioned in the Worship Area if any of you would like to come and pay your respects.

Also, this Sunday is Family Mass, 9.30 am at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church. We look forward to seeing you.

Lenten Boxes

All Lenten boxes to be sent in by Wednesday at the latest. Thank you for your support.

Easter Egg raffle

Our Easter egg raffle will take place next Friday. If you haven’t yet sent in your money for raffle tickets, don’t worry it’s not too late…remember, you have to be in it to win it!!!!

Easter Holidays

Nursery will close for the Easter holidays next Friday (11th April) at 2 pm and reopen on Tuesday 22nd April.

I’m hoping that the sunshine shines on us all this weekend. Enjoy spending time with loved ones.

Stay safe and God Bless.

Barbara

Year 5 Homework- Due 10th April

Maths

To be completed on IXL;

H14- Divide 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers: word problems

Y8- Select figures of a given area

Grammar and Punctuation- Parenthesis

We have been learning about parenthesis, which is using brackets, dashes and commas to add extra information to a sentence.

TOP TIP- If you remove the extra information (inside the punctuation) then your sentence should still make sense. Make sure to cover the parenthesis with your finger and read the sentence out loud to check if it makes sense.

There are 5 questions to complete in their books. Read each sentence carefully and use our top tip to help you out.

Spellings

Can you remember the theme in this weeks spellings. Remember the little tricks we learnt with some of our homophones.

  1. board

  2. pear

  3. farther

  4. serial

  5. heard

  6. stationery

  7. steal

  8. lead (heavy metal)

  9. led (past tense verb)

  10. aloud

  11. passed

  12. guessed

  13. allowed

  14. guest

  15. past

Mrs Barkers group

  1. pair

  2. hear

  3. weak

  4. knew

  5. our

  6. pour

  7. whole

  8. night

  9. which

  10. sea

Year 5 Weekly Blog 28.03.25- ' When we have been hurt, we cannot recover until we forgive'

What a glorious week it has been. The sun is shining, learning is flowing, Easter preparations are continuing and the children are in high spirits. This week was the first time we have practiced in the hall as we learn stage directions and adding that extra dramatic effect to our holy worship of Easter.

In RE, We have had some warmly discussions about the importance of forgiveness. We shared experiences of when there have been times when it has been hard to forgive and we have found it within ourselves to do so. We also talked about the consequences of lying and how that can impact both trust and forgiveness in the future.

This week, we have been learning…

  • Maths- The children have been smashing short division this week, now tackling 4 digit by 1 digit numbers including lots of carrying and overall remainders.

  • Science- we have been experimenting with water resistance and discussed how this impacts even our fun play in the water such as ways to jump into a swimming pool. We analaysed how the factors affecting water resistance change the outcome of three different types of jumps. We then replicated this on a smaller scale, using objects to act as these shapes.

  • Geography- We have continued to use map grid references to precisely and have made this even more precise by introducing 6 figure gird references as opposed to 4 figures.

  • PE- It was all about patience, carefulness and team strategy in the team games this week as we used our balancing and hand eye coordination techniques to complete team relays just using a tennis racket and bean bag.

Let’s Celebrate

Learning Certificate- Sean for being a focused and cooperative learner. Staying focused and determined throughout independent tasks can be tricky, especially in Year 5. However, you have no issues with this at all. You manage your distractions really well and you get your head down and are super focused on your work. You also work really well alongside your learning partners and you use this time wisely to share your thinking and reasoning skills.

Virtue Star of the Week- Our star of the week goes to Rose. You are such a generous person Rose, especially with our younger children. It really does bring a smile to my face when I see you saying hello and goodbye to our Year 1 and Reception children at break times. It just shows the bond you have created with them and how grateful they are to have you as a role model.


Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog to keep on track of your child’s SPAG, multiplication and division practice and also their reading.

  • Wednesday 2nd April- School Photo Day. Children are to come into school in their school uniform. Any child who plays for the school netball and football teams, please bring your kit as well. There will be no PE on this day.

  • Forest School- This will be starting on Friday 4th April. You will be sent a text the previous night to make aware who is doing this on which day as the class are split into groups. The children will just need to bring in a change spare of clothes- ones suitable for outdoor activities and working within a forest environment.

  • Friday 4th April Reconciliation- Our Year 5 and 6 children will be given the opportunity for reconciliation by having confessions with our Father Peter in the lead to up to our lent preparations. This is usually done in high school but yourIf you would not like your child to participate then please let Mr Cornwell, Mrs Gregan or the school office know.

    If your child is likely to attend St Bedes High School. They are given the opportunity to make their sacrament of confirmation. We have been given the opportunity to do this when the children get to Year 6. Please complete the form below to choose which option you would like for your child.

Sacrament of Confirmation

  • Thursday 10th April Crucifixion Assembly- This will be held at school at 9:15am

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 3rd April

Maths

To be completed on IXL;

H18- Divide larger numbers: interpret remainders

Grammar and Punctuation

To complete the 10 SPAG questions, which have been stuck in their book.

Spellings

Can you remember the theme in this weeks spellings. Can you spot the pattern in these spellings.

  1. peculiar

  2. centre

  3. thought

  4. perform

  5. curtain

  6. understandably

  7. horribly

  8. suitably

  9. possibly

  10. comfortably

  11. incredibly

  12. miserably

  13. responsibly

  14. reasonably

  15. sensibly

Mrs Barkers group

  1. strange

  2. middle

  3. think

  4. mind

  5. blind

  6. know

  7. chance

  8. amazing

  9. smart

  10. fair

This week...

A glorious week of learning and glorious weather!

We have planted meadow seeds throughout the garden, we think it will be the most colourful garden in St. Annes. We are also hopeful of some frog spawn, so we have made a pond in readiness!

Meet Lucky number 7

It's a rainy day for a picnic, but when lucky number Seven appears, everything comes up rainbows. Learn all about the number 7 with Numberblock Seven. Click here to watch at home!

We have also been writing ‘7’. Here’s the rhyme to help you at home - ‘a line in the air then down to the ground, that’s how lucky seven is found’.

I have sent home a fab science activity using Skittles sweets….the colours are the same as Luck number 7. Have a go at the experiment!!!

Duckling alert!!!

Duckings have hatched in Mrs. Hotchkiss’s class! On Tuesday and Wednesday we went to visit them.

Before we went we watched how a duckling hatched our of their egg. Everyone was amazed. Click here to watch at home.

When we arrived the ducklings were all have a swim in their pond. Everyone thought they were so very cute…especially when they were splashing around! Take a look.

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone.

It has been another fun packed week of learning and growing our brains. 

The children have been very busy creating their Easter cards this week. We used masking tape to make a cross on the card, and the children painted over the tape on to the card using a in a left to right motion. The children found this so tricky as they wanted to paint up and down, where as using another movement by going across the body whilst painting, engages different muscle groups. This enhances gross motor skills, the same dough as taking the dough across the body in dough disco.

Continuing with our thread learning on changes, we have been monitoring the weather using our weather wheels, and recording the results on our weather chart. We have noticed that that the sunshine column of the chart is currently the tallest at the moment. Let's hope it stays that way!

I hope all of the mummies have a wonderful Mother's Day. Enjoy your day and I will see you all next week. Fingers crossed for more sunshine.

 Emma 

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

Spring has definitely arrived here at nursery as we have been very busy in the garden, planting, tidying and investigating. We are pleased to see we still have lots of worms in the garden. We have noticed the daffodils are still in full bloom.

We have been meteorologists this week, monitoring the weather using our water collection station. We were excited to find we had collected rain water, good for the garden. It must have rained during the night! We also have been predicting the weather; are we expecting some rain, sunshine, wind or a bit of thunder and lightening this weekend. We watched JoJo and Gran Gran checking the weather forecast, click here

Have a lovely weekend and hope all the mummies enjoy their Mother's Day.

Michelle 

Read, Write Inc

More new sounds! Don’t panic only a few more…for now!

for ‘x’ click here

for ‘z’ click here

for ‘ch’ click here

Coffee Morning at the Social Centre

A group of children went the Social Centre last week. We all did some colouring and had a a drink and biscuit. It was such a treat!

Another great week of fun and learning!

Have a lovely restful Mother’s Day on Sunday and I will see you all on Monday.

Stay safe and God bless.

Barbara

Year 6 Weekly Blog' During the season of lent contemplate your heart and look at your world with hope'

Earlier this week we attended mass as part of our journey through lent and preparation for the resurrection. This was a beautiful time spent with our reception partners and the nursery children, spent in deep prayer and reflection.

We have had another successful week in Year 6, where they have worked so hard and reflecting on their learning constantly. The children have recieved more feedback on previous papwers and now have a very clear idea on the areas they need to work on and what they may want to revise. They have now got English and Maths revisions folders and books, which they can take to and from school to help them revise and prepare, but please can you ensure that these come abck to school every day as they will need them. Next week, revision material will be available to children to choose areas they might want to do extra work on, they will not be marked but they can use the material to aid their revision should they wish to, it is completely optional but we want to eqipt them as much as possible.

What have we been learning this week?

English - This week our focus has been on srevising the spelling of singular and plural nouns. We have also looked at the use of apostrophes in possession and the rules for singular and plural nouns.

Maths - We have now completed our fraction work and now we can all add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions! We have started moving on to percentages, which the children have already a good handle on!

PE- We have loved our PE this week, practising our fore and backhand in tennis! We have even started our Resurrection assembly and can’t wait to share this with you!

Year 6 have started their clubs this week and goodness me have I been proud of them! They have all been extrmemely well organised and engaging for our younger children!

Don’t forget to keep encouraging children to read as much as possible and to ocmplete their homework, to have it on time- good practice for next year! This week we had 8 children who did not either complete the whole homework in their books or hand it in on time. Please also use the link below if you want to do some extra learning …

HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD

Delving deeper through talk …

What are the different spelling rules when changing sungular to plural nouns?

My Happy Mind…

How have you been a good friend this week?

Leading Learner

Well done to Layla this week.

Layla, you have had such a wonderful attitude towards your learning this week- every day you have come in with a smile ready to work your socks off but also help others!

Grateful and Generous stars…

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that show our two virtues of the half term in their actions. Children who show gratitude for all of their own and other people’s gifts- also regarding other people as precious gifts themsleves, reflecting our school’s mission statement. We will also be spotting children who are generous, who show generosity in their service for others. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Elsie for being Grateful and Generous.


Helpers in the morning

This week we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Elsie Millie Ben Jacob

Notices

  • Date for the diary- Year 6 Resurrection Assembly is on Friday 11th April.

  • School Leaver Hoodies- Next week is the final week to get your orders for the hoodies at Top Marques- please make sure you go in and order the correct size.

  • Bikeability - this has been booked for Monday 16th and 23rd June. If you would like your child to take part in this crucial trainng before they go on to high school then please complete the consent form via the QR code on the letter.

  • MEDICAL FORMS- we still have some medical forms that need to be completed and sent back to school. Please ensure any conditions and food or other allergies are mentioned in this form.


Have a lovely weekend.

We will see you on Monday.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 26th March


Spellings

This weeks focus is the suffix ‘ous’,

  1. joyous

  2. dangerous

  3. poisonous

  4. nervous

  5. courageous

  6. continuous

  7. adventurous

  8. mountainous

  9. furious

  10. outrageous

Reading
Please continue reading at home each night - only a couple of weeks to reach targets.

Purple Mash - Skeletons task and food task linked to our science work.

Spring 2 Optional homework

Year 3 Optional Homework Spring 2