This week...

Last week some of our friends went on a tour of Our Lady’s church with Father Peter. We found out such a lot! Father showed us the font, tabernacle, stained glass windows and all the stations of the cross. Try and ask your child about our tour when you go to Mass on Sunday.

On the way back from church we popped into the social centre for a drink and biscuits, mmmmm. Take a look at our photos

Worship

This week during prayer and liturgy we have been discussing Ascension Day (click here) and Pentecost (click here).

Ascension Day is the 40th day of Easter. It occurs 39 days after Easter Sunday and it focuses on Jesus' ascension after his resurrection, and the message that he gave to his disciples right before he was taken to heaven. It also tells of the coming of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost) as promised by Jesus.

The children have been drawing pictures of what they think heaven looks like with Steph, we are going to put them in our Worship book.

We also asked talked about . . .

 our favourite part of God’s world and why they are important to you.

 why it is important the we look after God’s world and how we can do that?

 what you would change about God’s world?

 How could you make God’s world even better?

When we come back after the half term break we are going to go for a walk and find the most amazing thing that God created.

Emma’s Blog

Hello everyone.

I can't believe it’s half-term already! 

We have been very busy painting characters for our display all about 'Once upon a time stories'. The children decided which characters they would like to see on the display. We had Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel, The Big Bad Wolf and many more. All of the characters are from the stories we have been focusing on this half term. They have enjoyed role playing these stories too. We also made a magnificent fairy tale castle with a very long turret for Rapunzel to live in. We used lots of sparkles and metallic paints. It looks so magical, we are so proud of our display.

I hope you all have a fabulous half term. I can't wait to hear what you have all been up to. 

Fingers crossed for the sun to keep shining for us.

 See you all in 2 weeks.

 Emma

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

This week we have taken part in lots of different fun challenges. We started with the buzz wire game, where the children had to have a steady hand to be able to move along the buzz wire without setting the buzzer off. It was very tricky. We then had a challenge to see if we could carry the most water from one end of the garden from the other using a scoop. We worked in our house teams and concentrated not to spill any. The next challenge was to work together to fill the numicon board. Numicons use physical shapes and tools to represent numbers and maths. They help children to better visualise the relationship and value of numbers. Each Numicon shape represents a specific number.

This activity was tricky as the shapes didn't all fit at first. The children had to work out that some shapes had to be moved and turned make them to fit on the board. However, we did manage it in the end. The last challenge was a subitising quiz where the children had to say how many objects they could see. They said they wanted to challenge you, so here it is. Click here.

Watch out, they are fast 

Have a lovely half term

Michelle 

Sports Day

For the children attending Sports Day on Wednesday 11th June 1.15-3.30 pm; could you please ensure your child is wearing shorts, t-shirt and trainers. Also, could you please bring a named bottle of water please.

Your child will have designed their own t shirt to wear during Sports Day, which we have in nursery. Please note before washing the t shirt you must press it for at least three minutes to seal in the colour.

Gym Jam Jog

Thursday 19th June is our fundraising Gym Jam Jog! Please come to school for 8 am and jog with us around the school field to to raise funds for our PTFA so that we can continue to enhance the school environment. It is great fun so join us and get inloved!!! See you there…bright and early and wearing your gym jams.

Induction for September school starters

Thursday 19th of June 3.45-4.45 pm is also the induction session for children joining Reception at Our Lady’s in September 2025. Pop it in your diary. It’s a great chance to meet the team and visit receptions classroom.

Finally, I hope everyone manages to have a restful half term break and I will see you all on Monday 9th June.

Look after each other and stay safe

God bless

Barbara

Year 4 homework for over the half term holidays

No formal homework as such over the holidays but it would be really good if you could focus on your times tables and read a good book ready to quiz when you return

I have handed out some times tables tests that we do in class where you could ask someone to time you and then mark them together (as we do in class)

I will not be collecting these in to mark - it is for you to use them to help you. You also have the songs below if there are still some you are shaky on. Of course, you can work on TTrockstars to increase your rock star status and will set you some ‘Beat the teacher’ challenges on Rockslam.

Optional Home Learning - Summer 1

Last chance to complete:

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 21st May

Spellings

This weeks focus is the ‘ture’ sound , spellings are:

1. nature

2. future

3. picture

4. feature

5. pasture

6. scripture

7. adventure

8. agriculture

9. furniture

10. temperature

Reading
We have done amazing with our reading this half term, despite it being a short half term, most children have reached their reading targets - Well done!

Purple Mash - French - modes of transport quiz. Science - Friction, put the correct words in the text activity.

Summer 1 Optional homework

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Winmarleigh Day 3!

What a wonderful fews day it has been- your children have been wonderful from start to finish. They have embraced every moment and every activity! I bet you can’t wait to hear all about it! Today we have had children on the giant swing, problem solving and up Jacob’s ladder- they will most definitely be tired tonight, so early nights will be needed.

What a magical day …

Year 2 Home Learning - to be handed in after half term on Monday 9th June

Even though we can’t hand in our home learning next Monday - please complete the following and hand back on our return - Thank you

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READING

The children will be visiting the library this Friday - our final day. They will be bringing this book and a couple of books that match their ZPD. Please read daily - a break from this routine can have an impact over 2 weeks. Reading underpins all learning.

Reading opens up different worlds! Enjoy!

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MATHS

We are now ready to tackle division problems. Please enter your TT Rockstars account and when you go into “Jamming” please select Division Only or Multiplication and Division. I’ve attached the image of the Jamming page to show you the buttons - have fun. Remember we can use skip counting to find out how many equal groups make the total.

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SPELLING

Last week we explored words ending in the “l” sound. The spellings had different letters at end - le al il al - gosh it was tricky!!!

Play zones with your child:

This games works in a similar way to the ‘Corners’ party game.  Place -le, -el, -al, -il on paper in four corners of the room.  These need to be large enough to see from a distance. Provide paper and chunky pens in each zone.  The adult says aloud a focus word and then within the context of a sentence, e.g. pencil.  I’ve lost my pencil.  Children must decide which spelling is needed to write the focus word and then move to the appropriate ‘zone’.  Once in the zone, children can practise writing the word on the paper and decide whether it ‘looks right’

Words to use:

bottle middle castle muddle battle ankle tickle circle giggle puddle eagle

camel marvel travel squirrel angel parcel gospel

medal animal magical pedal

pencil until pupil gerbil

Have fun!

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HANDWRITING

Write a 5 sentence diary challenge!! It has to be funny and written using your very best handwriting. No more or less than 5 sentence! Make sure it makes sense and is super neat!

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Do complete before the holidays - then you can relax

Mrs H x

Winmarleigh!

As usual, when you are out in the countryside, the Wi-Fi can be problematic. Despite Mrs Harrison and her team’s best efforts, the photo uploading is not happening so I am waiting for them slowly to come through to me however they can. As they do arrive, I will pop them up on the blog for you to have a look at. I will just add them into this gallery so that they are all in one place.

The children have had a brilliant start to their first few days, taking part in lots of problem-solving tasks. The focus on this week is that the children need to work as a team to over come challenges together - some with vision and some without! Before the children left, I challenged them to do something difficult; something out of their comfort zone. I for one would not be going as high up that Jacob’s Ladder!

The children are all well, had their tea and having a great time! I will text when new photos are added so that you can see them and write a little update on here tomorrow. Prayer for better wi-fi!

Year 5 Weekly Blog 16.05.25- ‘A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down’

What a week it has been! The weather has been even warmer so play has been super exciting outside basking in the sun and lots of learning continues to take place inside the classroom. The end of the week’s focus all turned to Year 5 as we hosted our Krispy Kreme Donut Fundraising Day. Lots of children helped contribute to organising the event such as picking up boxes from the office, selling and packing donuts and delivering boxes to class.

With the day invested so much into donuts, we spent the morning out in the sun as some children walked to the promenade for their swimming gala trials whilst everyone else had an extra day of forest school!

This week, we have been learning…

• Maths- We have been smashing 2 digit x 2 digit numbers with lots of children having a go at 3 digit x 2 digit. We have continued to practice multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 by shifting our digits across place value columns. This will come in handy as we move onto percentage of amounts next week.

• English- we have began writing our final discussion question after finishing our planning and collecting of research at the beginning of the week. It has been brilliant to see the children take more care of their presentation and really focus on their handwriting.

• History- It has been all things ‘witches’ in this weeks crime and punishment lesson. We looked into why so many people believed in witches in the 15th Century. We did this by conducting our very own witch hunt in search for the answers. We had fun going through the ‘how to spot a witch’ checklist, can you remember what was on it?

Conversation starters

• RE- We have been testing our conscience with some moral dilemmas in class. Do your parents know any good moral dilemmas that they can put you to the test with?

• English- We have began our discussions text topic and have been creating points of view for our school themed questions.

  Should all children learn how to swim?

  Share with your parents the reasons we came up with - for and against.

Let’s Celebrate

• Learner of the Week- This week our award goes to Tommy for being a determined and reflective learner. You have been so determined this week Tommy, especially during our maths lessons. You are powering through your times tables and are really getting to grips with short multiplication. Whenever you have needed just a bit of help, you have always asked and this has been really useful in your progression. Excellent work!

• Virtue Star of the Week- Our virtues for this half term are curious and active and our winner this week goes to Rory. You have been so active throughout all our curriculum Rory. Wanting to challenge yourself in maths by choosing really difficult numbers to multiply and also working to your best ability in our discussion writing.

Notices

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

• Forest School- This will take place every Friday for this half term. 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. Long clothing will be needed (no shorts).

  The groups are;

  Group 1- Daisy, Grace, Isioma, Jacob, Lilly, Logan, Matilda, Seth, Teddy, Toby

  Group 2- Amelia, Beth, Finley, Hudson, Hugo, John-Paul, Joseph, Poppy, Sean

  Group 3- Charlotte, Ciaran, Gus, Josh, Lorenzo, Louis, Rory, Rose, Tommy, William

  Each group will have four sessions of forest school spread out across the rest of the year.
  
  
  
  

• Extra Curricular Activities- Please check the sports blog for new and existing sports clubs taking place this half term, including game and tournament dates.

• Swimming Gala - Please check the sports blog to see if you have made the swimming gala team this year. More information about this event is available on the sports page.

• Half Term- School will close on Friday 23rd May at normal school finishing time. School will reopen on Monday 9th June.

• Year 5 Sports Day- Will take place on Wednesday 18th June, starting at 1:30pm.

• Gym Jam Jog- Will take place on Thursday 19th June. Bring your pajamas, running trainers and enthusiasm for an early 8am start!

• LSA Open Evening Thursday 26th June 4:40pm-7:00pm

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 16th May "Bring flowers of the fairest, bring blossoms the rarest."

We were so proud of our Year 4 Holy Communicants on Saturday. What a lovely and special event in their lives - and ours too! They were beautiful and so reverent. Round two this Saturday.

We had a lovely worship to our Queen of the May, Mary. We did the rosary together and we made flowers to crown Our Lady.

In Year 4 this week, children have examined how the church is structured. This has enabled them to learn more about Pope Leo. We have talked about the church as a body of Christ’s followers and that being in Holy Communion with Him means we can be Christ’s body on earth.

In our Happy mind session, we learned to relate properly to others by actively listening to them. Children tried listening without one of the key principles of listening - eg not making eye contact, not smiling, getting distracted etc We then talked about what this feels like and children said they felt hurt, ignored, not valued and sad. See pictures below!

This week in maths, children have been looking at how to magnify numbers by altering their place value and make them ten times larger or one tenth times the size (ten times smaller) This led to us making products ten or one hundred times the size when the factor is magnified by 10.

This week in our English lessons, we have learned how to combine setting and character descriptions when describing ‘The Goddess of the Emerald Lake.” We have now met Rasvani the Fire Fiend from the volcano. That will be a very different description indeed!

In History this week, children have looked at maps of the North of England to discover places where Vikings settled. When children found out typical Viking place name endings, they could figure this out..

In PE, we have been learning skills for upcoming rounders games! We have been focsing on aiming, catching and fielding.

Conversation starters

History

Where did Vikings settle in England? How do you know?

My Happy mind

What is ‘Active listening?’ What happens if you do not make eye contact, smile or you get distracted when someone is talking to you?

Let’s Celebrate!.

Our learning certificate this week is another double whammy. A Lizzie Ladybird/Bobby Bee goes to Lettie for really striving to improve in every aspect of learning. Your handwriting is so beautiful and your writing composition is coming along so nicely. You are so enthusiastic about everything!

Our virtue star this week is Joseph. We are so proud of what an active learner you are becoming. You are starting to challenge yourself to do quality writing and you are participating well, sometimes even demonstrating your understanding to others. Well done!

Notices

Holy Communion

Please bring your children dressed to the Presbytery around the side of the church for 9:15am. You can then take your place in church, where the benches will be labelled with your family name. Please do not take photos in the service. You may take them after the mass on the altar or in the gardens.

On Sunday 6th July we are having the last school family mass in church. On this day, we are asking that all our First Holy Communicants come to church dressed in their outfits. They are then invited with you to the parish centre for a Holy Communion breakfast, organised by the parish. Please could you fill in the form below so we can get ideas of numbers?

Upcoming dates

Monday 16th June Sport’s day for Year 3 and 4

Wednesday 25th June Year 4 Viking day. Children can come to school dressed as Vikings or Viking gods or goddesses.

Tuesday 1st July St Bede’s Prayer day visit.

Sunday 6th July Holy Communion family mass and breakfast in parish centre. See form above

Monday 14th July Flute concert for parents in school at 2:15pm. Children will be showing you all they have accomplished in their flute lessons this year.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Lyons and Miss Bray

This week...

It has been a very different week at nursery. As part of our transition process (yes, it’s hard to believe that some of friends will be moving to Reception in September), we have spent each morning this week with the children and Reception team and it has been wonderful! Everybody learned and played together beautifully. I don’t envisage any upset in September.

Worship

May is the Month of Mary. We have been discussing how Mary is honoured during the month of May. We have talked about:

• Where you can find a Mary worship table in nursery

• What to put on a Mary worship table

• That flowers commonly associated with Mary

• and what else can go on our Mary worship table

  We have also all painted a picture of Mary to put on our Mary’s Month display.

  On Friday this week some of nursery will be joining Reception on a visit and tour of Our Lady’s church with Father Peter. We are hoping to pop in and have refreshments at the Social Centre afterwards. Such a busy day.

Visit from Pemberton’s farm

On Wednesday Farmer Tom brought some of his animals from his farm to show us. He brought Pixie a calf born prematurely in February, twin dairy calves ( one was called Mary, how apt for Mary’s Month!), two lambs (one was called Baaaaarbara!!) and a farm dog called Storm. We watched as Farmer Tom fed the lambs their milk from a bottle, what a lot of noise they made!

Take a look at our photos!

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog 

The weather has been glorious this week and we have made the most of every moment. We have carefully tended to our garden this week as we have made sure they have had plenty of water to drink. We also watered the newly planted trees on the school field.

We were excited to meet number block number 9 this week. We have explored different ways of making 9. One of our friends said " it's 3 sets of 3s". Another said "it's a square". Can your child count 9 objects? 

We have been busy practicing for Sports Day. This week we have concentrated on jumping to see how far we can jump. Why not have a jumping contest this weekend. Who can jump the furthest?

Have a lovely weekend 

Michelle 

Emma’s Blog

Hello everyone.

It's been hot this week, but the children have still been having lots of fun.

We decided to use to make cress sandwiches for snack time with the cress that we have been growing. The children buttered their own bread, a great skill for practicing their fine motor skills and for life…we always need toast in the morning!. We then cut and sprinkled the cress on to the bread. The children then had a go at folding the bread in half, which was a bit tricky. The children loved their cress sandwiches, they couldn't believe that they were eating something that they had grown from seeds.

The children have been making castle turrets or towers using shapes. They drew around their chosen shapes then drew someone hiding inside the turret. The children drew their mummies, Rapunzel or their friends in the castle.

I can't believe we only have one week left before we break up for May half term.

Enjoy your sunny/hot weekend everyone.

Emma 

Meet number 9

This week we have started to explore number 9!! Numberblock Nine arrives in Numberland, finds a friend in Four, sings a song about squares... and sneezes! Learn all about the number 9 with Numberblock Nine! Click here to meet 9!

We are learning to:

• Say the counting numbers to 9. The children should recognise the cardinal principle of counting that the last number counted represents the entire set of objects counted.

• Partitioning and combining to 9. At the beginning of the episode Nine is formed from combining One and Eight and then partitioned again.

• 9 and 4 are square numbers. Although the children are not formally introduced to square numbers until much later, this episode provides an opportunity to look at both the structure of squares with 4 equal sides and corners, and square numbers that make a shape with the same number of blocks down as across. Identifying pattern and seeing structure in number is important to early maths development.

Finally, fire up the BBQ for a fun weekend!

Stay safe and God Bless.

Year 4 homework to be completed by Thursday 22nd May

Maths - TT rockstars

Spellings

Your spelling sheets are in your homework books to complete - with your new puzzle style one.

Maths

Converting Fractions sheet stuck in book. Please continue to work on your times tables, picking up your speed.

Music

Dont forget to log on to Charanga to do your music practice.

Optional Home Learning - Summer 1

Please click on the link below to access this and further your learning:

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 22nd May

IXL

• Maths (F8) Multiply 2 digit by 2 digit numbers- missing steps

• Maths (HH1) What percentage is illustrated?

Grammar and Punctuation

To complete the sheet stuck in their books. Follow the set of instructions to help present your work.

Spellings

Can you remember the theme in this weeks spellings. Is there a pattern with lots of these words?

1. which

2. comfort

3. suit

4. believe

5. stationary

6. absence

7. convince

8. invisible

9. reverse

10. determined

11. develop

12. familiar

13. awkward

14. persuade

15. definite

Mrs Barkers group

1. witch

2. evil

3. magic

4. comfy

5. still

6. moving

7. backwards

8. forwards

9. make

10. strong

Swimming Gala Information

The children swam so well today at the trials - we are taking them all to the gala next Friday. Mr Cornwell is busy working out races and teams. Some children will do 1 race, some more - but the focus is on the team! The arrangements are as follows…

Children will need to be dropped off at Palatine Leisure Centre for 8:40am next Friday. There is lots of space for parents to stay and cheer - it is recommended - this event is great!

They will need to bring with them their swim wear, their swimming hats for long hair, goggles, towel and hair brush. The event is due to finish around 11:45am, at which point the children will need bringing back to school to have their lunch. They will be booked into the 12:30pm sitting. Do work together to help each other out with lifts and let us know if you need any support too.