Year 3 Weekly Blog 20th June

What an amazing week, filled with sunshine and fun!

Worship Our class worship was led this week by Blythe, Logan, Bella, Elsie and  Dexter. We listen to the story of Philip and how spread the word of God. As a class we thought about how we spreads God’s work, we decided that it was not just through speech but in acts of kindness, care and love. We though about times we had show care and compassion and times others had shown us care. Thank you for leading our liturgy Blythe, Logan, Bella, Elsie and  Dexter, you will be our prayer leaders this week. 

On Thursday we watched the Mark 10 Little Liturgy. We meet Jesus as he spoke in front of a great crowd but there was a problem, they needed something to eat. His disciples brought him five loaves and two fish and Jesus worked a wonderful miracle. Greg helped us reflect upon the Gospel for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. We then gathered with Jesus to pray, we thought about those who are not as lucky as us and may be hungry.

Sports Day and Gym Jam Jog

I’m sure you will agree we had a fantastic sports afternoon, the sun was shining and the children were superstars. Thank you so much to the parents and friend who came and supported the children and cheered them on.
It was lovely to see so many families jogging together on Thursday morning for our annual Jim Jam Jog. Check out the picture on Mrs Gregan’s blog.

Our learning this week…

English We have started reading the classical poem ‘The Spider and the Fly’, the children have written statements and questions around illustartations form the text and started to make prediction about what they will think will happen.

Maths - We are column addition and subtraction experts - the children have smashed these units and I am so proud of them. We have started looking at fractions - recognising the whole and parts of everyday objects. For example, the cake is the whole, the parts are the icing, the sponge, the chocolate chips and the cake case. Can your child recognise the parts and wholes of items out and about this weekend?

Spelling - this weeks spelling are more homophones: weather, whether, heel, heal, he’ll, accept, except, affect and effect. Spelling quiz will be 30th June.

Science - We have continued looking at magnetism and non contact forces. We experimented with magnets and wrote statements about what happened when like poles were put together eg north to north and opposite poles were put together eg south to north. We added attract and repel to our scientific vocabulary and used these in our statements.

Conversation starter…

What is the most courageous thing you’ve ever done?
How did you feel after you had done it?

As we come closer to the end of the school year, children might be starting to feel nervous about moving classes and meeting new teachers. It would be a good time to remind them of how they felt at the beginning of year 3 and how far they have come.
Are they proud proud of their achievements?

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Certificates

Our learner of the week is Jude
You have impressed the adults in class this week with your learning attitude. You have been focused and engaged particularly in maths. You have worked cooperatively with your learning partner and solved tricky problems together. We can see your brain growing right in front of us! Keep up the hard work Jude!

This half term’s virtues are Loving and Compassion.

Our Virtue butterflies this week have been awarded to Blythe.

Reminders

• PE Days - Wednesday (outdoor) and Thursday (indoor).

• Sponsored swim money - to be in by Friday 20th June

• Glazey Days class trip - we will be visiting Glazey Days in Fleetwood on Wednesday 9th July. We will be travelling by bus and coach (keeping the cost down), then speding some creative time in their studio to paint pottery. The cost of the cost of the trip is £20 and can be paid on parentpay. More info to follow next week.

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 26th June

Spelling

Please complete spelling tasks from book

Music

Practise your flute pieces

Optional Home Learning - Summer 2

Have a good look at these. There are some lovely tasks to complete

Year 5 Weekly Blog 13.06.25- 'A father is one friend whom we can always rely on'

What a jam-packed first week back it has been- we have certainly getting close to summer as the heat has cranked up this week! Sports days have started taking place, with Year 5 loving the music booming out just outside our classroom. Our sports day is just around the corner with the date and time of this down below in our notices. We have also began our preparations for the end of year play by hosting auditions for some small speaking roles amongst Year 6 and also practicing our songs in the hall with Mrs Harrison. We have also welcome our Year 6 helpers into our classroom on Mondays and Tuesdays with them being put to work straight away, whilst also being a kind and approaching supporters of our Year 5 children.

Learning has taken place straight away with us starting our final units in some of our subjects. Maths has been all things fractions as we have been recapping our knowledge of key words and linking this to our Year 5 curriculum. In English, we have dived into the world of poetry and have been reading the poem ‘The Highwayman’ which has huge links to our history topic of crime and punishment.

We have also been secretly making fathers day cards - so mothers, please keep these hidden until Sunday!

Let’s Celebrate

• Learner of the Week- This week our award goes to Seth for being an enthusiastic learner. You have really started our last half term with a spring in your step Seth. You have been engaging with lessons so profoundly and your hand has been shooting up ready to share your knowledge. Keep this up!

• Virtue Star of the Week- Our virtues for this half term are love and compassion and our winner this week goes to Lilly. The Year 5 staff team have just loved how eloquent, gentle and loving you have been towards our younger children this week (especially with Hugo). You have given up your own break times to make sure our little friends are okay and have gone out of your way to help them.

Notices

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

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

• 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!

• Football Trials Tuesday 24th June- If you haven’t already and are interested in competing in the school football team, sign up via the sports page. There will be two trail dates to attend.

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

• Charity Football Match Friday 27th June- If you are interested in playing in a charity football match along with St Peter’s and St Bedes, please check the sports page for more information.

• St Bedes Science and Technology Day Wednesday 2nd July- We will be having our annual taster day at St Bedes. School pick up times at Our Lady’s will be as normal. Children will need to be in their full school uniform (school jumper and not a PE hoody). You may bring a pack lunch with you or you can choose to have a school pack lunch.

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 19th June

IXL

• Maths (AA9) - subtract fractions with the same denominator

• Maths (CC5)- Multiply unit fractions by whole numbers

Spellings

Can you remember the theme in this weeks spellings.

1. didn’t

2. couldn’t

3. shouldn’t

4. can’t

5. observant

6. substance

7. hesitant

8. pregnancy

9. relevant

10. tolerance

11. vacancy

12. elegant

13. assistance

14. defiant

15. distance

Mrs Barkers group

1. vison

Ready Steady Go! Sports Day Special !!!!

Well, we certainly have hit the ground running this half term!

The sun shone and everyone had a fabulous time. We have been practising our fundamental movement skills all year in readiness for this moment. I hope you enjoyed watching as much as we enjoyed taking part.

With regards to our bespoke t-shirts, please remember to press them for three minutes before washing to seal in the colours. Ut would be a shame to lose such wonderful art work.

Take a look at our photos!

Emma’s blog

Hello, and welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful half term. It has been lovely hearing what you have all been up to over the break.

The children have got right back into nursery life.

A big well done for everyone who took part in Sports Day, it was fantastic! You all have worked so hard preparing yourselves, and we were so lucky the sun was out for us.

 The children have been playing detectives in the garden, finding lots of different mini beasts. They were looking under lots of different objects in the garden. They found spiders, spider eggs, a slug, and lots more, but we also found a magnificent butterfly that had fluffy legs and body. Take a look at the picture and see if you ca find out what kind of butterfly it is!

We have had some visitors delivered to nursery this week, five baby caterpillars for us to look after! We are all excited for what will happen to them and watch their metamorphosis. It's all very exciting.

Have a wonderful weekend and Fathers Day on Sunday.

Emma

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

I hope you all had a wonderful half-term break and got to spend some time with your friends and family.

This week has been all about Sports day and what a glorious sunny afternoon it was. I am so proud of all the children, they all did brilliantly. Thank you to you all for your support too.

We have been growing our brains this week as we have explored symmetry and patterns. We had a special delivery this week as our caterpillars arrived. We discovered that when they are butterflies they have symmetrical wings, where the pattern is the same on each side. We made our own  butterfly and had to make each wing the same.

Why not go on a butterfly hunt this weekend.

Have a lovely weekend 

Michelle 

Symmetry-Matching

We have been finding our about the life cycle of a butterfly. We noticed that a butterflies wings are the same on each side of its body….they match! Here’s a good game to play at home. Click here.

Have the most wonderful weekend everyone, we will see you on Monday!

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 13th June "The door of heaven is the heart of Jesus. The key to the door is prayer and love."

Today, we celebrated mass at St Joseph’s church, together with First Holy Communicants from lots of different local schools. Our theme was the Sacred Heart of Jesus, reminding us Jesus gave His body so we could feel His perfect love. Children joined in with responses, complete with sign language and sang with gusto.

In our Happy mind this week, we talked about what it means to ‘engage’ in learning and how important this is. We had a discussion about being able to give things our total focus and attention and how difficult this can be in the age of screen time.

This week in maths, children have been learning all about symmetry - how many lines of symmetry different shapes have and how we can reflect shapes over a mirror line. We have grown our knowledge of certain quadrilaterals - like kites, trapeziums, parallelograms and rhombuses.

Children enjoyed working in their biscuit teams to make their biscuits with Mrs Mather this week.

This week in our English lessons, we have been focusing on reading questions. We have started our new novel, “Odd and the Frost Giants,’ and made sure we have mastered all year 4 reading skills. We have also been learning all about the Viking cosmos and children have been creating these in groups.

In PE, we have done a lot of running and hurdling this week. Also we have been practising our obstacle race.

Have a look at our beautiful images in the film below from our proud moments at the Grand Theatre in the Tempest - sent by the photographers. What a special event to look back on with fondness forever.

Conversation starters

Maths

How many shapes can you now name? How many symmetrical patterns can you see in nature?

My Happy mind

What helps you concentrate and be engaged in things?

Let’s Celebrate!.

Our learning certificate this week is another double whammy. A Roger Robin/Clara Clownfish goes to Hugo for being a learner with such interest and curiosity in his learning - especially with shape. You have also been there offering your help to me and to others this week - like an angel!

Our virtues for this half term are Compassionate and Loving. The first person who comes to mind in class when I think of these virtues is you Phoebe. You have a real gift from God in spotting the needs of others and then showing your love to them by helping.

Notices

Monday 16th June Sports Day - 1:30-3:00 Please ensure children are wearing PE kits - no earrings and have water bottles and sun hats if needed.

Thursday 19th June Its our annual Gym Jam Jog. Children can come in wearing their PJ’s. Sponsor forms have gone out so lets get collecting!

Wednesday 25th June Year 4 Viking day. Children can come to school dressed as Vikings/Anglo-Saxons or Viking gods or goddesses. More detail given in Home learning this week.

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

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

Tuesday 8th July Rivers trip to Cuerdale Valley Park. This trip is now payable on parentpay £20. Children will be getting in the river and will need Wellies, outdoor clothing, sunhat and also a complete change of clothing including extra socks. Please fill in the lunch form below for both trips - (To St Bedes and The Rivers Trip) The trip leaders at Cuerden Valley are encouraging ZERO WASTE and have asked us to try and bring a lunch which has minimal waste. More details given next week.

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

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 19th June

Spelling

Please complete spelling tasks from book

English/History

Please start deciding what you are going to dress up as for our Viking day on Wednesday 25th June. You could be a standard Viking or Anglo-Saxon. You coud choose to be one of the other creatures of the Norse Cosmos, such as a giant, a dark elf or a god/goddess.

Maths

Next week we are learning about money. Have a look at some real money at home. What are the values of each coin or note?

Talk about equivalence - For example:

How many 5ps would be equal to 50p?

How many £1 would make £10

How do you write down amounts of money?

Optional Home Learning - Summer 2

Have a good look at these. There are some lovely tasks to complete

Summer 2 Extra-Curricular Opportunities

As we hit the final half term, and hopefully the sun continues to shine, there is a number of clubs to be involved in to keep active.

Please sign up to the clubs using the buttons below.

St Peter's Charity Football Match- Friday 27th June

St Peters school are hosting a charity football match on Friday 27th June in which both ourselves and St Bede’s have been invited to take part in. The match is due to start between 3:45-4:00 and the event will finish around 5:30pm. The event will take place on the field of St Bede’s High School (which is also shared by St Peters)

This is an optional invitation but we would love to bring enough children to take part and help make this a memorable evening. A large full football match will be played with rotating teams throughout the match. This a call out to everyone who is currently in the school football teams this year- Boys A Team, Boys B1 and B2 and Girls team.

If enough people are interested, there is a possibility of there being a parents game as well! (Teachers included).

Children will be picked up from school as normal at 3:20pm and will need to be taken to St Peter’s. There will be food vans and stalls so you may bring some money with you if you wish. Children are to be wearing their school football kit and they will need boots, shin pads and a drink. If you do not have a school football kit, then please wear blue clothing or any blue football kit.

We will play an hour long game with it being split into 4 x 15 minute games. Each team will play 15 minutes each e.g Girls, Boys A , Boys B and parents.

Please take the time to read about Patrick’s story and complete the form below if you are interested.

‘We are raising money to celebrate and honour the life and legacy of our beloved friend and coworker Patrick McCready.

Whilst working at St. Peter’s as our site supervisor, Patrick undertook the role of Girls Football Coach due to his experience and passion for the sport.

Every week, he would take to the field to coach the girls, and take them to their matches with other local primary schools.

However, his love for the game was not just saved for his beloved U11s team. It was a mainstay of our school. From chanting songs with the children on the playground to talking to pupils about the weekend’s results, Patrick’s love for football was clear and he shared it with all.

As such, in his memory, we will be raising funds for Rosemere Cancer Charity. This will take place through various means but will culminate on the 27th June, when we will be hosting a football match in his name.

This will allow our school community to celebrate his life, his passion and the impact he had on so many of our pupils.

All funds raised will go to Rosemere Cancer Charity, a cause close to Patrick’s family, supporting vital cancer care and services in our local community.

Please donate what you can and help us make a difference in Patrick’s name.’

Year 6 Mixed Dynamo Cricket Tournament- Tuesday 17th June

This will start at 1pm and finish around 4:30 at Lytham Cricket Club, FY8 5QD.

The children will need to be picked up from school at 12:30pm and taken to the cricket club. It is advised to buddy up and car share if possible. Parents are welcome to stay and watch if you are available.

The children will need to be in their PE kits and bring a bottle of water and sun cream if the weather it hot on the day.

The children selected to take part are listed below. If you are unavailable for this event, Please let either Mr Cornwell or Mrs Gregan know.

Cora

Bella

Archie

Liam

Ben B

Benjamin

Rex

Dominic

Mechanisms- Moving Monsters.

This half term has flown by with an action- packed term of learning! We have been looking at Mechanisms, in particular, pivots and levers. The children have investigated and explored everyday items that use a mechanism to operate. We have thought about the input and the output of a device and what happens in between! Through exploration, the children used levers and pivots to make linkages. Using this knowledge and through discussion, we came up with a design- criteria to plan and create a moving monster for a Year 1 child. The children were so proud with their end product!

Next half term we are moving on to Food Technology, where they will be looking at nutrition and a healthy balanced diet, focusing on the different food types. They will then go on to use their knowledge, to design and make a healthy wrap. Your class teacher will let you know in advance of any ingredients that you child will need to bring for their session.

Have a wonderful May half term,

God Bless

Mrs Mather