This week...

Another wonderful week at nursery!

Worship

This week we have started to come together on ‘carpet kingdom’ for worship. We begin worship by lighting a candle, to show that Jesus is with us and by singing a song. This week it was ‘God made me, God made you’. We then made the sign of the cross just like we do in church. We even went on a ‘cross’ hunt around school. It will come a no surprise that there are lots!

We have spoken about our families and how we are now part of a new nursery family, school family and the family of the church. We have loved seeing our family pictures on the wall, please send one in if you can!

This week we have begun our first branch of our RE curriculum ‘Creation and covenant’. We spoke about our wonderful world and how God created it and everything in it, even all of us. We spoke about all the things in our world and then went on a nature hunt making nature bracelets - we had so much fun!

We listened to the story Wow! said the owl to help us understand- click here.

During the week we have continued our exploration of colour. We made an investigation tub full of interesting colourful objects…We also have been sorting secondary colours of green, purple and orange…it’s safe to say that we know our colours!!

This week we have been looking at the features on our faces, the colour of our hair, if we have curly wurley hair, straight hair and the differing colours of our skin. We then painted our portraits. Everyone studied their faces in a mirror then chose the correct colour of painted. We even found out that most of the friends at nursery have blue eyes!!!

Read Write Inc.

On Wednesday we introduced a new sound ‘a'. We now have two sounds to remember and have to practise writing! We did our writing this week in orange glitter sand.

‘m’ - down Maisie mountain mountain

‘a’ - round the apple and own the leaf

Why not have a go at home! Look out in your childs book bag for their Read Write Inc sound mat! Good luck!

We also played spot the sound ! We were fabulous at spotting ‘a’ and ‘m’.

Zero the Hero!

This week we met Zero the Hero. We found out that zero is nothing and it is one less that 1.

Click here to find out when there's nothing there to count and none is the amount, nobody does it better than Zero!

Sundries

As in previous years we have sought your support of nursery by requesting a donation to enable us to offer more learning opportunities to the children in our nursery. Please click on the button below to read Mrs. Gregan’s letter.

Another busy week planned for next week, so rest up everyone! Fingers crossed for sunshine.

Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

God bless

Barbara

Year 1 Weekly blog 12.9.25 - Let the beauty of nature remind you of the goodness of God.

"God saw all that He had made, and it was GOOD." Genesis 1:31

Our week began in such a special way, with a walk holding our Year 6 friends hands, ready to celebrate Our Lady’s birthday. The children shared such happy conversations with each other and our Year 6 friends really wanted to find out all about their Year 1 buddy, it was such a joy to listen to the caring conversations. In church all of our children sat so prayerfully, singing to hymns they remembered and joining their hands respectfully.

We welcomed a special visitor from CAFOD on Monday! She helped us become learned and wise towards our world and the greater needs of others! Our Year 1’s were incredibly knowledgeable and caring, and absolutely blew our special visitor away with the wisdom of their words.

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Magic moments of learning

We have been so busy with learning! Within RE and our liturgy’s we have been focused on CREATION - the beautiful world that God has made. We have a class of caring children who want to look after God’s beautiful world. The children enjoyed heading outside to see, smell, hear and feel God’s creation as we went on a scavenger hunt in our school grounds.

Letter join lessons have started and have been a real hit! ON Tuesday afternoon the Children enjoyed their first history lesson from Mrs Marshall! The children loved seeing the timeline grow in the classroom!

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Delving deeper with our learning…

What big animal movements can you remember to help your body get ready for writing? My brain is thinking back to the crab movement…

What is your favourite thing that God made and why?

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KIDSAFE

This week, as part of our HRSE curriculum, we have continued onto our second session in KIDSAFE lessons. Please click on the link below to see a letter which provides more information regarding our KIDSAFE curriculum and the discussions from our second lesson

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Let’s celebrate

This week our Virtue Star for being such a considered member of our classroom is Rupert! Our Star learner this week is a Focused learner which has been awarded to Lily for her continuous focus, concentration and how she always put her everything into learning.

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Reminders

• PE days are Monday (Outdoor) and Thursday (Indoor). No jewellery is to be worn on either of these days.

• On Tuesday your child will come home with their homework book. Part of their homework will be to enjoy backing their book so that it is special to them, by sharing a little bit of their personality, what is special to them or what they like! Please remember that homework books must then be returned by the following Monday. Thank you!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.!

God Bless

Miss Bassett, Mrs Hartley and Mrs Hennessey

Year 6 Weekly Blog 12.09.25 - 'If there was ever a time to dare, to make a difference, to embark on something new - it is now!'

After two weeks of gathering vocabulary, exploring formal language and analysing examples of formal letter writing, house captain speeches and class council speeches, we have nearly arrived at the point where all children know their positions of responsibility. Yet again, the children spoke with such passion and sincerity in their videos when they addressed their houses in a bid for their votes. We could not be more proud of all of the children who gave it a go and faced their fears. The videos were all different, showing all of their many gifts and skills, all in which are vital to work as a team ready to lead the school. Positions and leadership responsibilities will be announced on Monday during assembly and these jobs will start straight away. I cannot wait to see how the children get on this year and what legacy they leave on our school community. Next week we will be speaking about celebrating one another and being happy for one another’s roles around the school, we know there may be some people who will be thrilled with their leadership jobs but unavoidably, there may be some that feel disappointed. It is crucial that we deliver the same message to the children, that all jobs within Year 6 are vital in the working of the school and we must all work together and help one another to make the school a beautiful place to be. Sometimes God’s plan for us, is not always the same as what we had in mind, but He knows each of our gifts and talents, and He will always guide us along the right path, where we can make the most difference. We need to embrace every job and make it our own, I know Year 6 will do this so well.

This week our Reception children started school full time. Walking through the school gates along with the rest of the school, as I am sure you will all remember, can be an overwhelming time for both children and parents. This week we have had four helpers on the gate who have been a wonderful help to these children and we would love to continue this, taking these children around to their class teacher and who better than our Year 6 leaders? Every week we will be picking 4 children to come to school and wait by one of the gates to help the teachers at 8:45am. Next week the following children have been asked, but please email if there any difficulties with this time.

Matilda Lorenzo Tommy Lily

Learning

We have made a really good start to our learning in class this week. In Maths we have been continuing exploring the different calculations structures of multiplicative and additive, they have been building these and discussing how we can use these when reasoning through word problems. It is quite clear at this point, those children who are really secure with their multiplications and those that need to spend a bit more time speeding up their mental recall. In Year 6 the expectations are so high and learning goes at a much quicker pace, the children will grasp concepts and move their learning forward if they do not have to spend too long recalling number facts. So please remind them to use TT Rockstar’s and other online platforms we have to practice these.

This week, children had their first Kidsafe lesson with Mrs Gregan which was all about trust and recognising ‘yukky feelings.’ What makes you feel sad, scared or worried? How does it feel in your body?

Please read the letter below which tells you all about it.

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It was lovely to see so many of you there for the Year 6 induction evening on Wednesday. This is such a crucial year for your children and we must work together to ensure each of them reach their full potential and have a real sense of achievement this year. If you would like to refer back to the induction presentation at all, then please feel free to access on the button below:

A desperate plea:

I am desperate to put photographs of your children on this blog to share all of the wonderful learning but I can’t do this until I have all consent forms back and I only have half.  Please could you make sure you have sent the following two forms, even if your child has no medical needs this form still needs to be completed.

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Delving deeper through talk …

Who do people say you are? What do you want people to say about you?

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Leading Learners

Well done to John Paul this week.

John Paul- Focused Cooper Crab- Wow, what a great start to Year 6 you have had! You are always ready to engage in your learning and listen to the teachers. You get lost in your task, you fully immerse yourself in your work and organise yourself to ensure you complete your work within the right time. We love the way you track the teacher consistently during lessons and show such a positive attitude towards every lesson. Thank you for being ready and eager to learn!

Learning and Wise Stars

This half term we will be on the look-out for all the children that are learned in their actions, finding God in all things. Those who are wise, who use their learning for the common good. These children are the role models of the school, who drive their own learning and who have the wisdom to know when and how to apply one’s learning. This week we thank Poppy for working for the common good of our classroom this week.

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Reminders

• Have you filled out the parental consent and medical forms to update our records?

• Please complete and return St Bede’s and Castelrigg medical form on Monday.

• Biekability (7th and 14th November): please complete the form online whether your child would like to complete this certficate or not. Please also state whether they have a bike or not- if your child does not have a bike then they can provide one for the day.

• Check the sports page on the website through Engage.

• It is our class assembly on Tuesday 23rd September at 9am.

• please encourage children to complete homework on time and handed in on Wednesdays- it is great preparation for High School

  Have a lovely weekend with your family.

  Mrs Harrison, Mrs Barker and Mrs Tierney

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 18th September

In Year 4, homework is given out on Friday and needs to be in for the following Thursday.

SPELLING

This week, please practice spelling these words three times in your homework books. Use your best handwriting - joined and legible. Use a pencil or a good pen to write with.

These words are from our learning this week. Write what each word means.

promptly blissful entire guest foolish uncle sobbing approached

For an extra challenge, can you write these words in sentences? You could put two words in one sentence!

READING

Each night - 20 minutes

MATHS

1. Go on TT rockstars in the garage.

2. On journeys in the car, practise these facts with an adult 2x2 2x3 2x4 2x5 2x6 2x7 2x8 2x9 2x10. Have you noticed, they are all doubles and the products are all even numbers?

Optional Home Learning - Autumn 1

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

Year 6 Home Learning 11/09/25

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

Homework books - Please personalize/ cover your homework book to tells me something about you, I would love to find out more about you! Please ensure that your name is clearly visible.

Assembly- You now have your lines for our Assembly a week next Tuesday. Please learn them off by heart and practice speaking with loudly and with great expression! You also have the song to learn- remember it’s to the tune of ‘twinkle twinkle’.

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! Please complete the connsolodation of our maths in your homework in your books.

Spelling - will be practiced throughout the week and the children will be quizzed on the Thursday. These are in your books ready for you to practice.

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 10th September

Spellings

This weeks spelling are homophones, words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings. In addition to the look, cover, write and check activity, the children will need to fill in missing words in sentences with the correct homophone.

1. great
2. grate
3. steak
4.stake
5.break
6.brake
7.poor
8.pour
9.our
10. hour

Reading
The children’s reading targets have been reset ready for this half terms reading. Please continue reading at home daily.

Autumn 1 Optional homework

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Year 5 Weekly Blog 04.09.25- ‘Every great journey starts with just a small step’

What a wonderful start to the new school year it has been. The class have picked up where they left from Year 4 in terms of their attendance with us having 100% this week! Let’s keep this up. It has been a mixed bag of weather this week but that has not stopped the children exploring and having fun out on the playground. Our classroom is starting to come together with signs of learning coming to life- it would be great for parents to see this on Wednesday at our induction evening.

We have dived straight into our learning, especially with our history topic of the Ancient Greeks and learning about all of their important aspects which have impacted our world today- such as democracy. We have introduced a new column to our place value chart in maths which is our tenths column. We have been exploring different ways of showing tenths from diagrams to fractions and now decimals. In English, we have been looking into WW2 and lots of different specific vocabulary associated with this as we lead up to our first class novel of the year.

Kidsafe

Next week, we will starting our kidsafe lessons in line with our RHE curriculum. Here is an outline of our first lesson. If you have any queries or questions to discuss then please let me know.

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle. If they are struggling, then remember what the clue is…

8 + 8 = 4

How is it possible? You can only use the numbers and operation shown in the riddle

Let’s Celebrate

There are no certificate winners this week, with this starting up again next week, but I would like to celebrate all of Year 5 for settling into life as upper juniors so well and for having a fantastic first week of the school year!

Notices

• Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ weekly homework, including the deadline date.

• Book Collection- Please can everyone have a look at home for any library books that they may have taken home at the end of last year.

• Forest School- Those children attending forest school, a letter has gone home this week. We will be having our whole class forest school day on 3rd October.

• Induction Evening Wednesday 10th September- There will be two slots for parents to attend at 3:45pm-4:30pm or 4:45pm-5:30pm. This is a chance to know more about the routines in Year 5 such as reading, homework, curriculum and also the opportunity to ask questions.

• Sports Timetable- A full timetable for all of the sports opportunites this half term is available on the sports page of the school website [engage-sport]

  • Football training starts this Monday at 8am. Please come to school in your football kit with boots and shinpads on with your school uniform in your bag ready to get changed.

• Trip to London Thursday 18th September- A full blog in regards to our trip to London will be live next week for details on timings, itinerary and what to bring. If you have any questions about the trip then these can be answered on induction night. Payment is still live on parent pay

• Medical and Consent Forms- Please complete the forms below ASAP.

Have a wonderful weekend from Mr Cornwell and Mrs Johnson

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 11th September

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Everyone has now completed their star reader assessment and has been to the library to choose a book. Lots and lots of reading to help achieve our class word goal and to also help bring your writing skills alive!

Times Tables

Lotf of TTRS practice to keep being super speedy- a large majority of the Year 5 Maths curriculum is based on solid times tables knowledge so keep practicing- even if you have already gone green!

Spellings

The children have a spelling sheet to complete which is based on this weeks spellings. The children should be familiar with how to complete this as we have practiced this in our spelling lesson.

Vocabulary check- Our tricky Year 5 spellings are the final 5 spellings on our test. Use a dictionary to find the definitions of these words and write them in your homework book.

1. play

2. see

3. high

4. all

5. build

6. earth

7. circle

8. buzzes

9. bushes

10. witches

11. achieve

12. category

13. dictionary

14. excellent

15. nuisance

Decorate your homework book

Please bring your homework book back in on time every Thursday. Your job is to write your name on your book and folder and to decorate both of these so they are personalised for you.

Optional Homework

Have you never been a Class Councillor? Would you like this opportunity to represent the school council at Our Lady’s? Now is your chance …

If you would like to be considered in our class votes then you need to prepare a short speech, presentation or poster that outlines why your class should vote for you and why you would be good at the job. We are voting next Friday, so make sure you prepare and bring in everything you need before this day.

Eco- Councillors and Play Councillor

Could you write a paragraph about why you would like to be either a Play or Eco Councillor and why you think you would be good at this role? What do you see yourself doing and how could you help? These will be going to the leaders of this council so please either type this up or write on a separate piece of paper so they can be handed to the leaders to read through.

This week....

Wow, what a fabulous start to the year!

This week we have been exploring primary colours (red, blue and yellow). We have had great fun sorting objects and choosing different sized red, yellow and blue pom poms then trying to them up using tweezers or pegs. This was really tricky but good practice in readiness for writing and drawing (we had to use duck fingers to hold the peg and tweezers).

In the afternoons we mixed red and blue paint with shaving foam and made purple! Then we mixed yellow and blue and made green! Next, yellow and red…what colour do you think we made!!

You may have noticed we get very messy at nursery! Next week we will be exploring secondary colours (green orange purple).

The children have so been keen to grow their brains. We have started to learn our letters sounds.

In school we use Read Write Inc. phonic scheme to help us.

How Read Write Inc. phonics works- a parent/ carers guide. Click here.

Click here to find out more. There is lots of useful information so that you can work alongside nursery as we introduce a new sound. This week we have started with ‘m’. Click here to help your child say the sounds correctly. See if you can find out how we say ‘m’ . Please don’t be tempted to race ahead and learn all the speed sounds (at nursery we only do set one). It is important that we fully grasp each sound and how to write it before we move on. Watch this space!

This week we have focused on two stories. Little Rabbit Foo Foo and the Colour Monster. We have talked lots about how we feel using colour! Luckily everyone sad they were happy and full of love! Phew!

Click here for Little Rabbit Foo Foo

Click here for the Colour Monster

In nursery we LOVE stories and books, the book area is a very popular part of nursery both inside and outside. Why it is important to read to your child! Click here.

As you can see we have had a gentle start to nursery!!!! Next week we have even more planned, so have a good rest this weekend everyone!

Before I finish just a few goo housekeeping points to make life a bit easier for the nursey ladies.

• Can all fruit and veg be put in reusable pots- please do not put the pots in a plastic bag. Similar fruit does not need to be put in a bag. As a school we have gone plastic free. we are urging parents to help us by not sending food in one use plastic/packets. See Mrs. Gregans blog on the main page for lots more information.

• Can you make sure your child has a named Our Lady blue book bag and not a back pack. They are very difficult to store and can cause a tripping hazard. Also, bags should only have one key ring on if necessary.

• Your child should have one piece of fruit or veg for each session they attend. One piece for half day, two pieces for a full day.

• Can to make sure anything that comes in to nursery is clearly labelled.

• As the children are physically active all day and engage in PE session three times a week could you please ensure that they are not wearing any jewellery, including earrings.

  Thank you for your cooperation.

  Finally, thank you all for preparing your children so well in readiness for starting nursery. It is such a huge step in their learning journey.

  Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

  God bless

  Barbara

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 5th September "Jesus is the loyal friend who walks beside us." (Pope Francis)

What a beautiful first week in year 4 and what a a lovely group of children! WE are going to have a brilliant journey together.

The theme of our worships and our RE lesson this week has been trusting in God and loyalty. Children learned about the call of Abram and how he showed unwavering trust in God’s plan for him. In the Gospel, we learned about the disciples’ loyalty to Jesus and thought about how we can be loyal to Him.

This week we have also examined our school mission statement - “You are precious in my eyes.” Children learned that God wants them to know how much He values them. On reflection, children realised that if everyone is God’s precious handiwork, we should treat each other like precious jewels! We have thought together about our rights and our responsibilities at school to help our class mates learn well, keep safe and be loved.

In Science, children have been learning about the 7 life processes that all living things do and in English we have started our new novel - Charlotte’s Web.

In our Kidsafe lesson this week, children learned about general ways to keep themselves safe - on the road, on a bike, when out and about and when online. We learned about ‘Yukky feelings,’ and discussed what they should do if they have them. Please read the letter below which explains more.

Children have all been given new reading targets and have a school reading book. There is a little informal homework set - most importantly, parents homework! Please be filling in the important online forms below.

Conversation starters

Science

What are the seven life processes?

Let’s Celebrate!.

No certificates this week - we will start next week.

PE stars this week were: Henry S for super gymnastics moves and Isla for super catching skills. Well done!

Notices

PLEASE FILL IN THE FORMS BELOW AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY

Wednesday 10th September Induction evening for parents

This is a chance for you to meet me properly and find out all about the Year 4 experience. I would love to see you all then - many of you are familiar faces! We are running two sessions 3:45pm - 4:30pm & 4:45pm - 5:30pm. Hope to see you in our Year 4 class.

Walking to church - Monday at 9:00 for Our Lady’s birthday. If anyone would like to walk with us and come to mass, you are most welcome.

Forest school - Children that are attending forest school sessions have been informed and have letters in bags. These sessions start on Tuesday 14th September. Please ensure they have theright clothing so they can participate.

Ukulele letters

Please bring the return slip showing commitment to ukulele if you haven’t already done so.

Thank you for being patient with me at the door at home time. Have a lovely weekend - may we continue to have a bit of sunshine.

Mrs Lyons and Miss Slater

Autumn 1 Extra-Curricular Timetable

With a new school year comes a new timetable for extra curricular opportunities. If you click on the button below, it will take you to the timetable. Please do check the starting dates for the clubs as some of them differ. For the children in Year 5 and Year 6 who will be representing the school team, fixtures will follow. There is a cluster meeting next week where the format will be decided but we are probably going to be moving towards a mini-tournament approach, rather than weekly fixtures. This will allow more children to take part and represent the school team. Once this has been decided, I will let you know dates.

Please sign up to the clubs using the buttons below.