Year 5 Weekly Blog 19.09.25- 'Demorcacy is not guaranteed. Every generation should preserve it, defend it and fight for it'

It has certainly been a week to remember this week in Year 5. One of the most talked about trips in school took place as we all spent the day in London at the Houses of Parliament! Our day started super early with us arriving at school at 6:45am with everyone on time! We then got the coach down to Preston station and caught the train to London Euston.

It was then the mad rush of the day as we made our way down to the underground and hopped on the tube to Charring Cross. From here, we took a lovely walk up Whitehall, passing famous statues along the way and also 10 Downing Street. This took us up to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. We were then taken on our tour of the Houses of Parliament in which we got to visit both the Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords. Unfortunately, we were not allowed any photography in any of the houses. We then ended our visit with a school style workshop with activities based on what they had learnt on their tour.

After the Houses of Parliament, we had lunch in the Victoria Gardens outside of the Houses which had a lovely view right by the river Thames. We then talk a lovely walk up to ST James Park, where the children had some relaxing time to play. Our last bit of sightseeing was to Buckingham Palace where we saw that the King was in as the flag above was flying high, along with visits from lots of world news stations report the arrival of President Trump.

The children were full of energy and enthusiasm throughout the whole day (even on the coach journey back to school). I can not have asked for more in terms of the children’s focus, responsibility and respectfulness towards the people they interacted with. Here is to many more fantastic trips this year!

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

What starts with e

Ends with e

but only has one letter in it?

Question of the Week- conversation starter

What was your favourite part of our London trip?

What did you learn on the trip that you found interesting and has stuck in your memory?

Let’s Celebrate

Our certificate and star winners this week are…

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Emilia. You have been an absolute delight to have in Year 5 Emilia. Your love and kindness towards everyone you interact with is just a joy to see. You apply this into your lessons when working with your learning partner and it allows you to get so much learning from these tasks. Excellent work!

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Alice for being a focused and curious learner. You have blown me away Alice with how focused you are during lessons, you limit your distractions and you are always sat up correctly and tracking the teacher, an excellent ambassador for our STAR expectations. You carry this level of detail into your book presentation and creative writing which has been a joy to read and mark. Keep it up!

Message from Mrs Gregan

Whenever we start a new school year, we always have to migrate pupils and staff into their new class. This year, the technology that we use to do that has not been as successful for the teachers as it has been for the pupils. As a result, we have lost access to the Parental Consent forms that so many of you filled in prior to Induction Night. These have been deleted as groups have changed. Please can you spend another 5 minutes completing the consent form again this weekend. We are really confident with the information that we gathered before the forms disappeared, we just want to double check and make sure all information gathered is 100% correct. There was still some outstanding forms to be completed too. We are really sorry for the inconvenience and really appreciate you spending a little bit more time to ensure everything is as it should be.

These are available on last weeks blog. If there are any more technical issues then please let me know.

Notices

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

• 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. Those children attending weekly forest school sessions, you will be sent a text the night before as a reminder.

  Here are a few reminders for any child attending forest school:

  • Those wanting to climb the climbing tree, this cannot be done in wellies. You will have to bring a pair of trainers with you.

  • Children need to get changed for forest school at lunchtime because sessions are to start at 12:50pm which is also the end of lunchtime break.

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

Sporting Fixtures for Autumn Term

Training is underway and after meeting with PE leads from across the cluster last week, the fixtures are ready to go. This year we are operating slightly differently and having mini tournaments instead of a running league. We have been put into a tri-fixture with other schools near us. We will be playing Heyhouses and St Thomas’s meaning two fixtures on one night, instead of consecutive weeks. This will then be repeated in the Spring term. All of the dates for the fixtures are below. Each tri-festival will be played at Heyhouses - please get the children there as soon as you can after school. The event will finish around 5:15pm.

Teams will be published on Monday so that arrangements can be made for the following weeks.

There is also additional football tournaments this term, which you can see below. We ask for parents support with transporting the children to these events. They are well ahead of time, so pop them in your diaries now.

You will also see that there will be a Year 4 Football Festival. We are really trying to broaden our offer in the cluster. This will be after half term. More details about training etc will be released nearer the time.

UPDATE - B TEAM FOOTBALL MATCH

We have just heard that Heyhouses are unable to produce two pitches for next Tuesday’s match therefore both teams will still play, just one after the other at Heyhouses school so do make your way there. Both matches will be played at Heyhouses. Please do stay to support each other if you can.

4pm v Heyhouses: Gus, Sean, Seth, Rory, Toby, Finley, Tommy and Louis

4.30pm v St Thomas: William, Isaac, Heath, Albert, Hugo H, George C, Myles, George L, Fletcher

Both teams are entered into the tournament on Thursday 21st November.

Year 1 Weekly Blog 19.9.25 - "Trust the present to God's love and the future to God's care." - St Augustine of Hippo

In RE this week we have continued to think about Creation and how God made all things GOOD. We have been ordering the creation story and have been reflecting on our Stewardship in school, how can we look after God’s good world…

In Prayer and Liturgy this week the listened to the Gospel from Luke 16:1-13. which we learned was all about being trustworthy. We can do this by following God and by making good choices, we have carried this message with us throughout the week, spotting acts of kindness in those around us.

We have also started Read Write Inc, and all groups have got right back into the swing of these lessons: remembering Fred talk, Fred in your head, and partner practise. It is so nice to see the children working cooperatively with their partner, helping one another and sharing a book together, it really is such a lovely way to start our day. Each teacher has been so impressed by their group and how well they have got on. Well done everybody!

Kidsafe - Online Safety

In Kidsafe this week we have been thinking about online safety and what to do if we saw something that gave us yukky feelings or click on something accidently. We were also introduced to the 'Watershed’ and why we have this, along with age ratings on things such as games and films.

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Conversation starter

What is your favourite thing that God made and why? How could you help to look after it?

What should you do if you click on something accidently online?

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Let’s celebrate!

Our certificate this week has gone to Hope for being a determined learner and trying your best in everything you does; well done Hope!

Our Star award for being learned and wise goes to Rupert. Rupert your actions and choices in school demonstrate your compassion towards others and our environment. Thank you for being a wonderful role model.

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Message from Mrs Gregan

Whenever we start a new school year, we always have to migrate pupils and staff into their new class. This year, the technology that we use to do that has not been as successful for the teachers as it has been for the pupils. As a result, we have lost access to the Parental Consent forms that so many of you filled in prior to Induction Night. These have been deleted as groups have changed. Please can you spend another 5 minutes completing the consent form again this weekend. We are really confident with the information that we gathered before the forms disappeared, we just want to double check and make sure all information gathered is 100% correct. There was still some outstanding forms to be completed too. We are really sorry for the inconvenience and really appreciate you spending a little bit more time to ensure everything is as it should be. 

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Reminders

Homework and reading books to be returned on Monday so that we are able to have a look at the children’s work before sending them back home on Tuesday.

Forest school children - remember your change of clothes on Thursday.

Coats - Please make sure you come to school with a coat to put on should the weather take a turn during the school day.

Emails:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Have a lovely weekend!

Year 4 Weekly blog. Friday 19th September. “Trust the present to God’s love and the future to God’s care.” (St Augustine)

In our RE lesson this week, children have learned about God’s covenant with Abraham. God showed hi the stars and promised his descendants would reflect their great number. We learned about Abraham’s great faith in the Lord, letting Him take care of his future and love him in the present. In worships, we have mirrored this - we had a discussion from our Gospel about worshipping God - not money. How we can be trustworthy and righteous like Abraham.

Three children - Dexter, Danny and Eliza led a lovely worship all about the Baptism of Jesus. We could see the faith from John the Baptist and also Jesus’ Father. Thank you children - it was beautiful.

In Science this week we collected invertebrates from outside to take a closer look! We classified these into different types, such as insects, arachnids, annelids and molluscs. Fascinating stuff. In Geography so far, we are looking closely at the globe and finding out all about lines of latitude and longitude.

In our Kidsafe lesson this week, children learned about safety online - specifically about watching footage appropriate for their age/playing video games that are age appropriate. We discussed why things do have an age rating and what we could do if we see something that upsets us on TV or online. Please discuss this with your child and read the letter below.

Maths has been great this week - we have been revising our knowledge of column addition, regrouping in tens and ones column. Importantly, children learned how to set this out effectively on squared paper. They have a little practice of this for homework.

Conversation starters

Science

Chat to your parents about the invertebrates we found in school. Why not go in the garden and see what you can find!

Kidsafe

What should you do if you see something upsetting online? Why do things have age ratings?

Let’s Celebrate!.

Our certificate this week is a Bobby Bee. This goes to Wren. You are SO enthusiastic Wren and always participate fully in lessons. This shows in your work which is always so high quality.

Our virtues this half term are being learned and wise. This week, Vincent receives our star for loving learning so much that you do extra work at home. You are so interested and interesting Vincent!

PE stars this week were: Michael for super gymnastics moves and Bella for great control over the ball. Well done!

Notices

Message from Mrs Gregan

Whenever we start a new school year, we always have to migrate pupils and staff into their new class. This year, the technology that we use to do that has not been as successful for the teachers as it has been for the pupils. As a result, we have lost access to the Parental Consent forms that so many of you filled in prior to Induction Night. These have been deleted as groups have changed. Please can you spend another 5 minutes completing the consent form again this weekend. We are really confident with the information that we gathered before the forms disappeared, we just want to double check and make sure all information gathered is 100% correct. There was still some outstanding forms to be completed too. We are really sorry for the inconvenience and really appreciate you spending a little bit more time to ensure everything is as it should be. 

We have a trip to UCLAN on 11th November. This is called ‘Cosmetic Chemistry’ and supports our work in Science on solids, liquids and gases next half term. It is now payable on parent pay.

Forest school children - Don’t forget your change of clothes for Tuesday.

Have a great weekend everyone

Mrs Lyons and Miss Slater

This week...

A bit of a soggy and windy week but we have not been deterred from our learning and finding out. We have been sorting socks (and hanging them up) shoes and buttons. It was really tricky because we had to sort them according to size shape and colour… guess what we were fabulous!! We have been working hard to recognise some shapes and their properties, we know that circle have no corners, triangles only have three sides, rectangles have two long sides and two short sides and four corners! Squares have four side which are all the same length…we even recognised a five sided shape and a six sided shape, wow! Listen to the shape song here.

Worship

This week in Worship we have continued our Creation and Covenant topic with ‘God Made Me’. Our key words were LOVE, SPECIAL and FAMILY.

We took a trip to our forest school area to explore our senses. We had a look in the pond to see our reflection, closed our eyes to see what we could hear and also thought about what we could smell. Our bodies are wonderful!

We revisited our story of creation which ended with God making wonderful us! We painted pictures of all the things that God made in our wonderful world to join our self-portraits for our displays in the classroom – we can’t wait for you to see them!

Here is a link to a song all about the things that God made. Click here.

We are so thankful for all that God has given us. Click here to listen to a story about God’s Wonderful Earth.

This week we kept our promise to Mrs. Tierney, Mr. Cornwell and Mrs. Nel and delivered their hand made with love crosses that we made with Justine from the willow growing in nursery garden, they loved them and they are now hanging in their classrooms. Mrs. Gregan wants us to make one for the hall as they are so beautiful!

Meet One

This week we met One. In the episode a little block falls from the sky, meets her numberling, one, and discovers one wonderful world of numerous single things that appear during the song, e.g. one sun, one smile. One also sings about being first in line and being lonely. Click here to watch.

Counting to 1

Saying ‘one’ when there is one thing to be counted

Concept of ‘oneness’

One is a single unit. If one is the quantity then what is being counted is arbitrary, and the size of the one is also arbitrary. e.g. one sun or one ant- there is one of each even though the sun is bigger than the ant. One is represented as a Numberblock, as a finger, familiar things, as a spoken word, as a movement (one hop), as a numeral. Related words for oneness, e.g. first and alone.

We have also been practicing write the numerals 0 and 1. Watch out for the sheet coming home with all the rhymes to help your child write numerals.

0 - round in a loop like an empty hoop

1- one line down like a stick makes a 1 that was quick!

Good luck!

Parent Meetings

This half term Parent Meetings will be held on the 9th October and the 16th October from 3.45pm -5.30 pm.

It is a great opportunity for you to meet up with myself and your child’s key person and have a chat. We therefore ask that you do not bring your child along with you unless absolutely necessary. Time slots will be in 15 minute intervals. The appointment time sheet will be available from next week. We look forward to catching up with you.

Our Body

Over the next few weeks we will be finding out about our body. We have got our skeleton out of the cupboard and looked at all the bones that are hiding inside our body. We have even chalked pictures of our skeleton, take a look. Here’s a short video to watch at home, click here.

Finally, we have learnt a new sound this week ‘s’ AND we have been learning how to write it - ‘slither down the snake’. Have a go at home and don’t forget to use duck fingers to hold your pencil.

Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you on Monday, hopefully for a sunny week.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 25th September

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

SPELLING

This week, we will rehearse these words that we are sometimes spelling incorrectly. CAN YOU SPOT IN EACH WORD THAT REALLY IT IS MADE OUT OF TWO WORDS?.

Make a poster of these 8 words in your homework book. Use colours to write the two parts of the word out. So for example for everybody - every may be in blue and body in red.

TOP TIP! Make sure you spell every correctly each time - a common mistake is to spell it evry! Some people spell any as eny! Don’t fall into the trap!

everyone everywhere everything everybody anyone anywhere anything anybody

READING

Each night - 20 minutes

MATHS

1. Go on TT rockstars in the garage.

2. This week, we have practiced writing COLUMN ADDITION on squared paper. Children have learned how to set these out correctly and space them. They have learned how to regroup in the tens and the ones when needed.

   Children, please complete the following calculations as column addition on the squared paper I have provided. Only write one number in every square and use a nice, sharp pencil so you can rub out if needed.

   a) 234 + 43=

   b) 363 + 105=

   c) 437 +228=

   d) 53 +83=

   e) 71 +94=

   f) 384 + 181=

   g) 193 + 316=

   h) 549 + 271 =

   i) 628 + 76 =

   (Children should now be able to recall calculations like 9+6 and 7+8 automatically now as they are solving the column additions. Parents, if you notice children struggling with these calculations that bridge over ten, please practise these on journeys whenever possible - in car, to the shops etc Rather than trying to add on fingers, encourage your child to use what they know already:)

   For example 7+8 we know 7+7=14 so 7+8 must be one more

   9+6 would be 9+1 to make ten then add 5 left to make 15

   5+8 think 5+5+3

Optional Home Learning - Autumn 1

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

Year 6 Home Learning 18.09.25

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

ASSEMBLY PRACTICE:

Please learn your lines off by heart for the assembly next Tuesday. Could you also make sure that you learn the song given out last week to the tune of twinkle twinkle. We have an additional song to practice and learn- please watch the you tube clip and try to do it without using the words:

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! Please complete the following long multiplications in your homework book- setting it out as we have been doing in class.

Spelling - will be practiced throughout the week and the children will be quizzed on the Thursday. Please complete the spellings in your book and really focus on the rules that it is asking you to complete.

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 17th September

Spellings

This weeks spelling are irregular past tense verbs. In addition to the look, cover, write and check activity, the children will need to fill in the table changing present tense verbs to past tense verbs. It can help to say the word in a sentence out loud in the present tense, then in the past eg. Today I will sing. > Yesterday I sang.

1. broke
2. found
3. told
4.held
5.heard
6.thought
7.bit
8.blew
9.came
10. ate

Reading
Please continue reading at home each evening. I have reminded the children that taking their book home each day is their responsibility, so hopefully they will be coming home regularly.
The children have started making their way up the reading target wall and some children have already claimed a prize out of the prize box for achieving five 100% scores in their reading quizzes.

Autumn 1 Optional homework

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Trip to London Thursday 18th September 2025

On Thursday, we will be going to London to visit the Houses of Parliament in line with our British values within our national curriculum and also linking to our Ancient Greece topic in History.

Here are the key times for arrivals and departures for the day:

6:45am- arrive at school.

7:00am- Coach departs from Our Lady’s to Preston train station.

8:00am- Train departs from Preston station to London Euston.

4:30pm- Train departs from London Euston to Preston train station

6:40pm- Coach departs from Preston train station back to Our Lady’s

7:15pm- Coach arrives back at Our Ladys

If you were to miss the 7:00am coach departure, school will ring you and liase for you to meet us at Preston train station for the 8am train departure.

Children are to arrive in their PE hoody’s with joggers/leggings. Children are to wear their white school polo shirt underneath their hoody. Children will need to bring a coat as there is a chance of rain on the day. The temperature is still quite warm so a thin lightweight but waterproof jacket is recommended.

Children will need to bring 2 packed lunches for their lunch and dinner for the day as we will not be stopping anywhere to buy any food- therefore no money is required on the day to be brought in. Lots of healthy snacks are recommended, along with lots of water, as there will be plenty of times throughout the day to snack but no chocolate, sweets or fizzy drinks are to be brought in- water only

No electronic devices are to be brought on the trip

Children are allowed to bring small items to comfort and entertain them whilst they are on the train such as:

• reading book

• deck of cards/card games

• small notepad and pencils

• mini transportable games

• small teddy bear

Whatever item the child is bringing, it needs to fit in their bag as they cannot carry any items around in their hands throughout the day.

If your child suffers from travel sickness, travel bands are recommended to be worn to help aid your child. If there travel sickness is more severe, then any medication used on long travels needs to be brought in on the day in a sealed bag with your child’s name on with timings of when the medication is usually taken.

According to Transport for London, National Rail and Avanti West Coast, there are no planned train/tube strikes for any of the lines and stations that we are attending on the day of travel.

If you have any questions in regards to the trip, then please email me at c.cornwell@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 1 Homework To be handed in Monday 22nd September

Welcome! Hopefully everyone has gone home today with their home reading packs. Inside you should find an exercise book (This is your homework book), two reading books and your reading record - please write a short note with how your child found / enjoyed these books. Please remember that the Read Write Inc book links to your child’s reading in school. The second book is one to enjoy - the children visited the school library and picked one that they were interested in reading at home.

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1. READING: Please enjoy your reading books this week!

2. DECORATE TIME: Please decorate your homework book (A4 blue exercise book) Can you personalise it so that it shares a little bit about your character, interests or family?

3. SPELLINGS: This week our two common exception words are:

   I the

   Our phonic sound is: ck

   Words to learn are: kick pick pack sock

   Our spelling game this week has been Countdown. We’ve had great time playing this game: Pop each spelling on a small piece of paper, play the countdown theme tune, when the music stops, say the word you’ve got. Play again until all words have been uncovered.

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Don’t forget our emails should you have any questions:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 5 Weekly Blog 12.09.25-‘God has shown you all of this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are’- Joseph

What a super week it has been in our first full week of Year 5! The children have settled in so well and are really up to speed on the expectations of upper juniors.

We began our brand new RE curriculum this week with our first unit being ‘Creation & Covenant’, looking into the first covenants that God made with the strongest faiths and those who showed the most trust in God. We started with Abraham and how he was promised to be the father of many nations and how this linked down to his great grandchild, Joseph, and the wonderful story of how his faith and trust in God became such an inspirational story in the Bible. The children have had a blast singing, dancing and recreating the story of Joseph with some roleplay.

In maths, we have continued to look into our newest column in place value- our tenths column and have been exploring this in various ways such as part whole diagrams, addition and subtraction equations, fractions and also decimals.

In English, we have dived into what it would be like as a WW2 evacuee and have began writing letters back home to our parents from the 1940’s.

It was lovely to meet so many of you on Wednesday at induction evening and to finally put some names to faces (which will certainly help me out on the gate at the end of the day!). If you didn’t manage to make induction evening or you missed any key details from the night, here is a copy of the slides from the presentation.

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

What breaks as soon as you say it?

Question of the Week- conversation starter

In history, we have been looking into the rise of Athens during the Ancient Greek times and how they became one of the most powerful cities in the world. One of the influential impacts was the creation of democracy and changing the way how cities were governed and controlled. We will get the chance next week to see what democracy looks like in our country when we visit the Houses of Parliament.

If you the Prime Minister, what changes would you bring out to make our country a better place?

Let’s Celebrate

Our first certificate winners of Year 5!

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Scarlett. You have been so learned these past two weeks and have transferred all of your skills from Year 4 straight into Year 5. You have shone so much wisdom in our lessons and have done this with such kindness, love and patience. Thankyou Scarlett!

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Fletcher for being a focused and determined learner. I could not have asked for a better start to Year 5 Fletcher! You have been so focused during teacher inputs, independent tasks and following instructions. Your eagerness to challenge yourself and the way you put so much focus into your challenges is excellent to see. Brilliant work!

Notices

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

• 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.

• 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]

• 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. Payment is still live on parent pay

• Medical and Consent Forms- Please complete the forms below ASAP. I am still waiting on a number of these then photos can then start to be uploaded to the blog.

Have a wonderful weekend from Mr Cornwell and Mrs Johnson

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 18th 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

Lots 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. cow

2. look

3. shout

4. accident

5. island

6. probably

7. berries

8. elves

9. babies

10. leaves

11. correspond

12. individual

13. sacrifice

14. variety

15. bargain

Optional Homework

RE- Family Tree

In RE, we analysed the link between Abraham and Joseph and we created a family tree to show the connection. Can you draw your own family tree to show how you are related to your family members?

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 12th September "Love each other as Jesus has loved us." He has given nothing less than His life for us (St. Teresa)

The children have settled so well already in Year 4 and we have had a really super week!

The theme of our worships and our RE lesson this week has been self-giving. In the Gospel, children learned about giving of yourself to God’s will and how Jesus came to save us, not condemn us. We have been to church this week for Our Lady’s birthday. Children were so reflective. Also - we have had our first children’s worship this week from these children. They read from Genesis about the call of Abram and we sung ‘Be not afraid,’ reminding us that God is always with us.

In Science, children have learned that all animals are separated into vertebrates and invertebrates. They then learned all about the 5 classes of vertebrates and completed some beautiful work about them. In English we have practised the following reading skills - finding the meaning of unknown words, summarising the main idea of a paragraph and making sensiblepredictions about what we read.

In our Kidsafe lesson this week, children learned about what to do if they get ‘yukky feelings.’ We talked about sharing problems and telling a trusted adult. Children then discussed who their trusted adults are. We practised saying NO assertively if we are in uncomfortable or unsafe situations.

It was so lovely to meet some of you properly for the first time on Wednesday and see some familiar faces! If you missed it, here is the powerpoint from our induction evening. Please ensure you have filled in the online forms so that I can start to put photographs on, know who is picking your child up and also I am informed of medical needs.

Conversation starters

Science

Chat to your parents about animal classes - birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and fish. What are the characteristics of each class? What does vertebrate mean? What is cold-blooded and warm-blooded?

Kidsafe

What should you do if you get yukky feelings?

Let’s Celebrate!.

Our first certificate of the Year is a Cooper Crab for concentration. This goes to Isla. You are always ready to learn promptly Isla and you put 100% focus when listening and when completing your work. Well done.

Our virtues this half term are being learned and wise. This week, Henry O. receives our star for making wise decisions and for striving to be the best learner he an be.

PE stars this week were: Wren for super gymnastics moves and Jude Cl. for great control over the ball. Well done!

Notices

We have a trip to UCLAN on 11th November. This is called ‘Cosmetic Chemistry’ and supports our work in Science on solids, liquids and gases next half term. It is now payable on parent pay.

Here are the forms to be filled in if you have not already done so.

Forest school - Children that are attending forest school sessions have been informed and have letters in bags. These sessions start on Tuesday 16th September. Please ensure they have the right clothing so they can participate.

It is a privilege to teach your children. They have worked so hard and been so kind to each other this week. Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Lyons and Miss Slater

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