Year 3 Weekly Blog Friday 2nd October - And He said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”

As we head into the month of October we have been talking lots about Mary, as this is the month of the Rosary. Our Prayer leaders have led us beautifully in prayer as we have said the first decade of the rosary together. Over the next month we will be saying the Rosary regularly together, if your child has a Rosary at home they are welcome to bring it in to use when we pray the Rosary.

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This week...

Autumn is definitely arrived. the nursery garden is full of leaves!! We catch sweep them up fast enough. We hope the windy weather that is on it’s way will blow them away.

We have had great fun this week with all our learning! We have have been matching shapes, measuring worms (not real ones!), counting key on to a key ring and practising our fundamental movement skills with Mr. Nay, phew!!

Worship

This week in Worship we have continued our ‘Creation and Covenant’ topic with ‘The Sign of the Cross’. Our key words this week are CROSS, PRAYER and SIGN.

We learnt the words and the actions, we are so good at this! God is love. When we make the sign of the cross, we remember that He loves us and we are part of His family. Have a go here.

On Thursday we chose our first prayer leaders. They led us in our Worship and showed us how to make the sign of the cross and how we should hold our hands while we said a ‘Hail Mary’. Our worship was all about kindness. We heard about love and kindness in the Gospel (Luke 6:35) and spoke about how we have been kind to our family and friends. We then wrote down our acts of kindness and put them into our kindness bucket! We are so excited to fill our bucket.

Also, this week we made a prayer garden in our outside area. We made a HUGE cross of ‘ ‘Hope’ to put in the centre. We all then said a Hail Mary standing around our new garden. It was so moving. Take a look.

Meet Three!

We met a new Numberblock this week….3. We have explored the part-part whole structure. combining 2 with 1 to make 3.

‘Threeness’ of 3

At the beginning of the episode TWO lies horizontally to illustrate that he is still TWO even though he is in a different orientation. This idea is built on later when THREE changes his arrangement from a three block tower to an L shaped block. THREE is also represented next to TWO in a line from left to right. This places THREE as one more than TWO and TWO is one more than ONE. The staircase representation of ONE, TWO and THREE is a powerful image that helps children to see that the difference between adjacent counting numbers is 1.

Counting to 3

Counting involves knowing the order of the number names and assigning one number tag to one object or event. This episode uses the counting sequence “one, two, three” to objects and characters from well known stories. Click here to watch the episode.

If you want to have a go at writing three check your number mat. Don’t forget duck fingers!

Meet ‘d’

A busy week brain growing! The children were introduced to the new sound ‘d’.

Again check out you sound mat to practise how to write ‘d’ correctly. Once again duck fingers. If you want to recap the Read, Write inc. sounds click here. Don’t be tempted to race ahead with the sounds…take our lead.

Family Mass

This Sunday is our Family Mass at church. It would be so lovely to see all our families there. It starts at 9.30 am at Our Lady Star of the Sea church. It is our first family mass of the year and to welcome all our new families to school and church. We look forward to seeing you there.

Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you all on Monday.

Stay safe and God bless

Barbara

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 9th October

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. queen

  2. wrong

  3. sink

  4. little

  5. often

  6. guide

  7. chosen

  8. grew

  9. given

  10. broke

  11. bruise

  12. convenience

  13. muscle

  14. language

  15. stomach

Optional Homework

In English, we have all created our mythological creatures for our The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe story. You had just a small attempt at bringing your creature to life through art. Create a poster of your mythological creature with detailed characteristics, body parts, special abilities etc. Try to also include your creature’s habitat and occupation as well.

Year 1 Weekly Blog 3.10.25 - "A family full of faith is a family full of joy."

This week we listened to a piece of scripture all about faith… and how even in little faith, God can do great things… Year 1 have reflected on the word faith, understanding that it means believing in God. Our mission was to spread God’s love to everybody!

On Monday evening we turned our classroom around slightly… and the children’s reactions were just brilliant! As they stepped into the classroom on Tuesday morning they were so excited to see the changes, “I feel like Year 6!” all with huge beaming smiles. Every child has been given a table place and new carpet space as we now lean more towards whole class learning with provision challenges along the sides of the classroom. After observing our children we knew they were very much ready for this next step in their learning! We are so proud of each one of them and their thirst for learning. Year 1 you are just wonderful!

Going deeper in conversation

This week we had our final Kidsafe session and all children have been awarded a certificate for participating. We spent time evaluating our Kidsafe learning and the children all felt that it was very important! Some comments from the children were: “Every child should do Kidsafe because they feel it helps them know what to do.” “I know how to use my strong voice because sometimes when I’m worried a just have a quiet voice.” “I loved celebrating KS’s birthday it was lots of fun.” “We know what to do if we get yukky feelings.”

Question to ask: Who are your trusted adults?

Magic moments

In English we have been exploring the story of Supertato and there has been a lot of laughter this week as we stepped into the role of the characters Miss Carrot, Mr Broccoli and Mrs Cucumber. It was wonderful to see the children have so much fun acting out the various emotions and dilemmas that the characters have faced and to hear them using such descriptive language such as alarmed, startled, stunned and bamboozled!

Let’s celebrate

A huge well done to Ralph who has received our Star virtue award this week for all of his learned and wise actions. Ralph you have joined in with our discussions beautifully, sharing your wondering questions and wise reflections on our topics and focus words. Thank you for sharing these ideas so we can all grow together!

This week we also celebrate Lillie who has been an enthusiastic Bobby Bee this week. Lillie, you have shown a genuine excitement towards your learning and we have loved seeing how this passion has reflected in your work and the example you have set for others. Thank you for bringing a love of learning to our classroom!

Parents Meetings

Parents meetings will be taking place on Friday 24th October. This year, you have the opportunity to come into school for face to face parents meeting or alternatively you can book an appointment online. Please complete the form below indicating which option you would prefer. If you would prefer an online meeting please include your email address.

Parent Meeting Form

Reminders

Sunday Mass - This Sunday we celebrate and welcome our new Reception class. If you are able to make it, mass starts at 9:30, thank you!

Hello Yellow Day - On Friday next week (10th October) All children are invited to wear yellow on Friday in support of Youth mental health.

Homework and reading books - A huge thank you for the great success on Monday with the amount of homework books that were brought back with homework completed. We really appreciate your hard work, at home, as it really does have such a great impact. I look forward to spending time looking at all completed home learning next week (Monday) before sending them back home on Tuesday.

Forest school children - remember your change of clothes on Thursday. Spare trainers for climbing please! Not all children are attending forest school this half term. However every child will take part in a forest school take over day, this is where they will spend the entire day in forest school, how exciting! I will provide the date for this soon!

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 6 Weekly Blog - So I tell you, whatever you ask for through prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24

‘Faith’ has been the centre of our prayer and reflection this week. During our Wednesday word and teacher’s liturgy on Thursday we have listened and reflected on the meaning of Sunday’s gospel Luke 17:5-10. In the gospel we hear the disciples ask Jesus to give them more faith and Jesus’ response is most profound: even if they had faith like a mustard seed they could tell a mulberry tree to move from where it is in the ground and plant itself in the sea. What better place than to hold our liturgy around our reading tree in the library! We have looked at the metaphorical meaning of the gospel and how Jesus is telling us that even if we only have a small amount of faith we can do amazing things. Even if we can’t move trees, we might be able to make big changes to the world around us. This has linked beautifully to our RE lessons this week, where we have looked at the Laudato Si- Pope Francis’ letter to us, urging us to look after our common home- planet earth- and how we are all called to be stewards.

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Year 6 Home Learning 3.10.25

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

Read- Read as much as you can this week- let’s get quizzing and get to target by half term! Three people have made it already!

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

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. PURPLE MASH quiz has also be set to help you practice these spellings.

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

AUTUMN 1 OPTIONAL LEARNING

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 7th October

Spellings

This week we have been focusing on adding ‘ing’, ‘ed’ and ‘er’ to root words.


1. gardener
2. opener
3. happened
4.sharpener
5.whispering
6.covered
7.listening
8.shivered
9.followed
10. publisher

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Reading
The children are making great progress towards their reading targets, please continue reading at home. Please remember to send your child’s reading book back into school daily - a few children have been without their books this week.

Autumn 1 Optional homework

Year 3 Autumn 1 Optional Homework





Year 1 Homework to be handed in Monday 6th October

Thank you again for all of the super homework completed this week! We are so proud of the children and their enthusiasm to learn! A big thank you for being so encouraging and supportive.

Extra challenge: Who was your favourite character in the book and why? You could draw your character in your homework book and write a sentence about them.

Extra challenge: Can you find any other words that have ‘ll’ in them? Share these with your class by writing them in your homework book.

Extra challenge: Could you write these letters correctly on the lined page in your homework book?

Year 5 Weekly Blog 26.09.25- 'He is rich or poor according to who he is, not according to what he has'

Another wonderful week it has been in Year 5. In our RE lessons this week, we have looked at the true value of happiness and what aspects of life make are important to your happiness. It was lovely to see how the children voted on money being one of their lowest values to their happiness in favour of safety, love, family and friends. This led perfectly into our worship, where we focused on ‘wealth’ and read the story of The Rich Man and Lazarus, according to Luke 13:19-31. The children were really insightful and drew upon the hidden messages in the story such as using your privileges for the greater good and treating others how you would like to be treated.

Our English lessons have been full of excitement with us beginning our class novel- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. The children have been so drawn into our novel and have read with such expression, along with being super focused during our reading tasks when referring back to the text. The excitement of watching small clips from the film have really excited the children to draw so much description in their creative writing.

We have also began our first science topic of the year which is focusing on properties of materials. We looked at all of the different properties that materials can have and we applied this to everyday materials that we use in school.

Here are some of the key words from our lessons this week varying from key science vocabulary, tricky spellings in writing lessons and unfamilar words found in our class novel

Words of the Week





In our Kidsafe lesson this week, we have been learning about online safety and looking at the do’s and don’ts of what to do online.

Year 5 Kidsafe- Online Safety


Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

What type of bird would you use to carry really heavy weights?






Question of the Week- conversation starter

What makes you happy? I loved hearing your responses to this in RE. Ask the same question to your family members.



If you had to rank all of your responses from most important to least, what would it look like and why?

Notices

  • Parent’s Day is on Friday October 24th - a great chance for us to have a good chat about how your child is doing. This year, we have two options - we can meet face to face at school, or you may choose to have an online Teams meeting with me. Please fill in the form below indicating which you would prefer, then we can block out the day appropriately.


Parents day options

Apologies again for the technical faults last week with the consent forms. Please could all parents complete this form ASAP.

Year 5 Consent Forms

  • 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.




  • Year 5 Book Look Tuesday 21st October- This will be held at 9:15am and this gives you parents a chance to have a look at your child’s work so far in Year 5.

Year 3 Weekly Blog Friday 26th September -“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

This week we have heard the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. The rich man saw the poor man, Lazarus, outside his house. Lazarus would hope for the scraps the rich man would leave, but the rich man did not notice him. We have spent time thinking about how we can help those less fortunate than ourselves, we recognised that many of us already help the poor and needy by donating to food banks, supporting and buying from charity shops and by taking part in charitable events. Our word of the week has been wealth.

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Year 1 Weekly Blog 26.9.25 - "God has chosen the poor to be rich in faith" - James 2:5

This week we have heard the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. The rich man saw the poor man, Lazarus, outside his house. Lazarus would hope for the scraps the rich man would leave… This left us thinking… how do we help others? Would we watch others hurt, or would we try and help? Our children are full of compassion and have their sights set on helping others. Before our prayer and liturgies we have spent time saying prayers for people who need our prayers.

Going deeper in conversation

This week we have continued our Kidsafe lessons and have spoken about keeping our bodies safe. We all understand the 3 steps to keeping ourselves safe: Say “No” (we have enjoyed finding our voices by using our tummy muscles to say NO confidently!) Walk away, and finally tell a trusted adult. Please read the letter below to further support you child.

Question to ask: What should we do if we have Yukky feelings?

Kidsafe Letter - Lesson 4

Magic moments

There are so many moments from the week! On Tuesday we watched our Year 6 friends share a special message all about being ‘bucket fillers’… following this, we have been busy filling each others buckets! So many moments are standing out when writing this, but I must say that a group of children came to ask if they could tidy our home corner, as is was rather messy. They took such care in putting our home corner right. This was absolute stewardship from our young children and their efforts did not go unseen. They were celebrated by us all as we thanked them for their efforts. Seeing their happiness, knowing that they had done a very good deed, was such a special moment. Thank you Year 1, you are just beautiful!

Let’s celebrate

A huge well done to Roxie who has been so caring and considered towards our classroom. Roxie you have have looked after God’s world each and everyday and we have been so full of happiness watching you be so responsible!

This week we also celebrate Eddie who has been a reflective learner. Eddie, you have taken the time to look closely at your work and think about how you could improve it. Your huge proud smile certainly showed why being a reflective learner is such an important skill. Well done!

Parents Meetings

Parents meetings will be taking place on Friday 24th October. This year, you have the opportunity to come into school for face to face parents meeting or alternatively you can book an appointment online. Please complete the form below indicating which option you would prefer. If you would prefer an online meeting please include your email address.

Parent Meeting Form

Medical Form

We just have a few medical forms outstanding, please click the link below to complete the form. Thank you very much for your support and understanding with this.

Medical Form

Reminders

Homework and reading books -A huge thank you for the great success on Monday with the amount of homework books that were brought back with homework completed. We really appreciate your hard work, at home, as it really does have such a great impact. I look forward to spending time looking at all completed home learning next week (Monday) before sending them back home on Tuesday.

Forest school children - remember your change of clothes on Thursday. Spare trainers for climbing please! Not all children are attending forest school this half term. However every child will take part in a forest school take over day, this is where they will spend the entire day in forest school, how exciting! I will provide the date for this soon!

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!

This week...

A lovely sunny week at nursery. We have continued to explore parts of our bodies. We found out that we all have a skeleton inside our bodies which help us to move; run, catch, hop, dance…all sorts of physical activities! We also have 206 bones!!!

We also discussed how to stay healthy (click here) and how to look after our major organs in our body. Click here to find out more.

Lots of learning challenges have been happening all around nursery this week. We have been making bridges and balancing characters, placing balls in cups without dropping them, sequencing bears in order of size and colour and matching number shapes. I must say we all did extremely well. Take a look!

Worship

During prayer and liturgy this week we have been thanking God for our ‘Wonderful world’ and discussed how we should be looking after it. The children were sad to hear that some of our world is being destroyed instead of cared for. We are putting our thinking heads on to find ways in which we can help care for living things and our planet.

This week in Worship we have continued our Creation and Covenant topic with ‘God Loves Everyone’. Our key words were BAPTISM, CHURCH and CARE.

We began by listening to a story all about the things that God knows. We had to listen out for ‘God knows all about me’ – we were great at this! You can listen to it here

We spoke about how we are all different – but God loves us all! He made us and we are welcomed into his family through Baptism. When a person is baptised, it’s like getting a big welcome hug from God and joining His big family (the Church).

Baptism shows that you belong to Him and that He will always love and take care of you.

On Thursday we were very excited to join our friends in Reception for our Worship session. We lit the Worship candle and made the sign of the cross. We went to the Chapel and used the water to make a cross on our foreheads, just like the priest does when we are baptised. As we did this, we said ‘God loves me, God made me, I am part of God’s family’. We really enjoyed going to the Chapel, it was just like going to Church. Why don’t you see if you can remember how to make the cross on your head at home.

Meet Two

Counting to 2- counting involves knowing the order of the number names and assigning one number tag to one object or event.

‘Twoness’ of two -This episode provides examples of things that happen or come in ones and twos. There are lots of examples of twos, e.g. dancing together, riding a tandem, riding piggy back, singing a duet, setting a table for two. By also providing examples of one alongside, children can begin to distinguish what two is and what two is not. Click here to watch.

Take a look at your number mat to to practise writing 2, it’s a bit tricky- one curve down is what to do, then straight across to make a two'

and…we have learnt a new sound too, ‘t’

We made a ‘t’ shop, which can only sell things beginning with the sound ‘t’. I wonder how many things at home you have that begin with ‘t’!

If you fancy having a try writing ‘t’, take a look at your sound map for the rhyme- down the tower, across the tower’ Don’t forget duck fingers!!

We have reached the end of another busy week at nursery and I feel the children are exhausted- growing our brains is hard work!

I think we all deserve a good rest his weekend. Stay safe and enjoy the time you spend with your loved ones.

God bless

Barbara

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 2nd October

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. key

  2. saw

  3. bird

  4. minute

  5. special

  6. popular

  7. skipping

  8. grabbed

  9. knitting

  10. shredded

  11. rhyme

  12. signature

  13. mischievous

  14. appreciate

  15. environment

Optional Homework

Answer the question of the day on the blog and write this down in your homework books.

Can you remember what was on your ‘What makes me happy’ bubble?

Jot these down again but order them from most to least important for your happiness.