Year 1 Parents meetings Friday 24 October

Dear parents,

Thank you for responding to to the request for face to face meetings or virtual. I have 10 responses for virtual meetings and 15 for face to face. As you can see from the form below I have blocked off the times- so face to face is in the morning then virtual all afternoon and then back to face to face in the evening.

Please decide which time is best for you and email me with that time and your child’name. I will book these on a first come first served basis. The form will also be available after school at pick up.

email: c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

or press the CLASS CONTACT button on the Year 1 web page this comes directly to me.

Year 5 Parents Meeting- Friday 24th October 2025

Dear parents,

Thank you for responding to to the request for face to face meetings or virtual. I have 22 responses for virtual meetings and 7 for face to face. As you can see from the form below I have blocked off the times- so face to face is in the morning then virtual all afternoon and then back to face to face in the evening.

Please decide which time is best for you and email me with that time and your child’name. I will book these on a first come first served basis. The form will also be available after school at pick up.

email: c.cornwell@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

or press the CLASS CONTACT button on the Year 5 web page this comes directly to me.

Year 1 Homework to be handed in Tuesday 14th October

Thank you again for the super home learning. If your child has their own Rosary beads please bring these into school as we will be praying the Rosary throughout each week during the month of October.

Additional:

RE: We have been discussing the beauty in God’s creation. You could make your own paint brush out of a stick and leaves or petals for the brush and use this to create a piece of artwork celebrating one of God’s creations.

Maths: We have moved onto counting forwards and backwards to 20. Please practise this at home. Some ideas to focus on: Recognising each numeral; writing each numeral; saying what number comes next; ordering the numbers; counting amounts up to 20 accurately.

Thank you!

Year 4 parents meetings Friday 24th October

Dear parents,

Thank you for responding to to the request for face to face meetings or virtual. I have 12 responses for virtual meetings and 13 for face to face. As you can see from the form below I have blocked off the times- so face to face is in the morning then virtual all afternoon and then back to face to face in the evening.

Please decide which time is best for you and email me with that time and your child’name. I will book these on a first come first served basis. The form will also be available after school at pick up.

email: a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

or press the CLASS CONTACT button on the Year 4 web page this comes directly to me.

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 16th October

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

SPELLING

This week, we have been learning irregular past tense verbs. There is a sheet in your homework books.

Group 1

Please follow the instructions on your sheet. copy the paragraph out in your homework books in the PAST TENSE.

Group 2

Please follow the instructions on your sheet. Use the Read, Turn, write, check method to learn your irregular verbs and sound - like last week.

READING

Each night - 20 minutes

MATHS

This week in mastering number, we have learned the 12x tables. Practise saying in order and then ask grown ups to test you out of order. Alternatively, follow the process of this game online:

Optional Home Learning - Autumn 1

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

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 14th October

Spellings

This week we have been focusing on the prefix ‘re’:

1. reread
2. rewrite
3. remind
4.revisit
5.refresh
6.remove
7.review
8.replace
9.repeat
10. rearrange

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Reading
This week the children have written a book review for our class novel Paddington.

When they’re reading at home this week, you could ask book review style questions like; “Who are the characters in this book?” “What is the plot of the story?” “Would you recommend this book to a friend?” “How many stars would you give this book out of 5?”

Class Assembly Script

The children have been given copies of the script for our class assembly with their lines highlighted, please encourage your child to practise their lines at home. They also have the lyrics of ‘Someone Special’ by Coldplay as we will sing this as a class. Our class assembly is on 11th November.

Autumn 1 Optional homework

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Year 5 Weekly Blog 03.10.25- 'Even if they sin seven times a day and seven times a night, you must forgive them'- Luke 17:1-10

Our theme this week in our liturgy has been about keeping your faith strong, especially when people have sinned against you. The children reflected on the word of the Gospel and how Jesus teaches us to always forgive and the children used our class motto to reflect on this beautifully. The children were able to link this to our RE lessons this week as we focused on what a sin is and how we use our conscience to prevent us from making sins.

Excitement has certainly been ramped up in English as we have began preparing our planning stage for our first narrative write on our class novel. The children have loved applying their own spin to important characters in the book and are already thinking about what pieces of creative writing can they draw from this.

Today has also been our forest school takeover day as we spent the morning getting mucky, climbing trees, relaxing in hammocks and coming together as a team around the fire. We then spent the rest of the morning continuing with our properties of materials topic in Science as we looked at ‘solubility’ with a very interesting practical session to go with this. Tell your parents about what we were doing and the science behind each of the glasses.

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

I have a head but no neck. I have two arms but no hands. What am I?

Question of the Week- conversation starter

This week, I tested your conscience with a game of moral dilemmas. Tell your parents about the dilemmas we discussed and see what choice they would make?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Hugo. You are just so helpful Hugo! You are always wanting to help both your teachers and your classmates. You have taken to life as an upper junior with real maturity, along with your leadership roles, and your teachers really do appreciate all of the support you are providing.

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Bea for being an enthusiastic and creative learner. You are just an absolute joy when it comes to creative writing lessons Bea! You just love to write and to apply your own imaginative description in our writing, whilst also using our newly learned grammar skills. This stems from your enthusiasm and love of writing as to why you have produced such excellent pieces of work- keep this up!

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.

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

• 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 Class Assembly Tuesday 14th October- The children will be performing their assembly twice in the morning. First assembly will begin at 9:15am and the next at 9:35am. You are welcome to attend both of these if you would like.
  
  

• 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.

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 4 Weekly blog. Friday 3rd October "The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

I captured the picture above when children were so proud of their RE work this week! Children learned the story about Abraham being asked by God to sacrifice his only son Isaac. It was hard to comprehend Abraham’s great faith - but they reflected on God’s mercy and ultimate sacrifice of His own Son Jesus. The theme of faith has been resounding in our worships this week - from Luca and Bella’s worship showing the disciples leaving everything and following Jesus to the Gospel story of faith as a tiny mustard seed. Look at our pictures below showing our journey towards Jesus this week.

Also this week, children have been filling our class bucket with acts of kindness they are spotting in one another - it is half full already! We have made little hearts to show our love for Father Peter and wish him a quick recovery.

We are so focused in class too. This week we have been busy learning column subtraction in maths, locating countries with lines of longitude and latitude in Geography and in English, children have been learning the great power of description through our new technique - extended noun phrases.

In our Kidsafe lesson this week, children have talked about what to do if they hear a lot of arguing. This can give them Yukky feelings. They have recapped all other important safety messages from the previous weeks. Please have a look at the letter below

Here are Year 4 in action this week and some examples of lovely work - WAGOLL means What a Good one Looks Like!

Conversation starters

English

Why is the character of Charlotte so inspiring in our novel? Why does Wilbur have faith in her?

Let’s Celebrate!.

Our certificate this week is a Sadie Spider determined learner. This goes to Marla. You are so ready to learn all the time. You work your absolute socks off to do your very best in all your work. That is why it is of such high quality. Well done!

Our virtues this half term are being learned and wise. This week, Dexter receives our star being such a respectful and hardworking learner. Dexter you are so full of enthusiasm and you make wise decisions. You are very lovely to teach!

PE stars this week were: Xander and Jacob for super sequences in gymnastics and co-operative team play.

Music stars : Henry Sl and Jack

Kindness stars: Jack and Eliza

Notices

Family mass this Sunday at church 9:30am

Forest school for all children in Year 4 This coming Friday 10th October, all children will spend half a day in forest school. They need to bring tracksuit trousers, old trainers and most importantly a long-sleeved top on this day. Unfortunately they cannot take part without these.

Parent’s Day is on Friday October 24th - Please could you let me know by the end of this weekend which style of parents meeting you prefer so that I can plan a timetable for the day. Click the link below to the very short online form.

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.

Ukuleles and homework - Thursday

Have a lovely October weekend.

Mrs Lyons and Miss Slater

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