Autumn 2 Extra-Curricular Timetable

Please find below the clubs on offer for this next half term. Keep an eye on the dates of when things start and finish. Due to Christmas, they are all at different times.

Please sign up to the clubs using the buttons below.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 23.10.25- 'Don't judge each other by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant'

And just like that, we have finished our first half term of Year 5! (and our longest one of the year). The children have settled into life as upper juniors excellently and have worked so hard over these past eight weeks, you all deserve a week off. We have finished our final week of the half term with celebration and togetherness. On Tuesday, we invited you lovely parents in for our annual book look, to show you how hard your child has been working and to get a glimpse into the Year 5 curriculum. On Wednesday, we carried on with our enrichment opportunities for the third year running. To start, the children went back to Year 4 with Mrs Lyons for a bit of musical theatre!

We ended our week by coming together to celebrate our harvest festival. Thank you so much for all of your donations ( I have never seen so many baked beans in my life). Photos of all of our collections are available on Mrs Gregan’s blog. We also had a special visit from two of our local police force to chat with Year 5 and 6 all about Halloween and Bonfire Safety. The children were very responsive and curious with their questions and answers and we may have inspired some future police officers in the making.

Conversation Starters

In preparation for Halloween and Bonfire night, can you remember the ways of how we can stay safe during these two events. Did you learn anything new about the Police, Halloween or Bonfires?

Notices

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

• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Parental Guidance- We are currently reading this book as our class novel. We are due to finish the book just before Christmas and are hoping to watch the film during Christmas memory week. If you have any queries or issues about your child watching this film, please email me. If no emails are received, I will take this as a yes to your child being okay to watch the film.

• Choir- If you are interested in joining the school choir, or are already an existing member, please sign the form below.

• Parents Day- Friday 24th October- Here is the full timetable for parents day tomorrow. Appointments will be capped at 10 minutes to allow all appointments to start on time.

• School will reopen on Monday 3rd November. Have a wonderful week off!

Year 5 Half Term Homework- Due Thursday 6th November

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Everyone has been given a reading target to complete over half term (there should be a post it note in their book). Rocket reading targets will reset and be changed over half term so make sure you are ready to quiz when you come back to school!

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. pound

2. coin

3. note

4. eight

5. arrive

6. quarter

7. knew

8. whole

9. father

10. scent

11. criticise

12. interfere

13. community

14. opportunity

15. symbol

Art

The children have began making their pop up books, in which they will create a book about a Greek myth. Watch the video below and choose a myth you would like to create your book about. Note down four main parts of the story for your book. There is a playlist of 12 other myths in the top right corner of the video. Choose which myth you would like from the list of videos.

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 6th November

Seed Dispersal

After the holidays, we will be writing about how different seeds disperse. If you go on a walk this holiday and want to collect and bring in any of the following seeds or seed heads, we can make a collection in class and study them to write about:

sycamore, poppy, conker, acorn, berries, gorse, burdock

English

To help us remember to punctuate sentences, please write this paragraph below in your best handwriting. It is not punctuated at all! This makes it tricky to read.

I would like you to see if you can find all capital letters, full stops and any other punctuation that is needed.

in addition the lion is my only friend in this world it is certain that I have been alone my whole life with no companions mother is often sick and cannot play with me don’t you realise that I would have loved to go to school just imagine how you would feel if you had nobody to talk to all day now I finally have this beautiful lion to spend time with how can you take him away from me

MATHS

Keep going on TT rockstars over the holidays in the garage.

If your heatmap is now green, can you speed your time up in studio?

Optional Home Learning - Autumn 1

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

Year 4 Weekly blog. Thursday 23rd October. "When we live humbly, God takes our small efforts and creates great things."

The children prepared a beautiful worship this week, all about the gift of life and having faith in God’s path for us. They read the story of Jairus’s daughter and came up with our week’s mission - to have faith that God will provide and take care of us. They have written their own prayers about their own faith, hope and love in God this week in RE and have felt comforted by God’s support in their life. We had a beautiful Harvest worship as a whole school today. Autumn is such a beautiful time of year to be thankful for all God’s gifts. In our HRSE lessons, the children have learned that we do not have to be the same - it is ok to be different and like different things. They have been reflecting on the gift of their body- God’s creation and all the different ways we can respect and care for our body.

In other news, we had a competition in our French lesson this week. Groups competed to see if they could write in french sentences describing personality. They had to make the adjective agree with the masculine or feminine pronoun! Very good work!

After discussing themes of our previous novel, Charlotte’s Web in English and quizzing on the book, we started a new novel, The Butterfly Lion. The children wrote another persuasive letter based on this and they were such high quality.

Conversation starters

HRSE

How can we look after our bodies? Argue against the following statements with your adults,

“Bedtime is for babies!” “Being hygienic doesn’t matter” “I can eat sweets, chocolate and crisps instead of meals.” “Children don’t need exercise.”

Let’s Celebrate

TTROCKSTARS

This half term the following children have gone green on their TT Rockstars heatmap, which means they know all their times tables in less than 4 seconds!

Jude Cuffe, Sasha, Isla, Luca, Marla, Heidi

Reading Targets

The following children have all worked hard to meet their reading targets this half term:

Bonnie, Bella, Heidi, Ruth, Barnaby, Jude Cuffe, Xander, Marla, Blythe, Logan, Edward, Dexter, Henry O. Henry S and Michael. BRILLIANT!

The following children have met their reading target TWICE OVER! EXCEPTIONAL!

Eliza, Isla

Notices

Break time snacks: Please can we ensure that all snacks are separate from lunch boxes and kept in the school bag to go straight in their tray. They need to be without a wrapper - fruit is the best thing as it has a natural or eatable wrapper! Or put snacks into labelled plastic tubs to take home afterwards.

Parent’s Day is tomorrow - I look forward to seeing you virtually or in person.

Ancient Egyptians Trip

We are going to Bolton Museum for a workshop about Ancient Egyptians on Friday 28th November in the afternoon. Children will need a packed lunch or you could order one from Jackie. Please include this on the form below for both trips.

This will be payable on Parentpay by tomorrow.

Cosmetic Chemistry trip.

Please fill in the form below indicating if you are making your child’s lunch or if they would like a school one made from Jackie.

Choir

If your child is interested in joining choir after the holidays, please sign up below.

Have a lovely half term,

Mrs Lyons and Miss Slater

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 4th November

Spellings

Revisiting homophones

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Class Assembly Script
Please continue practising lines over half term.

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Year 3 Weekly Blog Friday 17th October

Our learning this week…

English
We’ve been immersed in lots of lovely books about hidden gardens, topairy tress and adventures in enchanted trees! We’ve continued to ask questions and make predictions from pictures and recorded them in our books. We made picked out clues and compared pictures to stories we already know and made links to real life eg. We spotted some yellow flowers in a picture that reminded us of daffodils, we went on to think about the time of year we see daffodils in the garden.

Maths
We have been putting into pracise all the skills of the last couple of weeks and solving addition and subtraction problems. We’ve built on our bridging in Year2 and have been bridging multiples of 10 across 100.

Swimming

Our swimming stars this week (As chosen by the swimmers teachers) are: Evana and George.
Well done, the whole class ae really impressing me - I don’t think we’ve had so many children who are able to swim so early on in the year.

Scientists in Year 3

We have been learning about soil, how it is formed, what it is and how long it takes to form. We looked really closely at sample of soil to see what we could see, the children were very observant and recorded what they found in their samples.

Forest School Photos!

Harvest

Please help - so far we have had no donations in our class.
The Mini Vinnie’s have asked year 3 to collect jam for the Food bank - any donations will be greatly appreciated.

Library books

I will be returning books to the library on Monday - if you would like me to take your child’s book to the library for them. Please send it into school on Monday. They are due back on Tuesday 22nd October.

Woodmatters - Stone Age Trip

Please click on the button below to give permission for your child to attend our trip and choose a lunch option.

Certificates

Our learner of the week is Henry
You have had a fantastic week, you have come in everyday focused and ready to learn. You have actively listened in all lessons and worked extremely hard, particularly in our maths lessons. You are a wonderful role model to your year 3 friends and we’re very proud of you.

This half term’s virtues are Learned and Wise.

Our Virtue star this week has been awarded to Frank

Reminders

• PE Days - Monday (outdoor) and Thursday (swimming)

• Library books are due back to the library by 22nd October

• Year 3 book look - Tuesday 21st October @ 2.30pm

• Friday 24th October Parents day - Most people have appointments - thank you. Over the weekend I will catch up and set up the rest of the online appointments - look out for an email. If you’ve not yet got an appointment please email me.

• Upcoming trip - Stone age to Iron age at Woodmatters - Wednesday 19th November .Please complete permission form above. payment is now open on Parent pay

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Naylor, Mrs Carter and Mrs Davis

L.naylor@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 5 Weekly Blog 17.10.25- ‘I tell you, you will receive justice from the Lord’- Luke 18:1-8’

What a fantastic week it has been in Year 5! We may be seven weeks into the half term but the children are still showing signs of super focus, enthusiasm and work ethic throughout their lessons. We started our week by coming together in our class assembly by sharing some important messages that we have been discussing across this half term. The children sang and dance their hearts out whilst also delivering their powerful and purposeful lines.

We then ended this day also in unity as our worship leaders told us about the parable of the persistent widow and why it is always important to be persistent in life. We then followed this up by talking about how Jesus always wants us to keep praying and no matter how many times we pray, our prayers will always be listened.

Learning has continued to flow throughout the week with the children finishing their independent stories of ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’, which has allowed us to continue reading the novel past chapter two. In Maths, we have continued working with decimal numbers and understanding the value of each digit. This week, the children were very excited to try some ‘ Year 6 Maths’ as we introduced a brand new column- the thousandths. In Art, the children have working on themselves by drawing self portraits, using lots of different skills and techniques along the way.

Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

Which letter gets shorter when you add two letters to it?

Question of the Week- conversation starter

This week in RE, we have created our virtue projects ,which are aimed to either help those in need or to protect our environment by following God’s virtues and commandments. Share with your family what your project is going to be and why.

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our winner this week goes to Louisa. I was super impressed with your attitude and commitment in our assembly performances. You lead the way in both the order of speaking but also in what I was asking for during practices. You receive feedback so well Louisa and this will continue to help you grow as a learner.

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Nathan for being an focused and cooperative learner. I just love how focused you are Nathan in the classroom. You understand our STAR expectations and you follow these to the best of your ability, which allows you to get the most out of your learning. On top of this, you are such a kind and co-operative learning partner and you use paired working to help maximise your learning.

Notices

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

• Parents Day- Friday 24th October- Please read the parents day blog on the Year 5 page and sign up for a slot to hear about your child’s progress and how they have settled into Year 5.

• Year 5 Book Look Tuesday 21st October- This will be held at 9:00am and this gives you parents a chance to have a look at your child’s work so far in Year 5.

• Harvest Festival Thursday 23rd October- This year, we will be celebrating harvest festival in school and as usual, each class has been given an item, in which we will be collected for the harvest. This year, Year 5 are collecting beans.
  
  
  

• Half term- School will finish for half term on Thursday 23rd October at normal time. School will reopen on Monday 3rd November.

Year 1 Weekly Blog Friday 17th October - "Prayer brings us not only nearer to God, but also nearer to one another" Pope Benedict XVI

Our children’s prayer and liturgy focused on Harvest, we gave thanks to God and prayed for a fairer world. The children were so thoughtful, it is such a blessing to see the children with such desire to lead in these worships, and doing so with great care and respect. We have also been listening to this weeks Gospel where Jesus told His disciples a story about a woman and an unjust judge. He taught His disciples and us that God is never like the judge, no matter how much we pray to God, he is always there for us.

In RE we have been learning about Laudato Si and how we can care for God’s world. The children were shocked to see some of the global issues our world faces and really want to know how they can help look after God’s world. After looking at the amount of trees that get cut down, we decided to help our wildlife and created bird feeders which we put in our forest school.

Going deeper in conversation

In our Gospel we have been thinking about prayer.

Question to ask: What does the word ‘prayer’ mean to you? What is your favourite prayer? Who could you pray for this week?

Magic moments

In search of the missing Evil Pea our wanted posters can be spotted all around our school! Hopefully we will soon track him down! We have been busy making predications what he might do next and have even began to create a story map to help us retell the Evil Pea story.

Book Look: I know the children loved spending time with you to share their learning so far. They have all had a fantastic start in Year 1 and it was a lovely time to celebrate their work ready for our parents meetings on Friday.

Let’s celebrate

A huge well done to Summer who was awarded our Star virtue this week. Summer you have had a brilliant start to Year 1 and all of the staff in Year 1 have noticed your learned and wise choices and your excitement for learning. You never give up and we are so proud of you!

Congratulations to Rosalie who is our enthusiastic Bobby Bee this week. Rosalie, your enthusiasm for learning has been so wonderful; to see you beam with pride at your accomplishments is a joy! You have been to enthusiastic and motivated with our story writing in English and we can’t wait to see you flourish throughout Year 1!

Reminders

Parents meetings - Thank you for making your appointments, please email with your preferred time if you have not made yours yet. You will shortly receive an email with an invitation for the teams meeting ready for Friday next week.

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

Water bottles - Please ensure your child comes to school with a water bottle. These are taken straight out of bags in the morning and children are able to access them throughout the day to keep hydrated. We are often talking about how important it is to drink plenty of water and water bottles make it easier for them to do this independently. Polite reminder that the water bottles should contain water and not juice. Thank you for your support.

Harvest - This year we are collecting tins of soup for the foodbank. All donations welcome!

EVENT
Maths Workshop for Parents WEDNESDAY NOV 5th

Last year we successfully hosted - parents and child maths workshops. These were led by the KS1 teachers in the hall. Parents sat with their child and enjoyed playing maths games together. As your child moves through KS1 we would like you to help them become proficient at recalling number facts and loving numbers. We would like to invite you once again to school on Wednesday November 5th to take pasrt in the next phrases of their maths journey-

Year 1 workshop after drop off 9:00 - 9:15 am

Year 2 worskshop before pick up 2:10 -3:10pm

Following the workshop and for the next 5 weeks- you will receive maths games to play each week. These are sent home and linked to the class homework blog.

Please sign below - it is lovely for the child to have you at the session or if you are unable to attend a grandparent.

Thank you - Mrs Hotchkiss Miss Bassett and Mrs Hartley

Maths Workshop Year 1 and 2

Emails:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Have a lovely weekend!

This week...

Welcome to our page all about learning together. This week we have been on lots of adventures!! Here is what we have been up to!

Our Learning Landscape this week was full or brain growing challenges which included:

• Making 1, 2, and 3 Numberblocks.

• Matching shapes to make a picture.

• Counting the correct number of people and passengers into the correct cars.

• Writing challenges- taking food orders and practising writing numbers 1,2,3 and the sounds m,a,s,t,d. We had to remember to use our duck fingers!

• Completing a sound puzzle then matching the sounds we have learnt.

• Lots of hand strengthening activities- matching pom pom game, we had to pick up the pom poms using tweezers and the tiny peg board game to practise our fine motor skills.

• Filling tubs using small scoops. Some of the friends thought it took hundreds of scoops!

• Making bubbly water and then syphoning it down a long tube into a HUGE bottle!

  but, best of all was the dentist surgery we made. We learnt about healthy foods, how we should brush our teeth and visiting the dentist!

Worship

This week our ‘Creation and Covenant’ topic has concluded with ‘Looking after God’s World’. Our key words this week were CARE, Earth and HELP.

The whole of Creation shows God love for us (Laudato Si’ 84–88). We spoke about all the ways we can look after our wonderful world. We suggested turning off lights when we aren’t using them, recycling, walking instead of driving.

We also spoke about being stewards – just like Mrs Gregan spoke about in assembly. We are visitors to our world and we must take care of it. God made the Earth and sky. God made all the people all over the world. God made all the animals. God made all the plants. God made the air, the ground, and the water. God tells us we must take good care of them. It is an important job!

Here is a link to the story we read, about Stanley the plastic bag ending up in the sea: Click here. “plastic bags don’t belong in the sea!”

Caring for the Earth is a way of showing love for it, and recognising God’s love for us. How can you continue this at home

Promoting Peace

Scripture offers us all wisdom and insights on living the Gospel in today’s world. Jesus tells us to love God and to love our neighbours, especially our sisters and brothers living in poverty.

Peace is not just the absence of war. It is part of God’s nature, and a value we should all seek to live out in our daily lives.

Peace comes from both justice and love and is dependent upon people understanding one another.

This year we will be actively seeking to promote peace in all we do in nursery and school. To remind us to be kind, helpful and gentle we have created a cross of peace in nursery. Everyone has made a heart of peace to hang on the cross.

Harvest

This year Harvest Festival will be held in school. Nursery are asking for donations of Pot Noodles as an act of kindness and support for people less fortunate than ourselves. As always thank you for your support.

Half term holiday

Don’t forget that nursery and school will close afterschool on Thursday 23rd October and reopen at 8.45 am on Monday 3rd November.

Have a fabulous weekend and I will see you all on Monday bright eyed and bushy tailed!

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 4 Weekly blog. Friday 17th October. " Prayer brings us not only nearer to God, but also nearer to each other.(Copy)

The children prepared a beautiful worship this week, all about Trust in God and Jesus. They told us the Gospel story of the feeding of the 5,000. The class decided that this showed we can always have faith that God will provide for us. We can also use this to help feed our neighbours around the world. In our RE lessons this week, children have been reflecting on the virtues of faith, hope and love shown by Abraham. THey have thought about how these virtues can help them be a good neighbour to others. Then they learned about Cardinal Manning - a man who showed great faith, hope and love in his actions and support of others.

Thank you so much for coming to look at all the hard work children have done over these last 7 weeks. I am sure you will agree they are doing so well. This week they have learned about time zones in Geography, written a persuasive letter in English and moved on to numbers above 1,000 in Maths. They are doing so well with their times tables facts - in fact we already have three children - Marla, Sasha and Isla whose heatmaps are green - this means they know every fact in less that 4 seconds! Tremendous!

Conversation starters

Geography

Why do countries have different time zones? What are they measured against?

Let’s Celebrate!.

Our certificate this week is a Lizzie Ladybird learner. This goes to Michael. Every day, you get better at focusing and listening. You challenge yourself and listen to feedback carefully. You are working so hard!

Our virtues this half term are being learned and wise. This week, Ruth receives our star for being a wise learner who is so calm in class and so fiocused in all she does. What an excellent attitude you have Ruth. Very inspirational.

PE stars this week were: Eliza and Luca for super smooth sequences

Notices

Harvest Collection: This year, we have been asked by our Minnie Vinnies to collect boxes of cereal. These can be brought in from Monday.

Parent’s Day is on Friday October 24th - I look forward to a good natter about your child’s progress, behaviour and targets. Here is the timetable below of everyone’s times:

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 weekend,

Mrs Lyons and Miss Slater

Year 5 Weekly Homework- Due Thursday 23rd 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. when

2. where

3. went

4. believe

5. height

6. difficult

7. serial

8. flour

9. pause

10. their

11. accommodate

12. controversy

13. embarrass

14. forty

15. marvellous

Year 6 Weekly Blog: “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16)

Let your Light Shine

This has been the theme of our week and we have done a lot of reflection, discussion and work around this at Castlerigg. How we can let God’s light shine through us and be the work of his hands. We have grown in our relationship with God through prayer, adoration and celebrating mass together. All of the workshops we have compelted have been centred around how we can use of talents to let God’s light shine through and how these are shown through our relationship with God and of course each other. Every member of staff have praised Year 6 on their behaviour, enthusiasm and engagement during their time away - they have been an absolute joy to take away. We have loved seeing the children so engrossed in their prayer and reflection- they really have been a credit to you all.

On our final day we have spent time sharing our graititudes for one another and wrote down all the things we love about one another. We have also shared mass together, gathering together as a community- what a beautiful way to end our time away with one another.

Helpers in the mornings:

Next week we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

William Ciaran Tilly Liliy

Notices

• Please donate to our Harvest collection- Year 6 are collecting washing up liquid- many thanks!

• Please do visit Mrs Gregan’s blog for important information.

• Have you booked your parent’s day appointment for Friday 24th October? Please email me your prefered time and I will do my best to accomodate you.

• Monday 20th Ocotber at 2:30pm - Year 6 Book Look- please join us in school to see all the wonderful work your child has done this half term.

• Biekability (7th and 14th November)

How can we let our light shine out? - Castlerigg Day 2

This has been a key message for us today at Castlerigg - how can we let our light shine out and where does the light come from in your life? Yesterday was all about how we shine our light and today was how we can share our light with others?

Before bed last night, we had the most beautiful night time prayer. The chapel here at Castlerigg is the old stable building, which is perfect as we prepare for the arrival of Jesus this Christmas. Jamie, the youth worker here, took us through a section of prayer and asked us to think about how we can helps others. It was incredibly moving and the children were so reverent in their prayer and reflection. We then snuggled up and listened to a bedtime story from Diasy. A rather lovely end to our first day.

This afternoon we headed off to the lake for some much needed reflection and fresh air. The children found out about places of interest in Keswick, headed to Derwent Water to skim stones which they loved! It was so lovely to take in the views of the lake and spend some time in God’s world. The children were great.

After a delicious tea of sausage and mash, we are now getting ready to settle down for some creativity tasks and getting ready for the party!

Enjoy your night and we will see you tomorrow. We are departing at 1pm so should be back at school for 3pm - we will keep you posted!