Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 18th November



Spellings

This week we are focusing on homophones and near homophones:


1. know
2. pour
3. knew
4.there
5.your
6.their
7.they’re
8.quite
9.quiet
10. you’re

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Reading
Some children have already started moving up the target board - well done!


Autumn 2 Optional homework

Autumn 2 Optional Homework





Year 5 Weekly Blog 07.11.25- 'They believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken' John 2:16-22

What a lovely start to the new half term it has been! This week in worship, we have focused on the word ‘temple’ and the children showed such good understanding of what this word means and how important it is to us as faithful learners. In RE, we have been looking into the life of David and how is qualities made him so inspirational within the Bible, particularly in the battle of ‘David vs Goliath’.

It has been an exciting start to our learning as well as Year 5 and 6 came together to share some of their writing as we moderated our work so we understand what is expected come the end of key stage two. The children loved running away with their imagination by writing about a visual stimulus and also reading stories from children in Year 6. We have also started our new English topic of non-fiction texts and we discussed some real life examples of texts that we have both read and written in our lives before. Can you remember the six types of non-fiction texts?

Conversation Starters

On Monday, we began our My Happy Mind lessons in which we recapped about the different parts of our brain (can you remember what Team HAP stands for?). We discussed how our hippocampus where all of our memories are stored. We had a lovely chat and shared some weird and wonderful memories that will always stay in our minds. Share your memory with your parents and see if they remember this. Do they have any memories like this of their own?


Riddle of the Week

Test your parents on today’s riddle.

What is tall when it is young and short when it is old?


Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are faith-filled and hopeful. Our winner this week goes to Albert. You have come back after half term and have been so focused and determined Albert. I am really hopeful for the progress you are going to make this year as you have reflected so well on guidance given by your teachers.

Learning Certificate Winner of the Week: Our winner this week goes to Anna for being an focused and cooperative learner. You have been such a role model of how to engage fully in your lessons Anna and this has really shown in your quality of work. You have been so helpful and loving towards your new learning partner at the start of this half term. Long may it continue.

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.


  • Remembrance Poppies- If you would like to donate some money for a poppy, ready for Armistice Day on Tuesday 11th, we are asking for a donation of 50p per poppy which can be brought into class or received directly at the office.


  • Monday 17th November PJ Day- Please bring £1 in to help raise money for Brian House so you can spend the school day all comfy in your PJ’s. Children can bring a reasonable sized teddy into school to keep them company whilst they are working super hard.


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

Choir Sign Up

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 13th 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!

Maths

The children have got 2 sheets to complete in their homework books.

  1. Multiplying by 0.1 and 0.01

  2. Plotting numbers on a number line

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. because

  2. soil

  3. toffee

  4. money

  5. change

  6. promise

  7. group

  8. reign

  9. clothes

  10. manor

  11. aggressive

  12. competition

  13. identity

  14. profession

  15. soldier

Year 1 Weekly blog 7.11.25 - "Remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, look forward to the future with confidence." Pope Saint John Paul ||

And so we begin a new half term together and this one is up there with my favourites, as we get ourselves ready to celebrate the birth of Jesus and all of the wonderful celebrations and traditions along the way! Our prayer and liturgies as always have been such special moments of the week. Our child led was focused on Remembrance the children passed round poppies and drew someone special they wanted to think about and pray for, all the children thought so carefully about how they wanted to pray for, it was really touching.

In RE we have looked closely at the Bible. The children have learnt that the bible has two parts and that we can find the Gospels at the start of the New Testament. We played a game of four corners, helping us to remember the names of the four Saints: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Going deeper in conversation

Question to ask: What special facts can you remember about the Bible?

Magic moments

There have been so many moments this week. Let’s start with the children’s excitement to return to school and to see their friends on Monday! Their sheer happiness to organise new classroom jobs to look after ourselves and our school. To the enthusiasm to really challenge themselves during this weeks writing. We have begun our new story book and during our first English lesson back, we went on a nature walk. When we returned to the classroom we gathered our vocabulary and wrote describing sentences using ‘and’. The children set to work and once completed Noah asked if he could do more.. this rippled around the room and all of the children successfully wrote multiple sentences with all of the sentence structure we are currently focusing on: letter formation, capital letter, a full stop and finally including the word ‘and’. Seeing their pride once they had completed their writing was one of my biggest joys this week.

Maths workshop: A huge thank you for the so very many of you who were able to attend on Wednesday morning. It really was such a magic part of the week and one which the children adored! To those of you who couldn’t make it please do not worry, you will have received all of the materials that we used during the workshop and will be needed to complete this weeks homework. Should any pieces get lost, I have attached all of the resources on our HOMEWORK page.

Let’s celebrate

A huge well done to Isabella who had been a determined Sadie Spider this week. Isabella, your determination during our English lessons has made us so proud. You have started every piece of writing with such a positive attitude and you have produced some brilliant pieces of work. You have shown yourself just how much you are capable of and we have enjoyed seeing you beam with pride and confidence! Keep it up Isabella, we are so proud of you!

Another huge well done to Arla who has been awarded our star virtue this week for being Faithfiled and Hopeful. Arla we could see how much you enjoyed leading one of our prayer and liturgies in class this week and you did so with so much respect and a calm faithfiled manner. Thank you for helping to lead us in our reflection.

Reminders

New hot snack menu - The order form is on Mrs Gregan’s blog, if you would like to order any hot snacks for your child this coming week. Please complete your orders ASAP (before Monday).

PJ Day for Brian House - On Monday 17th November we will be raising money for Brian House. Please come to school wearing your PJs on this day. Remember sensible shoes for outdoor playtimes (we also have outdoor PE on this day).

Own clothes day - Once again we will be creating Christmas hampers / prizes for the school Christmas raffle. On Thursday 27th November we will be having an own clothes day along with chocolate donations.

Year 1 Forest school takeover day - On Friday 28th November we have our takeover day in our forest school. This day is for ALL our year 1 children so please come dressed for a day outside: waterproofs, clothes you don’t mind getting mucky, old trainers and wellies in a bag please.

Nativity - Today children have brought home letters regarding tickets for our Nativity. We have already begun learning some songs and actions this week; we’re sure you may be hearing these at home already. The build up to Christmas has officially begun and we can’t wait to share this special time of year with you!

Emails:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Have a lovely weekend!

Year 6 Weekly Blog: “Lest We Forget"

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them… this week is always a poignant week as we stop and remember all of those fallen victims of war and conflict. Our focus of the week has been on the word ‘Remembrance’ and joined together in prayer in a beautiful litrugy that helped us remember all the people who have died in God’s friendship are like these sparks. They are free and completely alive with God– living in eternity. We have wrote the names of those who we will remember on wooden crosses which we will lay at the cenotaph next week at the Remembrance service.

Make it stand out

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

This half term, we are looking at what it means to be faithfilled and hopeful. Both of these qualities will be really important as we journey towards half term, having faith in oursleves, others and most importantly God. With faith and love, comes hope, hope that we can achieve the things we want to and hope in others.

Thank you two the following two children who led a beautfiul liturugy for the class earlier this week …

The week has flown by and we have done so much exciting and challenging learning. We have read more of our class novel this week, looked at the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the defeat of the Spanish Armada and looked closely at singificant women found in the old testament. This week we met with Year 5, to moderate and peer mark our writing, which the children found very interesting and helped them to see what they need to work on next …

Bikeability

We loved our Bikeability this week, all children worked so hard on mastering the skills needed for level 2 next Friday!

Helpers in the mornings:

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

Joseph Gus Beth John Paul

Leading Learners

Well done to Joseph

Joseph, , we are so proud of your resilience and independence in your lessons this week! We have loved your ‘I CAN’ attitude and how you have independently done your work with very little input from the teachers- this shows just what you are capable of when you put your mind to it!

Faithfilled and Hopeful butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are intention in their actions. Children who show great faith in themselves, others and God. We will also be spotting children who are hopeful, who show hope for the future, enabling us to trust ourselves and those around us with the decisions that will shape our future. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Toby for always being faithfilled and hopeful.

Notices

  • If any children would like to help Mrs Tierney in forest school during their lunch breaks next week then please can they bring their forest school clothes on monday (trainers that don’t mind getting muddy and long sleeve trousers/ jumpers).

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

  • Travelling Nativities will start going home on Monday next week, please ensure that it is brought back the following day to ensure all children have a turn to share this special gift.

  • On Monday17th November, we will have our annual PJ Day for our local children in need. Please bring a teddy and £1 to donate!

  • Bikeability level 2 will be on next Friday- please remember bikes again.

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

Year 6 Home Learning 7.11.25

Homework is to be completed and brought back to school next Thursday.

Read- Read as much as you can this week- let’s get quizzing and get to target by half term! Please complete the reading coimprehension ready to discuss next week.

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! Complete the column subtractions in your book.

Spelling- Next week we will be looking at the letter string ‘ough’, looking at the different pronunciations it makes in different words. Please collect as many as you can so we can sort them in sound boxes next week.

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

AUTUMN 1 OPTIONAL LEARNING

Welcome back!

We have certainly hit the ground running this week! Our learning landscape has changed to help us encounter new and exciting adventures all about about ‘dinosaurs’.

We have created a dinosaur world and using our funky fingers disentangled some dinosaurs which have become tangled up in wool and string. Using scissor snips we have set them free!!

We have also been finding our about the origins of Bonfire Night and how to stay safe. We made some fabulous firework paintings. On Wednesday we make firework sparkle breadsticks, they were scrummy! We even learnt a new song called Five Fat Fireworks, click here to sing it at home.

Worship

This week in Worship we have started our ‘Prophecy and promise’ topic. We spoke about how Mary was chosen by God to be Jesus’ mother. Our key words were MARY, JESUS, ANGEL and BABY.

When we arrived at school we received a special letter. It invited us to learn all about Jesus and the wonderful story of how he was born. We all said, yes! We couldn’t wait to hear all about it! We watched a video all about Mary being visited by an angel, you can watch it here:

Our child led worship theme this week was ‘All Saints’. We spoke about how we can follow Jesus, live our lives well and be saints ourselves. Here is a video we watched after our Gospel reading.

We all sat in a circle and passed a hug around to share God’s love. We then discussed what our ‘superpower’ is so that we can be just like Saints and Jesus and share our power with the world. Some of our answers included sharing, helping and being kind. We are all amazing!

We spoke about how Mary had to trust God – we thought she might have been a bit scared and worried but she still said yes. We thought about how we could trust each other – we had a go with our elastic ring in the garden. We all stand in a circle and stretch it our further and further and then let go! We have to trust our friends to all let go at the same time! We love this game!

 Meet 4

Great news…we have met a new number…4! Click here to watch.

We found our that 4 appears in lots of contexts, such as four legs on a table. This week we have become ‘4 detectives’. Four has the special property of being a square number. We even made 4 into lots of different shapes.

Counting to 4

4 is a small number and counting to 4 provides lots of practice in developing the skills of counting such as on-to one correspondence and saying numbers in the correct order.

Recognition of 4 without counting (subitising)A group of four objects is easy to subitise (recognise without counting) and we are getting very good at this!

Next week is going to be just as busy so have a good rest this week end!

Have a lovely weekend.
Stay safe and God bless

Barbara

Year 6 Football A Tournament

As the boys will probably have told you tonight, we have had to withdraw out entry to the football tournament next week. Unfortuantly, the date for the tournament has now changed to the Friday of next week, due to venue issues, which clashes with the bikeability course that is already booked in for them. With it also being Day 2 when they will be out and about on the roads around school, this has to take priority and something that they have to complete.

There will be other opportunities for the boys to play in the Spring term and more tournaments to enter so we will hold out for that. I am sure amongst their other footballing commitments, this is something that can be passed for now. I know arrangements will have been made so I can only apologise; it is just something out of our control.

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 11th November


Spellings

This week we are focusing on common exception words:


1. every
2. busy
3. who
4.improve
5.arrive
6.answer
7.differently
8.enough
9.thought
10. question

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Reading
Reading targets have been reset! Children completed their star reading assessments at the end of last half term and now have their new reading levels (ZPD’s).

Class Assembly Script

It’s our class assembly next Tuesday - one last push to get super confident with our lines over the weekend!


Autumn 2 Optional homework will be live on the blog next week.





Year 1 Homework to be handed in Monday 10th November

Thank you so much to all who attended todays maths workshop! It was such a special morning and the children loved sharing their maths knowledge with you all!

Week 1 activities
Stem sentences
Drop the counters
Diary

Year 3 Weekly Blog Friday 24th October

Autumn Term 1

And just like that the first half term has come to an end, the children have settled really well into year 3 - this half term has been a term of learning new routines and learning how to be year 3s! The children have done a great job and we are a great year 3 team.


This week we have listened to the Parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee, we thought about being humble and not boastful. We are all unique and should be proud and celebrate our qualities and achievements but we should also value and celebrate those of the people around us.

On Tuesday our prayer leaders led a beautiful worship in which we thought about those around who may need our prayer. As October is the month of the Rosary, we turned to our Mother Mary and asked her to keep these people in our prayer, we made scrolls and added them to our Rosary display.

Our learning this week…

English
We have focused on speech this week and taken on the part of characters in the story Weed by Quentin Blake. We used punctuation clues to identify speech in the text. We looked at picture form the Greenling story by Levi Fold and thought about what the characters would be saying in each picture. We recorded their speech in speech bubbles then in speech marks.

Maths
We’ve continued using the bridging strategy to add and subtract across the 100’s boundary.

Swimming

Our swimming stars this week (As chosen by the swimmers teachers) are: Leo T and Maya.
Swimming will continue after the half term break.

Harvest

Thank you for all your jam donations - as a school we collected a huge amount of food for our local food bank, you can find more info on Mrs Gregan’s blog.

Enrichment

On Wednesday afternoon the children enjoyed gardening with Mrs Hotchkiss and Mrs Mather. They harvested potatoes that were then enjoyed by the children and staff at lunchtime on Thursday - they were delicious.


Book looks and parents day.

It was lovely to see so many of you on Tuesday afternoon, sharing books and moment of pride with your children. Many of you said that you couldn’t believe how much work the children have completed in such a short space of time - they really have worked their socks off and I too am very proud of them.

Thank you for taking the time to come a discuss your children and how they have settled into Year 3 on Friday. It was lovely to hear so many positive comments.

Design Technology

The children have started the next unit of DT work with Mrs Mather - they are sewing. Mrs Mather has asked the children to practise tying knots over half term, small knot in wool or thread - this is in preparation them securing thread when sewing.

Choir and Autumn 2 term clubs

There are lots of extra curricular opportunities for the children next half term from choir to Christmas crafts, judo and archery!

Find more info and sign up here

No certificate this week.

Our virtues next half term will be Faith Filled and Hopeful.

Reminders

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

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

  • School reopens on Monday 3rd November

Have a great half term,

Mrs Naylor, Mrs Carter and Mrs Davis

L.naylor@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk