Wyre & Fylde Dance Competition 2026

Our Lady Star of the Sea is taking part in the Wyre and Fylde 2026 Dance Competition at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool on Monday 2nd February.

Schools will perform and receive a score from a panel of judges. Each act will receive positive feedback following their performance from one of the judges. The theme for 2026 is "Rhythms of Unity": Celebrating the spirit of major sporting events happening all over the world in 2026 where sport, culture and imagination come together as one.

The competition will mean that we will spend the afternoon and the evening at the Tower Ballroom, but specific details will be given after Christmas.

This is not like the annual dance fesitival we usually take part in, therefore auditions for this will take place next Monday 15th December, during the school day, and the dancers will find out whether they have made it in to the dance competition before they leave for Christmas. The form below is an expression of interest only and will tell me how comitted the children are to rehearsals, as well as whether they will be auditioning in school next Monday. As we only have 4 weeks to put a fully choreogrpahed routine together, attendance is vital.

Dance rehearsals taking place in school hall for 4 consecutive weeks on Monday 3:30 - 4:45pm and Friday mornings from 8:30am - 9:15am. 

 
expression of interest form

Year 3 Weekly Blog Friday 5th December

We’ve had a wonderfully busy and festive week in Year 3 as we journey closer to Christmas. Our word of the week was messenger, and in RE we explored how the prophet Isaiah was given a message from God about a special baby called Immanuel. We also decorated our class Christmas tree with beautiful baubles showing the names of Jesus, and learned about Joseph’s visit from the Angel Gabriel. The classroom is definitely feeling joyful and ready for Advent!

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Year 5 Weekly Blog 5.12.25- 'Make your heart a manger so that it can be born to God'

The weeks are certainly flying by now as we travel through advent together in love, prosperity and reflection. We have just indulged ourselves into advent this week with no better way than with our Nursery and Reception Nativity performance on Tuesday. We then strapped up and bared the winter weather for some Christmas tree planting around our forest school area. In art, Mrs Mather has been testing the children’s drawing skills as they have been replicating the scene of the Nativity. We have also been down at Church for our first altar practice of our KS2 Christmas Concert, ready to fill our sacred place with song and scripture. To end our week, as a school we came together for our ‘Travelling Nativity’, again coming together with song and scripture to really celebrate this wonderful time.

Conversation Starters

In Geography, we have been comparing biomes around the world and the animals that live within these environments. We finished with a ‘what is your favourite and why’ question about biomes. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live and why?

Riddle of the Week

I have legs but I can’t walk. I have a back and arms but I can’t reach.

What am I?

Notices

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

  • Travelling Nativity has started to go home so please use this as a special time to connect with Jesus and to get you in the Christmas spirit! This will need to be brought back in the following school day.

  • 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.

  • Christmas Bake Off- This will be returning on Friday 12th December. I can’t wait to see (and mainly taste) your chocolatey crimbo creations! This will also be our Christmas Jumper Day!

  • We have began to prepare for our KS2 Christmas Carol Concert which is taking place on Tuesday 16th December. Song lyrics and recordings of our songs are on the homework blog for you to practice.

  • Christmas Raffle- This will be taking place on Wednesday 17th December. Tickets are to be bought at the office.

  • The final day of term is Friday 19th December and we will be finishing at 2pm

Year 5 Homework- Due 11th December

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Only a couple of weeks left to hit your reading target- lets aim for at least 20 minutes of reading per day. You will be amazed by how much you can read in a week if you stick to this routine.

Maths

The children have a sheet of word problems to complete in their homework books. You can choose any of the four methods we have learned over this unit of work but you HAVE TO SHOW YOUR JOTTING IN YOUR HOMEWORK BOOK.

  1. Multiplying 2 digit by 1 digit numbers using short multiplication- word problems

Spellings

We have changed our spelling practice lessons in school to focus more on retrieval spellings- especially our high frequency and common words.

Practice writing these words three times on the line in your BEST handwriting. Make sure to complete lots of mini spelling tests in preparation for our weekly test on Friday.

  1. taught

  2. built

  3. leave

  4. swept

  5. shone

  6. favourite

  7. important

  8. interest

  9. heard

  10. knew

  11. different

  12. actually

  13. accident

  14. occasion

  15. critic

KS2 Christmas Carol Practice

This week, we have learned three songs for our Christmas celebration which will be in church on Tuesday 16th December. Please practice and learn these off by heart.

Silent Night- French

We are challenging ourselves this year by applying our french skills to one of our most well known Christmas carols. We will only be singing up to 2:12 on the video. We have split the song into 3 verses. Year 5/6 will sing verse one which will be from 0:00-0:43 seconds on the video. Year 3/4 will then sing verse two and everybody will be joining in for the final verse which will be 1:28- 2:12. The children have all been given a song booklet of our Christmas songs.

Year 1 Weekly Blog 5.12.25 - "Prepare a path for God so that he can enter your heart." - St John Baptist De La Salle

In this weeks Gospel we listened to a piece of scripture from Matthew. We heard John the Baptist calling to the people to come back to God and to prepare themselves for Christ’s arrival. Christmas can be such a busy time organising the day itself that we can forget of prepare ourselves for the birth of Jesus. In Year 1 we have been busy preparing ourselves to give our gift of our Nativity… which we cannot wait for you to see next week. The children have been loving rehearsals and have been SO well behaved when in the hall practising.

Going deeper in conversation

During RE we have been discussing what angels are… we know they give messages sent by God.

Question to ask: What is an angel?

Magic moments

With the Christmas excitement felt all around the school there are just so many wonderful moments that stand out! On Friday we had our Travelling Nativity, every year group gathered outside, sang hymns and watched as Mary and Joseph and of course a real donkey, paraded through the school grounds. The children absolutely loved it!

Reminders

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).


Nativity: Our Nativity is next week, 10th and 11th December at 9:30. We cannot wait for you to see the children on the stage retelling the Christmas story.

Our Lady’s Great Christmas Bake Off: This was a great success last year and will be held again this year on Friday 12th December.

Forest school: Our children are going to experience a story by the fire on Tuesday next week. No additional clothing will be needed, just please make sure your child comes to school with their winters warmers!

KS1 Christmas Party: This is the morning of Thursday 18th December. We ask for children to come to school in party clothes and bring a drink (not fizzy) along with a treat snack such as a packet of crisps or a chocolate bar. We also please ask for sensible shoes as the children will be outside during breaktimes and lunch time break.

Emails:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Have a lovely weekend!

Come to the manger..

It has been such a wonderful week in nursery as we have travelled to the manger to greet baby Jesus.

I am sure you will agree that the childrens portrayal of the the birth of Christ was truly magical. Each year when I watch the children perform the Christmas Nativity I am overwhelmed by their joy and happiness. You should be very proud…we are!

Even though we have been so very busy with the Nativity this week we still have had time to doing our learning! We are so exhausted!

We have played ‘what number’ Christmas hook a duck -great fun

How many baubles can you balance on a Christmas plate?

We have decorated the Christmas tree!

Played a tricky Christmas pattern game, see if you can have a go at home, click here

Make my shape Numberblocks

Capacity and counting at the Supermarket

and our favourite…number shapes using Numicon (we have a new number shape, 6)

Worship

This week in Worship we have continued our ‘Prophecy and Promise’ topic. Our key words were MANGER, ANGEL and SHEPHERD.

We watched a different video telling the wonderful story of the journey Mary and Joseph took and the birth of Jesus. We are so good at re telling the story – especially as this week we re told the story for our grown ups in our Nativity performance.

We had to decide if some statements were true or false by showing a thumbs up or down. Why not have a go at home:

Jesus was born in a hospital

Mary laid Jesus in a manger

Angels told the shepherds about Jesus

The shepherds stayed in their field

Maybe you could come up with some new ones of your own!

Our child led worship this week was all about the three kings. They saw a big star in the sky and we thought about the questions: ‘What could it be?’ and ‘What did it tell the kings?’.

We added our three kings to our display in the classroom and listened to the hymn ‘We three kings of Orient are’. The display is looking great – maybe next week we will make a donkey and some camels!

You will have noticed that we have not sent home the children’s white t-shirts We are going to keep hold of them so in the Summer the children can decorate them in readiness for Sports Day. If this is problem please do let me know.

Walking Nativity

On Friday we joined the whole school and some parents to take part in a walking Nativity. The story began at the Year 6 classroom and then led us all the way to the chapel, where we sang carols and said prayers. It was such a lovely event to be part of…and Mary rode a real donkey!!

Later on in the day we visited the stable again! We read the story ‘Room for a little one’. It was truly magical.

Take a look at the photos!

Spare clothes

This is a huge plea for spare clothes. We have no longer got any spare socks, underpants/knickers, boys joggers/trousers, leggings…in fact everything! Also, if your child has been sent home in any nursery items would you please send them back in. Thank you.

Don’t forget…Family Mass at church is this Sunday. Please try and come along, we would love to see you.

Have a fabulous weekend and I will see to all on Monday

Stay safe and God bless

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning 5.12.25

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!

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night!

Reading- Keep reading as much as you can- we are on biography unit now so would be great to see you reading some more biographies!

Christmas song practice

The big focus this week for homework in ensuring that all of us know our lines for the concert and we keep practising the following songs below, so we know all the words off by heart. The french ‘silent night’ Year 6 only need to learn verse 1 and 3 off by heart.


Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 9th December



Spellings

This week we are focusing on words ending in ‘ture’


1. mixture
2. sculpture
3. picture
4.nature
5.scripture
6.departure
7.creature
8.temperature
9.fixture
10. adventure

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Reading
Only 3 weeks left of this half term - will you reach your reading target?

Christmas songs practice

Every year, our wonderful KS2 children prepare a carol service in church for the community. The service is full of prayer, scripture and song - it really is a special afternoon and evening. The children have been practising the songs in school and have all been given a song booklet so that they can pratise along with our recorded videos at home.


Autumn 2 Optional homework

Autumn 2 Optional Homework





Year 5 Weekly Blog 28.11.25- 'Advent is a time for waiting for the Lord, who will visit us in all of our hearts'

In preparation for the beginning of Advent, we have been looking at the joyful mysteries of Jesus (can you remember these 5 in chronological order?). We turned the classroom into a scavenger hunt in order to find these key descriptions. We have also made our advent promises along with Christmas cards for our library- the Christmas spirit is really starting to come alive in Year 5.

In Maths, we have been working super hard with multiplying 2 digit by 1 digit numbers, using a variety of written methods. We have focused our learning on short multiplication as it is the most efficient choice of jotting. We have been practicing regrouping in different place value columns and using these methods to solve word problems. In English, we have finished planning our first news article- reporting on Peter’s first battle in Narnia! Due to nativity practices taking place all throughout the week, our PE lesson was moved to the classroom in which we took part in some class activities including ‘clapball’ and ‘don’t break the chain’. We also took a trip to see our Year 1 partners to share our pop up books, which have been created over the half term.

Conversation Starters

In RHE this week, we have had some personal and mature conversations about how our bodies are going to change over the next couple of years. As we know, these conversations are often awkward and embarrassing but very important to open up about so please make sure to ask your trusted adults any questions or worries that you may have.

Riddle of the Week

I have a head and a tail but no body.

What am I?

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 Lettie. You are always offering a helping hand Lettie to both your classmates and teachers. You thrive in your positions of responsibility and I am so hopeful in you carrying these tasks out in the best of your ability.

Learner of the Week: This week, our learner of the week goes to George for being an reflective and enthusiastic learner. You have really thrown yourself into our English unit this half term George. I loved how you have you applied our previously learnt descriptive skills and new grammar skills into our article writing. I can’t wait to see your finished articles over the next few weeks.

Notices

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

  • Travelling Nativity has started to go home so please use this as a special time to connect with Jesus and to get you in the Christmas spirit! This will need to be brought back in the following school day.

  • 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.

  • Thursday 4th December- We will be having an own clothes day in order to raise funds for our Christmas raffle. Instead of bringing £1, could all children bring in a bottle of something, which will be a part of the raffle. This can be juice, alcohol, bubble baths, shampoo etc

  • Christmas Bake Off- This will be returning on Friday 12th December. I can’t wait to see (and mainly taste) your chocolatey crimbo creations!

  • We have began to prepare for our KS2 Christmas Carol Concert which is taking place on Tuesday 16th December. Song lyrics and recordings of our songs are on the homework blog for you to practice.

Year 3 Weekly Blog Friday 28th November -"Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern." - Mother Teresa

This week, Year 3 have been getting ready for Advent. We thought about how Advent is a special time of waiting and preparing our hearts for Jesus. Each child created a colourful handprint and wrote a personal Advent promise on it—something kind, thoughtful or helpful they want to focus on over the next few weeks. These look beautiful on our classroom display and remind us daily of the true meaning of the season.

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