Year 6 Home Learning 30.01.26

Homework to be completed and handed in to school on Thursday.

Reading - Please complete the comprehension - can you complete the reading and questions in 20 minutes?

Maths- Please complete the missing number long multiplication sheet in your books and do 10 minutes of TT Rockstars every night!

Please complete the division using the bus stop method- this will help when we do long division next week!

Spelling-Please complete the speeling sheet, collecting words and practising, ready for a spelling quiz and dictation next Thursday.

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 5th February

Maths

Please complete the two sheets in your homework book all about perimeter.

Keep practising your TTROCKstars for 10 minutes each day

Spelling

- Group 1 Spellers: Irregular past tense verbs.

To show that you can use irregular past tense verbs, please use these below in sentences. Best handwriting please and punctuate your sentences.

Group 2 Spellers - do these key words practised with Mrs Carragher this week:

called after again can’t child any

Then please do a word collection as Mrs Carragher has show you in your homework book for the following sounds - or and ar, highlighting the sound in each word you write like Mrs Carragher has done in your book.

Optional Home Learning - Spring 1

Please have a go at some of these tasks over the half term:

Year 4 Parents day Friday 13th February updated

Dear Year 4 parents, please drop me an email to give me your preferred parent’s day times and I will add them to the timetable above.

a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 1 Homework to be handed in on 2.2.26

Thank you for this weeks super home learning. Don’t forget that if you have a go at some of the optional homework to please bring this in or send a photograph as we would love to make a display with these things in our classroom.

Also don’t forget to email you preferred time slots for our parents meetings.

On Tuesday 10th February we have our class assembly at 9:10. The children will be bringing home their speaking line on Friday, please include this into your homework this week. Nice clear, loud, confident voices!

DANCE COMPETITION ARRANGEMENTS 2026

The time is here and we have now finished our dance, we are so excited to share it with you all. Here are the arrangements for next Monday …

We will leave school at 12:45pm by coach to the Blackpool Tower, where 4 members of staff will be taking the group and staying with them in to the evening. The children will be there all afternoon, to allow time to practise and go through the show. Therefore, they will need to bring a packed lunch for their evening meal. We recommend that they have a hot school dinner for lunch before they go, to ensure they have something warm and filling before a long afternoon/evening. Snacks throughout the event are welcomed, but please no sweets/ chocolate and no fizzy drinks, although one juice is permitted. As it is a long afternoon, with waiting time, please feel free to pack a good book, any homework to complete and maybe a puzzle/ colouring book to keep them busy (no electrical devices or aything of value). Children will not be able to see any of the audience before or during the show.

Children are only permitted to leave once the show and results have finished, due to safeguarding reasons. Once the competition has finished, children will then go backstage to collect their belongs and then we will take them to our school’s pick up point which is outside the entrance to Primark, so please meet us there. Please make sure you tell us when you take your child, to ensure a safe transition as it does get very busy!I will have all mobile contact numbers in case there are any problems, so  please ensure you have your mobiles with you on the night. Please fill in the form below to let us know who will be taking your child home on the evening:

Doors open to the public on the evening at 5:45pm- make sure you have your tickets. The anticipated finsihing time is 9:30pm.

Please make sure that children have their black leggings in school this Friday and then bring them again in to school on Monday.

Children can wear their PE kits this day. Please make sure you pack plenty of water and if your child needs an inhaler, please ensure they have this. We will also door hair in the afternoon, so pack a brush and plenty of bobbles/ hair grip- boys gel? We are hoping to add a bit of face glitter and hair glitter- we will also be asking permission on the form for this.

Any questions or queries about the event, please come and see me.

Year 6 Weekly Blog 23.01.26 'To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try' Rosa Parks

“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19-23

This week in the teacher’s liturgy we looked closely at this week’s Gospel,Matthew 4:19–23, and how is shows Jesus calling His first disciples and inviting them to leave everything behind to follow Him. We reflected on how this reminds us that Jesus still calls each one of us to be His disciples. We may not drop fishing nets like the first disciples, but we can say “yes” to God by trusting Him, having faith in His guidance, and choosing to follow His teachings every day. Being a disciple means listening to Jesus, helping others, spreading kindness, and believing that God has a plan for us. When we say “yes” to God, just like the disciples did, we become part of His mission in the world.

Thank you to the following children who led us in Liturgy this week, reflecting on the name Jesus and how it means “God saves.” This reminds us that Jesus came to Earth to bring us God’s love and to save us by showing us the right way to live. For us, His name is very special because it tells us who He is and what His mission was. When we say the name “Jesus,” we remember that He is always with us, guiding us, helping us, and loving us. It encourages us to trust Him, follow His teachings, and share His love with others every day.

Where has our learning taken us this week?

We have had a lovely week in class. Full of hard work, enthusiasm and deep reflection- and we even managed to watch the Dr Who episode where the doctor met Rosa Parks, which was such a great tool to use before we wrote our wonderful Biographies. The children were so gripped and great conversations led on from this about the injustice of the time. Next week the children will write their Outcome 2 biographies on Rosa Parks. We have done so much work leading up to this, gathering vocabulary, cohesive devices and practising our use of semi colons, the children have such a wealth of knowledge and tools - I am looking forward to reading them! Here is a few pictures of the week…

From next week the children will attempt practice SAT’s whole papers. Year 6 have of course have attempted example questions since September, but this is the first time they have seen them as a whole paper. This is not a benchmark for their learning, and their score when they get it is not relevant at this time, as we have not yet covered the whole Year 6 curriculum. This is simply to give the children an insight as to what the papers look like, the style of questionning, to come across misconceptions sooner, rather than later, giving the children the time and space to reflect and evaluate in a safe space. They will be getting a bit of feedback on these once they have took them, but please do not, at this point, focus on scores, instead please ask that important question … what did you learn? We have to teach the children to see beyond the immediate scores and instead see this as a process, a journey of self-reflection and learning.

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Delving deeper through talk …

What was Rosa Parks famous for? What did she strive to do?

My Happy Mind…

What character strength are you most grateful for and why?

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Leading Learners

Well done to Ciaran this week.

We are so impressed with your focus on your learning this week, you really couldn’t work any harder. You work well in lessons, which shows in the progress you have made. We love the way you are always curious to find the solution to problems with such steely determination and you are always keen to share your thoughts with such enthusiasm!

Eloquent and Truthful Stars

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are eloquent in their words, that show the language to ask questions, express emotions, speak beliefs, talk about matters of faith and hope, debate points of view, and engage in conversation. Those who are truthful, who speak the truth about themselves and others. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Lorenzo for being eloquent and truthful.

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Helpers in the morning

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

Lily Isioma Jacob Lorenzo

Notices

• Next Wednesday the NHS are here to measure height and weight. There is also a short survey for the children to complete in regards to their mental well-being. Please make sure you have read the letter you recieved before Christmas, so you know what to expect on this day.

• February Friday 13th - Please click on the button below to indicate the type of meeting you would prefer. I have displayed an image of the times I am available on the day. Please note the yellow is for virtual and tthe white face to face. Please email with your prefered time and I’ll email back on a first come system.

  k.harrsion@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 5 Weekly Blog 23.01.26- ‘Whose who follow me will be honoured by my Father’- John 12-26

It has been a wonderful first week back for myself and to be back into the swing of the Our Lady’s life- Thankyou all for your loving messages. In our liturgy this week, we have looked at what it means to be a follower and a leader. We listened to scripture of when Jesus told his disciples to follow him on his way of life and we reflected on why so many people chose to follow Jesus. In RE, we have focused on the Lord’s prayer- Our Father. We have analysed each line in our prayer to really reflect and understand the powerful meaning behind those words.

The children have also finished their bikeability level 2 today with the children spending more time out on the roads with our instructors. You should recieve an email shortly regarding the outcome of their progress.

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star: George C

You are just so eloquent in your actions George, you treat everyone with kindness and you are always looking to make positive relationships with everyone you meet. You really are a valued member of our class as you display our virtues every single day.

Learner of the Week: Joseph

You have really impressed your teachers this week Joseph- we have seen a big shift in your focus during lessons and your determination to complete your tasks. You have applied yourself excellently throughout our short division work this week- keep up the good work!

Notices

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

• PE days for this half term: Outdoor PE will be on a Tuesday and Indoor PE on a Thursday

• Parents Day will be held on Friday 13th February. Email me which time you would like as this will be done on a first come basis. The sign up sheet will also be available outside the Year 5 classroom during pick ups at the end of the day.

This week...

Worship

This week in Worship we have continued our ‘Galilee to Jerusalem’ topic. Our key words this week were WELCOME, LOVE and JESUS. This week was the story of Jesus welcoming the children. The session began with asking the children to consider the ways they might welcome a new child into their class e.g. smile, offer to play, sit next to them. This was such a lovely way to begin the week as we have welcomed new children into our nursery – we are so happy to have some new friends!

We listened to the story of Jesus welcoming the children and discussed how Jesus loves everyone and came to Earth for us all. This fed into our child led worship on Thursday where we discussed Jesus being the light of the world. We thought about how we can be followers of Jesus – being kind, helpful, looking after our family and friends. In our floor book we drew ourselves around a picture of Jesus to visually represent Jesus welcoming everyone. We added our ideas of how we can follow Jesus, linking to the idea that we, too, can show love and welcome others in our words and actions.

Learning landscape

A fun week!

• We have been building rockets using magnetic shapes; we had to follow instructions which was tricky!

• We have visited forest school and have used water colours to capture the natural environment.

• We have complete tasks at Story Dough time, we made jumping giants!!! Story Dough is a sensory medium to develop oral storytelling, vocabulary, imagination, and fine motor skills in young children; acting as a playful, "pop-up" literacy activity full of joy, adventure, and nonsense.

• We have had fun counting and learning how to make sevens with the Numberblocks. We watched a short video in which we met the fluffies! One finds a friendly furball, two of them tickle Two and soon Numberland is full of fun and fluffies! Click here to watch at home and see if you can make ‘sevens’ at home. We used the numicon to practice making sevens.

• Lots of ICT this week. We have used paint programmes to design a shape rocket and the IPad to play rocket number games.

• We have also been practicing writing ‘a’ (round the apple and down the leaf) and number 1 (one line down like a stick makes a 1, that was quick). Don’t forget your duck fingers everyone!

Parents Day

Parents Day is being held on Friday 13th February. It is your opportunity to come along to nursery and speak to your child’s key person or Barbara (Senco). The interview sheets will be available from next week to book your time slot. If you are struggling to come along on that date please let us know. We look forward to seeing you.

Have to most wonderful weekend

Stay safe and God bless

Barbara

Year 1 Weekly Blog 23.1.26 - "Community is the place where love is proven, where we learn to forgive, to begin again, and to serve one another." - St Teresa of Calcutta

Another super week in Year 1! The children really do just love to learn! In Prayer and liturgy we have focused once again on Jesus, reflecting on how we can follow in His footsteps and asking Him to help us and those in need around the world. In RE we have learned more about Jesus as a young boy. We listened to a piece of scripture about when Jesus, Mary and Joseph and how they went to visit the temple. When leaving Mary and Joseph realised that Jesus was not with them. After spending a long time searching they returned to the temple, where they found Jesus teaching the elders of the church. Jesus was surprised to hear Marys confusion, saying, “Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” Jesus spent His younger years growing closer to God so that He would be ready to share the Good News. The children split into groups and created great pieces of drama to retell this piece of scripture. Following this lesson we went onto hear how Jesus gathered the first Christians, and how Simon, Andrew, James and John, all left there things and followed Him. We created beautiful cards to share the Good News with others…

Going deeper in conversation

Each week we have a My Happy Mind lesson. We are currently learning to celebrate our brains and their strengths. Can your child explain these different character strengths. Maybe you could identify each others strengths as a family.

Magic moments

During computing this week the children continued to develop their drag and drop skills by creating their own themed games. This brought great delight. One of the very wonderful moments within these lessons is the teamwork and problem solving skills that we get to see. The children really love to help one another and seeing their happiness knowing they have done something that has helped is just lovely! We also looked at ‘whole’ and ‘not ‘whole’ in maths - hunting down all the items we could find that were a whole. and cutting a pizza into parts.

Let’s Celebrate

A huge well done to Maggie who has been a focused Cooper Crab. Maggie, you’ve taken some really big steps this half term and we can see how your focus is helping you to engage in our class discussions and share your ideas. In our science lessons you have been sharing your observations and thoughts, helping others to consider things they hadn’t thought of. We are really proud of you Maggie, keep up the focus. Well done!

A huge well done to Sadie who has received our Star Virtue award for being Eloquent. Sadie you treat others with kindness; you make others around you smile and bring so much joy and positivity into our classroom and to our school. Thank you for shining so brightly. Well done Sadie!

Reminders

Our class assembly: On Tuesday 10th February it is our class assembly starting at 9:30.

Parents meetings: On Friday 13th February we will have our mid year parents meetings. Please complete the survey below to indicate whether you would prefer a face to face or virtual appointment. I have also displayed an image of the times I am available on the day. Yellow indicates virtual and the white face to face. Please email with your preferred time and I’ll email back on a first come system.

Cold weather: Remember to bring all those warm layers: coats, hats, gloves and scarfs!

Snacks: A gentle reminder that as a school we are trying to reduce waste. At the start of the year we set out on a mission to bring any snacks into school in reusable containers. Please continue to help us with this, sending all snacks in reusable plastic containers. Thank you!

Uniform: Please check your child’s uniform, we have a few pieces missing! We are also missing some black football leggings, they are labelled “procombat” around the waist. There has also been a mix up with football trainers and a school T-Shirt. Please check you have all the correct items over the weekend and we can do a big swap and return belongings to the right homes next week. Thank you for your help!

Finally, each child came home with a letter today regarding some important information. Our wonderful Mrs Hartley has made a very difficult decision, and will be leaving us at the end of this half term. She has not made this decision lightly but knows what is right for her and her family. It has been a privilege to work alongside her and I am sure she will continue to pop into school because she will really miss seeing all of the children! We now have a couple of weeks to make her feel as special as she really is.

Emails:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 4 Weekly blog. Friday 23rd January "Whatever gifts and talents we are given by God ,are to be shared with the entire community." (St Baldwin of Canterbury)

It has been a very reflective week in year 4. In our Happy Mind sessions this week, we have thought about our character strengths and how we can use them for the benefit of others. In worship this week, they listened to the story of Jesus calling His first disciples and how we can become disciples of Christ. Also, on Tuesday, Marla, Elsie and Jacob led a lovely worship all about Jesus healing Peter’s Mother in law. They are deepening their understanding of their own beliefs in RE as they reflect upon the catholic statement of belief - the Nicene Creed. This is perfect as they will soon be on a sacramental journey towards Reconciliation and then Holy Communion. I have put dates below - please email me if there are any issues.

Also this week, we have delved further into Shakepseare whilst also developing our oracy skills. Children have learned the skill of probing when listening in a conversation. They have been reading much of Shakespeare’s writing independently and actinigi t out too - complete with ghost! Children have learned about digestion in the mouth - in Science and the Water Cycle in Geography.

Conversation starters

My Happy Mind

What is your biggest character strength and how can you use it to help others?

Geography

Can you explain these 4 main parts of the water cycle: Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, percolation.

Let’s Celebrate

Our certificate this week is a Reflective learner. This goes to Halle You are becoming more focused and we can see your listening through your excellent writing and shape knowledge this week. Well done.

Our virtues this half term are being eloquent and truthful. Eloquent by expressing their thoughts, feelings and beliefs clearly and truthful by reflecting on oneself and speaking with integrity. This week, Jacob. receives our star for being so reflective on his own behaviour and so reverent in the eorship he helped lead this week. you sensible behaviour helped others focus.

We are now having a ‘100% focused learner of the day’ in Year 4. This week we chose Jude Cu. Jude Cl, Ruth, Jack, Xander and Elsie.

Notices

DT - Can all children making a HAND HELD torch please bring in a 250ml plastic bottle?

Friday 30th January - this Friday. Forest School day. Could ALL children bring joggers, old trainers, a top and warm coat, hat etc so they can spend time in forest school.

Holy Communion. Below are the lists of children making their Holy Communion on these dates. Please email me if there are any issues.

Parents Day:

On Friday 13th February it is Parents Day once again, you can book face to face or online through teams. Please fill in the form below with your preferred option and select a time from the timetable below - then email this to me a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk.

This will be done on a first come first served basis. As always any questions please email thank you.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Carragher and Miss Cardwell

a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 29th January

Compulsory Homework

Maths

We have been working so hard on short division by divding both 2 digit and 3 digit numbers, using our new found method- the bus stop method. We have began to look at calculations that cannot be divided equally and will require regrouping and remainders. Please read the example question carefully and complete the questions on your sheet.

Reading

Reading targets have been set for the new half term so lets get quizzing so we can smash our targets. 20 minutes minimum a day.

Spellings

Very tricky spellings this week- will require daily practice in order for these to become sticky spellings. Teach your parents our new ‘square spelling’ activity. Use this to help practice those tricky 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. symbol

2. system

3. pyramid

4. myth

5. lyrics

6. cygnet

7. Egypt

8. mystery

9. typical

10. physics

11. crypt

12. rhythm

13. synonym

14. mysterious

15. syllable

Year 6 Home Learning 22.01.26

Homework to be completed and handed in to school on Thursday.

English- Please complete the worksheet on semi colons in your books, marking the sentences, checking if they are using semi colons correctly. If it is inccorect please re-write the sentence below correctly.

We did a lot of work on conjunctions last term- please revise by using this game:

https://wordwall.net/resource/65119032/english/conjunction-sort

Maths- Please complete the missing number long multiplication sheet in your books and do 10 minutes of TT Rockstars every night!

Please also complete the arithmetic short test.

You might want to try some of these websites as a change from TT rockstars to help you, it is also great for speeding up doubling and halving and number bonds:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Spelling-Please complete the speeling sheet, collecting words and practising, ready for a spelling quiz and dictation next Thursday.

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 29th January

Maths

Please complete the two sheets in your homework book that asks you to consider the BEST strategy for being EFFICIENT mathematicians.

Keep practising your TTROCKstars for 10 minutes each day

Spelling

All spellers this week

This week we have learned to spell words with the in and im prefixes. Please complete the sheet given where you need to write the correct word for the meaning. If there are any you find too tricky to spell, use one of your sticky word strategies to practise them (eg colourful words, the grid method, triangle words)

Optional Home Learning - Spring 1

Please have a go at some of these tasks over the half term: