Year 1 Weekly Blog 6.3.26 - "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God." - John 4:7-12

In this weeks Gospel we have listened to the time when Jesus met a Samaritan women at the well and their encounter. We discovered that in those times, Jews would not have spoken to Samaritans and how this scripture highlights God’s love for everybody. God doesn’t have favourites, we are all precious in His eyes. We focused our attention to the living water that Jesus speaks of and how this is a sign of everything Jesus offers us. Water is a sign of life, a fresh start and it draws us closer to God.

Going deeper in conversation

Water is a special symbol in our faith. Can you find out how many times water features in the bible? How does Jesus use the water? What does He use it for? How does it help others?

Magic moments

There really are SO many magic moments from this week. It has been jam packed with lots of wonderful memories made; we have planted beautiful flowers for our gardens, celebrated World Prayer Day and paid close attention to CAFOD and their focus this Lent, and of course World Book day! It was so wonderful to hear the children share their story books with their Year 5 partners! Please enjoy the photos!

Let’s Celebrate

A huge well done to Arla who has been awarded our concentration certificate this week. Arla you are such a wonderful learner. You try so hard and concentrate so carefully in every area of your learning.

A huge well done to Archie who has received the Star Virtue award this week. Archie you have spoke with such intention this week understanding that our words can make a difference to others. On Wednesday you spoke prophetically about our school, sharing some of the special memories that you have and the wonderful ways we help God’s world.

We are so proud of you both!

Reminders

PE days: As we began the new half term our PE days have changed. Our outside PE will continue to be on a Monday afternoon, however indoor is now on Wednesdays. Thank you!

Sponsored Walking: Please continue to walk and encourage family and friends to sponsor you!

Book Fair: Our school book fair will be held afterschool from Wednesday 11th March - Wednesday18th March.

Own clothes day: On Monday 23rd March we will be having an Own clothes day. We ask for an Easter egg donation on this day to help us with our annual Easter Egg raffle (one of the most egg-xciting parts of the year!)

Have a wonderful weekend!

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

This week...

Worship

This week in Worship we have continued our ‘Desert to Garden’ topic. Our key words this week were CARE, LENT and GROW.

Our first session began with a lovely story called ‘Penguin and Pinecone’ Click here to watch. In the story Penguin shows love and care by planting Pinecone in a place where it can grow. Over time, Penguin’s love helped the Pinecone grow into a big, strong tree. We have continued this theme by planting seeds in our garden and adding playdough blossom to twigs…new life!

We then saw some photos of a baby – can you remember who the baby in the photos was? Just like Penguin, this grew big and strong because of the love and care from her family. It was Barbara!

Lent is a special time to care for others with kindness and love. When we help someone, share things or say kind words, our love grows, just like Pinecone grew into a tree and Barbara grew into a caring and loving nursery lady!

Lent reminds us that when we care for others, we grow closer to Jesus and help make the world more loving.

Our second session this week we heard about the Good Samaritan. Lent is a time to care for others, and we can help and be kind to everyone. Jesus said, “Be like the Samaritan. Love others and help them when they need you.”

We also heard about ‘Jesus and the woman of Samaria’. We saw a picture of the woman with Jesus at a well, and had a think about what they may be doing there. We heard words from the Gospel (John 4:42), “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, we have heard for ourselves and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the World”. We thought about and discussed the question, ‘How can you show Jesus’ love to others through your actions this week?’

We have concluded our sessions this week by praying in our prayer garden around our statue of Mary. Some of us have chosen to this ourselves as well throughout the day. It was so lovely and peaceful.

Throughout the week we have been collecting steps towards Cafod’s Big Lent Walk. Each day we have been walking around the school field. The CAFOD Big Lent Walk 2026 invites individuals, schools, and parishes to walk 200km during the 40 days of Lent to raise funds for fighting poverty, including projects supporting communities in Nigeria. Funds raised help combat widespread poverty, conflict, and climate issues, while supporting water access and empowering women and girls.

The stations of the cross

This week we all went on a pilgrimage around school to visit the stations of the cross. At each station we discussed what we saw which helped us to understand more about Jesus’ journey to the cross. The children were so moved they haven’t stopped talking about it.

Learning landscape

A week full of experiments with questions such as; what will happen if? what do you think? can you tell me? We have been:

  • balancing objects using balance scales using words like heavy, light, and balance.

  • predicting which objects will sink or float?

  • following instructions to recreate images using magnetic tiles

  • using number patterns to 9 to fill the numicon boards. Yes, nine a new number! The children were sooooo excited. We are now finding out about number 9

  • following cue cards to build flowers

  • using the iPad to complete matching games

    and next week we will be learning some new letter sounds!

World Book Day

A great day at nursery! Everyone came dressed as their favourite book character…well done everyone! Take a look at our pictures!

Lastly, have the most wonderful weekend, fingers crossed the sunny weather will continue.

Stay safe and God bless

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning 6.03.26

Maths

Please complete the fractions sheet to help reinforce previous learning of fractions. You have also been given your log in details for ANTON please have a go at the two areas and complete the test at the end.

Reading

Please complete the reading comprehnesion, answering the questions in detail and going back to the text for the answers. Remember- try to time yourself, this should take no longer than 20 minutes.

Spellings

Please complete the spellings sheets in your books- try to remember to use some of the strategies we have been doing in class.

Year 6 Weekly Blog... “Every time you open a book, you grow—and when you open the Bible, you shine. God made you a reader with a story worth telling.”

What a beautiful week we have had in school. This week we have celebrated world book day and as a school we all came together to join in prayer and Mrs Gregan did an excellent job of reminding us all that every book can take us on an adventure—but the Bible is our greatest adventure of all. Just like the heroes and explorers in its pages, we become brave, curious readers every time we open a book and step into a new story. When we read, we grow—learning more about ourselves, the world, and God’s love. So as we go forward, when we choose a story to read, we must remember that we are all readers with the power to imagine, discover, and shine brightly, just like the people of the Bible who listened, learned, and lived out their faith.

This week in our RE lessons we have reflected on Maundy Thursday and the significant actions of Jesus and the message he was sending us- his new commandment. We reflected on how his action of wasking His disciples feet was a way of showing all Chrsitians that we are here to serve and love one another, just as he served and loved us. This then linked beautifully to our child-led liturgy on Discipleship- a true reminder that we are all called to follow God and be ‘fishers of people’ …

Love Yourself Day …

What another beautiful day we have had in school for National Prayer Day, where we have truly celebrated the gift of praying, everything and everyone we love and of course, as we are raising money by walking to Nigeria during Lent, we have of course had our very own pupil giving us a talk on what Catholic life is like in Nigeria. Year 6 had lots of questions and of course we learnt so much- thank you so much.

We also loved making our spring time planter for someone that we love …

You are never alone when you are lost in a book…

We love World Book Day! Yesterday brought such happiness, laughter and excitement to the classroom. I hope you enjoy looking at the photographs from yesterday! We even did a short writing piece on a scene from Wicked, as part of our Classic Fiction strudy on ‘The Wizard of Oz’- can’t wait to read them!

We loved sharing the gift of reading with our lovely Reception buddies …

Where has our learning taken us this week?

We have got our fraction work up and running- simplifying fractions, comparing fractions and next week we will be adding and subtracting these fractions! In English, we have studied the meeting of Dorothy and Glinda- practisiong our dialogue writing and looking at how we can incorporate action and description in our reporting clauses. In music we have been noting the pitch on the song ‘White Cliffs of Dover’, continuing to explore sequence work on the apparatus in Gymnastics and much more!

Delving deeper through talk …

What was the deeper meaning behind the washing of the disciples feet?

My Happy Mind…

What are the benefits of writing down and practising gratitudes every day?

Leading Learners…

Well done to Isioma this week.

Isioma, you work tirelessly in lessons to be the best you can be and we love teaching you as you are always so focused and engaged. You are really becoming a reflective learner and respond excellently to feedback, as you always want to know exactly what you can do to improve. We have been so impressed with your confidence, knowledge and ability to talk to all the classes of different ages on a topic that is so close to your heart and something that you are passionate about.

Intentional and Prophetic stars

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are intention in their actions. Children who make conscious decisions for the greater good. We will also be spotting children who are prophetic, who choose the right decisions with integrity and who display them publically. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Jacob for being intentional and prophetic to help others.

Helpers in the morning

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

Isioma Charlotte Lorenzo Sean

Notices

  • Date for the diary- Year 6 Resurrection Assembly is on Thursday 2nd April.

  • Scholastic book fair starts after school on Wednesday 11th March.

  • School Leaver Hoodies- a Parent payment of £20 has now been set for all those wanting to purchase a school leavers hoody. These are a great keepsake for the children and usually they request to wear these on their leavers day out ready for a class photo! Top Marques, St Annes, are now expecting you to go in to shop to make sure you get the correct size and let them know what size you want- payment is not needed in the shop this is through ParentPay.


Have a lovely weekend.

We will see you on Monday.

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 10th March


Spellings

This week we are focusing on contracted words.

1.wouldn’t
2. shouldn’t
3. doesn’t
4. wasn’t
5. they’re
6.you’re
7.hadn’t
8.isn’t
9. won’t
10. couldn’t

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Reading - Children have already started making their way up the target board.
Reading challenge - Can you read something at home that isn’t your school reading book? It could be a magazine, a recipe, a digital story or you could listen to an audio book.

Year 1 Weekly Blog 27.2.26 - "The invitation at the Transfiguration is to listen to Jesus to follow him." Pope Francis

This weeks Gospel we heard about the time Peter, James and John went with Jesus to pray and while they were there, Jesus was transformed. We have also shared a special moment with our Year 5 friends as we focused our thoughts towards Lent. The children gave one another their Lent boxes, it was such a wonderful moment with such sweet conversations of thankfulness and excitement as they spoke to one another about how they made their boxes and why.

Going deeper in conversation

Two things this week…

What does the word transform mean? How are you going to transform and grow closer to Jesus during Lent.

As world book day is next week, we are being asked to think about our reading identities. What type of books do you enjoy and why? Parents share your identity too!

Magic moments

Today has been full of so much joy! The children were brimming with excitement to share their books with you all and for you to see their progress this year. It was lovely to see their wide smiles as they returned, knowing that they have made you all so proud because of how hard they have been working in school. Following this we had a brilliant morning out in our forest school. A huge thank you to Mrs Tierney who allowed the children to have the most fun exploring the outdoors!

Let’s Celebrate

A huge well done to Florence who has been awarded our concentration certificate this week. Florence, you are just a joy! Your desire and love to learn is so special! This week we invited a whole host of visitors into our class, you listened so intently, which meant you learnt many new facts. When you were picked to share your thoughts your excitement brought a huge smile to my face. Not only were you excited to share your knowledge, you also spoke articulately and confidently! We are so proud of you!

A huge well done to Hope who has received the Star Virtue award this week. Hope you are always so intentional with your words, you use kindness towards others and are always quick to think about those in need and to say a prayer to help them. Your actions too are intentional! You care so much about God’s world and are desperate to make it a farier face. I can picture your smile as you came in with some food for our food bank!

Reminders

World book day: This Thursday. We would love for the children to come to school dressed as their reader identity. For example, I love stories that are mysterious and romantic, I could come as a detective or something including hearts. Your child may want to come as their favourite character that they love to read about, or wearing lots of facts they have read from non-fiction books, or something relating to the magazines they love to read (football, disney etc) it really is up to you!

Day of prayer and love: This Friday please come to school wearing clothes that you LOVE to wear. During this day it will be full of prayer and love. Please read Mrs Gregan’s blog to find out more.

Don’t forget if you would like your child to make ‘people we love’ planter (On Friday prayer day) to celebrate the world day of prayer, then please make a payment on parentpay ASAP.

Emails:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

This week...

Worship

This week in Worship we have started our ‘Desert to Garden’ topic. Our key words this week were LENT, SORRY and ASHES.

Our first session began with a story about a tree and the changing seasons. We looked at the trees outside and whether they had any leaves on them yet. We also went on a spring walk and discovered all the things that are changing.

Just like trees change through the seasons to grow and get ready for new leaves, the season of Lent helps us change and get ready for new beginnings with Jesus at Easter.

Our child led worship on Thursday was about Ash Wednesday. In our worship bag we had a picture of some ashes and we thought about what they could be. Some of us thought they looked like smoke and some of us remembered going to church and having ashes on our head. Here is a video we watched: Click here.

The ashes were holy ashes and they are God’s blessings. The ashes marked the start of Lent. We spoke about Lent being a time to say sorry and think about how we can be kind to each other in Lent. We made our Lenten promise – we listed all the ways we are going to be good in Lent around our big heart – kindness, loving, sharing, forgiving. If we do these things we will get a smiley stamp in our heart. Lets see if we can fill it by Easter! We’ve already got a lot!

We have loved learning a new song this week – Sing Hosanna! Here it is so you can play it home. We loved it! Click here.

We have also been focusing on Jesus’ cross. We have recreated different versions out of resources we have in nursery…and even our bodies! Take a look at our pictures!

On Monday and Tuesday the children visited Forest school to look for signs of new life, we spotted the trees budding, Spring flowers (crocus, snowdrops, daffodils).

On Wednesday we swapped our Lenten boxes with year three. All we have to do now are multiple acts of kindness for donations! Last year the school raised £1000…no pressure!

Learning Landscape

Such wonderful week. Everyone has returned to nursery full of life and raring to go!

In our learning landscape this week we have been:

  • Painting Nigerian art in readiness for the World Day of Prayer next Friday.

  • Planned that we will be walking once around the field in the morning and the afternoon to collect miles for Cafod’s Big Lent Walk. Between the whole school we would like to walk 4,200 miles! Look our for the sponsor form which was sent home this week.

  • Played guess my number, a game show where you don't count, you see the amount! Join the Numberblocks and learn how to recognise numbers of things without counting them. Have a try at home, maybe using different objects click here

  • Played the ribbon box game where we had to predict if the ribbons thatw ere pulled from the box were ‘long’ or short’, that was great fun!!

  • Played Silly Soup (a rhyming game), matched the rhyming objects from a sack and even rhymed our names to make nonsense names. We are getting good at rhyming…have a play at home, its fun!

  • Practised our numbers to eight and the sounds we have learnt so far. Keep a look out for the QR codes coming home so that you can practise at home too!

  • Used the ten frame for the first time. We found out that 4 and 4 added together makes 8, as well as 6 add 2, 5 add 3 and 8 ones’!

As always a busy week. We have been so busy we haven’t managed to do everything that we planned. Have a rest this weekend next week will be even busier!

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 5th March

Compulsory Homework

Maths

We have been using our knowledge of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 (shifting digits left and right pass the decimal point) to convert differents units of measure such as cm, m , kg, g , l and ml. Complete the sheet that is stuck in your homework books.

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- suffix ‘tion’

Our spellings have looked at verbs that end in e but when we add our suffix ‘tion’, we have to drop the e when the word becomes a noun.

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. location

  2. graduation

  3. vacation

  4. decoration

  5. communication

  6. translation

  7. hesitation

  8. rotation

  9. medication

  10. migration

  11. collaboration

  12. ignition

  13. completion

  14. education

  15. pollution

Year 6 Weekly Blog - “Lent invites us to live on purpose—choosing each day to turn our hearts toward God with intention, simplicity, and love.”

“Christ has no body on earth now but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours; yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on the world; yours are the feet with which he walks to do good; yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.” St Teresa of of Ávila

Welcome back to the second half of the spring term. There is no doubt that it is going to be a busy term with lots and lots going on. I am really excited that we will end the term with an Easter assembly. It will be a lovely way to bring our class family: parents and children together.

This half term, we are focusing on the virtues of being Intentional and Prophetic. We will be growing by making thoughtful choices rather than acting on impulse; Noticing the needs of others and respond with kindness; speaking truth with love; standing up for justice and fairness and most importantly seeing the world with God’s eyes—imagining what it could be.

Yesterday we had a beautiful teacher’s liturgy in the chapel, where we reflected on a reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah 1:4–8. In the reading we heard Jeremiah telling God that he was too young to do what God was asking him to do. He didn’t feel ready or confident. But God told him: “Do not be afraid… I am with you.” This reading showed our two virtues clearly… being Intentional, where  Jeremiah had to make a choice. He could hide, say no, or give up — or he could choose to trust God on purpose. Being Prophetic…Jeremiah became a prophet because he spoke God’s words and helped people come back to what was right. We then reflected on all the ways we could link this to our own lives, especially during this liturgical season of Lent. We talked about how every time we choose the right thing — on purpose — we become more like Jesus.

Thank you to the following children who led us in a beautiful child-led litrugy on Tuesday, on lent and helping us to reflect on the changes we can make this liturgical season …

In RE our lesson this week we reflected on John’s gospel, the ‘annointing at Bethany’, where Martha and Mary annoint Jesus’ feet in preparation for his burial, showing that they recongised Jesus’ true identity, that He is the messiah. The children then connected the learning from last term- how anointing is used in many of our sacraments. We started our lesson smelling some familiar scents, to see if they could recognise them …

Earlier this week we swapped our Lenten boxes with our Reception buddies. We were so impressed with how much time and effort they had all gone to, to make sure their box was perosnalised for their partner. Now it is our mission to fill them for CAFOD as part of our almsgiving this lent…

We were so happy to share our learning journey with you during our book look this week. As you can see, the children have achieved so much and are making such positive progress. Was wonderful to see so many happy faces as you shared their work …

Being an active and curious learner.

I am sure the children have come home to tell you that they have had their arithmetic paper back this week and we have nearly completed the reading. This was such an exciting and worth-while learning journey, where we have been through the paper, celebrated achievements and even mistakes- as the mistakes we make are what we truly learn from the most! I would like to remind all of you that this process is not to label or to level your child, as we have not yet completed the whole curriculum, we simply do this to ensure your children are familiar with the layout, formatting, style of questions and of course to learn what is expected of them. The children have had the chance to think about what areas they know they need to work on now and reflect on what progress they would like to make next time- marginal gains are always the best way! We were so proud of the children’s maturity and resilience during this feedback time. Arithmetic papers will be sent out today, alongside their homework, for you to have a look at and the reading paper will be sent home early next week. Please can we make sure that these papers come back to school, as we keep them in our revision folders so we can refer back to them. Many thanks.

Delving deeper through talk …

What are our kidneys and why do we need them?

My Happy Mind…

What are you grateful for in your life?

Leading Learners

Well done to Sean this week.

Sean- Wow we are so proud of your reflective, focused and determined approached to your work. You also take great pride in your work to ensure it is beautifully presented and always reflects our learning in class but most importantly reflects your true capability. You have made great progress, and your books clearly show this. Well done Sean.

Intentional and Prophetic stars

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are intention in their actions. Children who make conscious decisions for the greater good. We will also be spotting children who are prophetic, who choose the right decisions with integrity and who display them publically. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank William for being intentional and prophetic to help others.

Helpers in the morning for after half term:

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

Daisy Rose William Joseph

Notices

  • World Book Day Thursday 5th March- dress up, there are many different ideas that Mrs Gregan has put on her blog, to make this not an expensive event!

  • Don’t forget if you would like your child to make ‘people we love’ planter next Friday to celebrate the world day of prayer, then please make a payment on parentpay ASAP.

  • School Leaver Hoodies- a Parent payment of £20 has now been set for all those wanting to purchase a school leavers hoody. These are a great keepsake for the children and usually they request to wear these on their leavers day out ready for a class photo! Please make sure you go in to Top Marques to order the correct size.


Have a lovely weekend.

Year 6 Home Learning 27.02.26

Maths

Please complete the rounding revision booklet- this was an area that a lot of us made mistakes on in reasoning, so we need a recap and to practise skills.

Reading

Please complete the reading comprehnesion, answering the questions in detail and going back to the text for the answers. Remember- try to time yourself, this should take no longer than 20 minutes.

Spellings

Please complete the spellings sheets in your books- try to remember to use some of the strategies we have been doing in class.