Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 12th March

Compulsory Homework

Maths

TTRS- Just 5 minutes a day to make sure we stay super speedy.

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

It has been recap week as we have looked at high frequency words that are commonly missplet across Year 4 and 5.

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. exercise

2. experience

3. extreme

4. famous

5. guard

6. guide

7. imagine

8. increase

9. material

10. pressure

11. probably

12. recent

13. remember

14. determined

15. appreciate

Easter Assembly- Wednesday 1st April

Children have been given their scripts for our holy week preparations. Make sure to practice your lines and to really focus on the expressing this with emotion.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 06.03.26- ‘Indeed, the water I give them will well them up to eternal life’

What a week it has been in Year 5 this week! Ranging from school trips, inspections, planters and world day of prayer, we have been kept busy. Thursday was a huge day for our school as we celebrated Catholic life through prayer, worship and our RE curriculum in the presence of the diosese. We came together as a class for our worship on this coming weeks gospel reading- where we looked at the importance of water and where it is found within the Bible. During our RE lessons, we have been recapping on prior knowledge of sin and the commandments in order to link these together.

Thursday was also an iconic day as it was also World Book Day! The theme this year was ‘your reading identity’ and the children certaintly let theirs shine through their costume and choice of books. We gathered together in the hall to talk about the greatest, and also most read book in the world, our Holy Bible as we shared some of the stories as a whole school. In the afternoon, we linked up with our buddy class to share our reading identities and to endulge in the joy of reading alongside others.

On Wednesday, we took a trip to Preston to visit the Science department at UCLAN for a day all about the Solar System. We were thrown straight into lots of learning and practical experiments as we transformed into scientists with our lab coats, safety goggles and gloves. The children all came home on Wedneday with some of the paper tasks that we carried out during the day.

And finally! To finish our week, we had a combination of ‘Love Yourself Day’ and ‘World Day of Prayer’. Lots of children braced the harsh weathers for our annual ‘People We Love Planters’ session, in which I’m hoping many of you parents would have recieved a planter gift from your children. For CAFOD’s World Day of Prayer, they have started in Nigeria this year, in which we had a Q and A session with the lovely Isioma, who enlightened us with what life is like in Nigeria.

Conversation starters

Science- We did lots of practical experiments and learned lots of new interesting facts about the planets of our Solar System. Tell your parents something new that you have learned from our trip to UCLAN.

RE- How many stories do you know in the Bible that include water? We had a lovely worship on Thursday all about water. The children could recite lots of famous stories in the bible that involve water. How many do your parents know?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star: George Lett

You have been so intentional with your actions since coming back from half term George. You have reflected on your own personal targets within the classroom and have showed the right attitude and work ethic througout lessons. You were so prophetic during our morning of RE on Thursday by contributing so much throughout our worship and lesson.

Learner of the Week: Jackson

I knew that Wednesday’s Solar System trip would be right up your street Jackson. I loved how enthudsiastic you were about all of the different elements of the day and how engaged you were throughout all of our practicals. You came into the day with so much knowledge about this topic and it was amazing to see you shine infront of the university teachers leading the lessons.

Notices

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

• Monday 23rd March- Bring an Easter Egg to school. Children can come into school in their own clothes with the small cost of donating an easter egg for our easter raffle.

• School Photo Day- Wednesday 25th March

• Year 5 Easter Assembly- Wednesday 1st April

• School closes on Friday 2nd April at 2pm

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

Year 4 Weekly blog. Friday 6th March "God's love is a spring of living water which flows constantly into the hearts of those who pray." (St. Luis De Montfort)

It has been a week of such depth and reflection in Year 4. We have learned all about the story of the Prodigal son in our RE lessons and the important message that God will forgive us and is waiting with open arms to bring us close to Him. This linked so beautifully to our Reconciliation session on Tuesday night which was about sin separating us from God and how He has given us free will to choose - good choices that spread love or bad choices that hurt others - sins. We then moved on to learn about God’s love and mercy in other ways - such as sending His only son to save us and creating the lovely world for us to cherish. Children spent time being thankful that they are a child of God who is always there to love them. Michael, Ruth and Blythe led a really special liturgy on Wednesday telling the story about the woman who was almost stoned - but Jesus said only those who had not sinned could throw - and nobody could. The children pointed out that we are all sinners and should focus on getting ourselves right before accusing others. In our HRSE session children learned to be grateful for their experiences, themselves and others.

Thank you so much for your efforts with the creative world book day costumes. We had a super day spent the talking about our own reading identities and which type of text we feel really passionate about. The children met with their partner class and read them their story.

This week, we say goodbye to Miss Cardwell. We are so proud of how she has grown as a teacher and wish her so much luck in her final placement at another school. We will really miss you.

Conversation starters

RE

How does God show love and mercy to us?

HRSE

How are you grateful for yourself, others and your experiences this week?

Here are some beautiful pictures of our World Book Day in school:

Let’s Celebrate

Our certificate this week is an enthusiastic and focused learner This goes to Jude Cu.. You participate so well in lessons. You are trying hard to use our oracy language and I am happy to see you pushing yourself to produce more work.

Our virtues this half term are being intentional and prophetic. Intentional in their behavour for learning and their behaviour towards others. This week, Heidi receives our star for being so intentional in her behaviour and learning. She gives 100% at all times and makes links between what she believes and how she behaves.

We are now having a ‘100% focused learner of the day’ in Year 4. This week we have chosen: Luca and Jacob

Music stars this week were Logan and Marla for trying so hard to master the chord changes.

Notices

Holy Communion.

Session 2 just for children is this Tuesday at 3:30-4:20. Please encourage your child to complete their ‘Making things right’ pages 1-15 and bring in on Tuesday.

Ties - These are red ties with Holy Communion symbols on them that many boys choose to wear for their Holy Communion. They are on parent pay if you wish to purchase one.

Thursday 12th March D&T Biscuits: Children have a recipe to make biscuits. Please bring in the ingredients on Thursday.

Speaking Shakespeare

On Thursday the 19th March Children will be ‘Speaking Shakespeare’ at the Grand theatre. We have been given a speech from Hamlet, which we will learn and perform together as a class. (Given for homework) Children will need a packed lunch.

Parents - you can come and watch at the Grand at 2:00 pm - 2:45pm.

Please fill in the form below to state whether you are able to watch and pick up your child (outside Nandos at 2:45pm) - or arrange for another parent to do so.

Please fill in the photo consent form below:

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Carragher and Miss Cardwell

a.lyons@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 …

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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!

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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?

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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 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 12th March

Holy Communion - Making things right.

Please complete pages 1-15 of your book and bring it to your session on

Maths

One small sheet about the 9x tables and some word problems - read them carefully!

Shakespeare homework

Please learn the following speech off by heart ready for our performance on stage. Tell your parents what it means.

Optional Home Learning - Spring 2

There are some lovely opportunities to do some optional homework based on all we are studying this half term or retrieving from last half term. Have look and see.

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

Year 5 Weekly Blog 27.02.26- 'This is my son, whom I love. When I am with him, I am well pleased. Listen to him'- Matthew 17:1-9

What a first week back after half term it has been! The weather has started to change with brighter and drier mornings and warmer afternoons, which has certainly lifted everyone’s spirits. We have also begun our spiritual journey of Lent, with us focusing on the Mass of Ash Wednesday in our RE lessons. We asked and answered lots of inquisitive questions about Lent and also looked into the readings and scripture from Ash Wednesday. We have also swapped our Lenten boxes over with our lovely Year 1 partners, ready for the weekend to begin earning those pennies at home to raise money for CAFOD.

It was so lovely to see so many of you at our second book look of the year and for the children to share their work across the year with you. You should be extremely proud of the work that they put in and produced, also to see the progression of their work from September. Lots of learning has taken place already in this new half term with us using our multiplication/division knowledge to convert units of measurement and to multiply decimals by whole numbers. In English, we have began our new writing topic of Sci-Fi, which will go hand in hand with our space topic in Science. Here are some pictures captured throughout the week of our learning.

Conversation starters

Science- ‘My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles’. Can you explain to your parents why this was the topic of our conversation in this weeks science lesson. Could you remember any of the facts we associated with each planet (one word descriptions).

RE- What changes are you going to make throughout Lent? Every year, we choose something to fast (give up) but thinking on a deeper and more spiritual level, what changes about yourself are you going to make on this special journey of the year.

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star: Emilia

You are so intentional with your actions Emilia. To always put other people’s interests, safety and concerns before your own is a special quality to have and one that is not easy to carry out every single day. You are such a valuable member of our classroom, as a learning partner, eco- councillor and friend. Just keep being you.

Learner of the Week: Isaac

I don’t know what it is about maths, but you just seem to absolutely smash it! You are super focused on the task at hand, taking in all of the information given during the teachers input, and you are so determined to complete every challenge that is set- Brilliant work!

Notices

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

• Wednesday 4th March Trip to UCLAN- Normal school drop off and pick up times for this trip. Full school uniform needed. If you haven’t filled in the dinner options form on the Year 5 blog, I will assume that you are having a pack lunch from home.

• Thursday 5th March World Book Day- That time of the year again! Time to dress up. There is a poster available on Mrs Gregan’s blog with more information about the theme of this years day of reading.

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 4 Weekly blog. Friday 27th February "The invitation at the transfiguration is to listen to Jesus and to follow Him." (Pope Francis)

The Lenten season has begun in Year 4. The children began their Lenten journey by making Lenten promises - one for fasting, one for almsgiving and one to become a better person. They also swapped their Lenten boxes with their Year 2 partner. They are willing to do chores at home - and you can give them a little money for their box. All proceeds are going to CAFOD. We have spent some time in our RE lessons reflecting on how we can love like Jesus did. This is the perfect opportunity to care for others and show solidarity with all our brothers and sisters - just like Jesus did. We had a beautiful worship led by Jack, Heidi and Edward this week. It was beautiful - all about the Prodigal Son and how family is more important than money. Children inspired the class to make bidding prayers about forgiveness and true wealth. In HRSE this week, we talked about having an ‘Attitude of Gratitude,’and refelcted on how we could do a daily gratitude practice at home.

We have started our new class novel - The Last Bear, by Hannah Gold. It is a beautiful book and the depth of conversation around it so far has been amazing!

Conversation starters

RE

How can you find time to pray at home together? What would be a nice prayer to say?

HRSE

What could you do as a family to share what you are grateful for each day?

Here is a little snapshot of our week:

Let’s Celebrate

Our certificate this week is an enthusiastic and focused learner This goes to Ruth. You give your all in lessons and your work is stunning - you always answer fully and try your very hardest. It is lovely that you listen to every word in class and are so attentive.

Our virtues this half term are being intentional and prophetic. Intentional in their behavour for learning and their behaviour towards others. This week, Halle receives our star for being so keen to do the right thing, being ready to learn, making mature decisions and being a role model to others.

We are now having a ‘100% focused learner of the day’ in Year 4. This week we have chosen: Halle, Henry O, Marla

Music stars this week were Bonnie and Edward for super playing

Notices

Holy Communion.

This Sunday at 9:30pm it is the welcome mass for all Holy Communicants. Please attend with your children.

Sessions for parents and children start this Tuesday at 3:30-4:20. Please encourage your child to complete their ‘Making things right’ pages each week in their new book which they will get on Tuesday.

Ties - These are red ties with Holy Communion symbols on them that many boys choose to wear for their Holy Communion. They are on parent pay if you wish to purchase one.

WORLD BOOK DAY This Thursday 5th March. Please come dressed as your favourite book character and please bring in ONE book or magazine that you absolutely love to share with your friends.

D&T Biscuits: Children have a recipe to make biscuits. This will be happening on Thursday 12th March and they will need to bring their ingredients in.

Speaking Shakespeare

On Wednesday the 19th March Children will be ‘Speaking Shakespeare’ at the Grand theatre. We have been given a speech from Hamlet, which we will learn and perform together as a class.

Parents - you can come and watch at 1:45pm.

Please fill in the photo consent form below:

PLEASE IGNORE THIS BELOW - (same night as RECONCILIATION in church! I am trying to book for a different night instead)

OPPORTUNITY - PRE SHOW HAMLET PERFORMANCE Tuesday 24th March - 6pm

There is opportunity for a small group of children to perform a little Shakespeare in the foyer, as a Pre-show performance at the Grand to entertain the theatre goers as they come to watch. This will be before the RSC production of Hamlet in the evening.

Parents would need to bring their children for 6:00pm and either collect them at 7:15pm and take them home OR book to go and watch the RSC performance of Hamlet and take them to the show.

(However, it has been given a recommended age of 12+ - so this would be completely at your own discretion.)

I will be going to watch the show with my own son after this pre-show performance!

Please fill in the ‘Expression of interest’ form below if you wish your child to be considered.

Here is a link to book to watch the show if you wish to.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Carragher and Miss Cardwell

a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk