Sculpture and 3D- Abstract shape and space.


What a busy term of exploration with all things sculpture! The past few weeks have all been about the children using their creativity to turn 2D shapes into 3D sculptures. The emphasis was purely exploratory ways to join and master using varying shapes to create their pieces, which at times were frustrating when things didn’t go as planned. We have looked at how sculptors use both negative and positive spaces to maximize the impact of the work. The children were so creative in turning their cereal box into a work of art and in producing a final piece. 

We have also revisited our drawing topic by using our observational skills to draw British wildlife.

Next half term, we are moving on to cooking and Nutrition where we will focus on seasonal foods.

Have a lovely Easter Break

God Bless

Mrs Mather

Drawing – Expressing Ideas.


Time flies when you’re having fun! The children have really gotten into this topic! We have thought about what the difference is between Street Art and Graffiti, not only in design but in legal terms. We have had the opportunity to explore the street art in Blackpool and have thought about what their story is. The children have created depth and distance by having a go at one point perspectives and vanishing points, along with scaling up using a grid. Using their new found knowledge, the children have planned a piece of work inspired not only by street art, but also an Ecological topic that is close to their heart and feel strongly about. We will continue with this after the half term. They have really shone out and have challenged themselves every step of the way. Well done Year 6!

Next half term we are turning our focus to Photography and Memories.

Have a lovely Easter Break

God Bless

Mrs Mather

 

Structures and 3D- Bridges

- This half term we have been putting an array of knowledge to the test in our Design and Technology topic. The children have shown such perseverance with building their bridges. We started off looking at the three main types; beam, arch and truss and discovering which type was the strongest. The children were then set the task of having a go at making a spaghetti truss bridge, this task is definitely for the faint hearted- it would test the patience of anyone! The children took it all in their stride and shown impeccable resilience when the spaghetti kept snapping! We then moved on to our woodworking skills, using our maths knowledge to measure and cut accurate lengths to construct their bridge. I am so proud of all the children for navigating this topic so wonderfully with their partners and their enthusiasm in helping others when they could. You have all been wonderful craftspeople Year 5 well done!

We have started our new topic on portraits which we will continue after the holiday, before moving onto Cooking and Nutrition.

Have a lovely Easter Break

God Bless

Mrs Mather

Paper Play!

This term, the children have been looking at the different ways they could use paper. From 3D drawings through to sculptures. We have had so much fun manipulating paper into tower sculptures, the tree of life 3d art and a collaborative whole class spider sculpture! The children have shown so much resilience when the paper would not bend the way they wanted it to. This topic has been perfect for their fine motor skills and building up their finger muscles by rolling an array of different sized cylinders to produce their tower sculptures. Their imagination has run wild with this topic and they produced fabulous work!

Next half term, we will be looking at woven wonders.

Have a lovely Easter Break

God Bless

Mrs Mather

Torches and Cooking and Nutrition

This half term we have been exploring electrical systems and how they have developed over time. The children were tasked with making a torch to fit a set design criterion. They could either; design and make a torch for a police officer or someone who enjoyed caving. They had to decide on the relevant style of torch, taking the specific criteria for each person into consideration. This could be either in the form of a hand held or a head torch. The children were very creative in completing their torch with an off/on switch and were all successful in making a fully functioning torch!

 We have now started our next topic of Cooking and Nutrition. The children have planned their adapted recipe, designed their packaging and looked at budgeting. After Easter, they will be making their packaging and them, baking their final product.

Have a lovely Easter Break

God Bless

Mrs Mather

Drawing-Tone and Texture


My word, time flies when you’re having fun! I cannot believe we are at the end of another term! This term, we have turned our attention to our drawing skills. We have looked at how to shade using the four golden rules, thought about and explored how we can add texture into our work to create detail. We have seen like an artist by using shapes to help aid us in the development of forming an idea. We have of course, used our teddies from home to combine our skills in the form of observational drawings. They look fantastic! The detail included is wonderful, well done Year 2!

Next half term, we will be returning to Mechanisms and fairgrounds.

Have a lovely Easter Break

God Bless

Mrs Mather

Year 5 Easter Holidays Homework

Compulsory Homework

Reading

At least 20 minutes minimum a day.

Maths and English- ANTON

We are trialing out a new online homework system called ‘ANTON’. The children have been given a demonstration of how to website works and all children have their QR code stuck on the inside of their homework work to log in.

The children are to complete all of the tasks below, which have been added to their to do lists on ANTON.

Short Mutliplication 1

Short Division 1

Clauses

Year 6 Home Learning 2.04.26

Maths

Please complete the SAT’s style word problems and make sure you show your working out. Then please complete the first four sections (see below) of this following following strand on ANTON areas:

Reading

Please complete the two reading comprehensions. This is a short reading test, to help you with your fluency and speed. Please read and complete the questions in 10 minutes.

Grammar

Please complete the revision map on word classes. Have a look at your grammar paper and then look at what areas you need to practise and follow the relevant links on the paper below to revise those areas:

2022 grammar paper

You could even have a look at the following areas to help you …

Holy Week

It has been a sombre yet joyful week at nursery. We have joined the whole school in the Holy Week assemblies. Together, we have walked alongside Jesus from His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to His final hours on the cross and then the culmination of Holy Week, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The older children have depicted this using words dance drama so very beautifully you couldn’t help but be moved emotionally.

Learning Landscape

The children have had a fun packed week full of Easter celebration activities. We have:

  • played pin the tail on the bunny (that was great fun!)

  • sang Easter songs

  • created using Easter craft resources

  • joined Reception for an Easter Egg Hunt!

  • joined in the Easter egg raffle

  • met the chicks that Year 2 have hatched

  • joined a hot cross bun gathering with Reception

  • played hot potato/mashed potato!

  • …and had a jolly good time!

This term has been the most amazing twelve weeks. The children’s learning has been off the scale! They have started to demonstrate everything we have been learning since September. When we return after the Easter break we will be pushing forward to achieve even greater things! I would like to thank you all for your support of nursery and all the hard work you put in at home to help your child’s learning at school It is greatly appreciated.

I hope you all have a Happy and Holy Easter, not too many eggs!

Stay safe and God bless

Barbara

Year 1 Weekly blog 27.3.26 - "Holy Week is a chance for us to give our hearts. On the cross He gave us all of His love." - St Teresa of Calcutta

In this weeks Gospel we celebrate Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week, the most important week of our Church’s year. The children have a really good understanding of this moment when Jesus travelled to Jerusalem and the crowds so happily waved their palm leaves, shouting “Hosanna”. All our learning in RE this half term has been focused around Holy Week. The children have retold Palm Sunday through our own drama and have had the absolute pleasure of watching Year 2’s amazing assembly today! Everybody has come home with their own palm cross to carry with them throughout Holy Week.

Going deeper in conversation

Why does giving and receiving GRATITUDE feel good and make others feel good?

Magic moments

This week have have finished our unit in Maths which has been discovering shapes. This has been a real joy of a unit, one which we have adored observing the children as they have explored shapes, rotation and different pattern making. They have really enjoyed exploring this element of their spacial reasoning as have we!

Certificates

A huge well done to Mollie who has been awarded our Focused and Enthusiastic learning award. Mollie, you a ray of sunshine in our days! Each and every day to try your very best and always put a smile on others’ faces. You are always so focused and include lots of careful detail into your work, making sure that it is the absolute best it can be. I am so proud of your wonderful effort and I really hope you are too! You are a joy!

A huge well done to Rosalie who has been awarded our Star virtue award for being Intentional and Prophetic. Rosalie, you always see the very best in people and whenever you see someone in need you are always there to shower them in love and help them to remember that they are special and cared for. You are just like Jesus!

Reminders

We need to return our lenten boxes next week - please bring - last day Wednesday.

Sponsor Money - we know you have been walking at home with family and friends and that for this effort you have raised money - please bring in the form and any monies next week- last day for this Wednesday - thank you

Easter Egg raffle: There is until Thursday to pay for raffle tickets.

Schools closes: On Thursday 2nd April at 2pm

Have a wonderful weekend!

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

This week...

Worship

This week we have continued our ‘Desert to Garden’ topic with ‘Easter Sunday’. Our key words this week were HOLY WEEK, EASTER SUNDAY and NEW LIFE.

We began with a video, ‘God gave us Easter’ Click here. 

We are all great at re – telling the Easter story and talking about how sad Jesus and the people must have felt.

In our child led worship on Thursday we had pictures to look at. They represented the 14 stations of the cross. Some of us remembered going around school and seeing the stations of the cross that the children had made, and some of us said we had seen them in church. We watched this video, click here to watch at home.

The video had questions to really make us think about how Jesus felt and how we might face the same challenges in our life. ‘How do you think Jesus felt when he didn’t have any of his friends around him?’, ‘Have you ever had to do something that was really hard?’, ‘What helped you when you felt like quitting?’, ‘What do you think Jesus felt when he fell in front of all those people?’.

Learning Landscape

An exciting week at nursery. Mrs. Tierney brought us some frog spawn! We have been finding out how to care for the tadpoles that will emerge and eventually grow into frogs! It does take a long time though, we must be patient. We have made a small pond in the nursery garden to watch for any changes. We will keep you posted!

Also, Mrs. Hotchkiss in YR2 has hatched some chicks, we can’t wait to meet them.

Nursery has lots of Easter challenges for the coming week. We have been:

  • filling and matching eggs (to make them whole) in the special Easter sand

  • carefully picking up Easter hens and placing them carefully in egg cups…mmm I wonder how many hens there are?

  • creating Easter pictures using all our Easter crafts

  • bunny counting and looking carefully for similarities and differences…this was a bit tricky we had to look very carefully

  • meeting Number 10!!!! We have lots of fun with 10. Everyone has been making number bonds to ten, our learning is on fire!!

  • counting how many parts there are in the magnetic apples

  • visiting Forest School. We particularly enjoy swinging in the hammock!

  • climbing and jumping on the apparatus in the hall

  • and much much more….take a look at the photos

Easter Egg Raffle

Raffle tickets are now on sale in nursery for £1 a strip. Just send in the correct amount and we will do the rest!

Lenten Boxes

Can everyone please send in your filled Lenten boxes so we can get everything totaled up! We are hoping for a bumper amount this year.

Cafod Walk to Nigeria Sponsor forms

Could you also send any donations and monies regarding Cafods Walk to Nigeria in to school next week. Nursery have been walking daily around the field and have collectively walked 126.6 miles!!!! Wow!!

Finally, have a lovely weekend everyone and a big thank you for all your support with all our Lenten charity events and almsgiving. It is very much appreciated.

Stay safe and God bless

Barbara