Year 6 Weekly Blog 'working hard is important but there is something that matters even more...believing in yourself' Harry Potter

"Feed the lambs and look after the sheep."

During liturgies we focused on this week’s gospel, John 10:1–10, which uses the picture of a shepherd and his sheep to teach an important lesson about trust, guidance, and choices in life. Jesus explains that just as sheep recognise and follow the voice of a good shepherd who cares for and protects them, people should listen to voices that lead them to kindness, honesty, and safety. He describes himself as the gate, meaning he helps people find the right path and protects them from harm, while false voices can lead people into trouble. This story teaches us that everyone is valued and cared for, and it encourages us to make wise choices, listen to good advice, treat others well, and try to help and protect those around us in our everyday lives.

What have we been learning this week?

Revision and building confidence when approaching SAT’s style questions has been the driving force behind all of our learning this week. This week we have recieved feedback and gone through various different SAT’s style questions. We always celebrate what they have achieved so far, but they also know they need to reflect on those problem areas and be determined to overcome them. We have learnt this week, rushing and carelessness has been behind a lot of our mistakes but CONFIDENCE when approaching this area is also key- we have to believe WE CAN DO IT! Listen to Harry Potter!

With a bank holiday coming up, and only a few weeks to go until May, every day is crucial. Please ensure that your children are in school on time to maximise every learning opportunity.

Delving deeper through talk …

How could you be a shepherd and look over others in school?

After your feedback, what can you celebrate about yourself? What are your next steps?

Attentive and Discerning Star

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are attentive in the way we look at the world and in others, taking the time to notice the big and the small things each day. We will also be spotting children who are discerning, who choose the right decisions with integrity. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Daisy for being attentive and discerning to help others.

Leading Learners

Well done to Hudson

We love how focused you are in class, listening intently and making notes in your revision book- your determination and desire to do the best you can helps you to challenge yourself and absorb the learning! You also reflect on your work, learning from mistakes with a positive and reflective attitude!

Helpers in the morning

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

Rory Ciaran Isioma Poppy

‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ …

As a class we have been reading the novel ‘The boy at the back of the class’ and the children are really enjoying this opprotunity to listen, enjoy and discuss this book. The children have loved hearing how Ahmed has transitioned in to his new school, learning about his background and seeing the friendship between him and the narrator develop. We will be setting off to go with year 5 on Thursday 7th May at 1pm. We will not be arriving back at school until approximately 5pm. Please copmplete the form below to state whether your child has permission to walk back on their own at this time ot whether they will be being collected.

collection form

Have a lovely weekend.

I will see you on Monday.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Tierney and Mrs Barker

Year 6 Home Learning 23.04.26

Maths

Please complete the fractions

Please then also complete the Anton sections of multiplying and dividing fractions:

Reading

Please complete the reading comprehension. 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 pronouns worksheets and then complete the Anton sections on pronouns:


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

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 28th April

Spellings

This week we are focusing on more homophones


1. ball
2. bawl
3. sauce
4. source
5. who’s
6.whose
7. medal
8. meddle
9. piece
10. peace

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Reading

Reading targets have been reset, please encourage your children to read at home daily for 15-20 mins. You can check children’s quizzing and progress towards targets on their AR Reader pages.

Summer 1 Optional homework

Year 3 Football

Following the cancellation of the Year 3 football tournament, schools were left to organise their own fixtures if wanted. Next Tuesday, 28th April, we have rescheduled the Year 3 football to take place at Heyhouses. The children will play there v Heyhouses.

The children will need football boots and shin pads. School football kit will be given out next week. The children will need to be collected from school and taken straight to Heyhouses. Matches start at 3.50pm and finish by around 4.40pm at the latest.

Our Lady White: Daniel, Benji, Seamus, Eliana, Olivia and Henry

Our Lady Blue: Ronnie, Alfie, Theo, Leo T, Emilia, Reyan and Daisy

Representing the school is a big thing and for me, conduct is the most important part of this; ability is second. Playing for school is a proud moment and should be not taken lightly - I am excited that the children will experience this; we have not played Year 3 football before. We all have to adhere to a code of conduct to ensure that the children have an enjoyable experience.

No dogs are allowed on site and parents will be unable to use any facilities there.

Year 5 & 6 Swimming Gala

This year’s swimming gala for Year 5 and 6 children will take place on Friday 22nd May from 9am - 12 midday at Palatine Leisure Centre. Usually, those children who want to trial for the swimming team are taken to St Annes Swimming Pool to try out, but with the swimming pool now being closed, we have to try something different.

To represent the school in the gala, your child has to be a strong and competent swimmer in a 25m pool. They will be racing against other children from other schools. Please complete the form below indicating whether your child would want to represent the school and their preference of strokes; as well as some swimming experience. We can then look to build a team with the information that we have got.

Children seleted will need to be taken to Palatine in the morning, parents are welcome to stay to support, and then collected to be brought back to school once the event is over.

Swimming Gala Expression of interest

Year 5 Homework due Thursday 23rd April

Reading

New reading targets have been reset so lets get reading to beat those this half term! Remember, we are also trying to beat our 15 million word target for the whole year- we can do it! Minimum of 20 minutes per day is vital in our reading and writing progression.

Maths- ANTON

To complete the ‘Factors, Multiples and Prime Numbers’ folder on ANTON. There are 8 tasks to complete in the folder.

Spellings

These are the first 10 spellings of the Year 5 and 6 spelling list that we are working towards as we get closer to Year 6. Use a variety of our spelling games to help you practice at home such as square spellings, stair spellings and mock spelling tests.

  1. accommodate

  2. accompany

  3. according

  4. achieve

  5. aggressive

  6. amateur

  7. ancient

  8. apparent

  9. appreciate

  10. attached

Year 5 Weekly Blog 17.04.26- ‘Faith is what makes things possible’

And just like that, we have started our summer term (our last term in Year 5!). You wouldn’t be able to tell that we had been off for a week as the children have jumped straight back into their school routines and learning has lifted off yet again. Our RE reflections this week have looked at the relationship between Peter and Jesus. We looked into the life of Peter and what made him so inspirational and one of Jesus’ most trusted disciples. We also analysed the strength of his faith by looking through bible passages to find examples of both strong and weak faith towards Jesus.

We have just finished our multiplication topic, by using our knowledge of factors and multiples to solve word problems. We have now begun our final Maths topic of year 5 (yes a 12 week topic!) of fractions. Just like our previous topics, this carries a large amount of times tables knowledge in which us being super speedy, will be vital in achieving those expected targets at the end of the year. In English, we are looking at discussions, arguments and debates. We started with some ‘rapid reasoning’ games in order to build our arguments, whilst also learning the difference between our three key words. We have had a very exciting indoor PE lesson, where we revisited our prior skills of counter balance movements in gymnastics- but this time with the apparatus!

Conversation starters

RE- Think of a time when you have had really strong faith? When did you feel really confident in yourself or someone else?

Think of a time when you have had weak faith? When did you feel unsure or unconfident about something?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. This week our star goes to Lena. By this point in our academic year, and preparing for Year 6, becoming independent learners is a huge part of being an upper KS2 child. I just love how you are always attentive to following simple instructions and you do this at the first time of asking. This allows you to focus more time on your learning. Keep it up!

Learner of the Week goes to Nathan. You have picked up in this final half term exactly where you left off before Easter-super focused across all of our lessons whilst showing such enthusiasm to learn and challenge yourself. This has been seen especially throughout our Maths and Science topics this week. Keep up the excellent work.


Notices

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

  • Trip to the Grand 7th May- We will be seeing a live performance of ‘The Boy in the Back of the Class’ - a novel in which the children will be reading in Year 6. Payment is now live on parentpay. Children will be leaving school at 1pm and we will be picked up via a coach at 4:30pm. We will be back at school around 5pm. Please make sure your child has provisions for being picked up at this time.

  • Trip to Lancaster Castle and Police Museum 14th May- Our final history topic of the year will be ‘Crime and Punishment’ , in which this trip offers a detailed tour through history. Payment is now live on parentpay.

  • Swimming Gala Friday 22nd May- Mrs Gregan will be releasing details in regards to children’s interest and trail sessions for our swimming gala.

Year 1 Weekly Blog 17.4.26 - "“To love well is to notice deeply.”"

In this weeks Gospel we have listened to the piece of scripture when two of Jesus’ friends were walking to the town of Emmaus and during their journey a man came and walked alongside them sharing pieces of scripture. At first His friends didn’t recognise Jesus, until they were sharing a meal with Him and Jesus broke the bread and their eyes were opened. During our prayer and liturgy led by the children we reflected on this and thought about how we can open our eyes to see Jesus too. The children spoke about how when they see people helping others they see Jesus and this is our mission this week! We children have also been busy in RE reflecting on Jesus’ story and worked together to create fantastic games to retell His life.

Going deeper in conversation

This week we have began our new My Happy Mind branch ‘Relate’ please discuss the following question at home, “Why do you think it’s important to be kind and talk to other people?”… What happens when we help someone?… How do we feel when someone listens to us?

Magic moments

This week had great excitement when we found a mystery time machine which had tipped our classroom upside down! The children were full of curiosity as they tried to discover the clues and come to their own predictions for who or what might have visited our classroom. The evidence we found were dinosaur footprints, lots of sticks and a very old letter explaining that they had come from the Stone Age. Using this evidence we narrowed it down to either a dinosaur, a caveman… even possibly a return from the Evil Pea. All great suggestions. Today we found even more evidence as the camera we set up caught a small dinosaur walking out of the Time Machine… Let’s see what happens next over the coming weeks!

We have also had ENRICHMENT this week. Our Year 1’s went to visit Mrs Lyons in her classroom and learnt some musical theatre skills!

Certificates

A huge well done to Maritta for being both a focused and a determined learner! You are such a hard worker who ALWAYS concentrates so carefully. You are so determined to do your best work and because of this each and every piece of work is so detailed and the presentation is just beautiful! You are a star!

A huge well done to Diya who has been awarded our Star virtue award for being Attentive and Discerning. Diya you show your care for others every time you see someone who needs a friend. You are gentle, kind, caring and so full of joy. Thank you for being you!

Reminders

Shoe boxes: Thank you to all of you who have brought these in, we still need a few more ready for Tuesday.

Don’t forget our PE days are on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Have a wonderful weekend!

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

This week...

Welcome back to the final term of the year, the year is flying by!

The children have started the new term with the same enthusiasm that they left the Spring term with. Everyone is eager to learn and have lots of new adventures. This half term we will be fining out about ‘Mini Beasts. We have already started to root around the nursery garden and forest school to see which creatures we can find! The children want to make a snail hotel; so we are on the hunt for snails. I think they disappear when they hear us coming!

Worship

This week we have started our new branch ‘To the Ends of the Earth’. Our key words this week were Friend, God and Father.

We spoke about how Jesus returned to his Father. One of the friends said Jesus went to heaven and said Jesus is also the Holy Spirit. We watched this video about the Ascension: Click here to watch at home.

When someone welcomes the Holy Spirit into their heart, they are close to God.  His love surrounds them. We spoke about they key words we had heard – Father, God, Holy Spirit and friend. We added these to our Worship display and will add to this as we learn more over the next few weeks. We attached them to a cloud. We thought that heaven was in the clouds, and what a peaceful place it must be.

We heard that Jesus promised to always look after everyone and send a special friend, the Holy Spirit. This led into our child led worship on Thursday, where we learnt about the parable of the faithful servant. (Matthew 24:42). We had a look at some images and one of them had a picture of someone giving someone some food. We discussed how Jesus came to serve us, help us and teach us and we must now do the same. We serve others and Jesus by being ready, responsible, making good choices, being kind and good. We should make these good choices even when nobody is watching.

Learning Landscape

Nursery looks a little different this week…there are minibeasts everywhere! We have:

  • Made a minibeast exploring table

  • Played a describing minibeast quiz game. Some of the clues were a bit tricky but we got there in the end.

  • Told stories by sequencing cards. We even made up our own silly stories!

  • Explored numbers to 10! We found out which numbers we can put together to make ten, using number rods. Watch this video to have a go at home. I must say the children were ahead of the game with their number bond work! Fantastic!

  • Visited forest school and made sun catchers.

Home Link activity bags

Each week we have been sending home hand strengthening activity sacks to help prepare your children for mark making and writing. We currently have three sacks which have not been returned. This means that other children cannot play the games. If you receive a bag could you keep it for one night and then return the bag the following day for another child to take home. Thank you for your understanding.

Silly Hat and Sock Week

Every year nursery raises funds for a charity that is close to our hearts. This year we have chosen the Lymphoedema Support Network. ‘The Lymphoedema Support Network (LSN) is a registered charity and the UK’s national patient support charity for those living with or affected by lymphoedema.’

The Lymphoedema Support Network takes the lead role in supporting and empowering people with lymphoedema by providing a high standard of information and promoting self-help. Since its inception in 1991, when there was very little information or help available for patients, the LSN has evolved into an independent and influential charity. As a charity run by people with lymphoedema, the LSN has a real understanding of the lived experience of the condition which it uses to inform its work.

We really want to help raise money for this charity as we currently have a child in nursery with childhood lymphoedema and we would like to say thank you to the LSN who have supported the family. Please get in volved and lets make lots of money! All details are on the poster below.

The sillier the better!!!!!

Looking forward to more fun and learning next week. Have a great weekend everyone and we will see you on Monday.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning 23.04.26

Maths

Please complete the finding percentages of amounts worksheet and the order of operations sheet in your homework books.

OPTIONAL EXTRA REVISION ON ANTON:

Reading

Please complete the reading comprehension. 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 prepositions worksheet by underlining the prepositions on the sentence.

OPTIONAL GRAMMAR REVISION TO REINFORCE CLASS LEARNING:


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

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 21st April

Spellings

This week we are focusing on year 3 statutory words.


1. often
2. enough
3. question
4. quarter
5. purpose
6.occasion
7.perhaps
8.potatoes
9. promise
10. popular

Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.

Reading

Reading targets have been reset, please encourage your children to read at home daily for 15-20 mins. You can check children’s quizzing and progress towards targets on their AR Reader pages.