Year 1 Weekly Blog 1.5.26 - "Those who trust in God can do all things." - St Alphonsus Liguori

In this weeks Gospel we hear how Jesus prepared the Disciples for His departure and told them not to worry, but to trust in Jesus. We have been focused on this in our RE learning, the children have all been busy acting out Pentecost, showing great knowledge about what happened. We have also been learning about Holy days and what this means. The children loved sharing their own experiences and memories of their own holidays, before hearing about how other countries celebrate the special Holy Day which is Pentecost.

Going deeper in conversation

This week we have discussed the word, ‘Trust’. Can you remember what it means to trust someone? Who do you trust and why? Can you remember a time when someone trusted you?

Magic moments

This week had such fun in our PE lessons! The children love to challenge themselves! We have been developing our throwing skills, in particular our rolling and under arm throws. Enjoy the photographs of our indoor PE lesson this week!

Certificates

A huge well done to Sadie. You are a fantastic learner and concentrate so brilliantly during our lessons. When it comes to your independent tasks you get stuck in with such determination to do your best. Your hard effort really shows in your wonderful writing! You are a real joy!

A huge well done to Henry who has been awarded our Star virtue award for being Attentive and Discerning. You always go out of your way to help others in our class because you love helping people. You really value kindness and it fills me with joy watching your face light up after you have helped someone, or someone helps you in return. You have a heart of gold!

Reminders

Parent drop in: After school on Monday 11th May. We would like to welcome you into the classroom for a brief talk about phonic screening. To share some tips for ways you can support your child on the build up and during the half term holidays. I will also be providing you with some sound cards and different activity sheets to use at home.

PE days - This week only! Outdoor PE Monday. Indoor PE FRIDAY! Please bring shorts. Thank you

Please check Mrs Gregan’s blog - There is important information!

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 5 Weekly Blog 01.05.26- 'Mary shows us that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are most humble'

April has certainly flown by and by some miracle- We are in May! In RE, we have continued our work with learning about the apostles and their apostolic mission, in particularly ‘The Apostles Creed’. We have been analysing dogma by dogma to really understand the meaning of the statements and how that reflects with our Catholic beliefs.

Learning has continued to flow this week, particularly in Maths as we are flying through our fractions unit, with this week us looking at unit fractions of amounts. We have begun to plan our first discussion text write up by creating arguments and finding research about ‘Should all children learn how to swim?’

Children have continued to show their creativity in our gymnastics unit of balance movements with apparatus, by showing some excellent teamwork skills.

Conversation starters

RE- Can you remember what you chose for your badge for the Apostolic Mission, what would your parents choose to do in order to keep this mission?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. This week our star goes to Alana. You are just so discerning Alana, particularly when out on the playground. I always see you playing with different people, in order to make sure everyone is involved. You are always making sure your friends are okay and are helping resolve situations- rather than be at the center of them.

Learner of the Week for being a focused and enthusiastic learner goes to Louisa. Changing Maths/English places, along with base camp places, can make it difficult to focus with new learning partners and potential distractions. You have shown that this does not affect you and your level of focus remains the same throughout these changes. This has given you more confidence with your learning and you are seeing the results.

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- Please go over to this blog to complete the lunch options and also to see for departures and arrivals.

• Swimming Gala Friday 22nd May- details are live on the sports blog of the school website for those children interested in taking part in the Lytham St Annes swimming gala.

Year 5 Homework- Due Friday 8th May

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 finish last weeks task of ‘Converting Mixed Number Fractions and Improper Fractions’ folder on ANTON. There are 6 tasks to complete in the folder.

English- SPAG

The children will go home with around 10 SPAG questions every week to practice with. We will be going through these questions in class together and peer marking so it is vital that everybody has a go at these before Thursday. These have been stuck in their homework books already.

Spellings

These are the next 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. competition

2. conscience

3. conscious

4. controversy

5. convenience

6. correspond

7. criticise

8. curiosity

9. definite

10. desperate

DRAFT Year 4 Weekly Blog Friday 1st May. "Those who trust in God can do all things." St Alphonsus Liguori

Another delightful week in Year 4! This week, Isla, Marla and Patrick led a beautiful worship about Peter putting things right with Jesus, after he had denied Him 3 times. This was also what our first RE lesson of the week was based on. Children used this to inspire them to write prayers asking for faith as strong as St Peter. They recognised Jesus will be beside them ready to forgive and it is comforting to recognise that even the greatest disciple made mistakes.

In other news this week, Miss Edwards helped children understand that History can be biased, depending on who has written it. They looked at an account from the same year about the Vikings - one written by the Anglo-Saxons and one by the Vikings themselves. Of course, they were vastly different. In PE, children polished their dance from last week (see below!)

Maths has seen us dive further into fractions and also cover translation of shapes. Children are loving their English lessons based on our novel - they have been showing their great reading skills and writing character descriptions.

A Joyful thing….

In Forest school, Mrs Tierney has set up a birdbox with a camera - and we have a couple of little blue tits who have made it their home.

Click on the link below for action in the birdbox!

Conversation starters

RE

Why did Jesus ask Peter 3 times if He loved Him?

Science

How does sound travel?

Let’s Celebrate

Our certificate this week is a reflective and determined learner This goes to Henry O. We have loved watching your determination with your TTrockstars each morning when you come in. You are so much more attentive in class and you are striving to imprve your handwriting and punctuation. Keep it up!

Our virtues this half term are being attentive and discerning. We have chosen Bonnie as our star because she is always so attentive to the needs of others. She is discerning in her choices - trying hard to follow Jesus and be kind in all her actions.

PE stars this week:

Heidi for super creative moves and Dexter for adapting your dance so that you could do it without a partner.

Notices

Holy Communion

The final Holy Communion session for children is next week - Tuesday 5th May. This is an imprtant session where they will be learning how to receive the host.

Saturday 9th May Group 1 Saturday 16th May Group 2

Please can children be dropped off at the side door - presbytery at 9:15am. This allows them to get settled and prepared before mass. You can then go and find your allocated pews in church. They will be labelled with your family name.

Holy Communion Form - Seating

I am still waiting on 6 people to fill in the form below so I can allocate seats. This is to a maximum of 12 people - however if there are more, they can be seated at the back of church.

Upcoming trips and events:

Wednesday 20th May Year 4 Streetlife Charity beach Walk.

As a class, we have talked lots about people in our society who are marginalised. Children have decided they want to collect for Streetlife - a charity for the homeless. On this day, we would like children to fill their school bags with items for Streetlife’s foodbank (eg pasta, socks, pot noodles and other light items) with the aim of carrying these to the beach- so they can see what it feels like to carry your belongings on your back! As streetlife’s colour is PURPLE, we would love it if children could wear something purple on this day - so they can wear comfortable clothes with maybe a purple top, purple cap or even a purple hair bobble.

Once on the beach, we have lots of plans to do things that link to homes and homeless - such as building a group sandcastle creation, painting pebbles and making beach collages. I am sure we will have an ice-cream too! There is no cost to this trip - other than £2 on the day for an ice-cream.

Wednesday 17th June Sport’s Day Year 3 and 4 9:15am

Friday 19th June Anglo-Saxon and Viking dress up day.

This takes place in school and children will be doing lots of things to consolidate their understanding of these two important invaders to our shores. It is always such a fun day! They will need to come to school dressed as either an Anglo-Saxon person, a Viking person, or a Viking god/ goddess, elf, giant or creature! We are giving you lots of time to plan a costume - please don’t feel you need to buy one. Here are some examples of made costumes below.

We have 2 very exciting trips in July. Although this is a way off, we thought we would give you lots of preparation time and so have popped them on parent pay early. These are:

Thursday 2nd July UCLAN Electricity in Science trip

This trip consolidates our learning in Science. The cost of the trip is £20 payable on parentpay from today

Thursday 9th July Cuerden Valley Park Rivers Trip

This is linked to our Geography unit about Rivers and is a brilliant trip to discover the features of a River. This is £25 payable on parentpay from today.

Friday 3rd July St Bedes Prayer Day.

We are going to St Bedes for a day of prayer. This is a lovely chance for children to encounter their potential high school for the first time, whilst celebrating Jesus’s love.

Please let me know if there are any issues or questions.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Lyons, Miss Edwards and Mrs Carragher

a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

This week...

Worship

This week we have continued our branch ‘To the Ends of the Earth’. Our key words this week were parish, Holy Spirit and Pentecost.

We began by watching a video all about Pentecost Click here.

The Holy Spirit came to the disciples at Pentecost.  It looked like flames and sounded like the wind. We had a picture of the 12 disciples and 12 flames with numbers on them. We worked hard and put the numbers in the correct order above their heads.

Our child led worship this week focused on the Holy Spirit. We had a picture to look at – the Holy Spirit was represented by a dove. We spoke about how we cannot see the Holy Spirit but we can feel it inside us. We also noticed that we say ‘the Holy Spirit’ when we make the sign of the cross. We watched this video, click here to watch at home.

Our prayer leaders led us beautifully in prayer and we finished by saying the Hail Mary.

Learning landscape

This week we have been busy bees exploring 2D ‘shapes’ We have:

• talked about each shape and what makes them that shape as well as their names; corners, curved sides, straight sides, short sides and long sides

• been on a shape hunt

• sorted shapes and joined them together to make different shapes

• drawn each shape

• visited forest school- we love going to forest school

• met numbers beyond ten…tricky!

• continued designing our Sports Day t-shirts. They are looking fabulous!

• played in the garden; going on bug hunts, using the big outdoor water play, making a cafe in the sand, checking on the tadpoles and the snail hotel

• …and most importantly have had lots of fun in the sun!

Silly Hat and Sock Week!

Don’t forget that Silly Hat and Sock week is coming up, get your hats and socks ready! Let’s make this a fantastic week!

Sports day

EYFS Sports Day is being held on Wednesday 10th June at 9.15 am. Please make sure you child is wearing shorts and a t-shirt, trainers, sun cream and a hat as well as bringing a bottle of water with them. Each child will have their bespoke t-shirt ready to change into when they arrive at nursery.

This event is open to all the children but please can you let us know if your child is unable to attend or you feel they may be unsettled as it is a very busy and loud event.

Finally, I’ve got the BBQ fired up and I am hoping for a relaxing Bank Holiday Weekend! I hope you are too!

Have fun and stay safe.

God Bless

Barbara

Trip to Lancaster Castle- Thursday 14th May

The coach will be leaving from school at 8:45am, so all children need to be in school for 8:30am at the St Patrick’s road gate entrance (next to the school field).

We will be leaving Lancaster at 2pm to drive back to school so we should be back at school for 3:30pm. Any delays due to traffic or breakdown, Mrs Nel will send a text out to notify our ETA.

Children will need to be in full school uniform.

Please complete the lunch options form below. For those who do not complete the form, I will assume that you are having a pack lunch from home. Complete this ASAP so I can give Jacqui enough time to prepare in the kitchen.

Kind regards

Mr Cornwell

Year 6 Home Learning 1.05.26

Maths

Please complete the percetnage problems.

Please then also complete the Anton section for pie charts:

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 speech revision sheet and example SAT’s questions and the spelling rules sheet for singluar and plural nouns.

Optional Extra Revision

Do you know the properties of the 2D shapes? Why not revise them using the following website and then complete the Anton section.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/shape.html

Or you could reinforce our lesson on Ratio before next week …

Year 6 Weekly Blog ‘I am the way, the truth and the life’ John 14:6

May is known as the Month of Mary. In springtime, the Church reflects on Mary as a sign of new life, hope, and God’s love. Catholics honour her as the mother of Jesus and a special model of faith, kindness, and obedience to God. During this month, we will be praying the Rosary and we have our beautiful Mary statue out in our school worship area with flowers around her as a way of showing love and respect. This is important for us, as it helps us remember Mary’s role in God’s plan and encourages us to follow her example of saying “yes” to God in our own lives.

This week’s gospel, John 14:1–12, Jesus reassures his disciples that they should not be afraid because he is going to prepare a place for them in heaven, and he reminds them that he is “the way, the truth, and the life.” He teaches that by knowing and trusting in him, we come to know God the Father, and he promises that his followers will continue his good works. We have discussed how this gives us comfort and hope, reminding us that Jesus is always with us and guiding us, even in difficult times. It encourages us to trust in Jesus, follow his example, and live our lives with faith and love.

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We only have one more (short) week until SAT’s. Over this long weekend children need to continue to revise and work towards their targets. I have set homework to complete over the week for children to have a go at, but there are other areas that are unique to them as individuals that they know they also have to practice. Please have a look at the homework page and have the conversation with them to see how best to support them with their revision. This week we have had a practise SAT’s week, where every day they have took one mock, whether this is independently or in partners. We are so proud how they have tackle this with such a positive attitude and resilience! Feedback will be given next week in preparation.

Revision classes have been great, with such a good turn out and have helped them to work on reasoning and problem solving. There will be no revision clubs next week. The children need to build themselves up for the following week and been able to swtich off a bit, in order to be fresh for the following day!

Delving deeper through talk ….

What do you think certain items around your houehold weighs or measures? Can you convert these measurments, for example weigh in grams and kg?

With only one week left until SAT’s what is the one area you want to practise and master? How can your parent help you?

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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 Tommy for being attentive and discerning to help others.

Leading Learners

Well done to Grace

You are such a calming influence on our class. You get on with your work independently, quietly and calmly. Thank you Grace for being a great role model within the classroom, going above and beyond to help and always doing what is asked of you. You are such a cooperative learner and radiate kindness when working with others both in the classroom and around the school. In class, you are so focused and always ready to learn, you reflect on your work and always strive hard to do your very best, which is why you have made so much

Helpers in the morning

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

Toby Matilda John Paul Rose

‘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.

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Notices

Friday 22nd May- does your child want to trial for the swimming gala? If so please complete the form and read the blog on the discover/ sport section.

SATs week - Monday 11th - Thursday 14th May. Please ensure that your child is in school on time after a really good night sleep and a substantial breakfast.

Thursday 14th May - End of year play read through - ALL WILL BE REVEALED!

Friday 15th May- Year 6 auditions for end of year play.

Thursday 21st May- Formal interviews with Mrs Gregan for positions around school. The children can come into school in formal interview wear. Dress to impress!

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 7th May

Holy Communion

Please complete your books up to p41 and bring them in for Tuesday’s session so we can discuss them.

Maths

Please go on ANTON app and complete the unit about Fractions.

Spelling - all groups

This week, we have learned about words which use ch grapheme in spelling. Please complete the Anton unit on this.

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 30th 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 finish last weeks task of ‘Factors, Multiples and Prime Numbers’ folder on ANTON. There are 8 tasks to complete in the folder.

English- SPAG

The children will go home with around 10 SPAG questions every week to practice with. We will be going through these questions in class together and peer marking so it is vital that everybody has a go at these before Thursday. These have been stuck in their homework books already.

Spellings

These are the next 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. available

2. average

3. awkward

4. bargain

5. bruise

6. category

7. cemetery

8. committee

9. communicate

10. community

Year 5 Weekly Blog 24.04.26- ' As the Father has sent me, I am sending' John 20-21

What a lovely week it has been, with the sun certainly shining- both temperature and spirits have been raised. Our week began with a lovely trip to St Annes library, after an invitation to take part in a non-fiction project. The children were sent to find a non-fiction book of their interest and to find interesting facts for a wall display at the library. Children also got the chance to take out some books to borrow in order to read at home (12th May deadline for those who have done so).

Our focus this week in RE has been about the ‘Apostolic Mission’, we discussed what our key word ‘apostle’ meant and any connections we had surrounding this word. We then shared how we as Catholics can carry out this mission as we created our own badges in order to display this. Learning has continued to flow across the curriculum, with us moving onto multiplying both improper and mixed number fractions, improving our language to make our discussion texts more formal and to learning about new crimes and punishments taking place across history.

Conversation starters

RE- Can you remember what you chose for your badge for the Apostolic Mission, what would your parents choose to do in order to keep this mission?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. This week our star goes to Lettie. You are so discerning by always offering support and help to your members of staff, even across the school. I have noticed improvements in your attentiveness in class which has brought about more confidence in your academic ability.

Learner of the Week for being a focused and determined learner goes to Myles. Managing distractions is such a difficult thing to overcome, especially when we turn towards the end of the year. You do this so well Myles, even when you are close by to your friends, and this allows you to stay on task and hit those learning targets throughout the lesson. I have seen a big shift in your determination to complete your independent tasks which bodes excellently with your level of focus.

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 24.4.26 - "To follow Jesus means to share His merciful love." Pope Francis

This Sunday is Good Shepherd Sunday and in the Gospel reading we listen to the parable Jesus told His disciples about the good shepherd. Jesus is the Good Shepherd and we have been thinking carefully about how we can be good followers of Him. In RE we have been learning all about the word ‘Ascension’ and we now know that this means to go up, and that is exactly what Jesus did, He went you to be with His father in Heaven, leaving the apostles to continue the work of Jesus. “Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world,” The children have thought of many wonderful ways that we can be Jesus’ body and help to care for everyone.

Going deeper in conversation

This week we have been thinking about the internet and how it can bring everybody together, The children enjoyed sharing the things they like to do using the internet and how these things make them feel. We also spoke about how God wants us to feel happy, both in our real lives and our online lives. Continue this conservation at home: Who can we talk to if something upsets us online?

Magic moments

This week had such fun with Miss Charnley, who taught the children all about following instructions when introducing the new computing unit. The children gave Miss Charnley instructions for how to make her jam sandwich… At first these instructions led Miss Charley to make a rather unusual sandwich. As the children became more specific they were able to help her to create the perfect sandwich. The children then partnered up and gave each other instructions to make their own sandwiches, which they very much enjoyed eating!

Certificates

A huge well done to Tommy, you are always so eager and enthusiastic to do your best in every single lesson! You always want to share your ideas and build on other people’s too. This week you completed some fantastic independent writing and really pushed yourself to include such exciting vocabulary. We are so proud of you!

A huge well done to Harry who has been awarded our Star virtue award for being Attentive and Discerning. Harry you look around and see who or what needs help. You are always so quick to help in the class. Thank you for helping God’s world and being such a caring member of our class.

Reminders

Parent drop in: After school on Monday 11th May. We would like to welcome you into the classroom for a brief talk about phonic screening. To share some tips for ways you can support your child on the build up and during the half term holidays. I will also be providing you with some sound cards and different activity sheets to use at home.

Weather: We have been blessed with great weather this week and long may it continue. However we still advise bringing in a coat in case the weather changes during the school day. we also have a box with sun cream in the classroom. Any sun cream must be labelled and the children are encouraged to apply this themselves.

PE days are on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Have a wonderful weekend! Apologies for the lack of photos this week. Here are some for our forest school take over day (I struggled to upload these previously)

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

This week...

What a week! The sun has been shining and we have been taking full advantage of it! It is so lovely to be able to shed some layers of clothing!

Worship

This week we have continued our branch ‘To the Ends of the Earth’. Our key words this week were parish, Holy Spirit and family.

We spoke about how we can be like Jesus and be a good friend. Who are your friends?  How do they look after you?

We worked together to make a Friendship jar. We discussed the recipe - this recipe shows us what we need to put into a friendship to make it happy and strong. We had 6 word cards with friendship qualities on them – kindness, sharing, listening, saying sorry, helping others and taking turns. We also added special gems, crosses and coloured pom poms. We all had a go and adding an ingredient and mixing it up, discussing how we can be a good friend.

• “What’s the most important thing you’d put in a friendship?”

• “How does it feel when someone is kind or shares with you?”

• “What can you do if a friend forgets one of these ingredients, like taking turns?”

• “Where do Christians meet their friends and pray to God?” The parish church.

Our child led worship on Thursday was about the Ascension. After looking at our image, the children knew it showed Jesus ‘going up’ or ‘rising to heaven’. In the words of the Gospel we heard that the people worshipped Jesus and felt great joy. In the video we heard that Jesus ‘will always be with us’. We are like Jesus each and every day. Click here to watch at home.

Learning Landscape

In keeping with the glorious weather that God has sent us this week we have:

• been planting sunflowers/meadow seeds to make our garden a rainbow of colours in the summer!

• readying the garden by pulling up weeds and watering the plants

• looking for minibeasts, especially snails for our snail hotel

• keeping a close eye on the tadpoles…they are getting so big but no sign of back legs yet

• visiting Forest School to finish making our flower light catchers

• playing with the parachute on the school field

• using the BIG outside waterplay! We have have made waterfalls with umbrellas, found out how to make the water wheel work without touching it, used the hose pipes and cascade planks to create a water system.

• made road signs for our roads and roundabouts…we even made a petrol pump (don’t get excited it’s doesn’t dispense fuel!)

In our indoor learning landscape we have:

• been following postitional language instructions. Positional language (prepositions) refers to the place where something or someone is, often in relation to other things, such as over, under, beside, or beneath. Teaching the children to use positional words will build their ability to follow and give directions and use language accurately. We played some great games!

• learnt some new sounds x, z, qu, nk and ng…amazing!

• been using number to solve problems

• experimenting with shape

• using cards to tell our own stories. The children are getting really good at this

• been making stretchy goo

• creating symmetrical ladybirds from playdough, buttons and straws

As you can see we have been even busier than usual. Enjoy the sunshine this weekend and we will see you on Monday for another busy week!

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara