Year 5 Homework- Due Friday 15th 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 complete the pinned task of ‘Fractions of amounts’ folder on ANTON. There are 5 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. determined

  2. develop

  3. dictionary

  4. disastrous

  5. embarrass

  6. environment

  7. equip

  8. equipped

  9. equipment

  10. especially

This week...

Worship

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

We continued talking about Pentecost, looking at some clues to see what we could retrieve from our learning last week:

I am bright but not the sun, I flicker, dance, and warm everyone. At Pentecost, on heads I came, can you guess my fiery name? Flame

I dance in the trees and make kites fly, you cannot see me, but I rush by. At Pentecost, I blew so strong, bringing the Spirit to everyone! I am… Wind

We then watched Little Liturgies from The Mark 10 Mission, all about Pentecost: Click here.

Our child led worship this week was about ‘Mary Queen of Heaven’. May is traditionally dedicated as the Month of Mary. We had a look at different images from different countries showing Mary and Jesus. They were all different but the children still recognised them as Mary and Jesus.

We watched this video all about The Queenship of Mary: Click here We ended our Worship session in our prayer garden, using our Rosary beads to say the Our Father, Hail Mary and the Glory Be.

We watched this video all about The Queenship of Mary: Click here . We ended our Worship session in our prayer garden, using our Rosary beads to say the Our Father, Hail Mary and the Glory Be.

Learning Landscape

A shorter week but no less learning!! We have:

  • made an ice cream parlour

  • explored 3D shapes- cone, cube, cuboid and sphere!

  • played ‘what’s my number’ with numicon patterns

  • made ‘what’s my number’ with number blocks

  • been exploring with our explorer bags!

  • visited forest school and made wind socks

  • made Mary, Queen of Heaven paper models as well as paper flowers for the school worship area

  • made the biggest rosary ever!!!

  • built and balanced sparkle bricks to make a castle for our fairy tale people

    and so much more…all in four days!!!!

Nursery sundries donation

Could everyone please ensure that your termly £10 sundries donation is paid for via Parent Pay and not with your nursery fees. Thank you for your cooperation.

Upcoming dates for your diary!

Silly hat and sock week week commencing 18th May. Come to nursery everyday wearing silly socks and a silly hat and pay £1 each day. All proceeds to Lymphoedema Support Network. Let’s make our charity event a huge success!

Half Term holidays. School closes Friday 22nd May until Monday 8th June

Sports day Wednesday 10th June 9.15 am. All children to be in nursery no later than 9 am! If it is not your usual session please collect your child immediately afterwards. Please make sure your child is wearing shorts, t-shirt, trainers and has a water bottle and sun hat!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and I will see you all on Monday.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 12th May


Spellings

This week we are focusing on words with mis, re or dis prefixes


1. mistaken
2. dishonest
3. misplaced
4. disapprove
5. reacted
6.redecorate
7. mistreated
8. recycle
9. disappointed
10. reassure

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.

Our Lady HAS Got Talent

What a response we have had! I thought it would be good - but I did not think it would be this good and next time, we will definitely do a KS1 and a KS2 one separately. But for this one - it is one gigantic event.

There are 41 entries - and 60 children wanting to take part on Thursday 21st May at 6pm here in school. Given the amount of children wanting to join in - they are all in, I don’t have the heart to turn anyone away. The show should be finished around 8.30pm with a short interval.

Rules for the event:

  • Each performance can be no longer than 3 minutes. Think about the music and song entries.

  • All music used must be completely appropriate in terms of language.

  • Think carefully about costumes/clothes - anything can be worn -as long as it is appropriate.

Look carefully at the entry list. If there is music that is to be added, please can you let me know so that I can add it to the list. Music will have to be sent to me, or if on Spotify, let me know which song and the time required. The children will be mixed up into a running order; programmes will be available on the night.

Tickets will be on sale next week. Due to the amount of children taking part, it will be 2 tickets per family initially, priced at £3 per ticket - we can then release more depending on space. These will be on Parent Pay.

Let’s see what the first talent show brings!

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

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 …