Year 4 Weekly Blog Friday 12th June "The kingdom is hidden within you. It is found within your own soul." (St. Isaac)

A lovely first week back in Year 4. In our worship this week, we thought about the kingdom of God and what it is. We decided that the kingdom of God is led by Jesus and if we listen to His words and follow His ways, we can find God’s kingdom on earth. In RE we learned about the conversion of Saul to Paul - later St. Paul. Children have reflected upon St Paul’s importance as he spread the news about Jesus far and wide, facing many adversities on the way. They have looked at famous artwork depicting this event too.

This week, children have started a new topic - rivers in Geography. They gave such intelligent answers when reflecting on the progress of a river with Miss Edwards. They have done their multiplication check this week too - they have worked so hard all year to be secure in their times tables knowledge - this will really put them in an excellent position for year 5 maths.

In English, children have delved deep into the Viking cosmos and have found out about the nine realms. THey have created these in groups and their English topic reeolves around it.

We have got into the World Cup spirit in class. Every child has a team and has coloured a flag! They have got an extra team one between two as well! Exciting!

Conversation starters

RE

What happened to Saul on the road to Damascus?

Geography

How does a river start? Then what happens to it? What is a waterfall? What is a meander?

Let’s Celebrate

This week, our certificate winner is Scarlet - for being an enthusiastic and focused learner. Scarlet, you listen so carefully and try so hard. You are lovely to work with because you strive to do well.

Our star virtues this half term are Curious and Active. This week, it goes to Michael who always shows such curiosity in learning and seeks patterns. He is a helpful member of the class.

Music stars this week: Jude Cu and Elsie. Well done!

Notices

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! Here are some examples of made costumes below.

Thursday 2nd July UCLAN Electricity in Science trip

Thursday 9th July Cuerden Valley Park Rivers Trip

Friday 3rd July St Bedes Prayer Day.

The Gym Jam Jog will be re-scheduled for a different date.

Have a beautiful weekend - non-rainy I hope!

Mrs Lyons, Miss Edwards and Mrs Carragher

a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 18th June

Viking Day - Friday 18th June

1. Time to get your Viking or Anglo-Saxon outfit ready! Remember, you can dress up as a typical Anglo-Saxon or Viking. Or you can be a Viking goddess, god, elf, giant or creature.

2. We would like you to invent a magical object that you can bring with you and explain to your class what it can make you do. This could be in the form of anything - a stone, a feather, a blanket, a scarf, a necklace, a ring etc See if you can make up a little story about it- you do not need to write it down.

Girls Dynamo Cricket Tournament- Thursday 25th June

UPDATE - Due to the weather forecast this week, the tournament organisers have made the decision to move the tournament to the morning. It is hoped that we avoid the hottest part of the day. We have spoken with AKS and have decided to travel together to avoid any confusion on anyone’s parts; this will be there and back. Please can the team be in school for 8.20am on Thursday to ensure we are together before we are picked up. The girls will also need a packed lunch to take with them, snacks and plenty of water. Parents are more than welcome to still spectate at the event. Mr Cornwell will accoma

The children selected are;

Daisy, Charlotte, Matilda, Alana, Mia-Grace, Emilia, Lena, Phoebe

This will take place on Thursday 25th June at Thornton Cleveleys Cricket Club, FY5 5LA

We are aiming to be finished for 1pm and the children will be taken back to school via the coach.

Children are to come to school in their PE kits.

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 16th June

Spellings

This week we are focusing on contracted words.

1. doesn’t
2. Isn’t
3. aren’t
4. wasn’t
5. weren’t
6. let’s
7. should’ve
8. you’ve
9. haven’t
10. they’ve

Maths - This half term we are focusing on our times tables in preparation for year 4.
Children need to practice on TT Rocks stars at least 4 times a week. There’s a chart for the children to record this in their homework books and a QR code to a times table game.

Reading

Reading targets have been reset…go, go go!
15 minutes daily reading at home please, let's see who can reach their target this half term.

Year 6 Dynamo Cricket Competition- Tuesday 16th June

Despite over 25 children across Year 5 and 6 taking part in the school cricket club, we are only allowed to take a maximum of 10 children to the Lytham St Annes Dynamo Cricket Tournament, with us fielding a team of 8 children at a time.

Children have been chosen based on interest, participation and skill shown througout PE lessons and the cricket club sessions.

The children selected are;

Toby, William, Seth, Gus, Lorenzo, Rory, Gus, Logan, Kieran, Hudson

This will take place on Tuesday 16th June at Lytham Cricket Club, FY8 5QD.

This event will be 1:00pm-5:00pm (subject to finishing earlier based on the number of schools participating). Therefore, children will need to be picked up from school at 12:30pm and taken to the cricket club and also be picked up from the cricket club once the tournament has ended.

Summer 2 Extra-Curricular

Please see the timetable for extra-curricular sessions this Summer 2. There are some wonderful opportunities to get involved - but with limited spaces. Where there is a set number of children, names will be drawn out of a hat if more are interested.

For CN Active’s paid football club, your child must be signed up before the sessions start and payment must be made. There is still some outstanding payment from last half term.

Year 5 Half Term Homework

Reading

2 weeks off school which gives us plenty of time for reading! You will all have one final reading target for the year, so one last chance to get your rocket to the sun! Each child has been given a post it note target for their two week break in order to read as much as they can.

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. harrass

2. hindrance

3. identity

4. immediate

5. immediately

6. individual

7. interfere

8. interrupt

9. language

10. leisure

Year 1 Weekly blog 22.5.26 - "The Holy Spirit transforms us and wants to transform the world." - Pope Francis

This week in church we will be celebrating Pentecost, the moment the disciples received the Holy Spirit. Over the past few RE lesson we have been focusing on the Holy Spirit! Last week they made their own Holy Spirit crafts and this week we have explored artwork before creating our own. We have also started to think about how the Holy Spirit can help us. In our prayer and liturgy’s we have shared the gifts of the Holy Spirit such as; kindness, gentleness, self control, peace, courage… and the children have thought about which gift they want the Holy Spirit to give them. We have also been busy learning the Glory Be prayer, understanding that when we say this prayer we are praising God and telling Him how much we love Him.

Going deeper in conversation

This week in My Happy Mind we have been learning all about ‘active listening’. I wonder if you can show your families how to actively listen to somebody.

Magic moments

This week we enjoyed our Forest school take over day which was just fantastic. The children loved spending the afternoon exploring the outdoors and being together with their friends. We had fantastic tree climbing, hammock swinging, craft making, den building, bird spotting and mud splat bee making fun! We are so lucky to have this special environment in our school! We ended our session with some quiet meditation listening the the sounds around us, some of the children were so relaxed that they didn’t want to get up! However, the chocolate biscuits were the perfect temptation!

Let’s celebrate!

At the end of this half term the children have awarded our learner of the Half term certificate to Lillie for such fantastic learning which has been noticed by all of your friends!

And our Star to Daisy who is gently kind, caring and wants to look after others. You do things just to be kind!

Congratulation both, Miss Hennessey and I most definitely agree!

Reminders

Sports day: It is Year 1 and 2’s sports day on Wednesday 10th June at 1:30pm. We hope you can make it!

Phonics screening check: During our first week back it will be Phonics screening, the children are so well prepared and their confidence is soaring. During the half term, please help to keep their confidence high through a couple of daily videos using the Ruth Miskin QR codes (10 minutes a day is recommended). Keep practising with the sound cards, I know a lot of the children are enjoying playing teachers at home with these! Of course, keep reading together, this really encourages a love of reading which is what we really want for our little ones!

Myself and Miss Hennessy wish you all a wonderful May half term, enjoy those two weeks off, and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday 8th June as we begin our final half term together (I cannot believe I have just written that, this year has flown for all the best reasons!)

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 5 Weekly Blog 22.05.26- ‘Rest isn’t a reward for the work, it’s part of the work’

What an exhusting, warm and yet exciting week it has been to finish our penultimate half term of the year! The first half of the week has been different for the children, with Mr O’Shea taking charge of the classroom whilst I was on residential. He could not have been more complimentary of the children and the level of respect, kindness and attitude that they had shown him- you did me proud! The end of the week has been action packed too with us having our forest school takover day, which the children and staff loved! (some of us enjoyed this a little too much). On Friday, many of our Year 5 members represented our school in the annual swimming gala competition, an event that often carries a lot of pressure and excitement- the children did themselves and the school very proud.

Conversation starters

History- Which part of forest school did you find the most enjoyable? Which part did you find the most calming?

Let’s Celebrate

As if our end of half term tradition, the children have voted for their star and learner of the half term.

Virtue Star of the Half Term: Our virtues for this half term are attentive and discerning. The star goes to Martha.

Learner of the Half Term: Issac

Notices

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

• School reopens on Monday 8th June

• Cooking in DT- Apologies for the delay on the children’s cooking lesson for their spaghetti bolognese. This will take place on our first day back after half term (Monday 8th June).

• Gym Jam Jog Friday 12th June- This will begin at 8am.

• Sports Day Wednesday 17th June starting at 1:30pm

• St Bedes Taster Day Wednesday 1st July- Children will need to come to school in full school uniform (no PE kits) with their own pack lunch.

Mechanisms- Fairgrounds

What an amazingly busy term we have had! We have loved looking at and designing our very own Ferris Wheels. Working to a set Design Criteria, the children have considered location and themes when setting about their design. We are now on to the decor and construction, we have thought about stability and have reinforced both the axel and the a frame so that we have a sturdy mechanism.

We even squeezed in a Art/Music lesson where we combined to two topics to create an imaginative planet or alien whilst listening to our focused sound scape.

After the half term break, we will be completing these and moving on to Cooking and Nutrition, where we will be thinking about healthy diet and designing and making a fabulously tasty wrap!

Have a lovely halfterm break

Good Bless

Mrs Mather

Cooking and Nutrition- Adapting a recipie

What a busy half term we have had!. We kick started it with the continuation of our food tech topic- biscuits. To say the children have had a beeno is an understatement! From creating their very own packaging to completing a spread sheet for budgeting, the children have done it all! But I think you will agree, the imaginative creations that they collaboratively came up with were fantastic! The combinations would have been a sugar lovers dream come true!! I hope you had the chance to try them too.

Have a lovely half term break

Good Bless

Mrs Mather

Craft and Design- Photo Opportunities

How the term has flown! We have had such lovely lessons full of creativity and self reflection. We started off the term by completing our Street Art unit, thinking about a topic that is close to our hearts. Then relaying that in a piece of art. The childrens use of colour and subtle messaging is superb.

We have now moved onto a touch of photography. We have worked to a design criteria to create a photomontage advert for a department store using a landcape design. Then we have experimented with Macro photography, where the children got up close to some fruit and veg, then trying to guess what the image is! They have explored how to add filters into their photography for effect. We will be continuing this unit after the holiday before turning our attention to memory boxes and “Come Dine with Me Forest School Style!”

This week...

Worship

This week we have concluded our branch ‘To the Ends of the Earth’. Our key words this week were celebrate, God’s children and family.

We looked at the early Christian community and the ‘Good news of Jesus’. Fellowship means being good friends and helping each other. We spoke about all the ways we are kind and help each other in Nursery.

As the first Christian community was being formed, many miracles and wonders were being done through the apostles, and everyone was filled with awe.  All the believers continued together in close fellowship and shared their belongings with one another.

They would sell their property and possessions, and distribute the money among all, according to what each one needed.

Day after day they met as a group in the Temple, and they had their meals together in their homes, eating with glad and humble hearts, praising God, and enjoying the good will of all the people.  And every day the Lord added to their group those who were being saved.

We watched this video to help us to understand: Click here.

We continued our Worship by watching this video about what a church looks like. Click here. . After this we went to our chapel in school to see if we could spot anything similar. We discussed going to church with our families and what we saw/did while we were there.

Silly hat and sock week!

A fabulous Silly Hat and Sock week!!! It has been great fun seeing everyone wearing their inventive hats and socks. Thank you everyone for joining in the silliness whilst raising funds for charity.

Learning Landscape

This week in our learning landscape we have:

• started to make Fathers Day surprises! You are in for a treat daddies.

• completed number challenges

• made hundred squares using numicon

• played on the swing that Mrs. Tierney has let us borrow.

• made a HUGE spider web to crawl under, over, and in between.

• started to Fred talk…we have completed the sound fort his year, we just need to practise.

• threaded small beads to practise fine motor skills.

  and best of all…had a jolly good time at nursery.

On the first week back don’t forget it is Sports Day (Wednesday 10th, be in before 9am) and the Gym Jam Jog (Friday 12th 8am- details are on your sponsor form). Please note: the children remain your responsibility until they are signed in to nursery as usual).

Lastly, have a great couple of weeks off and recharge your batteries in readiness for a REALLY busy last half term of the year!

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 4 Weekly Blog Friday 22nd May "My precious, precious child, when you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

Another beautiful ceremony last Saturday for Holy Communion. What a special time it has been and a privilege to get them ready for it. This week again we have seen 3 children leading the class in praying the Rosary - Freddie, Dexter and Henry Slinger. Really reflective and lovely. In RE this week, we have learned about the Communion of Saints and prayed for all those who have died on their journey to heaven.

We have had a really full and fun week! Forest school on Tuesday was such a lovely bonding time for the class - time to play and be in nature. We had a beautiful meditation and we made a treasure hunt rock game for our Laudato Si project to make something for our common home. Wednesday was our Streetlife Charity Walk. Children were so determined and we had a reflection on the beach using ‘Footprints in the Sand’ poem on how Jesus carries us in hard times. All children have made a pocket rock for someone who is homeless to remind them that God is holding them through hard times. Thank you so much for your sponsor money and all your kind donations to the foodbank. We will present it all to Streetlife after the holidays.

On Thursday it was our school talent show - and so many Year 4 children took part. I loved it! What a lot of talented children facing their fears and having fun with their friends!

In other news, children have begun to discuss pubery in RHE and may want to talk to you at home about this. We have not gone into depth but children have talked about their bodies and emotions changing from childhood to adulthood and how it is God’s plan for everyone.

Conversation starters

RHE

What is puberty?

Maths

Which times tables are still a bit tricky?

Let’s Celebrate

This week, the children in class have voted for the certificate and star virtue.

The class picked Heidi for the attentive and discerning star. They said you are always focused, hardworking and sensible. You manage distractions and are a lovely learning partner.

They picked Ruth for the certificate - all learning characters. They said you always listen and try so hard. You are kind to people and you do your best in every lesson. you are consistently attentive.

I couldn’t agree more for both girls. Well done!

Notices

Tuesday 16th June Official times tables test in school

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.

Have a really lovely half term - lets hope it is sunny!

Mrs Lyons, Miss Edwards and Mrs Carragher

a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk