This week...

A wonderful week! The weather being nice has made everything a little bit brighter!

As we leap towards the end of the year we have been reflecting on everything we have learnt at nursery this year and there is so much to celebrate. The children were amazed at what they can now do that they couldn’t do in September. We are so very proud of each and everyone of the children.

Worship

This week we have continued our final branch, ‘Dialogue and encounter’. Our key words this week were TALK, LOVE and FAMILY.

We were discussing that being a Christian means belonging to a community of faith. Our school is a community and many of us go to Church to continue thus community. We played ‘What’s in the bag?’. We had images in the bag and we had to have a think who might use them in church e.g. a chalice, a hymn book or a bible.

Being a Christian means being a part of God’s family. We spoke about who is in our family and who is important to us. At Mass Catholics come together to show their love for God. Everyone has a special job to help – some people welcome us, some read from the Bible, some sing songs, and the priest leads the prayers. This is like being in school – we all help each other and we all have a job to do!

When we help and pray together, we show that we belong to God’s family – a loving community of faith. Each Thursday we have our child led worship. We all take a turn over the weeks to be a prayer leader, helping our friends with the sign of the cross and praying to God. We also have the important job of lighting the candle to show that Jesus is with us. This week we revisited the story of St. Peter, looking at some images to discuss and hear the words of the Gospel: ‘And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven’ (John 1 1-14).

We finished our worship session discussing what qualities make a good disciple. We all had a turn to share how we will be a disciple in Nursery. Some examples were ‘being kind’, ‘helping nursery ladies’, ‘giving cuddles’, ‘playing with my brother’. We are all working hard to be just like Jesus.

Learning Landscape

A week of jolly good fun.

We have been:

• taking extra time to practice our RWI sounds

• making number bonds to 10

• recognising shapes everywhere

• visited forest school

• practiced for sports day

• on a superhero mission with Super Croccy. The Big Bad Wolf had blown down the straw house and the stick house! The wolf had come to Our Lady Star of the Sea and was hiding somewhere in nursery garden!! We donned our capes, masks and x ray vision glasses and went on the hunt! It took us ages to find him…hiding high up in a tree. We had to get the ladders out reach him!

• hunting for those cheeky gingerbread men who keep escaping from their special tin!

• dancing, singing and playing circle games

• guessing what is in magic box and estimating how many feathers are in the jar

• making England flags to cheer on the England team…well done England!

• examining the froglet that we found in the school pond. We had transferred our tadpole there during the half term holidays.

• having a really fun time!!

As you can see and exciting week at nursery! Have a lovely weekend.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 5 Homework due Thursday 25th June

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.

Grammar

To children have been given the next sheet of our grammar practice that we have been doing in class. These are to be peer marked on every Friday so it is vital that every child attempts this and remembers to bring it back into school.

Maths

With us coming to the end of our curriculum, retrival topics will be sent out each week for homework from some of our bigger units this year such as multiplication, division, fractions and decimals.

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. parliament

2. persuade

3. physical

4. prejudice

5. privilege

6. profession

7. programme

8. pronunciation

9. queue

10. recognise

Year 4 Weekly Blog Friday 19th June "To have courage for whatever comes in life, everything lies in that." St. Teresa of Avila

In Year 4 worship this week, we learned about how it takes courage to stand up for the truth. The gospel reminded us not to be afraid to speak out for what is right and true, following Jesus in all things. In RE, we learned about St Paul’s teachings and writings - how he spoke out for the truth, at great personal risk. Children learned about the key messages in his writings and how they can apply them to their own lives.

This week has been very full on with learning and with using our imaginations in our spectacular Viking experience- which mainly took place in forest school. We are doing lots of revision at this time of year, to remember all we have learned in maths, in English and in spelling. The children have worked really, really hard and we talked about how lovely it feels when you get something and feel confident in it.

Viking day was magical! Thank you so much for the effort with the costumes. Children gathered around the fire to tell each other about their magical objects. They made Elder jewelry and used their knowledge of editing photographic images to create their own powerful picture. They also completed a treasure hunt and wrote a description of their character and magical object.

Next Monday, in their RHE lessons, children will be learning about how bodies change as they get older. They will learn about the different changes which happen to boys and girls. They may want to discuss this when they get home.

Conversation starters

RE

What key messages were in St Paul’s writings?

Grammar

What is a conjunction? What does it do in a sentence?

Let’s Celebrate

This week, our certificate winner is Danny - for being a determined and curious learner. We love how you never give up when something is hard - you try and ask questions until you grasp the concept. You have enjoyed the challenges this week!

Our star virtues this half term are Curious and Active. This week, it goes to Jack for being a kind member of the class who shows he cares. You looked after a friend when he felt unwell, without anyone asking you to. So kind.

Music stars this week: Isla and Luca

Notices

Please fill out the online form below whether or not your child wants a school or home packed lunch for the 3 trips below - Jackie would like to know by Monday what sandwiches to prepare.

Wednesday 24th June Rescheduled Gym Jam Jog. Please bring teddy, money and wear pyjamas!

Thursday 2nd July UCLAN Electricity in Science trip

Thursday 9th July Cuerden Valley Park Rivers Trip

Friday 3rd July St Bedes Prayer Day.

Have a restful weekend!

Mrs Lyons, Miss Edwards and Mrs Carragher

a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 5/6 Girls Golf Competition- Tuesday 30th June

You will remember that we selected the following children to take part in the golf competition that unfortuantly had to be rescheduled. But the good news is that the girls can still access tickets to the upcoming Women’s Open to be held at Royal Lytham. These are for the girls who will still be taking part in the competition in September.

Registrations are limited to 6 per school, and will automatically close after the 6th is received. All the parents/guardians need to do is fill in the form and they will receive 2 tickets to the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s Golf Club on Friday 31st July.

Ticket registration link to share with your SELECTED parents/guardians: https://forms.monday.com/forms/a7e4c61e899ec14e7a77a00e6865f699?r=use1

Deadline for registrations is Sunday 19th July, and tickets will be emailed out sometime on the week commencing Monday 20th July.

One final piece of good news, we have secured a new date for the Lytham & St Anne’s GolfSixes Mini League at the Little Links – Tuesday 22nd September (1-3pm).

The children taking part are Emilia, Bea and Alice, Louisa, Lucia and Scarlett

Parents are welcome to come and watch but views may be restricted due to the surroundings of the golf course.

Children will have lunch in school as normal and will need a water bottle, PE kit, sunhat and suncream.

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 25th June

Maths

Please do your best at the ANTON units ‘Fractions above One’ and ‘Counting with Fractions’ See if you can complete the units.

Spelling - Revision

Here is a list of words that we have covered this year and practised a lot in class. Which ones do you find tricky?

Pick 10 words and use your sticky word strategies to practise them in your homework book. Remember to really focus on the part of that word that is tricky for you. Particularly notice if it has double letters.

Also, use Mrs Lyons’s strategy of saying the word how it is spelt.

strength possible busy natural business therefore possess possession ordinary breadth opposite 

group consider regular difficult caught grammar certain position knowledge experiment suppose medicine particular mention special possession surprise peculiar straight separate

probably imagine experience material disappear pressure famous exercise increase extreme island guard guide recent remember favourite interest breathe different calendar complete important though although build famous continue

Year 5/6 Mixed Rounders Tournament- Monday 22nd June

UPDATE - unfortuantly, the rounders tournament has been cancelled. The other schools have withdrawn due to staff sickness, therefore we have no one to play. I will arrange an inter-school match in the summer term as I am as disappointed as the children are! I love rounders. The children can stay in school as normal on Monday and be collected at normal time. Thank you for your understanding.

A group of Year 5/6 children will be selected (Max 9) to take part in a school cluster Rounders competition- hosted by St Bedes on Monday 22nd June. These are children who have been training for cricket:

Charlotte, Daisy, Matilda, Hugo M, John-Paul, Jacob, Isaac, Fletcher and Albert

This event will take place at St Bedes Catholic High School, FY8 4JL with the competition taking place 2pm-4pm.

Parents are able to spectate at the event and parking will be on the All Weather Pitch at St Bedes - via Mythop Road.

Mrs Gregan will be able to take 4 children if needed. Please can you complete the form to indicate how your child could get to the event and whether you could transport. Full school PE kit will be needed.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 12.06.26- 'A covenant made with God should not be regarded as restrictive but as protective'

What a fantastic first week back it has been to start our final half term together in Year 5! We may be in June but the British weather still continues to ellude us with a variety of different forecasts throughout the week. Year 5 started the week off in the kitchen as they turned into cooks to make their team spaghetti bolognese. It was straight from the kitchen to the stage as Mrs Gregan began working on our roles in the Year 6 end of year play- with lots of singing dancing and acting.

In RE, we have been retrieving on previous knowledge learned across the year such as books of the bible and God’s first covenant. The children teamed up to collect and share knowledge on what they know about the Bible and to complete the ‘Bible Bookshelf Challenge’- a race to find all 73 books of the bible. The children then created their own story booklets on God’s first covenant with Abraham- by using scripture to help construct their story.

Conversation starters

Geography- Our lesson on the flags of the world was timed perfectly with the start of the FIFA World Cup. How many countries do you recognise who are playing in the World Cup? Could you identify what their flag is? (There are 48 teams in total!)

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are curious and active. The star this week goes to George C. You have been so active this week across our whole curriculum and you have worked really well with all of your learning partners this week. You are so curious when it comes to your creative writing- particulary your description.

Learner of the Week: Our certificate winner this week goes to Joseph for being a focused and determined learner. We have seen a massive shift in your work ethic this week Joseph. You have started your final half term off in an amazing way! You have been so resilent in your independent work this week and have put in so much hard work into bettering yourself- this has been amazing to see.

Notices

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

• Year 6 Residential- Children have gone home with letters regarding next years school residential trips, including deadlines for costs to be submitted. If your child has lost their letter, please ask the office for a copy. The payments are live on parent pay.

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

• Girls Cricket Competition Thursday 25th June. The children playing in this competition has been informed. Details are on the sports page of the website.

• 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.

Year 1 Weekly Blog 12.6.26 - "Where Christ is, there is the kingdom of God." St Ambrose

In this week’s Gospel we listen as Jesus gives power to the 12 apostles to go and heal the sick and to share with everyone the God’s kingdom. We have thought carefully about how we can choose to do this each day too by saying either kind or unkind words, helping or not helping. In Year 1 all the children shared their desires to be kind, love each other and help God’s world because he loves us all.

In RE we have been learning about Christian symbols and have focused on making the sign of the cross. We now understand that when we make the sign of the cross we are saying a prayer that reminds us of our faith: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The children all completed some lovely work to share with us how important it is to make the sign of the cross.

Going deeper in conversation

This week we had lots of fun by creating a flag belonging to one of the countries taking part in this years World Cup. If you can remember which countries flag you made we would like you to try and find out an interesting fact about that country. If you can’t remember, choose any of the countries and see what you can find out!

Magic moments

As you know the children have all completed their Phonics screening check this week and we could not be more proud of the children. They were all fantastic and used all of the skills that they have worked so hard on this year. It is such a joy to see the children’s love of reading, and this is what is truly important! We have given our reading area a little spruce up and we have really loved sharing books together each day, again the children just LOVE books! A huge well done to all of the children, you are all becoming such confident and happy readers. We are all so proud of you!

We also had such fun at this half terms ENRICHMENT. The children used their creativity with Mrs Naylor and created lovely artwork using lots of buttons!

A huge well done to Maggie who has been awarded our Star award this week. Maggie you are such a gentle kind and understanding little girl! You have been so ACTIVE in your learning throughout the year and your progress is absolutely amazing. A huge well done!

Our learning certificate has been awarded to Daisy for being such a brave, have a go, learner! It is such a joy to see your confidence grow and you tackle your learning challenges knowing and believing that you can do it, and do it well! We are so proud of you!

Reminders

Sports day: The new date for our Sports day this year is Monday 6th July at 1.30pm. We hope you are able to join us!

Have a great weekend!

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

This week...

Welcome back everyone! I hope you are all well rested in readiness for what is going to be an extremely busy last half term!!

Worship

This week we have started our final branch, ‘Dialogue and encounter’. Our key words this week were FRIEND, CHURCH and JESUS.

Our first session was all about St Peter and St Paul. We watched two videos to help us to understand what they did and why they are special: Click here and here to watch at home

We realised that this was a bit like a super power! This week we have started our superhero topic and we have been talking about the qualities that make us ‘super’ – running, being kind, gymnastics, giving hugs. In our Worship session we heard that Jesus chooses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. St Peter and St Paul followed Jesus with courage and faith and Christians believe that we too are called to be Jesus’ friends.

We continued this with a quiz to see if we could remember all about the two saints. We were so good at this! We can all follow Jesus just like them.

Our child led worship on Thursday was focused on ‘the Sacred heart’. We began with a picture of Jesus and the children noticed lots of different things; the marks on his hands, the glow around him, the heart.

We discussed the heart, the flame and being kind:

· The Heart: Represents how much Jesus loves us, just as our own hearts help us to love our families and friends.

· The Flame: Symbolizes a warm, bright fire that keeps us safe in the dark and shows how Jesus' love is always burning for us.

· Kindness & Caring: exploring feelings. Children learn that Jesus wants us to share this love by being kind, helping others, and forgiving our friends.

We watched this video: Click here. It told us how Jesus always loves us, even if we make the wrong choice. He will always love us. We then made some hearts to represent Jesus’ love, and the love we have for everyone in our life.

Learning landscape

Super heroes assemble!! Our learning thread for this half term. We have kick started the topic by discussing which superpowers we all have. We watched the Amazing Super Heroes song for ideas! Click here to watch at home.

We have:

• painted super hero pictures for our display

• made super disciples bandanas!

• practised writing m, a, s, t, d

• used 5 frames and 10 framed to make composition of numbers 3-5

• been to forest school

• practised for Sports Day ( even though it was cancelled)

• joined in Year 4 enrichment afternoon. We did lots of party dancing!

• been on a gingerbread man hunt. They live in their special gingerbread tin but they keep escaping and hiding in the garden and nursery!

Nursery Silly sock and hat charity fundraising!

A massive ‘thank you’ for your generosity and kindness in this years charity event. We have raised £90.60!!! Which has been sent off to the Lymphoedema Support Network charity.

Sports day

As you are aware we had to cancel sports day on Wednesday but it has been rescheduled for Monday 6th July 9.15am. The same arrangements still apply. 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! Fingers crossed for sunshine everyone.

I am hopeful that we may get some sunshine this weekend.

Stay safe and God bless

Barbara

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 18th June

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.

Grammar

To children have been given the next sheet of our grammar practice that we have been doing in class. These are to be peer marked on every Friday so it is vital that every child attempts this and remembers to bring it back into school.

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. lightning

2. marvellous

3. mischievous

4. muscle

5. necessary

6. neighbour

7. nuisance

8. occupy

9. occur

10. opportunity

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 - LANCASHIRE FINALS

A huge congratulations to the girls for earning a place at next week’s Lancashire Finals; they were amazing!"

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

The details are this:

Thursday 9th July 2026 at Farington Cricket Ground, Stanifield Ln, Farington, Lostock Hall, Leyland PR5 5XP

All children must be taken directly to the event and arrive there no later than 9.15am. I am sure you will all support each other with lifts. The first round of matches will start at 10am with the final and presentation at 4pm. Mr Cornwell will be in attendance at the event and will be your port of call.

Parents, friends, and relatives are welcome to come along and support the children but must refrain from coaching the teams. Full school PE kit must be worn. The white t-shirts that the girls were given can be kept for the finals.

Please bring packed lunches for the players, suitable outdoor clothing, water, and sun cream.

This is such an exciting event, I am really hoping to get down in the afternoon to support. Well done girls!