This week...

Wow what a scorcher!! Summer has arrived with gusto! We have managed to find shade on the top garden underneath the trees, so that is where we have spent our outside time, albeit for a shorter length of time than usual.

The children have loved being sprayed with water at regular intervals and splashing around in the water play…it really didn’t matter how wet we got!

Worship

This week we have continued our final branch, ‘Dialogue and encounter’. Our key words this week were PICTURE, DIFFERENT and WORLD.

Jesus came for everyone, all around the world. We looked at a picture of our wonderful world and some images of Jesus from different places. Some children told us about their pictures:

“Hello, my name is Gabriel. I live in Nigeria. This painting of Mary and Jesus shows them with dark skin like mine and wearing special African clothes. Our pictures often have lots of bright colours and patterns”.

“Hi! I’m Maya from India. In my country, we sometimes show Jesus with brown skin and wearing clothes like a sari or a kurta. Our pictures are often full of flowers and pretty patterns to remind us how special and kind Jesus is”.

We had some discussion cards to help us think about how we are all different and special. We put them in the middle and turned them over to see what they said:

Describe what you look like.

What is your favourite colour?  Why do you like it so much?

If you could have any pet, what would you choose?

What makes you a good friend?

What job would you like to do?

Where do you live?

Next week we will hear from two children from Mexico and Australia.

We ended by singing this song to the tune of ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ – why not sing it at home:

Jesus came for me and you,
And for all the people too.
In the cities, by the trees,
Over mountains, over seas.
Jesus loves us, everyone,
We are part of God's big plan!

Our child led worship on Thursday focused on St Paul. We watched this video: click here We noticed that Paul used to have a different name. He wasn’t very nice to Jesus’ friends but then after a special event he changed his name to Paul and dedicated his life to Jesus.

 

Learning Landscape

Owing to the extreme heat this week we have been finding shade everywhere we could or remaining inside. Needless to say our learning has been altered to meet the weather conditions!

We have:

kept ourselves hydrated

sprayed eachother with water bottles and pipettes

made ten frames in the shade and cool of forest school

joined in the Gym Jam Jog and then came into nursery for breakfast!

ate ice pops and drank litres of ice cold water

ate strawberries!!!

completed number stories using Numicon

been on a gingerbread man hunt

remained calm and cool!!!

End of year Celebration Party

Calling all Superheroes! We will be having our end of year party on Wednesday 15th July 9.30 am -11.00 am. All the children are welcome to join us. Come dressed as a super hero. Please bear in mind the whether when choosing and outfit. Keep a lookout for your invitation in your childs book bag.

Have a fabulous weekend fingers crossed the weather remains sunny for a splashing time in the garden. I will keep an eye our for everyone at Lytham Club Day on Saturday.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 30th June


Spellings

This week we are focusing on irregular plurals


1. mice
2. children
3. people
4. pence
5. species
6. geese
7. fruit
8. teeth
9. women
10. feet

Maths - Remember to practise your times tables on TT Rockstars. You should be aiming for 4 times a week now.

Complete the 4 and 8 times table task in your homework books.

Reading

You are doing amazingly Year 3 - some children have already reached their reading target. Try to read each night for 15 mins.

Year 6 Weekly Blog 'Faith is trusting in God even when you don't understand his plan'

Another fantastic week was had in Year 6! The children are working so hard both in the hall, in the classroom and around the school. We couldn’t be prouder of their independence and maturity. The play is coming together, children have come much more prepared for each scene, as they have clearly been practicing their words and songs! We can’t wait for you to see it.

Our Sports Day was such a lovely day and a real celebration of effort, enjoyment, and teamwork. It was great to see every child getting stuck in, trying their best, and encouraging each other along the way. There were lots of smiles, cheers, and proud moments as the children worked together in their house teams and supported one another. It really showed that taking part, working as a team, and having a go are what matter most. It was also extra special that it took place on the same day as England’s first World Cup match—just like the players, our children showed fantastic teamwork, determination, and skill throughout the day!

Delving deeper through talk …

Is there anything that you are worried or fear in the future? What or who do you need to have faith in to help give you strength or overcome this fear?

Well done to ***

Matilda, what a ray of sunshine you are! You are working so hard and showing just how you have grown as a learner during this half term. You are using all the skills you have learnt throughout the year and applying it to your work, showing just what an independent learner you have become!

Curious and Active Stars

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children who are active by taking part wholeheartedly, helping others, and using their talents to make a positive difference, just as Jesus showed love through his actions. We will also be looking for the children who are curious by asking questions, exploring new ideas, and seeking to understand the world around them, following Jesus who taught through wonder, stories, and discovery. These children live out these virtues with Jesus at the centre, letting his example inspire both their curiosity and their actions each day. This week we thank William for always being active and curious.

Important Notices:

  • Gym Jam Jog- Wednesday 24th June

  • St Bede’s induction day is on Thursday 2nd July- details of this will be given nearer the time.

  • Our School Play is on at 6pm on Monday 13th July and Tuesday 14th July at 9:30am and 6pm.

  • Family Mass- At Our Lady Star of the Sea Sunday 5th July at 9:30am.

  • Leavers Mass at Our Lady Star of the Sea Wednersday 15th July- 9:30am

  • Thursday 16th July- Leavers Day Out

  • Friday 17th July- break up at 2pm




Year 5 Weekly Blog 19.06.26- ' Let's celebrate the spirit of sportsmanship and the joy of playing together'

What an exhilerating week it has been! I think it is fair to say that we have all earned a well deserved break over the weekend. Our week started with the children using their delicate hand skills in DT for sewing. The following day consisted of our preparations for the end of year play, in which we have began to rehearse our second song that Year 5 are partaking in the play. Wednesday was our most anticipated day, as we all prayed for the weather to hold, for the Year 5/6 sports day! The sun was shining and the children were certainly running, along with jumping, passing, balancing and throwing. Congratulations to Harcourt for winning the upper KS2 sports day, giving their house a lead in the overall scores for the school cup. I simply could not have asked the children to run anymore when it came to our PE lesson the following day, which gave us a perfect opportunity to test our new golf equipment out- in preparations for the girls golf competition coming up. Unfortunately, unlike sports day, the weather did not hold up and our play around the golf course was halted by the heavy rain.

Conversation starters

Geography- We have been completing fact file quizzes on ANTON for the countries playing in this years World Cup. Can you remember an interesting fact about one of your countries? Something that you didn’t know before?

Let’s Celebrate

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtues for this half term are curious and active. The star this week goes to Albert. Summer is certainly a time for sports and you have been super active this week. You had to run lots of double laps for your house on sports day and you did this with such a great attitude (even though you were very tired!). You also showed off your skills in our golf lessons during PE this week too!

Learner of the Week: Our certificate winner this week goes to Mia-Grace for being a focused and determined learner. I could not have faulted your work ethic and determination across this whole year Mia-Grace. Even when it is a subject you don’t necessary love (like maths) you still give it 100% and you are always trying to improve yourself through your learning- this has been amazing to see.


Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog for your child’ s 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.

  • Year 5/6 Rounders Tournament Monday 22nd June- A small group of children have been selected to take part in this. Please check the sports page for more information.

  • Gym Jam Jog- This has been rescheduled for Wedneaday 24th June starting at 8 am. Don’t forget to bring in your sponsor forms in on this day!

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

  • Girls Golf Competition Tuesday 30th June- A group of 3 girls from Year 5 will be chosen to take part in this competition. Futher details are to be released on the sports page.

  • 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 19.6.26: "When we feel good we do good!" - My Happy Mind

In this weeks Gospel we have listened to Jesus give COURAGE to his disciples to continue the church’s mission to spread for Good News and to heal people. We have thought carefully about the times we need courage and how we can ask Jesus for his help in these moments. In RE we have been learning about items our Parish church and all of the very special things inside each Catholic church. I wonder if you can remember what a crucifix, lectern or tabernacle are?

Going deeper in conversation

This week we in My Happy mind we have been engaging with our brains and how we can make ourselves feel good. We have discussed what we can do that makes us feel happy and how we can make sure our body feel’s happy by taking care of it. We then learned the phrase, “We when feel good we do good”, and we all agreed that we want to do good! We discovered that setting ourselves goals can make us feel happy.

Can you share your goal with your family at home?

Magic moments

In Thursday something very exciting happened, we have a class pet! After lots of predicting what it could be, we were shocked to find out that it was actually a TRAIN! We have been super busy learning all about different types of trains and how fast they can go. After some time researching we discovered that a mini steam train is the slowest train and the high speed train was the fastest going as quick as 217mph!

We have also been busy pracitising for the different events in this years sports day….

Certificates

A huge well done to Noah who has been awarded our Star award this week. Noah you have been shown great curiosity during our class discussions, asking great questions and thinking of ways we can help God’s world!

Our learning certificate this week goes to Hugo for being a determined and brave learner. You are trying your best in your learning and we are all so proud of you! You are managing your distractions and are blowing us away with your reading and writing skills! Well done Hugo, 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!

Finally, we have been getting in the spirit of the World Cup and have finished making every flag for each country that is taking part. The children worked with a partner, sharing their ideas and skills to create a flag between them. They all used their cooperative skills wonderfully!

We hope you have a fantastic weekend!

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

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 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 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.

Transport for Rounders