Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
Keep up the excellent work, your smiley faces are brightening up our days. It is lovely to see you are embracing the challenges, and making the best of being at home for your learning. I’m sure you are enjoying seeing what your friends have been up to and how well they are getting on with their work.
Really sorry there have been no photos of today’s learning from home posted on our class blog and also that we have not replied to any of your emails, the Lancashire website has been down today and we have not been able to access our emails to get your photos. Hopefully it will be up and running again soon and we will be able to post all of the photos that have not been posted today.
We hope that you have had a lovely day of learning and we look forward to seeing all of your photos as soon as we can.
Keep smiling and doing all of those helpful jobs around the home.
Take care and stay safe.
Hi everyone. We are back!!!
Here are the photos from today’s learning at home. I have to say you are all becoming so creative and talented in the kitchen. I just wish you all did take away service. I love the look of all those ice lollies. (What happened to the sunshine?????)
Thank you to all of you who are sending us photos of your learning from home. We love to see them and hope that you are all having fun.
We’re loving the pictures of your French ice lollies. They look sooooo delicious.
We’re also loving the photos of the meals that you are helping to prepare. Well done for helping around the house - make sure that you help to tidy the kitchen afterwards.
Keep sending us your photos please.
We hope that you all had a lovely weekend, with some rest and relaxation. Here are the pictures that we’ve been sent today.
We hope that you have another lovely day of learning from home today. Remember if you haven’t been in touch yet please do we would love to hear from you and see what you have been up to.
Take a look at what everyone has been up to today. Take care and have fun!
Hello everyone. Another lovely day. Maybe you can take your learning outside in the garden again today. Enjoy the sunshine while you can!! Remember to keep helping each other and keeping everyone happy and smiling. Remember generous and grateful.
Here are some of your lovely photos showing what you are doing. Look at all the things that you can measure! Great work on the Iron Man too.
I am absolutely loving seeing what you have all been up to at home, there is some brilliant learning going on. Well done to you and your grown ups, keep them coming to get a starring role on today’s photo wall.
A big Happy Birthday to Steph from all of us in Year 3. Hope that you are having a lovely day.
Thank you for sending pictures of you learning from home. Here are the ones that have been sent today.
Have fun. Keep learning and keep sending us those pictures.
Here are some photos of your learning at home.
These Iron Man models are wonderful. What does yours look like?
Keep sending your photos and we will try and put them up on our blog for everyone to see.
Good Morning Year 3..
Welcome to an exciting new way of learning!
It will seem very strange to be learning at home. Don’t forget to explain to your parents what you are learning.
Is very important to stay focused and be excellent learners - just like you are at school! Try to be like all the learning characters and you will become such an independent learner..
It would help you if you get into a routine and decide what times of day you are carrying out your home learning and weekly challenges.
How home learning will work.
DAILY LEARNING: Every day at 8.00am , we will post your new daily learning which will involve key skills for Maths, English and other subjects. Much of it will be based on the lessons we were going to do in class. This will be in the home learning section of the Year 3 website. So, bright and early each morning - check this and get going!
Children who do the Nessy program at home - please keep this up every day. Remember to do at least 15 minutes every day, more if you can. (Can you be this week’s Nessy Star?)
We will also put some ideas for weekly challenges on this blog here. Try and have a go at some of these
If you were in school on Friday and made a rainbow, please make sure that you put your rainbow in a window somewhere where it can be seen. Many people around the country are putting a rainbow in their window to spread hope to everyone - children can spot them if they are out walking. If you weren’t in school on Friday you might want to draw a rainbow and pop it in a window. To be a little different, you could even make one out of lego and place it in your window at home for all to see.
Think about your Lenten Promise and try to make sure that you keep up with this. Remember to keep doing your jobs at home, helping around the house and doing what you can to make things a little easier for everyone. Remember to keep being generous and grateful.
Try to do some sort of daily exercise. This might be a walk, a jog, an obstacle course around the garden, some yoga or even a dance (put on some music and enjoy dancing). Try to do something different every day. You could even warm up with the warm ups that we have been doing outside - 1 - Spotty dog. 2 - Down dog running. 3 - Press ups. 4 - Star jumps.
Read every day. 30 minutes (or more) a day would be a good challenge. Why not look for new or great vocabulary and find out what it means or create your own ‘magpie book’ to share with us all when we get back. You could even share it on the Purple Mash blog that has been set up.
Why not help in the kitchen and learn how to make something to eat. This week we challenge you to make some sandwiches for everyone to share. Think about what you will put in them to make them tasty and healthy. Remember to wash your hands and to be very careful if you are using a sharp knife. Enjoy! (You could always send an email with a photo and we can share some of these on our page.)
Lots of love and prayers to all of you. Take care and keep safe.
The Year 3 Team xx
Please can we say thank you for your kindness and understanding this week. The children have all tried to work hard and continue with our daily routines and learning, even though many of our classmates have not been able to come to school. Yesterday morning we had a good discussion about how to keep ourselves and each other happy and well. Obviously we are all having to take each day as it comes, but we have made a plan of things that we can do to keep ourselves busy learning over the coming weeks.
The whole class are sending their love and prayers to those families who are already in self isolation and the class has not been the same without you all. We hope that you are all well and know that we have all been thinking of you.
Following Government guidelines, from Friday afternoon, the school will be closed for the majority of children. Miss Hornby will have been in touch with families in special circumstances whose children will come into school on Monday.
For those learning from home, we will be posting daily learning challenges here on our blog. These will be linked with the Year 3 learning objectives and will continue to develop the children’s knowledge and skills whilst at home over the coming weeks. We will also be posting a list of great websites to use which should also keep that learning ticking over. The children have come home with 3 books - one to be used for maths work and jottings (red cover with squares), one for writing based tasks (this could include English, RE, Science, History, Geography etc - green cover with lines) and one for art work (green with coloured blank pages). Please do use these, as we will be looking at them together as a class when we return to school to see what has been achieved. Please remember best handwriting and presentation, as we will be looking for pen points when we get back to school. Also think about how you could achieve learning character points too.
Please, please, please do stay in touch with us. We can’t wait to see what the children will be getting up to at home and really want to celebrate achievements with you all. Contact can be made through our emails:
l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk and k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk but please do be mindful that we may still be in school or may be working from home and so might not be able to respond straight away. Parents, please do also contact us with any questions or queries - we are here to help!
Well done Jacob M, you have been a real ‘Co-operative Roger Robin’ with many “Bobby Bee” traits this week. You have shown focus and enthusiasm in every lesson and have worked well with your partner and as part of a team. We really hope this continues when we return back to school. Well done Jacob!
John Joseph, what a focused ‘Cooper Crab’ you have been this week. You have answered lots of questions in creative ways and shown what a deep thinker you can be. You have listened carefully to all of your teachers this week and kept going, even when learning has become tricky and challenging. Well done, we are really proud of you!
Our French Star this week went to the whole class. Wow!! Well done children.
Our PE Stars were James and Julia for outdoor PE. Mason, Isabella, Lena and John Joseph were our Gym Stars. Well done to all of you.
Handwriting Stars this week were Kiefer, Kia, Grace and Isabella. Well done—keep practising these skills when you are off school.
As a school, we are wishing each and everyone of you well at this uncertain time.
Stay safe and God bless,
Miss Edmondson, Miss Brisco, Mrs Nel, Mrs Carter and everyone here at Our Lady Star of the Sea
Another lovely week, with lots of exciting learning
This week we have continued to read our novel, The Iron Man, and we are still loving it! We always seem to stop at a cliff hanger and we just want to hear more. The children continue to show lots of enthusiasm. Our addition and subtraction skills are coming on a treat with the children being able to exchange to help them when adding and subtracting across the columns. The children have continued to solve word problems and explain their working out. This week in science the children have looked at forces. In PE we had a beautiful yoga session this week with all of the children totally engaged in the moment. Well done children we are all so proud of you.
We have continued to think about our Lenten Promises and the virtues of Generosity and Gratitude and we continue to try to apply this throughout the day in class. The children have also continued to try to do those little jobs at home and to bring in the money that they have earned for doing them. So far we have raised over £70. We are so grateful for all of your support with this. Thank you.
This week I am so pleased to be able to award our certificates to Jacob O and Abi. Abi was awarded a concentrating Cooper Crab certificate this week. You have been so focused and ready to get on will all of your work this week and you always try your best. Well done. Jacob was also awarded a concentrating Cooper Crab because he too has been very focused and hard working this week. You are always enthusiastic and manage your distractions well. Well done to you too. Keep up the good work both of you.
This week’s French Star was Amber. Well done. Keep up the good work.
PE Stars were Grace and Christian. You were both very focused.
This week we did 2 outdoor sessions (because of Parents’ Evening) so we had more PE Stars, rather than Gym Stars. So our second set of PE Stars went to Jessica and Julia. Well done girls.
Yoga Stars were Saul and Holly. Well done children we had such a beautiful session and you were both so focused on your own relaxation and inner peace. Well done.
Friday morning Lenten Masses at 8am. Please try to come along and share this special time of prayer with us.
Sacrament of Reconciliation Tuesday 17th March at 6pm. School uniform please. Please make sure that the “Making Things Right” book is completed before Tuesday. Please bring to school on Tuesday so that we can share these in class. Thank you.
This week’s Lenten Challenge is vacuuming the floor for 20p. Don’t forget that you can also do any previous challenges and also any of the other jobs on your jobs list.
Yellow group start their multiskills sessions with Mr Nay next week Thursday morning 8am.
Have a lovely weekend. God Bless. The days are getting longer, let’s hope that the sunshine continues to shine on us.
The Year 3 Team
Another very busy but exciting week with lots of learning!
It was lovely to see everyone at the Welcome Mass last Sunday. The children have really embraced the opportunity to share in the Tuesday afternoon sessions. The catechists have all shared their delight at the children’s enthusiasm and thoughtfulness. Just one more Tuesday session before the children will celebrate their Sacrament of Reconciliation. (March 17th at 6pm)
This week we have continued to read our new novel, The Iron Man, and we are loving it! The children are bubbling with enthusiasm and are demonstrating great curiosity and imagination. In maths we have continued to investigate addition and subtraction (2 digit numbers to and from 3 digit numbers). The children have been solving word problems and explaining their working out. This week in science the children have enjoyed investigating light.
We have continued to think about our virtues of Generosity and Gratitude and we are trying to apply this throughout the day in class. It’s amazing how many little things the children do throughout the day without even realising it. This afternoon in our Class Council we shared all the things in class that have made us feel happy this week and there was so many things . So many things to be grateful for. So many things that we have managed to change since September that other people appreciate. Well done children. Keep being generous. Keep making other people happy. They have also been very generous with their time and the jobs they have done this week and already we have raise lots of money for CAFOD. Thank you for your generosity and support.
Certificates
This week I am pleased to be able to award our certificates to Hollie –Rose and Thomas. Hollie-Rose has been awarded an enthusiastic Bobby Bee certificate this week. You are always so excited about your learning Hollie-Rose and you are also very resilient and always try your best. Well done. Thomas has worked hard with his reading, writing and maths work this week. You have been really focused Thomas and really enthusiastic about your work—great PE too! A well deserved Cooper Crab certificate for you.
This week’s French Star was Kiefer. Well done. Keep up the good work.
PE Stars were Kai, Jayden and Amber. Some lovely co-operative work from Jayden and Amber.
Gym Stars were Jacob O, Lena and Jack. Some lovely co-operative work from Lena and Jack
Reminders
Friday morning Lenten Masses at 8am. Please try to come along and share this special time of prayer with us.
White group have 1 more week of Multiskills next Thursday morning. 8am with Mr Nay.
Preparation for Reconciliation, Tuesday afternoon after school until 4:45pm. Please remember to bring your “Called to Change” books back to the session with you.
Book Fair, continues tonight after school and also Monday straight after school. Don’t forget to use your £1 voucher.
Sacrament of Reconciliation Tuesday 17th March at 6pm.
Have a lovely weekend. God Bless. Let’s hope that the lovely spring sunshine, that we have had recently, continues to shine on us.
The Year 3 Team
Just think how generous we would be if we only used our hands to do acts of kindness and love for others.
What a fabulous week we have had. It has absolutely flown by and I can’t believe we have been back a week already. Mrs Harrison is so proud to hear that they have come back to school so focused and ready to work — and work we have!!!
This half term we are focusing on the virtues of generosity and gratitude. We have been thinking about all of the ways that we can be generous and we have realised that being generous with our time and our love and kindness is really important and something that we can all try hard to improve upon. We have also looked at how we can be grateful for all of the little things that happen every day.
This week we have started our new novel, ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. Already we have asked a multitude of questions about what we are wondering about the text, drawn annotated diagrams, written a brief description about where we think the Iron Man came from and how he arrived, found exciting description in the text and thought about our own vocabulary and description linking to the text, and we have only read chapter 1 so far! It’s so exciting and we are really curious to find out more. In maths we have continued our work on addition and subtraction using 3 digit numbers. We have finished off our Roman topic, investigating roads and also thinking about the reasons why the Roman Empire came to an end. In RE we have thought about what Lent is and how we can try to change during Lent to become more like Jesus, we have linked this to the topic of reconciliation and our preparation to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We have all made our own Lenten Promise which we are going to try hard to keep to throughout Lent. (Can you guess what their Lenten Promise is? Have you noticed any extra jobs being done around the house these last couple of days?)
Today in Class Council we have discussed ways that we could help others during Lent. We have written our Lenten Promises, started to pray for our Prayer Sponsors and thought about how we can raise money to give to others who are less fortunate. This year, as a school, we are raising money for CAFOD. We have thought about all the extra jobs that we could try to do at home and wondered if maybe we could ask for small amounts in payment for these jobs so that we could then give the money to CAFOD. As a family could you please discuss this and agree on a list of jobs and a price list for these jobs. We have thought about jobs like tidying up, making the beds, loading the dishwasher/washing up, vacuuming the carpets, dusting, mopping, sorting out the recycling and taking out the rubbish but we are sure that you could think of lots more as a family. It was also suggested a lovely massage for mum (or dad) and baking biscuits to sell to friends and family, and bringing in that money. We hope that you will enjoy sharing your ideas as a family and working together to help others in need.
This week the extra challenge is to make everyone’s bed for 20p.
Please could money for jobs done each week be brought into school and we will complete a donation chart showing what we have raised as a class. Many thanks in anticipation.
This week the children have all worked hard and we are delighted to give the certificates to… Jayden and Olivia. Well done children.
Olivia received the Kiki Chameleon Certificate for being such a creative learner. You have such lovely ideas Olivia and you choose your vocabulary and description carefully to entertain the reader. Well done!
Jayden received the Cooper Crab Certificate for concentrating so hard this week and for being such a focused learner. Well done Jayden—keep up the good work!
We are also very pleased that Jayden was awarded the French Award for the week. Madame Jefferson was very proud of your super conversation in French and your focus and enthusiasm during the lesson.
Well done also to Abi and Isabella who were our Gym Stars this week. Your creativity and determination really do help you to learn and achieve.
Welcome Mass on Sunday morning (9:30am) for all those who are taking part in the Holy Communion programme.
Friday morning Lenten Masses start next week at 8am. Please try to come along and share this special time of prayer with us.
White group have 2 more weeks of Multiskills on a Thursday morning. 8am with Mr Nay.
Preparation for Reconciliation, Tuesday afternoons after school until 4:45pm. Please remember to bring your “Called to Change” books back to the session with you.
Just to clarify—PE days are back to Tuesdays and Wednesdays and PE kit can be worn all day on these days. Please could we have shorts for our indoor lesson on Wednesday? Thank you
Also just a reminder that full school uniform or school PE kit should be worn each day, so that the children show that they are proud to belong to our lovely school family. Many thanks. (We are getting some deviation from this both in uniform and PE kit which does not look as smart as our uniform worn proudly does.)
Have a lovely weekend. God Bless. See you on Sunday!
The Year 3 Team
Wow what an exciting week in Year 3 we have had this week! We started the week planning and producing the last outcome of our writing process of the ‘snowman’- many thanks to Amber and John Joseph’s parents for delivering the DVD at such short notice, you really did save the day! We have been focusing a lot of our attention on the Romans this week and had a wonderful school trip on Wednesday in Lancaster. The children have learnt and gained so much from this visit.
On Thursday we welcomed Craig McCann to school and we had a great time although the exercises were really hard!! The children loved being in their chosen sports strips and I know they found meeting the athlete extremely inspiring. Thank you for all the money raised through your sponsor forms.
I just want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for all of your support since September, your children have been a pleasure to teach and I have loved every minute of seeing them grow and blossom. I know this will continue as they are in great hands for the rest of the year, although I will miss them all dearly. However I will make sure I keep in touch and have promised to bring the baby in to meet them all.
Can I also thank everyone for their kind words, well wishes and thoughtful gifts for the start of my maternity leave, it is much appreciated.
Take care and have a lovely half term.
AWARDS
Thomas thank you for being such a resilient Sadie Spider on Thursday during our coaching session, your determination and your ‘I CAN’ attitude was lovely to see.
The other reward went to the whole class for making my time in Year 3 so special. They have grown so much in their learning and maturity and I am so proud of what they have all achieved individually.
REMINDERS
Please see homework page for this half terms homework.
Tuesday 25th February is the 1st Reconciliation session for children and parents
First Wednesday back is Ash Wednesday- please join us for Mass- we set off at 9:30am
The children had a wonderful day at Lancaster City Museum learning all about the Romans …
I can’t believe we have only one week left until half term, the weeks seem to fly by, but when we look at Year 3 books, there is so much learning within them! This week the children have immersed themselves in creating their own versions on the Snowman and the Snowdog. They have loved watching this beautiful film and re-creating it with their own description and new vocabulary and wow what writing they have produced. Mrs Nel and I could not believe the sounds of moans when the dinner bell went, as they just wanted to carry on writing (this was definitely the first time ever!). There has been a real buzz in Maths this week, as the children have been adding and subtracting multiples of ten crossing the boundaries in to the hundreds and tackling some tricky puzzles.
Our Romans study in History has got in to full flow, with the children pretending to be Celtic Spies observing and exploring how strong the Roman Army actually is. The children worked in groups as spies and one by one had to go to the pictures around the edge of a Roman Soldier and report back to their fellow spies with their observations so that they could draw an accurate picture. We also learnt all about Boudica, one of the Celtic tribe’s queen, even making a human time graph of the events in her life and how it led to an uprising against the Roman Empire forces.
Paralympic Visitor
On Thursday 13th February, Craig McCann (a Paralympic fencer and cyclist) will be visiting our school to talk to the children about his sporting journey and how a brain tumour that had developed, led him down this path. The children will be sponsored to take part in a fitness class alongside Craig in the morning, and then to continue in a sporting event in the afternoon. On this day, the children can come into school wearing the sports kit from the teams that they represent outside of school or some sportswear of their choice. So many of the children are involved with clubs in our area, it would be great to see just how many there are. Some examples could be football strips, gymnastic or dance outfits, however all the children must be appropriately dressed in order to take part in school’s usual day (they need to be warm enough), particularly playing outside and participating in sport throughout the day. Sponsor forms have already been given out, so please check your children’s bags. The money we w ill raise will contribute towards the improvements on the trim trail outside.
Reminders:
International Online Safety Day is on Tuesday 11th February- we will be talking about identity and how to keep safe online.
‘Meet the Romans’ school trip on Wednesday 12th February- please could all payments be made before 31st January.
Blue group on Thursdays 8am with Mr Nay
Marsden are the winners this half term and get to wear their house colours on Friday 14th February.
The awards this week go to …
Harriet thank you for being so creative in your writing, you have used wonderful description and vocabulary to tell your story and it has been wonderful to see how you have used all of our grammar skills in your independent work!
Kai this week you have impressed us with how you have been ready and willing to approach all of your work this week with great determination and independence- you must keep this up as you have made such progress across the curriculum.
Have a lovely weekend and God bless`
Another week that has flown by as the children have been so immersed in their learning. When I look through their books, I can’t quite believe how much work we are getting through! Mathematics has been very exciting this week, look at crossing over to the tens boundary within a 3 digit number, the children have loved problem solving with this and discussing which strategy is best to use. The children have worked hard on their sentence structure within English lessons, practicing their use of coordinating conjunctions in compound sentences and have now started to create more complex sentences.
We have continued our learning in electricity in Science this week, making circuits, exploring ways to add switches, buzzers and motors. The children have absolutely thrived during these hands on sessions. Our History kick started with a visit from emperor Claudius and they made excellent decisions when they acted as his advisers, asking the question why did the Romans invade?
It was lovely to meet with you all on Wednesday and celebrate the wonderful progress all your children have made, I am sure you are as proud of them as we are.
Reminders:
‘Meet the Romans’ school trip on Wednesday 12th February- please could all payments be made before 31st January.
Blue group on Thursdays 8am with Mr Nay
The awards this week go to …
James thank you for being such a Curious Clara Clown Fish, you have wowed us this week with how deep you have took your learning in Science asking all of the right questions!
Jacob O you are such a Bobby Bee in your enthusiasm and desire to learn which makes you very exciting to teach- you always show positive body language and always have a smile on your face!
Have a lovely weekend and God bless`
Today we looked at one of our new virtues for this half term… curiosity. We explored various quotes about the importance of curiosity and being active in our learning as well as our faith and how it is our curiosity and desire to ask questions that brings us closer to God. We explored and discussed how the disciples were curious to follow Jesus, how we are all curious as we listen to His teachings and of course we are always asking questions about God’s beautiful creation.
The children have been showing great curiosity in their learning all week, and we have been most impressed with their desire to learn and their active participation. We have now finished our class novel ‘The Ice Cat’, the children have loved this book, exploring all of its themes and have responded so deeply. Once we finished we then had the most amazing conversation of how ‘the ice cat’ was actually a representation of the main characters feelings. I can’t wait to see how they put all of this depth in to their writing next week!
In Maths the children our showing great curiosity at looking at the different methods involved when adding numbers that bridge, deciding on the strategies that work best for them! Science yesterday, was a whole morning of the children experimenting and exploring their curiosity through making circuits and electricity- they loved experimenting on which circuits would light the bulb and when it wouldn’t asking the vital question of why not?
Reminders:
A letter went out today about our school trip on Wednesday 12th February- can we please make sure payment is made by 31st January
Parents day on Wednesday- I am most looking forward to celebrating your child’s achievements!
Blue group starts next Thursday 8am with Mr Nay!
The awards this week go to …
Jess thank you for being such a Curious Clara Clown Fish, you have wowed us this week with how deep you have took your learning and that is because you ask all the right questions and actively search to find our more or think deeper- well done Jess, we are very proud of you.
Max you are such a Bobby Bee in your enthusiasm and desire to learn and are now channeling this enthusiasm the right way- well done Max keep it up!
Have a lovely weekend and God bless
Wow another exciting week of learning in the year 3 classroom ,with lots of focused Cooper Crabs! There is such a difference when we look at the children that started in September to now- they seemed to have matured and grown so much, especially in their learning- we are so proud of them all! We have LOVED our class novel this week, the children have been collected vocabulary, predicting what happens next, deducing information from the text and thinking deeply about what the author is showing us. In fact, the year 3 team have been blown away by the children’s depth of thought, which showed in their writing this week, where they all wrote a diary entry as the main character Tom. During this the children used what they found out from the text, but also added personal details to give more of an insight to the characters feelings. In Maths this week we have been looking at adding and subtracting larger numbers and started to bridge over the hundreds, which can be a tricky task, but the children are managing really well! In RE, we are continuing to look at the sacrament of Reconciliation, acting out situations that we may come across and how we can problem solve and resolve through asking forgiveness. In Science the children wowed Mrs Nel with how enthusiastic they were when they created a ‘human’ circuit! We love learning about electricity!
Next week we look forward to finishing our class novel and then using what we have learnt and the vocabulary we have gathered to begin writing our own stories. We will also be starting our Celts to Romans History topic next week, which we know the children will love.
Have a lovely weekend and God bless,
The awards this week go to …
Evie thank you for being such a focused Cooper Crab, concentrating in class,participating in lessons and producing much more work- well done Evie!
Isabella you have been such a creative Kiki Chameleon this week, with your wonderful diary entry, using all of your knowledge of the book, great characterization and using all of our grammar skills- what progress you have made!
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