Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
Joint engagement happens when you and your child are paying attention to the same object or event during a back and forth interaction. This might happen as you laugh together while watching monkeys at the zoo, or when you’re having fun pushing cars down a ramp. Whatever it is you’re doing, you’re both aware that you’re sharing an interest in the same thing.
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It's so much fun to pretend with your child! But there's a lot more to pretending than just playing around. Children learn so much when they pretend, including some important communication skills.
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English - work your way through strand B1 - B6 on IXL English. This is due to be completed next week.
Spelling - fasten, apostle, hasten, glisten, moisten, thistle, whistle, mortgage, Christmas, wrestle.
I will then test you on 10 random spellings from the last 4 weeks. Keep looking at them as well.
Geography - this is due in next week. I would like you to collate information on one of the South American countries. Things like: size, population, landmarks, food etc. Record in your homework book. We will be using technology to bring this information to life. Make sure that you have some of this information ready for next week.
Maths - A10, A11 and A12. These are all negative number work. This will be our focus in class.
Art - In art this week, you will be completing observational drawings. This is something that can be done on a computer as well. There is a to do set on Purple Mash - choose and object and bring it to life. Experiment with a range of tools. Remember that this is a piece of art.
SPELLING - We are continuing to look at words with prefixes. This week we will also focus on the prefix ‘in’. Prefixes always go before the root word. How many words can you collect in your homework books with the prefix ‘in’? Can you find any in your books? What do they mean? How does it change the meaning of the word? Can you put some of them in sentences?
We will also be continuing to learn by sight our tricky spellings:
Though Thought Through Although Believe Caught
We are trying lots of different ways to practice these in class- what exciting and fun ways can you think of to practice these words at home? Maybe produce some art work with the words? Write a silly story with the words in? Or even get the grown ups to keep quizzing you? We will have a quick quiz next week to see how well we have learnt them!
DON’T FORGET TO READ, READ AND READ SOME MORE!
Maths Try to complete as many as you can of the skip counting sections on IXL (between A1- A7) to help speed up our mental recall. Please try to complete at least two of these before next Wednesday. I can see some of you have been on IXL already this year to practice skills so well done!
Purple Mash Next week we will be evaluating your ‘lion and the Mouse’ fable retelling- have you finished it to the best of your ability? I will be looking at whether you have retold the story with words as well as pictures to show this, and whether the presentation is clear to follow.
OPTIONAL RE- In RE we are focusing on entering in to the Christian Family through the sacrament of Baptism. We will looking in to this in a lot more detail next week, so next Wednesday if you have any photographs or anything from your baptism that you would like to show to the class, you are more than welcome to bring it in to class on Wednesday for our RE lesson.
Tickets are now on sale for the Dance Festival on Monday 25th November! Follow the link below to book tickets.
Tickets are £9 for adults and £5 for children with all funds raised going to the Winter Gardens Trust.
Why not go and experience a First Encounters Performance of this wonderful Shakespeare Play. A perfect introduction to Shakespeare for all ages. Tickets are £5 and available from the school office of Our Lady of the Assumption, Common Edge Road, Blackpool, FY4 5DF or can be reserved by phoning 01253 762833
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To continue the leadership theme that Year 6 have started, on Friday, they celebrated mass with other Year 6 children from our deanery schools. This was a very special time when all the children were asked to consider the responsibility of being a disciple of Christ. Fr Peter reminded them that just as Christ is the light of the world, they too are called to be lights for others.
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What a lovely week it has been! We began on Monday morning with a reflective worship in our school chapel - all about creating the kingdom of God on earth, through loving one another. We have been so busy typing our improved explanation text all about Seed dispersal in our English lessons and today we planned our new one - The Life Cycle of A Flowering Plant. We dissected lilies to discover all its different male and female parts and we even looked at pollen through a microscope! All very exciting! We need next week to explain how plants are pollinated by bees - why not have a chat about it this weekend and watch a bee in action?
Other highlights this week included doing a Computing lesson all about how to effectively search on the internet where children found lots of different information. We have been getting to grips with 4 digit thousands numbers this week and we are understanding really well so far. We have also given out assembly parts today to practise over the weekend.
This week we have welcomed a new teaching assistant to our class - Miss Atkinson. She has fitted in seamlessly to class life already! Welcome to our school!
Let’s Celebrate
This week two Sadie Spider certificates for resilience were give out - one to Fin and one to Zac. You both try so hard boys and are role models for the class.
Our French stars this week were Lorna-Jane and Harvey.
Swimming stars were Harvey and Penny - super swimming you two!
We did pick Yoga stars too - but Mrs Lyons cannot remember who they were! Perhaps you do children! I know that we picked them for allowing themselves to be calm and still. A good skill to have!
Notices
Our class assembly is on Tuesday 8th October at 9.10 and again at 9.35
There are an incredible amount of PE jackets and even some PE trousers along with cardigans and jumpers in class. Most do not have names so I cannot give them out. I will leave them outside the class on Monday or Tuesday evening to be claimed!
Please could we make sure that all homework is completed and handed in on Thursdays so that it can be marked. Many thanks.
Have a lovely last weekend of September. (Where does time go?)
God bless,
Mrs Lyons, Miss Atkinson, Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Mather
Maths IXL
A.1 A.2 A.3 A.4 A.5 A.6 A.7 A.8 A.24 A.25 A.26 A.27
Maths
We have continued our place value learning this week. Please complete the place value sheet attached.
English
English IXL
A.1 A.2
B.1 B.2 B.3 B.4
C.1 C.2 C.3
You will have notice that a big pack of words has come home with your child this weekend. DO NOT PANIC - these are not to be learned all in one week! These are to be kept at home and each week, I will ask your child to focus on and learn to spell one set. This week, I would like your child to learn how to spell set 1. You can do this in anyway which is best for your child. For example you may stick them around the house, you may write a couple out each night, you may write them out in sand or you may use the say, write, cover, check system. What ever is best for your child is fine. I would also like them to learn the following ‘al’ words:
ball call talk already small also
A mix of the set 1 words and ‘al’ words will be given in a little quiz next week, so please do go over them. Remember, the children have their home learning books to complete any work in.
Purple Mash
If you do get chance, I have set a little ‘to do’ on Purple Mash for the children to complete if they wish.
Thank you, Miss Woodend
My goodness! We have reached yet the end of another busy week here in Year 2 and it has gone so quickly, I don’t think some of the children can quite believe it’s the weekend … AGAIN! Each lesson has been brimmed with new and exciting learning for the children to throw themselves into and I’m still amazed by just how much enthusiasm the children show each day.
Read moreI cannot believe we are coming to the end of our 4th week- time flies when you are having fun! The children are working so hard, showing great enthusiasm and rising to the challenges Year 3 brings! In RE we have been discussing what is meant by our Christian family and what all our parish has to offer, before starting today to look at the Sacrament of Baptism, which is how we join our Christian family.
Read moreWhat a mixed bag of weather we have had this week and there have certainly been plenty of puddles to jump in today!
Read moreDangerous story map
Children will be bringing home a copy of the Dangerous story map. Please encourage them to practise orally retelling the story with actions and enthusiasm.
Reading
As mentioned on the Induction Evening, the children will be bringing home a set of 6 words. Please support the children to learn these words inside out; the children need to be able to read these words on sight (not by Fredding in their head).
Every Monday/Tuesday the children will be tested on these words, if they know them fluently and confidently, they will be given the next set. There are 25 sets in total.
Please encourage the children to read as much as possible over the weekend. On Monday/Tuesday, the children will quiz on their accelerated reader book and will be given a new reading book. Children should be ready to quiz on their reading book on these days.
What a beautiful week of learning we have had in Year 1. Each day the children have grown in confidence and enthusiasm and I have seen so many acts of pure kindness. The support the children give to one another is so heart warming!
Read moreWe have thrown ourselves into the story of St Ignatius this week, preparing for our assembly next Tuesday. I wont share anymore details as we are looking forward to the performance- see you there.
Read moreOur learning has continued at a fast pace and we have already moved onto the third set of sounds. We have also been busy using our sounds during ’Word time’ by blending the sounds together to hear two letter (VC: Vowel constant eg. at, am, it) words. In Art this week the children have created wonderful paintings of autumn leaves! Mrs Curtis was very impressed with their painting skills. Alongside all of this we have been busy focusing on a new learning character called, Roger Robin, who COOPERATES with others, learning from those around him! After hearing all about Roger’s story the children set off creating their own Roger robin. These are going to create a fantastic display!
Certificates
Finley has been awarded a Roger Robin certificate for… Making such a wonderful shoulder partner during our class discussions. Miss Neves and I have watched as you kindly ask questions and listen to your partner. Well done Finley.
John Paul has been awarded a Bobby Bee certificate for… Always being such a happy and positive learner. You show great enthusiasm during your learning and always have a wonderful smile on your face! You are always surrounded by others because of your friendly, smiley nature. Thank you John Paul.
Our Phonic sounds this week are:
Set 3 sounds: d, i, n, and o. Please practise forming these at home by using the sound cards provided. We have also continued to spend time practising ‘Fred Talk’. This is our special way of speaking in sounds, for example, s-a-t, s-ea-t, s-w-ee-t-ie-s. Please practise this skill when talking with your child to support them to hear and identify sounds
Next week: We will continue to learn new sounds and hearing these sounds in words.
Maths
In maths this week we have introduced the number 2 by, “another one”. We had so much fun getting objects and pairing up with a partner to make 2! Following this we used red and orange cubes to REPRESENT our Numberblocks.
Physical skill of the week:
Balancing!
How long can your child balance on one leg?
RE
In RE this week we listened to the story, ‘Guess how much I love you..’ after which, the children drew all of the people who love them and discussed the ways in which we can show our love for each other. We then thought about God, and how He loves each one of us. The children are enjoying learning the song and sign language for, “There is Someone who knows me”. Hopefully soon they will be able to share this with you at home!
We hope that you all have a wonderful weekend together as a family.
Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley
There are so many moments I have in my job where I can sit back and just beam with pride and happiness. This morning was one of those moments. 160 pupils from our catholic cluster of schools all celebrated mass this morning with a common mission of being the light of Christ in the world.
Read moreWeek Four.
I can not believe we have just finished week four, we are over half way through this half term already…
Read moreAssembly parts
Children have come home with these to be learnt for Monday if possible and practised each night until our assembly - Tuesday 8th October. We are going to sing the song below too so please practise this. I have sent home a paper copy of the words too.
Spelling
This week we have been learning the suffix tion.
Please copy these verbs and change them into nouns by adding ion - if it ends in e, drop the e first.
collect inject inspect act germinate locate
create investigate
We also are practising these words which we spell wrong in our writing sometimes:
which appear saw something were again
Purple mash
Have a go at explaining the process of germination in purple mash (2do Germination)
Explain the following in order:
The conditions needed in order to germinte
What happens to the seed first?
Then what happens to the seed case?
Then think root and shoot!
Don’t forget your causal conjunctions (the language of explanation) eg in order to, consequently, this means that, this enables, at this stage, as a result
Carrots!!! Our first sucessfull carrots in 13 years! We have harvested our crops up at the allotment and our little insect friends didn’t eat the carrots!
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