A message from Mrs Lyons!

Thanks for a lovely week!

Even though I couldn’t meet most of you in person, I do feel that we have got to know each other and I cannot wait to teach you in September. We will have a super year!

Thank you for all your hard work this week and I am sure you have reflected well about the type of learner you want to be! I loved all your slideshows and below is a video of some of your work this week - see if you can spot some friends!

I am handing you back to your Year 3 class teacher for the last week of the year next week.

Have a really lovely Summer and make sure you work towards your goal that you set. Keep reading every day! Next Friday, we will put a list of things you can be practising in the Summer.

But for now, goodbye and have a good final week,

Mrs Lyons x P.S Happy birthday to Kiefer and to Jayden on Monday!!!

Welcome to Year 3! Friday 10th July 2020.

Good morning our Super Stars.

What a busy week we have had, it has whizzed by as we have had so much fun! It really has been lovely to start getting to know you all, we hope you have enjoyed the week too.

The work you have been producing has been fantastic, we are really pleased with you. Do you feel proud of yourself?

We hope that by getting to know us a little bit more and having a taster of Year 3 that we have eased any of those niggling worries you sometimes get in your tummy when something new is happening. We had those too, but now we all just feel eager to teach you and be back together at school. We know you will be brilliant.

Thank you to you parents for embracing the new challenges and supporting your children through this week, we really appreciate the time it has taken to email and send photos. It has been a pleasure!

The new Year 3 team

My learning Characters

Now that you have watched the videos of all the stories from our learning characters we would like you to reflect on which character you think you are already most like. Talk about this with a grown up, is it Tommy Turtle because you are eager to give anything a go? Is it Roger Robin because you work well with partners and in a team?

Then reflect on and discuss which learning character you would like to be more like in Year 3, is it Sadie Spider because you sometimes give up if you can’t do something straight away? Is it Kiki Chameleon because you would like to be better at trying different approaches to learning?

On Purple Mash there is a 2do set for you called Learning characters. I would like you to write which learning character you feel you are most like already and why, then which you aim to be more like in year 3 and why. Include an image of each animal to go alongside your writing.

Am I Year 3 ready?

Now that you are almost in the juniors we need to make sure you are ‘Junior ready’. What kind of things do juniors need to be able to do you think? Discuss this with a grown up and decide on at least one thing you would like to work towards until we get back to school in September. Here are some suggestions of things that your junior teachers would like you to be able to do.

· Tie your shoelaces yourself.

· Know your 2, 5 and 10 times tables off by heart and in a random order.

· Tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes e.g. 25 past 6, 10 to 4 etc.

· Know your number bond pairs to 10 and 20 instantly.

· Form your letters in a cursive style.

· Spell your last name and your address.

· Read and spell the Year 1 and 2 common exception words (click the button below to see them).

Once you have decided what you are going to work on make a start on it today and get practising for 45 minutes, either in one go or in small chunks of time.

Positive quote art

Each morning I like to add a positive quote to our morning board to start our day the right way. Today I would like you to have a think of a positive quote that you can make into a colourful piece of art work. We will put a new one up in our classroom each week to inspire us. Maybe your family have a mantra you try to live by, maybe a parent or grandparent says something to help you be a kind brother or sister. You could use that as your quote, or find a new one you agree with and hope our class can follow to make year 3 a happy team to be part of.

Here is mine.

If you are struggling to think of one, or find one I usually type ‘positive quotes for children’ into my search engine and get lots of good ones. Please complete this on a piece of A4 paper and keep it somewhere safe.

Thank you for a lovely week children.

Photos will be made into a little montage video at some point today, if they could be sent before lunch that would really help us out, thank you.

Miss Edmondson, Miss Brisco and Miss Woodrow

Year 1 - Meeting your new teacher - Friday 10th July

Good Morning. Today is your final day of transition activities before Miss Lane takes over once again for your final week of learning as a Year 1.

As promised, here is a little video of me answering a few of your questions about Year 2. Thank you to my little Year 1 bubble for asking the questions so brilliantly!

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Here are Friday’s daily activities:

Targets for next year

Below I have attached a hot air balloon template that I would like you to colour in colourfully and neatly so that it can be used on display in your new Year 2 classroom. If you are unable to print the template, feel free to draw your own. On the cloud in the middle, I would like to to write a target that you would like to achieve next year. That might be to improve your handwriting, know your number facts to 20 or to participate more in classroom discussions. It’s your target so make sure that you make it achievable for you! Once complete, take a photograph and send it to me via email. We will then look at these at the end of your time in Year 2 to see what ‘Keep Improving Isabella Insects’ you have been!

What can I do over the summer holidays to get ready for Year 2?

Your final activity of the week is to look at the list below and decide what you still need to work on in order to be ready for Year 2 in September.

Reading

I’m sure you will recognise the word lists attached below. Which set did you get up to? Which words do you still need to practise?

If you can read all of the words, can you spell them?

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Usually, during the summer holidays, lots of you complete the library reading challenge. As everything is a little different this year, they are running the challenge online. Click the link below to sign up for the challenge (you will need a grown up’s email address).

To help with your choosing of books, I have attached a list of books that are great for Year 1 children. I know that you are very soon to be Year 2, but I thought it would be nice to see how many you have read already and if you could challenge yourself to read them all before September! Some you have already read in school!

Happy Reading!

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Cursive Handwriting

Use the sheet below to ensure that you are forming your cursive letters correctly. If you can form them correctly, have a go at joining them together.

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Recognising numbers

Access the number square below. Can you recognise all of the numbers to 100? Can you say how many tens and how many ones for each number? Can you say 1 less or 1 more than a given number? Can you say 10 more or 10 less than a given number?

Can you spell numbers 1 - 20 correctly? Ask an adult to help you.

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Extra Activities

Which Year 1 IXL sections do you need to complete before Year 2? Have a look and see if you can complete them all!

Purple Mash - Play challenge 1 of the ‘bond bubbles’ game I have set as a 2DO for you on Purple Mash.

Keep reading for at least 30 minutes a day. Maybe you could send me the name of your favourite book or author!

I have LOVED getting to know you this week Year 1 and I CAN’T WAIT to teach you next year!

Miss Woodend

Year 3 Meet the teacher week Friday 10th July

Activity 1: Getting to Know you.

We are going to learn a new skill alongside getting to know you today. I am going to teach you how to make a quiz on Purple Mash. You can do a quiz about yourself! I will take it and see how I do!!!

Or you can do a quiz on something that interests you. I will model it in the video, then you can have a go.

Activity 2: Our learning skills - Resilience.

Watch the video about Sadie Spider today. She has an excellent approach to learning.

Activity 3: What we do in Year 4 - RE

Our school mission statement is ‘You are Precious in My Eyes.’ This statement is what God is saying to all of us. Watch the video below to see how precious you really are in God’s eyes.

Our school mission statement is not just about how precious you are to God. It also means that we must treat every other human being as precious - because we are ALL precious. No matter how old we are, where we live, what colour our hair is, what our personality is like - EVERY PERSON IS PRECIOUS and we strive to treat them like that in our lives.

Now create a school poster with this statement from Isaiah - YOU ARE PRECIOUS IN MY EYES. You could copy our school logo from the school website. Maybe you could do it in lots of different blues to represent our school.

Whilst you are drawing talk to a grown up. If you are so precious to God then everybody is precious to God. Therefore, how should we treat other people?

Extra Activities today

1. Can you build or draw a spider web? Use your creativity to design one.

Why not put Sadie in it and her motto ‘Try, Try Try!’

2. Purple Mash 2do ‘AFish- matic’ This is a great game to play to practise your calculations. You need to make the target number by selecting the right calculation. Practise practise! This is a good one to do over Summer to practise your times tables.

Story time with Barbara

This weeks story is called ‘You can swim Jim’.

It’s all about a little boy called Jim who was afraid to go in to the swimming pool. I love to go swimming do you?

I hope you enjoy it!

Welcome to Year 3! Thursday 9th June 2020

Good morning children.

We hope that you are ready for some more exciting activities for today. You have definitely been trying to show the characteristics of the different learning characters in the fantastic work you have saved on Purple Mash. We know that you will carry on doing this next year and we are so excited to watch you using them and growing your brains!

Can you think which learning characters we haven’t looked at yet? 

That’s right, today we are going to listen to stories all about Sadie Spider and Clara Clownfish. What can you do today to be more like them?

Click on the stories to listen to them.   

Acrostic Poem

Have you ever seen an acrostic poem?

It’s a poem of words or phrases that describes a topic word. The topic word is written vertically, and each line of the poem starts with the letters of the topic word. They are great fun to write!

Click on the button to see some poems that we have written about each other.

Your acrostic poem will be about YOU! There is a 2do set up for you in Purple Mash for you to complete your poem on.

Write your name vertically like we have done and then think about how you can describe yourself.

My successes

Earlier in the week you created a personal fact file all about yourself.

Today we would like you to tell us what you think you are really good at doing. This will also help you to then think later on in the week about what you want to get better at.

We would like you to go on Purple Mash and create a web using 2Connect (it’s set as a 2Do) of all of the things that you are good at doing. Maybe you could put a picture of you in the middle and then around the picture you can type all the things that you are good at doing. (Make sure that you connect them up to look like a spider’s web and don’t forget to save it.)

Tell us about things that you are good at when you are at home, school or at clubs. You might want to include things that you know you are getting better at too.

Pebbles

Have you managed to find a pebble (or 2)? Today we are going to decorate them for our class altar for next year. On one side of the pebble we would like you to choose a word which will help us to become more like Jesus - write this word really clearly in your best handwriting. On the other side of the pebble you can decorate it with a little picture or pattern that relates to your word or will remind others to think of Jesus.

(You might want to pick one of these words or you might want to think of your own - kind, loving, forgiving, helpful, generous, compassionate, hopeful, patient, courageous, grateful, wise, loving, faith–filled, servant, peaceful, joyful, active, curious, giving, gentle, selfless etc)

Keep your pebble really safe so that you can bring it back to school with you in September. Try to do something today which demonstrates the word that you have written on your pebble. If you chose 2 pebbles you can make another one to keep at home. Please send us a photo of your pebble so that we can see them now.

PE

Remember we need to make sure that we are keeping active so why not go for a walk, or a bike ride or a run, or do some yoga, or go on the trampoline or set up a fitness circuit with star jumps and press ups, spotty dog jumps and skipping etc. Or you could complete the PE challenge that is on the school website. You choose, but choose something different today and make sure that you have fun!

Extra optional activities - art today!

As you normally have on a Thursday there is an art activity from Mrs Curtis for you to complete. Have fun!

Have a look at IXL maths and see which units you have not completed yet for Year 2. Try to complete as many of these as you can before September.

Read for 30 minutes each day and then take a quiz on Accelerated Reader. See if you can reach your target before the end of the term. Let us know the name of your favourite author and/or your favourite book. Maybe you could even write a book review on Purple Mash.

Practise your handwriting and make sure that you can form and join all of your letters correctly in the cursive style we use in school. Click on the button below to check on the correct formation of letters.

Have fun!! Don’t forget to send us a photo!!

Miss Edmondson, Miss Brisco and Miss Woodrow

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 4 Thursday 9th July Learning from Home with Mrs Hotchkiss

Thank you for all your thoughtful work related to our beautiful planet!!

Today we turn to our first topic in Year 5 - The Ancient Greeks! I believe you love history and you know all about the Vikings!!! At the beginning of Year 5 we study the Ancient Greeks. Unlike other groups in Ancient times these people didn’t really live in one country together. Greece is so mountainous and has thousands of islands that the population was split into lots of smaller cities. It was not easy to travel form one to the other and each island and “City State” had its own ruler and laws. These cities sometimes fought against one another too. We study the Ancient Greeks because so many parts of their culture (the way they lived) has influenced the way we live today (democracy and the Olympic games)! They were also great mathematician and inventors - they even invented the idea of history itself - recording events for people in the future to learn from.

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TASK 1 WHO WERE THE GREEKS?

Grab your English book ready to make notes. Write this subheading:

Who were the Ancient Greeks? Now click on the button to visit the BBC Bitesize page. Write down what you have learnt from this reading.

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TASK 2 THE OLYMPIC GAMES

Once the Ancient Greeks moved past the dark ages they began to work more closely together and they invented the Olympic games!!! Again place a subheading in your English book and write down the key information for the BBC Bitesize page! Take this learning further. Click onto the Purple Mash link and visit your 2do’s here you will find a fact sheet to complete all about the Olympics - use your research to complete it!

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TASK 3 PE CHALLENGE

The Ancient Greeks are not the only civilization to love sport! Girls we can join in this PE!!!! The Lancashire team have set us a new PE challenge this week. Click on the link below to take you to our school sports page. Mrs Gregan has faithfully helped us all stay active - thank you Mrs G !

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TASK 4 ART

One of the reasons we know so much about the Ancient Greeks is because Archaeologists has used artifacts and ruins to piece together a clearer picture (just like detectives). The Ancient Greeks used a lot of pottery and on those vases and jars they drew pictures of Live in Ancient Greece. Click on the button to study pictures of real ancient vases - can you see how they depict the Olympic games? I have also gven you a blank vase to print out or copy so that you can produce a vase of your own- what part of Ancient Greek life will you show? Take care with colour you have to use Brown/orange and black!!!

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TASK 5 MATHS

Time for you to visit Year 5 on IXL!!! Please complete J1 and J2 - remember click on Year 5 and not Year 4!!

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If you have completed all the tasks today and have time to continue with your learning click the optional extra below:

Year 1 - Meeting your new teacher - Thursday 9th July

Good morning Year 1! Did you enjoy yesterday’s Playground Pal day? I hope you did!

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Here are Thursday’s daily activities:

The School Prayer

Read the school prayer below with an adult.

As you can see, our school prayer is missing a bit of colour and a few illustrations to match the words. Can you make an eye catching poster containing the school prayer? You can print the one out above and decorate it or can write out the prayer yourself using your beautiful handwriting. The most creative will be used on display in your new Year 2 classroom.

Faith-Filled and Hopeful

As we are coming to the end of transition week, I would like you to look ahead and think carefully about your hopes for next year. What do you hope for yourself? What do you hope for the world? Create a poster containing your hope using the Purple Mash template set as a 2DO. We will then be collecting together your hopes to create a lovely, whole school display for when you return to school in September.

Art

Check Mrs Curtis’ blog for this week’s art activity. Have fun being a ‘Creative Kiki Chameleon!’

Extra Activities

Which Year 1 IXL sections do you need to complete before Year 2? Have a look and see if you can complete them all!

Purple Mash - Play challenge 1 of the ‘bond bubbles’ game I have set as a 2DO for you on Purple Mash.

Keep reading for at least 30 minutes a day. Maybe you could send me the name of your favourite book or author!

Practise your cursive handwriting using the sheet below as a guide to help you.

Enjoy your day,

Miss Woodend

Year 3 Meet the Teacher week Thursday 9th July

Activity 1: Getting to Know you - Your hobby!

Today, in Purple Mash, I would love you to make another slideshow. You did a brilliant job on Monday!

This time I want it to be all about a hobby that you have. This can be anything. Maybe you love football. Perhaps you love to bake. Are you a dancer or a gymnast? It could be something you are really interested in like dinosaurs, star wars or flowers. I want you to do a slideshow all about one hobby/passion.

I am so excited to find out what you really love!

Activity 2: Our learning Skills - Self-Improvement.

Activity 3: What we do in Year 4 - Art

As usual, have a look at Mrs Curtis’s Art page to find out your activity this week. You can send your pictures to Mrs Curtis, but I would love to see them too!

Extra Activities

Reading, reading and ALWAYS reading - make it your goal to be a reader that enjoys books every day!

Improving my skills in Purple Mash: Create a 3D maze.

Go on your Purple Mash 2DIY 3D and watch the video to tell you how to create a 3D maze. Like Clara Clownfish, see what you can notice and figure out for yourself as you create your own plan of your maze. When you press the play button, it will turn into a 3D maze! Like Lizzie Ladybird, see if you can make it better and better!

2type - Go on 2type and improve your skills ready for Year 4

2go - Complete the challenges in ‘Find the Treasure’ to get better at position and direction.