Reception Final Blog of the Year

Well Reception, you’ve done it!! You’ve completed your Reception Year and what a good job you have made of it. You really have been enthusiastic Bobby Bees and fantastic Cooper Crabs too. You’ve learned how to be resilient like Sadie Spider and brave like Tommy Turtle. Looking at all the work that you have done you’ve been creative like Kiki Chameleon and asked no end of questions, just like Clara Clownfish. This has made you constantly improve like Lizzie Ladybird and I know that you have all being super duper co-operative Roger Robins too. All in all, you have been amazing and you have made us all so proud of you. Well done everyone!

It’s been a bit of a strange year and I’m sure that none of us anticipated it ending like it has. We would like to thank all of the people who have helped you at home during Lockdown so that you could continue with your learning. They have been brilliant - we really could not have done it without all of them, so please say a great big “THANK YOU” from all of us.

We are really looking forward to seeing you all again in September when we get back to school but in the meantime, we hope that you all have a well earned rest and a lovely summer holiday.

Have a look at the video below and the photo movie too.

Don’t forget to check on the blog tomorrow to see the whole school learning challenges and the photo movie.

Bye Reception

We love you all and miss you lots.

God Bless you all

Take care and stay safe

The Reception Team xxx

'Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful.'

Well, we have made it to the end of the school year and what a funny one it has been! When you started the Year with Mrs Harrison who would have thought that we would end the year with Miss Edmondson and Miss Brisco setting daily work from their sofas or kitchen tables! All those videos and emails filmed and sent backwards and forwards, the texts and even phone calls to celebrate how well you have all done.

The Year 3 team has grown and changed but from all of us we want to say a big well done and thank you, it has been fun and a learning curve for us all. You are amazing!

Tomorrow there will be a whole school blog of challenges so please make sure you check that out.

We say ‘Goodbye for now’ and we will look forward to seeing you back at school in September, enjoy your long and hopefully hot summer holidays. Be kind, be happy and be wonderful!

Lot of love

The Year 3 team.

Please see the video below.

Year 3 Thursday 16th July 2020 home learning

‘They’re beautiful kids, just beautiful children. It’s just a blessing to see and we thank God about it.’

Reading

Find a cosy place to read today, could it be on the sofa or in a den? James and Kiefer managed to meet their reading targets, well done boys!

Before you reach the holiday this weekend it is really important you make reading over the break a priority.

The Lancashire Library Service is here to help. Please click on the link to find out more about the Silly Squad library reading challenge and then press the join button on the web page to sign up if you haven’t already.

RE

Here is the last of our RE lessons.

Maths

Please spend some time today playing the board game you made yesterday, try to get the family involved. Have fun!

Word cloud

I would like you to create your own word art about Year 3. Please click below for how to make yours.

Purple Mash

Please go on to the sharing tab and look at all of the Year 3 display boards to see some of your own and your friend’s work. There is lots of fantastic work to celebrate!

Tomorrow

Tomorrow there won’t be a blog from me, instead there is a whole school learning challenges blog for you to complete.

Look out for a blog later on today to celebrate the end of Year 3 with our photos and goodbyes.

Year 2 Home Learning - Thursday 16th July

Good Morning Year 2!

Well, this is it! We have reached the end of our year together, and what a year it has been! Tomorrow, the whole school will be completing the same activities so that we can celebrate the end of the year as a whole school community.

Although this year hasn’t been as we would have expected, I couldn’t be more proud of you ALL. Both your learning in school and at home has shown just how far you have come, how much you have grown, and what independent and confident learners you are becoming. You all amaze me with your determination and resilience. Although this year may have been tough, you never once gave up and continued to shine like the stars that you are.

Not only are you precious in God’s eyes, but you all truly are precious in MY eyes! I wish you all the best of luck for Year 3, but I know you will be fine and are going to love the new challenges you will face. I will most certainly be popping in to see you all as soon as I can.

Here are today’s activities

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Enjoy listening to the story below - ‘Spinderella’ by Julia Donaldson

In the story, Spinderella learns an important lesson. Can you think what it might be?

Now I would like you to reflect upon the personal qualities and skills that you have developed throughout your time in Year 2. Think about our learning characters. Do you feel like Year 2 has helped you to grow more determined? Do you feel that you are now a kinder and more loving friend?
Use the flower template to record your reflections on. You could put your name in the middle and add your ideas to the petals, or you could add your idea to the middle and colour the petals. It is up to you!

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Extra activities

Click the link below to access the White Rose Maths website:

Click on WEEK 10 (W/C 29th JUNE) - Lesson 4 - Millilitres. Watch the video and complete the activity below.

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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 2 children. I know that you are very soon to be Year 3, 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 we have already read in school!

Happy Reading!

Year 3, photos of this week and some memories

I wonder if any of you have grown since the beginning of the year, have a look back at some photos from earlier in the year and any photos you have sent this week.

Enjoy!

Year 4 Home learning Thursday 16th July

Dear Year 4 - this is our last day of me leading your online learning - our last day together. Tomorrow we are celebrating together as a whole school!

Please make sure you watch my three videos today - one is just to say goodbye - so make sure you scroll down to the very bottom of the page!

English

Today we are going to have fun looking at themes within all our amazing novels we looked at together. Thor makes an appearance today!

Maths

Celebrating Year 4

Create a mind map of all your amazing Year 4 learning in Purple Mash. Include your memories too. Watch the quick video below so I can show you how.

Faith Filled and Hopeful

Let’s look at this final message and make a Mary acrostic poem. Keep it on your wall to remember to say your 3 Hail Mary’s each night throughout the Summer.

Finallly…….

Before you reach the holiday this weekend it is really important you make reading over the break a priority.

The Lancashire Library Service is here to help!! Please click on the link to find out more and then click on the next button to link directly to “The Silly Squad” page.

Reception Learning from Home Thursday 16th July

Good morning Reception. It’s our last day doing home learning as a class today. Tomorrow being the final day of the year before the summer holidays, we will be working together (virtually of course) as a whole school to complete some activities and celebrate the year. Make sure that you check the class blog tomorrow for all of the photos from the week and a final “Good-bye” from the Reception Team

I hope that you enjoy the final day working as part of the Reception Class, very soon you will be in Year 1 (Isn’t it exciting!!!. I bet you can’t wait - I know Miss Lane is super excited and can’t stop talking about how great you were last week.)

Today’s Learning Activities:

English - Traditional Tales

Watch the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Can you answer these questions? Who went over the bridge first, next, last? Where were they going? Why? What did the troll say? What happened to the troll? What happened to the billy goats?

Can you make a bridge? You might want to use Lego or other construction toys. Then using your toys or teddies can you act out the story?

Maybe you could use different voices for the different characters. Have fun!

White Rose Maths

Lesson 4 w/b 29th June

Have a look at today’s activity. I hope that you are good at dancing!!! Don’t forget to make a list of which songs you will play 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. Think about your moves and have fun!

Reading

Make sure that you keep up with your reading during the summer holidays. Have you signed up for the library summer reading challenge yet? If you haven’t why not sign up for it now and see if you can read lots of books during the summer and complete the challenge. It’s great fun and it will get your ready for Year 1 too. Your grown ups will need to sign up for you using their email address.

Maybe you could have a look at the list of books that I have made a link to on the button below and see how many of them you have read. This will really help you with you work when you get into Year 1 next year.

(Challenge - can you tick them all off before the end of the summer???)

PE

Remember it’s really important to keep active. Think about what you can do today to keep active. Maybe you want to have a go at something you are good at because you enjoy doing it. Or maybe you know there is something that you would like to get better at and need a bit of practise with. Maybe you would like to have a go at more than one thing! You choose!

I hope that you have a super day.

Don’t forget to send me some photos of what you have been doing.

                                     l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Take care and stay safe

Miss Brisco xx

Story time with Barbara

This week’s story is all about Eddy’s teddy whose name is Freddy! Have you guessed…it’s a rhyming story.

Don’t worry it’s not too scary!

Watch out next week fro another story about Eddy’s teddy, Freddie!

One of our fabulous friend has sent in some photos of her learning at home. Thank you.

Year 4 Home learning Wednesday 15th July

English

A new challenge today! Be really resilient and courageous with this one - Sadie Spiders and Tommy Turtles please!!

Maths

Celebrating Year 4

You have done so many things to be proud of in Year 4. I would like to reflect on and celebrate all the things you are proud of achieving in Year 4 today in form of a slideshow in Purple Mash.

PLEASE include all your wonderful achievements and adventures from lockdown. I would love to know what you have thought about your lockdown experience.

Faith-Filled and Hopeful

Let us reflect again on our role model of faith and hope - Mary.

Reception Learning from Home Wednesday 15th July 2020

Good morning children. It’s our last Wonderful Wednesday of the school year - Can you think of 3 wonderful things about your time in Reception?

Today’s Learning Activities:

English - Traditional Tales

Watch and enjoy the story of Jack and the Beanstalk

Discuss the story and see if you can answer these questions: What did Jack swap for the cow? What was special about the beans? Who lived at the top of the beanstalk? How did Jack escape the Giant?

Do you really think that if you planted beans like in the story, they would grow overnight?

Have you ever grown anything before? I know some of you have been growing things during lockdown.

Look at CBeebies: How Does Your Garden Grow? for some advice and ideas about growing plants at home. (Why not plant some seeds which sprout quickly to maintain the children’s interest.)

Maybe you could make a quick-growing cress head like in Mr Bloom’s nursery:

If you don’t have any seeds are available, maybe you could grow leftover vegetable scraps to use in salads.

White Rose Maths

Look at Lesson 3 w/b 29th June

Today we are going to look at the story of Oliver’s Vegetables again. Oliver has been planting vegetables with his grandad. Can you help him to work out his problems? Then help him to sort his vegetables and say how he sorted them.

Learning Characters

At school we have 8 learning characters that help us to focus on what we need to do to grow our brains. Can you remember them all? (Cooper Crab, Sadie Spider, Roger Robin, Tommy Turtle, Clara Clownfish, Lizzie Ladybird, Kiki Chameleon and of course enthusiastic Bobby Bee)

Can you draw a picture of each of the learning characters and think about how you can be more like them?During the summer holidays can you try to do things that help you to grow more like each of them?

Have fun and think how you can continue to grow your brain - you might want to set yourself a challenge and see if you can achieve it before the end of the holidays. (Learn how to ride your bike, learn how to climb to the top of the climbing frame or go across the monkey bars, learn how to tie your shoe laces, be able to count to 100, or count in 2s or know your address. These are just some examples of things that you might want to do but I’m sure you could think of your own. )

PE

Remember it’s really important to keep active. Think about what you can do today to keep active. Maybe you want to have a go at something you are good at because you enjoy doing it. Or maybe you know there is something that you would like to get better at and need a bit of practise with. Maybe you would like to have a go at more than one thing! You choose!

I hope that you have a super day.
Don’t forget to send me some photos of what you have been doing. (Please send all photos by lunchtime tomorrow so that I can make them into a little photo movie. Thank you)

                                     l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Take care and stay safe

Miss Brisco xx

Year 3 Wednesday 15th July 2020 home learning

‘Dream big little ones.’

Reading

How is your reading coming along? Will you manage to meet your reading target before the end of the week? Isabella has met her target, well done!

RE

Click below for today’s RE challenges.

Maths

Today I would like you to make a maths board game that you and your family can play over the holidays to keep that maths brain of yours ticking. Pick the area of maths you think you could improve on ( x + - or divide), make it fun and interactive. You could even throw some forfeits in! Here are some ideas.

Memories

Today we would like you to share your best memory of Year 3. Please go on Purple Mash and access the 2do called ‘My memory of Year 3’. Write about a funny or interesting thing that happened in Year 3 so that others can read about it. Draw a picture to go with your memory. Once you have saved it please share it to the display board called ‘Year 3 Memories’ by clicking on the share option of the drop down menu.

Year 2 Home Learning - Wednesday 15th July

Good Morning Year 2!

Have a look at the image below. Do you recognise it?

That’s right! We looked at this image right at the beginning of Year 2 when we were thinking about our class rules and expectations. Have another close look at the classroom and think carefully about the following questions:

Which Blob do you think best represents you and your time in Year 2?
Do any Blobs show any of the great choices that you made in Year 2? Do any of the Blobs represent any of the wrong choices you may have made in Year 2?
Which feelings do the Blobs represent? What colours would you associate with those feelings? For example red for anger or yellow for happy. If you are able to print the image, you could colour each Blob in the colour to match their feeling.
Remember that everyone looks at the image in different ways. What you think might be different to what someone else thinks. Did you ever think that someone felt a certain way in Year 2 when it turned out that they didn’t feel that way at all?
Maybe you could give the Blobs that represent you a number and then write about when you felt like that in Year 2 and why. You could have felt like many of the Blobs - remember this is perfectly fine!

Enjoy reflecting upon your thoughts and feelings throughout your time in Year 2.

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Extra activities

Click the link below to access the White Rose Maths website:

Click on WEEK 10 (W/C 29th JUNE) - Lesson 3 - Compare Volume. Watch the video and complete the activity below.

Enjoy the final chapter of the owl who was afraid of the dark - Dark is beautiful. Complete the comprehension questions below.

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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 2 children. I know that you are very soon to be Year 3, 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 we have already read in school!

Happy Reading!

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Have a wonderful day,

Miss Woodend