Home Learning Friday 19th March 2021

Please make sure that all homework is completed by next Thursday. Many thanks.

Reading:

Read at home every day. Make sure that you quiz when you have completed a book.

(Parents: Don’t forget you can check on your child’s progress on Accelerated Reader -  this will let you know which books they have read and quizzed on and also their progress towards their reading target.)

Maths:

TT Rockstars - please keep practising your tables facts. How fast can you get at these?

Spellings:

Spellings—children have been given a spelling sheet to practise. Please make sure that these sheets are  completed using the look, say, cover, write, check method.

Reconciliation Preparation:

Please complete pages 1-15 of the ‘Making Things Right’ book. It would be useful if you could discuss the activities with your child to deepen their understanding. Many thanks.

Year 3 Friday 19th March 2021 “Friends are the sunshine of life!” John Hay

We have been lucky this week with the weather. A little sunshine really puts a smile on everyone’s faces and sharing it with friends just makes that even better.

Again we have continued to be busy with our learning and showing how we are growing our brains and using our different learning characters. We had a lovely PE lesson this morning with lots of creative ideas from the children about balance and travelling. In RHE, we have been reminding ourselves about being resilient and thinking about strategies that will help us to become more resilient. We have been doing lots of writing this week. - another chance to be creative. In science we have continued to learn all about magnets and found out about how they attract and repel. In maths the children have been problem solving using their multiplication and division skills. Recall of multiplication facts is becoming much more fluent. Well done children—you have been doing a great job on TT Rockstars and improving all the time. More super work  about the Arctic during the geography session. In RE we have been learning about different parts of the Mass and we have also started our sessions about Reconciliation. All of this as well as making sure that we are being co-operative with each other and being enthusiastic too. Well done children - keep up the good work.

Let’s Celebrate:

We are delighted to be celebrating Harvey, Lily-Mae (again), Daisy (again), Max, Matilda, Nicola, Connor-Sean, Franek and Leo who have all reached 100% of their reading targets this week. Well done to all of you - What stars you are! Keep up the good work children.

This week we are celebrating Daisy and Molly-Ann . Daisy you are always so enthusiastic in everything that you do. You are so bubbly and have a real desire to do well. You always have a smile and your energy and enthusiasm fill the classroom. What a star—keep shining. Molly-Ann you have been such a creative Kiki Chameleon with your writing this week. You really tried hard to think about everything that we discussed and put these things into your own writing.. Well done Keep up the good work.

We are also celebrating Charlie who received lunchtime Role Model of the Week. Well done Charlie

Things to Note:

• Please check the Home Learning page for this week’s home learning. Thank you.

• Thank you for paying for the books for the Reconciliation and Holy Communion preparation. The children will be bringing the first book about Reconciliation home to complete as homework. I will let you know which pages through the home learning page.

It is so lovely to have all of the children back at school again and to be back together as a class family. We would like to thank you all for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend. Let’s hope that we have a little more of this lovely sunshine that we have had this week.

Take care and stay safe,

The Year 3 Team     

Miss Brisco, Miss Edmondson and Miss Woodrow

Contact us at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 4 blog "Love is appreciating your differences as well as your similarities."

We are well and truly in our school stride now as we complete our second week being back together. One boy commented that it is lovely to feel part of our class family again and I completely agree. Children have had so much fun in the playground together and have been bouncing in their chairs with enthusiasm in class - quite literally!

In our RHE lessons this week, we have been learning about how we don’t have to be the same and like the same things to be good friends. We also learned in RE how we can try to be like Jesus as truly human and aspire to follow him. We revisited our Lenten promises we made and had a ‘halfway through Lent’ reflection to get us back on track. Each day we are remembering our key Jesuit values to grow in love and compassion for each other.

We have loved our Geography this week - finding out all about tectonic plates and earthquakes using oranges and Oreo biscuits! Your child has a task in homework to demonstrate this to you - see what they have learned!

We have had a great giggle writing persuasive letters from Brer Fox to Brer Rabbit then replying back again. We are also getting to grips with that tricky apostrophe for possession. Fractions learning in maths is also coming along nicely - we are now up to finding equivalent fractions.

Let’s Celebrate

This week , double whammy certificates!

I am awarding three Kiki Chameleon/Roger Robin certificates to three children who really considered their ideas and were so entertaining in their letter writing this week. These three children also receive Roger robin on their certificates because they are helpful, kind and level-headed when playing games on the playground and so co-operative within class too. Well done James, Stephanie and Isabella!

Our PE stars this week are Jess and Abi for super gymnastics but also getting really stuck in at team sports too!

Music stars this week were: Abi and Grace

Have a beautiful, Spring weekend everyone. I need to get in my garden and do some planting so lets hope for a good one! God bless.

Mrs Lyons, Miss Forster and Mrs Mather.

Year 4 Homework to be submitted by Thursday 25th March

All online homework this week.

English

1. Purple Mash - Jane’s Monster task all about Apostrophes for possession

2. We are going to invent a Brer Rabbit character in lessons next week. In preparation I want you to research North American animals and then decide on one that you research further. Find out its characteristics, can it swim, climb trees? Does it have claws, sharp teeth? Is it a herbivore or carnivore?

   Maths

   TT Rockstars - let’s pick up our speed. Mrs Lyons is now having competitions with members of the class on this game! Ten minutes a day will turn you into a pro!

   IXL Year 4 units Y7 AA1 AA2 and AA3

Geography

We have learned all about the movement of tectonic plates and what this causes this week.

Why not use an orange and an Oreo (or any biscuit with cream in the centre) and demonstrate to your parents our analogy.

You can use this vocabulary when explaining: tectonic plates, crust, slabs, movement, collide, earthquakes, convergent, divergent, transform, volcanoes, magma, lava

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 17th March 2021

Here is your home learning for this week.

Don’t forget to use Time Table Rockstars, AR reading (you can quiz at home) and IXL to support your learning.

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Maths - IXL Year 6 CC.4

Can you find the area of a triangle? We have worked really hard at this in class this week and you have all mastered this skill. Now it is time to consolidate this using IXL.

Area of a triangle = (base x height) ÷ 2

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Spelling - can you learn these words ending in ial? Don’t forget to complete your dictation task on Purple Mash too

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Science - What are the effects of exercise on the human body?

We have looked carefully at our bodies and how each system within our body works but how do we keep it healthy?

Next week we will be completing a few investigations that look at the effect of diet and drink on our body, and exercise.

There are 3 links below that will take you to websites and videos. Watch them carefully then complete the piece of work set that explains to me the effects of exercise on our body.

I have set you a piece of work on Purple Mash. Think carefully about the detail that is needed to show me exactly what you can do.

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Year 3 Friday 12th March 2021 “It’s time to be happy again!”

It was absolutely wonderful to welcome all of the children back to school again on Monday and we have had a lovely week being a whole class again. There has been lots of chatter and smiles but lots of work done too. It has been super to see how all of the children have grown, not only in height but in their learning too.

The children have been amazing at remembering the routines that we have in place and taking care to look after each other. They have also delighted us with their “I can..” attitudes and their enthusiasm. We know that with positivity like they have demonstrated this week, the rest of the term and year will be a great success. Well done children, we are so proud of you all.

We have been busy all week with our learning and have shared feelings about lockdown, celebrated how much the children have grown and learned during lockdown, continued to learn how to multiply and divide in maths, been writing our own adventure stories, started our science topic of magnets, practised our tables, spelling and handwriting, enjoyed PE lessons, worshiped together, looked at the virtues of love and compassion and thought about how we can demonstrate these, discovered more about the Arctic, been creative in art, enjoyed our massage and music lesson, done loads and loads of reading and taken a new Star reading quiz and loved just being back together again. We are happy again!!!

Let’s Celebrate:

Christian, Lily-Mae and Daisy have reached 100% of their reading targets this week. Well done - What stars you are! Keep up the good work children.

This week we are celebrating Anncia, Lily-Mae and Alex. Alex you have been so enthusiastic this week and really wanted to get involved with all of your learning. It has been lovely to see your smile and excitement at seeing all of your friends too. Keep up the good work Alex. Anncia you receive a Sadie Spider certificate because you are so enthusiastic and such a Sadie Spider. You keep on trying and trying and trying and not giving up, because of this you are learning so much. Well done. Lily Mae you receive a Lizzie Ladybird certificate because you keep trying and want to keep improving with your learning. You have also been such an enthusiastic Bobby Bee too. Keep up this wonderful work Lily-Mae.

Things to Note:

· Mrs Curtis has asked that the children all have an art shirt (adult sized t.shirt to go over their school uniform) for art lessons on Mondays. These will stay in school until summer. Thank you. 

ALL children will now be doing art on Mondays.

• PE days have changed for some of the children too. Please see the lists below for the new grouping for outdoor PE (tracksuits and trainers needed please). All children will continue to have indoor PE on Friday (shorts needed please).

Monday PE lessons: Angel, Alexander, Betsy, Charlie, Evan, Franek, Francesca, Leo, Leon, Matilda, Max, Millie, Nicola and Owen.

Tuesday PE lessons: Alex, Anncia, Christian, Connor Sean, Daisy, Edi, Georgia, Harvey, Iris, Jay, Lily-Mae, Molly-Ann, Ruby Lilly, Rosa, Stanley and Tabby.

• Please make sure that the children have their PE kits on both of their PE days. Just a reminder that ear-rings can NOT be worn for PE. Also, if ear rings are worn in school they must be small, simple stud ear rings - for safety reasons.

•  Children complete lunchtime PE activities with Mr. Nay on Tuesdays and Thursdays—some children may find it easier if they change into their trainers for the lunchtime session.

• The children have come home with World Book Day vouchers today.  Storyellers Inc are putting on a stall outside the shop on Saturdays 10-2 during March, so that children can redeem their vouchers.

• Please look on the button below to see the letter from Fr Peter and Miss Hornby about this year’s Reconciliation and Holy Communion programme. Thank you

We would like to thank you all for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend and Happy Mothers’ Day to all of our mums.

Take care and stay safe,

The Year 3 Team     

Miss Brisco, Miss Edmondson and Miss Woodrow

Contact us at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

This week.... sinking and floating

The children have loved working scientifically and finding out through first hand experiences; the nursery ladies have too! It has been VERY exciting.

This week we have been exploring sinking and floating. Click on the button to look at our plans for the week.

We began our experiments by watching and listening to a song.. Click here to listen. We even learnt a new word buoyant! We like finding new words. Everyone then set off around nursery to find an object that we could put in a large water trough. Before we could test out object we had to predict what we thought would happen. Needless to say there were some surprises. Look at our photos; we loved experimenting!

As you can see some of the children went on to build boats from boxes others used a boat building construction set to test if their boats would be able to carry people and not sink! That was tricky!

Towards the end of the week we watched another video to see if we would be able to predict what would happen; we had learnt so much! Click here to watch!

Here’s another video to watch in case it’s raining at the weekend, we haven’t had time to watch it at nursery; we’ve been so busy! Click here.

Later in the week we had a visitor come to nursery. Can you guess who it was? Yes, it was the Gruffalo! Of course we had to read the story!

The children over the past couple of weeks have been making special surprises for Mothering Sunday. I’m not sure if they have kept the surprise secret, but here just a few photos anyway. I do hope all our mums have the most wonderful restful day.

Next week we will be having a number a phonics week so watch out for things to do on Purple Mash! I’ve pinned lots of things on the Mini Mash site.

Finally, I have a huge favour to ask. If anyone has any nursery clothing at home, especially underwear could you please return them. Also, if you have any clothing that you no longer use donations would be gratefully received. Our stocks of clothing are very much depleted.

I’m not sure about the weather forecast for the weekend but I hope everyone manages to have some time together as a family, and…..

Year 4 blog: 'Kindness creates a special sweetness in your mind and a super softness in your soul.'

What a memorable experience! Seeing children come together with such joy, laughing and playing together with such total exuberance this week! After the initial and understandable nerves of Monday morning the children have settled down so beautifully and with a new kind of confidence. Their focus and thirst for learning this week - their first week back has left me in awe!

We started the week by reconnecting and discussed our hopes for the rest of year 4. We made Adonis Blues butterflies to remember our beautiful lockdown story - ‘The Butterfly Lion,’ and to represent our eagerness to fly in Year 4! One boy said that when he thinks of love he thinks of this story because of how kind and supportive the lead character was.

In our relationships education, we thought about growing to become more loving and compassionate. Children read the story, Be loving Layla Lioness,’ and then we brainstormed what compassion truly is. They made hearts with messages of compassion which are now on our classroom wall. ‘See the world through the eyes of others, ‘Don’t judge because you never know what someone else is going through,’ and ‘Love never fails,’ were some of the inspirational messages they came up with. They have really been practising compassion with each other this week - what a lovely, kind class they are.

We have laughed along with our Brer Rabbit stories and reflected on the cleverness or foolishness of different characters. We have found out about the layers of the earth in Geography and then made an eatable model of it with a Malteser, (core) some red icing (mantle) and biscuit crumbs for the crust. Apparently the earth is delicious! After erupting our class volcano we then wrote some stunning explanation texts about how volcanoes erupt. Add to this recorder playing, gymnastics, Art and the children getting very excited about Fractions in maths - its like we never left!

Let’s celebrate!

We have a winner!

Great news! Amber has won the Lancashire school library service’s AMAZING CONFECTIONARY competition for the whole of Lancashire! Children needed to invent some form of sweet treat for a book character. Have a look at her entry below - so creative!

She has won a lovely bundle of books for our school.

Christian has already met his reading target! Wow! All that lovely lockdown reading has served you well!

Saul and Harriet were our recorder stars this week - very focused and deserved you two!

PE stars were very hard to choose. This week Lexi and Jack just pipped others - excellent effort you two!

Certificates of the week:

A Sadie Spider certificate went to Thomas for super determination in all subjects and being so hard-working. Two Bobby Bee certificates go to Evie and Julia who are showing a new level of self-belief and confidence which is allowing them to soar!

Notices

Homework will be given again now and is on the ‘Weekly Home Learning’ part of the Year 4 page. Please ensure it is handed in promptly on Thursdays and any online homework is completed by then too. Homework will mainly back up skills in maths and English learned in class that week - so is vital to complete.

Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing your lovely lot on Monday.

God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Forster.