What are we learning today?
Read moreYear 1 Remote Learning - Tuesday 13th July
What are we learning today?
Read moreYear 3 Remote Learning Tuesday 13th July 2021
Good morning everyone.
Well done with your work yesterday. I really enjoyed looking at what you did.
I hope that you are ready for lots more exciting learning today. Our first session is a Zoom session with Mrs Lyons at 9:15am so make sure that you login using the details that I sent to your parents via email on Sunday evening. Remember to think about our Zoom rules and be respectful to others. (I know that you will - you were all super during Lockdown). Enjoy spending time with Mrs Lyons. I know that she is going to love teaching you all.
After the Zoom meeting you will be able to complete the lessons below. Please remember to complete your work on Purple Mash - I have set a 2Do for each lesson - and then make sure that you save your work and submit it so that I can see how you have done.
Maths
Watch the video below and learn how to tell the time at 5 minute intervals. There are some games to play and a 2Do to complete. Have fun. Don;t forget to see if you can tell the time throughout the day. Remember the more you practise, the better you get. Be a Sadie Spider!
English
Today we are going to use the poem to write a story. We have really studied the poem and know exactly what happens. We have investigated vocabulary and also looked at speech, complex sentences and other word work such as prepositions and adverbs. You are going to write your story creating word pictures for the reader using your wonderful description and showing off what you have learned. I know that you will be brilliant. Have fun.
Watch the video first and then write your story on the 2Do that I have set for you.
RE
In RE I would like you to think about how you can use your gifts to help others. Watch the little video and then complete the 2Do. When you have completed your learning task, spend some quiet time with Jesus talking to Him and sharing your thoughts with Him.
Have a lovely day.
Don’t forget to save and submit your work on Purple Mash. You can also send me any photos and I will put them together for a little video at the end of the week.
Take care and stay safe and keep smiling.
Year 1 Remote Learning - Monday 12th July
What are we learning today?
Read moreYear 3 Remote Learning Monday 12th July 2021
Good Morning Year 3,
I hope that you are all wide awake and ready for a great day of fun learning. I know that you are going to enjoy all of your learning tasks today, so find your lovely smile and have fun.
Today we have Maths, English, Art and PE - so It is going to be a super duper day.
Please send me some photos of your learning if you can and I will share them with everyone.
Maths:
Today in maths we are going to be telling the time using to the nearest quarter of an hour. So we will be using the times o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to.
Watch the video below and play the games and then complete the 2Do sheets on Purple Mash that I have set on Purple Mash.
Have fun!
English
Watch the video below and then write a menu for Mr Spider. I know that you will have lots of great ideas about what Mr. Spider would like to eat. (I remember your amazing menus for the Iron Man when we wrote them way back in February.) I have set you a 2Do on Purple Mash for you to write your menu on. Have fun and don’t forget to make sure that you save and submit your work to me when you have completed it.
Art
Mrs Curtis is really disappointed that she is not able to share the final art lesson of the year with you in school today but she has sent me an email to tell me what she was going to do with you, so here goes. Year 6 have just done their play of the Wizard of Oz and Mrs Curtis wants you to draw, paint or collage your favourite Wizard of Oz character. (You could even watch a little bit of the film to remind yourself who the different characters are.). When you have done this we would like you to send Mrs Curtis and me (Miss Brisco) a photo of your work so that we can share them on the website. Make sure that you think carefully and add lots of detail to your art work. Have fun.
PE
Since some of you would normally have PE on a Monday afternoon, I thought that you might all like to do some PE. I would like you to make up your own little obstacle course where you have to do different activities. This might include throwing into a hoop, skipping with a rope, hurdles if you have any, winding in and out of cones etc etc. You can make up your own course. If you can I would like you to complete the course using a timer (or a watch) and see how long it takes you. I would then like you to have another go at the obstacle course you have set up and see if you can beat your time. You might like to keep trying to see what your best time is. Enjoy. Don’t forget to send me a photo if you can.
COME ON ENGLAND!
Look who has been baking over the weekend. What a fabulous cake made to celebrate the England v Italy match last night. I’m sure that it tasted delicious. I hope that if you managed to watch the match you enjoyed it.
I hope that you enjoy today’s learning.
Don’t forget to check the Remote Learning page tomorrow too for some more learning.
Also, tomorrow (Tuesday) Mrs Lyons is doing a Zoom meeting at 9:15am so that you can see your new classroom. Don’t forget to login using the details I have sent to your parents.
Have a lovely day, Keep smiling x
l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk
‘A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.’
My wonderful Year 1 families and children, all I can say is thank you. Thank you for being so understanding, thank you for your kindness and thank you for your continued support. Myself and the Year 1 Team are so upset and disappointed that our bubble has popped, but I am so grateful we got so close to the end of the year!
Read more'I will trust the promise, You will carry me safe to shore!'
What a brilliant week discovering the story of an incredibly brave woman…Grace Darling.
Read moreThis week...
This week has been an odd sort of week. I feel the children sense we are coming to the end of the year.
We have been spending lots of time preparing the children for the next stage in their learning journey and everyone is really excited, they can’t wait to grow their brain even more!. The children who have another year with us in nursery are looking forward to being the ‘big’ children in September.
A a democracy we asked the children what they would like to learn and find out about this week. As we suspected there was lots of physical activity, messy play, building, music and story telling. The children particularly enjoyed reading Peely Wally with Hannah. They then drew some fabulous pictures (even Hannah)!
Peely Wally was a small bird who lived high up in a tree . . . One day she laid an egg . .
Click here to listen to the story. Perhaps you could draw some of the pictures in the story.
The children also wanted to make tunnels and chutes from large cardboard tubes. We raced the cars to see which went the furthest! Great fun!
We worked out that the cars would not roll if the tubes were flat on the floor so we propped them on the tables and furniture.
We have been practicing our numbers and doing really hard problem solving activities. The children watched the Numberblocks video about when Ten turns up to tell the Numberblocks what it's like to be a perfect ten. Click here to watch at home.
Just in case we had forgotten, we revisited ‘shapes’. We went on a shape hunt to find lots of different shapes and noticed how many sides they had, if they were curved and rolly, how many corners and the length of the sides. Click here to watch the shape song.
Please don’t forget our Leavers Party is on Thursday 9.30- 12.00. All the children are welcome and it’s fish and chips for lunch!!! Mmmmmmmmm!
…and finally a message from Miss. Hornby.
Over the past few days some of you have been asking again about gifts. The first thing I need to say is that please know that everyone in the building already knows just how much they are appreciated. You have already given us the biggest gift of all; the trust to teach your child. We never presume that we will receive gifts; our jobs are jobs of passion. We teach because we love the craft of guiding little minds to actively seek to learn. At Our Lady’s we have the most important mission to help children to become the ‘best versions of themselves’ just as Christ yearns for us.
I do appreciate that no matter how many times I say this, there are those of you who just want to say a personal thank you and please know we never want to offend and seem unappreciative of your kindness. However, we have all been through so much together this year and you have already given us so much. Please can I request that no class collections are asked for as many parents and families are genuinely struggling financially and often feel obliged to contribute, causing distress and anxiety. I do know that beautiful words in a card always give staff a sense of worth and a card or a letter is probably the most appreciated gift of all. During this year, some parents have made donations to charities such as CAFOD on the school’s behalf and have sent us a card in to share this; bringing our mission firmly to life!
Have a lovely weekend and we will see you on Monday for our last week together at nursery.
The Nursery team.
Year 1 Home Learning 9.7.21
Home learning is set on a Friday and is due by the following Thursday. Home learning will alternate between being online and in their home learning book. Please ensure children stick their learning into their books.
Read more“Play is the highest form of research.” ~ Albert Einstein
Playtime is certainly a time discover new things, learn and grow in both body and mind.
Read more"Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends" Puck
What a joy it is to explore a Shakespeare play with children!!! We have had so much fun this week in class and in the forest beyond the field! We started by exploring power and status before we went through the whole play on Tuesday- this is called a “swoosh” were we understand who is who and the plot! We have invented some pretty scary fairies and today we explored how the four worlds in this play collide! Great fun so much creativity!
Read moreYear 3 Home Learning 9th July 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. Can you reach your reading target by the end of the term?
(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?
IXL Maths - please complete the units on 2D shape.
English:
IXL English - please complete units Q1 and Q2, all about prepositions.
Year 3 Friday 9th July 2021 “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” - Muhammad Ali
Well this wasn’t the ending to the year we were expecting to have but the children have been wonderful today and although we are all so upset and disappointed that we can not be in school next week, we have gone home with smiles on our faces and a resolve to continue working next week. -I will put lots of lovely activities on to our Remote Learning page so that the children can continue with there learning, so please make sure that you all check it out. I aim to make these activities fun and hopefully the children will be able to access them independently.
The whole of the Year 3 team would like to say a great big thank you to all of the children and to yourselves for making this year a truly amazing one. We have really loved working with the children and watching them grow and develop.
We have had another super week in Year 3 full of enthusiasm and determination to try to reach targets before the end of the year. Earlier this week Mrs Lyons popped in to see the children and they will also get the chance to spend some more time with her next week too. Mrs Lyons will set a Zoom meeting for Tuesday morning so that the children will still get to spend time in the classroom with her - albeit virtually, The children really enjoyed it when Mrs Lyons popped in for a lesson this week and I know that Mrs Lyons was really impressed with the children.
This week in Maths the children have continued to explore shape. They have been learning all about parallel lines, perpendicular lines and symmetry. In English this week we have continued to explore our poem of The Spider and The Fly. We have written reports and have been concentrating on speech and using inverted commas. In RE we have been thinking about being a Christian and how sacraments help us to become closer to Jesus. We have also continued to think about relationships in RHE, thinking about what makes a good relationship and how we should behave.
Let’s Celebrate:
This week we celebrate Max who has reached his 100% reading target this week. Well done, I have reset your target.
Our certificates this week have been awarded to Alex, Stan and Rosa.
This week we have gone for a cheeky 3 certificates. Alex receives a Focused Cooper Crab certificate for his amazing focus and concentration this week. Well done Alex. Being so focused this week has meant that you have done some super work. We are so impressed—keep up the good work. Well done also to Rosa who also receives a Focused Cooper Crab certificate. You are working so hard at the moment and being so focused on your work. What a great job you are doing. Keep up the good work. Well done. Our third certificate goes to Stan who was an amazing co-operative Roger Robin for your organizational skills and the way that you co-operated with your group in our History lesson. Well done Stan.
Iris received Jacqui’s Marvellous Manners certificate this week and Christian received the Lunchtime Role Model of the week. Well done children we are so proud of you.
Things to Note:
Next week the children should have been bringing home their books, unfortunately there was not time to sort all of these today but we will make sure that we keep these safe and the children can have them in September.
The children have brought home their art shirts today. Please could these be washed and saved for next year when they will be needed again. Thank you.
We hope that you all have a lovely weekend.
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
"We didn't realise we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun!"
I can’t quite believe I’m writing this, but we’ve just enjoyed our penultimate week together! It’s been a week filled with smiles, laughter and love as we’ve thrown everything into every moment of learning as a Year 2 class team. On Tuesday the children were very excited to discover that we had a visitor in the class … their new Year 3 teacher
Read moreYear 2 Home Learning - Week Ending 9th July 2021
This week’s home learning is to be completed online.
Read moreYear 6 Weekly Blog - 'You have always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.'
We made it. After only three weeks of rehearsal, my amazing Year 6 cast took to the stage to perform their version of The Wizard of Oz. Yes, it was a little different to other years: we didn’t have an audience, we didn’t have Year 5 supporting us as cast and we filmed it in scenes - but my, what a job we did.
Read moreFinal tasks before we move onto Year 6!!!
Lines to learn for our Mid Summer Night dream lessons!!
Read moreArt news... Week Five
Art News…Week Five
Art News… Week Five
Can You beleive we have only one week left of our school year, it’s been a crazy year but together as a school family, with love, faith and a lot of hard work, we have got there.
In Art…
Read more‘Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.’
This week has been another busy one here in Reception. In RHE this week we have had some brilliant class discussions about community. Thinking about what a community is and what makes a strong community.
Read moreThis week...
This week we have been taking advantage of the lovely warm weather. As you can see our learning activities have been varied!
Now we have all learned our letter sounds we tried to make some CVC words ( CVC words are words created using a consonant, vowel, and a consonant. Vowels are the letters A, E, I, O and U, while consonants are all the other letters in the alphabet. Examples of CVC words can include 'new', 'hat', 'cot', 'lit', and 'pit'. You can also create nonsense words that follow the rules of CVC words.) It was a little bit tricky to begin with but we soon got the hang of it.
We have continued with our investigation of mini beasts…still no snails! We have lots of spiders though! We watched ‘Come Outside’ with Auntie Mabel, all about spiders. Click here to watch Warning: may contain spiders!).
The children noticed this week how big the broad beans had grown. We decided to pick the biggest ones and see what they looked like inside. It was really interesting.
On Wednesday there was great excitement as all our butterflies had hatched out of their chrysalis. We had five! We gave them some sliced oranges to feed on and then released them on Thursday. Jacqui from the kitchen came to see them too!
A group of construction mad children made ‘Pride Rock’ for all the animals using the large bricks and boulders. We had to place the bricks and the animals carefully, one false move and the whole ‘rock’ fell down! It was quite spectacular when we had finished.
….and now for our regular feature ‘photos’ of the week! This weeks images range from under the sea world, afternoon tea in the house, making pictures at the workshop and more generally having a fabulous time at nursery!
Lastly, a quick reminder that our leavers party is being held on Thursday 15th July, 9.30- 12.00. All children are invited to attend. Lunch of fish and chips is kindly being provided by St. Annes Fish Restaurant… mmmm we can’t wait!
Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday, only two weeks left to the end of term, it’s hard to believe it! Where has this year gone!
The Nursery Team