Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
Today the school councilors for each class came together for a meeting - we discussed affordable and fun ways of raising a little money for CAFOD this Christmas. Each pair of councilors will now return to class to collect ideas! After that, we all went outside to plant bulbs around our school sign. These flowers will bloom next spring but every year following!!! The school council in action making the school that little bit better and brighter!
The weather has been gloomy, wet and miserable this week, but this certainly hasn’t dampened the children’s spirits in the classroom! I can’t quite believe how much we have managed to fit into just one week!
Read more‘Believe in your children and they will believe in themselves.’
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Read moreAnother busy week.
Monday was ‘messy Monday’ and oh my goodness did we make a mess! We has fairy filling with tiny implements and bottles. The sand was red and glittery!!!! We also made fluffy slime! We read the instructions very carefully but it all went horribly wrong, arghhhhhhh! In the end it was all fine, we made up a different recipe, with different ingredients. We all loved playing with it nonetheless.
We wanted to try and make sudsy gloop, get the bubble mixture and make dough but we ran out of time…..but there is always next Monday?
We are doing really well learning our Nativity songs and actions. We have now got all our costumes out of storage and will be giving out parts next week. We have got all the costumes for each part but would like to ask if everyone could bring in one strand of silver tinsel each. Stars may also need a white t-shirt and leggings to go underneath their costume but we will let you know next week.
As you know, our Foundation Stage Nativity Play is being staged on Tuesday 6th December and Wednesday 7th December at 9:30.
Each Nursery and Reception family may have up to 4 tickets at £2 each across 2 performances (no more than 2 tickets per performance). We need the form—link attached—to be completed by you no later than Friday 25th November. Tickets will only be allocated to people who have completed the form and will be sent out in envelopes via classes, the week beginning 28th November . Payment for tickets will be made on ParentPay for Reception children (Parents you will need first to activate your account using the log in letters which we are sending today). Nursery parents can pay for tickets by sending cash in a named envelope please, to Nursery.
We must point out that we have a maximum capacity of 120 ticketholders in the hall and with the stage plus 60 children, staff and audience, the Hall will inevitably be hot and somewhat crowded. We know how much everyone loves seeing their little ones but advise you, particularly if there are any vulnerable family members, to be aware that this is a confined space. We shall of course be arranging a professional digital film to be made of the play, details will be sent later.
Sounds
Geraldine Giraffe
Click here for Geraldine and the ‘s’ sound.
Click here for the ‘t’ sound.
Click here for the ‘d’ sound.
Learning to Talk
he DfE have launched new online resources to promote the importance of the home learning environment to boost children’s language and socio-emotional development in the early years.
These expand the NHS Better Health Start for Life website with a full range of evidence- based, detailed and accessible advice for parents on activities you can do with your child at every stage between birth and 5 years old.
Click here to find out more.
Worship
This week we looked at examples of challenging situations that we could face. We read the story about Daisy’s birthday and that actions can sometimes have consequences; that when we make mistakes, we should say sorry and ask for forgiveness. This led us to explore how Jesus forgives us.
Click on the button to read the story at home.
Click on the next button to to look at the slides.
Visit from Stuart Robinson.
As you know we had a visit from Stuart Robinson, a rugby Paralympian. He devised a series of exercises for the children (and staff) to take part in. It was so exciting and the children loved every minute. We joined in with Reception and Year 1, cheering each other on to complete each task…..phew!
Take a look at the pictures
Colette’s Blog
We began the week by making a mess!! For some reason we just can’t seem to help ourselves!! Our ‘mess’ involved the creation of our own fluffy slime (it did smell wonderful in Nursery!) We were very lucky with the weather in the afternoon so we were able to play outside! The children are really enjoying building their own obstacle courses and we have been noticing some great balancing skills (no one wants to fall in the hot lava or get eaten by sharks!!!) We were also able to practise our skills on the balance bikes and the scooters…. the children are getting better and better.
The children decided to make a car garage to help repair some faulty vehicles which also included a petrol station. Don’t worry……the fuel in Nursery garden is entirely free and it never runs out (there was a bit of a queue though!!)
We enjoyed dancing to the Cherry Tots in our Hall time and we were introduced to two new Cherries, ‘Shy’ and ‘Cheeky’. We think Cheeky Cherry is our favourite one yet.
I hope the weather manages to stay dry for the weekend!
See you next week.
Colette
Michelle’s Blog
Hello everyone
What a busy week we have had this week. We are well and truly underway with our preparations for our Nativity performance and we have been practising our songs and actions.
Our Worship this week has concentrated on our actions and the consequences of our actions. We have been practising how we can make our friend happy by passing a smile and saying sorry. As always, we try to make good choices but we also need to learn what to do if we do make a bad choice. We read a story about Daisy and her birthday and made lots of good suggestions about how Daisy could make better choices. We learnt it’s important how we speak to others as this helps us to build friendships. We also passed a smile around our circle.
We continued our investigations on shape and went on a shape hunt. The shapes were hiding everywhere!
Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week
Steph’s Blog
Hello everyone!
We have had another busy week! We started the week getting messy – we continued learning about colour and explored coloured sand, glitter in the playdough and made fluffy slime. This was fun and also very sticky! We spoke about how it changed when we added each ingredient. It smelt great too!
This term we are going to try and make up our own simple stories. We had a discussion as a key group and we wanted to write and learn about dinosaurs, unicorns and princesses. We have had fun dressing up as different characters and making up our stories in our play. The children also found different props and linked them to stories they already knew .e.g a red apple for Snow White. We also had a go at drawing some of our ideas – we used our story dice to help us and we came up with some great ideas for our stories. We will do more of this over the next few weeks – I can’t wait to see what the children come up with!
We have continued to enjoy outdoor play, especially the bikes this week. We have worked hard to practise pedalling the bigger bikes and added the trailer to see if we could ride the bike with our friends on the back – this was hard work! We enjoyed sitting in the back and having a relaxing ride though!
We are working hard to practise our Christmas songs ready for our Christmas Nativity. I’m sure you have heard your child singing them at home. We can’t wait!
Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you on Monday
Steph
Here’s a few extras from Justine!
Curriculum Evening
A big thank to everyone who managed to come along to our Curriculum Evening. It was so lovely to see all our families back in school….a true community working together. Take a look at these few photos!
Children in Need Pyjama Day
What fun day! We made Pudsey Pink Playdough, coloured in Pudsey pictures, took photos of everyone with their teddy and another with our Pudsey blanket!
Have a look in the childrens books bag….there is an activity to do at home too! When you have completed it either send it back to nursery or send us a picture!
Here’s are just a few photos of our day!
Termly Drop in Session
Tuesday 29th November 3.45-4.45 pm we will be having our termly parent drop in session. If you would like a quick catch up with your child’s key person just pop along. No appointment necessary.
Advent Mass Cancelled
Sadly this year, Father is unable to come to school to conduct our Advent Masses.
Finally, here’s hoping that the weekend weather is slightly better than during the week…it’s been very wet! Christmas shopping is beckoning!!
See you on Monday!
God Bless
Barbara
Lunchtime play is truly an essential time of day. After a busy morning working hard in class, playtime is indeed essential. It is a time where work, rest and play develops a healthy mind and body. Where imagination flows freely, and creativity is in abundance.
Meanwhile in the Year 6 clubs….
Let’s Celebrate!
First Sitting.
Class of the Week: Year 3
Role Model of the Week: Amelia, Year 3 and Isaac, Year 4
Jacqui’s Marvellous Manners: Ciaran, Year 3 and Cora, Year 4
Second Sitting. Year 6
Class of the Week: Year
Role Model of the Week: Angel, Year 5 and Evie, Year 6
Jacqui’s Marvellous Manners: Emelia, Year 5 and Jacob O, Year 6
Third Sitting.
Class of the Week: Year Reception
Role Model of the Week: Henry, Reception, Bella Year 1and Louie, Year 2
Jacqui’s Marvellous Manners: Matilda, Reception, Luca, Year 1 and Anna Year 2
Well done and thank you so much children for making lunchtimes such a lovely time of the day.
Have a wonderful weekend
God Bless
The Lunchtime Team
What a week! Firstly we would like to say a huge thank you for supporting all of the extra activities that have been going on in school this week! The buzz around school has been fantastic and seeing our school community come together again has brought such happiness to us all! The children were SO excited on Wednesday when we welcomed Stuart Robinson into school. They all took part in a tricky exercise class, cheered on another class and listened beautifully to Stuart’s inspiring talk during an assembly. Thank you for being so organised with your sponsor forms, it is amazing to see the amounts that have been raised.
We have also had some really exciting moments in class as we continued our English learning about dragons! Many of our children have been looking out for any clues or signs that dragons are in our area. We have carried out interviews and have even created our own news reports which we hope to film next week.
Thank you to all of you who managed to come along to our school Curriculum evening. It was great to see you all in the school, joining in activities and discovering more about our school virtues.
Well done ro Louis and Logan for getting this week’s vertificates.
Logan you get a Bobby Bee Certificate for being so enthusiastic and excited about your learning. We love it when you want to share your thoughts and ideas.with your learning partner and the rest of the class. Well done, keep up the good work.
Louis you get a Cooper Crab certificate for being a focused learner in Maths this week. You have really concentrated well and this has shown in the answers that you have given and the work that you have completed. Well done. Being focused is so important in the process of learning.
Please can you check sweatshirts and cardigans. We have a couple that have been misplaced and a couple of unnamed ones left in the classroom. If your child has picked up the wrong one, please could you return it and ask your child to check to see if theirs is in class. Many thanks.
We hope that you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Bassett, Miss Brisco, Miss Russell and Mrs Carter.
What an inspirational and busy week we have had in Year 6… the highlight of the week has most definitely been our visit from Stuart Robinson MBE, who taught us just what the word resilience means and how it can make you unstoppable at striving to achieve your goals. Each class took part in an exercise circuit (of course we were first) and then later on we cheered and encouraged our younger pupils to complete their circuits from Nursery and Reception. We had such good fun, but the lesson behind the morning was of the greatest value. We all worked so hard as you can see from the photographs …
Resilience was another key theme at our Curriculum Evening last night. It was so lovely to see so many families sharing our learning with us and we enjoyed exploring our Jesuit virtues together! Thank you so much to those Year 6’s who came to help and support us, it is much appreciated.
Today, we have had another different day, where we have been very snuggly and warm in our PJ’s to raise money for Brian House- thank you so much for your donations!
Within class this week, although we have been struck with illness this week, we have continued working harder than ever, putting our resilience and readiness to good use. In Maths we have been looking closely at the structure of operations, using Cuisenaire rods to compare, make and discuss whether operations are a multiplicative or additive. In English this week we have compared and created a toolkit for writers of how to engage the audience in story openings, before writing our own story next week.
Art project - Mrs Neves, our art teacher, is running an art project across the school and needs your rubbish! She has asked over the next week, for Year 6 to bring in any bottle lids ( flat ones please i.e. milk lids ) and REAL pinecones ready to pain and decorate with.
Well done to Amber and India this week.
Amber, you impress us every day with your enthusiasm, focus and determination in lessons. You have real ownership of your learning, using your initiative to catch up on any work missed when you were poorly and all in your own time. You are a pleasure to teach, with your quick wit, curious mind and polite manners- you never miss an opportunity to thank us or offer help.
India, you have kind and beautiful soul, where you quietly and humbly show compassion to those around you, always willing to offer a helping hand or offer a kind word. You work so cooperatively with who ever you work with; listening, offering your opinion sensitively and showing great focus.
This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are intentional with their actions, who make deliberate choices for the good of others. Those that are prophetic, who may stand up to injustice for the greater good even when it is difficult to do so. These children are the role models of the school, who may march to the beat of a different drummer, but who make a big difference not just to our class, but to our school. This week we thank Jack Frew.
This week we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:
Those in the girl’s football team- please see detail on the sports page for next Thursday!
Please can you bring in any outstanding sponsor form/ monies.
Please bring as many bottle tops and pinecones as you can!
Have a lovely weekend all of you,
Mrs Harrison, Mrs Nel, Miss Forster and Mrs Webster
This week our focus is on HOMOPHONES- words that can confuse us! There is a Purple Mash quiz and Look, Cover, Check activity to help you.
Could you also complete the IXL strand ENGLISH: Z1 use the correct homophone
Please complete the Arithmetic and Reasoning questions in your books.
Please keep reading at home for at least 30 minutes every night.
We are really excited to be taking our first ever girls’ football team to compete in a tournament at AKS on Thursday. Please click here for arrangements and liaise with Mr Cornwell if needed.
Read morePlease click here to watch our wonderful dance troop compete at The Winter Gardens. They were just spectacular!
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Please complete A4 and R1
This week we have been on the look out for dragons. So far in our learning we have discovered lots of different clues that could mean a dragon has been close by. In your homework book I would like you to record any new evidence you might find over the coming week.
You will need to draw what it is you have found, seen or heard and write a little bit about what it looked like or sounded like, where you discovered it and any other information that you think is important.
We can share all our findings together next week!
This week we have been busy with lots of different science activities. We have: discussed signs of Autumn, have started a daily weather chart, used our senses on our Autumn walk, tasted crisps, labelled our body parts and even investigated if you are the oldest in the class you will also be the tallest, as you get taller as you age. We discovered that just because you are older, it does not mean you are taller. We all grow at different rates and because we are all unique, we are all different height. This also linked with our RHE lesson about our bodies. We have also picked our class tree to observe through all of the seaons.
In Maths we have been comparing objects and saying if they are longer or shorter, we have loved all the practical activities and comparing a range of objects.
We loved Wednesday, we were inspired by gold medallist wheelchair rugby champion Stuart Robinson. We supported Year 2 and loved cheering and waving our flags to encourage them to keep going with the activities. We were very resilient and kept going even when we found it difficult and were hot and tired. Reception and Nursery then came in to support us while we completed our challenges. After the whole school came together for an assembly, where Stuart told us his amazing story of his determination and bravery. We all agree that anything is possible is you put your mind to it and do not give up! Please can you bring in sponsor forms and money in on Monday, thank you :).
We had our fourth KidSafe lesson this week. We discussed the importance of keeping our bodies safe and what to do if we have those yukky feelings. Please read the letter below to find out more.
We loved our PE session today we started our Gymnastic unit, we walked tall like gymnasts and performed a simple routine, four steps, a pencil roll, caterpillar walk and a jump. Miss Liddell and I were very impressed with the children’s routines.
Thank you for those who joined us at our Curriculum evening, it was wonderful to see everyone enjoying all the different activities.
Thank you for everyone who brought a £1 in for Brian House, we have enjoyed wearing our Pyjamas and loved listening to a story with our teddies.
Well done to our awardees: for super sentence writing and applying their phonics knowldge to support them.
Henry is going home with this person because they have has a super week at school, listened well during carpet input and tried their best.
This week I have started PE Superstars, these are awarded to children for working hard in their PE lessons. I will pick two children from each group, well done to these children for super routines and not giving up!
Sponsorship forms - Monday
Art project – Thank you for those who have already brought in lots of cereal boxes. Mrs Neves, our art teacher, is running an art project and needs your rubbish! She has asked if over the next week or so, Year 1 could bring in any empty cereal boxes, they have planned what they will be making next week. I am excited to see their final products.
Please check the home learning section for this week’s homework.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Drummond, Miss LIddell and Miss Johnson
This week’s home learning is online.
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This week, we have learned the 8 x table. Please complete your 8x tables sheet to learn the 8’s. Spot patterns, practise counting in 8’s until you are very confident.
Please re-read Chapter 15 of Charlotte’s Web aloud to an adult. Then work through the comprehension question sheet ‘Practising Different Reading Skills,’ based on chapter 15 using the text to help you answer them.
Also, can you tell your grown up what has happened in the story so far? What are the characters like?
This homework does not need to be brought into school until Monday 28th November so you can do it next weekend if you need to. We are setting up a historical enquiry about the pyramids of Egypt.
I would like you to draw, make or paint a pyramid or pyramids. I would then love you to think of as many questions as you can about pyramids and write them on your question sheet. (if you then want to do some research to find answers you can- but you do not have to) On Monday 28th we will bring in our pyramids and questions and collect them together. We will then find out more about them.
Practise songs on Charanga.
This term, some children from Years 2, 3 and 4 have been participating in multi-skills sports clubs with Mr Nay. These sessions have been taking place in the mornings and after school.
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What an inspirational week it has been at school, where we have really learned about the power of Resilience. On Wednesday we were all led in our sponsored event by this amazing athlete, who recently won Gold in the Olympics for wheelchair rugby. Afterwards we were treated to an assembly where Stuart talked to the children about how, despite his injury, he channeled his passion for sport to find one he could thrive in. It was powerful listening to a person who did not let adversity define him and the essence of who he is as a person.
Then on Thursday night we had our Curriculum evening in school where we learned about the power of Resilience again! It was so lovely to see so many families sharing our learning with us and we enjoyed exploring our Jesuit virtues together!
Within class this week, we have worked so hard! Children have been manipulating 4 digit numbers, they have been been news reporters, writing excellent reports about the miracle in the barn and also have started writng persuasive letters linked to our novel. We have explored friendship and kindness this week too, as it is a key theme in this novel and children ranked the characters according to their kindness - giving reasons from the story. Add to that swimming, net and wall games in PE, coding in computing and a lovely French lesson describing personalities - it has been a diverse week!
Let’s Celebrate!
This week’s certificate winners are Sophia and Ola for Tommy Turtle/Roger Robin certificates. Girls you have worked so beautifully together this week. You have helped each other, learned from your mistakes and encouraged each other to have a go. I am extremely proud of you.
Swimming stars this week go to Rose and Ola
Music stars this week, were Rose and Luke
Please could year 4 collect kitchen rolls for an Art recycling project. They will be making a very exciting Christmas village as part of a whole school project!
On Wednesday 14th December, we will be going to UCLAN in Preston by train for a day on ‘Cosmetic Chemistry.’ This is to launch our Science topic beginning in the New Year, about States of Matter. More details will be given soon.
Have a lovely weekend. God bless,
Mrs Lyons, Miss Hennessy and Mrs Mather.
Next week in Science, the children will be looking at how they have changed from when they were a baby. I would be so very grateful, if you could email me a photo of your child as a baby/toddler. If you could get these to me by Monday that would be wonderful. I really appreciate your help with this! Thank you!
You can either email me a picture: d.drummond@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk or sent a photo in and I can photocopy it.
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The children will have their spelling test on Friday.
This week in Maths we have been discussing odd and even numbers and measuring. To consolidate their learning of counting, here are some IXL challenges for your child to have a go at. see this as an ongoing learning challenge and certainly not to be completed by next Thursday.
6. Compare size, weight and capacity
9. Build cube trains to measure length
11. Build cube trains to measure height
In English we have been learning about Nouns (naming words) and adjectives (describing words. Have a go at these challenges:
1. Compare pictures using adjectives
2. Find the picture that matches the action verb
Thank you
Miss Drummond
What a great start to the week, with our class assembly, all the children were brilliant. They were clear when saying their lines, didn’t need any reminders to come on the stage and sang beautifully. I am so proud of all the children, they all worked incredibly hard well done!
In Maths we have been busy leaning about odd and even numbers up to 10, we discovered that even numbers all have a pair and odd numbers have an odd one by itself. Ask your child if they can tell you about how they know a number is odd or even. We also compared objects using measurement, we set up different stations for the children to measure practically. We measured height, weight, length and distance.
We read the book Dangerous by Tim Warnes in English and learnt about nouns and adjectives. We used nouns to label things inside and outside our classroom. We all wrote adjectives for our main characters, we will use these next week to write sentences about Mole and Crocodile.
We have loved our Geography lessons this week, we discovered we live in the continent Europe, we found the UK on a world map and learnt about each country. What can you remember?
This morning, we gathered as a class to share a Remembrance Day prayer. We remembered those who have fallen in war and conflict and said prayers for all those who need our help around the world. We watched ‘Poppies’ and drew our own poppy fields. The children had a choice of using crayons, water pencils or oil pastels to create their artwork.
We had our third KidSafe lesson this week, where we learned all about how to keep ourselves safe when using technology. Please read the letter below to find out more.
On Thursday 17th November at 6pm, we will be welcoming both parents and children into school for a Curriculum Evening where there will be a variety of interactive stations around school for you to engage with. These activities will share information regarding aspects of our curriculum, our school’s virtues and Read Write Inc Phonics.
This will be a wonderful evening and an exciting opportunity for you to learn more about our schools curriculum and how we can work together to support your child throughout their learning journey. We are really looking forward to coming together as a whole school community once again to share how we promote that love of learning in the children.
We hope you can make it!
Well done to our Tommy Turtles for excellent Maths work this week.
Well done to all of Year 1 for an amazing assembly.
Henry is going home with this person for excellent concentration and focus this week.
Keep it up :)
On Friday 18th November we are having a pyjama day to raise money for Brian House who support children in need in our local area. Children can come to school in pyjama’s and trainers and we kindly ask that they bring a £1 donation which will be given to Brian House.
As explained in a previous message sent out by the school, Stuart Robinson will now be joining us in school on the morning of Wednesday 16th November for our sport session.
Reading Books - Polite reminder that reading packets and books must be brought to school each day so we can read with the children in school. Thank you for your support with reading at home, it is really important that they have regular opportunities to read and build on these skills.
Art project - Mrs Neves, our art teacher, is running an art project and needs your rubbish! She has asked if over the next week or so, Year 1 could bring in any empty cereal boxes/cereal bar boxes All will be revealed to the children in their next art session! Again, thank you in advance!
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson
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