Year 5 Christmas Homework

Reading

Lot’s of time to finish our books so we are expecting lots of quizzing when we come back. If you have finished a book at the beginning of the holidays, then continue reading as the book may be available to quiz on Accelerated Reader.

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Maths

The children have been given times tables sheets to complete over the holidays. These focus on some of the trickier times tables. It is important that we practice our times tables over the break and master these to prepare us for our multiplication topic when we come back.

Year 4 Weekly blog 21st December 2023 "We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

It has been a beautiful week in Year 4 - full of reflection, joy and love. On Monday, I am sure you will agree, the children sang like angels and what a lovely gift it was! We made it our mission on party day to spread joy everywhere and as you can see from the video above, the children did just that. There is also a Christmas flute video below to wish you all a Merry Christmas from Year 4!

This week, children have stunned us with their excellent French clothing catalogues they have made to showcase their writing descriptions in French of what each model was wearing! The choir went to Stella Mattatina yesterday and did the school proud, singing to the elderly residents.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, the certificates have been voted by the children in class. A certificate with every learning character has been awarded to Rory and Rose. The children said you are both consistently kind, hardworking, focused and loving to others. You are role models. Well done!

Faith-Filled and Hopeful butterflies

This half term, our virtues are ‘Faith-filled and hopeful.’ This week our butterfly is Lily for letting somebody go in front and win at the party and William for always being so positive. How kind!

Other stars!

Reading targets met by: John-Paul, Jacob, Seth, Rory, Tilly, Ciaran, Amelia, Poppy, William, Teddy and Toby

Notices

PE - after the holidays, children will continue with their swimming lessons on Thursday as normal. They will also have INDOOR PE on Wednesday afternoon, so will need shorts under their tracksuit bottoms, ready to do gymnastics.

Trip- ‘Cosmetic Chemistry’ 23rd January. Children will be travelling by coach to UCLAN, Preston, where they will take part in a day of Science in the laboratory, linked to our Science topic of solids, liquids and gases. Please pay on Parentpay.

We wish you a happy and holy Christmas and want to thank you for the privilege of teaching your beautiful children

Mrs Lyons, Miss Hennessey and Mrs Carter

Have most wonderful Christmas!

I can not believe we are at the end of our first term! The children have been absolutely wonderful this week! The dinner hall has been full of festive cheer, yet calm and reflective. On Wednesday, we all joined together to feast on a delightful Christmas dinner. Thank you so much to the kitchen and lunchtime team for all your hard work in making this possible.

After the New Year, the Lunchtime Blog will be going live every half term, teachers will be celebrating the weekly Role Models and Jacqui’s Marvelous Manners on their class blog.

We would like to thank and say a fond farewell to the lovely Mrs Duxbury, who has been part of the kitchen team. It has been a pleasure to work with you and we wish you all the very best in your new adventure. We will miss you!

Wishing you a Happy and Holy Christmas

God Bless

The Lunchtime Team

Year 1 Homework 21.12.23

My most important homework is to be kind to each other, be grateful and enjoy your time together :). The children have worked so hard this half term we are so proud of their progress, make sure you have fun and rest up.

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Have a lovely Christmas break

Miss Drummond

We Wish you a Merry Christmas...

I can’t believe that we are already one third of the way through the school year. Time certainly does fly when you are enjoying your self!

It has been an extremely long term and the children (and nursery ladies) are all exhausted, everyone has been growing their brains. You should be so proud of your child, they have learnt so much, they have made new friends and grown in confidence and independence.

During Advent, we have journeyed to the stable together. It has been such a wonderful experience for the children to have the opportunity to pause and give thanks for the love, hope and joy found in Jesus – our Saviour and our friend.

On behalf of the nursery team can I say a huge thank your your kind words and gifts this Christmas, they have been greatly appreciated. Working alongside your children and seeing them grow and develop daily is a privilege; we are grateful for your trust in us and for sharing your precious children.

Making a birthday Cake for Baby Jesus

It was sooo delcious!!!

Christmas Party

What a fabulous party!

It just remains for me to say I hope you all have a Happy and Holy Christmas and we will see everyone in 2024!

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 6 Weekly Blog 'It's the most wonderful time of the year'

I think you will all agree that Monday’s concert at church was so magical and a real thought-provoking evening for us all. We were so unbelievably proud of the children; the way they spoke and the way they sung was just beautiful - it really started Christmas for us all. Thank you for coming and joining us in this celebration.

Amidst all of these performances and our own rehearsals, the children have continued to work incredibly hard. We have written a letter to Mike E. Mouse, applying for a job as chief animator and continuing with our coding work, designing our very own game!

We finally finished our class novel ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ and I have to say it was most definitely worth waiting for! It was quite a dramatic ending with lots of emotion. I am sorry to those that missed the ending- please don’t worry you can borrow the book to finish after Christmas or if you can’t wait, I have attached the PDF below:

On Tuesday was our well-deserved Christmas Party, where we danced, played games and laughed …ALOT! It was so lovely to relax and enjoy this time together as a class, followed by a nice treat, relaxing in front of a film!

We loved meeting up with our reception partners today to decorate baubles for one another …

Thank you to all of the children for their hard work this term, make sure this Christmas you get plenty of rest and re-charge those batteries ready for a busy, hard-working next half term- they are more than ready!

LEARNER OF THE HALF TERM

Voted for by your classmates for being an excellent learning role model within our classroom. The class think you have shone this half term …

Lily- Mae and Alex

Helpers in the mornings:

The first week back after Christmas we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Nicola Harvey Edi Iris

Have a lovely Christmas full of fun, family-time and relaxation.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Barker and Mrs Webster.

Year 6 Home Learning

For homework over Christmas I would like you just to relax, make memories with your families and re-charge those batteries ready for another busy term.

However, the one thing we would ask is that you do lots of reading over the holidays!

It would be great if you could go to the library and borrow a couple of Biographies, as we will be writing our own when we come back! This will help you to gather certain vocabulary and get used to the style of writing, as well of course as being extremely interesting learning about the lives of others!

Here are some websites that you can download free biographies from incase you can’t get to the library:

https://freekidsbooks.org/subject/childrens-book-biography/

https://www.getepic.com/collection/37559/biography

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/

Year 5 Weekly Blog 15.12.23- ' Music is all around us, all we have to do is listen’

Our last full week of 2023 has come to an end and yet it has still been filled with lots of learning opportunities. The focus of the week has been our KS2 nativity practice which has taken place at church- where we have been practicing our songs for the Christmas concert. With the concert taking place this Monday- it is important that we have one final practice over the weekend so we are super confident with all of our songs.

In Maths, we have continued with our money topic and have been looking at tackling real life money problems such as working out change and shopping scenarios. With Mrs Gregan, the children have been linking their angles work to properties of shapes and making connections about what they know about different polygons.

We finished our Geography unit of rivers by learning about erosion and how this takes place in a river. We looked at the four different types of erosion and used sugar cubes and a spatula to show how this happens.

In Science, we have continued with our forces topic- with each week focusing on a different force and how it is seen in everyday life. This week, our focus was water resistance and we looked at how professional swimmers use streamlining to allow them to travel faster through the water (reduce the effects of water resistance). For our experiment, we created different shapes out of playdough and dropped them into some water to test how long it would take to reach the bottom.

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Let’s Celebrate

• Gabriella for being a determined learner: This week you have been trying really hard in your times tables practice and have been so focused in getting through as much work as you can. You have developed strategies to help improve on particular tables that are harder than others (‘Use what you know to work out what you don’t know’). Brilliant work!

• Elsie for being a reflective learner: Your focus and drive to succeed is what helps you make so much progress in your learning Elsie. Your attitude to responding to feedback is excellent and you love to challenge yourself- no matter the task at at hand. Excellent work!

• Sophia for being a faith-filled and hopeful learner: You have been seen countless times helping other children when they have hurt themselves and are always the first to comfort them- regardless of how close of a friend they are to you. You will always choose to spend your own break time to help others rather than to play if they are in need.

• Niamh for being a faith-filled and hopeful learner: You are such as calm and loving member of our class and you have been seen showing this out on the playground to help calm others who are in distress. You never make a big fuss about it- you just help people because it is the kind and loving thing to do. Thank you Niamh!

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Notices

• Monday 18th December- Christmas Concert at Church. This will be performed twice, the first performance at 2pm and the later one at 6pm. Children need to arrive at Church at 5:45pm in their full school uniform.

• Tuesday 19th December- KS2 Christmas Party Day. Children will be partying in the morning followed by a film in the afternoon. Children can come into school in their own clothes. Please make sure that they are wearing appropiate shoes. They can bring in one small fizzy drink and a small party snack (small bag of chocolate or crisps). The children will be intaking lots of sugar so it is vital that they still bring their water bottle in and are drinking plenty of healthy fluids.

• Wednesday 20th December- Christmas Dinner. These will be the hot dinner options for this day, with choice 2 being a vegetarian Christmas dinner.

• Thursday 21st December- School will close at 2pm for the Christmas break.

Year 1 Homework 15.12.23

The children have worked so hard this week, it has been very busy. They are very tired rest up and enjoy your weekend together they deserve it. Due to the busy week all books may not have been changed we are going to quiz next week and change books/word sets before we break up.

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Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 4 Weekly blog 15th December 2023 "Joseph is just a man, chosen by God to be the earthly father of Jesus."

From Christmas performances to mummifying a class member, it has been a different and exciting week in Year 4! We have learned all about how Ancient Egyptians buried their esteemed members of society - and why they did so. Also, children have reflected upon all the amazing achievements of this Ancient civilisation. They have learned that there were other civilisations around this time nd that there were some commonalities between them. But whose civilisation was the most significant?

In our worships this week, we have learned about St Joseph and all his special titles which tell us what a kind, supportive and special individual he must have been. We have been trying to be like him each day.

In maths, we have been learning about the structure of numbers to 10,00 making sure we know what the value of each place in the number is.

We also got to watch the very magical Key Stage 1 nativity “Do not Be Afraid,” which taught us important lessons about not giving in to fear, panic and doubt - instead spreading joy, hope and peace - just like our Holy Family.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, we have two Lizzie Ladybird certificates. One goes to Hudson who is improving so much in focus and in all his work The other goes to Ciaran who tried so hard in all tasks and listened to every bit of advice. We also have a Cooper Crab for Teddy who has been so focused on his history writing! Well done boys

Faith-Filled and Hopeful butterflies

This half term, our virtues are ‘Faith-filled and hopeful.’ This week our butterfly is Rory for thinking so deeply and always showing faith.

Other stars!

Music stars: John-Paul and Seth

PE stars: Louis, Hugo and Rose

Reading targets met by: John-Paul, Jacob, Seth, Rory, Tilly, Ciaran, Amelia, Poppy, William and Teddy

Notices

Monday - Key Stage 2 nativity. Children will be performing in the afternoon, then will be picked up from school as normal. Please could children arrive in the evening no earlier than 5:45pm in full school uniform and make their way to the front, to be ready to find their place on the altar.

Tuesday - Key Stage 2 Christmas party. Please wear Christmas clothes! As a treat, you are allowed to bring a small snack like a normal size packet of crisps or chocolate bar.

We break up on Thursday 21st December at 2:00pm

Have another lovely Christmassy weekend!

Mrs Lyons, Miss Hennessey and Mrs Carter

Year 5 Weekly Homework- Due 20th December

Spellings

1. develop

2. determined

3. familiar

4. definite

5. awkward

6. persuade

7. especially

8. guessed

9. rhythm

10. curiosity

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Christmas Concert Practice- PRIORITY

We have now finished all of our concert practice sessions and with our concert being on Monday, it s crucial that children spend the weekend going over any of the songs that they do not know as well. All of the songs and lyrics are on last weeks blog.

The song in particular that needs the most practice is ‘While Shepherds Watched’. This is because each class sings a different verse so it is more independent of each child to loudly and confidently sing the lyrics. We are singing Verse 2 which is;

“Fear not,” said he for mighty dread

had seized their troubled mind

“glad tidings of great joy I bring

to you and all mankind

This week...

As we limp towards the end of term our learning and Christmas fun just keeps on going. This week, please don’t thin we have gone mad! Your childs key person blog reflects learning that happened in nursery week commencing 8th December as last week we dedicated to our Christmas Nativity; you will have noticed that there has been no frosty weather this week.

Emma’s Blog

Hello everyone, 

What a wonderful and busy week we have had.

Firstly, we are super proud of all the nursery children with how wonderful they were in our nativity. We hope you enjoyed watching it as much as we did putting it together and learning all the songs. Thank you for your support. 

The children have been quite excited that Jack Frost has been to the nursery garden, they have been playing detectives in the garden, finding frost on the ground. They liked to touch and walk on it to feel how different it felt under their feet. They also discovered ice, which the children enjoyed looking through and watching it melt in their hands. We then left some cups of water outside overnight to see what would happen and we discovered that the liquid had turned into solid ice and then saw as it warms and melts, it turns back into liquid. We wanted to do it again, but the next day wasn't as cold for the liquid to freeze. The children make great detectives. 

As December has arrived, and therefore the start of advent, we attended assembly with the rest of the school and we lit our first candle HOPE on our Advent wreath.

Nursery also has it own Advent celebrations and every day one of the children will open a pocket to see what exciting knitted object is hiding in there!

We also have been busy putting up the Christmas tree in nursery and the children helped to decorate by putting baubles on the tree. We have had lots of fun. Here is a link for you to decorate your own tree. Click here

TROUBLE IN NURSERY! Don't worry you're not in trouble, we have a little elf that has come to join in with our learning, but he keeps getting up to mischief and his name is ‘Trouble’ the elf. He has been hanging his washing up in nursery, he's been jumping on Barbara’s back and she didn't even know! He's also climbed up into a tiny hole in the ceiling. He is so cheeky. I hope you haven't got any cheeky elves at home?

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and see you all on Monday.

Emma 

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog. This week we have very much been feeling the festive spirit as we began our Advent celebrations. We were excited to join the rest of the school for Advent assembly, where we sang one of our favourite songs, Away in a Manger.

This week in Advent is all about Hope. We hope that you all enjoy our Nativity performances. We were so excited to perform them for the school and our friends and family. We have been practising so hard, and I’m sure you will agree that we were all fantastic! We are looking forward to watching the rest of the school perform their Nativities. We have heard them practice and can’t wait to see them. We are also looking forward to our Christmas party. We’ve heard that chocolate cake might be involved.

As it is the beginning of Advent, we had a very important job to do as we decorated the Christmas Tree. We all think it looks so magical.

This week we have also made snow and enjoyed reading our Christmas stories in our very own snow cave. We have also enjoyed taking home the Travelling Nativity to our homes and sharing the story of the birth of Christ with our families. The photos have all been truly wonderful, we hope you have enjoyed taking part in this special celebration. Please don’t worry if you haven’t had a turn yet, we still have a few more homes to visit yet before the end of term.

We have continued to explore the letter sounds we have been learning. These are m,a,s,d,t,i,n,p,g and o. We have also been practising writing these in the sand and as we write our names in our Christmas cards we discovered that some of these sounds are in our names. Any practice that your child can get at home writing their name will be so beneficial for them.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we will see you next week.

 Michelle

Read, Write Inc

Due to a popular request from the children we have started to learn some new sounds this week. The nursery ladies were going to wait until the New Year but the children insisted !!

The sounds are c, k, u, b, f. Click on the links to watch Geraldine the Giraffe

c - click here

k - click here

u - click here

b - click here

f - click here

The children are spotting sounds everywhere, even in the beginning, middle and end of their names. Enjoy sound spotting!

Travelling Nativity

Maths Mastery

Number 5

Five arrives to get the band together - and gets the party started with a big high five!

We have:

• Met five

• Learnt that 5 is one more than four

• Counted to five

• Lined up1 to 5 in order

• Practiced writing 5

Click here to meet 5

Click here to practice writing 0-5

Christmas Activities for the holidays

Next week we will be sending home all the Christmas surprises the children have been making for you, keep a look out!

I will also be sending home our Christmas Taskmaster Activity ( if you have time!). It is packed full of things to do and to find our about. We hope you enjoy it. Send us some photos if you mange any of the challenges.

Lastly, a few reminders!

Nursery will close for the Christmas holidays on Thursday 21st December at 2 pm.

Christmas Party

Wednesday 20th of December will be KS1 and Foundation Christmas party. All the children are invited to join in the fun but if it is not you childs usual session can you please bring them at 9.15 am and collect them at 11.45 am.

Please do not bring any snack this morning as we will be having a birthday cake to celebrate Baby Jesus’ birthday! The children have requested a chocolate cake with chocolate icing and Smarties on the top!! Mmmmmm sounds yummy!

Party clothes and dancing shoes please!

School Admissions September 2024

We still have some families that have not yet applied for a school for September 2024, or, returned their supplementary forms etc to school.

It is very important that you apply for school online before January 15th 2024 (www.lancashire.gov.uk/schools or call 01524 581148). You will need to bring to the school office your supplementary form signed by your Parish priest, along with a copy of your childs baptism certificate a.s.a.p. Please don’t leave it too late, time is running out!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend, have a rest next week is VERY busy!

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara