Year 6 Dance Festival

Historically, the dance festival has always been operated across Year 5 & 6, sometimes Year 4, but this year, we are just doing it with Year 6. With Mrs Harrison being our dance specialist, we want to maximise her time - whilst also giving the children a really special experience. We have never used 30 children before, but this is the year, and seeing how much they have enjoyed Shakespeare in recent years; I think they will love it. Below you will find all of the information regarding the performance and when it will be - Tuesday 26th November . Tickets for it go on sale today at midday - these will be direct from The Winter Gardens. The button below will take you to their website.

The theme this year is magic - which we know will inspire them all - and just have fun!

Family Mass - Sunday 6th October

On Sunday, we will have our first family mass in church. Family mass takes place every Sunday at 9.30am, but we are now wanting to involve the children more in this - which is just lovely. I understand that not everyone will be able to come, you all have commitments, this is just another opportunity if you choose too.

The children who will be directly involved in the Mass on Sunday are above on the PDF. If your child’s name isn’t listed, they will be involved, just sat with you taking part in the mass. Those children who are in the choir, will be sat in the choir loft with the parish choir. The readers and offertory children can sit with their parents and come up when it is there turn for involvement. Staff will be present too to support. We can then choose different children for readings, choir and offertory at our next mass in December, and throughout the year.

Sometimes, those families with children sit towards the back of church, but Father Peter will be addressing his homily to all of the children in the congregation so please do come a little bit closer to be part of that. There are 14 children making up our choir, so you should really be able to hear them!

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Following mass, there is the monthly coffee and craft club at the Parish Centre. Please do attend if you are able to.

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 3rd October

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Just 4 weeks into school and we are over 1,000,000 words! With many children still needing to quiz- we can definitely hit our target.

Times Tables

Lots of TTRS to make sure we are super sharp and speedy on our times tables- these will come in handy this year. The children’s TTRS logins have been stuck on the inside of their homework books.

Spellings

Our spellings have changed slightly in that we are aiming to achieve more retrieval across our spellings. The children have been given a spellings practice sheet, which is to be completed as evidence of practice. Each child has also been given two spelling test sheets to practice over the week in order to identify which words require more focus.

  1. took

  2. goes

  3. can’t

  4. accident

  5. island

  6. probably

  7. berries

  8. leaves

  9. babies

  10. elves

  11. correspond

  12. individual

  13. sacrifice

  14. variety

  15. bargain


    Mrs Barker’s group

    1. slow

    2. look

    3. shout

    4. goes

    5. took

    6. can’t

    7. accident

    8. island

    9. probably

    10. babies

Optional Homework

Music- The Blues

Ask your parents if they are interested in any blues songs?

Play with ‘Expressions Test’ with them and see how similar/different your thoughts are with your family (starter activity in lessons)

Listen to some of the biggest/best blues songs to be made– can you choose a favourite and tell me why.

 History- Ancient Greeks

There are so many Ancient Greek Gods/Goddesses. All with amazing abilities and qualities.

Create a set of Top Trumps Cards– Ancient Gods Edition.

Choose your own stats and battle against your friends.

Science- Materials

Pick a material in your house and analyse its properties (ticks and crosses)

 examples of properties:

-Hard or Soft?

-Rough or Smooth?

- Transparent, Translucent or Opaque?

-Flammable

-Magnetic

 My Happy Mind

Do your parents know about the different parts of the brain (HAP)? Can you teach them this so they can learn something new?

Happy Breathing is a technique used to calm us down when were stressed or scared. Teach your family how to do this and write down when you have used this technique

This week...

Another great week at nursery. The children are quickly becoming more confident and more willing to ‘have a go’ (just like Tommy Turtle) at new learning experiences. We read the story about Tommy being afraid to try new things in case they went wrong. We found out that making mistake is ok, as that’s when we do our best brain growing!

Autumn colours

This week we have been noticing that the leaves are falling from the trees and changing colour. We decided to do some printing using the clours we had noticed.

We got very messy…fabulous! Next week we will be doing autumn collages! Watch this space!

Worship

This week we have explored St Vincent de Paul. He aspired to live the gospel message by serving the poor with love, respect, justice, hope and joy, and by working to shape a more just and compassionate society. He was on a mission and so have we! Everyone has been trying to serve and think of others before themselves. I am more than proud of everyone. Click here to watch a short video.

On Friday we had a visit from Bishop Paul. We drew pictures of Our Lady and the created a display in the hall. Check out the main school webpage to see how the visit went.

Emma’s Blog

Hello everyone! We have had a very busy week growing our brains and having lots of fun.

We have been practicing our throwing and catching skills using different sized balls. We tries underarm and overarm throwing. This will help us with our gross motor skills and hand-eye co-ordination. Have a go at home (if it’s not raining!). Mr. Nay also had us a throwing shuttlecocks, which were really fun to throw. The children loved watching them glide and spin as they landed. We played a game where we had to throw the shuttlecocks and hit the cones (target practise). This was really tricky but the children all had a go, just like Tommy Turtle.

It’s great this year as we have lots of P.E. sessions. We have PE with Mr. Nay and Mr. Murray on Monday and Wednesday, and on Wednesday afternoon and Friday we do dance!

This week we have been practicing using a knife and fork in spaghetti cutting activity. This was the like colour monsters feelings different colours and all mixed up. Our task was to sort the different coloured spaghetti and then to chop it up. This also helps with eye hand co-ordination and fine motor skills. The children loved it and we even had some great fork twirling too! Continue to practice at home with your knife and forks, as it all helps to strengthen the children's hand muscles, getting them ready for writing. Here is a little fun activity to watch and have a go at practicing with a knife and fork. Click here and enjoy

Dough Disco time!

This weeks song is about being in the jungle. I hope you are all enjoying having a go at home. Here is the link. Have fun.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

 Emma 

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

This week has been as busy as ever as we have played lots of games together. Playing games gives children lots of opportunities to learn how to share and take turns as well as extending their vocabulary and concentration and focus. One of the games we have been playing is Kim's game, which is great for memory, the children really have to use their brains to recall the information. Click here to play at home

We have also played a game where the children have to rescue the peas released by the Evil Pea. This game helps to develop a nicer grip which the children will need to be confident writers. Look out in your child book bag as this game is coming home for the children to play at home. Click here to watch Supertato and find out more about the Evil Pea. Click here.

I hope you have lots of fun playing games this weekend and remember children need to learn to cope with losing, so don't let them win every time!

Have a lovely weekend

Michelle

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This guide is for parents of children from birth to five years old. It will help you find out more about your child's learning and development in the EYFS ...

Absences

If your child is off nursery could you please email me as by 8.00am, stating the reason for the absence. Thank you.

b.draper@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

House teams

This week your child has been allocated their house team. Ask them at home to see if they can remember…it is quite tricky!

Red- Plessington

Green- Marsden

Blue- Harcourt

Yellow- Bamber

Don’t panic if they can’t remember just ask at the gate and we will tell you!

My Happy Mind

Our exploration of the brain is going well. I now hear the children talking freely about their hippocampus, amygdala and (not quite as easily remembered) prefrontal cortex. We are really trying to be in control by making all three parts work together in harmony- H.A.P.

This week we made a small world scene with all our My Happy Mind characters and our own mini me’s. Great fund and wonderful dialogue. We are continuing with our happy breathing. Here are a couple of exercises to try at home!

Click here and here

Harvest

Harvest mass for the main school is being held in church on Friday 11th October. Although nursery will not be attending you are more than welcome to come along and celebrate. Nursery will have our own celebration during our Friday worship session.

As in previous years we will be collecting items to be distributed around our local community. This year nursery will be collecting nappies, a much needed item in todays economic climate. We urge everyone to give generously. Thank you in anticipation.

Well, I think that’s enough from me for one week!

Have a fabulous weekend and I look forward to seeing everyone on Monday.

Stay safe and God bless.

Barbara

Year 5 Weekly Blog 27.09.24- ' If God is at the center of your heart, then your mere presence will touch others' hearts'- St Vincent De Paul

What a wonderful and reflective week it has been at Our Lady’s with today being a special day in the Catholic calendar as we celebrated both St Vincent De Paul and Our Lady Feast Day. We spent the morning celebrating this together in mass at church, which was led by our special guest for the day- Bishop Paul. Bishop Paul then joined us back at school where he got to witness life at Our Lady’s- in which he was super impressed with. To celebrate this in class, we designed some Our Lady medallions, which will be created into a class bunting for our worship display.

In Science, it was time to get practical to test how to separate different materials from mixtures. The children analaysed all three methods and suggested scenarios when and when not to use each of these. Of course, we had to finish the lesson with our favourite solubility experiment- ‘Sugar or Salt’.

In Maths, it has been all things column addition and subtraction. A method that the children are familiar with in Year 4 but we have applied this to our 6 and 7 digit numbers. We also had to use this method in our angles topic to find the missing angles on straight lines and around a point.

In English, we have been using all of our collective vocabulary from last week and applied this into our complex sentences, using our subordinating conjunctions (I SAW A WABUB) as sentence starters. We then finished the week by begining our planning for our own narrative write by deciding which mythological creature we are going to use in our story. The children put their knowledge to the test with a famous ‘Cornwell Quiz’, with 4 teams coming out victorious.

Kidsafe

Please read the letter below to find out what we did in this weeks kidsafe lesson.

Conversation starters

On Monday, we have continued with ‘My Happy Mind’, with the focus being on ‘Neuroplasticity’ and how we use our brains to store and remember certain information.

This week’s question, “What other techniques do you use to calm your emotions?”

Subject question of the week- In RE, we looked at when we have misused our trust and how we seek forgiveness from whose who we have wronged.

How forgiving are you as a person? How could you improve on this?

Let’s Celebrate

Rory and Isioma for being determined learners: We all know that homework is not necessary everyone’s favourite pastime. Your compulsory homework is always complete which shows your teachers you are committed to bettering yourself but to put in the effort in your optional homework is just outstanding. You have gone above and beyond with your history homework and have created some toolkits that the whole class can use- excellent work.

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtue start of the week goes to John-Paul. You really are a discerning young man Johnny. Your judgement and decision making has been impeccable this year. You are always making the right choice, even when your friends are not- you know what the right thing to do is and your not to be swayed.

My Happy Mind Champion- Kieran

Lunchtime Certificates

Role Model of the Week- Logan

Marvelous Manners- Grace

Notices

  • Medical Forms-If you haven’t completed the medical form for this year then please do so ASAP.

  • Sports Club Opportunities- Information regarding this is available on the sports page of the website. If interested, please complete the forms to register your child for a specific club.

  • Harvest Festival- For harvest this year, our chosen food for this year is canned meat. Any donations would be hugely appreciated.

Have a wonderful weekend,

From Mr Cornwell, Mrs Barker and Mrs Tierney

Year 6 Home Learning 26.09.24

Homework should be completed and brought back to school for the following Wednesday

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! In your books please also practice the column addition and subtraction.


Spelling - will be practiced throughout the week and the children will be quizzed on the Thursday. There will also be a quiz for you to complete on Purple Mash, once you have spent a good amount of time practicing these spellings throughout the week.

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 25th September

Spellings

This weeks focus is common suffix ‘ly’
Spelling quiz will be on Monday 30th September

  1. greatly

  2. gently

  3. merrily

  4. lazily

  5. actually

  6. importantly

  7. wrinkly

  8. sleepily

  9. easily

  10. horribly

Reading
The children are making their way up the reading target board. Please continue reading at home daily for 10-15mins.

Numbots & TT Rockstars
The children are able to log on at home to practise number skills and timestables. We have been doing lots of work using number bonds to 10 this week. Can your child recall them quickly and confidently?

Autumn Term Optional Homework





Samlesbury Hall Visit

This half term in History we are learning all about the Tudors and even writing our own biographies of Henry VIII! To aid this learning, we have arranged to take the children for a visit to the historic stately home ‘Samlesbury Hall’ on Wednesday 2nd October where we will spend the day there and be took on a tour around the grounds. We have added the cost of this trip to parentpay, the cost of the visit in total is £18.50. We will be leaving school at 9:30am so children need to arrive at usual time and will arrive back in time for normal collection. Full school uniform need to be worn please, and there may be an opportunity to have a play in the park if it stays dry, so please make sure they bring a coat.

As the trip is only next week Jacqui needs to know those who need a school packed lunch ASAP. Please fill out the form below whether you do or do not wish for a school packed lunch.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 20.09.24- ' A calm mind brings inner strength and self confidence to succeed in life’

Another week has flown by in Year 5 with plenty of hard work, interesting discussions and learning adventures taking place. It was lovely for you parents to come in and see what your child’s new learning environment is like and I hope you found the evening informative and enjoyable. Here are the slides from the induction evening.

In English, we have began reading the first two chapters of ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ and discussed some of the characteristics of the characters. We have worked really hard on expanding our vocabulary to add more description to our creative writing.

In Maths, we have now gone above and beyond one million! the children have had a really good understanding of 6 and 7 digit numbers by ordering and comparing these types of numbers, along with some addition and subtraction calculations.

In Science, the focus was all things ‘solubility’ with us looking in detail the properties of a soluble material with some named examples. We then put this to the test by playing the very popular ‘Sugar or Salt’ game.

Kidsafe

In this weeks lesson, we looked at how to stay safe on the internet and what we should/shouldn’t do. We discussed what to look out for when we sense something yukky has appeared online and how we can check if our sites are safe. Can you remember the two signs to look for in a search bar?

Conversation starters

On Monday, we have continued with ‘My Happy Mind’, with the focus being on how we can calm our amyglada down when we are in a state of fear/shock. Lots of scenarios that we discussed were situations that carried lots of fear but resulted in low level danger. We used a technique called ‘Happy Breathing’ to help calm ourselves down whenever we are in a state of fight, flight or freeze.

This week’s question, “What other techniques do you use to calm your emotions?”

Subject question of the week- In History, we looked at the rise of Athens in Ancient Greece with the creation of democracy being a key factor.

How democratic are we as a country? Could we be better at this?

Let’s Celebrate

Logan for being enthusiastic: I love your attitude towards learning Logan. The same heart and passion you show out on the football pitch is matched when you’re in the classroom. Your hand is always up as you want to contribute to the lesson and your super focused has allowed you to get through all of your independent tasks- Keep this up!

Poppy for being focused: The first week of a new year can be hard as you find your feet and get to grips with the new work. This week, your teachers have seen a big shift in your focus, especially during your independent tasks. With this attitude, you will only grow stronger Poppy.

Virtue Star of the Week: Our virtue start of the week goes to Rose. You have really stood out this week both in and outside the classroom. The way you have been helping the younger children during break and lunch times, looking after them on the playground with the scooters and also helping them with their lunch in the dinner hall. You really are a role model to our younger children.

Lunchtime Certificates

Role Model of the Week- Matilda

Marvelous Manners- Sean

Notices

  • Asthma Forms-If your child has asthma, you would have received a separate medical form to complete. Please complete this and bring it back into school

  • Sports Club Opportunities- Information regarding this is available on the sports page of the website. If interested, please complete the forms to register your child for a specific club.

  • House Badges- All of the children have been given a coloured badge to represent their house. I hope the children enjoy wearing these with pride throughout school. Please take good care of these and make sure it is still attached to any jumpers or hoodies if these are taken off.

Have a wonderful weekend,

From Mr Cornwell, Mrs Barker and Mrs Tierney