Year 5 Weekly Blog 17.01.25- ' Hard work beats talent when talents fails to work hard’




Yet another week has flown by as we are approaching the half way point of this half term! Regardless of the very cold and icy weather conditions, the children have soldiered on and cracked on with their learning as usual.

In English, we have been using our sci-fi nouns to produce extended noun phrases. The children have also been able to link their science knowledge of the solar system into their sci-fi writing to discuss planets, outer space and other outer world objects. In Maths, we have continued with our factors topic with many factor bugs being drawn to find all of our factor pairs. Recently, we have been linking this to multiples and analysing common multiples between different numbers.

We started our new History topic this week as we look into faiths of the world- in particular Islam. We have been discussing the origins of each of the ‘Big 5’ religions and where in the world these religions arose from.

The children’s favourite lesson of the week I’m sure would of been science this week as we looked at the phases of the moon. Knowing the full cycle of the moon along with the specific names of the phases can be difficult so we used a particular diagram (with famous connections with the moon) to help remember this.

It was a big week for Our Lady sports as many members of the class got to represent the school in the Fylde Athletics Competition at Blackpool Sports Centre. The children ran their socks off on the track and gave it their all in the field events to get Our Lady’s to our highest finish in years. Special shoutout to Daisy, Matilda, Rose and Beth for winning the opening race of the day in the obstacle relay and also John-Paul and Lorenzo for winning the highly anticipated 6 lap paarluf race. The rest of the class spent the afternoon with Mrs Harrison and Mrs Webster up in Year 6, in which their focus was the Pilgrims of Hope with some religious themed crafts activities. Both Year 6 teachers were full of praise in regards to the children’s behaviour, attitude and work ethic. A quick collaboration video of this event is available on Mrs Gregan’s blog.


Conversation starters

My Happy Mind: This week we have been reflecting on what we are grateful for and looking around the classroom to say why we are grateful for each and every one of us. Tell every member of your household why you love them and why you are grateful to have them in your lives.

Class Novel: In our class novel, we have been talking of different types of dialogue and how accents and languages are different from each other. Is there anyone in your family or do your parents know anyone with any distinctive accents.

Let’s Celebrate!

  • John-Paul for being a focused and co-operative learner: Such a trustworthy, passionate and kind friend. Your focus in class is impeccable. You just get your head down and get on with whatever task you have-your progress is all down to your hard work. This paid off massively in your athletics competition as you helped your team to victory in the toughest race of the event- You deserve it!


    Virtue Star of the Week: This week, our virtue star goes to William. You are such a caring and considerate friend William. You treat your fellow classmates which the love, respect and kindness that you wish you to be treated with- a true follower of our class slogan. The class are very lucky to have a classmate like yourself and I hope you understand that- your love and kindness does not go unnoticed.


Lunchtime Certificates

Role Model of the Week- Ciaran

Marvelous Manners- Hudson


Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog and keep helping your child with any work that they are struggling with- especially our spellings. It is important to make sure we are reading for at least 15 minutes a day at home to keep broadening our vocabulary, description and sentence structure.

  • Eco Trip Wednesday 5th February- We will be going down to the Sand Dunes to plant Christmas Trees, ready to be grown for Christmas 2025! The children will need to bring clothes/shoes that they don’t mind getting dirty along with a waterproof coat.

  • PE Days- Our PE days have changed slightly with our outdoor session being on Mondays and our indoor session on Wednesdays.

  • Fidget Toys- If this has not been discussed with your class teacher, then any sort of fidget toys are not to be brought into school. Please can bags be checked incase these have been left in from the weekend. Trading cards and chewing gum should also be kept at home.

Year 6 Home Learning 16.01.25

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 complete the maths questions that are stuck in.

English- Please complete the reading comprehension on Rosa Parks, a biography that will help our writing next week! You might want to make some notes ready for our lessons next week or start to collect some cohesive devices ready to use.

Here is a short clip to remind you of contractions to watch …

Spelling - Please complete the spellings rules sheet in your books- we will practice these throughout the week in class but you also need to practice them at home ready for our quiz on a Thursday!

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 15th January


Spellings

This weeks focus is homophones - words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning. The children need to use the correct meaning in the correct context.

  1. grown

  2. groan

  3. berry

  4. bury

  5. male

  6. mail

  7. which

  8. witch

  9. aloud

  10. allowed

Reading

Well done Year 3, some of you are already making your way towards your targets. Please continue reading at home daily and asking your child questions about what they have read.

Purple Mash - Measuring quiz linked to our learning in maths this week.

TT Rock Stars and Numbots - please encourage your child to log on to and practise number skills and times tables - all levels are now open for the children to work on .

Spring 1 Optional homework - My apologies the link wasn’t working last week - I’ve rectified this and the link should now work. Any problems please let me know. These tasks link to our learning in class.





Year 5 Weekly Blog 10.01.25- 'Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right'


A Happy New Year to you all and it has been a brilliant first school week of 2025. Learning has begun straight from the first minute and has not stopped all week. The children have settled back in really well and have picked the school routines back up very quickly. The new year in school was also greeted with a white welcome of snow and ice in which the children put their snow building skills to the test.

We kicked the week off with all things timed tables in maths as we prepare for our new unit of factors, multiples and primes. I have been so impressed with the children’s retention of these table facts and the speediness of their multiplication facts.

On Tuesday, we began our eagerly anticipated space topic in Science. We discussed what we already knew about space and any curious questions that we want to find out. This was helped by the inflatable planets up in our classroom- which was the focus for lesson as we discussed the planets that make up our solar system and learning the correct order of these.

On Wednesday, we started our new writing topic of Sci-Fi, where we looking at all the different components of sci fi and reenacted a specific sci-fi story. We then looked at how we could improve the writing of this story and how we could add more description.




The focus for PE this week was to prepare for the upcoming athletics tournament next week. The children had a go at attempting all of the events in the competition and there scores were recorded in order for them to try and beat their best score.

We finished the week off by starting our new class novel- ‘The Windrush Child’. This book is based on the true story of many children a part of the Windrush generation. The book focuses on the struggles of foreign families living abroad and how racism has impacted their lives.




Let’s Celebrate

  • Charlotte for being a reflective and co-operative learner: All of the Year 5 team have seen a big change from you in the new year. I can see you have reflected over the winter break about how to react to certain situations and the attitude you wish to portray throughout your day and this has been amazing to see. I hope you feel as proud of yourself as your teachers do.




  • Virtue Butterflies: Our new virtues for the half term are eloquent and truthful. Our butterfly this week goes to Jacob. You have been so helpful this week and always offering to help all of your teachers in any job being done. This has not gone unoticed and your teachers can not speak highly of your attitude since coming back to school. Excellent work.






    Lunchtime Certificates




    Role Model of the Week- Lilly

    Marvelous Manners- Logan

Notices

  • Indoor Athletics Competition- All children taking part have been informed and information regarding this is available on the sports page. This will take place on Wednesday 15th January.

  • Eco Trip Wednesday 5th February- We will be going down to the Sand Dunes to plant Christmas Trees, ready to be grown for Christmas 2025! The children will need to bring clothes/shoes that they don’t mind getting dirty along with a waterproof coat.




Year 5 Weekly Homework- Due 16th January

Spellings

  1. choir

  2. calendar

  3. heart

  4. occasion

  5. knowledge

  6. charge

  7. judge

  8. proudly

  9. amusingly

  10. anxiously

  11. especially

  12. leisure

  13. parliament

  14. relevant

  15. suggest

Mrs Barker’s group

  1. apple

  2. mummy

  3. goggles

  4. heart

  5. charge

  6. bright

  7. ghost

  8. spooky

  9. funny

  10. bitter

Punctuation and Grammar

Each week, the children will complete 10 SPAG questions to keep on top of their reading and writing practice.

Maths

We have just started our new unit of factors, multiples and primes which is heavily times tables based. Make sure to keep practicing your times tables on TTRS- 5 minutes a day is all you need. Complete the following IXL’s

D8- Multiplication facts up to 12: missing factor

A9- Writing numbers up to one million in words: digits to words

Welcome to 2025!

Welcome back everyone!

I hope Everyone had a fabulous Christmas and are well rested. We are all raring to get our bodies and brains moving!

My Happy Mind

During this module, the children will learn all about the importance of gratitude, or being thankful. Key learning points include: learning the importance of being thankful and that it helps us and others to feel good. We will experiment with different ways of showing their gratitude. We will start to develop a habit of taking the time to stop and show gratitude as well as learning about the importance of stopping and taking time to be thankful.

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Meet Number 4

This week we met number 4! Four is the new block on the block and can’t wait to share how much he loves to be square! Click here to watch.

We are learning that:

  • 4 is one more that 3

  • counting to 4

  • the structure of 4 as a square number

  • the recognition of 4 items without counting (subitising)

    Look out for the number 4 puzzle to make at home!

Read write Inc.

This week we have been learning some new sounds; c, k, u, b, and f. We have been spotting them everywhere! The tricky part is remembering all the other sounds we learnt before Christmas. Keep having a go at home, it really does help.

Gealdine the giraffe:

for c click here

for k click here

for u click here

for b click here

for f click here

Don’t forget we are only learning Set1 Phonics, don’t be tempted to race ahead! Click here for more information.

People who help us!

This week we have started to explore the world of ‘Fearless Fire Fighters’. We have all been painting fire fighters, a pump engine and of course the hoses. To begin our week we read books about the life if a fire officer and then watched a couple of short videos…then we were off. The construction area quickly became a fire station and the garden our hose pipes put out lots of pretend fires!!! Click here and here to watch at home.

We also made a doctors surgery…great fun!

Snowy Days!

We had great fun in the snow this week…we made a snowman!!

Emma’s Blog

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

 The children have got right back into nursery life, and have been enjoying being back with their friends and growing their brains again.

 We enjoyed the snow on Monday, which was still untouched from Sunday in the nursery garden. The children helped to make a snowman, with a hat and a smiley face. We listened to the crunching sounds under their feet as we were playing.

As it is a new term, we have been discussing our new topic 'People who help us'? Firefighters, police officers, doctors, shop assistants, and many more. We played a game where we matched objects to a picture of someone who helps us, for example, bits of rubbish would go with the picture of refuse collectors etc.

The children had a great understanding of how people help us. Here is a video about different people who can help us. Click here.

 We continued our learning by meeting numberblock 4. We found out that 4 blocks can make a square. We also have been learning some new sounds c, k, u, b, f. The children have been enjoying the challenge.

I have set some fun activities on the Purple Mash app. Please have a look, as I can't wait to see your work.

Have a lovely weekend, and I will see you all on Monday for more learning.

Emma

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome back to nursery.

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a lovely time with your family.

We were so excited to start the new year with snow. We made a wonderful snowman in the garden and watched him everyday until he turned into ice.

We loved hearing the children tell us all about their adventures over the Christmas holidays. 

We will be sending home a challenge bag where the children have to build a snowman using tweezers. It would be helpful if you could return this back to nursery at your child's next session. Thank you in advance.

Our learning this half term will be concentrating on our theme of People Who Help Us. We have learnt more about all the important jobs that people do 

We have also learnt that anyone can help somebody else. We can all be kind and make a difference. We watched this video and tried to spot all the acts of kindness. Click here.

This week we have celebrated the feast of Epiphany as we went on our own journey to the worship area where we met the Maji. Epiphany is a Christian festival that takes place just after Christmas, around the 6th of January. The Epiphany story celebrates when the Three Wise Men (sometimes known as the Magi or Three Kings) arrived to see Baby Jesus in Bethlehem. It is also known as Three Kings Day or the Feast of Epiphany and is celebrated in many places around the world.   

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week 

Michelle 

Purple Mash

Purple Mash is a comprehensive suite of online learning tools and content, designed to be used by school and nursery in the classroom and at home. This is a wonderful site, please take full advantage of it! Your login details and how to use the programme will have been sent home. If you have misplaced them or not recieved them let me know.

Also, keep checking regularly as your child’s key person will be setting work for you to do at home (if you want to).

Enjoy!

Lastly, can I remind everyone that your child will need one piece of fruit or veg for each session. We have milk and water here or if you prefer you can send a water bottle from home. Please no juice.

As you can see it has been a busy start to 2025, even more learning next week so have a restful weekend and I will see yo on Monday.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 6 Weekly Blog - 'The best is yet to come. The start of a New Year is the chance to rewrite your book.'

Welcome back…

Wishing you all a very happy new year. It has been so lovely to welcome the children back to school this week, despite the bitter cold. The most important part of any school is the people within it. We have loved seeing the smiles and listening to all of the wonderful stories that the festive season has brought. On Monday we celebrated as a whole school the feast of the Epiphany in liturgy. It was an opportunity for the children to spend a few minutes reflecting on what a miracle the baby Jesus was.

The children have been thinking about what 2025 might look like for them. The children have all reflected on their year ahead and thought about their new year’s resolutions- what do they want to improve this year and what are they going to do to achieve this. They are all going to come across some monumental experiences and opportunities this year. Some of them will be challenging, some will be exciting, some they will be anxious about. Whatever happens, they know they have the skills to tackle it with great resilience and determination. I have to say, they have all come back to school extremely well rested and ready to take on all the challenges they come across in their learning- I am so proud of them this week, they have worked so hard!

This half term, we are looking at what it means to be faithfilled and hopeful. Both of these qualities will be really important as we journey towards half term, having faith in oursleves, others and most importantly God. With faith and love, comes hope, hope that we can achieve the things we want to and hope in others.

This week we have done lots of work on multiples to 100,000, as well as working on the accuracy of our arithmetic work. Our focus in English has been on gathering content and analysing biographies, adding vocabulary and it’s features to our working wall. Next week, we will spend each day writing a paragraph on our class biography of Henry VIII, I can’t wait to see how they put everything they have learnt in to practice.This week in indoor PE we have been practicing and developing our athletics events and trying to beat our personal best in speed bounce, standing long jump and triple jump.

Leading Learners

Well done to Pippa.

Pippa, you work tirelessly in lessons to be the best you can be and I love teaching you as you are always so focused and engaged, with your great attention, you have the ability to think deeply about subjects, taking your learning that step further! Your thirst for learning is contagious and how you strive to challenge yourself in your work is wonderful- keep this up Pippa!

Faithfilled and Hopeful butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are intention in their actions. Children who show great faith in themselves, others and God. We will also be spotting children who are hopeful, who show hope for the future, enabling us to trust ourselves and those around us with the decisions that will shape our future. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Layla for being faithfilled and hopeful.

 Lunch Time Awards …

Marvellous Manners awards … Liam

Role Model of the week … Elsie

Helpers in the mornings:

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

Ella Luke Michael Elsie

Notices

Indoor Athletics Competition- Will take place on Wednesday 15th January at Stanley Park Sports Centre in Blackpool. Those that have been picked will have been informed and information will be on the sports page.

PE is now on Tuesday and Wednesday. Indoor PE is Tuesday and outdoor is Wednesday at 9am.

Homework is handed in every Wednesday and goes out on Thursday.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

 

 

Year 6 Home Learning 9.1.25

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 complete the maths questions that are stuck in.

English- Please complete the reading comprehension on Barack Obama, a biography that will help our writing next week!

Spelling - Please complete the spellings rules sheet in your books- we will practice these throughout the week in class but you also need to practice them at home ready for our quiz on a Thursday!

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM