Year 3 Weekly Blog Friday 17th January 2025

We have had a fantastic week of learning in Year 3, this week has flown by!
School is always such a busy place with lots going on, but there has been calmness in our classroom since we’ve come back from our Christmas break. The children (and the adults) are enjoying moments of quiet and reflection and this is reflected in the children’s work too. There’s always a buzz of excitement when we’re learning something new but I’m noticing more now that we’re settling quicker to focus and complete independent work.

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Year 6 Weekly Blog 'I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes in me will never thirst' (John 6:35)

This week in RE and litrugy we have been reflecting on Jesus’ teachings on spiritual nourshment. God wanted us to understand that as well as satidfying our physical hunger we also need to build our relationship with God, satisfying our spiritual nourishment for our souls ansd for our inner selves to grow strong. We talked about all the ways we can grow our spirituality and how this develops our faith and hope, which has enhanced our virtues Faithfilled and Hopeful even further. Earlier this week we shared a liturgy where we looked at these virtues and how we can use them in our lives, the children were then asked to write a prayer on these to add to our ‘hope’ display in the classroom.

Where has our learning taken us this week?

Wow the learning in Year 6 has really started to pick up pace and Year 6 are rising to all of the challenges- we are all so proud of them. We are managing to fit in so much learning and they are even becoming much more organised in the mornings, getting all of their equipment and books ready for the lessons ahead.

  • English - This week we have been working hard on our biography work, writing a paragraph each day on our Henry VIII biography and practicing using semi-colons and our relative clauses, using them as embedded clauses and at the end of our sentences. Next week we will be writing our own biographies on Rosa Parks, we were hoping to watch the Dr Who eposide to help us undertsand her struggles, please let me know via email if this is not something you want your children to see.

  • Maths - This week we have been looking at multiples to 100,000, finding midpoints on scales and estimating.

  • Science- This week we have been continuing our learning in to the human body. We have been learning about the function of the heart and what it looks like. The children listen to three different heart rates this week and replicated this with musical instruments.

Leading Learners

Well done to ARTHUR this week.

Arthur, thank you for reflecting so deeply on your learning this week, ensuring you apply what you have learnt to all areas and striving to be the best you can. You have listened to advice and are working hard across all areas, focusing on your learning and ensuring this is reflected in your written work. We can see you know exactly the areas that you are determined to improve and this week you have been actively challenging yourself to improve well done Arthur!

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 Rafe for being faithfilled and hopeful.

Lunch Time Awards …

Marvelous Manners awards … Luke

Role Model of the week … Pippa

Helpers in the morning

This week we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Pippa Rafe Sophia Bella

Notices

  • Please do continue to keep up to date with your child’s homework (particularly spelling). The vocabulary that the children are being asked to spell are getting more complex and they will need your support to figure out the best strategy to use. Learning them over time, rather than bulking them the night before, always seems like the best route to use.

  • Just a reminder that lip balms or any type of creams, are classed as a type of medication and therefore (if needed) need to be handed in to the teacher- thank you for your support.

This week...

A fabulous week! We have continued with our theme of ‘People who help us’. We have already created numerous role play areas: fearless fire fighters, doctors surgery, a bakers, a shop and there is always a home corner, mummies and daddies help us so much.

Next week we are hoping to make a hairdressing salon (don’t panic …no scissors) and a health spa! The children have also asked for a karaoke area, that should be fun!

Numberblocks 4

This week we found out that four is made up of four 1s and 2 sets of 2. We watch a video where four splits and a pair of tricky twins: the Terrible Twos, who decide it's time to tickle their friends to pieces. Click here to watch. Can you think of another way to make four?

My Happy Mind

Understanding Thankfulness

The children understand what gratitude is (we used the word ‘thankfulness’ with the children).

The children understand how it feels when we say thank you andwhen we receive thankfulness.

The children understand why it is important to be thankful.

The key outcome of this lesson is that children understand that being thankful is a really important skill. Being thankful is part of how we show people that we are happy when they help us. It is important to show people that we are happy when they help us, because then they will do it more and more. When we thank someone for helping us it makes them feel happy and it makes us feel happy too. To help us understand more we have made a ‘Thankfulness Tree’. We want to find lots of examples of how it feels to be thankful with the children. Each time we find an example we had a leaf to our tree. We have added lots already, we are hopeful that it will look like a Spring Tree by Easter!

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone,

We have been having lots of fun growing our brains.

 Shapes, shapes and more shapes. They are everywhere! We have been busy looking for shapes all around nursery, both inside and out. The children have worked out that the tables are circles and that some books are square and some are rectangles! The children have made some fabulous shape pictures by gluing lots of different coloured shapes on to card.

Here is a shape game. Feed the monsters the correct shape. Click here and have fun!  Don’t forget to explore Purple Mash for more shape games!

The children are really enjoying role playing people who help us. Nursery has been turned into a fire station, a doctors surgery, a green grocers, a bakery, a building yard. It's been lovely to watch them coming up with their own ideas and imaginations.

The children have also been drawing different people who help us. We have had fire fighters putting fires out, mummy's that dance, police officers with long arms to stop the bad people, and many more! It has been great listening to the children tell a story about their drawings.

 Have a wonderful weekend. See you all on Monday.

Emma

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

We have had such a week as we continued with our theme on People who help us. We have explored our very own fire station, doctors surgery, builders yard and green grocers.

In the green grocers we have consolidated our learning this n number four by filling our baskets with 4 items. We also learnt 4 can be made by 2 and 2.

We are continuing our funky fingers actives to develop our pincer grip ready for writing in Reception. We are also practicing our zips on our coats. Any opportunity you can give your child to try to do their zip is appreciated.

Don’t forget to check Purple Mash for some fun activities to do at home.

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

Michelle 

Shapes

Everyone has great fun with Emma this week, they were finding shapes everywhere! Why not have a go at home. Check out the game Emma has put on her blog!

Here are a couple from me too!

Click here for ‘What shape can you see?’

If you want a challenge try this game! Click here.

Snacks

Could I remind everyone to send in one snack per session your child attends please. We encourage fruit and veg only. Thank you.

I think that’s all for this week. Have a lovely weekend and I will see you all on Monday for another week full of learning adventures.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 5 Weekly Homework- Due on Thursday 23rd January

Art- Due in on Monday!

The children have been set some weekend homework by Mrs Mather for their upcoming Art lesson. This sheet has been stuck in their books.

The children are to complete a very short writing piece which can be one of the following;

  • Your favourite short poem

  • A small paragraph from your favourite book

  • A list of words that describe your personality- you may want to put this into a short poem.

Spellings

  1. difficult

  2. guard

  3. mention

  4. probably

  5. therefore

  6. rough

  7. armour

  8. enormous

  9. thousand

  10. mountain

  11. according

  12. conscious

  13. equipment

  14. lightning

  15. shoulder

Mrs Barker’s group

  1. daddy

  2. middle

  3. book

  4. school

  5. better

  6. battle

  7. round

  8. young

  9. mouth

  10. difficult

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

D9- Choose the multiple of a given number

A5- Place Value review

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.