DANCE FESTIVAL UPDATE

Extra Rehearsal Time…

After half term, there is only two weeks of rehearsal time to complete the dance and we still have lots of practising to do! Over half term please encourage children to practise and try to remember the dance. We are also going to be rehearsing on a Monday until the later time of 4:45pm, as this may give us that bit more time to get finished!

Costumes

It is all about the super hero theme! We will organise the majority of the costumes and there will be a small charge of £6 on parent pay added today, thank you for your support. This payment, also covers part of the travel arrangements to the venue on the day. To go with the costumes, children will need to have a plain black t-shirt and black leggings/ trousers. Some of the children have mentioned their desire to wear a tu-tu, this is fine as an add-on but will need to be organised by yourselves and would need to be the correct colour of their superhero. Half of the children will be red and half will be blue- the children know what colour they are! No shoes or sock will be worn on stage to perform the dance.

I hope you have all got your tickets by now. Arrangements and details of the event will be posted on here after half term.

Year 6 Weekly Home Learning

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Are you quizzing regularly enough? Some still haven’t quiz since they’ve been back, let’s change that and get to our targets.

SPELLING: this week we are focusing on words from the Year 6 statutory list. Once you have practised there is also a Purple Mash quiz set for you to test yourself at home:

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

could should would because maybe further people

MATHS:

Let’s practise our rounding skills using IXL:

A14 Rounding: up to thousands place

A15 Rounding: up to millions place

GEOGRAPHY OVER TWO WEEKS:

Can you create your own 3D mountain from the template provided and fill it with information about about about the Andes, the mountain ranges in South America which we were learning about in class. Here are some ideas to include on your mountain of information:

•The size and location of the Andes

•How the Andes were formed

•The various climates of the Andes

•How the Andes differ in different areas

•The volcanoes of the Andes

•How people live in the Andes

•Why people visit the Andes

•The animals and plants of the Andes

When you have written all your information, fold your mountain up and glue it together. Can you add any other features like information flaps?

Year 6 Weekly Blog: “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16)

Let your Light Shine

This has been the theme of our week and we have done a lot of reflection, discussion and work around this at Castlerigg. How we can let God’s light shine through us and be the work of his hands. We have grown in our relationship with God through prayer, adoration and celebrating mass together. All of the workshops we have compelted have been centred around how we can use of talents to let God’s light sine through and how these are shown through our relationship with God and of course each other. Every one of them this week has been fully engaged in the trip and has been an absolute joy to take away, they have been so patient, enthusiastic, kind and reverent. The adoration was our favourite time, seeing the children so engrossed in their prayer and reflection was so humbling- they really have been a credit to you all. The other highlight was our time by the lake, where we took part in contemplation, foucsuing on the views and the sounds of God’s creation. God definitely heard our prayers, as a couple of minutes in, the sun broke through the clouds and shone on the lake- what a magical moment. We were lucky enough to capture this moment on camera, which is the picutre above, and the children at school have been responding to this using art work and writing poetry.

A few more magic moments from the week …

Kidsafe

This week in our Kidsafe lesson we learnt all about what we should do if we ever see an inappropriate image or content online. Please read the letter for further information…

Helpers in the mornings:

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

Owen Iris Max Charlie

Leading Learners

Well done to the whole of Year 6 for this week, we could simply couldn’t choose two of you. You have all been an absoute pleasure to take away and great ambassadors for our school, showing what kind, reverent and respectiful pupils you are. You all looked after one another, been brave and tusting of those around you. Well done for achieving great things on your first residential and creating long-lasting memories for everyone.

Notices

• Please do visit Mrs Gregan’s blog for important information.

• Parent’s day appointments will be held on Friday 20th October- HAVE YOU BOOKED YOURS?

• Please go on to parent pay and see the cost for our Samlesbury Hall trip.

• please encourage children to complete homework on time and handed in on Thursdays- it is great preparation for High School

Day Two Castlerigg

What a lovely day we have had! This morning we had a creative workshop where we talked about our talents and how can use our talents let God’s light shine through. We also discussed the things that could hold us back showing these talents and what we need to encourage us.

After a delicious dinner, we then went on a beautiful walk to the lake where we spent our time skimming stones and did a short meditation where we took in the views and listened to the lapping waves. We are just getting ready for dinner now and party time!

Day One Castlerigg

What a lovdely afternoon we have had. Once we arrived, we had our lunch, met the staff and played some getting to know you games. Once we had settled in to our rooms, we completed soe creative workshops, where we made out own candles, masks and and keychain rosary beads. We have just come back from a beautiful mass in the chapel and are just having some downtime before we head to bed! We are looking forward to seeing what the day holds tomorrow…

Year 6 Weekly Home Learning

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Are you quizzing regularly enough? Some still haven’t quiz since they’ve been back, let’s change that and get to our targets.

GEOGRAPHY OVER TWO WEEKS:

Can you create your own 3D mountain from the template provided and fill it with information about about about the Andes, the mountain ranges in South America which we were learning about in class. Here are some ideas to include on your mountain of information:

•The size and location of the Andes

•How the Andes were formed

•The various climates of the Andes

•How the Andes differ in different areas

•The volcanoes of the Andes

•How people live in the Andes

•Why people visit the Andes

•The animals and plants of the Andes

When you have written all your information, fold your mountain up and glue it together. Can you add any other features like information flaps?

Year 6 Home Learning

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Are you quizzing regularly enough? Some still haven’t quiz since they’ve been back, let’s change that and get to our targets.

PLEASE complete the comprehension short paper on Malala Yousafzai. Look at the questions carefully and don’t forget to highlight or underline key information in the text that can help you answer. If you need help, please feel free to work alongside an adult.

Maths- Please can you have a go at the reasoning page- if you need to work alongside an adult do or you can come and ask a teacher BEFORE the day it is due in.

Grammar- Our focus is on sentence structure, looking at different sentence types and how we can connect clauses using conjunctions. There are two main type of conjunctions and we have to be able to identify and us these. Please practice using the IXL strands below:

MM1 - Identify coordinating conjunctions

MM2- Identify subordinating conjunctions

Do not spend any longer than 10 minutes on each of these IXL strands, even if you don’t get to 100!

Spellings - this week we are focusing on words with the ending ‘able’ and ‘ible’

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

these time water would two some part around

Year 6 Weekly Blog 'Love one another as I have loved you'

Jesus asks us to love one another as he loved us. This can be so hard to do at times when often we are not feeling loved ourselves. During our RE lessons this week, we have continued to explore the Kingdom of God and how we can create it here on Earth, just as God wanted us to do. This week the children have been creating their very own webpage on this, I can’t wait to read them all. In our worship this week, I asked the children to think about our world and how we can be curious, but most importantly active, which is our mission to protect God’s beautiful world.

The week ended beautifully with Year 6’s assembly all about leadership on Thursday, inspirational heroes and of course the realization that we can all be heroes if we are willing to help. We hope you enjoyed sharing this assembly with us and I am sure you will agree we have many budding actors in our class! I feel like we are very much into the groove of Year 6 learning now, hitting our daily targets constantly. The pace of learning within the classroom has certainly ramped up. The Nowhere Emporium is certainly full of twists and turns, there are so many questions that we need answering. We have now read chapter 1 and we are intrigued to read more to find out what type of magic lies within the emporium!

A few magic moments from over the last few weeks, especially of our ‘Bikeability’ on Tuesday …

Kidsafe

This week we have completed our first Kidsafe session on building trust and understanding our feelings, please read the letter below that outlines what we have covered in class, there may be areas you will want to discuss:

Castlerigg Meeting

Thank you for staying at the meeting about Castlerigg, I hope you are now clear on what to expect on the visit and what your children will need to take. Here is the kit list in case you missed it:

Harvest Plea

In preparation for our HARVEST FESTIVAL on Thursday 12th October at 9.30am mass, as a school we have made the decision to collect food items for Fylde Foodbank who are struggling with the amount of need in our area. We would be so grateful if Year 6 could collect long life milk/juice. Donations can be made from next week and will be much appreciated -thank you.

Helpers in the mornings:

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

Lily-Mae Leon Dominic Betsy

Leading Learners

Christian- you are such a beacon of light. You treat everyone with such kindness and compassion - no matter who they are. This week you have celebrated your friends triumph with such humility, it warmed our hearts. What a kind boy you are- thank you.

Harvey- Wow you felt the fear and did it anyway and what progress you made. This is a prime example why we should always challenge ourselves and the smile on your face on Tuesday proved this- we are so proud of you.

Reminders

• Don’t forget to sign the NHS flu vaccine consent form on the previous blog.

• Check the sports page on the website through Engage. Make sure you are aware of all training: dance, football and netball.

• Parent’s day appointments will be held on Friday 20th October- appointments will be coming out soon.

• Please go on to parent pay and see the cost for our Samlesbury Hall trip.

• please encourage children to complete homework on time and handed in on Thursdays- it is great preparation for High School

Have a lovely weekend with your family.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Barker and Mrs Webster

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Meet your new Year 6 Leaders...

Year 6 have now been given roles and responsibilities around the school, and what fabulous leaders they are already…

Year 6 Weekly Blog 22.09.23 - "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

Collaboration is key - especially in Year 6! This week we have collaborated and shared in every lesson - this has helped us to learn from each other. We have collaborated in Geography, making graphs on Purple Mash to show the rainfall in two places in South America, in our PE playing games of cricket, in our practicing of the assembly and most importantly getting to grips with our new roles around school . Alongside this, we are striving to be curious and active, questioning the world around us and actively making changes where needed.

This whole notion of collaboration will stand us in good stead as we move forward as a class. Earlier this week they each received their positions of responsibility and what a great start to the year they have made! They came back to school on Tuesday ready and raring to go and they have worked together beautifully, what a team they make. It was so wonderful to see how they each celebrated one another! You will see this in full force on Thursday 29th September 2pm for our class assembly. Please make sure they are practicing their lines and song for next week- thank you.

Author Visit

We loved our visit from the author Dan Worsley, he has truly inspired us as writers in the exciting workshop he did with us, and we have created some wonderful pieces of writing about a boy named Bazza- see if they can tell you a bit about their short story!

Samlesbury Hall Visit

Next term in History we will be 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 14th November 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, and we wanted to give you plenty of notice- many thanks.

Helpers in the mornings:

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

Tabby Nicola Lily-Mae Edi
 

Leading Learners

Well done to Ruby-Lily and Stan this week.

Ruby-lily- Focused Cooper Crab- Thank you Ruby for being so focused in every lesson, doing your best and being ready to learn!

Stanley- Enthusiastic Bobby Bee- Thank you so much for the time and effort you have put in to your writing this week- I love how you are reflecting on your targets, listening to ways to improve your work and actively making positive changes. You could not be working any harder and we are so proud of you.

Reminders

·         Check the sports page on the website through Engage. Make sure you are aware of all training: dance, football and netball.

·         Please return St Bede’s admissions forms from last week if you have not already.

·         It is our class assembly on Thursday 28h September.

·         please encourage children to complete homework on time and handed in on Thursdays- it is great preparation for High School

Have a lovely weekend with your family.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

Year 6 Home Learning Friday 22nd September

Priority is to make sure we know all our lines off by heart and exactly when we come in. Could we also make sure we know our song off by heart, ready for our practice on Monday- not long now!

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day! Verbs have been a big part of our learning this week, maybe whilst you are reading you could collect verbs and look at the different ways they have used them within a sentence?

Maths- Please can you have a go at the reasoning page- if you need to work alongside an adult do or you can come and ask a teacher BEFORE the day it is due in.

Grammar- Year 6 need to be able to identify different sentence types- please remind yourselves on whether sentences are simple or compound. Remember to look out for the coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS), this tells you it is a compound sentence.

Complete IXL EE 8 English- don’t forget to check it is on the Year 6 section not another year group.

we have also been identifying main and subordinate clauses, on IXL and in other areas of grammar these are sometimes called independent (main) and dependent (subordinate) clauses. These helps us to identify and write different types of sentences. Please see the picture below to help you and then complete the following IXL strands.

EE 7- IDENTIFY DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT CLAUSES

Spellings - this week we are focusing on homophones…

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

Like make more number other over people

Year 6 Weekly Blog 15.09.23 - 'If there was ever a time to dare, to make a difference, to embark on something new - it is now!'

After two weeks of application writing, house captain speeches and class council speeches, we have nearly arrived at the point where all children know their positions of responsibility. Yet again, the children spoke with such passion and sincerity in their videos when they addressed their houses in a bid for their votes. We could not be more proud of all of the children who gave it a go and faced their fears. The videos were all different, showing all of their many gifts and skills, all in which are vital to work as a team ready to lead the school. We discussed what we had all learnt from the process and I think the children were shocked at just how brave they all were! Positions and leadership responsibilities will be announced on Monday and these jobs will start straight away. I cannot wait to see how the children get on this year and what legacy they leave on our school community. Next week we will be speaking about celebrating one another and being happy for one another’s roles around the school, we know there may be some people who will be thrilled with their leadership jobs but unavoidably, there may be some that feel disappointed. It is crucial that we deliver the same message to the children, that all jobs within Year 6 are vital in the working of the school and we must all work together and help one another to make the school a beautiful place to be. Sometimes God’s plan for us, is not always the same as what we had in mind, but he knows each of our gifts and talents, and He will always guide us along the right path, where we can make the most difference. We need to embrace every job and make it our own, I know Year 6 will do this so well.

Next week our Reception children will be starting school full time and will enter the school along with the rest of the school. This can sometimes be, as I am sure you will all remember, an overwhelming time for both children and parents. We would love some help taking these children around to their class teacher and who better than our Year 6 leaders? Every week we will be picking 4 children to come to school at the slightly earlier time of 8:40am, to help the teachers on the gates. Next week the following children have been asked, but please email if there any difficulties with this time.

Charlie Jay Georgia Owen

Learning

We have made a really good start to our learning in class this week. In Maths we have been continuing exploring the different calculations structures of multiplicative and additive, they have been building these and discussing how we can use these when reasoning through word problems. It is quite clear at this point, those children who are really secure with their multiplications and those that need to spend a bit more time speeding up their mental recall. In Year 6 the expectations are so high and learning goes at a much quicker pace, the children will grasp concepts and move their learning forward if they do not have to spend too long recalling number facts. So please remind them to use TT Rockstar’s and other online platforms we have to practice these. We have been so impressed with their enthusiasm and energy in English lessons this week as we have been predicting and raising questions about our class novel ‘The Nowhere Emporium’. Some of their predictions were very interesting, I can’t wait to start the novel with them next week to see if some of their theories are true! Earlier in the week we also created some extended noun-phrases based on pictures from the text and used these to make our own list poems, which were brilliant! Then we have been studying South America in Geography, practicing are overarm bowling in PE!

It was lovely to see so many of you there for the Year 6 induction drop-in session on Wednesday. This is such a crucial year for your children and we must work together to ensure each of them reach their full potential and have a real sense of achievement this year. I hope you enjoyed seeing where your child learns, meeting the teachers and finding out a little bit more about the year ahead. Below is an induction presentation, that may go through key points and offer information about the year. Please always know that if you ever need to talk then we can always arrange a convenient time or please drop me an email. Hopefully, the following information can answer some of the questions that were in the box. We have also responded by organising a short meeting on Castlerigg straight after the Year 6 Assembly on Thursday 28th September 3pm, we hope you can join us.

A desperate plea:

I am desperate to put photographs of your children on this blog to share all of the wonderful learning but I can’t do this until I have all consent forms back and I only have half.  Please could you make sure you have sent the following two forms, even if your child has no medical needs this form still needs to be completed.

FLU VACCINATION

NHS nurses will be visiting school on Wednesday 22nd November to administer the ANNUAL FLU VACCINATION. The Vaccination is free and a quick, simple, painless spray up the nose.

This vaccination is recommended to help protect your child against flu. Flu can be an unpleasant illness and can cause serious complications. Vaccinating your child will also help protect more vulnerable family and friends by preventing the spread of flu. There may be rebound in flu levels this coming winter following low levels in the past 2 years as a result of COVID-19 restrictions.

Online Consent form: Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School

• Please use the following link to access the online consent form:

• Please quote the code for our school : BP119627

Please complete for both consent and no consent giving reasons

Leading Learners

Well done to Georgia and Iris this week.

Georgia- Focused Cooper Crab- Wow what a start to Year 6 you have had! You are totally immersed in your learning and always on task, giving your absolute best! Keep this up and you will shine even brighter this year! What a fantastic learning partner you have been this week- thank you for your patience and compassion.

Iris- Cooperative Roger Robin - throughout this week you have subtly helped so many children in our class. A true leader does things unnoticed and for the greater good of the class. You do this all of the time. Year 6 will be a great year for you - I can tell!

Reminders

• Check the sports page on the website through Engage. Make sure you are aware of all training: dance, football and netball.

• Please return St Bede’s forms to school and don’t forget to do the admissions for high school online along side this

• It is our class assembly on Thursday 28th September.

• Castlerigg meeting straight after assembly on Thursday 28th September 3pm

• please encourage children to complete homework on time and handed in on Thursdays- it is great preparation for High School

  Have a lovely weekend with your family.

  Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

Year 6 Home Learning Friday 15th September

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

 ASSEMBLY- MAKE SURE YOU KNOW YOUR LINES OFF BY HEART AND THE SONG READY FOR MONDAY WHERE POSSIBLE. Watch the video with the lyrics to help you:

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day!

Geography- Can you complete the flags of South America homework- think about your presentation please.

Maths- Please complete the following IXL strands under A Place value and number sense.

A2 Place values

A5 Writing numbers up to one million in words: convert words to digits

A6 Writing numbers up to one million in words: convert digits to words

Spellings - this week we are focusing on recapping the word list from Year 5

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

which said word about first could down made

Welcome to Year 6 2023!

We can’t wait to welcome you all back to school for a VERY exciting year, full of challenges, fun learning and service. The classroom is ready for you all to step in to and I know as soon as you come through the door, you are going to make such wonderful leaders of the school. This is your final year at Our Lady’s- let’s make it the best one yet, where we achieve everything we are capable of, love and celebrate one another and serve the school through inspiring all of our younger pupils. Don’t forget to send all of your House Captain Speeches in, your deadline is next Thursday- I have already had a few sent which are wonderful!

Next week we will be focusing on our leadership roles within school and how our two new virtues (curious and active) will be at the centre of these roles. We will be applying for the jobs we would like, looking at how WE can make a difference in our school and looking at some inspirational leaders of the past.

Don’t forget to come equipped with your own pencil cases, making sure you have all you need in there.

Indoor PE days will be on a Monday. On these days you need to make sure you wear tracksuits but also have a pair of shorts either under your trousers or in your bag to get changed in to.

We will not be starting Indoor PE the first week back.

Outdoor PE is on a Wednesday, our first one is on Wednesday 6th September.

Art in on a Friday- please remember to bring in your art tops to stop your uniform from getting paint on- we will keep this in our trays.

Homework- will go out on Friday afternoons, the same time as the weekly blog, and will be due in the following Thursday.

You are all invited to our Induction evening on Wednesday 13th September. This will be much different to last year, starting at 3:30 and finishing at 5:00. We would love for your child to show you around their new classroom, and for you to become more familiar with our school. You will also be able discover more about the exciting opportunities and topics that they will be learning during their time in Year 5. We will be in the classroom to answer any questions you may have! More information, such as important forms that will need completing will be available soon so please do keep checking the Year 5 page.

Important Notices:

Please make sure all coats and school uniform is labelled- let’s get off to a good start.

Don’t forget to keep those house captain speeches coming in!

We can’t wait to see you all on Monday and hear about your holidays!

We will welcome Marsden (Kenilworth Road entrance) and Harcourt (St Patrick’s Road entrance) at 8:45am and Bamber (Kenilworth Road entrance) and Plessington (St Patrick’s Road entrance) at 8:50am.
Enjoy your weekend,
Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

Homework for the holidays

Use this summer to prepare and film your House Captain speeches …The children are to film a House Captain speech ready to show the younger children in the second week back in September. On one of our transition days we watched great examples of effective speeches all made by previous Year 6 children. We were very inspired! We recognised that the speech needs to be inspirational, directed at the younger children, unique to us and enjoyable to watch, but must give us/ show us the reasons why they should be voted to be the next leader of their house! So remember to share your qualities, talents and the reasons why you would make a great House Captain! Could all videos please be emailed to Mrs Harrison the first week back in Year 6.

k.harrison@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Have a wonderful summer and see you in Year 6!