Our blogs
Anti-bullying week, by Mrs Schultz
Date: 18th Nov 2020 @ 1:04pm
This week the whole school have been celebrating our differences with an 'odd socks' week. In Year 1, we have watched an assembly about bullying and made posters to persuade people to be kind to others. It has been great to see lots of children participating, and wearing their odd socks every day! Let's keep it going for the rest of the week!
F2A Autumn Walk, by Miss Ward
Date: 17th Nov 2020 @ 4:34pm
Today we went on a nature walk outside to look for signs of Autumn. We collected some leaves and other autumnal objects for us to look at more closely back in class. We had so much fun playing in the leaves!
F2B - Autumn Walk, by Miss Kealey
Date: 17th Nov 2020 @ 4:32pm
Today the children enjoyed going on an Autumn nature walk around our playground. We talked about all the changes we see during Autumn.
F2B - Children in Need, by Miss Kealey
Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 4:37pm
We have had a brilliant day fundraising for Children in Need!
F2A - Children in Need, by Miss Ward
Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 4:33pm
F2A have all had a lovely day fundraising for Children in Need!
Year 1 Spellings 28/09/20, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 28th Sep 2020 @ 2:52pm
Please find attached the Year 1 Spellings for this week!
Good luck!
F2 - Thematic Photographs, by Miss Ward
Date: 21st Sep 2020 @ 6:49pm
Dear Parents and Carers,
Next week in our Thematic work, our topic is ‘What do you know about me?’. Within this topic the children will be looking at how they have changed since they were a baby/toddler to them now. To support this topic we would like a photograph of your child as a baby or toddler so we can use them within our work.
As we are unable to ask you to bring the photos in to school, we are asking for you to email them to us and we can print them for your child to use within their thematic work.
Please could you email your photos to [email protected] by Friday 25th September and put the subject of the email as your child’s name. This email address is only for sending photographs and any other communication should be passed through the school office.
Miss Ward and Miss Kealey
Year 1 Spellings 21/09/20, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 21st Sep 2020 @ 2:27pm
Here are Year 1's spellings for the week beginning 21/09/20!
Year 1 Spellings 14/09/20, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 14th Sep 2020 @ 7:16pm
Attached are this week's spellings for Year 1!
Good luck!
Year 1 Edible Garden, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 10th Sep 2020 @ 4:41pm
Our Science topic this half term is all about plants! Today Year 1 went on a plant hunt in the school's edible garden and investigated what plants we could spot!
We had a great time exploring the garden and finding the fruits and vegetables that are growing in there!
Mr Chamberlain & Miss Dunlop
Year 1 History Photos, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 9th Sep 2020 @ 8:58pm
Hello Year 1 Parents and Carers!
As your child begins the subject of History this year, our first topic for this half-term is ‘My History’, where the children will be looking back at their life and making a timeline.
To support this topic, we would like 2 photos of your child, one as a baby and one as a toddler (we can take the photos of them now!)
As we are unable to ask you to bring the photos in to school, we are asking for you to email them to us and we can print them for your child to make their timeline in school.
Please could you email your photos to [email protected] by Friday 25th September. This email address is only for sending photos and any other communication should be passed through the school office.
Miss Dunlop and Mr Chamberlain
Year 6 Leavers 2020, by Miss Houghton
Date: 17th Jul 2020 @ 3:00pm
Hi Year 6,
This really is the final goodbye... for now...
We have made your leavers video which is attached below (there is a PowerPoint with a couple of embedded YouTube videos - click on the link to watch). There are a few little surprises for you in there which we think you will love and possibly have a good laugh at.
You have been an amazing year group and we know that you all have sparkling futures ahead of you. Remember us when you are successful!!!!
Good Luck with High School and remember to let us know how you are getting on.
Lots of Love
Mrs Parry, Miss Houghton, Mrs Hayes, Miss Rylance & all the staff at Our Lady's
xxx
Year One Challenges Week 14, by Mrs Carroll
Date: 10th Jul 2020 @ 10:08pm
Hello Year One!
Can you believe this is the last time you will be called ‘Year One’? This is our final week before the summer holidays and when you come back to school in September you will be called ‘Year Two’. How grown-up is that?
This week we would like you to think back over your time in Year One and make a little booklet with these pages in it:
- My Teachers in Year One
- My Friends in Year One
- My classroom looked like this….
- My favourite lesson…
- I was really good at…..
- I had to try hard with….
- I learned how to….
- We went on a visit to….
- In the Christmas Play I was…
Have a good think about each page and draw a picture and write a sentence or some words to go with it. It will be something nice for you to keep to remember your time in Year One.
Finally we would like you to think ahead to September and write a short letter to your new class teacher (whoever they may be! Hopefully you will find out very soon!) In the letter tell them as much as you can about yourself: your name , your age, your family, what you like to do, what you are good at, what you are looking forward to and also tell them anything you are a little bit worried about. Then draw them a fantastic picture of yourself. Make sure you send it to us here at school and we will pass your letter on to your new teacher so that they know all about you before you start in September.
Finally, can we just say that it was wonderful to work with you in Year One and we are so sorry that we haven’t seen you for so long and that we didn’t get to do all the lovely things we wanted to do this term. Have a lovely summer and good luck for September! Make sure you come and say ‘Hello’ to us, when you can.
Take care and stay safe,
Lots of love from all your teachers in Year One
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Year 5 Home Learning Challenges Week 13, by Miss Welsh
Date: 10th Jul 2020 @ 7:52pm
Hi Year 5,
Hope you are all well and still smiling. Hopefully the weather will start to get better soon! In the meantime, here are your new challenges.
Don’t forget to keep sending in any work you have completed, it’s lovely to see what you have all been up to.
Take care
The Year 5 team
xx
Year One Challenges Week 13, by Mrs Carroll
Date: 4th Jul 2020 @ 11:11pm
Year One Weekly Challenges.
Week 13
Hello Year 1! It has been lovely seeing lots of familiar faces this week but we are still missing our Year 1’s at home. Here are some tasks to keep you busy!
In school this week we have been finding out about SPACE!
English
We would like you to create your own planet! What would your planet look like? What would it be made of? Does anyone live on your planet? Remember to use lots of describing words. Don’t forget capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Keep looking at your phonics and your tricky words.
Maths
Please look at your number bonds to ten. If you feel confident with them move on to number bonds to 20. We played a number bond bingo game. Each person chose 4 numbers 0-10, I then called out a number e.g. 3 and they would have to match it with a 7 to make the correct number bond to 10. Have fun!
Could you order the planets in size?
History
While we were looking at the planets we learnt that many of the planets have moons. So we investigated and found out that the first man to walk on the moon was Neil Armstong along with his fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
We would like you to find out more about this amazing adventure, what year did they go to the moon, what was the rocket called, what did they leave on the moon?
https://youtu.be/CbTaDOuSePk
Have fun with all your challenges.
Keep safe!
Mrs Fitzgerald, Ms Carney and Mrs Carroll.
F2 - Home Learning Week 14, by Miss Ward
Date: 2nd Jul 2020 @ 5:56pm
Hi Children,
We hope you have all had a lovely week! Please find the video attached of the story ‘The Snail and the Whale’ and here are some activities for you to complete based on the story!
- How many creatures can you see on each page? How many creatures are shown in the whole book?
- Find out about snails, whales and other creatures shown in the book. Where do they live? What do they eat?
- At the end of the story, the snail tells his friends all about his adventure. Can you write what he might have said to them? A speech bubble template is attatched below.
- Write your own story about two different creatures who go on a big adventure together? Where do they go? There is a comic strip template for you to use if you want to. E.g. could be a giraffe and a butterfly or an elephant and an ant.
Here is the link if you would like to watch The Snail and the Whale on BBC iplayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cslw/the-snail-and-the-whale
Remember to keep practising writing your full name, the letters of the alphabet, numbers to 20 and reading your tricky words and sounds.
Keep sharing your work with schools Facebook Page! We love seeing the work you have done and your smiley faces!
Have fun and stay safe,
F2 Team x
Week 14 - Home Learning, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 2nd Jul 2020 @ 11:44am
This week we want you to have a look at SPACE
!
~imagine~ you are an alien visiting Earth... Can you write a diary entry describing your time on Earth. Where did you land? What did you do? Who did you meet? Did you enjoy yourself? Why? How did you get back?
Have a look at something exciting....What the NASA Space Telescope 'Hubble' saw on the day you were born! Click the link and find the Month and Day of your to see it!
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday
Have a go at re-creating your own
!
As the time is coming closer to you coming back to school, we would like to hear what you are looking forward to the most!
***CHALLENGE***
Who can be the first to work out and send to Miss Wise or Miss Flynn
: How many DAYS you have not spent in school since March 20th 2020. How many WEEKS you have not spent in school since March 20th 2020.
Year 6 Home Learning Week 12, by Miss Houghton
Date: 26th Jun 2020 @ 3:34pm
Hi Year 6,
Hope you are all keeping well! It was lovely to see even more of you this week, we hope you have enjoyed your time back in school with us.
Thank you for all the pictures that have been sent in this week you were all super cute. Please could you get pictures into us in the next week as we are currently making the leaving PowerPoint and don't want to leave anyone out!!
Watch the vlog for this week's challenges from myself and Mrs Parry.
Keep well, Keep safe and keep smiling.
Love from
Miss Houghton & Mrs Parry XX
Year 5 Home Learning Challenge Week 12, by Mrs Bale
Date: 26th Jun 2020 @ 2:51pm
Hi Year 5,
Hope you've all had a good week.
Here are your challenges for this week.
Take care,
Year 5 Team xx
F2 - Home Learning Week 13, by Miss Dunlop
Date: 25th Jun 2020 @ 3:38pm
Hi Children,
We hope you have all had a lovely week! Please find the video attached of the story ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and here are some activities for you to complete based on the story!
- Can you think of some animals and words that rhyme with them and put them in a sentence to create a silly rhyming sentence! For example, a pig wearing a wig, a cat in a hat.
- Can you draw a picture of a ladybird and make spots on the wings and write the addition sentences for the different spots you make. Challenge – Can you use 10 spots and find all of the different ways to make 10 to practise your number bonds.
- Can you create a map of a farm! Draw all of the animals together in pens and think about which animals would prefer grass, mud and hay.
- Can you complete the animal noises sheet attached to read the different animal sounds and match them to the correct farm animal. Can you try and write the sounds that other animals make, for example, a lion and a mouse?
Have fun and stay safe,
F2 Team x
Foundation Stage 1 Weekly Tasks: Week 11, by Miss McNamee
Date: 25th Jun 2020 @ 8:47am
Hello Preschool,
We miss you lots and hope that you are keeping well at home.
This week for your home learning tasks, you will be learning about People Who Help Us. Can you think of anyone who helps you?
We tend to think of people like police officers, doctors, paramedic, firefighters and teachers.
Task 1: Learn your address and practise what you would say if you were ever in an emergency and needed to call 999.
Task 2: Create your own emergency vehicle. Think about its features - sirens, hosepipes and ladders, bright colours. You could make your vehicles out of old boxes, bottle top lids and cardboard tubes.
Task 3: Make your own people who help up costume. You could borrow an adult's hat to be a helmet or a shirt to be a doctor's coat. Pretend you are the person who is helping. What would you do? What would you say?
Task 4: If 5 children are waiting to cross the road and the lollipop person takes 2 children across, how many are left to cross? You could draw a picture or use your fingers to help you work out the answer!
Please keep sending in your pictures of your fantastic work to our school Facebook page - we love to see what you are all up to at home.
Preschool Team
Year One Weekly Tasks: Week 11, by Mrs Carney
Date: 24th Jun 2020 @ 10:27am
It's been lovely to welcome back so many of you this morning and we've had a great time catching up again.
Here are this weeks challenges!
National Writing Day Challenge:
You are going to take part in a 24/7 challenge.
There are just three rules:
1. You are going to write a brilliant 24-word short story.
2. Your story must start with the words ‘One day’.
3. You will write it in just 7 minutes!
It’s a challenge, but don’t worry – this lesson will guide you step by step so you’re ready to make the most of those precious 7 minutes!
Follow this link to your challenge and step by step guidance:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4g796f
Reading
Please share the story of The Rainbow Fish. If you have this story at home then please use the book. If not, please watch this video of the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZuS3ze-Ho. Once you have read the story or watched the video, please discuss the vocabulary on the word mat below, and complete the two activities below.
★ Activity 1
Complete the Rainbow Fish book review. Discuss with a grown up what you like about the story, and how you think it could be even better. Can you work out the hidden message behind the story?
★ Activity 2
Can you fix the Rainbow Fish sentences? Words are spelt incorrectly, and they are missing capital letters and full stops. Use the story to help you.
Maths
Can you complete the capacity activity using the document below? Your grown up's at home will use the questions to challenge you. I have also included a vocabulary mat to discuss the key vocabulary. If you think you are ready for it, try the challenge cards too (they are trickier!)
Songs
Here are some of the songs that we enjoyed together when we were in school. Please revisit and recap our previous learning. They are very helpful, and I bet you could show your grown up's what you know.
- Days of the week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tx0rvuXIRg
- Months of the year - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPeAo1hz8GA
- Count to 100 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc
- Counting in 10's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yr-IuM4SEA
- Counting in 5's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r176jXYwct8
- Counting in 2's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyCr0IgbYcI
- Alphabet phonics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ZludcLyi8
- Phase 3 phonics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Jp5MutVlQ
History
Use the powerpoint below to learn about Florence Nightingale.
Here is a video about her life too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jONlz7vaMnU.
Listen to this song, I know you will enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH6F20CojK4
Discuss with a grown up who she was, why she was famous, and what you think about her. Please complete the 3 activities below.
★ Activity 1
Use the sorting cards to discuss with a grown up whether the pictures were 'before' Florence Nightingale arrived, or 'after'. If you do not have a printer, discuss them on the screen.
★ Activity 2
Complete the hospital improvement activity. Match the problem that Florence Nightingale was faced with, to the solution she found. What do you think about her as a nurse?
★ Activity 3
Florence Nightingale used a lamp when nursing as there was no access to electricity back then. Create a lamp of your own, and test it out in the dark. Try to be creative, and send me a photograph of your finished piece.
Once you have finished the above 3 activities, you can choose some of these below if you wish.
- Florence Nightingale word search.pdf
- Florence Nightingale Poem.pdf
- Florence Nightingale colouring.pdf
Art
Use the Powerpoint slides to learn how to mix colours, tints and shades. Use paints to paint circles in the style of Wassily Kandinsky. Please send me photographs of your wonderful artwork.
Year 4 Home Learning Week 12, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 23rd Jun 2020 @ 9:05am
Year One Challenges Week 11, by Mrs Carroll
Date: 21st Jun 2020 @ 11:13am
Year One Challenges Week 11
English: In ‘The Singing Mermaid’ the mermaid manages to escape from the circus, with help from her friends. This week we would like you to write your own adventure story and it must involve someone escaping from somewhere! It doesn’t have to be about the mermaid, you can create your own characters and settings: maybe a monkey is escaping from the zoo or someone is escaping from pirates. Use your imagination!! But don’t forget that your story must have a beginning: where you describe the characters and the setting a middle: where your character escapes and the ending: where we find out what happens to them. When you have written your story you could illustrate it (by drawing pictures) and then read it to your family!
Maths: In The Singing Mermaid there is a man in the circus who walks on stilts. This makes him very tall. This week in Maths we are thinking about measuring. First of all can you find out who is the tallest person in your family and who is the shortest person? Can you line everyone up in order from the shortest to the tallest? Use the language: taller than and shorter than to describe your position. Is there anyone who is the same size as you? Now draw pictures of things that are taller than you and things that are shorter than you. Next you are going to use the language long, longer, longest to describe playdoh snakes or maybe pieces of string, or you could build something long using Lego. Can you measure how long your hall is by counting steps from one end to the other? Remember not to leave any gaps when you put your foot down! Now measure how long your garden is and compare the two. Which is longer? You can have fun measuring using anything at all: Duplo bricks, buttons, pencils, toy cars. Remember to measure right to the end and not to leave any gaps! Draw pictures to show what you measured and how long they are and write labels to say which unit you measured with eg buttons. Finally can you find out which units we use for measuring? You could look on a ruler or a tape measure to find out. Try measuring things using a ruler if you have one!
D.T. Can you find out why we need to be careful in the sun? Think about how we protect ourselves from the sun. Can you make a poster to help people stay safe in the sun?
History: In school we learned about Queen Elizabeth II. Can you see what you can find out about her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria? When was she born? When did she become Queen? When did she die? Who did she marry? How many children did she have? You could watch the YouTube video by Curious Pavel or look at the website:TheSchoolRun.com for some answers! BBC Bitesize will help you too. You could make a little Fact File showing what you have found out.
Finally:
Don’t forget to keep reading and practicing your Phonics too!
BBC Bitesize Phonics Phase 3 has lots of short video clips to remind you of the sounds we have learned and games to help you practice them.
Have a lovely week and make sure you stay safe!
Year 6 Home Learning Week 11, by Miss Houghton
Date: 19th Jun 2020 @ 3:27pm
Hi Year 6,
It has been really lovely to see some of you this week and we hope to see you a few more of you in the coming weeks. We hope everyone at home is safe and well.
Myself and Mrs Parry are starting to think about creating a virtual leavers assembly and would really love to include all of you once we've worked out what to do!!
Watch our video to see what activities we are setting you this week and please try to send some photographs into us.
Keep smiling, Keep safe & Keep busy!
Love from Miss Houghton, Mrs Parry & the rest of the Year 6 team.