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Reception Blog - Friday 20th June 2025

Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 3:59pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

 Mrs Robinson's group have been writing and reading words with the ur and ow sounds in them.

Mrs Dixon's group have been focussing on CCVC words.

Drawing Club

In Drawing Club, we have been writing about a special person in our lives. We have also been checking our work and writing them up ready for a display.

Maths

We have been exploring sharing different amounts this week.

RE

We have been learning that being a Christian means belonging to part of a community of faith.

Expressive Art and Design

 We have been looking at facts about Volcanoes and making our own!

Understanding the World

We went on our class trip to Blackpool Zoo and What a day we had!

All of the children were brilliant and showed how St Oswald’s behave.

We used our knowledge of maps to find our way round and talked about the habitats the animals lived in.

See the photos here.

PE

We went to a tennis session with South Ribble Tennis Centre.

See the photos here.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Louie

Super Learner – Roman

Superstar Writer – Eilish

Bookworm – Darragh

Mathematician – Stanley

Special Mentions - Isabelle for brilliant talking all about the trees.

Special Mentions - All of Reception for their fantastic behaviour at the Zoo!

Year 3 Friday Blog 20th June 2025

Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 2:01pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We’ve had another fantastic week of learning in Year 3!

Home Practice

Continue with your amazing reading at home and remember to change your school reading books regularly, we have lots of great books to choose from.

Your home spellings are all homophones and near homophones. Lots of regular practise will help with these.

On Sumdog we have set two maths challenges covering the learning well meet will meet next week. We have also set a fluency competition which will practise the key skills and number facts your child needs to work on.

This week in Year 3

In English, we’ve been writing a lovely piece about our special person for our Open Morning. Everyone shared such thoughtful ideas about what makes their special person so special to them. We’re really proud of the beautiful writing.

In Maths, we’ve been continuing our brilliant work on decimals. The children have shown great understanding and have been asking some super questions during our lessons. Keep it up, Year 3!

In History, we’ve been learning all about the invasions that Ancient Egypt endured during its long dynasty. We found out about the Hyksos and the Nubians, discovering how and why Egypt lost some of its lands – and how Ahmose I defeated these invaders to reunite the Ancient Kingdom. Fascinating stuff!

In Art, we’ve been designing our own moving pictures. Using planet Earth as our inspiration, we chose animals to match our fabric paintings and explored how we might animate them as part of our final project.

In RE, we have been learning all about Passover and the Seder plate. We watched some very interesting videos and had some thoughtful class discussions as we shared our reflections.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week - Lottie

Super Learner - Edward

Writer of the week - Jessica

Marvellous Mathematician - Oliver

Bookworm - Albert

Special Mentions - Emillie-May, Lewis, Francesca for their amazing playtimes.

Well done, Year 3 – a brilliant week of learning once again!

Year 6 Blog - Friday 20th June

Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 7:43am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog. 

Well done to all of Year 6 for their amazing Sport's Day this afternoon! 

This week in Year 6

English 

In English, we have been inspired by different videos this week to create narratives with suspense. We created a blend of action, dialogue and description based on the videos 'Francis' and 'Alma' and utilised our skills as writers to build tension into our narratives. We also wrote a leaflet to persuade someone to visit Longton! 

RE

In RE, we have learned all about Sikhism. We researched and created some amazing leaflets to explain all about the values and symbols of Sikhism! We also compared a Catholic and Sikh charity to understand about the similarities and differences. This week, we also learned about what a world view is and thought about what factors impacted upon our own worldviews. 

Topic 

In Science, we have continued our topic on evolution. We learned all about peppered moths and how the species is a greate example for how natural selection may lead to evolution. 

In History, we learned about how Britain reacted to the start of WW2. We listened to the radio broadcast from Neville Chamberlin announcing the start of the war and created our own propaganda poster based a real example. 

In French, we have been learning the names of French snacks as part of our cafe topic. 

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 25/06/25. 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling - 

Please learn these words ready for our test on Friday.  

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  - Zofia 

Super Learner -  Isabella

Superstar Writer - Freya

Bookworm - Elliott 

Marvellous Mathematician -  Charlie 

Special Mentions - Luke M - for always being helpful around the classroom.

Have a great weekend Year 6!

Year 5 Friday Blog 13th June 2025

Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 3:59pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

doubt  island  lamb  knight  solemn  thistle  badge  bomb  ghost  butcher  knee  answer  comb  Christmas  honest  knife   sword  crumb

Counting

Count out loud in:

6s up to 102 and back again                                               0,6,12,24…

40s from 240 to 880 and back again                              240,280, 320…

90s from 3600  backwards to 2700                                 3600, 3510, 3420…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are practising divisions of tables that are 10x/100x larger.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.

Please also continue to use the fluency booster on sumdog.

We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 5.

In English this week, everyone created a fact report about swallows as well as writing as Hero, our character from the novel, describing his migratory journey from England to Africa. Year 5 worked incredibly hard on this, showing off their writing skills.

In Maths we have been learning about the median, mode and range. Next week, we will be returning to place value and number topics.

In RE we have continued to explore the bible and its many books and discussed how different people can help us interpret the messages within them.

We also had a fantastic sports day - everyone gave it their all and tried hard. Thank you to everyone that came to watch and joined in the parent’s race!

The week has ended with a science experiment where we learned about reversible and irreversible changes to materials. A great week of learning Year 5 – well done!

Golden stars this week

 Eliza W – star of the week

 Xabier – marvellous mathematician

 Ebba  – super learner for listening and being golden

 Leo W – superstar writer

 Luiza  – bookworm for her reading

Darcey – special mention for being kind and helpful

Year 3 Friday Blog 13th June 2025

Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 3:57pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

This week in Year 3, we’ve been busy diving into lots of exciting learning!

Home Practice

Reading: Please read every night at home. Remember to change your school books regularly, we have an amazing selection to choose from!

Spellings: The first 20 Year 3/4 statutory words. Look for the tricky bits in these words. If you remember the tricky bits you will remember more spellings!

Maths: Challenges are set on Sumdog. They are on 2D Shape and all your times tables.

This week in Year 3 

In English, we started our new novel The Deathwood Letters and wrote some brilliant character descriptions. Everyone worked hard to include interesting vocabulary and detail.

In Maths, we’ve been learning about decimals – a tricky topic, but the children have shown great focus and enthusiasm!

In RE, we began our new branch Discover and Encounter. We learned about the Jewish escape from Egypt in the Book of Exodus and enjoyed listening to some powerful music to help us reflect.

In History, we investigated the pyramids! We used evidence and different interpretations to explore theories on how they were built. Super historical thinking and discussion from everyone – well done!

In Art, we created our fabric landscapes and have started planning how to add detail to them next week using thread. These will become the backgrounds for our moving pictures in our next art topic. Exciting stuff ahead!

Star of the week - William

Super Learner - Emilia

Writer of the week - Marvin

Marvellous Mathematician - Rory

Bookworm - Annie

Special Mentions - Bella, Bobby and Drew for their fabulous fabric Art learning!

Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 3 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 13th June 2025

Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 12:55pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

 Mrs Robinson's group have been revisiting tricky words and using them in sentences.

Mrs Dixon's group have been learning CVCC words.

Drawing Club

In Drawing Club, we have been watching clips of polar bears in their habitats.

We have written about what the animals were doing in their caves and how they hunted for their food.

Maths

We have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes this week, making pictures and statues from them.

See the pictures here.

RE

We have been listening to stories about Jesus’ friends; St Peter and St Paul.

We learnt about what St Peter and St Paul were good at and played follow the leader.

Expressive Art and Design

 We have been listening to scientists talk about how they find out information about dinosaurs.

We saw them excavating a dinosaur site and finding the fossils. We then made our own dinosaur fossil pictures. See the photos here.

Understanding the World

We have been planning our trip to Blackpool Zoo using maps. We have been using the map to find different parts of the zoo, including trees, water, different animals and the toilets! See the pictures here.

We have also been finding facts out about different under the sea animals.

PE

We began our games unit. This week we have been working in teams to race against another.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Noah J

Super Learner – Lucas

Superstar Writer – Oscar 

Bookworm – Hartley

Mathematician – Thomas and Ada G

Special Mentions – Rupert and Noah B – for making our classroom a happy place to be.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 13th June 2025

Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 9:30am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Measuring length

Phonics - High frequency words

Counting - Measure different items around your house however you can and count in either twos, fives or tens to find the answer.

Reading - We've had a drop in the number of children changing their reading books so please keep reading at home.

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We started to read our new book - Paddington! We wrote some super sentences about Paddington, wrote our own sentences for making a marmalade sandwich and then made our own sandwich following the instructions.

See our pictures here.

Phonics

All of us have been practising putting sound buttons on our words ready for our phonics screening.

Maths

We measured mass using the balance scales and measured height and length using cubes.

R.E.

We learnt two new words this week - parish and community. We thought about all of the different people that make up the Church parish and wrote questions for people like Father Michael and Mrs Wilson, who are a part of our parish.

Science

We used our senses to identify any signs of summer.

See our pictures here.

PSHE

We learnt how to set a goal that we can achieve as a class. We decided to set a goal of using lead-ins in our handwriting.

We also talked about how change can be tricky to overcome. We drew pictures of ways that we can make ourselves feel better if change gets too much for us.

Art

We sketched minibeasts and then used pastels to add detail and colour.

We also made Father's Day cards for our Dads.

PE

This week, we learnt how to throw overarm. We threw beanbags as far as we could and practised throwing into hoops.

See our pictures here.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Jesse

Super Learner: Rhodes

Superstar Writer: Hannah and Giovanna

Bookworm: Bobby

Marvellous Mathematician: Buzz

Special Mentions: Seb and Genevieve for always making good choices in challenge time and Freya and Arianna for amazing phonics with Mrs Sheen.

Year 2 Blog Friday 13th June 2025

Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 8:37am

Home Practice

Reading:

In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book.

This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!

Spelling:

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (20.06.25):

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Sumdog:

Counting:

Count in 2s, 5s and 10s forwards and backwards to 100. See how fast and accurate you can get.

Look at how they relate to the 2s, 5s and 10 times tables.

Times Tables:

We were busy doing our assembly rehearsals so did not do our quiz this week.

We will quiz your knowledge of the 2 times tables in a muddled order on Thursday (19.06.25)

English

During our lessons this week, we have been working on our comprehension skills and recapping things we learnt about in spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Our current topic is Place Value.

The children have been learning to partition numbers in different ways. We also learnt to use the greater than >, less than < and equals signs = in number sentences.

R.E.

We have spent a lot of time this week preparing for our assembly about God's wonderful world. The children have been writing prayers, designing posters, singing and dancing.

Next week we will be learning about the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.

P.E

 We have been busy learning the dance moves for this years 'Dance from the Heart' celebration.

Year 2 have picked up the moves very quickly and bring so much energy to the dance.

Art

After drawing music inspired sketches last week, the children used these to paint larger pieces of abstract art. The results were fabulous!

We studied the artist - Wassily Kandinsky.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week- Florence

Super Learner- Charles

Superstar Writer- Harper

Bookworm- Eliza

Mathematician- Isaac

Special Mentions- Orlaigh for beautiful reading. Adam and George for beautiful art work.

Year 4 Blog Friday 13th June 2025

Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 8:16am

Welcome to your weekly blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

Have a careful look at sentence openers. Are there any that you recognise eg subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, prepositions etc.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

girls’            boys’            babies’         children’s     people’s       mens’

mice’s          foxes’          rabbits’       parents’       dogs’            friends’

cats’            brothers’     sisters’        wolves’         books’          ladies’

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 1/2’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 11 and back again

0    ½   1      etc                                  11    10 ½    10 etc

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

TTRockstars challenge

‘Battle of the Bands’ Girls v Boys competition

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

An addition and subtraction with measures challenge

Our learning this week

English

In English, we started a new novel – Bill’s New Frock.

We began by looking carefully at the cover and making predictions about the story. We then read the blurb and considered whether this changed or added to our prediction.

In addition, we retold some of the first chapter as a diary entry trying to include lots of thoughts and feelings.

Maths

In Maths, we used a fraction wall to help us find equivalent fractions.

We also measured and drew lengths in m / cm and mm – this included numbers to 2 decimal places.

RE

In RE, we described what is meant by the ‘communion of saints’ and recognised that the Church teaches that Mary has a special place within the communion as Queen of Heaven.

PSHE

In PSHE, we learnt how to spot dangers and stay safe at home and when we are out and about.

We drew a comic strip about a character to give suggestions about how to stay safe.

Science

In Science, we constructed and interpreted a variety of food chains.

In addition, we observed what had happened to the eggs we placed in different liquids last week.

On the basis of the results, we discussed how these drinks would affect our teeth if we didn’t brush our teeth or look after them properly.

Computing

In Computing, we continued programming using code.org.

We built a game where the player controls a paddle and learns how events, such as pressing arrow keys, cause actions to happen – this was within the context of a basketball computer game.

History

In History, we continued comparing life in Sparta and Athens.

We then wrote a balanced argument to explain which city state we would rather live in based on our historical knowledge.

Art

In Art, we used our perseverance, determination and inventiveness to create a ‘nest’ out of different materials.

We worked hard to create a nest shape and then our instinct and intuition to create the sculpture.

Take a look at our pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week:  Sam

Super Learner:  Amelia

Superstar Writer:  Alfie

Bookworm: Evangeline

Marvellous Mathematician: Bertie and Jack

Special Mentions:  Joni and Josh M

The Year 4 team

Little Owls - Week 2

Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 12:51pm

Little Owls Week 2

WOW! Another fantastic week coming into Little Owls this week!

Everyone had a great time exploring the classroom again, and our outdoor area this week.

We read the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and sang lots of different nursery ryhmes. 

The children had apple for snack today. 

Reminders: If you have not returned your 'All About Me' poster please send it in next week, along with your permission slips for photos, the website and the pond. 

We can't wait to see everyone for week 3!

Year 6 Blog - Friday 13th June

Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 8:01am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog. 

This week in Year 6

English 

In English, we have been inspired by our evolution topic this week. We worked hard to research all about Charles Darwin and used the facts we found to create a biography all about his life and work. We also learned about Mary Anning and wrote a letter in role, explaining her thoughts and feelings when she found the ichthyosaur. 

Maths 

In Maths, we have started our new topic all about applied Maths. We have used our Maths skills that we have learned this year and applied them to different gameshow Maths! 

RE

In RE, we have learned what the word dialogue means. We created storyboards based on a dialogue between two friends and thought about what they might say to each other. 

Topic 

In Science, we have continued our topic on evolution. We researched different animals and learned about their special adaptations that help them to survive in their habitats. 

In History, we learned about how WW2 began. We thought about different causes and the effect that they had on the start of the war. 

In Computing, we created spreadsheets and used formula to plan a party! 

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 18/06/25. 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling - 

Please learn these words ready for our test on Friday.  

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  - Amelia 

Super Learner -  Tom 

Superstar Writer - Josh 

Bookworm - Erin 

Marvellous Mathematician -  Phoebe 

Special Mentions - Ava M, Pearl, Isabella, Freya - for raising money for Cancer Research. 

Have a happy weekend Year 6!

Year 5 Friday blog 06.06.25

Date: 6th Jun 2025 @ 4:20pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

existence  explanation  familiar  leisure   foreign  forty  frequently  lightning  government  harass  hindrance  marvellous  identity   immediately  individual   mischievous  interfere  interrupt  language  muscle

Counting

Count out loud in:

4s up to 104 and back again                                               0,4,8,12…

40s from 240 to 880 and back again                              240,280, 320…

25s from 2150  backwards to 1800                                 2150, 2125, 2100…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are practising divisions of tables that are 10x/100x larger.

Sumdog

Maths practise based on statistics - individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.

Please also continue to use the fluency booster on sumdog.

We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 5.

To start the week everyone wrote about their perfect day, using all the writing skills that they have learned over the year. We have been also enjoying our new novel ‘Dear Olly’ by Michael Morpurgo this week.      

In Maths we have been learning about the volume of 3d shapes and making cuboids. We have now moved onto statistics and reading data in various table formats.

In RE we have explored the bible and how it is made up of many books and in various languages.

We have also been practising for sports day and we had great fun doing outdoor gymnastics too!

The week has ended with a special experience; a careers day. The children got to speak to various adults about their jobs including the police, a surgeon, a film maker, a physiotherapist and an estate agent to name a few! We also finished our 3D houses in art and created little videos of our work. A great week of learning Year 5 – well done!

Golden stars this week

  Maisie – star of the week

  Milana  – marvellous mathematician

  Edison  – super learner for a great effort with his writing

  Freddie  – superstar writer

  Eliza M  – bookworm for her poetry reading, writing and performing

  Willow – special mention for being kind and helpful

Reception Blog - Friday 6th June 2025

Date: 6th Jun 2025 @ 2:04pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Welcome back to our last half term in Reception.

We have loved coming back to school this week and starting a our new topic - animals.

See the photos here.

Phonics

 Mrs Robinson's group have been revisiting the ar and or sounds.

Mrs Dixon's group have been revising our tricky words.

Drawing Club

In Drawing Club, we have been reading the story, Tiddler.

We have been designing our own fish to join Tiddler’s class and drawing him exploring the ocean.

Maths

We have been exploring money and different coins this week.

See the photos here.

RE

We have been learning about looking after our wonderful world and everything in it.

As a class, we made pledges about how we would protect our world. 

We wrote them on ribbon and attatched them to a tree in our school grounds.

If you see them, go and have a look! See the photos here.

Expressive Art and Design

 We have been drawing self portraits this week.

Understanding the World

This week we have been discussing what maps are and how we can use them.

We made a map of our classroom.

We have also had a careers fair in school. We loved visiting the different adults and talking to them about their jobs. See the photos here.

PE

This week we took part in our whole school event of tough kidder, with every child completing the course! See the photos here.

We have also done some cosmic kids yoga.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Judah

Super Learner – Indie

Superstar Writer – Elsie, Thomas and Ariana

Bookworm – Stanley

Mathematician – Roman

Special Mentions - Evie E - for being spotted by Mrs Cookson for fantastic Football.

Year 3 Friday Blog 6th June 2025

Date: 6th Jun 2025 @ 11:21am

It’s been another busy and brilliant week in Year 3!

Home Learning

Reading – Please read every night for at least 15 minutes. Don’t forget to record it in your reading diary!

Maths – We’ve set two challenges on Sumdog this week. They focus on shape and fluency. The fluency challenge is table vs table. Good luck!

Spellings – This week’s spellings all have the ei and ey spelling patterns, making the /ai/ sound. Practise reading and spelling them at home:

vein, neighbour, sleigh, neigh, weigh, weight, neighbourhood, freight, eight, obey, bobsleigh, reign, beige

This week in Year 3

We have had a brilliant week in Year 3!

On Thursday, everyone was amazing at our Tough Kidder event – every single child completed the course with determination and big smiles. Thank you so much for all your sponsorship and support!

In English, we finished the beautiful book The Butterfly Lion. The children wrote some fantastic pieces, continuing to focus on making their ideas flow together smoothly. We were so proud of the creativity and thoughtfulness they put into their writing.

In Maths, we’ve been learning all about 2D shape. We’ve been spotting different angles and even drawing our own shapes accurately. Super shape learning all round!

In History, we delved deeper into Ancient Egypt and explored the fascinating process of mummification. We learned how the Ancient Egyptians prepared for the afterlife – and even renamed our tables to match jobs from Egyptian times!

In our myHappymind learning, we’ve started our Engage module. This part of the curriculum brings together everything we’ve learned so far and focuses on how we can use our knowledge and skills to engage with the world through goal setting. We’ve also been exploring the character strength of perseverance, closely linked to resilience. There’s been lots of thoughtful reflection as we look back over our learning journey.

On Friday, we had a fantastic Careers Fair! We met lots of people with interesting jobs, asked brilliant questions, and created some super presentations about what we’d like to be when we grow up. Check out our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week - Heidi

Super Learner - Albie

Writer of the week - Noah

Marvellous Mathematician - Violet

Bookworm - Daisy

Special Mentions -Alice and Violet for setting a fantastic example on our playground!

Have a lovely weekend and we’ll see you on Monday!

— The Year 3 Team

Year 2 Blog Friday 6th June 2025

Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 6:50pm

Home Practice

Reading:

In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book.

This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!

Spelling:

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (13.06.25):

beautiful     colourful       careful         grateful        useful       hopeful                  powerful       cheerful         peaceful    awful   

Sumdog:

Counting:

Count in 2s, 5s and 10s forwards and backwards to 100. See how fast and accurate you can get.

Look at how they relate to the 2s, 5s and 10 times tables.

Times Tables:

Our next quiz will be on Thursday (12.06.25)

We will quiz your knowledge of the 2 times tables in a muddled order.

English

This week we started our new book, Stella and the Seagull. Year 2 drew and wrote about the main events of the story in order on a flow diagram.

They noted down interesting vocabulary about Stella and the Seagull and used these words in their own sentences and wrote a fantastic diary entry about Stella's day.

We finished our shape work this week.

The children have been completing arithmetic and reasoning end of term quizzes.

R.E.

We learnt about how the Holy Spirit helped different people in the Bible, including Jesus, Mary, the Disciples and Saul (Paul).

P.E

 The children have been playing mini games of rounders. We have got some great throwers, catchers and batters in Year 2.

History

We learnt about the first wooden castles - The Motte and Bailey Castle. Can you remember which part is the motte and which part is the bailey?

Year 2 found out about active listening and the checklist we can use to see that we are really listening carefully.

It is so important for our learning and for good relationships too.

Forest School

We went in our log circle area. We built dens, did some mud cooking, made daisy chains and played games.

Tough Kidda

What a fantastic afternoon, full of fun, excitement, music and energy.

Year 2 were amazing!!

Careers Fair

We went into the hall and met people with different jobs. There were police, a surgeon, an estate agent, a film maker , a costume designer and a surveyor.

We tried on some uniforms and asked really good questions.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week- Noa

Super Learner- Harrison

Superstar Writer- James and Leo

Bookworm- Devyn

Mathematician- Amelia F.

Special Mentions- Zack W. Dylan and Rowan for challenging themselves in Forest School

George for being a really good friend.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 6th June 2025

Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 3:40pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Ordering numbers to 20

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week

Counting - Play the counting to 20 game with your family, see who wins!

Reading - Please try to read remaining books over half term.

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We wrote amazing fact files about David Attenborough and Eugenie Clark, two people who work hard to ensure that the animals on our planet are looked after.

We also wrote pledges on orange ribbon, describing how we can help the Earth.

Phonics

All of us have been recapping the phase 3 and phase 5 sounds ready for our phonics screen.

Some of us have continued to learn the different ways to make an or sound. We learnt oar in roar, our in pour, augh in taught and ough in bought.

Maths

We continued to share objects into groups. This week, we shared between three, four and fives different groups and some of us even began writing division number sentences!

See our pictures here.

R.E.

We focused on reciting the words of The Sign of the Cross. We also drew our own cross to represent Jesus Christ.

Science

We recapped the differences between evergreen and desciduous trees before going outside to see if we could spot any of them. We used their leaves to distinguish between them.

History

We matched up facts about famous explorers.

PSHE

We learnt about how to engage our brains by being calm and showing good listening. We learnt how to set goals so that we feel good when we achieve them.

We also started to identify how our needs change as we grow up. We compared babies to toddlers, children and adults.

Art

We sketched different minibeasts in our sketchbooks.

PE

We continued to practise our underarm throwing using smaller objects like beanbags and tennis balls.

Tough Kidder

We had so much fun during Tough Kidder!

See our pictures here

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Arthur

Super Learner: Seb

Superstar Writer: Jessie H

Bookworm: Harry

Marvellous Mathematician: Jaxon

Special Mentions: Bobby for being brave during Tough Kidder, Emma and Amelia for always concentrating on their morning work.

Please practise reading as many real and nonsense words as you can at home.

Past booklets can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=phonics+screening 

Little Owls - Week 1

Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 12:55pm

Little Owls Week 1

WOW! We are amazed at how well every single one of you came into school this morning.

Everyone had a great time exploring the classroom and having a go at the different activities.

We read the story 'The Gruffalo' and sang lots of different nursery ryhmes. 

The children had cucumber for snack today. 

Reminders: If you have not returned your 'All About Me' poster please send it in next week, along with your permission slips for photos on the website and the pond. 

We can't wait to see everyone again next week :) 

Year 4 Blog Friday 6th June 2025

Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 9:58am

Welcome to the first blog of this half term

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. 

Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

See if you can spot any speech – look carefully at the punctuation used.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

fruit            grammar      group           guard           guide           heard

heart           height          history        imagine        increase       important

interest       island           knowledge    learn            length          library

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 12’s and back again

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

12    24    36   etc                              144   132   120 etc

Now try counting in 1.2’s and back again

1.2   2.4   3.6    etc                              14.4   13.2    12.0 etc

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk

If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

TTRockstars challenge

‘Soundcheck’ sessions

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A co-ordinates challenge

Our learning this week

English

In English, we read the story ‘Food Fight’. We then planned and wrote a perilous adventure about what Grape and Mushroom encountered on their way to the top of the fridge to ask The Big Cheese for advice.

Following this, we retold the story from The Big Cheese’s point of view!

Maths

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about coordinates.

We then extended this learning to translate points from one co-ordinate to another on a co-ordinate grid.

We also learnt what is meant by the term ‘area’ (the amount of space taken up by a 2D shape) and how to calculate it.         

RE

In RE, we talked about why the Pope is described as ‘the servant of the servants of God’.

In order to do this, we needed to understand the role of the clergy within the church and how the church is structured.

PSHE

In PSHE, we learnt what makes a good friend, how friends can help us solve problems, and why it is important to show gratitude to friends.

Science

In Science, we recapped the different types of teeth and their functions.

We then looked at the structure of a tooth and discussed which parts can become damaged with plaque or tooth decay.

We also set up an investigation to find out how different liquids could affect our teeth, using boiled eggs!

Music

In Music, we sang in groups and put actions to our songs – we were able to input our own ideas.

We also practised pentatonic singing and listened and repeated songs as accurately as we could.

Have a look in our gallery at some pictures.

History

In History, we learnt about life in Sparta and Athens.

We compared these two city states and then decided where we would rather live, based on our historical knowledge.

Art

In art, we sketched 'fine' and 'rough' nests.

Have a look at the photos in our gallery.

Laudato Si Pledges

This week, we also shared Pope Francis’ letter - Laudato Si.

Each class, including Year 4, then wrote pledges about how we can work for the common good and look after our world.

Our pledges were then tied to trees in school.

Have a look at Year 4 hanging up their promises in our gallery.

Tough Kidder

On Thursday afternoon, we took part in Tough Kidder.

Wow – what a fabulous afternoon – please have a look at our pictures in the gallery!

Careers Fair

On Friday morning, we went to a careers fair in the school hall. 

We met a variety of adults with different jobs and asked lots of questions! 

There are some pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Sidney

Super Learner: Willow

Superstar Writer: Tiffany

Bookworm: Mark

Marvellous Mathematician: Emma

Special Mentions: Ada-May, Trudy and Alana

The Year 4 team

Year 6 Blog - Friday 5th June

Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 7:54am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog. 

All of Year 6 have had a busy first week back in school. All of the children have been working hard at rehersals for our production. Year 6 have also helped to run the tough kidder this week. Well done for all your hard work Year 6! 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been exploring the graphic novel 'The Arrival'. We have used our inference skills this week as there are no words in the text! We have written a narrative based on an image from the story, a diary entry in role as the protagonist and created a backstory for one of the characters who moved to the city.

RE

In RE, we have started our new topic 'Dialogue and Encounter'. We have learned what the common good is and created shields to represent the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. 

Topic 

In Science, we have started our new topic all about evolution! We have learned about adaptation in plants by researching different plants and finding out how they are adapted to their environment. 

In History, we have continued our topic all about WW2. We have learned how Hitler rose to power. 

In Computing, we have been investigating how to use spreadsheets and how to add a formula to a spreadsheet. 

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 11/06/25. 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling - 

Please learn these words ready for our test on Friday.  

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  -  Maizie 

Super Learner -  Walter 

Superstar Writer - Ava M

Bookworm - Zofia 

Marvellous Mathematician -  Isla

Special Mentions - Ishan and Issac - for helping to blow up the footballs.

Phoebe - for always listening and working hard!

All of Y6 - for helping at Tough Kidder!

Have a great weekend Year 6!

Year 5 blog Friday 23rd May 2025

Date: 23rd May 2025 @ 3:59pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Reading

Please keep reading over the holidays and remember to fill in your vocabulary book!

English

 We have now completed ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’. We have been writing as Bryce and discussing the love and loss Edward has experienced.

Maths

The term has ended with the children developing their skills in geometry and particularly enjoyed making 3 D shapes from nets.  

Well done Year 5!

Science

This week the children have been experimenting with different materials to find the most suitable material for a raincoat. Our investigations into materials will continue next half term.

RE

Finally, we have spent time delving into the lives of Mary and St Francis of Assisi, in order to explore discipleship in life. Year 5 then wrote about how they could use their gifts in life, to be a good disciple.

Golden awards

Star of the week - Libby

Super learner - Eddie

Marvellous mathematician - Henry

Superstar writer - Alfie P

Bookworm - Zachary M

Special mention - Holly P

Year 5 have once again been fantastic this half term - thank you to all of you! We will see you back in school on Monday 2nd June 2025

Year 4 Blog Friday 23rd May 2025

Date: 23rd May 2025 @ 8:40am

Welcome to the last blog of this half term

Home practice

Reading

Please keep reading for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Try and use lots of expression in your reading and different voices for the different characters.

Spellings

As it is half term, there are no spellings this week.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 9’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 108 and back again

0   9   18 etc         108   99   90 etc

Times tables and Number facts

Please keep practising your tables over half term.

We will be taking part in the Multiplication Tables Check when you return after the holiday.

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk

If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

Sumdog challenges

• There are no Sumdog challenges as it is half term.

Our learning this week

In English, we read ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’. We wrote an argument between the yellow and the orange crayon using speech bubbles.

Following this, we wrote the dialogue using inverted commas (speech marks). We thought of lots of different word to describe how the crayons spoke to each other (eg growled, roared, questioned etc).

In Maths, we learnt how to describe and plot coordinates.

We extended our learning to complete a polygon on a coordinate grid. We were required to plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given shape.

In RE, we explored the text of the Apostles’ Creed and the meaning of the words.

In addition, we discovered what is meant by the term church and explained what the 4 marks of the church are.

In Science, we created booklets about how we can take care of our teeth and keep them healthy.

In PE, we practised our over arm throw in pairs. We then practised batting and put the 2 skills together with a game of cricket.

You can see some pictures in the gallery.

This week we were also lucky enough to have a cricket session provided by Lancashire Cricket.

First, we practised throwing and catching a ball then bowling to a partner. Following this, we played mini games of cricket.

We all had great fun and enjoyed honing our cricket skills.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Josh W

Super Learner: Alfie

Superstar Writer: Willow and Caleb

Bookworm: Amelia and Caleb

Marvellous Mathematician: Ada-May

Special Mentions: Evangeline, Archie P and Milo

Have a super half term

The Year 4 team

Reception Blog - Friday 23rd May 2025

Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 3:41pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

 Mrs Robinson's group have been revisiting the igh, long oo and short oo sounds.

Mrs Dixon's group have been focussing on the er and air sounds.

Drawing Club

In Drawing Club, we read the story, Snail and the Whale.

We have been drawing pictures of an underwater cave and writing about it.

Maths

We have continued to count to 20.
We have been measuring lots of items and using the correct vocabulary to describe them.

RE

We celebrated the story of Pentecost and discussed all of our learning from this half term.

Expressive Art and Design

 We have been painting our favourite things that we have learnt in reception.

PE

What a fantastic sports day we had! A big thank you to everyone who came and watched.

A video will be loaded to St Oswaldstv very soon!

We have also taken part in a whole school cricket day, which was fantastic! See the photos here!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Noah H

Super Learner – Judah

Superstar Writer – Zara

Bookworm – Evie E and Ariana

Mathematician – Connall

Special Mentions - the whole of Reception class, for a fantastic first sports day!

Year 3 Friday blog 23rd May 2025

Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 1:52pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Happy Half Term

Keep up with your regular reading over half term and Sumdog is still available for fluency and times tables practise.

This week in Year 3

We’ve had another fantastic week of learning in Year 3, full of teamwork, creativity and brilliant effort across the board.

In English, we read the part of The Butterfly Lion where Bertie becomes a true hero, saving the men in his regiment and receiving the Victoria Cross. We worked on retelling this exciting section of the story, focusing on writing our ideas in the right order and making our writing flow smoothly. Some brilliant storytelling on display!

In maths, we’ve been busy solving multiplication and division problems. The focus this week was on choosing the most efficient methods, and everyone showed great reasoning and confidence when explaining their choices. Well done, mathematicians!

Our RE learning took us deep into the mystery of the Holy Trinity. We explored how the Trinity has been represented in artwork and then created our own artistic interpretations using fidget spinners to represent the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They look fantastic – check them out in our gallery.

In PE, we’ve started getting ready for Sports Day. We worked hard on our athletics skills and showed brilliant persistence in all of our activities. We also had a great session with the South Ribble coaches and put our cricket skills to the test. You can see us in action in the gallery!

In music, we had loads of fun working with boomwhackers. We’ve been learning how to play a melody and even started composing our own pieces in small groups – lots of great teamwork on show.

This week in History we have been learning all about Egyptian Gods. We used our models to explore their features and researched their roles in Egyptian life.

We also enjoyed our Wonderful World Assembly this week, where we read the story of Mama Miti, a woman who planted trees across Kenya to protect the environment and help her community. This tied in beautifully with our science topic on plants and our PSHE learning about shared responsibility. A lovely message for us all to take away.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week - Rowan

Super Learner - Noah

Writer of the week - Archer

Marvellous Mathematician - Georgie

Bookworm - Evelyn

Special Mentions -Bobby, Hunter and Rowan for taking good care of our playground. Thank you boys!

Have a lovely half term break 

The Year 3 team

Year 6 Friday Blog - 23rd May 2025

Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 7:48am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been inspired by the book Wizardology this week! We have researched different immortal objects to create a page that would fit inside the book. We have also created our own immortal objects and thought carefully about how they would work and if they have any curses! 

RE

In RE, we have thought carefully about the words that we associate with the resurrection. We have responded to our topic by creating a poem, letter or image to show what theresurrection means to us.  

Topic 

In PSHE, we have completed our My Happy Mind topic called Relate. We have learned how to actively listen and how our character strengths can help us resolve conflicts. 

In History, we started our new topic all about WW2. We learned that before WW2 some countries were run democratically and that some were dictatorships.

In Art, we designed and created our very own chairs! We had to show resilience and think creatively to bring our designs to life. 

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 4/06/25. 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling and homework will resume after the half term break. 

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  -  Phoebe 

Super Learner -  Alex

Superstar Writer - Walter

Bookworm -  Edward 

Marvellous Mathematician - Luke M 

Special Mentions - Alex for helping to look after Y5's plants!

Have a brilliant half term Year 6 and a good break!

Year 1 Blog - Friday 23rd May 2025

Date: 21st May 2025 @ 4:25pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Halving

Phonics - High frequency words

Counting - Play the counting to 20 game with your family, see who wins!

Reading - Please try to read remaining books over half term.

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We looked at the story 'Dear Earth' and thought about how we can make the world a better place. We wrote a prediction about the story, described our earth and wrote a short poem.

Phonics

Some of us have learnt the dge digraph making the j sound in hedge and the ce digraph making a s sound in choice.

Some of us have been learning the different ways to make an or sound. We couldn't believe that there are ten different ways! We focused on oor in poor, ore in shore and al in walk

Maths

We identified halves of shapes and objects. We learnt to use the 'one for you, one for me' technique to share equally between two groups. We also used part-whole models to show this practically.

See our pictures here.

R.E.

We completed our Pentecost topic by learning how to spread the Good News, just like the disciples did. We created our own list of ways that we can help others.

Computing

We are becoming super coders! We learnt how to use a loop block to make our instructions more simple.

Geography

We sorted animals into their habitats, whether they live in a cold climate or a hot climate. We also talked about how animals can adapt to their environment.

PSHE

We thought about times where we have shown that we can relate to other people, through being kind and caring. We also thought about who we might need to relate to in our lives.

Art

We made our own birds! It was great to see so many different ideas.

See our pictures here.

PE

We had a fantastic cricket session with Dave. We learnt how to knock over wickets and how to use a cricket bat.

See our pictures here.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Harry

Super Learner: Honey

Superstar Writer: Hannah

Bookworm: Ella

Marvellous Mathematician: Faisal

Special Mentions: Rhodes for being so kind to everyone and Arianna for helping her friends.

Have a lovely half term! Please practise reading as many real and nonsense words as you can at home.

Past booklets can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=phonics+screening