We are delighted to announce that the school has been awarded the Primary Geography Quality Mark at the bronze level. It has been an ongoing objective of the school to raise the profile of geography and ensure that our pupils gain outstanding geographical skills and knowledge.

The bronze award ensures ‘lively and effective geographical learning in primary schools’. In these schools teachers ensure policies impact on pupil learning and are not afraid to take risks, and innovate and challenge to achieve progress in geography. Key threads through the curriculum are inter-cultural understanding, local fieldwork, environmental issues and dilemmas connected with sustainability. These are explored in a variety of places across the world from local to global. These schools use creative approaches to stimulate learning and place a high value on using real life issues to promote understanding.

The Primary Geography Quality Mark is seen as a key strategy for raising the quality of geography in primary schools and has been driving school improvement in geography since 2006. This year a total of 66 primary schools have achieved the Geographical Association’s Primary Geography Quality Mark (PGQM) at either Gold, Silver or Bronze Level.

In the next few years, we will be looking at improving our geography offer and collecting a range of evidence to support an application at a higher level. If you know of any opportunities which we can access as a school, please speak to Miss Gilchrist or your child’s class teacher.

We are excited to welcome our pupils back to school tomorrow! School opens at 8.55am, with Breakfast Club open from 8am.

All of the staff can’t wait to see you looking smart and ready for learning!

A lucky group of Year 5 and 6 pupils got to take part in a Triathlon event at Wavertree Sports Park, this morning. Swimming, cycling and running make up the event, with the children being able to use their skills from across the curriculum to achieve their goal of completing the tough challenge!

Well done the team – hopefully we will get another chance to compete next year and our Year 6s continue seeking Triathlon opportunities at their secondary schools.

If you would like your child to take part in Triathlon events over the summer, then there is an opportunity below:

We had lots of fabulous entries to our extreme reading competition, with entrants from Hollywood, film sets, a farm, up a tree and in a kayak! All of the winners received a book prize from their teachers at today’s golden assembly!

Well done to all pupils and safe reading!!

A group of our pupils took part in English Speaking Board Examinations today. The children were all extremely well prepared; showing themselves to be effective, confident oral communicators.

Well done everyone, you should be very proud of yourselves today!

 

Mr Garth’s and Miss Topping’s class have taken part in refugee awareness workshops with Carmel, from the British Red Cross. The children have discussed the difference between asylum seekers, refugees and migrants as well as learning about the push and pulls of leaving your home country.

Pupils talked about what would make them leave home and what is happening in other countries to make them find a different place to live.

Today is Day 1 of this three month campaign, and we are excited to introduce our first new resource entitled “The world changes. Children don’t”. 

So why not log onto the website and read more the parents section of the Thinkuknow website provides information to support parents and carers to understand and respond to the risks their children may face as they grow. It covers a broad range of online safety issues from nude selfies to what to do if you think your child is being groomed online. Find it at: www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents.

Research tells us that having a supportive parent or carer can make all the difference in helping a young person learn to stay safe. We hope this campaign will raise awareness of the breadth of advice and support Thinkuknow offers, and its accessibility to anyone whether they would like more information about keeping their child safe, or is worried about a young person in their care.

Year 6 pupils who have been identified for extra swimming lessons, must bring their letter and swimming kits in tomorrow (Thursday 7th July) as stated on the letter given out last week. Lessons will run on the following dates:

Thursday 7th July, Monday 11th July, Tuesday 12th July, Wednesday 13th July, Thursday 14th July and Friday 15th July.

These lessons are to ensure that your child has reached the expected standard of being able to swim at least 25m unaided.

A big well done to all the children across EYFS on a fantastic sports day! You did yourselves and your parents proud. Take a look at the pictures below, more on our Early Years page!

Our pupils had a wonderful day at the Welsh Mountain Zoo, today, looking around the enclosures and learning lots about the different animals through talks from the experts. All the children were very well behaved and were a credit to their parents once again.

The pupils in Mr Garth’s class put on a lovely assembly for parents, families and Year 3, sharing their dreams and aspirations for the future. Each child created a sketch for the audience to guess their dream job, with the answers revealed on a video created with Mr Mills.

We hope that everyone enjoyed the assembly as much as the children enjoyed putting it on! Follow us on Twitter to see videos of the sketches!

 

Miss Hughes and Mrs Bowcock’s class enjoyed a wonderful trip to the nature trail at BNENC today, hosted by Regenda Homes’ Community Apprentices. Once again, the staff were extremely knowledgeable and looked after the pupils brilliantly.

The children enjoyed navigating the trail and finding all the different plants and flowers on their quiz sheets!

Children between 7-12 can try a new sport this summer at British Triathlon camps in Liverpool. Triathlon is a combination of swimming, cycling and running, a great sport for children who love to mix it up!

Have a look at the fantastic artwork which our pupils have produced this term!

Year 5 and 6 had their sports day, this morning, celebrating all things Africa! Each class represented a different country from the continent, with each country performing a dance for the opening ceremony!

After sprint races, javelin, lap races and the triple jump, Egypt came out on top with 136 points! In second place was DR Congo (132), followed by Cameroon (112) and South Africa (109). Well done to all pupils and thank you to parents and family members for coming to support.

Healthy Schools Week has begun, with Year 1 and 2 having their sports day this morning and half of the school making healthy pizzas today! Sports days continue this week, with the remaining classes making healthy pizzas tomorrow. Thank you to the parents for supporting today and we hope to see many more this week!

Thank you to Year 5 who prepared a wonderful e-safety assembly for the school today. The message was very important: be SMART online! If you ever have any issues online, report it to an adult. You can always contact CEOP using the link on the homepage of our website, if you see anything you do not like online.

Year 6 and Year 3 took part in their very own EU Referendum today. For the last two days, Year 6 have been learning about the arguments from the ‘Remain’ and ‘Leave’ campaigns and deciding which one they wanted to vote for.

After deciding, each child worked on a piece of writing to use in the debate. Two teams of 4 pupils were chosen and the rest of the class acted as the audience. Year 3 pupils were invited to watch and listen, with all of the audience casting their votes.

The results were 93% ‘Remain’ and 7% ‘Leave’.

Year 5 and 6 took part in refugee awareness workshops today, with EMTAS, the local authority’s education support for ethnic minorities. The pupils discussed and role-played how we welcome people and how we can welcome new people into our community and school.

Our School Council were fortunate to go to the Town Hall today to see the Queen as she visited Liverpool for the day. The council were also joined by Mrs Eaton, who was sharing in the excitement of the day!