Well done to our cricket team who finished in 6th place at today’s City Finals at Sefton Park Cricket Club. Once again, they have shown the school’s talent for cricket and we hope to be involved in finals day next year!
After coming through the after school cricket club to be chosen for the team, OLI were pitted against Wellesbourne, The Trinity and Middlefield in the group stages of the North/Central heat.
The first match against Middlefield saw Michee grab a hat trick of wickets to bring victory to OLI. Amman, team captain, won the toss and elected to field first. Restricting Middlefield to 213, the target was 214 to win. The game plan of no losing early wickets, worked with a total of 238 for OLI, for 2 wickets.
Game two was against Wellesbourne. Losing the toss, we were put into bat first and posted a respectable 244. Some poor fielding saw Wellesbourne narrowly win by 12 runs, putting them top of the group.
It seemed like Wellesbourne would take the top spot in the group, but there was a surprise in store. In our final match against The Trinity, Ayman won the toss and put them in to bat. Slow bowling allowed The Trinity to make some ground, scoring successive sixes to bring a total of 256. Wickets from Isabel and Michee dented their attack and brought some hope to the OLI batters.
Without losing a wicket, we scored a very high score of 285! Michee, Holly Spellman and Sean all chipping in with sixes extended our run score. Wellesbourne, Middlefield and ourselves won 2 matches out of 3, so it was down to who scored the most runs for 1st and 2nd place. After the demolition of The Trinity, we sat on top of the league, with Wellesbourne in second place.
A semi-final against Rudston was abandoned after a heavy downpour, and with no way to call a winner, both teams were put through to next week’s city finals at Sefton Park Cricket Club.
Well done to all the team, who all played an integral role – fielding and batting!
Today some Year 3 and 5 pupils were lucky to meet award winning nature author and Cambridge professor Robert MacFarlane. The children recently completed a writing project, coming up with their own words for different wildflowers in Everton Park, planted as part of the ‘Grow Wild’ project. Robert is particularly interested in language associated with landscape and nature and was so impressed with the imaginative words that the children created!
We are delighted to be awarded the Gold Games Mark Award for 2015/16, for our commitment, delivery and engagement of competitive school sport this year.
This is a fantastic achievement with only a few schools in the city currently holding this award. 3 years ago we held the bronze award, finally gaining the silver award last academic year. A huge step-up was needed for the Gold Award, entering more competitions, ensuring more children have the opportunity to participate in extra curricular clubs and compete in a wide range of sports within school and against other schools.
Thank you to the Liverpool School Sports Partnership for supporting us throughout the year with PE and Sport, as well as parents and families who have supported at competitions and events.
Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School Mark Award 2016
There are two extra opportunities to play Beat the Street after school this week, in Stanley Park and Everton Park. See the posters below for more information.
We would love to see our pupils and families attending, so that they can earn more points for themselves and the school, as well as getting the whole family more active!
Thank you for all your hard work and support of this project so far!
A reminder to Year 2 parents that we are now taking payments for their PGL trip in October 2016. The cost of the trip is £80 and payment will need to be made in full by Friday 16th September 2016. This will allow all the final paperwork to be sent off to the local authority and approved.
Payments can be made in the Year 2 area, before or after school, where payment cards will be filled out for your child. If you were unable to attend the meeting this week, information about the trip is with Year 2 staff.
Trip date: Wednesday 19th – Friday 21st October 2016.
The children in Key Stage 2 would like to invite their parents and families to join them in Everton Park to get active and collect points for our school. We will be leaving school at 1.30pm, so bring your registered cards and meet us outside the school hall tomorrow (Friday 27th May)!
Please see information below about the Walton Festival, taking place in July.
Walton Festival 2016 a new event funded by Liverpool City Council, Mayor of Liverpool, Sport and Recreation Service and Liverpool Housing Trust. Thousands of Liverpool residents will attend over 16th and 17th July 2016. The Festival will have a theme of health, wellbeing and community cohesion and provides an opportunity to showcase the park’s wonderful heritage. It will feature a whole range of activities and attractions including a large multi sports area, displays and taster sessions, a beach, children’s entertainment, ‘It’s a Knockout’ competition for corporate teams, 5k family fun run, dance and performing arts, live music, Victorian funfair rides, pet’s corner, market traders, bar and catering and many more activities for the whole family to participate in.
Walton Festival 2016 – Its a Knockout Corporate Challenge
Well done to all of our pupils who took part in the running competition in Everton Park, yesterday. Three teams, a KS1 mixed boys and girls, a KS2 girls and a KS2 boys team, competed against The Beacon, Faith Primary and Millstead.
In the Key Stage 1 race, Jack Trainer finished in 3rd place overall, helping us to a 2nd place finish overall. Our Key Stage 2 girls came in 3rd place, after some top ten finishes and Eryk topped off a lovely afternoon with a 1st place finish in the Key Stage 2 boys race, with 2nd place overall for the team.
Children from key stage 2 have been enjoying a maths lunchtime club, playing fun games and applying mathematical skills.
Mrs Burns’ class took to the Nature Trail this week to have lots of fun in the sun. Once again, the staff and apprentices made the pupils and staff feel extremely welcome – thank you!
The children in Year 3 and 4 would like to invite their parents to support them in swapping their reading books, every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, between 9 and 9.30am.
If you are interested in supporting your child, please follow them into school from the top yard when they line up for school at 8.55am.
Year 3 pupils gave us an extremely insightful assembly about how to stay safe online, with the main message being how to report inappropriate behaviour. If you have any worries about staying safe online, talk to one of our Year 3 pupils or any teacher! Report any inappropriate behaviour to CEOP.
Watch the clips below to see some of the assembly!
Tom introduces the E-Safety assembly
Ayman shows us where to report inappropriate behaviour through our website
Eight of our pupils represented Key Stage Two at the Highland Games competition, held at Archbishop Beck Tennis Centre, on Friday morning. A series of events, focusing on running, jumping and throwing mirrors the adult version of the highland games.
The children involved had previously taken part in a Level 1 competition in school, during an after school club and performed very well against other schools from the city.
A reminder to parents that rugby and running club have been cancelled for this week. They will both be back on next week (Friday 6th May). We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
This afternoon, we had two football fixtures against St. Margarets Anfield and Pinehurst in a catch up of fixtures from the Anfield Mini League, at Anfield Sports and Community Centre.
First up was St Margarets Anfield, and a quick break from the opposition caused problems in our penalty area. The OLI defence stood off and allowed a shot at goal, which crept past Eryk’s far post and into the goal (0-1). From this point onwards, we were the stronger team, creating chance after chance, but failing to beat an impressive SMA ‘keeper. Despite dominating the match from start to finish, our front line couldn’t find the back of the net and the game finished 0-1 to SMA.
Top of the table Pinehurst awaited at the final whistle, but once again OLI dominated from start to finish. Lots of chances for Kian and Joel in the first 5 minutes, produced a solitary goal after a neat one-two between the two players. Pinehurst threw the majority of their players forward during each attack, outnumbering our defence, but found it difficult to beat an impressive Eryk between the sticks.
Three goals from Pinehurst showed why they are top of the league, despite not playing to their fun potential. One goal in reply from OLI was enough to put the pressure on for the final ten minutes, but Pinehurst settled the match with a fourth, to end the match 4-2.
Miss Gallagher’s class had a wonderful visit to the Nature Trail and Allotment at the Breckfield Centre, organised by Regenda Homes. The community wellbeing apprentices made the pupils and staff feel extremely welcome and planned a nature trail quiz for our pupils. This was a great link to their current topic of Plants in Science.
The children also got to take a pot plant home to look after. Mrs Burns’ class are visiting this Friday, with Miss Boughey’s class the week after.
Thank you to all the staff at Regenda Homes for making us feel so welcome every time we visit – the children loved it!
We have had a very enthusiastic uptake for cross country running this year from children across the whole school. Children in KS2 have represented the school at various cross country events this year and have proved themselves to be very successful!
Out of 17 schools, our boys team came in 6th place and our girls team came in 8th place.
Boys:
| Final Total | Races | League Pts |
| Liverpool College | 6 | 96 |
| Our Lady’s Bishop Eton | 5 | 94 |
| St Paschal Baylon | 6 | 80 |
| St Margaret’s (Anfield) | 6 | 54 |
| St Christopher’s | 4 | 52 |
| Our Lady Immaculate | 6 | 48.5 |
| Florence Melly | 3 | 48 |
| Christ The King | 5 | 46 |
| Monksdown | 6 | 43 |
| Lister | 3 | 36 |
| Northcote | 4 | 23.5 |
| St Teresa of Lisieux | 4 | 23 |
| Wellesbourne | 4 | 17 |
| Hunts Cross | 3 | 13 |
| Leamington | 1 | 10 |
| Lawrence | 0 | 0 |
| Stockton Wood | 0 | 0 |
Girls:
| Final Total | Races | League Pts |
| Liverpool College | 6 | 100 |
| Our Lady’s Bishop Eton | 5 | 90 |
| Christ The King | 5 | 72 |
| St Paschal Baylon | 6 | 65 |
| St Margaret’s (Anfield) | 6 | 64.5 |
| Lister | 6 | 56 |
| Monksdown | 6 | 48 |
| Our Lady Immaculate | 6 | 39.5 |
| St Christopher’s | 4 | 37 |
| St Teresa of Lisieux | 4 | 33 |
| Florence Melly | 3 | 32 |
| Northcote | 4 | 20 |
| Wellesbourne | 4 | 19 |
| Hunts Cross | 3 | 11.5 |
| Leamington | 1 | 7 |
| Lawrence | 0 | 0 |
| Stockton Wood | 0 | 0 |
Well done to all the pupils who represented the school this year and we hope to have even more successful teams in the future!
Below is a document we feel parents will find useful when supporting your child in preparation for their end of KS2 National Curriculum tests in May. Paper copies of these will be available at parents evening on Tuesday 19th April 2016.
The standards and testing agency have released the following information for parents of children in Year 2 and Year 6, who will be taking their National Curriculum tests in May 2016:
National Curriculum Tests for KS1 and KS2 children: information for parents
There is also a short informative video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4T7cToOXfk