Year 5 were visited by our local police officers yesterday to talk about gangs and how to keep safe from anti-social behaviour. The police officers are currently doing lots of work in school with our children and will be continuing building relationships with pupils through e-safety and road safety talks in the summer term.

Yesterday children in Year 3 had the chance to sow wildflower seeds in Everton Park, as part of the Grow Wild project. This was extremely successful last year and the wildflowers made our local park look beautiful! Richard from the wildflower centre explained how to sow the seeds and as Year 3 have been looking at plants in science, they were able to explain how the seeds will eventually grow into beautiful flowers. The children are excited about visiting the flowers in the coming months to look at how the seeds change and develop.

On Monday, our Year 3 pupils will be sowing wildflower seeds in Everton Park as part of a continuing project from las year. Children will need to bring wellies, or trainers which they do not mind getting dirty with them to school in a separate bag.

There is an opportunity for the rest of our pupils and their families to take part in community wildflower sowing this Sunday, at 10.30am in Everton Park.

The final cross country league fixture took place at Wavertree last night. With a lot of schools off for Easter, it gave our pupils the chance to move up the field and improve their league placings.

Newcomers Poppy and Dylan fared well for their first time in a cross country event, with Poppy outperforming all but Alexis of the girl’s team. Eryk finished off a strong year with a top ten finish, one which he deserves after being a consistent top twenty performer. Lucas continued his improved placings, with his first top ten finish and Sean recorded his highest position after six events. Alexis continued her dominance in the girls team, by finishing as OLI’s first girl once again, followed closely by Poppy and Akasha. Slightly further down the field were determined runners Holly and Eve, both still recovering from their swimming heroics on Monday!

The final standings for the season will be updated here when available, but our results from the race are below. This is the first year that we have taken part in cross country competitions and it has unearthed some exciting talent and a love of running in our pupils. Thank you to all the parents who have supported over the year and to the members of staff giving up their time for some long evenings! The cross country after school club will begin after Easter and it is hoped that the uptake will be very high! Along with the continuation of the daily mile, we aim to gain more of our pupils’ interest in running and sporting activities in general.

Results:

Boys:

Eryk – 6th

Lucas – 9th

Sean – 16th

Dylan – 21st

Girls:

Alexis – 22nd

Poppy – 23rd

Akasha – 24th

Holly – 28th

Eve – 30th

Well done to our KS2 Swimming team, who swam extremely well to become the 8th best swimming team in the city. The increased standard from last week’s heats was easy to see and our pupils gave their all in every single race.

All pupils deserve special credit for their achievements, especially the girls team (3 members down from the heats) who all had to swim more races than normal!

Our highest race positions were 3rd by Sean and 5th by Mikey. With a number of Year 5 pupils in the team, this year’s gala is great experience for them to take into next year’s competition. Well done!

This morning’s competition was held at Wavertree Aquatics Centre, with a number of schools from the North and Central areas of the City. Competing in the large schools event, we faced a number of very local schools including The Trinity and St. Johns.

Every member of the team swam brilliantly, trying their very best to finish in the best positions possible.

Results:

Backstroke: Sean 2nd, Jacob 7th, Tilly 2nd and Ebonie 4th.

Breaststroke: Kian 3rd, Sean 2nd, Ebonie 4th and Eve 1st.

Relay Medley: Boys 2nd and Girls 2nd.

Butterfly: Sean 3rd, Mikey 2nd, Tilly 4th and Eve 4th.

Front Crawl: Mikey 2nd, Patrick 1st, Holly 1st and Tilly 1st.

Front Crawl Relay: Boys 4th and Girls 4th.

After the results were worked out, it was announced that we finished 2nd in both the boys and girls event overall. This means that they have both qualified for the City Finals next week, with the chance to represent Liverpool at the Merseyside Summer Games in July.

Overall Results:

Boys

1st – Emmaus

2nd – OLI

3rd – The Trinity

Girls

1st – St. Francis de Sales

2nd – OLI

3rd – Emmaus

It is the Liverpool Schools’ KS2 Swimming Gala on Monday morning (21st March), at Wavertree Aquatics Centre. Those children chosen for the team, must remember to bring their swimming kits and arrive at school promptly at 8.55am.

Parents are welcome to watch from the stands, but photography is not permitted. The event runs from 9.30 – 12pm.

This week, we had three matches in total, one for the boys in the Anfield Mini League and two for the girls, in the North Liverpool Girls League.

Unfortunately, all the fixtures resulted in defeat, firstly with the boys falling down 13-6 to Anfield Juniors. The matches in the Anfield Mini League are always fast and end-to-end, with the shorelines almost always going into double figures!

On Thursday, our girls team played Florence Melly at Walton Hall Sports Centre, with the score ending 6-0. On Friday, an excellent game, finished 2-1, to Emmaus, Isabel scoring our only goal. The girls have improved so much over the next few weeks and as the season comes to a close after Easter, I am sure that win is only just around the corner!

Sport Relief is well and truly underway at OLI, this morning! Reception and Key Stage One children have completed their mile in Everton Park with other classes around the school have been taking on the UK Military School obstacle course and an aerobics class in the hall!

Year 3, 5 and 6 are taking on the mile in Everton Park this afternoon to complete the day! Thank you for all your support and donations!

Some children in Year 5 and 6 took part in a litter sweep in the community as part of the clean sweep project with the local police. As a reward, the children got a match ticket for Everton vs. West Ham United last week.

Both our dance groups put on amazing performances for the crowds at North Liverpool Academy, on Wednesday. Miss Whittaker and Miss Boyd, both worked extremely hard with the groups over the past few months to deliver performances for the theme ‘sounds of the city’.

This year, in a change to the competition format, only first place was to be awarded, rather than the traditional 4 categories in previous years. Unfortunately, we didn’t place first in either competition, but it was clear that we have some extremely talented dancers in our school! Fortunately, the rest of the school will be watching the performances this afternoon!

Our Stay and Play focus for this month was RE – Growing. During lent children across EYFS talked about and recognised how to grow more like Jesus by sharing, being kind, listening to others, being helpful and forgiving others when they have done wrong.

 

Our dodgeball team, after making it through their North Liverpool heat, managed to assert themselves as being 3rd best in the city, after Monday’s finals in Toxteth.

A last-minute change of personnel, meant Paige stepped in for Joel, but the passion and determination of the team never faltered and the team can hold their heads high at this amazing achievement.

One of the toughest courses awaited our pupils in the penultimate cross country event of the year.

Watching the first few races, it was clear to see that mud was on the cards! We had two new runners, Patrick for the boys and Madison for the girls.

Despite the tough conditions, we managed to achieve one of our lowest points total this year (lowest points win!). Eryk’s consistency in the top 20 positions, shows how much he has achieved this year. Madison put in a stellar performance to finish first out of our girls and 36th overall. Onto the final race at Wavertree on Tuesday!

Boys:

Eryk 17th

Joel 23rd

Lucas 24th

Sean 37th

Callum 53rd

Patrick 56th

Girls:

Madison 36th

Holly Sp. 43rd

Alexis 47th

Akasha 48th

Eve 55th

Our Dodgeball team have qualified for the city finals on Monday, with a second placed finish in today’s heats at NLA. A strong team was chosen after lots of training sessions on Friday afternoons, during golden time sessions.

The first match was against Smithdown Primary, winning 2-1. Next up was Sacred Heart, with a better result of 3-0. Finally, a draw with St. John’s meant we topped our group. This lead to a league semi-final vs. Smithdown, where we were once again victorious, 2-1, to set up a league final with Sacred Heart.

There was no change to the result, as we ran out 2-1 winners, to play Lister Juniors, the winner of the heat’s other league.

After a tough match, Lister came out on top to take home the medals, but we will meet them again, along with other heat qualifiers in Monday’s city final! Well done!

Thank you so much for the wonderful support at our fun run last week, the children appreciated all of the cheers and shouts of encouragement on the way round the course and it helped to raise over £500 so far. Lots of sponsorship money is still to be received, so that figure will surely rise over the next few weeks. Once the final figure is in, we will share with you all as you have all played an important role in helping us to raise money.

There will be more events to raise money this year and we hope that you can continue your amazing support for the pupils and their future.

Please take a look at our ‘Parental and Community Involvement’ page for a small selection of pictures of the event.

After the success of the event, it is clear that lots of our children are very talented runners. With Cross Country Club starting up again soon, we are looking for children from across KS2 to take part. Also, there is a fantastic local opportunity for you and your child to take part in a running event at Sefton Park at the end of April. Visit http://www.merseyraces.co.uk/Liverpool_spring_10k.html for more details as we hope to see many of our children competing!

Local man, Ian Shawcross (son of our very own Mrs. Shawcross) is currently in the middle of his annual fundraiser challenge month, by running five 10km runs around well known parts of Liverpool. His runs so far have taken him along the waterfront, around the two football grounds and Everton Park.

The fundraiser is to help promote and raise money for a support group that Ian helps to run, for parents who have been affected by the diagnosis of anencephaly during pregnancy. The support group itself is hosted by a charity called SHINE which helps those affected by neural tube defects such as spinabifida and hydrocephalus.

If you would like to donate then please visit Ian’s Just Giving page. He is currently £80 away from his target of £500!

Below are some opportunities which are available to our pupil and families. Please check each poster for times and dates, as well as who the activity is suitable for. The activities are  run outside of our school and no booking takes place through our school.

Easter Camp Poster 2016

Everton in the Community – Friday Family Football

Everton in the Community – Walking Football

Community Gardening Club 2016

Judo 2016

Don’t forget our fun run to raise money for a minibus takes place tomorrow! If parents would like to join us, then please come to school 5/10mins before the time stated for your child’s year group below.

All children will need their PE kits, Reception and Key Stage One children can come in their PE kits and stay in them all day. Key Stage Two children need to bring their PE kits in separate bags as normal.

Times:

Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 = 9.30 – 10.30am

Year 3 and 4 = 11.15 – 12.15pm

Year 5 and 6 = 1.45 – 2.45pm

We have just added a ‘Parental and Community Involvement’ page to our website, which gives information about work done with parents and community partners in our school.

If there is an event that you are interested in coming to school to participate in, then please speak to Mr. Garth.