There is an exciting opportunity to run, toddle or walk with the family, whilst raising money for a fantastic cause, this Christmas.

CAFOD are organising a fun run, with refreshments, music and festive fancy dress prizes for all the family. The event is on 27th December 2015, 12:30pm at Wavertree Park, Liverpool, L15 4LE.

£5 entry, £10 per family or £50 groups 10+

To register go to www.runforcafod.eventbrite.co.uk

Contact micheal.dooling@sky.com or liverpool@cafod.org.uk/0151 228 4028 for more information.

Liverpool Fun Run 2015 Poster

Anti-Bullying Week has begun in school, with engaging and thought-provoking activities planned for throughout the week.

Year 6 have workshops every morning this week, with James, from GANGS (Get Away N Get Safe), which has started with the history behind gangs, how to identify and define a gang and why individuals join a gang.

On Friday 20th November 2015, Granada News will be filming a news feature alongside UK Military School. Children in Key Stage Two will be coming home today with a flyer and consent form, as children may be interviewed and seen in pieces of film. We believe this is a fantastic opportunity to showcase our pupils, the school and the work of UK Military School and appreciate your full support.

A copy of the flyer and letter will be added to the letters section of the website this afternoon.

Monday 9th November 2015

An exciting afternoon of athletics took place at North Liverpool Academy today, with our team pitted against St. Cuthbert’s, St. Theresa’s and Whitfield in the second of six heats in the North Liverpool competition.

Never once coming last, our team raced, jumped and threw brilliantly all afternoon, posting some impressive scores and scintillating team displays! Unfortunately that wasn’t even to see us through to the next round of the competition, but all pupils, who supported and cheered each other on, can be proud of their efforts.

Results:

1st St. Cuthbert’s

2nd St. Theresa’s

3rd OLI

4th Whitefield

4 x 1 lap over and under relay:

Harriet, Alexis, Madison and Eve (2nd)

Lucas, Kian, Eryk and Joel (1st)

Standing Long Jump:

Mkenzie (1.52m), Isabel (1.68m), James (1.7m) and Sonny (1.64m)

Standing Triple Jump:

Madison, Eve (4.02m), James (5.7m) and Sonny (4.2m)

Vertical Jump:

Katie, Madison, Mikey (102cm) and Derry (89cm)

1 lap race:

Mkenzie (3rd), Isabel (3rd), Derry (3rd) and Eryk (2nd)

2 lap race:

Eve (3rd), Alexis (1st), Lucas (1st), Sean (3rd)

6 lap paarlauf relay race:

Alexis and Akasha (3rd), Joel and Eryk (2nd)

4 x 1 lap relay race:

Madison, Mkenzie, Isabel and Akasha (2nd)

Eryk, Joel, Lucas and Derry (3rd)

Chest push:

Isabel (8.5m), Akasha (11m), Sean (10m) and Mikey.

We have just received our Bronze Anti-Bullying Quality Mark award, which we are extremely proud of. During the assessment day earlier this term, staff and pupils met with the assessor to discuss practices and policies around anti-bullying, citizenship and PSHE as a whole and was delighted with the work going on in school to go beyond the Bronze award.

A special mention must go to Miss Hughes, who dedicated lots of time to the award, ensuring that policies and practices are evident on a daily basis around school, which maintain a calm and supportive atmosphere around school.

Well done to our Year 2 Matball team who managed to secure a 4th place finish, on Wednesday, at Fazakerley High School.

Despite losing the first game, OLI went on to win their remaining games, even producing a 9-0 win along the way!

Finishing 2nd in their group sent them into the semi-finals, with only a narrow defeat ending their hopes of a win.

Well done to all of the team – Mrs Finnegan and Mrs O’Leary were so proud to see you play so well!

Wednesday 21^st October 2015

In a pulsating league match against Barlows County Primary School our girls were very unfortunate to narrowly lose 4-3. Fielding a young and inexperienced team, Mr. Cotton, deputising for Mr. Garth, was hugely impressed by the efforts of the girls.

For some of the players it was the first time they had represented the school in a competitive match and early nerves were evident.

At half-time the girls faced an uphill battle to reduce a three goal deficit. However, despite Barlows scoring a fourth, the fightback was on.

Firstly, Akasha thumped one in from the edge of the box after shrugging off the attentions of three defenders. She quickly added a second, a close range effort after a sustained period of OLI pressure.

Isabel then joined her on the scoresheet, improvising well and using her knee to force the ball over the line, setting the game up for an exciting final few minutes.

After some intense pressure from the OLI girls, Akasha went agonisingly close with the last kick of the game, when her fierce right footed strike hit the outside of the post.

So although it was a defeat, there were many positives to take from the game, and all of the girls deserve huge credit for their fighting spirit and their efforts to run Barlows so close.

Mr. Cotton

Cross Country at Stanley Park – 19th October 2015

After the weekend’s success, at the Blue Run in Everton Park, our cross country team headed to Stanley Park for the re-arranged event from last month.

A difficult course, with some deceptively steep inclines made it tough for all competitors, but our team came through strongly with some personal best finishes in both the boys and girls teams.

The success of the the cross country team, shows how much hard work and dedication they have to the sport, as well as showing how important it is to stay fit and healthy throughout the year. Our daily mile event at school is proving ever more popular and is proof that results are easy to come by, when you put some hard work in yourself.

Well done to all the team who raced as we look forward to a well earned winter rest, with the final two events being held in February and March.

Results:

Eryk: 16th

Joel: 25th

Sean: 42nd

Lucas: 63rd

Callum 68th

 

Alexis: 44th

Eve: 45th

Holly Sp.: 52nd

Akasha: 56th

Paige: 57th

 

A number of pupils, staff and parents turned out at Everton Park this morning, to take part in the Blue Run for Joseph 1km and 3km events. The run was a fantastic community event, bringing all parts of Everton together for a great cause.

There were some excellent performances from our pupils, with most of our children making up the top 20 places. This led to Our Lady Immaculate being crowned winners of the 1km team event award. Thank you to all the parents who came to support the children.

A group of very enthusiastic Year 3 and 4 girls have just completed a half term programme of tag-rugby coaching, with Ale, linked with Waterloo Rugby Club. The pupils have developed their skills and have also shown an excellent understanding of the game. It is hoped that some girls will move across to Waterloo Rugby Club’s junior section at the weekends, to further develop their existing rugby talent.

This tag-rugby project is aimed at girls becoming more involved in competitive sport with next half term’s programme for Year 5 and 6 girls. Our Lady Immaculate is supporting ‘This Girl Can’, a national campaign developed by Sport England and a wide range of partnership organisations. It’s a celebration of active women up and down the country who are doing their thing no matter how well they do it, how they look or even how red their face gets.

Well done to all of our girls who have taken part so far!

Our school ambassadors, Callum and Eve, were invited to the Town Hall today to take part in the Junior Lord Mayor elections for 2015-16. Callum was nominated by the school to stand as our candidate for Junior Lord Mayor, preparing a wonderful speech which was professionally delivered to other members of Liverpool Schools’ Parliament.

Assisted by Eve, Callum’s speech consisted of reasons why he should become one of Liverpool’s 11 Junior Lord Mayors, linking back to his roles within school, such as School Ambassador and Eco-Councillor. He talked about how the qualities he displays in school, would support improvements in other schools around the city, through the Schools’ Parliament.

The school would like to wish Callum the best of luck for the elections, with the winners being announced on Friday.

Click here to see Callum’s speech.

Our quicksticks team have been training hard during their PE lessons, with Devon, and that truly paid off today, with a second placed finish in the tournament at Archbishop Beck Tennis Centre.

Special mention must go to Dylan who, although everyone performed brilliantly throughout the tournament, kept the whole team going and provided the team with many goals.

Results:

OLI vs. Sacred Heart: 1-1

OLI vs. Whitefield: 1-1

OLI vs. St. Vincent de Paul: 0-0

OLI vs. St. Pauls ‘A’: 11-1

OLI vs. Lister Juniors ‘A’: 1-1

We have just received some lovely letters through the post from our friends in Ankoma! The last time Year 6 wrote to them, they told them about sports day and how they were looking forward to going to Colomendy.

The children in Ankoma told us that it hasn’t rained there for 2 months and that they need it to rain desperately so the crops grow, for them to eat and sell. The money they then get will allow them to go to school.

They were also extremely happy with the gift of school pens and pin badges, with one child using the OLI pen to write us a letter. We will be writing our letters in reply very soon.

To have a look at some of the letters and pictures sent to us, see our Upper Key Stage Two page.

If you feel like you may be able to help the children in Ankoma in any way, please see their website. We will be looking at doing some more fundraising for them during Sport Relief next year, after successful donations of football kits last year.

On Sunday 18th October, West Everton Community Council, will be hosting a ‘Blue Run for Joseph’ in memory of Joseph Lappin, in Everton Park. The event consists of a 1km and a 3km race, with medals and t-shirts awarded to all runners.

It is hoped that the local primary schools get behind the event to show their support for a great local park and a local cause. We hope to see you there!

Blue Run 1km

Blue Run 3km

Have a look at our extra-curricular clubs timetable to see which clubs are running over the autumn term.

Last week was the final cross-country club session and next Friday (16/10/15) will be the final tag rugby session for the Year 3 and 4 girls. On Monday 19th October, the Year 1 and 2 gymnastics club are putting on a performance for their parents and families to come and watch (4pm in the school hall).

It is great to see so many children take part in our after school clubs and we hope to provide more clubs in the future. If you have any sports or activities you would like to take part in, that isn’t currently on offer, please see Mr. Garth, and he will try to make sure there is an opportunity during the year.

Another fantastic evening for cross country came with splendid performances from all of the team. Each week at training, improvements from every pupil can be seen and it is definitely showing in the cross country league performances. Well done to everyone who took part this week, as half of the cross country calendar is now complete.

Boys:

Eryk – 12th

Joel – 33rd

Lucas – 39th

Sean – 65th

Callum – 86th

Michee – 94th

Girls:

Eve – 51st

Alexis – 57th

Holly – 60th

Akasha – 70th

Don’t forget to keep up-to-date with all of our certificate winners from our weekly assemblies on our Awards and Achievements page!

Well done to this weeks winners!

There will be a meeting in the school hall for parents of Year 3 children who are going to PGL. The meeting will take place on Wednesday 7th October 2015, at 3:30pm. At the meeting you will be given information regarding activities, packing lists, medication and money. Your child will be coming home with a leaflet, informing you of this meeting.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Mr. Garth

The sun was still shining as the children took on canoeing and kayaking activities! I’m afraid there are some wet clothes coming back to Everton! Everyone safe, happy and having a great time!

The second cross country event in the calendar was held at Newsham Park this evening, with OLI fielding a boys and girls team once again. Eryk showed that last weeks 27th place finish was no fluke, with a 6 place improvement, finishing in 21st. First through for the girls was Eve, improving by 15 places, in 63rd place.

Well done to first timers James and Harriet, who raced very well considering they are 1 year younger than most of the competition. The third event will be held at Stanley Park next week.

Boys:

Eryk Kowara: 21st

Lucas O’Brien: 60th

Sean Harris: 69th

James Wamulo: 70th

Girls:

Eve Power: 63rd

Alexis Crieta: 78th

Paige Critchley: 79th

Akasha Low Koan: 87th

Harriet Guy: 88th