What a great morning so far! Year 5 have raised over £300 with their random mismatch fancy dress day and sponsored activities!
Already, they have taken on the bleep test and performed brilliantly! Some pupils even took part twice! The sponsored silence is now well underway! Thank you to everyone who has supported the pupils in their fundraising effort and for supporting our chosen charity KIND.
What a fantastic turn out for our ‘dress as your favourite sportsperson’ with John McEnroe (Mr Fairclough) and Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham (Mr Stephenson) dressed to impress!
We also held two dodgeball tournaments and two football tournaments in Key Stage Two! You managed to help us raise over £200 (total still to be confirmed!) – thank you!
Due to adverse weather conditions, school is closed today.
What a fantastic way to celebrate having achieved 100% attendance, than a tea party with your friends, eating cake and drinking hot chocolate! Over 180 pupils attended across the afternoon, with Mrs Finnegan and Mr Southworth pulling out all the stops to make sure our pupils got the reward they truly deserved!
Year 5 and 6 had a lovely morning playing with their friends in the snow! The teachers got involved too!
School is open as normal today. Please take care on your way in to school.
We had some fantastic results at cross country tonight! Cold conditions faced both our girls’ and boys’ teams in the race taking in most of Wavertree park but that didn’t stop us posting our best results this season. With our final race at Sefton Park next week, all the pupils have set themselves targets to beat this week’s positions!
Boys:
Bobby – 18th
Ruben – 41st
Harrison – 43rd
Scott – 45th
Dylan – 65th
Thomas – 70th
Girls:
Macey – 53rd
Poppy – 60th
Shelby – 80th
A huge thanks to the year 6 boys who participated in a 6-a-side tournament today at the LFC foundation.
The boys were exciting to play in the mini-league format, and with scouts watching on they wanted to put their best efforts in to represent OLI and possibly enter a regional final!
The league consisted of playing 4 small matches with a team of 6 and 2 subs. The first game began with a bang, as captain Joe McFarlane-Wells scored a stunning hat-trick, added to with a goal by number 10 Bobby Mitchell. The match ended 4-1 and the boys began their league campaign off wonderfully.
MOTM: Ruben McNeil
The boys hoped that their good form would continue to the second match, which proved to be true when a long range effort (maybe a pass?) from Bobby Mitchell landed in the top corner! Unfortunately OLI conceded a late goal from a fast, low effort. Billy Smith hit the frame late on which unfortunately meant the game ended 1-1. 4 points out of 6 meant that it was still all to play for!
MOTM: Francis Westhead
The most entertaining game was undoubtedly the 3rd one. It was an abysmal start for OLI, the late equaliser from the previous game resulting in a slow start that saw the boys go 2-0 down. However, a peach of a volley from Zac Abbou made it 2-1, before a stunning solo goal from Joe saw OLI equalise. Joe took on 3 defenders down the left wing before rounding the keeper and slotting the ball in. Dribbling past 2 thirds of the opposing team to score meant that Joe won the “goal of the day” award from the event organisers. The game ended 2-2.
MOTM: Joe McFarlane-Wells
The final match was against the league leaders and a tense first half ended goalless. Zac Abbou came on at half-time and scored with his 2nd touch! A truly masterful decision from the coach… An equaliser quickly went in that saw another tight draw end the league campaign. Excellent defense from Jake, Kamil and Ruben limited the league leaders to just 1 goal.
MOTM: Zac Abbou
The boys finished the day undefeated. This saw them finish 3rd in their league. If I were an LFC scout, I’d sign them all. Their sportsmanship and attitude were flawless and it was a pleasure to be there representing OLI with them.
In January, staff in Year 5/6 will be holding SATs booster sessions for the Year 6 pupils to attend every Wednesday after school till 4.30pm (starting from 10th January). These sessions are very important and provide key small group teaching, which has proved vital in pupils’ preparations for the end of key stage two tests. We expect all pupils in Year 6 to attend. They will receive a drink and snack at the end of the school day. Thank you for your ongoing support. Merry Christmas.
Tomorrow is the final day in school before the Christmas break and pupils may wear their own clothes. Merry Christmas!
See the poster below for a Christmas Party held at the BNENC centre on Breckfield Road North.
Two of our pupils had some exciting news this week! One gained a ticket to the Liverpool vs West Bromwich Albion game in the hospitality suite and one won a new bike for winning the Regenda Home ‘Welcome to your new home’ card competition!
Today, our Year 6 pupils welcomed debating teams from Holy Cross and Kirkdale St Lawrence Primary Schools to take part in a debate on whether Christmas has been destroyed by commercialism. Strong arguments were put forward on both sides with each school demonstrating excellent speaking skills.
We hope both schools had a fun afternoon at our school and enjoyed having their lunch in our school canteen.
Zyann brought a short story that she wrote for a younger audience (around Year 1 age) and first shared it with her class using the visualiser. She read with different types of voices based on how the character was feeling, then shared it with a Year 1 class before lunch!
Well done, Zyann, for excellent work at home!
Last week, pupils in Year 5 finished off their bikeability course with Bike Right! instructors. They took to the streets around the school to practise passing junctions and parked cars, a task which they all showed a great attitude towards.
With Christmas fast approaching, Year 5 visited Anfield Stadium for a very fitting workshop on the topic of money and financial understanding. The pupils were tasked with rating whether you need or want certain everyday items, then looked at a budget and how it needs to be carefully managed.
Pupils then created a ‘life’ for a given person, deciding on his income and expenditure to look closely at how they could balance their finances.
What a fantastic performance from our Year 5/6 dance club! They are extremely talented and will be looking forward to creating and performing a new dance routine for the annual dance competition next year.
After taking two teams last year, with both reaching the city finals (and one winning!) we added a third team into the mix, consisting of some new blood to the sport. Once again, our pupils were extremely successful, seeing all three teams qualify for the city finals and last years heat winners (Liv, Harrison and Georgie) taking first place in this heat.
Thank you to all the parents and family members who came to see the showcase of work from Mr Garth’s class today. They thoroughly enjoyed showing you their hard work and loved having the chance to teach you all a few things too!
What adults learned:
Parent: ‘They believed their heart was their brain.’
Mrs Sergeant: ‘I didn’t know that they killed the slaves if the Pharaoh died. Kieran told me that they realised this was stupid, so they used dolls in the tomb instead.’
Parent: ‘I learned only rich people were mummified and that farmers grew flax for clothing.’
Parent: ‘If we were in Ancient Egyptian times, most of us would be farmers.’
Our boys’ final league match of 2017 took place this afternoon against All Saints. The boys were looking for a 5th straight league win and confidence was high…
However, the boys quickly realised that this match was going to be an extremely tough challenge. All saints had a very physical team that were capable of competing with us on the ball. Chances were very sparse in the first half, with neither team attempting many shots on target. The comfortable win the boys may have been looking for was going to be hard to get!
Keeper Kamil Skop made an excellent save shortly before half time, as well as defenders Daniel Smith, Francis Westhead and Ruben McNeil continuing their excellent season thanks to excellent tackling and positioning. OLI’s issue was that goal-machine striker Dylan O’Brien wasn’t seeing much of the goal! The half ended 0-0.
After some “hair dryer treatment” from their manager, the 2nd half began. Winger Billy Smith came on to play on his preferred right side, and the boys began to play more positively. The breakthrough was difficult to find though, especially as captain Joe McFarlane-Wells picked up an injury that he was fighting to play through.
Eventually, with about 5 minutes left to play, Zac Abbou threaded a perfect pass to Joe that left him one on one… Joe aimed for the far right corner and the deadlock was broken! Joe’s now scored 1 match in every game, making it 5 for the season! With the score in their favour, OLI were galvanised and looked to increase the margin…
This happened about a minute later as Billy floated a corner in that was met with a stunning volley from number 10 Bobby Mitchell. The volley was on course to fly in for Bobby’s 2nd of the season… just as Jake Jones got the slightest of touches on it to steal the goal! Sorry Bobby.
Just before full-time, another corner was cleared off the line by a defender to deny Jonny Gee a goal… though the clearance smashed into Jake Jone’s side and rebounded up and over the keeper into the net for 3-0! Jake had somehow managed to score with a tackle; it was his 4th of the season.
The match ended there. All Saints were extremely unlucky and came within minutes of salvaging a point, they’ll be tough opponents for any team this season.
MOTM: Joe McFarlane Wells. Recovering from a tough first half, leading his team with heart, and scoring the goal that led to the win. Joe is invaluable to the team and he’s having a great season, well done!