News from Colomendy; Mr Cotton has just phoned with this morning’s update. All children are fine, they were asleep by 11pm last night and were up and out for breakfast by 7.30am. A full day of activities are planned, we will keep you posted as we receive more news.

Wishing Miss Logan, Miss Stinson, Miss Farrell, Miss Gallagher and Mrs Garrity the very best of luck as they begin their Foundation Degree. The Governors have kindly agreed for our LSAs to access this amazing opportunity to study child development while working full time. Our staff are accessing higher education through Pen Green Research and the University of Hertfordshire in conjunction with  North Liverpool Teaching School. All the staff back in OLI would like to wish them well and congratulate them on taking this brave and exciting step back in to education. You are truly inspirational!! 

Today we are making a fuss of our Learning Support Assistants in celebration of National Teaching Assistant Day on Sunday. These valuable members of staff work tirelessly to support our children in so many ways, they are more than assistants to teachers they are educators, carers, ‘nurses’, friends, confidants, entertainers and so much more. On behalf of the staff, governors and parents THANK YOU for all you do! 

Are you going to Adoremus – the Eucharistic Congress and Pilgrimage – in Liverpool from 7 – 9 September 2018? Liverpool is hosting a weekend of prayer, reflection and pilgrimage which will see visitors from across the nation gather to celebrate the Eucharist.

You can still secure your place at the events on Saturday and Sunday.

http://www.jumpdp.com/adoremus20…/product/liverpool-ticket 

For a full timetable of events taking place in our community  please follow the link below. 

Adoremus 2018

 

Our term has started and we would like to welcome new children and staff to our school family. Reception and Nursery children have settled well and have enjoyed exploring their new environment. Our newly designed Two year old room was a hive of activity yesterday as the children investigated this exciting space. Across the school a number of new children have joined us, I’m sure you will welcome them to our school and the community.
After two INSET days our new staff were keen to meet their classes and get ‘stuck in’ to teaching. All have received a warm welcome from the school community and are enjoying these first few days of getting to know our wonderful children and families.
Thank you for your patience and co-operation as building works continue on the gym, we hope to be up and running as usual in the near future.
Remember to you can keep up to date by using our school APP and following us on Twitter @OliPrimary .

Today members of our school council have travelled to London to visit the Houses of Parliament. Mrs Sergeant, Mr Cotton, Mr Southworth and our governor Ian Byrne left early this morning with 13 children from across the school. After lunch in Victoria Tower Gardens the group made their way to the Parliament Education Centre. Photographs are on our Gallery page.

After an enormous breakfast all Year 6 children are ready for their first activity. Mr Garth will try and upload photographs later, follow us on Twitter @OliPrimary for the latest information.

The children arrived safely at Kingswood Colomendy, the wet weather hasn’t stopped them enjoying their first evening of activities. 

At 4pm today we will be welcoming our new children and their families to our school. All the Foundation Stage staff are looking forward to meeting the newest and youngest members of our school community.

The afternoon is designed for families to meet staff, find out about school and the exciting curriculum we offer!  Our school cook has prepared a selection of delicious food to taste and staff from Lisa’s Uniform shop will be on hand too.  

We look forward to seeing you later!

Reading Recovery were unable to Skype America today due to the school in South Carolina concentrating on the American Election. We have rescheduled our Reading With America session to the same time next week. Wednesday 16th 1.30 pm (GMT).

 

Click on the links below to find out about courses for parents being held locally

Yoga, face painting and cooking family meals

Nurturing the family

The children are on track to return from PGL at 3pm today. Mr Garth has just phoned school to let us know that the coach has left Winmarleigh Hall.

We are running First Aid Training for parents on Monday 18th and Wednesday 20th April. The sessions will last for 2 hours, will be based in the school gym and will provide basic first aid instruction.

Baby and child first aid course is Monday 18th April 1pm-3pm or 3.30pm-5.30pm

Adult first aid is Wednesday 20th April 1pm-3pm or 3.30pm-5.30pm

Please contact Mrs Roberts if you have any questions.

On Wednesday 9th March at  2pm our reading programme pupils will be reading aloud to group of children from a school in South Carolina, USA. We are all very excited about it.
….will keep you posted about what it’s like!
Mrs Bowcock and Year 1

OLI had a really successful Internet Safety Day on February 9th. All
classes learnt about internet safety and the importance of staying safe
on line. We talked about a variety of media which we could access and
looked at the potential dangers on line. We are learning all about how
to report internet safety incidents and who to report them to.

Our UKS2 children completed an anonymous questionnaire about Internet
Safety and the results were really interesting. Details will be shared
with parents over the next week.

Our Internet Safety Poster Competition was really effective in making
the children in all year groups aware of safety on line. The standard of
entries was really high and made the judges work really hard. The
winners enjoyed fabulous prizes including robots and head phones.

The judges were Mrs Finnegan & Mrs O’Leary, Miss Adamson (ICT Governor)
and Mrs Gallagher. They chose the winners based on strict criteria of:
1. It included the message: Play your part for a better internet day.
2. The posters showed us a clear message about the dangers of the
internet
3. The posters were eye catching to all.

The winners were:

1. Grace (Miss Kennedy’s class) – prize robot
2. Evie (Miss Gallagher’s class) – prize was a robot.
3. Mrs Guy’s Reception Class for a whole class poster which is displayed
in EYFS – prize was a robot.
4. Fatima (Miss Gallagher’s Class) – prize robot.
5. Harriet (5 Mr Cotton’s class) – prize was head set with
attached microphone.

It was lovely to see so many of our Year Four children at mass yesterday to mark the beginning of their second phase of the With You Always programme. The children are invited to attend sessions held in the churches within the parish of St Sylvester for further instruction with Anne, our parish worker and Deacon Geoff.

Children will be celebrating the sacraments of Confirmation and Communion with their families and the parish community at the end of May.

Mrs Roberts is looking for a group of parents who will support the school in reviewing the format and content of the reports sent home. Due to the changes in assessment we no longer have National Curriculum levels however we still need to share our children’s achievements and progress in a parent friendly way.
If you are interested in working on this project with Mrs Roberts please contact school as soon as possible. Thank you.

Play your part for a better internet!
Join the global celebration on 9th February!

Safer Internet Day 2016 will take place on the 9th February with the
theme Play your part for a better internet!

Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration
sees hundreds of organisations get involved to help promote the safe,
responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and
young people.

Here in school we will be doing a variety of lessons to help us all
learn about how to stay safe on the internet.We shall also launch a
Poster Competition 2016 using the line ‘Play your part for a better
internet’.
There are loads of resources and helpful advice on the website that may
help you as parents and carers to make sure we are all sae on the
internet.
http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/2016

For anyone who missed the Granada Reports news item featuring our wonderful children, Mrs Sergeant and UK Military school click here to watch it!

 

Don’t forget to watch Granada Reports tonight at 6pm to see our wonderful Year 3 children taking part in the Royal Team Tournament. Ashley Derricott interviewed a number of children asking them about the work they had done with UK Military School. As always, our children did us proud and spoke knowledgeably about team work and respect. Wayne was interviewed along with Mrs Sergeant and both shared with Ashley the impact the courses have on our children and families.

Photographs from todays filming have been up loaded to the gallery page of our website.