Snapchat – new feature – “Snap Maps”

To check out what this feature means and how to help explain how to protect yourself on line please read the full article on our Internet Safety page under the curriculum tab.

This month we have received the 360* Internet Safety Quality Mark. It has been a project that all the school has been involved in working towards. This invaluable Quality Mark and our completion of the award proves the huge effort that the school has invested in Internet safety has been rewarded and shown impact. Our assessor Kenneth Corish was very thorough in his assessment of out Internet Safety Policies and approaches to safeguarding our children.

To read the full details of the assessment go to the Curriculum Page / Internet Safety.

Please visit the Curriculum Page – Internet Safety to view a list of Apps that may put your child at risk.

Internet safety resources for parents

The UK Safer Internet Centre highlights internet safety resources to help parents and carers ensure children stay safe online whilst getting to explore and discover new things. Resources include information about drawing up a family agreement about online use in the home, and the online issues facing children and young people, available in 13 languages.

Source: UK Safer Internet Centre  Date:12 July 2017

Here is a link to ‘netmums’ for holiday play schemes in Liverpool summer 2017. The list will not be exhaustive and please check to see if there is a cost involved.

https://www.netmums.com/merseyside/local/index/childcare/holiday-schemes/liverpool

Thank you to all the staff in the Apple shop in Liverpool One for making the ICT Monitors trip really exciting and memorable. We made a short film with our friends and then played with all the new exciting equipment. The photos explain in more detail! 

Sports day this afternoon has been cancelled due to more rain and slippy surfaces making the event unsafe. We will do our upmost to reschedule for before the summer break.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused. 

Reception and Nursery Sports Day has been cancelled this morning due to the weather. We will be making a decision at lunchtime on this afternoon’s event. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

A group of Year 5s were involved in a Champions League style draw to choose the four LFC matches our pupils will be able to watch next year. They chose: Arsenal, West Ham United, Newcastle United and Southampton.

Well done to our Boccia teams, who represented Liverpool today. The Merseyside School Games bring together the champions of each borough (Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and Halton) to battle it out for the title. 

Our teams managed a sixth place finish and they can hold their heads high after a very successful season.

Miss Gilchrist’s class had a great afternoon in Everton park having a picnic, drawing and playing football as a reward for great attendance last term!

Online safety conversation “icebreakers”

O2, as part of its partnership with the NSPCC to help all children and families in the UK stay safe together online, has created a series of weekly emails for parents and carers to help them start a conversation with their children about online safety.

Further information: NSPCC

We have rescheduled the following sports days:

Friday 7th July 2017 – 9:30am Year 3/4

Tuesday 11th July 2017 – 9:15am Mrs Roberts/Mrs Bowcock and AM Nursery

Tuesday 11th July 2017 – 2:15pm Mrs Stalker and PM Nursery

Wednesday 12th July 2017 – 1:45pm Year 5/6

On our equality and diversity page there are some new definitions, this is a guide to the language we are using in school to explain when questions arise. We hope you find them useful! 

Despite the poor weather key stage one had a fantastic trip the ice cream farm, check out our page to see our pictures! 

EYFS decided to recreate Glastonbury today including the mud! Check out our photos in the children’s tab, under the key stages file. 

Today we enjoyed our second Forest School session. We reminded ourselves of our rules and Frankie and Jacob were keen to share with their friends about the rope boundaries. We investigated tool work and all listened to a tool safety talk and then we had a go at using a bow saw and a drill. We made jewellery out of wooden discs and brought them back to show our teachers.

Due to the weather, we are cancelling the Year 5/6 sports day. The ground hasn’t dried up enough and it is unsafe to hold races on the yard. A new date will be organised this week, with further information to follow.

The pupils will still be selling their products they made during Enterprise Week. This will take place in the hall between 1:45 and 2:15pm, then again at 3:30pm.

We hope to see lots of you there!