The children had a good night’s sleep and have just tucked into a full English breakfast! They are currently getting ready for some activities such as canoeing, raft building and low ropes!

All the children are now safe and sound, back in their rooms after problem solving, quad biking and an evening campfire. They had a lovely meal of lasagne/pasta and meatballs and garlic bread, along with chocolate mousse for dessert!

The children joined in with lots of campfire songs and listened to stories from the instructors. Everyone is having a great time so far! More updates tomorrow. Don’t forget to follow our Twitter account and download our school app (both available from the website home page in the top right hand corner).

On Friday our school took part in a city wide ‘Drop Everything And Read ‘ event where everybody across school stopped what they were doing and read! 

This brought an end to a great week with children all doing something they enjoy for a good cause .Thank you once again for all your support .

      

The children in Year 6 used Roald Dahl’s novel ‘Boy’ to inspire and guide them  to write an interesting autobiographical account about one event in Colomendy. They tried to include adjectives and adverbs to make their writing as detailed as possible.

Emily

Olivia M

Annie

Penny

Aeen

Francis

Children’s use of the internet: literature review

The UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) has published a literature review looking at children’s use of the internet, focussing on trends and emerging issues, and the online risk of harm to children and implications for safety policy and practice. Findings from the review include: children’s top worries online are pornography and violence, there is an emerging consensus that those already at risk offline are more likely to be at risk and vulnerable online, and there are currently very few independently evaluated online safety initiatives.

Source: UKCCIS  Date: 12 October 2017

Our Reading Buddies are all now fully trained and read in KS1 today . The children from Y4  were elated to try their practiced  skills on ‘real’ children and can’t wait until their next session . 

    

 

The Liverpool Readathon is being held during National Libraries Week.

Liverpool Libraries Service is working hard to ensure more pupils and families visit libraries and are equipped with library cards to have access to both the 1000s of books available to lend. In addition, all members can use Read Liverpool to download free ebooks, audio books and magazines wherever and whenever they like so if your child has a laptop, Kindle, iPad or other tablet, join them up to get this access absolutely free!

Its fairly easy to set up, log on to the guide and follow the instructions at  https://www.readliverpool.co.uk/help/set-up-guides/. If you need further help you can contact the libraries service to find out when their next ebook workshop is being held.

Remember to keep reading!

 

Help us to build a buzz about books and reading for fun as part of our mission to create a community of readers in our school . Thanks for all your help so far , we have had lots of parents, carers  family members and even ex pupils coming into school to read with small groups .

 

This week  more than 70 schools are joining forces to run a city-wide sponsored read  in a celebration of libraries, reading and the power of stories. Our Readathon had it’s first day today with children reading for pleasure  across school. We had mums and staff reading some of their favourite books to small groups and children recommending books to each other .

   

Please encourage your child to grasp this week to read for pleasure and have fun ! If you would like to come into school to read to small groups of children just let your child’s class teacher know . We’d love to see you !

On your marks, Our Lady Immaculate ? Ready , set , read !

Our sponsored read is running during the Liverpool Readathon and coincides with  National Libraries week from Monday 9th -Friday 14th October . The money raised is to support ‘Read for Good’ who take mobile bookcases to children in hospital so they can  get access to books and resident readers during their stay. Their website has lots of information and some great activities for children  http://readforgood.org/ . 

The main aim of the Liverpool Readathon is to motivate our children to read for fun . We know that learning to love reading as a child has benefits which last a lifetime. Children can read what they like from comics to classics , all they have to do is write it on their sponsorship card . Take a look at what they plan to read or help them complete it .(Try to get any  money raised into school by Friday 20th October please.) 

Please do support your child’s reading efforts as above all we hope they have fun !

Thanks for your support .

“Reading is like flying – it can carry you to different worlds. So hurray for Read for Good, which helps launch so many children on that exciting journey.”

Julia Donaldson

 

Well done to our Year 5 and 6 pupils, some of whom new to the event, taking part in the cross country competition this evening. 

We had plenty of new faces in the team this time around and all pupils performed very well. Thank you to the parents who came to support too!

Results:

Boys: Bobby 29th, Billy 31st, Aeen 128th.

Girls: Shelby 60th, Poppy 66th, Macey 90th, Holly 117th, Tilly Mae 118th, Shannon 131st, Annie 132nd.

Young peoples’ rights on social media

The Children’s Commissioner for England has launched child-friendly guides and teacher resources, developed with TES and the law firm Schillings, to help children to understand what they are signing up to when they use Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and WhatsApp.

Source: Children’s Commissioner for England  Date: 29 September 2017

Further information: Digital citizenship: young peoples’ rights on social media

Thank you for all those involved for another successful afternoon tea. We raised at least £335 for such a worthy cause! We hope you all enjoyed the cakes! 

The children have just enjoyed a great disco with lots of singing and dancing to end the day on a high. They have just settled into their rooms, worn out from the last day and a half’s activities. Tomorrow sees caving for all groups, amongst other activities, before we depart at approximately 1:30pm. A gallery will be uploaded to the website over the weekend, but a selection of group shots from the disco are below. We will be in touch with school on our journey home tomorrow to update on any time change in the scheduled return time of between 2:30 and 3pm. Don’t forget there is a macmillan afternoon tea event in school, so please feel free to go along whilst you wait for our return, or come along afterwards.

Sorry for some lack of communication, signal is very hard to come by and there is limited time when staff can get access to the wifi (which is also quite temperamental!). We will keep updating Twitter and the school app when we can.

This morning the children took part in bushcraft shelter building, Jacobs’ ladder, fencing and the 3G swing. As I type, the children have just finished lunch and are off to their next activities, including problem-solving, balance beam and low-ropes. The children’s behaviour has been exemplary today, with another school complimenting our pupils on their good manners!

The disco is on tonight – I will try and get some time to upload more pictures afterwards.

Mr Garth.

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. 

Wednesday saw a tough day of campaigning by our potential school ambassadors, leaving lots of food for thought for the KS2 pupils going into election day on Thursday. In Friday’s golden assembly, it was announced that Gabriella and Reece were elected as School Ambassadors and all the staff would like to wish them the best of luck in their role.

Well done to all the pupils who put themselves forward during the elections.

Thank you to Dan Carden MP for visiting school this week, with our school governor Mr Byrne. Dan was fortunate enough to meet our Year 6 pupils running for school ambassador and got a sneak peak into their speeches which he was very impressed with!

Our new playground leaders have been trained and are ready to start their new roles on Monday. They are looking forward to teaching the children new games and helping the adults on the yard!