We encourage you to take part in ‘Living Streets’ National Walk to School Week 2017, will take place next week (15th-19th May). Our school are joining over a million pupils and their families to celebrate the benefits of walking to school e.g. protecting the environment, keeping fit and healthy and feeling more happy and positive. This is a perfect opportunity to spend time with friends and family and hopefully enjoy the nice weather!

For more information, please visit: https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/what-we-do/projects/walk-to-school-week

A group of children from Year 5 an 6 were rewarded for their excellent attendance with a trip to Anfield for the Liverpool vs Southampton match on Sunday.

Miss Hughes’ class had the best attendance overall for the Spring 2 half term. The class have decided to get some fish. They would like you to meet Little Ant and Dec! 

Today, Police Officers were called to Nursery to help us find our missing Paw Patrol pups who were last seen in the lookout the night before. The Police officers spoke to us about how they help people in the community and we asked them lots of questions to find out more about their job. The Police re-enacted a real crime scene, showing the children how they solve cases. 

Year 3 have created some artwork which is being sent off to Liverpool Hope University for an exhibition!

Some children from across Key Stage 1 and 2 had a fantastic morning at Everton Park sowing wildflower seeds to help transform the area. Each child was given a bag of seed to disperse. Richard, who works for the wildflower project, told us how the seeds will develop over the next few months. We can’t wait to visit them when they bloom!

Check out our early years summer gallery for pictures of our recent learning during our topic “Trolls”and “Tom and the Island of Dinosaurs”.

Also Nursery have been using the Bee Bot to travel around the map we made of Troll Village. We made volcanoes out of papermache and experimented to make our own volcano erupt.

Nursery are learning all about real life superheroes through their interest in Paw Patrol. They are learning all about the role of each of their favourite pups and next week the police will be visiting to talk to us about how they help to keep us safe.

 

Check out the Safer Internet April Newsletter at our Internet Safety curriculum page.

Miss Gilchrist’s class took part in a sponsored jog this morning at Everton Park to help raise money for our Ankoma lentern campaign. Thank you for all your generous donations!

Just a reminder for Key Stage One parents, we are collecting any unwanted clothes to take to cash for clothes to finish our Ankoma school charity Lenten project. Please can the clothes be in school by Thursday 13th April 2017. Thank you! 

KS1 children had a great day out at Chester Zoo today! We will post pictures on the Key Stage One page tomorrow!

Thank you to all our families and friends who sponsored us to complete the Muddy Puddles Obstacle Courses set up around our school. The children worked hard to move around the obstacles moving under, over, around, beneath, through and in between obstacles. As soon as we have received all of the sponsor monies in we will let you know how much we have raised for the children in Ancona. Enjoy our photos!

School will be closed on Friday 7th April 2017 for a school INSET day.

Liverpool School Sports Partnership, our Sport and PE service providers, are hosting an ‘Easter Sports Camp’ at Archbishop Beck for 5-11 year olds. See below for details.

We are holding a Mother’s Day celebration on Friday 24th March at 2.45pm in the Key Stage One Area. We look forward to seeing you there! 

Miss Gilchrist’s class had a special assembly this morning to celebrate the life of St. Patrick. This was followed by a coffee morning to help raise money for children in Ankoma, as part of our Lentern giving campaign. A big thank you to all the parents for their generous donations!

A big thank you to the year 5 and 6 boys who featured in our football match this week against Wellesbourne Primary. Coming off the back of an excellent 9-0 victory, the boys’ confidence was high and they were raring to go!

It was clear from the beginning of the match that Wellesbourne had put an excellent team together; our attackers were outnumbered by a tall and strong defence. A pattern quickly emerged of the ball being hacked away from the penalty area just before a goal looked certain.

The first half continued goalless and at an incredibly fast pace, referee Mr. Fairclough had given up trying to run after the ball after 10 minutes! This relentless pace was finally rewarded for OLI with a Billy Smith tap-in goal from a Zac Abbou pass, 1-0! The first half ended 1-0 with the boys looking to push forward in numbers to increase the lead.

The second half began with a huge surge from OLI thanks to some tactically amazing substitutions from OLI’s manager. James Wamulo and Ethan Duke came on and saw OLI’s attack go from strength to strength. Lovely passing combined with excellent positioning to result in several chances stopped only by Wellesbourne’s excellent keeper, including a flicked effort from Joe McFarlane-Wells being inches away from being goal of the season! The constant pressure was finally rewarded though by Kian Skinley leathering a shot into the corner from the edge of the area. OLI were 2 up…

With a 2 goal cushion, the boys played with some creative freedom and managed to create a series of chances towards the end. More excellent saves were made, yet nothing could be done about Bobby Mitchell’s stunning effort from 25 yards out smashing into ‘top bins’. The match ended 3-0 with the boys achieving their 3rd clean sheet of the season; a wonderful effort from defenders Ruben McNeil, Reece Mangan, Aaron Jacobs and Aiden Burns. Well done to Wellesbourne for being such fierce and respectful competition.

MOTM: Bobby Mitchell for excellent passing, positioning and for scoring an absolute ‘belter’.

See the link below for an offer to attend the Baby and Beyond Show at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool on 25-26th March 2017.

Baby and Beyond Corporate Offer