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.
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.
Two fantastic dance routines were performed by our pupils at North Liverpool Academy on Friday. Key Stage One pupils took a ‘Cats’ number to the stage, with Key Stage Two performing a ‘Shrek’ dance.
Year 5 took part in an international women’s day collective worship yesterday, planned and organised by Yusra, Tilly, Jake and Kamil. The children shared inspirational women and reasons why they inspire them. They then wrote a card to that person expressing their thanks.
After the weather finally allowed a cross country fixture we had some fantastic results at Sefton Park tonight. Katie Traynor continued her excellent running form, finishing in her best position yet, and Poppy Spellman showed that she can compete against children much older than her!
In the boys race, there were lots of first timers after showing great promise in the fun run at Stanley Park last month. Kevin, Billy and Bobby matched the order from the fun run as our first 3 runners home. Kevin, inspired by Zola Budd, ran most of the race with his trainers in his hands after they fell off in boggy conditions during the first part of the course!
Well done to the rest of the boys, who persevered well in tough conditions in our final race of the season. It will be great to get these same children back in the team next year, to test themselves further as the eldest children in the races.
Girls:
11th Katie Traynor
59th Poppy Spellman
Boys:
18th Kevin Bigley
40th Billy Smith
43rd Bobby Mitchell
56th Joe McFarlane Wells
62nd James Wamulo
63rd Sonny Geraghty
69th Dylan O’Brien
78th Ethan Atherton
88th Ruben McNeil
The Eco Council had a fantastic afternoon at the Discovery Centre at Veolia Recycling centre, Gilmoss. They learnt about the importance of recycling and how we need to reduce, reuse and recycle to cut down the amount of waste in landfill sites. The children were shocked to find out the effect that waste is having on our local and wider environment. The Eco Council had the privilege of seeing first hand how products are sorted and recycled in the factory. They can’t wait to feedback the important messages that they learned to the rest of our school as part of our Waste Week focus.
Year 5 completed research projects over February half term to prepare for our next history topic – The Anglo Saxons. The projects were excellent and some very creative. The children began the topic feeling enthusiastic and keen to share their new knowledge. Yusra, Annie and Francis received a Head Teacher’s Award for the outstanding quality of their projects, well done.
This week the children will be learning about the importance of recycling and reducing the amount that we waste as part of EDF energy’s waste week campaign. Our Eco Council will be visiting Veolia recycling centre and will hopefully be able to find out how to help us reduce waste in our school. There are lots of recycling tips on the following website that you could share with children to help reduce waste at home and in our community too.
