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.

 http://www.wiseuptowaste.org.uk/recycle/hints-and-tips

We were delighted to be officially presented with our Gold games mark award this week! Thank you to Suzanne from LSSP who came to speak to our pupils during an assembly and thank them for all their hard work and engagement in extra curricular activities and competitions! You can read a short article about it in Educate Magazine at the following link:

http://www.educatemagazine.com/school-games-gold-mark/

The next drop in session for parents to see the school nurse; will be on Tuesday 7th March from 3.00pm. All are welcome and no appointments are needed.

Congratulations and thank you to the year 5 and 6 boys who represented our school on Thursday 2nd March against Our Lady and Saint Philomena’s School. The boys were coming off a hard-fought defeat and were looking to bounce back with a win.

OLI got off to an incredible start, with a Billy Smith long pass bouncing through everyone and into the back of the net within 20 seconds! Billy was delighted to score his 1st goal for the team, it won’t be his last! 

It would have been easy for the boys to push back and defend, but they pressed on with their attack; Kian Skinley scored from close range shortly after to put us 2-0 up. 

Joe McFarlane-Wells has been looking for his 1st goal for OLI for a while now. Whilst 2-0 up, his header hit the bar, then the post, then was cleared off the line! 4th official Mr. Garth had a look at the goal-line technology and ruled no goal! This didn’t matter though, as Joe scored a similar header a few minutes later, before Kian scored another close range effort. On the edge of half time, skipper Sonny Geraghty scored a long range screamer and the half ended 5-0!

Some teams would have eased off there, others would have shown disrespect to the opposition, but the boys did themselves proud by being polite and calm whilst playing, but making sure they didn’t stop giving 100% effort. The 2nd half saw goals from defender Ruben McNeil and 2 more goals from Joe giving him his hat-trick! An own goal just before full time saw OLI finish as winners, 9-0.

A huge well done to the team, not just for the big win, but for being gracious winners this week just as much as they were humble losers in our last game. Condolences to Our Lady and St. Philomena’s who are a new team still working on making their team as strong as possible. One final mention to Billy Smith who deserves huge praise for assisting so many goals that he’d forgotten how many by the end of the game!

MOTM: Joe McFarlane Wells, for a stunning hat-trick, good teamwork and always being professional and respectful to the opposition. 

Visit the Key Stage One page to see fantastic photographs of our costumes!

Just a reminder that Miss Hughes’ class assembly will be on Friday 3rd March 2017 at 9.15am in the hall. We look forward to seeing you there! 

From 6th March 2017 all Key Stage One children will be having PE on a Monday and Thursday each week. Please ensure their kits are in school in a labelled bag. Thank you!

Children in Year 2 will be bringing home a letter about our upcoming trip to PGL in October 2017, when they are in Year 3. Please ensure you check your child’s reading folder for the letter, or see your child’s class teacher if you do not receive it.

I was so pleased to give 3 head teachers awards to a group of children from Mrs Roberts’ class today . The girls get in early every morning and practice writing all of the words that they know . Today they wrote more than 20 words! Well done keep it up!

I challenged the rest of the class to see if they could write more than 20 words (or even more) tomorrow!  

A huge congratulations to both of our KS2 Boccia teams, who competed in the city finals of the Boccia competition yesterday. Our ‘A’ team, who finished 3rd in the north Liverpool competition, were the overall winners this time round, beating Gwladys Street 3-1 in the semi-finals and Holy Trinity 2-0 in the final.

Our ‘B’ team, who finished as north Liverpool champions last week, made it to the semi-final stage in the city finals, losing to Holy Trinity 3-0.

Don’t forget that we have our class assembly on Friday at 9.15am in the hall! We look forward to seeing you there!

Congratulations to all the year 5 and 6 boys who represented our school in this week’s football match. Coming off the back of 2 hard-fought victories, the boys were confident in their teamwork and were looking forward to the game against St. Mary’s West Derby.

Conditions were extremely tough due to very cold temperatures, though the boys managed to keep their energy up, almost scoring inside 30 seconds! The game was end-to-end, with both teams coming very close to scoring. Unfortunately St. Mary’s managed to break through and finish well to go 1-0 up. 

OLI responded with fierce attacks, with Billy Smith linking up well with Zac Abbou. Ethan Duke was on fire down the left wing, almost scoring a sensation goal from a volley. Unfortunately none of these chances turned into goals and a 2nd goal was conceded just before half time. 

The 2nd half was a much tighter game, with speed slowing down due to the cold as well as fatigue. OLI showed a great attitude and didn’t let being 2-0 down worry them; a goal was within inches from a close-range effort from Joe McFarlane Wells. Just before full time, a 3rd goal was scored by St. Mary’s due to an unfortunate deflection. A harsh scoreline given the excellent effort of our defenders Ruben McNeil, Aiden Burns, Reece Mangan and Aaron Jacobs. Congratulations to an excellent St. Mary’s side who did a very good job of handling our more dangerous players.

MOTM: Ethan Duke, for working tirelessly to break through the defence. He showed a hunger for the ball and wasn’t affected by the tough conditions.

Don’t forget to keep checking our page for recent updates and pictures, the children have thoroughly enjoyed Equality and Diversity week. 

Today is Internet Safety Day. We have had a great response to our poster competition and our judges, Mrs Adamson, Mr Brown and Miss Smyth have a really tough decision ahead. Our Year 5 pupils were lucky enough to visit Anfield to help learn all about Internet Safety. They look part in several activities. In Reception class we watched the film clip about Internet Safety and talked to our talking partners about what internet safety is and how we can stay safe on line.

Our poster competition will close on Friday 10th February. Winners will be announced and prizes awarded in our Celebration Assembly on Friday 17th.

This week is our first Equality and Diversity Week. We had the charity ‘Daisy’ at school yesterday where we got to experience what it is like to be blind and what it is like to be in a wheelchair.  Our focus was on their abilities rather than disability as we got to play blind football and have wheelchair relays. Pictures will be posted on the equality and diversity page of the website! 

Already had some excellent entries in our Safer Internet Day competition . The prizes are great : a Robo , a Kodi and Virtual Reality Headset!

Remember you need to be in it to win it!

Here are a selection of the entries from Miss Gilchrist’s class