Thank you for another great turn out this morning in Key Stage One, next week we will be preparing for afternoon tea. We can’t to see you there!

The first event of the Cross Country calendar is always a tough one, with pupils getting to grips with what is expected of them during the races.

We were lucky enough to have 2 or 3 pupils who had taken part in one race last year, who helped the younger ones to make it through. Well done to all the team, but a special mention to girls captain Katie Trainer, who made it into the top 30 out of over 100 runners!

If your child is interested in joining our after school running club, please speak to Mr Garth. Also, Liverpool Harriers Athletics Club are looking for Year 5 and 6 pupils to join their cross country teams – to take part in events across Merseyside. They train at Wavertree Sports Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 – 7:30pm.

Girls:

Katie Traynor – 29th

Poppy Spellman – 34th

Amber Mitchell – 102nd

Boys:

James Wamulo – 80th

Dylan O’Brien – 84th

Joe McFarlane Wells – 87th

Ruben McNeil – 93rd

Ethan Atherton – 97th

Liam Pike – 105th

Christy Goodall – 106th

Dear Parents and Carers

Today we will be launching a new E-Safety Programme of Study to increase our knowledge and education of internet safety. The DfE Guidance on Internet Safety : Keeping Children Safe in Education (live from 5 September 2016) says:
“All schools will be required to put in place strengthened measures to protect children from harm online, including cyber bullying.” Governors and heads have to ensure children learn about online safeguarding. This means going beyond an assembly but embedding into classroom and PHSE.

As such, we will launch a programme called E-Cadets where  the children are empowered to pass on their internet safety knowledge through set programmes of learning. We will be electing 2 e-cadets from each class who will be internet safety focal points and will work closely with the School Council to reach out to all children to learn about the ever changing internet safety world.

https://www.ecadet.zone

We were delighted to have two special guests attend our Golden Assembly, on Friday, to present us with our Healthy Schools certificate and plaque.

They are the combination of a lot of hard work from Miss Hughes, the kitchen staff and the pupils. It displays our commitment to making our pupils’ lives as healthy as possible, from the salad bar in the canteen to the activities during ‘Healthy Schools Week’.

This year, on September 13th, Roald Dahl would have been one hundred years old. As a school, we decided to celebrate his birthday by completing lots of different activities based on his most loved books.

These are just a selection of some of the things we got up to today – Roald Dahl Day!

Year one had great fun exploring the ‘BFG’ with lots of activities based around the book.

Year two made a mind map of what they know about Roald Dahl and then wrote some recommendations of their favourite books.

Year three and four had to wonder what he looked like and where he lived, then researched to see if they were correct.

They wrote book recommendations in ‘Dream book jars’.

Year three and four completed some Roald Dahl theme number problems and challenges.

They also had a fab time making a version of ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. (It was a bit smelly though!)

They enjoyed it so much they decided to write the recipe for EYFS  (They’re sure the teachers will love it!)

Mr Garth’s class recapped the first chapter of Roald Dahl’s autobiography; Boy Tales of Childhood, which they are reading in our literacy topic. The children scanned the text and identified facts about his life and wrote them up into a fact file in their literacy books.

A Junior Parkrun is being launched at Stanley Park this weekend as part of the ‘Get Kids Active’ initiative.

Parkrun currently offers free 5km runs in Crosby, Croxteth Hall and Princes Park with the latest addition being a Junior Parkrun aimed at children aged 4 – 14. The junior run will take place every Sunday at 9:00am, starting on 18th September.

All children of four or over are encouraged to take part, whatever their circumstances. They can run, jog or walk the course, so all are welcome. It’s free and it will be fun! To take part you will need a barcode which can be accessed via an online form and requires printing out and taking to the event. If you do not have access to a printer, we are offering you the chance to get your child’s barcodes in school at the following times and dates:

Tuesday 13th September 3:00 – 3:30pm (Media Suite – Access next to After School Club)

Friday 16th September 8:45 – 9:15am and 3:00 – 3:30pm (Media Suite – Access next to After School Club)

The event are also always looking for adult volunteers to support the events in roles such as marshalling and timekeeping. More information is available at http://www.parkrun.org.uk/ and http://www.parkrun.org.uk/stanleypark-juniors/

If you have any questions, speak to Mr Garth.

A reminder to parents of children who are going on the trip to PGL in October, that the payment deadline is next Friday (16th September). If there are any issues regarding the trip, please speak to Mr Garth. The total cost of the trip is £80. A meeting for parents will be scheduled before the trip to communicate final arrangements and packing lists. Details to follow.

At this time, we will not be taking payment for any children who are currently not on the list. If any extra places become available, a message will be sent out to parents.

Our school was invited to join the Young Fan Initiative Scheme with Liverpool FC, giving us the chance to get match tickets for 4 home games this season. OLI’s two pupil representatives met two first team player, Mamadou Sakho and Alberto Moreno, who revealed the matches we would be getting tickets for this year.

Rossana also managed to get herself interviewed for LFC TV, sharing what had happened at the event – keep an eye out for her!

We are delighted to announce that the school has been awarded the Primary Geography Quality Mark at the bronze level. It has been an ongoing objective of the school to raise the profile of geography and ensure that our pupils gain outstanding geographical skills and knowledge.

The bronze award ensures ‘lively and effective geographical learning in primary schools’. In these schools teachers ensure policies impact on pupil learning and are not afraid to take risks, and innovate and challenge to achieve progress in geography. Key threads through the curriculum are inter-cultural understanding, local fieldwork, environmental issues and dilemmas connected with sustainability. These are explored in a variety of places across the world from local to global. These schools use creative approaches to stimulate learning and place a high value on using real life issues to promote understanding.

The Primary Geography Quality Mark is seen as a key strategy for raising the quality of geography in primary schools and has been driving school improvement in geography since 2006. This year a total of 66 primary schools have achieved the Geographical Association’s Primary Geography Quality Mark (PGQM) at either Gold, Silver or Bronze Level.

In the next few years, we will be looking at improving our geography offer and collecting a range of evidence to support an application at a higher level. If you know of any opportunities which we can access as a school, please speak to Miss Gilchrist or your child’s class teacher.

We are excited to welcome our pupils back to school tomorrow! School opens at 8.55am, with Breakfast Club open from 8am.

All of the staff can’t wait to see you looking smart and ready for learning!

To parents and carers we would like to thank you for your continued support throughout the whole year. By us working together as a family we are scaffolding your child’s learning and providing them with the best opportunities possible.

Have a great summer and see you all in September.

Key Stage One Team.

A lucky group of Year 5 and 6 pupils got to take part in a Triathlon event at Wavertree Sports Park, this morning. Swimming, cycling and running make up the event, with the children being able to use their skills from across the curriculum to achieve their goal of completing the tough challenge!

Well done the team – hopefully we will get another chance to compete next year and our Year 6s continue seeking Triathlon opportunities at their secondary schools.

If you would like your child to take part in Triathlon events over the summer, then there is an opportunity below:

We had lots of fabulous entries to our extreme reading competition, with entrants from Hollywood, film sets, a farm, up a tree and in a kayak! All of the winners received a book prize from their teachers at today’s golden assembly!

Well done to all pupils and safe reading!!

A group of our pupils took part in English Speaking Board Examinations today. The children were all extremely well prepared; showing themselves to be effective, confident oral communicators.

Well done everyone, you should be very proud of yourselves today!

 

Key Stage One were lucky enough to have a visit from one of our very own parents who works as a Botanist. He came into Key Stage One to talk to us all about his job and a typical day that he would have.

He spoke to us about how he became a Scientist and where his job takes him across the world, exploring and experimenting.

We loved this opportunity and we were even given time to ask him any questions that we had about his role.

He will be visiting our school again soon to bring in some moth traps for us to explore them and find out how many different types of moths we can find in our school grounds, how exciting!

 

Mr Garth’s and Miss Topping’s class have taken part in refugee awareness workshops with Carmel, from the British Red Cross. The children have discussed the difference between asylum seekers, refugees and migrants as well as learning about the push and pulls of leaving your home country.

Pupils talked about what would make them leave home and what is happening in other countries to make them find a different place to live.

Today is Day 1 of this three month campaign, and we are excited to introduce our first new resource entitled “The world changes. Children don’t”. 

So why not log onto the website and read more the parents section of the Thinkuknow website provides information to support parents and carers to understand and respond to the risks their children may face as they grow. It covers a broad range of online safety issues from nude selfies to what to do if you think your child is being groomed online. Find it at: www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents.

Research tells us that having a supportive parent or carer can make all the difference in helping a young person learn to stay safe. We hope this campaign will raise awareness of the breadth of advice and support Thinkuknow offers, and its accessibility to anyone whether they would like more information about keeping their child safe, or is worried about a young person in their care.

Year 6 pupils who have been identified for extra swimming lessons, must bring their letter and swimming kits in tomorrow (Thursday 7th July) as stated on the letter given out last week. Lessons will run on the following dates:

Thursday 7th July, Monday 11th July, Tuesday 12th July, Wednesday 13th July, Thursday 14th July and Friday 15th July.

These lessons are to ensure that your child has reached the expected standard of being able to swim at least 25m unaided.

What a fantastic day that the children had! They were given the opportunity to have a sandcastle competition, play games in the style of the Olympic games, visit the park and even feed the ducks! To end the day the children each had an ice-cream and played some fun circle games.

Please see the ‘Key Stage One Summer 2016’ page for photographs of todays trip.

A big well done to all the children across EYFS on a fantastic sports day! You did yourselves and your parents proud. Take a look at the pictures below, more on our Early Years page!