Nursery Gate Letter

Parents Newsletter December 2016

A group of pupils took part in a clean sweep project on the roads around the school so that they could earn a ticket for the Everton vs Liverpool match at Goodison Park, on Monday night. 

We are looking forward to our Christmas Jumper Day tomorrow, remember to wear school uniform with your jumper! 

Glee club had a fantastic visit to Anfield Stadium yesterday to spread some Christmas cheer!

Visit our gallery page to see recent uploads from the Feast Day Mass and Year 5 and 6s Christmas Performance!

See our news page for pictures of our Christmas play and the mannequin challenge!

Year 5 had a great afternoon at Notre Dame library! We are all so excited to read the books that we have borrowed.

Well done for a fantastic effort to all students who took part in the national Mathletics Numeracy Challenge. We finished in the top half of all schools who entered the competition from across the country. Not only will you have had fun taking part in the competition, you will have also learnt many valuable maths skills as well as increasing your quick recall with number facts, playing the live games. Prizes and certificates will be on the way to the children who earned the most points in each class.

Make sure you keep logging on to your Mathletics account to continue to practice these essential skills. Well done again!

Congratulations to all the year 5 and 6 boys who represented our school in this week’s football match. Several players in each year were making their debut appearances for the school and handled the situation with wonderful professionalism.

After the frustration of previous matches being called off, the boys were delighted to be playing a game and their enthusiasm was wonderful to see. The match was played against Faith Primary.

Our boys got off to a tough start through conceding an unfortunate goal. However, their resilience was wonderful to see as they dominated possession for the rest of the first half; finally being rewarded through an excellent team goal scored by captain Kian Skinley.

The second half started at 1-1 and quickly became a close, defensive game. Both goalkeepers were in sublime form, with Kamil Skop pulling out some wonderful acrobatic saves when a goal looked certain. Faith’s keeper was also an excellent player, though our fantastic attacking trio of Kian, Bobby and Joe finally got through with minutes left as Kian scored a second goal from the edge of the area.

The match ended 2-1 shortly afterwards. An excellent match carried out with wonderful sportsmanship. Congratulations especially to our keeper Kamil, our tireless defenders, Sonny for working constantly in midfield and our wonderful attackers. Three points secured and we’re already looking forward to the next game!

MOTM: Bobby Mitchell, for excellent passing, movement and for excellent sportsmanship.

We are launching our advent collection for Whitechapel Centre, your child has been given a day to bring an item into the school. We look forward to receiving your donations for this worthy cause!

There is one week left for the national Mathletics Numeracy Challenge, so make sure you log on to your Mathletics account and earn as many points as you can!
We are currently sitting in 186th place out of 452 schools. So let’s see if we can get into the top 100 schools by the end of the week. Good luck!

Well done to all of our KS1 pupils who took part in today’s dance festival! The children looked wonderful in their costumes and put on a splendid performance in front of lots of other schools.

See below for a great opportunity for your child to get active in the local area!

Our school has registered to take part in the Mathletics Numeracy Challenge. This is a national competition where the children can log into their Mathletics account and gain points for each correct answer on Mathletics curriculum activities, tests and Live Mathletics.
The challenge runs for 2 weeks, from Monday 21st November until Sunday 4th December. The top 3 schools will receive a Mathletics voucher for which will fund next year’s subscription, as well as a trophy, wristbands, and certificates for the children.
So make sure you log on to Mathletics each day and earn as many points as you can! Good luck children!

Key Stage 2 children had lots of fun today, exploring places all around the world and beyond! Particular highlights included Brazil, Egypt, The Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica and even the moon! Liane from The Google Expeditions team brought a class set of smart phones and headsets for the children to have a virtual reality tour of these places. Eva from Year 5 loved the expeditions she went on and said, “I can hardly put into words how unbelievable it was. It was a once in a life time experience.”