Today Key Stage One had a great morning because a special visitor from Nutricia Liverpool came into school to talk to us about how her company uses product waste to raise money for schools in Uganda. She showed us lots of pictures from her  visit to Uganda and gave us all the opportunity to ask lots of questions. She will be visiting again in two weeks and has given us the opportunity to form Pen Pals with children from a local school there! When she arrives back she will be visiting school again with our very own letters from our Pen Pals in Uganda, how exciting!

Well done to all of our pupils who took part in the running competition in Everton Park, yesterday. Three teams, a KS1 mixed boys and girls, a KS2 girls and a KS2 boys team, competed against The Beacon, Faith Primary and Millstead.

In the Key Stage 1 race, Jack Trainer finished in 3rd place overall, helping us to a 2nd place finish overall. Our Key Stage 2 girls came in 3rd place, after some top ten finishes and Eryk topped off a lovely afternoon with a 1st place finish in the Key Stage 2 boys race, with 2nd place overall for the team.

Children from key stage 2 have been enjoying a maths lunchtime club, playing fun games and applying mathematical skills.

Well-done to the children from Year Two who took part in a running competition. The children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in various different races against a range of local schools and they each received a medal for doing so!

Mrs Burns’ class took to the Nature Trail this week to have lots of fun in the sun. Once again, the staff and apprentices made the pupils and staff feel extremely welcome – thank you!

The children in Year 3 and 4 would like to invite their parents to support them in swapping their reading books, every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, between 9 and 9.30am.

If you are interested in supporting your child, please follow them into school from the top yard when they line up for school at 8.55am.

Year 3 pupils gave us an extremely insightful assembly about how to stay safe online, with the main message being how to report inappropriate behaviour. If you have any worries about staying safe online, talk to one of our Year 3 pupils or any teacher! Report any inappropriate behaviour to CEOP.

Watch the clips below to see some of the assembly!

Tom introduces the E-Safety assembly

Ayman shows us where to report inappropriate behaviour through our website

A message from Jurgen Klopp? Is it really him?

A musical reminder about staying safe online!

Eight of our pupils represented Key Stage Two at the Highland Games competition, held at Archbishop Beck Tennis Centre, on Friday morning. A series of events, focusing on running, jumping and throwing mirrors the adult version of the highland games.

The children involved had previously taken part in a Level 1 competition in school, during an after school club and performed very well against other schools from the city.

A reminder to parents that rugby and running club have been cancelled for this week. They will both be back on next week (Friday 6th May). We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

This afternoon, we had two football fixtures against St. Margarets Anfield and Pinehurst in a catch up of fixtures from the Anfield Mini League, at Anfield Sports and Community Centre.

First up was St Margarets Anfield, and a quick break from the opposition caused problems in our penalty area. The OLI defence stood off and allowed a shot at goal, which crept past Eryk’s far post and into the goal (0-1). From this point onwards, we were the stronger team, creating chance after chance, but failing to beat an impressive SMA ‘keeper. Despite dominating the match from start to finish, our front line couldn’t find the back of the net and the game finished 0-1 to SMA.

Top of the table Pinehurst awaited at the final whistle, but once again OLI dominated from start to finish. Lots of chances for Kian and Joel in the first 5 minutes, produced a solitary goal after a neat one-two between the two players. Pinehurst threw the majority of their players forward during each attack, outnumbering our defence, but found it difficult to beat an impressive Eryk between the sticks.

Three goals from Pinehurst showed why they are top of the league, despite not playing to their fun potential. One goal in reply from OLI was enough to put the pressure on for the final ten minutes, but Pinehurst settled the match with a fourth, to end the match 4-2.

Miss Gallagher’s class had a wonderful visit to the Nature Trail and Allotment at the Breckfield Centre, organised by Regenda Homes. The community wellbeing apprentices made the pupils and staff feel extremely welcome and planned a nature trail quiz for our pupils. This was a great link to their current topic of Plants in Science.

The children also got to take a pot plant home to look after. Mrs Burns’ class are visiting this Friday, with Miss Boughey’s class the week after.

Thank you to all the staff at Regenda Homes for making us feel so welcome every time we visit – the children loved it!

We have had a very enthusiastic uptake for cross country running this year from children across the whole school. Children in KS2 have represented the school at various cross country events this year and have proved themselves to be very successful!

Out of 17 schools, our boys team came in 6th place and our girls team came in 8th place.

Boys:

Final Total	Races	League Pts
Liverpool College	6	96
Our Lady’s Bishop Eton	5	94
St Paschal Baylon	6	80
St Margaret’s (Anfield)	6	54
St Christopher’s	4	52
Our Lady Immaculate	6	48.5
Florence Melly	3	48
Christ The King	5	46
Monksdown	6	43
Lister	3	36
Northcote	4	23.5
St Teresa of Lisieux	4	23
Wellesbourne	4	17
Hunts Cross	3	13
Leamington	1	10
Lawrence	0	0
Stockton Wood	0	0

Girls:

Final Total	Races	League Pts
Liverpool College	6	100
Our Lady’s Bishop Eton	5	90
Christ The King	5	72
St Paschal Baylon	6	65
St Margaret’s (Anfield)	6	64.5
Lister	6	56
Monksdown	6	48
Our Lady Immaculate	6	39.5
St Christopher’s	4	37
St Teresa of Lisieux	4	33
Florence Melly	3	32
Northcote	4	20
Wellesbourne	4	19
Hunts Cross	3	11.5
Leamington	1	7
Lawrence	0	0
Stockton Wood	0	0

Well done to all the pupils who represented the school this year and we hope to have even more successful teams in the future!

Below is a document we feel parents will find useful when supporting your child in preparation for their end of KS2 National Curriculum tests in May. Paper copies of these will be available at parents evening on Tuesday 19th April 2016.

KS2 SATs 2016 OLI parent leaflet

The standards and testing agency have released the following information for parents of children in Year 2 and Year 6, who will be taking their National Curriculum tests in May 2016:

National Curriculum Tests for KS1 and KS2 children: information for parents

There is also a short informative video:

Year 5 were visited by our local police officers yesterday to talk about gangs and how to keep safe from anti-social behaviour. The police officers are currently doing lots of work in school with our children and will be continuing building relationships with pupils through e-safety and road safety talks in the summer term.

Yesterday children in Year 3 had the chance to sow wildflower seeds in Everton Park, as part of the Grow Wild project. This was extremely successful last year and the wildflowers made our local park look beautiful! Richard from the wildflower centre explained how to sow the seeds and as Year 3 have been looking at plants in science, they were able to explain how the seeds will eventually grow into beautiful flowers. The children are excited about visiting the flowers in the coming months to look at how the seeds change and develop.

On Monday, our Year 3 pupils will be sowing wildflower seeds in Everton Park as part of a continuing project from las year. Children will need to bring wellies, or trainers which they do not mind getting dirty with them to school in a separate bag.

There is an opportunity for the rest of our pupils and their families to take part in community wildflower sowing this Sunday, at 10.30am in Everton Park.

We are running First Aid Training for parents on Monday 18th and Wednesday 20th April. The sessions will last for 2 hours, will be based in the school gym and will provide basic first aid instruction.

Baby and child first aid course is Monday 18th April 1pm-3pm or 3.30pm-5.30pm

Adult first aid is Wednesday 20th April 1pm-3pm or 3.30pm-5.30pm

Please contact Mrs Roberts if you have any questions.

The final cross country league fixture took place at Wavertree last night. With a lot of schools off for Easter, it gave our pupils the chance to move up the field and improve their league placings.

Newcomers Poppy and Dylan fared well for their first time in a cross country event, with Poppy outperforming all but Alexis of the girl’s team. Eryk finished off a strong year with a top ten finish, one which he deserves after being a consistent top twenty performer. Lucas continued his improved placings, with his first top ten finish and Sean recorded his highest position after six events. Alexis continued her dominance in the girls team, by finishing as OLI’s first girl once again, followed closely by Poppy and Akasha. Slightly further down the field were determined runners Holly and Eve, both still recovering from their swimming heroics on Monday!

The final standings for the season will be updated here when available, but our results from the race are below. This is the first year that we have taken part in cross country competitions and it has unearthed some exciting talent and a love of running in our pupils. Thank you to all the parents who have supported over the year and to the members of staff giving up their time for some long evenings! The cross country after school club will begin after Easter and it is hoped that the uptake will be very high! Along with the continuation of the daily mile, we aim to gain more of our pupils’ interest in running and sporting activities in general.

Results:

Boys:

Eryk – 6th

Lucas – 9th

Sean – 16th

Dylan – 21st

Girls:

Alexis – 22nd

Poppy – 23rd

Akasha – 24th

Holly – 28th

Eve – 30th

Well done to our KS2 Swimming team, who swam extremely well to become the 8th best swimming team in the city. The increased standard from last week’s heats was easy to see and our pupils gave their all in every single race.

All pupils deserve special credit for their achievements, especially the girls team (3 members down from the heats) who all had to swim more races than normal!

Our highest race positions were 3rd by Sean and 5th by Mikey. With a number of Year 5 pupils in the team, this year’s gala is great experience for them to take into next year’s competition. Well done!