We are delighted to be awarded the Gold Games Mark Award for 2015/16, for our commitment, delivery and engagement of competitive school sport this year.

This is a fantastic achievement with only a few schools in the city currently holding this award. 3 years ago we held the bronze award, finally gaining the silver award last academic year. A huge step-up was needed for the Gold Award, entering more competitions, ensuring more children have the opportunity to participate in extra curricular clubs and compete in a wide range of sports within school and against other schools.

Thank you to the Liverpool School Sports Partnership for supporting us throughout the year with PE and Sport, as well as parents and families who have supported at competitions and events.

Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School Mark Award 2016

There are two extra opportunities to play Beat the Street after school this week, in Stanley Park and Everton Park. See the posters below for more information.

We would love to see our pupils and families attending, so that they can earn more points for themselves and the school, as well as getting the whole family more active!

Thank you for all your hard work and support of this project so far!

After School activity for parents and children everton park

After School activity for parents and children stanley park

A reminder to Year 2 parents that we are now taking payments for their PGL trip in October 2016. The cost of the trip is £80 and payment will need to be made in full by Friday 16th September 2016. This will allow all the final paperwork to be sent off to the local authority and approved.

Payments can be made in the Year 2 area, before or after school, where payment cards will be filled out for your child. If you were unable to attend the meeting this week, information about the trip is with Year 2 staff.

Trip date: Wednesday 19th – Friday 21st October 2016.

The children in Key Stage 2 would like to invite their parents and families to join them in Everton Park to get active and collect points for our school. We will be leaving school at 1.30pm, so bring your registered cards and meet us outside the school hall tomorrow (Friday 27th May)!

We would like to thank all parents for your participation in our Africa day celebration! The sessions were extremely  successful and it was lovely to see you getting involved with your children.

The feedback sheets have been very positive to quote “I thought today was brilliant, I think the parents enjoyed it more than the children! I think everyone has tried really hard in all activities”.

Please see the Key Stage One Summer page for photographs of the day.

Please see information below about the Walton Festival, taking place in July.

• 5k Fun Run
• It’s a Knock Out Corporate Challenge

Walton Festival 2016 a new event funded by Liverpool City Council, Mayor of Liverpool,  Sport and Recreation Service  and Liverpool Housing Trust. Thousands of Liverpool residents will attend over 16th and 17th July 2016. The Festival will have a theme of health, wellbeing and community cohesion and provides an opportunity to showcase the park’s wonderful heritage. It will feature a whole range of activities and attractions including a large multi sports area, displays and taster sessions, a beach, children’s entertainment, ‘It’s a Knockout’ competition for corporate teams, 5k family fun run, dance and performing arts, live music, Victorian funfair rides, pet’s corner, market traders, bar and catering and many more activities for the whole family to participate in.

Walton Festival 2016 – Its a Knockout Corporate Challenge

Walton Festival 2016 – 5K FUN Run

Walton Festival Poster

Our swimming sessions have been moved from a Tuesday to a Monday from now on, due to maintenance  work taking place at Everton Park Sports Centre. The sessions will now take place at Liverpool Aquatic centre in Wavertree. If you have questions regarding these changes please ask a member of the Year Two team.

Can we please remind parents that on Thursday 26th May 2016 Key Stage One will be holding a fun filled day to celebrate our current topic on Africa. The children will be given the opportunity to carry out lots of fun filled activities such as traditional African Dance, food tasting, African Art and much more. Parents are invited to join us during the morning session between 9.00am and 10.30am and we look forward to seeing you there!

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!