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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4T7cToOXfk

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!

This morning’s competition was held at Wavertree Aquatics Centre, with a number of schools from the North and Central areas of the City. Competing in the large schools event, we faced a number of very local schools including The Trinity and St. Johns.

Every member of the team swam brilliantly, trying their very best to finish in the best positions possible.

Results:

Backstroke: Sean 2nd, Jacob 7th, Tilly 2nd and Ebonie 4th.

Breaststroke: Kian 3rd, Sean 2nd, Ebonie 4th and Eve 1st.

Relay Medley: Boys 2nd and Girls 2nd.

Butterfly: Sean 3rd, Mikey 2nd, Tilly 4th and Eve 4th.

Front Crawl: Mikey 2nd, Patrick 1st, Holly 1st and Tilly 1st.

Front Crawl Relay: Boys 4th and Girls 4th.

After the results were worked out, it was announced that we finished 2nd in both the boys and girls event overall. This means that they have both qualified for the City Finals next week, with the chance to represent Liverpool at the Merseyside Summer Games in July.

Overall Results:

Boys

1st – Emmaus

2nd – OLI

3rd – The Trinity

Girls

1st – St. Francis de Sales

2nd – OLI

3rd – Emmaus

It is the Liverpool Schools’ KS2 Swimming Gala on Monday morning (21st March), at Wavertree Aquatics Centre. Those children chosen for the team, must remember to bring their swimming kits and arrive at school promptly at 8.55am.

Parents are welcome to watch from the stands, but photography is not permitted. The event runs from 9.30 – 12pm.

This week, we had three matches in total, one for the boys in the Anfield Mini League and two for the girls, in the North Liverpool Girls League.

Unfortunately, all the fixtures resulted in defeat, firstly with the boys falling down 13-6 to Anfield Juniors. The matches in the Anfield Mini League are always fast and end-to-end, with the shorelines almost always going into double figures!

On Thursday, our girls team played Florence Melly at Walton Hall Sports Centre, with the score ending 6-0. On Friday, an excellent game, finished 2-1, to Emmaus, Isabel scoring our only goal. The girls have improved so much over the next few weeks and as the season comes to a close after Easter, I am sure that win is only just around the corner!

Just a reminder that the children in Key Stage One will be visiting Ness gardens on Wednesday 23rd March, as part of our science curriculum.

Children will be expected to wear their school tracksuits and appropriate footwear, wellies if possible.

Please make sure your child is in school on time as we will be leaving straight after the register. We shall return just before the end of the day.

Sport Relief is well and truly underway at OLI, this morning! Reception and Key Stage One children have completed their mile in Everton Park with other classes around the school have been taking on the UK Military School obstacle course and an aerobics class in the hall!

Year 3, 5 and 6 are taking on the mile in Everton Park this afternoon to complete the day! Thank you for all your support and donations!

Some children in Year 5 and 6 took part in a litter sweep in the community as part of the clean sweep project with the local police. As a reward, the children got a match ticket for Everton vs. West Ham United last week.

Both our dance groups put on amazing performances for the crowds at North Liverpool Academy, on Wednesday. Miss Whittaker and Miss Boyd, both worked extremely hard with the groups over the past few months to deliver performances for the theme ‘sounds of the city’.

This year, in a change to the competition format, only first place was to be awarded, rather than the traditional 4 categories in previous years. Unfortunately, we didn’t place first in either competition, but it was clear that we have some extremely talented dancers in our school! Fortunately, the rest of the school will be watching the performances this afternoon!

Our Stay and Play focus for this month was RE – Growing. During lent children across EYFS talked about and recognised how to grow more like Jesus by sharing, being kind, listening to others, being helpful and forgiving others when they have done wrong.