News archives
Awards!
Well done to all the children who received an award at the end of the year! Golden Rules, Phonics Club, 100% Attendance for Summer Term, 100% Attendance All Year! read more
24 Jul 2018
KS1 Talent Show
Well done to all the children for taking part in KS1 talent show!! read more
20 Jul 2018
Musical Extravaganza!
Years 3, 4 and 5 gathered to perform in our annual Musical Extravaganza! It really was The Greatest Show and we left bursting with pride. Congratulations on a wonderful performance! read more
13 Jul 2018
Visit to Victoria Park
Foundation Stage and Year 6 had a lovely day at Victoria Park together getting there by train. read more
11 Jul 2018
Name the Teddy Winner!
‘Name the teddy’ winner meets his new friend Harvey! read more
11 Jul 2018
Year 5 Wow Day!
Year 5 had a fantastic time at St Peter and Paul Catholic College for their Wow Day! We got to use tools in Technology, cook pizzas and enjoy penalty shoot outs, as well as watching Mr Hartley try to crack an egg on stage! read more
9 Jul 2018
KS2 Royal British Legion
Key Stage 2 children listening to information from the Royal British Legion. read more
6 Jul 2018
St Basil's Market Place
A huge thank you to the St.Basil’s PTA and all our parent helpers for organising another successful ‘Summer Market Place’. read more
6 Jul 2018
Foundation Stage
Celebrating our wonderful world in Foundation Stage this morning. read more
5 Jul 2018
Year 2 Wriitng
Y2 published their own ‘Dear Greenpeace’ book. They have wrote a series of letters to Greenpeace about different animals in their homes. What neat writing they now have! read more
5 Jul 2018
Town Sports
Well done to everybody who took part in Town Sports last night! read more
5 Jul 2018
French Breakfast
5 Jul 2018
Year 6 Visit Delamere
Year 6 enjoyed an action packed day at Delamere. read more
4 Jul 2018
Year 1 Making Cakes
The children in Y1 have enjoyed making cakes this afternoon ready for Market Place on Friday! read more
4 Jul 2018
Year 5 Music Lesson
Year 5 working really hard during their brass music lesson. read more
28 Jun 2018
Y1RA P.E
Today in Y1RA we worked on rolling the ball to our partner looking at our control and speed. read more
27 Jun 2018
Disability Awareness
A big thank you to Lyndsay for teaching us sign language during our deaf awareness afternoon!! Then we created posters on how to be deaf aware! read more
25 Jun 2018
Year 1 Knowsley Safari Park!
Great start to our day already at Knowsley Safari Park!! We have said good morning to some meerkats, found some tigers and now we are learning about different animals with a ranger in the rainforest room! After lunch we visited more animals, watched read more
22 Jun 2018
Year 5 Cricket
Year 5 are practicing their Cricket skills this morning. read more
22 Jun 2018
Year 6 Drama
21 Jun 2018
Year 1 English
Year 1 have been working hard using the suffix -ing in English when describing a picture from the story, ‘My Grandmother’s Clock’. read more
21 Jun 2018
Year 1 Babies to Now
Y1KL have been talking about how our bodies have changed from when we were a baby to now! The children said when they were babies they couldn’t use their legs to run but now they are 5 and 6 they can! read more
21 Jun 2018
Year 2 Gymnastics
Coach Abby is very impressed with how much progress the children have made so far! read more
21 Jun 2018
Visit to The Halle
Years 3,4 and 5 had a brilliant time today playing with @the_halle at Bridgewater Hall. read more
21 Jun 2018
Year 2 Art
Y2 brought to life their art designs inspired by Andy Goldsworthy using the resources they collected from the forest. read more
21 Jun 2018
Foundation Stage Pirates!
Oh no, some pirates have taken Bella and Basil bear in Foundation stage. They sent a message in a bottle so we are writing a letter to them to try and get them back... read more
21 Jun 2018
Whole School Assembly for the 20th Anniversary of World Refugee Day
20 Jun 2018
Year 4 working with the Widnes Vikings
20 Jun 2018
Year 2 Delamere
Year 2 enjoyed exploring animal habitats at Delamere. They children really enjoyed their day! read more
19 Jun 2018
KS2 School Council visit Chestnut Lodge School
19 Jun 2018
Year 2 getting fit with Widnes Vikings!
19 Jun 2018
Y1KL Maths
Y1KL have been recognising the value of different coins. read more
19 Jun 2018
Y6KJ English
Y6KJ are working hard describing the forest from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. read more
18 Jun 2018
Y5JA Clarinets
Year 5JA are busy practicing their clarinets ready to play with @the_halle this Thursday. read more
18 Jun 2018
Year 5 Team Building
Year 5 had a fantastic Aspirations day with Andrew from One Goal! Well done to our trophy winners! read more
15 Jun 2018
Year 2 Wraps
Y2KW busy making their wraps this afternoon! read more
15 Jun 2018
Year 5 One Goal
Year 5 Team Building with One Goal today. read more
15 Jun 2018
Year 6 Singing
Year 6 practising our songs for our end of year production: Dream On read more
14 Jun 2018
Year 2 Florence Nightingale
Y2SL are looking at the different ways that Florence Nightingale changed hospitals for the better. read more
14 Jun 2018
Year 6 Maths
Year 6 are using their code cracking skills to solve Operation Ultra! read more
13 Jun 2018
Year 6 English
Y6KJ created fact files about William Shakespeare. read more
13 Jun 2018
Foundation Stage Pirates
Ship Ahoy! Our busy pirates are on the hunt for treasure- look out for the sharks! read more
13 Jun 2018
Key Stage 1 Suffragettes Assembly
Key Stage 1 are learning about how the suffragettes who fought for the right for women to vote during our democracy assembly. read more
13 Jun 2018
Year 5 Drama
Year 5 are performing drama about their new topic the Mayans. read more
12 Jun 2018
PTA Fun Run
Thank you to the PTA for organising such a great event! read more
25 May 2018
Year 4 Biscuits
Year 4 have been designing their own healthy biscuit recipe. They tasted yummy!! read more
25 May 2018
Foundation Stage Assembly
Well done to Foundation Stage for their beautiful assembly all about FRIENDS! read more
25 May 2018
Year 1 Animals
All the children’s animals from their homework task are now on display in the Year 1 zoo! Do not feed the animals!! read more
23 May 2018
Key Stage 1 Sports Day
KS1 had a fun sports day in the sunshine!! Well done to St David’s for winning KS1 sports day!! read more
23 May 2018
Key Stage 2 Sports Day
Well done to all of KS2 for taking part in our sports day. The winners were St George! read more
23 May 2018
Foundation Stage Fruit Smoothies
The children in Foundation Stage enjoyed making their very own fruit smoothies! read more
22 May 2018
Year 1 Poetry
Y1KL showed off great facial expressions when performing the Pizza and Chips poem in English! Then they published their own versions of the Pizza and Chips poem! read more
21 May 2018
Royal Wedding
The children enjoyed a royal assembly, learning about past Royal Weddings! At lunch time our Royal Family banquet has begun! read more
18 May 2018
Y1RA Royal Wedding Cards
The children in Y1RA made Royal cards for Harry and Meghan. read more
18 May 2018
Year 1 Fruit Kebabs
Year 1 first designed their fruit kebabs and then they enjoyed making them and eating them. They all said they were read more
14 May 2018
Year 1 English
Year 1 have been using the suffixes -er and -est to compare the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Brachiosaurus! read more
10 May 2018
Year 1 Handball
Y1KL have been practicing their handball skills. read more
10 May 2018
Year 2 P.E
Year 2 worked on travelling this session. Well done to Amber for getting gymnast of the week! read more
10 May 2018
Year 5 Fast Reading
Fast reading in Year 5. We are improving our fluency and reading aloud with our partner’s support. read more
4 May 2018
Foundation Stage Pentecost Party
Foundation Stage celebrated the end of our RE topic this afternoon with a collective worship and a Pentecost party outside. We released some balloons to spread the good news! read more
4 May 2018
Year 2 Total Gymnastics
Well done to Izzy for getting gymnast of the week! read more
3 May 2018
Year 4 Tattenhall
The children had a fantastic time at Tattenhall. They enjoyed lots of activities including zip wiring and tree climbing. The children used their problem solving skills to build dens. They were also branching out using their culinary read more
3 May 2018
Winners of Attendance and Punctuality
Well done to Y5ER and Y4KW for winning Basil and Betty for best attendance and punctuality this week!! read more
3 May 2018
Foundation Stage LEGO Creations
The children are busy designing and making some wonderful Lego creations. read more
2 May 2018
Year 1 Animals
Year 1 have brought in some amazing animal sculptures for their homework! We can’t wait to see the rest! read more
30 Apr 2018
Year 2 Sponsored Spellings
Y2SL completing their sponsored spellings this morning raising money for our different house charities. Well Done! read more
27 Apr 2018
Year 6 P.E
Year 6 enjoyed learning new hockey skills. read more
27 Apr 2018
Y1RA Mini-beast Hunt
Y1RA have been exploring the allotment on a mini beast hunt searching for all kinds of mini beasts!! read more
26 Apr 2018
Year 1 Gymnastics
Y1RA have enjoyed their gymnastics lesson this afternoon learning new jumps and shapes! Thank you total gymnastics! Y1KL enjoyed their gymnastics session today doing shapes and jumps! Well done to Maisie and Madison for winning read more
26 Apr 2018
Year 1 P.E
The children in Y1RA are using what they had learnt from their previous P.E lesson and we played a class game. The children had to use their skills in roll the ball across the circle to another child. read more
25 Apr 2018
Year 4 P.E
Y4KW enjoying their PE lesson in the sun!! read more
25 Apr 2018
Sunny Lunchtime!
EYFS and KS1 enjoying a sunny lunchtime. read more
20 Apr 2018
Foundation Stage Trip to Imagine That!
On Thurday 19 th April the Early Years Foundation Stage went on an educational visit to ‘Imagine That’ in Liverpool to explore art, crafts and scientific activities through various zones. When we arrived the staff explained what we were going to be read more
20 Apr 2018
Y1KL Minibeast Hunt
Y1KL went on a minibeast hunt. They made a tally of all the creatures they found, then they used their information to make a pictograph! read more
20 Apr 2018
Y1RA and Y5ER Attendance Awards
Well done to Y5ER for winning Basil for best attendance and Y1RA for winning Betty for best punctuality!! read more
20 Apr 2018
Maths in Foundation Stage
The children in Early Years are using mathematical language to measure the ingredients for salt dough! read more
20 Apr 2018
Year 1 PE
The children in Y1RA had a lovely outdoor PE lesson in the sunshine. They practiced rolling the ball to each other using ball control with a target to aim for. They then had a smaller target to aim for and following this, they moved on to read more
18 Apr 2018
Scientists in Year 3!
In Y3RS, we are scientists! Last week, we searched the classroom for different types of surfaces and observed what happened when we shone a torch onto them. read more
17 Apr 2018
Trip to Delamere!
In Y3RS, we are adventurers! Last week, we took our classroom outside into the forest where we took part in lots of different incredible activities in Delamere! The children took part in so many fun activities such as; den building, hammock making, read more
16 Apr 2018
Y1RA Attendance Winners
Well done to Y1RA for winning Basil and Betty for the best attendance and punctuality for the week! read more
13 Apr 2018
Commonwealth Day Assembly
Children were introduced to the Commonwealth as a family of countries, working together to celebrate diversity, friendship and equality. They learnt how there was a Commonwealth charter, signed by Queen Elizabeth as the head and that important read more
13 Apr 2018
Year 2 Gymnastics
In the Summer term year 2 are going to be working with gymnast Abbie Sanford from Total Gymnastics who is sponsored by Beth Tweddle. The children will be learning all about balances, stretching and jumps. Follow St Basil's Twitter feed for read more
12 Apr 2018
Firefighters in EYFS
Last week the Early Years Foundation Stage were lucky to get a visit from some firefighters and see a real fire engine! As part of ‘People who help us’ day they told us all about the work they do, such as, putting out fires and rescuing people and read more
11 Apr 2018
Butterflies in EYFS
They started as tiny caterpillars and the children watched in amazement as they grew and built their own cocoons. after two weeks the beautiful butterflies emerged. The children thanked God for all God's creatures and they released them to fly read more
9 Apr 2018
PTA Easter Raffle
Money raised from the Easter Raffle: £357.92 Money raised from Easter Coffee Morning: £132.02 Money raised from Easter Disco: £208.51 Winners Jake Black (RSPD) Annie Swift (RSAW) Foundation Stage: read more
27 Mar 2018
Year 1 Ducklings
Year 1 Ducklings In March year 1 received 6 eggs on a Monday morning, by Friday all six eggs had hatched into cute yellow ducklings. The following week the children got to look after and play with 6 little ducklings! The children really read more
12 Mar 2018
Y2 Visit Norton Priory
Year 2 had a fantastic time on their trip to Norton Priory! read more
9 Mar 2018
Foundation Stage Mother's Day Assembly
Foundation Stage held a wonderful Mother's Day Assembly this morning. Thank you to all of the parents/carers who came along! read more
9 Mar 2018
Y6 Visit Lowe House
Y6 had a fantastic day on their trip to Lowe House! read more
6 Mar 2018
British Science Week!
The children had a great time celebrating British Science Week! read more
5 Mar 2018
St David's Day!
To help celebrate St David's Day, we had an afternoon to look at people who help us. Lots of visitors came into school, including a lollipop lady, GP, police, paramedics, a mental health nurse and an occupational therapist. The children learnt a read more
2 Mar 2018
World Book Day!
The children all look fantastic dressed up as their favourite characters for World Book Day! Thank you to all of the parents/carers who joined us for our reading hour in class this morning! read more
2 Mar 2018
Foundation Stage - Team House Day!
To celebrate the end of our RE topic on Gathering (and the house team day) we have enjoyed juice and biscuits decorated by the children in Foundation Stage today! read more
1 Mar 2018
Y2 Learn about Holy Communion
This week, year 2 have been describing what happens during Holy Communion. read more
28 Feb 2018
Foundation Stage Love the Snow!
Foundation Stage have loved being out in the snow this morning! They have said its the best day ever! read more
27 Feb 2018
Y4 Gymnastics
Well done to our Y4 Gymnastics team in their competition yesterday, brilliant effort! read more
27 Feb 2018
Y5/6 Netball Tournament
Fantastic effort from our Y5/6 girls at the netball tournament on Friday! read more
26 Feb 2018
Y1 Make Green Eggs & Ham!
Year 1 followed a set of instructions this morning to make green eggs and ham! read more
26 Feb 2018
1KL PE with Mr Wood
The children in Y1KL are enjoying mini gym with our PE specialist Mr Wood this afternoon! read more
22 Feb 2018
Y2 Investigate how plants grow!
Y2 have been investigating what happens underneath the soil as plants start to grow! read more
22 Feb 2018
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