News from Academic Year 2018
End of Year Celebration Assembly
Here are just a few... read more
24 Jul 2019
Year 2 Assembly
Thank you to Year 2 for their beautiful assembly about Treasures! read more
19 Jul 2019
Y2AR Trip
Y2AR enjoying their trip to Delamere forest. read more
18 Jun 2019
Science Club
Skittles dissolving experiment with year 2. read more
10 Jun 2019
Fun Run
KS1KS2 have had a lovely afternoon completing their sponsored fun run. Well done to the children and thank you to our PTA! read more
25 May 2019
Year 4 Cricket
Year 4 have enjoyed team sports. We watched year 3 play rounders and we played cricket. read more
24 May 2019
Visit from Educational Library Van
All year groups enjoyed visiting the educational library van that attended school. The children loved choosing new books for their classrooms! read more
24 May 2019
Year 5 Hockey
Year 5 played six great games of Hockey yesterday for Team Sports. Each match was close but Y5CE were victorious over Y5AW, scoring 6 points to 1 overall. read more
24 May 2019
KS2 Sports Day
KS2 enjoyed a wonderful sports day. Well done to St George who were our winning house team. read more
22 May 2019
Year 5 Trip
Year 5 had a brilliant day at @Eco_Centre on Friday. They learnt all about protecting the rainforests. read more
20 May 2019
Y2AR Interpreting Data
Y2AR have been interpreting data, ready to make their own graphs tomorrow. read more
20 May 2019
Year 3/4 Diamond Cricket
Year 3/4 had a fantastic afternoon out in the sun playing diamond cricket. It was made even better by finishing joint 2nd!!! read more
16 May 2019
Year 3 Exploring Time
Year 3 exploring time! read more
10 May 2019
Y1RA Assembly
Well done to Y1RA on their beautiful assembly this morning all about Holidays and Holydays! The children did so well and shared an important message of spreading the good news of Jesus with everybody. Well done! read more
10 May 2019
Year 4 English
In English, 4KJ looked at synonyms of unhappy. We discussed which synonyms we thought were the weakest and the strongest. read more
9 May 2019
Year 4 Tattenhall
7 May 2019
EYFS Butterflies
It's finally time to say goodbye to our butterflies. read more
3 May 2019
Year 6 Debate
Year 6 debating whether or not it was a good idea for Shackleton to take a crew to Antarctica. read more
2 May 2019
Year 4 Gymnastics Lesson
Y4KJ enjoying their gymnastic lesson by Beth Tweddle Gymnastics. read more
2 May 2019
Y4KJ
Y4KJ have been learning to play the, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ theme tune this week in our guitar lessons. read more
29 Apr 2019
Year 3 English
Year 3 having lots of fun researching about Komodo Dragons for our English book 'The Snow Dragon.' read more
29 Apr 2019
Year 1 Art Club
Year 1 Art club have been experimenting copying and creating their own patterns. read more
29 Apr 2019
Easter Disco
Thank you to the PTA for our whole school Easter Disco! read more
28 Apr 2019
Y4CG Gymnastics
Class 4CG are loving their gymnastics lesson led by experienced Beth Tweddle coaches. read more
25 Apr 2019
Year 3 Classroom!!
Year 3 couldn’t believe their eyes after break time. Their classroom had been wrecked and some of their work had been burned! They found footprints on the chairs and walls and an email saying there was a dragon on the loose! read more
24 Apr 2019
P4C Day
Great assembly this morning to start off our P4C day! We all very excited to be working in our house teams and taking part in lots of critical thinking. KS1 St Andrews have drawn what they think Zig and Zog from planet Zargon may look like. read more
9 Apr 2019
EYFS Pirate Ship
Our very talented Mrs.C has designed a brilliant pirate ship after the children took an interest with making some telescopes. They have started to build their own ships and will be setting sail soon! read more
5 Apr 2019
After School Club Easter Activities
The children are busy in Link club making Easter cakes and playing lots of games. read more
5 Apr 2019
EYFS Fruit Smoothies
Mmmmm delicious fruit smoothies made by the reception children! read more
3 Apr 2019
Ducklings!
Welcome to Year 1 eggs! Bath time for the ducklings in Y1RA! read more
2 Apr 2019
RISE Theatre
A fantastic start to our day with @RISETheatre ! Art explorers in 1DW creating the roots for our Mustard Seed Story performance with @RISETheatre Year 3 are working hard creating their seeds to represent their hopes and dreams for @RISETheatre . read more
28 Mar 2019
P4C
In P4C today the children voted for a question based on our stimulus. They wanted to discuss “Did the boy discriminate the dog based on its looks?” read more
22 Mar 2019
Y4KJ Guitar
Y4KJ have been learning to play, ‘Happier’ by Marshmallow in today’s guitar lesson. read more
18 Mar 2019
Parent E-Safety Workshop
Thank you to PC Jane Tetlow and a PCSO for the parent safety workshop this afternoon! Parents we will be having another one soon so please keep your eye out and attend. Thank you for the parents who attended this afternoon! @CheshireSSYP read more
15 Mar 2019
Gymnastics Competition
Well done to the Year 3 and 4 children who competed in the regional gymnastics competition. They got to meet Beth Tweedle and we are very proud of their achievements @BTGymnastics read more
15 Mar 2019
Thank you to Mr McMahon!
Thank you to Mr McMahon.Year 4 have had a lovely afternoon learning about what it is like to be a scientist. We looked at different things under a microscope and with 3D glasses. Some of the things we looked at, looked very different under a read more
13 Mar 2019
Science Visitor
Year 5 had a great afternoon working with Mrs Lowe from @IBMscience . We were learning about biomedical science, making nerve cells and finding the germs on our hands under UV light. read more
13 Mar 2019
Reading Morning
Celebrating world book day in EYFS with our family. Year 4 are having fun and working hard for reading hour, with help from their family! 4KJ enjoyed our reading workshop this morning. read more
8 Mar 2019
Year 6 Roninwood
Year 6 had a fabulous time at Robinwood. The children tried lots of different activities and learnt so much about themselves. read more
8 Mar 2019
E-Safety Drama Assembly
KS2 are getting really excited for their E-safety drama assembly!! Class 4CG are continuing the fun and learning in their own drama workshop with the Altru performers!! read more
6 Mar 2019
We're All Wonders!
Wonders’. We’ll be working on the book more on World Book Day this week. Ask us about the message. Mrs Sheppard shared the story “We’re All Wonders” with Year 3 and 4 this morning. The children enjoyed discussing our different abilities and what it read more
5 Mar 2019
Y1RA Phonics
In phonics today Miss Abbott’s group looked at the split diagraph a_e and made words using the magic ‘e’. read more
1 Mar 2019
Y1DW Vikings
We are happy to be helping Widnes Vikings today #SaveOurClub The children in Y1 joined in with the rest of the school wearing black and white and raising money for the Widnes Vikings! #SaveOurClub The BBC came to interview the children and Mrs read more
1 Mar 2019
Year 3 PSHE
In PHSE we are learning about living a healthy lifestyle. We measured our heart rate before and after exercise! read more
27 Feb 2019
Disability Awareness Day
Thank you to John for coming in to talk to us about Disability Awareness Day and thank you to the year 6’s for their beautiful prayers. In the workshops we practised our own sign language and experienced what it would be like to be blind and in a read more
26 Feb 2019
Year 4 Drama
Year 4 have been learning about our new topic, ‘ Victorians’ through drama read more
25 Feb 2019
Breakfast Club
We have new toys and games in breakfast club! Come along at 8:15am-8:40am everyday! read more
25 Feb 2019
Gym Competition!
Well done to the KS1 gymnasts this morning for coming 1st in the competition! read more
25 Feb 2019
Y3KL Silent Seeker
In English, Y3KL have begun our new text “The Silence Seeker” which is set in a city. Today we used instruments to create our own city soundscape while some children presented the “city” expanded noun phrases we created yesterday. read more
22 Feb 2019
Y5AW P.E
Y5AW beginning to learn some badminton skills yesterday. Great progress with racket control. read more
21 Feb 2019
Year 3 Computing
The children in Year 3 created PowerPoint presentations about their time at Delamere! read more
20 Feb 2019
Year 1 Special Visitor
In year 1 we have discovered some secret messages and we have had to work hard to find out what they say using the secret code! read more
18 Feb 2019
Year 2- Who could it be?
Y2AR have found a rucksack with these things inside. Who could it belong to? read more
18 Feb 2019
Year 3 Delamere Residential
Year 3 have had a great first day at Delamere. They’ve been orienteering, learning jungle survival skills and finished it off with marshmallows and songs around the camp fire! Another fantastic morning at Delamere. The children have been on a read more
18 Feb 2019
Magic Maths Morning
8 Feb 2019
Internet Safety Day
Yesterday for #InternetSafetyDay2019 , 5AW learnt about our Digital footprints. We were online detectives and found out information about a character through their online activity. Y3KL discussed different scenarios and decided if they were read more
6 Feb 2019
No Outsiders!
The children of St Basil's have really enjoyed sharing 'Odd Dog Out" with Mrs Shepard, as part of our "No Outsiders' programme. The children discussed how being different and unique is a positive thing for us all. read more
5 Feb 2019
Y2SL Pizza Express
Y2SL had a lovely morning at Pizza Express! read more
31 Jan 2019
Year 4 Warrington Museum
On Friday 25th January Year 4 had a lovely day at Warrington museum learning all about Ancient Egypt. We made shabtis from clay and amulets with card. We have displayed some of our work on our working wall. read more
29 Jan 2019
Year 1 Science Investigation
Science investigation about eye colour in year 1DW. read more
28 Jan 2019
Year 1 Catalyst Museum
Year 1 have had a fantastic day at the Catalyst Museum! They have learnt all about their 5 senses in a senses workshop! They also got to explore Science in a fun way! read more
28 Jan 2019
EYFS Rainbow Challenges
Well done! The whole class received a homemade ice lolly as a treat for completing their weekly Rainbow Challenges read more
25 Jan 2019
Year 4 Art
Year 4 have enjoyed working with Mrs Taylor drawing and painting fish. read more
24 Jan 2019
Year 3 Stone Age
Y3 have had a great day learning about the Stone Age! Thank you @altrudrama read more
21 Jan 2019
World of Wonder
18 Jan 2019
Year 3 Creation story
Year 3 read the creation story “Anancy and the Flipflap bird.”They created a role play and performed it to the class. They then chose one of Anancy’s children to sketch with pencil and colour with oil pastels. Y3 creating story boards to show the read more
18 Jan 2019
Fit4Life
Thank you to Emily from “Halton Healthy Schools” for coming to show Y3KL how to be “Fit4Life”! read more
17 Jan 2019
Science Workshop
Year 1 and 2 parents enjoying working with their children at our science workshop. read more
17 Jan 2019
Craft Club
After school craft club with year one. The children are starting their bug paperweights. read more
14 Jan 2019
EYFS Rainbow Challenges
Well done to all the reception children! They have completed their Rainbow challenges this week and as a treat decorated biscuits. read more
11 Jan 2019
Y5CE French
Y5CE have done their first French lesson of the New Year with Madam Malloy - we wish you all 'Bonne Annee' - Happy New Year. read more
10 Jan 2019
Year 6 Role Play
Role play with Year 6. Children had to use freeze frames to portray their character. read more
10 Jan 2019
Year 6 Science
Year 6 learning about inherited traits in science. We tried to match the parents to their children by looking at their features. read more
10 Jan 2019
Years 3 and 4 Dance
Years 3 and 4 are learning a dance based on the theme, ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ We can’t wait to show our performance to our parents and carers on Friday! read more
10 Jan 2019
Year 1 Gymnastics
Year 1 are developing their gymnastic skills with our coach from Beth Tweddle Gymnastics this afternoon. Fantastic work read more
10 Jan 2019
Year 1 Science- Bones
The children in Year 1 are enjoying making skeletons using dog biscuits! read more
8 Jan 2019
Y4KJ Music
Y4KJ have been learning to play ‘Happy Birthday’ in today’s guitar lesson. read more
7 Jan 2019
Year 1 Science
Year 1 have been drawing what they think it looks like inside the human body. read more
7 Jan 2019
Y3KL R.E
For our new RE topic “Journeys” Y3KL painted their year using different colours for each season. This represented their journey through a year. They will add different events that happen throughout the year when the paint is dry! read more
7 Jan 2019
100% Attendance Winners
20 Dec 2018
Well done for staying on green!
Well done to the children who have stayed on green all of Autumn 1! read more
20 Dec 2018
KS1 Christmas Dinner
19 Dec 2018
Christmas Raffle
Well done to the KS1 winners on the Christmas raffle! Well done to the Lower KS2 winners on the Christmas raffle! Well done to the Upper KS2 winners on the Christmas raffle! read more
19 Dec 2018
Year 6 Computing
Year 6 enjoying writing and testing algorithms in computing. read more
12 Dec 2018
Year 3 Christmas Play
7 Dec 2018
Family Breakfast Club
This morning at family breakfast club. Every morning from 8:15-8:40! read more
6 Dec 2018
Science Club
Science club had fun experimenting with different mixtures. read more
6 Dec 2018
Y5AW Bridges
Some of the brilliant bridge designs made by Year 5AW for their Learning Challenge homework this half term. read more
5 Dec 2018
Year 3 Volcanoes
The Year 3 children have been very busy at home making volcanoes for our Geography topic and painting rocks for our Science topic! Thank you for all your hard work! read more
26 Nov 2018
Year 4 Music
The year 4 children have been learning to read music in today’s guitar lesson read more
26 Nov 2018
Foundation Stage Phonics Inspire Session
The reception parents have enjoyed the phonic inspire session this afternoon. Thank you to all who attended. read more
22 Nov 2018
Widnes Foodbank
Widnes Foodbank say thank you very much to the children and families of St Basil's for their generous offerings - this will go a long way to support needy families in Widnes. Many thanks read more
19 Nov 2018
Year 2 Navigating
Y2SL have been using a map of the school to navigate. read more
19 Nov 2018
Year 5 Music
Year 5 are making fantastic progress with learning the clarinet - super sound today! read more
15 Nov 2018
Year 2 Assembly
Thank you Year 2 for a lovely assembly this morning all about anti-bullying! read more
15 Nov 2018
Pudsey Raffle
Well done to the winners of the Pudsey raffle! read more
15 Nov 2018
Year 5 Learning about WW2
Year 5 had a great time with Ben from @103Regt , making some comparisons with our work on WW2. read more
15 Nov 2018
Year 6 making t-shirts
Year 6 up cycling their t-shirts for our topic, "Where does all our stuff come from?". A splendid afternoon was had by all! read more
15 Nov 2018
Olympian Visit and Sponsored Event
12 Nov 2018
Foundation Stage Autumn Walk
Lots to discover on our Autumn walk! read more
12 Nov 2018
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