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Y5 Child led Collective Worship
Date: 22nd Oct 2024 @ 9:32am
Some of the pupils from Y5CG planned a wonderful collective worship on Our Lady of They Rosary. They included three different hymns and scripture from the Bible.
Date: 22nd Oct 2024 @ 9:26am
Year 5 attended Mass at the church and were exemplary in representing our school within the local parish community. It was the perfect way to start the week.
Date: 22nd Oct 2024 @ 9:21am
Y5CG loved their first lesson together as a class with their brass instruments. It was only planned that they would attempt to learn one song but they were that impressive that they started to learn three on their first lesson.
Whole school - Harvest Cereal Challenge for Widnes Foodbank
Date: 19th Oct 2024 @ 2:44pm
On Friday the 18th of October, we had a great morning completing our Cereal rally challenge.
After collecting boxes of cereal over the last month, each child came with their class to place a box in line ready for 'the big push!'
We were joined by Vicky from the Foodbank and Pip Turner from Asda who organised a donation on their behalf.
We also received a donation from Tesco in Widnes too, which helped boost our boxes to around 230 in total.
The children joined in with a countdown and watching the boxes being knocked over, followed by big cheers at the end!
Thank you to everybody who donated and to all of our children for particpating and showing their solidarity with others.
Comments from the children across school included:
"It was great fun and we got to help people too!"
"I hope people in Widnes won't be hungry now."
"The Foodbank is a brilliant thing."
"I can't wait to do more to help other people."
"I hope the people who get our cereal love eating it."
Date: 14th Oct 2024 @ 8:29am
Year 3 have been really excited to take part in outdoor adventurous activities in PE for the first time. They have worked creatively, critically and collaboratively in a caring way during orienteering and den building.
Date: 14th Oct 2024 @ 8:24am
Year 3 have really enjoyed learning the rules of table tennis and practicing their forehand and backhand shots.
Date: 14th Oct 2024 @ 8:22am
This years play leaders have been chosen and they have spent the afternoon learning all about their new roles and responsibilities. They have worked collaboratively and creatively to come up with new games and ways to help KS1 develop during their lunchtimes.
Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 8:07am
Every week, the children in Pre School get to take home one of our school ‘Reading for Pleasure’ books. The children love swapping their books on a Wednesday and talk about why they enjoyed reading their chosen book.
Florence – My book was about bunnies; it had flaps to open!
Junior – My book was about feelings, happy and sad. I want to take the monsters book next.
Aoife – This one was about we’re going on a bear hunt shapes.
Jennifer – Mine was about crazy cows!
Caben – I had the gingerbread man but next I would like to take the town book
Sophia – I want to take the one Florence had about bunnies.
Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 8:01am
This week we have continued to enjoy our 'Farm Shop' role play. The children have had new produce to sell including leeks, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions and carrots. They have loved being the shop keeper and dressing up!
The children have loved reading ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ and can now retell the story themselves. In English we have read ‘Homes’ by Ellis Carson, whilst still thinking about poor Mr Bear in ‘Peace at Last’, who cannot get any sleep!
The children have continued to be in awe of autumn and we have talked about how God made everything in our world. They have made autumn salt paintings and explored autumnal colours. The children have listened to a range of songs about our beautiful world. They have met Sophia the Sloth to learn about Catholic Social Teaching and stewardship.
Outside the children have enjoyed refining their gross motor skills on the bikes and by making trampoline parks out of the crates!
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 8:30pm
Year one have been developing skills in Netball and Tennis this half term.
We have enjoyed using different equipment to help practise these skills before we are able to play actual games.
Delilah - I loved using balloons to practise forehand and backhand.
Matthew - I am good at bouncing in the hoop.
Jonas - We need to be careful where we swing.
Clay - We can attack and defend.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 8:22pm
Year 1 have been using Purple Mash this half term and learning how to log in safely.
We have found out about keeping password information private and practising how to input this information.
On Purple Mash we can now find tasks that have been set by our teacher called '2Do's' and have also had fun designing an avatar.
Harry - You cannot tell anybody your secret word for logging in.
Meredith - It's to keep you safe.
Polly - I liked doing the shape sorting activity.
Date: 9th Oct 2024 @ 12:03pm
As part of CAFOD Family Fast Day, pupils in KS2 were given the opportunity to join our CAFOD Simple Lunch.
Instead of their usual school dinner, these KS2 pupils chose to have a simple lunch of soup, bread and fruit, to show Solidarity and respect Human Dignity two of our Catholic Social Teaching principles. This showed how we can think of others who are less fortunate than ourselves and only have our fair share.
Y6 - Parent Collective Worship - Justice
Date: 7th Oct 2024 @ 1:30pm
Year 6 led a Collective Worship on our school theme for the year which is justice.
We explored the theme of justice and explained the meaning of this and how we can be just in our lives.
We explored the theme of justice through song, drama, prayer and scripture.
Date: 7th Oct 2024 @ 1:11pm
In Year 6, have been enjoying our lessons in PE this half term.
We have been learning how to play table tennis and have been improving our skills every week.
We even read about the history of the sport and found out that people used to play with cigar box lids and champagne corks when the game was first played.
Rainbow Unit- Autumn Term Week 5
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 4:53pm
This week we have taken part in some creative work, we have been finger painting! All children took part! Some children were a little bit more reserved at first but enjoyed it in the end! We have also been doing lots of mark making with hand over hand support when necessary.
We introduced some sensory toys in the blue classroom this week and the children have loved them! In the yellow classroom, we have been covering the children with different materials. We have heard lots of giggles and seen lots of smiles from all of the children. We have also been completing lots of insert puzzles and been using the coloured pegs with some children even saying some of the numbers too.
We have all continued to enjoy our time outside with some children even having a go at riding the tricycles and balance bikes which we have outside during lunch time. This week, we have started to master the object of reference for outside with all children following it at some point. We will be continuing to practise this so that it is consistent for all children.
Have a lovely weekend.
The SEND team
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 8:21am
This half term Year 3 have used Purple Mash to focus on our Coding skills
We have refreshed our memory of what coding is, how we create a code and some of the rules that the code must follow.
We have now begun to use flow charts to create our own codes using timers, and debug programmes with timers.
"I had to change my code a few times because it didn't work, but I worked out that it was because the code was not nested inside the other one" - Ethan
"I had to make the magician's rabbit disappear after 5 seconds and then reappear after another 5. I completed the code really quickly and got onto the next challenge" - Penelope.
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 8:18am
Our KS2 CAFOD club have focused on Solidarity this first few weeks of the half term.
We researched CAFOD Family Fast Day and created some posters to promote our Simple Lunch in school.
We have also watched CAFOD's national assembly and thought of more ways we can live in solidarity with others.
"I really enjoy joining with others in CAFOD club and thinking of ways to help people" - Maro
"It is my first time in CAFOD club and I am really enjoying it" - James
Y4 - Collective Worship for LKS2 - Pope Francis and Our Common Home
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 8:16am
Today 4CS planned and delivered their Collective Worship based on Pope Francis,
They took his message to look after our common home and shared ideas on stewardship.
Maro wrote her own prayer for our respond section which we read together.
Lola and Lucy thought about what we could Go Forth and do in the week ahead to appreciate and admire God's world.
"It really made me think about how great the world is" - Henry
"I would have liked to sing another song about the world at the end" - Annie
Y1 - Collective Worship for KS1 - Pope Francis
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 10:14pm
Another group of children from Year one took a turn in planning their own Collective Worship today with help from Mrs Devonport and Mrs Dooley.
They confidently chose important items to add to the focus table, including a photo of Pope Francis.
We heard a story from the Bible about the first Pope, Simon Peter. Jesus called him a rock!
We thought about what makes somebody a good leader and the children shared words to describe important qualities for our Pope.
We ended by all saying the Pope's prayer for children from his charity, Mission Together.
These are some of the things we said when we talked about how our Collective Worship had gone today:
"I was proud of the special table I helped with today" - Harry
"I want to be kind like Pope Francis" - Jonas "And loving" - Zach
"I really liked the children's prayer" - Joel
"I would really like to have a little photo of Pope Francis" - Grace
Date: 30th Sep 2024 @ 5:15pm
To consolidate our learning on place value we played a competition in which we kept score by adding or subtracting 1, 10 or 100. The winner wasn't the first to the finish but the person with the highest score which we compared at the end.
"I was really lucky, I kept getting + 100s" - William
"Our game was really close, I got 845 and Ethan got 832" - Luca
Extra Curricular - Mini Vinnies
Date: 30th Sep 2024 @ 5:13pm
Our Mini Vinnies club have just wrote speeches and elected our President, Vice President, Secretary & Communications Officer
Whole School - Sign Language Awareness Week
Date: 30th Sep 2024 @ 5:03pm
We celebrated Sign Language Awareness week by inviting Father Mark into school to teach us some sign language.
We spoke about why Sign Language is important so that everyone is treated fairly and justly, linking to our Year of Justice and the Catholic Social Teaching principle of Human Dignity.
Father Mark wrote a prayer with our help that we will use throughout our Year of Justice and we learnt the signs for fair, hunger, thirst and rights.
We also then followed this up by learning how to spell our own names in British Sign Language, taking home a sheet to share this with our families.
"My name was really hard to sign because I have a double letter" - William
"I really enjoyed working with Father Mark, I'm excited to hear the final prayer" - Penelope
Date: 30th Sep 2024 @ 4:49pm
Our shared reading text is now 'A Squash and a Squeeze' and we have been learning all about the farm.
The children are loving our new role play, the farm shop.
They have had real produce to sell and have certainly filled their baskets!
We have all enjoyed singing ‘Old Mac Donald had a fam’ with the puppets.
The children have also been experimenting printing with different animals.
Date: 30th Sep 2024 @ 4:43pm
We have had another busy but exciting week in EYFS.
The children have enjoyed continuing to read our shared reading text, 'Whatever Next' and our English text, 'Peace at Last'. They have been thinking about what keeps Mr Bear up at nigjt.
They have made pizzas for Mr Bear to eat out of playdough.
All of the children have loved doing 'dough disco' and have been working on their fine motor skills.
Pre school have learnt all about the number 2 and have made their own number 2 number blocks,
Reception have now learnt the sounds s, a, t, and p and have been working on forming these letters correctly. In maths they have been investigating number 4.
Date: 29th Sep 2024 @ 9:39pm
We visited Crosby Beach to look at coastal erosion.
We used sand, rocks and other bits we could find to make our own sea defences. We then tested these out.
