Year 1: Gallery
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
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: 24th Sep 2024 @ 7:51am
In science the children have been learning all about different materials. For homework the children made Material Monsters from recyclable materials.
Whole School - Visit from Imran Kotwal for Islam week
Date: 22nd Sep 2024 @ 1:40pm
On Friday 2oth September, Imran Kotwal visited school to help us with our learning about the religion of Islam.
As a Muslim, Imran shared some important items with us and talked about how they are used in daily life, particularly with prayer.
We saw prayer mats and photographs of different mosques, as well as sweet smelling oil which can be used as part of the cleaning ritual before prayer.
Imran also told us about the prophet Muhammad, a key person for Muslims.
This is what some of the children felt about the visit in Year 1 and 2.
"It was really good to know about it all."
"I liked finding out new stuff."
"The best bit was watching how Imran prayed."
"I know that praying is very important to lots of people."
"Religions are sometimes not all the same."
"Everyone is special themselves."
Whole School Assembly - Widnes Foodbank Cereal Challenge
Date: 22nd Sep 2024 @ 1:16pm
This week we launched our Harvest campaign to support the Foodbank here in Widnes.
We held a special assembly and remembered what we have already managed to achieve as a school in helping those in need.
Photos of last year's visit to the Foodbank by the RE Ambassadors were a great reminder, as well as the visit from Margaret and Eileen, two of their volunteers.
To continue our promise to try and 'live in solidarity' with others, we will be collecting donations of cereal over the next month.
On Friday 18th October, we will hold our 'Cereal domino rally' with all of the boxes that are donated.
Y1 - Collective Worship on Care for Our Common home
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 10:08pm
Children from 1DD helped to plan and deliver Collective Worship today for Key Stage One.
They thought about which music to use, what to have on our focus table and the reading and prayers we would share.
We reminded everybody about the letter that Pope Francis wrote to ask for help to care for his creation. This letter is called Laudato Si.
At the end of our Worship, we asked the children and grown ups to think about how they can each help to care for the earth and each other.
"I like doing the sign of the cross." - Clay
"I love gathering and singing." - Harper
"We should have put the Pope's picture on the table too." Meredith
"I feel happy about it." - Zach
"It made me feel calm." - Polly
Date: 11th Sep 2024 @ 8:17am
Year 1 enjoyed their first Music and Movement lesson.
Whole School Friday Worship - Catholic Social Teaching
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 9:10am
Today we celebrated our first Friday Gospel Collective Worship with Mrs Sheppard.
It was all about Catholic Social Teaching
Y1 - P4C - Can Children Look After the World?
Date: 5th Sep 2024 @ 2:35pm
The children started the year by thinking about our world in preparation for exploring creation during our RE lessons. We looked at our stimulus and devloped our own question 'Can children look after the world?'. Some of our responses were:
Sometimes it’s not safe to.
Yes, because the world will be good if they do.
No because they are too small.
Yes, because everyone can keep everyone safe.
Yes, because it is everyone’s job.
Date: 8th Jul 2024 @ 2:54pm
Finally, we have had some luck with the weather and we have been able to get all of the children out to enjoy an afternoon competing in their houses. All of the children really hard and displayed great sportsmanship qualities. Below is a list of the events the children took part in;
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Javelin |
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Slalom run |
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50m sprint |
100m sprint |
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Assault course |
Assault coursde |
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Whole School - St Basil's Marketplace
Date: 5th Jul 2024 @ 10:56am
We all had a chance on Friday afternoon to visit our annual St Basil's Marketplace
Throughout the week, we have been creating, budgeting and presenting our items in year groups to sell.
There are activities to try our luck at, such as sweets in the jar, guess the name of the teddy and coordinate treasure maps
We also have a chance to play some carnival games to win prizes, including hook a duck, tombola, penalty shoot outs and a coconut shy.
This year our MartketPlace has raised ...
Environment Council - Wonky Garden Visit
Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 4:56pm
The Environment Council took a visit to the Wonky Garden in Widnes.
This is a community garden who have transformed disused land into a space for all to enjoy nature.
We went along with Mrs Sheppard to gather some ideas for our own school grounds work.
We had the chance to harvest some potatoes, which we brought back and cooked with butter and herbs!
The volunteers also gave us some pumpkin plants to plant in our EYFS area. We will keep these nurtured ready for harvesting in Autumn.
Date: 22nd Jun 2024 @ 10:38pm
Year 1 were absolutely fantastic practicing their sports day events in athletics. They competed in the javelin, assault course, bean bag toss, hurdles and balance ball.
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 7:40am
Everyone in school took part in our annual Fun Run to raise contributions for PTA school projects.
Unfortunately due to the weather this year we could not take part all together on our field.
Instead each class took their turn to complete laps of our playground track in Fancy Dress.
We counted our laps in 10 minutes.
"I always look forward to the Fun Run. This year I brought my dinosaur costume but still managed to do 15 laps!" - Josh Y4
"I really enjoy dressing up every year and doing the laps with my friends. We always end up on the same because we run side by side" - Holly Y5
"I'm sad that this was my last Fun Run in St Basil's. I managed to do 26 laps this time" - Alma Y6
Whole School - Archbishop Malcolm McMahon visit during Peace Week (January 2024)
Date: 12th Jun 2024 @ 2:31pm
On Wednesday 17th January, we were joined by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon and other guests from the Archdiocese of Liverpool, along with Father Mark Moran and our school governors.
We enjoyed some very special events as part of our 'Year of Peace' (2023-24).
The children particpated in prayer spaces with activities that included painting peace pebbles, origami boats for our peace river, hanging peace doves and creating prayers in our prayer garden.
Time was spent reflecting on how peace begins with us and how we can help be bring peace in pur relationships.
Other great activities around school included a Peace Dance, Music to celebrate peace and learning sign language for the song 'Peace perfect peace'.
We were also joined by Peace Pathways who worked with each year group on how to solve problems when there is a conflict.
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 2:11pm
Year 1 visited Beeston Castle after learning all about castles in their History topic.
Y1 Mental Health Awareness Week (to be merged)
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 2:09pm
The children watched a performance of 'What's up Alfie' during mental health awareness week.
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 2:00pm
The children participated in an Easter Bonnet Parade.
Y1 CAFOD Big Lent Walk (To be Merged)
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 1:45pm
The CAFOD Big Lent Walk. The children participated in the CAFOD Big Lent Walk to raise money for others in need. They completed different routes learning facts along the way and delivering fish to the net.
Y1 Chester Zoo Trip (To be Merged)
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 1:44pm
Chester Zoo. After learning all about different animals in science the children visited the zoo to see them.
Y1 - World Book Day (To be Merged)
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 1:33pm
World Book Day. The children dressed up as a character from a book and completed reading activities with their grown ups in class.
Y1 - Parent Collective Worship - Galilee to Jerusalem
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 1:29pm
Collective Worship. The children participated in a collective worship with their families about our RE topic Galilee to Jerusalem.
NSPCC Numbers Day (To be Merged)
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 1:28pm
NSPCC Numbers Day. The children completed different maths activities in class with their grown ups. They dressed as a number to raise money for the NSPCC.
