Willow Class - Lucia

Cherry Class - Michael

Larch Class - Mayar

Oak Class - Freddie

Midday Awards

Miss Cliff - Emily C

Mrs Bradley - Alfie

Miss Corker - Lucia

Mrs Sanders - Oscar J

Tidiest Classroom - Cherry

St David - 92.9%

St George - 88.6%

St Patrick - 92.2%

Whole School - 91.5%

Punctuality Award - Year 6

Gold fish monitors - chosen from children with 100% attendance and no late marks for the week.

Billy

Sonam

Lincoln

Oak Class - Harrison

A huge congratulations to all our pupils, parents, and carers! We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have officially achieved our school attendance target for this academic year.

This is a fantastic milestone, and we could not have done it without your incredible support. Thank you for working with us to ensure our children are in school and learning, every day.

🎉 How We Are Celebrating

To reward everyone's hard work, we have some exciting celebrations lined up this week:

• Whole-School Treat: Every child in the school will be receiving a special treat this week to celebrate our collective success.

• Winning House Announcement: Congratulations to St George, our winning attendance house for the year!

• As a special reward, all children in St George House, along with our fantastic Attendance Ambassadors, will be enjoying a trip to The Heath Park this Thursday afternoon.

Willow Class - Tuesday is Forest School and Wednesday is PE. Children need to have a change of shoes for Forest School.

Cherry, Larch, Oak, Cedar and Sycamore Class - Tuesday and Thursday

School PE kit is -

Plain black shorts/tracksuit pants

Plain white t-shirt

Pumps or trainers

For forest school long sleeved plain black tracksuit.

We love our Cricket sessions with Jo on a Tuesday and the children have been developing their batting and throwing and catching skills 🏏

We enjoyed a magical Forest School session when we were welcomed into the Forest by Fairies 🧚🧚🏼‍♂️ The children enjoyed a Fairy Door Hunt, and a Fairy Number Hunt 🧚🏼‍♂️🔢 🚪 🧚

We then designed and created our own Fairy Doors using natural resources from in the forest 🌿

In preparation for the transition to Year One, we are all sitting at the same time now to complete our handwriting 📝 and also our sentence writing. I am very proud of all of the children 🤩

We have been continuing to use non-fiction books to find out information linked to our theme of "Where in the World?" The children are getting so good at using the books to find out information about specific things. We have also been developing our questioning skills by asking each other questions and using the non-fiction books to help us to find out the answer ❔

Within our "Where in the World?" we are enjoying some Expressive Arts and Design with singing songs and stories. "We all Go Travelling By" 🚌 🚲 🚛 and "The Magic Train Ride" 🚂 🧚🍰 are two of our favourites 🎶 Next week we are going to be using musical instruments to accompany the songs 🥁 🪇

We are approaching the end of our class text ‘Grandad’s Secret Giant’ and have enjoyed discussing the role we all have in making others feel welcome and like they belong. This has linked wonderfully into our RE unit and our upcoming transient is into new classes for September ❤️

In RE, we have discussed different groups/clubs that we belong to in and out of school and what it means to belong. We have then started to learn about Christian baptism and why parents may choose this for their children and also why adults may choose to be baptised. We read the bible story about Saint John the Baptist too 📖 🌊

In maths, Y1 and Y2 have been working together on our fractions unit. This week we have learned about splitting the whole into equal parts using vocabulary like half, quarters and thirds 🧮

In Maths we have been looking at odd and even numbers again with the help of the odd blocks and even tops from Numberblocks then putting them into groups. We have also been starting to look at numbers up to 100 with our older pupils.

Our Cedar Class children have been enjoying lots of sensory play in the afternoons this week - bubbles, 'sand' and nice cold water.

It's going to be another warm one towards the end of the week so don't forget changes of clothes and suncream plus water bottles as always!

In English, we finished reading our book Blue John by Berlie Doherty. We have been using our knowledge about how the mineral is formed to write explanatory texts. We have also been researching caves to write an explanatory text about stalactites and stalagmites.

In maths, we have been continuing our work on division with remainders. We have been answering word problems related to division.

In the afternoons, we have been doing RE. We have been looking at Hinduism and the festival of Diwali. We learnt about the story of Rama and Sita and the symbolism of light in the story.

In cricket, we were practising our throwing and batting skills. We also learnt about the scores in cricket.

In maths we have been continuing with our Multiplication moving onto 4 digit by 2 digit-really tricky stuff but the children have been putting in so much effort.

In Geography, we have been learning about how the UK generates its energy, and comparing that to how the USA generate their energy - it has been a really interesting topic learning about renewable and non-renewable energy resources.

In British Values, we looked at censuses, and what questions we would like to ask if we were to have one in school.

Finally, we are fully into World Cup mode now, with our class sweepstake heating up as we head into the last 16. Will England get past Mexico?

Through our enhanced provision, the children have been enjoying a tea party role-play area. This has been great fun and has provided lots of opportunities to develop their speaking, listening and questioning skills.

It was wonderful to see so many families at our Summer Fayre on Wednesday. Thank you for your support! Some of the money raised will be used to fund a special afternoon treat for the children next week as we celebrate the end of a fantastic year together.

On Friday, we were delighted to welcome author Harry Heape to school. The children loved listening to him read from his books and enjoyed learning some of his top tips for creating their own exciting stories.

For our 'Tasty Tuesday' we made delicious cheese and tomato pastry boats. We had some colour by number pictures for Wimbledon and marvel word searches. We also enjoyed some more table tennis and badminton.

Wednesday, we had a visit to the schools summer fair. We played games and visited the tuck shop and stalls. When we come back inside we made some homemade squishies using balloons and flour. Towards the end of the session we watched the first half of the England game whilst doing england crafting.

Thursday, we go out our junk modelling. They boys all worked together to create a mega fort and played in it for most of the session. The girls got crafty and made accessory boxes and cars.

For film Friday we watched the 'Scooby' movie. We also made tennis rackets using paper plates and lolly sticks and also made paper squishies. We had pizza for snack and headed up to the field to end the day.

If your child is unwell you must cancel your school meal if one has been ordered, otherwise you will be charged for the meal.

www.schoolhub.co.uk

From 1st April 2025 the daily cost of a school meal will be £3.43.

Please check online with Halton Borough Council to see if your child is entitled to a free school meal. If eligible this will also mean extra funding for school and help for parents with the cost of school trips.

https://www3.halton.gov.uk/Pages/EducationandFamilies/Schools/FreeSchoolMeals.aspx

Breakfast club is £2 per session and After School Club is £8 per session.

Both clubs can be pre-booked via the school spider app.

After School Timetable

Get Moving Monday

Tasty Tuesday

Wonderful Wednesday

Thinking Thursday

Forest/Film Friday

The contact number for After School Club outside office hours is 07852389286

In addition to this you have a change of winning the jackpot prize of £25000.

The school receives 60p from every £1 donated.

If you would like to support his race please see the link above.

Whilst at St John Ambulance all badgers will learn first aid throughout the year as well as other topics e.g. performance badger, eco badger, community badger and caring badger to name a few. Each topic we teach earns them a certificate and a badge for them to wear on their uniform, we aim to help them achieve 3 badges a year. Every 3 badges will earn them a bronze badge, then silver and finally Super badger award, this is the highest award a badger can achieve. At the end of the year, we aim to hold a presentation evening to show all these achievements.

We will fill each session with lots of fun including games and crafts helping them learn life skills and meet new friends. They will also have lots of opportunities to attend activity days on some weekends and residentials throughout the year.

To learn more and sign up parents can click on the link below and sign up for Halton badgers.

https://www.sja.org.uk/get-involved/young-people/badgers/