St Ann s Church of England Primary School Always our best for God, each other and ourselves. Value of the Half Term Peace Newsletter Issue 9 Week ending Friday 10 th November Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Psalm 34:14 On Tuesday this week, we had a visit from The Book People Bus! Every class had the opportunity to go on during the day, and we were thrilled to see queues of children waiting to go on with parents after school. As the event was such a success, the school will now receive some credit to spend on books for the children! We hope all who purchased enjoy their new books - look out for the return of the bus in 2018!
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Family Assembly Congratulations to Year 6F on a super Family Assembly today! The next Family assembly will take place next Friday (17 th November) and will be led by 60 Governor/Director Morning This week our Governors and Directors were invited into school to spend some time in classes and to look at the Children s Lunar Curriculum work. Stop bullying and make a difference! Anti-Bullying Team This week our school Anti- Bullying Team met for their half termly meeting. At the meeting final preparations were made for next week s Anti-Bullying Week. Be a buddy, not a bully Parent Governor Opportunity If you are interested in the role of Parent Governor please ensure that you have returned your completed application to the School Office by 12.00pm Monday 13 th November. Thank you. Midday Supervisors Last week Bev Cain joined our team of Midday Supervisors. We are now looking people who would be interested in covering at lunchtime on an ad hoc basis (ie. to cover staff absence). If you are interested in being considered for a zero hours contract, please contact the school office.
Open Day In a bid to promote their oracy skills, this year s Open Day will predominantly be led by our pupils.
Football This week our Year 6 boys football team entered the Liverpool Football Club tournament with teams from all over the North West competing. The team played brilliantly from start to finish and won their league in fantastic style, showing great skills and fabulous sportsmanship. Congratulations to Owen Fletcher, Will Campbell, Jacob Whitby, Jack Wilson-Jones, Fin Thomas, Fin, Dominic Windever and also Dean Roberts who won the prize for the best attitude of the day. What an achievement! The boys will now compete in the finals held at the LFC Academy in the coming months, so good luck to them all. Swimming Lessons This half term 5W are going swimming every Monday afternoon. Please refer to the separate letter about this which details what children are expected to wear and the time at which children will return back to school. Athletics Competition Health and Safety/Safeguarding This week our Health and Safety representative from Ellis Whittam has been into school to do our annual Health and Safety Risk Assessment. We have also held our monthly Safeguarding meeting. Any parents with any Health and Safety/Safeguarding concerns should report these immediately to the school office or to a member of the Senior Leadership Team (Mrs Wilkinson/Mrs McDowell/Mrs Hood) Our Athletics team completed in the St Helens School Sportshall Athletics Competition. Our children did some amazing running, jumping and throwing with fantastic results finishing 3 rd overall. Congratulations to some of our future Olympians, Finley, Daniel Bradley, Will Campbell, Tom Chisholm, Owen Fletcher, Matt Jamieson, Zak Mogan, Jake Money, Dean Roberts, Isaac Rynn, Jack Wilson-Jones, Dominic Windever, Cerys Frost, Ruby Ferguson, Emma Hall, Evie Knowles, Charlotte Lowton, Georgia Marsh, Megan Pearse, Aimee Scott, Jasmine Southern and Ella Starkey
Lockdown Over the next few weeks we will be having a Lock Down Practice in school to prepare the children for the action to take in the event of a critical incident. The children will be prepared for this by their class teacher in advance of the practice but will be unaware as to when the actual practice will take place. Please re-assure your child that critical incidents are very rare and that the practice is nothing for them to worry about. Parents Forum Members 2017-2018 Chair: Neil Ellis (supported by Mrs Hood) Anti-Bullying Week Next week is Anti-Bullying Week. On Monday, the Voice of the Child Super Leader team will be launching the week by carrying out an assembly alongside Mrs Port. During the week, the children will complete the Celebrating Differences puzzle from our Jigsaw Scheme of Learning for PSHE. In addition, the children will also engage in a debate as one of their Talk Its linked to the Oracy Curriculum. Many thanks to all those parents/ carers who have kindly volunteered to be the Parent Representative for their class. Most vacancies have now been filled, however if anyone should ever wish to leave the group, their place will be advertised in a newsletter. If your child is in 3H or 5W and you would like to be the representative please contact Mrs Hood before the next meeting. It wasn t possible to appoint a deputy representative for each class as there was only 1 volunteer for most classes. Parent Representative Child at the School RH Helen Deane Woody and Willow Deane RW Charlene Keenan Ethan Keenan 1RG Ruth Moane Grace and Hannah Moane 1T Laura Taylor Cameron and Bethany Taylor 2R Andrea Unsworth Charlie and Oliver Unsworth 2B Helen Turner Bella and Samuel Turner 3M Karen Molloy Bobby and Orla Molloy 3H 4W Katrina Henshaw Alex Yates 4G Natalie Walker Jasmine and George Walker 5W 5MH Claire Bayley Hollie Owen 6O Lisa Mogan Zac Mogan 6F Caroline Brophy Jack and Aoife Ahearne Our next meeting will be on 28 th November at 9am in the studio. Year 2 visit to St Ann s Church This week children from Year 2 enjoyed a very interesting visit to explore our church. We would like to say a huge thanks to our informative and expert tour guides, Mrs Hardman and Mrs Gorbutt for giving up their time for us. We learnt so much about the features and history of our parish church, and even learnt some new songs. Thank you very much!
Curriculum Team Visit from Consultant Diocese This week our Curriculum Team met to discuss the development of our Lunar Curriculum. Supporting the Work of Other Schools We have recently received some very positive feedback from an external consultant. Amongst the many strengths mentioned in her report, the consultant noted the continued commitment of leaders to developing the curriculum provision. She also commented positively upon the work in the children s books and upon the Learning Environment. This week, Mrs Wilkinson met with the leaders of other church schools in the borough to discuss developments in the diocese. Staff Development This week Miss Howard has been training Newly This week all staff have received training in the Qualified Teachers across the region in the assessment of our Lunar Curriculum and Mrs teaching of Calculation. She is currently Winstanley has led SEN Drop In sessions for staff supporting a number of other schools with their throughout the school. Mrs Greenough and Miss Maths work. Reed have worked together on the development of Arts Award and all our Base staff have updated their Food Hygiene Qualification. Other staff development that has taken place this week includes:- Occupational Therapy Training-Mrs Preston Early Bird Plus Training-Mrs Terry and Mrs Barrow Outstanding Maths Teacher Training-Mr Harrison Ofsted and Maths- Mrs Wilkinson Friends News The 100 Club winners for October are 1 st place - Mike Taylor, 2 nd place - Susan Rynn
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Good Luck Good luck to Lauren Mason as she commences her teaching practice this week in Year 2. Classes throughout the school are currently benefiting from the support of a number of students from Edge Hill College. Mrs Eccles Next week we say goodbye to Mrs Eccles as she leaves our school to start a completely different career in retail. We would like to thank Mrs Eccles for the magnificent work that she has done at our school over the past 14 years. She has helped us to raise standards across the school and her work with the co-ordination of the school choir has been excellent. Performance Opportunities At St. Ann s we are passionate about children having the opportunity to show case their talents. To that end children are invited to perform during our Wednesday s Worship and Recital assembly. If your child would like to perform, please complete the reply slip below and return to the school office. Children wishing to perform will have their name placed on a waiting list and nearer the date of their performance they will receive an invitation. If your child requires anything for their performance (e.g. instrument, sheet music, cd, prop), they should remember to bring this with them. Occasionally it is necessary to cancel whole school worship due to unforeseen circumstance, when this happens if it is your child's turn to perform, the date of their performance will be re-arranged. Growth Mindset
Performance Opportunity Reply Slip Child's name: Class: Performance type (song, dance or instrumental): Title of Performance: Courtesy Care Concentration St. Ann s Church of England Primary School View Road, Rainhill, Merseyside, L35 0LQ TELE: 0151 426 5869 Website: http://www.rainhillstanns.co.uk Email: stannsce@three-saints.org.uk Twitter: @RainhillStAnns Executive Principal: Mrs Rebecca Wilkinson Headteacher: Mrs Laura Rynn Parents Suggestion/Comment Slip