What is a star? What is the job of a star? What does it mean to be part of Our Lady Star of the Sea? This week I have met with the Student Council who have all be tasked with creating a research board about being a star. What does this look like in our school and how can we all ensure that the behaviour we show demonstrates this? Next year is going to focused on this with lots of opportunites to shine. One of our nursery councillors said it so well, “It is about being like Jesus.” Every school should have a sense of belonging and a clear mission. We want to create shining stars who know their worth in our world and can make a positive contribution. Once our councillors bring their research boards back, we will be collating their ideas to create our behaviour focus for next year. This will span the entire school, from nursery through to Year 6, inside the classroom and outside too!
Running for Charity!
The past two weeks have been jam-packed with sporting opportunites as the children (and lots of staff) have ran for charity. I have spoken at each of the Sports Days, talking about how we are using opportunites of gratitude to be generous with our approach. Even though a lot of children have never known Harrison Bretherton, or may be in a distant class to our Dominic, you have all gone above and beyond for wonderful causes. To date, we have raised over £1500 for Alder Hey and The Firefighter’s Charity, on behalf of Harrison, and £580 for Manchester Children’s Hospital. On Friday 12th July, Year 5 will be hosting Dominic Fest! They will be in touch in the coming weeks to see just how you can all get involved. Thank you, for your generosity and for supporting these causes that are so very close to our hearts.
Looking forward to next year
School is so very busy at the moment, with an awful lot of things going on! There is so many more memories to be made in our current year groups, we want to hold onto them for a few more weeks yet. On Wednesday 3rd July, our Year 6 children will be heading off to St Bedes for their induction day there; this gives us an opportunity for all of our other children to move up and sample some time in their new year groups. All of the teaching teams will be visiting their classes in the coming weeks before transition morning, just to say hello and meet their classes in their own environments. We will also be welcoming a new teacher next year, Miss Hanlon, who will be joining us in Year 1 as Mrs Hartley’s maternity cover.
The teachers for next year are:
Nursery: Barbara
Reception: Miss Drummond & Mrs Hartley (until maternity leave starts)
Year 1: Miss Hanlon
Year 2: Mrs Hotchkiss
Year 3: Mrs Naylor
Year 4: Mrs Lyons
Year 5: Mrs Cornwell
Year 6: Mrs Harrison
Miss Bassett will continue to work across a number of classes supporting PPA and Miss Woodend will continue as SENCO. All of our wonderful teaching assistants will also be supporting the children across the school in lots of different ways.
Our Year 6 children have been busy organising the Outdoor Reading Shed ready to launch next week in the sunshine. There is a variety of books for all year groups in there to be enjoyed in the sunshine.
Learning Role Models of the Week
Learning role models of the half-term
Virtue butterfly award winner
Office news…
Thank you to everyone who voted in our Parent Governor elections this week. We received over 180 votes across the school - which is massive! It demonstrates just how invested you all are in our community and the strength of biographies from our two candidates. Having counted the votes, I am pleased to say that Michael Heyes will be joining us as our new Parent Governor. Thank you again for being involved in the development of our community.
Our Weekly Attendance
Wrap Around Care
Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete the expression of interest form for the Wrap Around Care. It was really useful to help us formulate plans and to see if it could work being based at Our Ladys. Whilst there is still a lot of the detail to work out, as setting up a new club from scratch isn’t easy, we are in a position to take bookings for the Autumn Term. The government have stipulated wrap around care from 8am - 6pm; our Breakfast Club will run from 7.45am - 8.45am and our After School Club from 3.30pm - 6pm. The pricing poitns are the next thing that we will be looking at, but please be assured that we will make it as affordable as we can for our families and in line with provision in the area. Please note that this is for children from Reception through to Year 6.
Please complete the following form to book a place for the Autumn Term:
Thank you to those who have filled in the form saying that they can walk with us at St Annes Carnival. We need more children! If you can, please do complete the form and support us and walk with us. It is lovely that our school is so visible in the community, but we need our pupils for that!
And finally!
The overall winners of the 2024 Our Lady Star of the Sea Sports Day ……..
HARCOURT
God bless.
Mrs Gregan