This Friday, 27th May, Our Lady of the Assumption Church Social Committee are holding a 'PRIZE BINGO & QUIZ'.
Doors open at 7.30pm with the first game of bingo beginning at 8.00pm. Bring your own drinks!!!!
Everyone welcome!
Proceeds to go to church funds.
Key Stage 2 SATs
Our Year 6 children all sat the end of year statutory tests in English and Maths last week (SATs). They coped really well with the new, harder style tests produced by the government and ended the week with smiles; knowing they had all tried their best. Our Lady's was very proud of them all. Well done everyone!
First Holy Communion
Many of our Year 3 children will be receiving their First Holy Communion on Sunday 22nd May at a special 12 o'clock mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church.
They have all spent about 12 weeks preparing for this wonderful event and the next great step in their journey of faith. They will be having official photographs taken at church on Friday 20th May at 10.00am. We want to wish them all well and hope you will keep them in your prayers for this special time in their lives.
Congratulations and a fond farewell...
We have had news this week of two of our amazing members of staff who are about to embark on new beginnings.
Mr Sharrock is taking up a post with further responsibilities at the Willows Catholic School in Kirkham and Mrs Harding has been successfully appointed as a teacher in a School for the Deaf. Something for which she has been training for some time.
We wish them both every success in their new ventures and we will keep you posted about our quest to find replacements for September.
Parking Issues
Can parents please be aware that the rear of Thornhill Close is a residential area and therefore priority MUST be given to the residents who may need access to/from their parking spaces at any time.
Some parents/families collecting children have been blocking residents cars or parking spaces and this is simply unfair as many residents have disabilities and need clear access to their vehicles.
Please can I ask you to consider others when you are collecting or dropping off in vehicles. We are usually a very considerate Catholic community and we should set a good example to our children of treating others as you would like to be treated and in the words of Christ: 'loving our neighbours as ourselves'.
Own Clothes Day
A reminder that we have an Own Clothes Day in school on Friday 27th May which is the day we break up for half-term. This will cost £1 and PTA are collecting for a bespoke music storage area for the hall to be used by all pupils when they have music lessons.
Thank you all for your support.
We are very fortunate to be experiencing some sunny weather at long last! At school, we intend to make the most of the good weather and will be taking advantage of our outdoor spaces to deliver the summer term curriculum and of course to play with our friends!
As a school, we take sun safety very seriously and we will be taking lots of measures to make sure children stay safe, cool and hydrated:
Water bottles - Your child has a water bottle in school. The children will have regular water-breaks during lessons and during breaks/lunchtimes.
Sun-cream - School believes that by encouraging sun safe behaviour at school and teaching children about the risks of sunlight, we can prevent them burning and contribute towards good health. The school would like your help and support in this matter. We ask that parents apply a high factor sun-cream (ideally SPF 50) before bringing their child to school in the morning. A very high SPF will give 8hr protection against harmful rays – therefore your child will be protected for the whole school day. Staff will of course monitor children to ensure they are adequately protected. Unfortunately staff are unable to administer sun cream to a class of children, therefore we would only expect sun-cream to be sent in if your child is at After School Club (Miss Campbell will ask you to sign a form about this)
Further protection - Children are encouraged to wear a sunhat to school in the warm weather. Please ensure your child’s name and class is written on the inside of the hat. (Legionnaire hats are the best as they will provide coverage of the back of the neck)
If you have any concerns or questions, please do speak to your child’s class teacher who should be able to help.
Congratulations to our choir and Mrs Bird for an amazing performance this evening at Blackpool Tower and winning 'The Most Artistic Choir' award. You all sang so beautifully and we were so proud of you, well done!
Our Church Social Committee will be holding an Easter Social event at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish Hall on Friday 1st April at 7.30pm.
This will be a great evening and entertainment by 'Joanne Ashcroft' - a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.
There will also be food served... and all at a cost of only £5 per ticket!!! (Bring your own drinks!)
Tickets can be purchased from Anne Davis at Church or by telephoning 01253 343459.
We hope to see you for a lovely Easter Evening.
Good luck to the members of our choir, who will be taking part in the final of 'The Choir of the Year' Competition at the prestigious Tower Ballroom in Blackpool on Tuesday 22nd March.
This is a very exciting opportunity for our choir who have never taken part in a competitive event so far. This will be a wonderful opportunity to showcase their talents!
We are so proud of our choir and wish them every success in this amazing event.
We also hope that many of our families and friends will be able to come along and support them on the evening of the 22nd March. The competition begins at 6.30pm.
Good Luck Everyone!
The event takes place at the prestigious Tower Ballroom.
After our (almost) 6 weeks of preparation during Lent we have almost arrived at Holy Week which of course will begin on Palm (or Passion) Sunday this weekend.
To start us on our Holy Week journey - our Key Stage 1 pupils will lead the school in their 'Palm Liturgy' - a song filled celebration of that first Palm Sunday when Jesus rode back into Jerusalem on a donkey! This takes place this afternoon: Friday 18th March at 2.30pm in Our Lady's Church.
Of course, the events which followed were the saddest ones that we remember when Jesus held a last meal together with his disciples, led them out to pray with him and was so cruelly arrested and put on trial. His friends leaving him and even denying that they knew him.
Our school remembers each of these terrible events in our special assemblies next week: Beginning on Monday with Year 3's portrayal of 'The Last Supper', we then move to Tuesday when Year 4 will show us Jesus leading his friends out to pray in 'The Garden of Gethsemane' when Judas betrayed him and brought the soldiers to arrest Jesus. On Wednesday we hear the solemn reflection of Jesus' crucifixion, presented by Year 5. On Thursday, we are told the story of the Resurrection - the day we celebrate Jesus coming back to life to be with us forever. Year 6 lead us in this part of the Easter Triumph.
We hope some parents may be able to join us for these solemn reflections each morning starting at 9.10am each day.
Break for Easter
We finish school for our Easter break on Thursday 24th March at 2.oopm. There is no After School Club on this day.
We return after the holiday at 8.45am on Tuesday 5th April.
We wish everyone a happy and holy Easter break.
Welcome Mrs Harding
We welcome Mrs Harding back to school next week following the birth of her baby. Mrs Harding will be teaching for 3 days throughout the Summer Term, mostly in Year 1. We are delighted to have her back. We have missed you Mrs Harding!
Advert for our new Deputy Headteacher
Today the advert will be posted to appoint a new Deputy Headteacher for Our Lady's for September 2016. The documents will be available to download from Blackpool Council Job vacant pages, found on the Catholic Education Service website and also on our school website. (The documents are on the 'Pupil Voice' Page of our website & all details are available there)
Goodbye Fr Paul
We also say a fond farewell to Father Paul Dadson, our priest at Our Lady's. We only heard the news a couple of weeks ago that Father Paul will be moving up to Cumbria as he has been asked to be in charge of 2 parishes by Bishop Michael.
We will be welcoming our new priest, Fr Burns, just after Easter.
We will really miss Father Paul - it's a shame we are losing him so soon - just as we were really getting to know him; however we look forward to meeting our new priest and wish Fr Paul every happiness in his new parishes.
Easter Card Making Key Stage 1
Our Lady's Ambassadors (from Year 5) re going to make some lovely Easter Cards with our Key Stage 1 children to raise funds for CAFOD this Easter. The cards will cost £1 to buy but there will also be a winner chosen from each class for the best work.
A great idea everyone!
On the 8th March Shakespeare Club performed LIVE on stage at the Grand Theatre in "The Dream" in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Well done and thank you to all the children who took part - you were all amazing! Thanks also to all the families and friends who came along to the Grand Theatre to support them!
Just a few photos taken from back stage...
