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'Delivering Mary's Meals' Lenten Fundraiser event : 27th March 2025
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 9:09pm
The children enjoyed an active and fun filled afternoon delivering 'meal tickets' to different locations around the school field.
Each location was marked with a flag that linked to one of four countries: Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
These countries are the focus of Mary's Meals current Emergency appeal - people here are experiencing the worst drought in 100 years.
Also at each country base on the field, was a post box for the meal tickets being delivered by the children.
Each ticket delivered was marked on the children's individual delivery cards by an adult posted at the station.
Donations have been made across the school by children and staff to support this special event, raising over £325! Well done everybody!
Rainbow Unit-Spring Term Week 10
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 4:19pm
We have had a very busy week in the Rainbow Unit this week. We have been building towers, grouping the same colours together and some children have been working hard on recognising numbers. We have also been practicing our fine motor skills with some bead threading and using the peg boards (this is one of the children’s favourite activities!)
With the warmer weather, all of the children have enjoyed some time outside and we have even had part of our sensory circuit in our outside area. Some of the children have been showing some great sharing skills and turn taking as they have been pushing the cars down the ramp together. We have even employed our own window cleaner 😂
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
The SEND team.
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 10:17am
Year 5 had a fantastic day visiting Jodrell Bank. They took part in a variety of activities and learned so many new things about space.
WP- I couldn't believe the size of the telescope, it was huge.
JK- The whispering dishes were amazing, it was so strange how whispering could travel so far.
JB- The Space Dome theatre was the best. It was amazing pretending we were in a rocket flying through space and having a view of everything around us.
CAFOD Lent Family Fast Day - Friday 14th March 2025
Date: 15th Mar 2025 @ 9:38pm
In our whole school Celebration of the Word at the start of the day, we prayed for all those in need at at this time.
We shared the importance of CAFOD's Family Fast day and the link to our Lenten promises.
At lunchtime a large group of KS2 pupils chose to share in a 'simple lunch' of soup, bread and fruit, instead of their usual hot dinner.
Several children also brought in a simple packed lunch so that they could also participate.
We were joined by some of our governors and staff as we sat together to share the meal.
Thank you and well done to all of the pupils involved. It is lovely to see growing numbers with each 'simple lunch' that we hold.
We hope that this special event will continue to be a feature on each CAFOD Fast day - both at Harvest time in October and during Lent.
Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 9
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 3:53pm
Really proud of the children this week. We have made great progress with bucket therapy with more children showing an increased amount of engagement through the sessions! All children are also really enjoying our sensory circuit sessions. This week, we have set up new activities for the children to explore which have incorporated balancing and jumping safely from a height.
Have a lovely weekend,
The SEND team
Rainbow Unit- Spring Term Week 8
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 3:50pm
This week, the children have really enjoyed exploring different parts of our transport topic. They have all enjoyed having a go at the bikes and scooters that we have available during lunchtime play outside. We have seen lots of requesting by taking an adult by the hand during this time and of course we have heard lots of giggles too.
The children all looked amazing dressed up for World Book Day and they all enjoyed looking at the different costumes that children from reception had during play time.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend!
The SEND team.
Year 2 LFC Academy football competition
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 7:58am
A team of year 2's had a fantastic morning playing in a football competition at the LFC Academy. Although they didn't see any Liverpool players, they had a great time competing against 9 other schools. They did our school proud showing great sportsmanship and determination during all games.
BM- It was so fun being able to play were Liverpool players train, it made me play even better.
MK- I loved being on the team and I even saved a few goals!
TE- It was cool winning a few games nd just being able to play some sport with my friends.
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 7:53am
Y5CG had a great morning for World Book Day. They worked with their adults to take on a variety of different reading challenges and activities whilst they were all dressed as their favourite people from books they love to read.
MP- I loved the mystery reading challenge were we had to read a profile and then figure out who stole an item. We figured it out quite quickly!
JB- I loved designing my own gift card for my book store.
VP- I enjoyed the comprehension task were me and my mum read to each other and asked each other questions to make sure the person listening was taking in what they were being read to.
Year 4 trip to the Discovery Centre
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 9:16am
Year 4 had a trip to the recycling centre where we learnt how to properly recycle items, how each material is separated and where in the UK it goes to. We learnt how important it is to recycle and why it is important to only put the correct items in the bin. We were able to understand how magnets were used in the centre and linked this to our topic of 'Forces and Magnets.'
We enjoyed exploring the centre and even taking part in some fun activities including: sorting materials, reading, recycling twister, recycling connect 4 and more!
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 9:15am
In our PE lesson this week, we focussed on the skill of defending and completed a variety of drills for this including throwing and catching drills and piggy in the middle. At the end of the lesson we put these into practise in mini team games and even set different challenges for each games including a certain number of passes and making sure every member of the team touched the ball before scoring a goal.
We then evaluated our performances and adapted what we did based on this.
These are some of the things we said:
"I think we worked collaboratively together."
"It was hard to know who the ball was going to so next time I will shout the name of the person I am throwing to."
"We made sure everyone in our team had a turn."
KS1 Child led Collective Worship - Lent (6th March 2025)
Date: 10th Mar 2025 @ 11:16am
The children in Year One helped to plan a celebration of the Word for Reception and Year two on the theme of Lent.
After our Ash Wednesday service yesterday everybody knows how important this special season is for Christians.
We chose the scripture about Jesus in the desert to remind us about why there are 40 days of Lent.
It was good to remind the other children about what they can do themselves during Lent. We have all been learning about this in RE too.
Our mission at the end of our celebration is to help, along with the rest of the school, to really make a difference to the lives of others this Lent.
Here are some of our thoughts after the celebration:
"It made me want to help people." - Harper
"I felt quiet in worship." - Matthew
"We know our Gather responses much better now!" - Jonas
"Today it made me feel proud of being a Christian." - Kit
"I will do extra prayers in Lent" - Zach
"We will do more good things and extra thinking." - Delilah
"We could sing 'Come and join the circle' next time." - Polly
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 10:08am
For World Book Day we had a lovely time and even had some of our adults come in to join us. In the morning, we had a reading morning where we completed a number of activities including:
A villains wanted poster
A reading fortune teller
Book recommendations
Reading doodles
We also created masks to be a 'Masked Reader.'
In maths, we completed some Roald Dahl problem solving activities to practise what we had learnt so far this year.
Mary's Meals - A visit from Anna Houghton
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 8:52pm
Today we were visited by Anna from Mary's Meals.
Anna spent time with all of the the children to explain all about the important work of the charity in providing hungry children with meals.
We saw on the map the sixteen different countries in which they are working hard to help feed children.
During Lent, our school family have pledged to support Mary's Meals and do what we can to share our love, prayers, time and effort just like Jesus did.
We hope that we can share information with our families and friends about this incredible charity and help to raise some money to pay for meals.
To feed a child one meal costs just 10p. Let's see how many meals we can pay for!
Each classroom has a collection pot for any coins you may like to donate over the coming weeks.
We are also planning an exciting fundraiser at the end of the March too.
Painting the Last Supper in Year 4 and 5
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:34pm
In our Religious Education lesson we described what happened at the Last Supper and why it was significant. We talked about how the events of the Exodus where celebrated each year in Jesus' life but why this time was different. We talked about how he introduced something quite new as he blessed, broke and passed the unleavened bread to everyone, telling them it was his body and then the cup of wine saying it was his blood and that it would be shed, be sacrificed, for everyone and that he asked that they repeat his actions in memory of him.
We then looked at different artists representations of the Last Supper and talked about the similarities and differences of these. We then talked about these and used some of these ideas and techniques when we created our own representations of the Last Supper using water colours.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:26pm
Year 4GS loved welcoming some of our parents in for a special maths hour for NSPCC number day. They all looked absolutely fantastic in their numbers! It was a fantastic way to raise money for NSPCC, have fun with maths and involve our adults.
We had a carousel of activities which included multiplication games, multiplication and division colour by number, the multiplication check, multiplication flowers and NRICH problem solving activities.
All of these activities helped us develop our mathmatical knowledge. It was a great chance to show the grown ups what we have been up to in school and even test them on their multiplication skills!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:20pm
Year 4 and 5 have been practising sketching mini-beasts for our final piece. We looked at the different shapes and discussed how we could draw these. We then looked at the different colours and shades and thought about how we could recreate these in our final piece.
Here are some of the things the children had to say:
"I loved being able to see the insects so close!"
"I didn't realise there were so many different colours."
"It made me feel calm and relaxed."
Y1 Parent Celebration of the Word - Galilee to Jerusalem (12th February 2025)
Date: 19th Feb 2025 @ 2:17pm
Year one loved celebrating our branch 'Galilee to Jerusalem' with our parents and the children from Reception and Year two.
We acted out two of our favourite pieces of scripture from Luke's Gospel, about 'Jesus and the Little Children,' and 'The Presentation of the Lord.'
The most important message that we were able to share with everybody, was about Jesus being like a light for the world.
Our dance to the song, 'Here I Am to Worship' helped us to show this and so did the beautiful candle holders we had made to take home to our families with tea lights glowing inside.
We also shared what we had learned about the Christian Feast of Candlemas which takes place each year.
The happiest parts of our celebration, were inviting everyone to sing 'Share the light' and 'Love like Jesus did' with us. We were so pleased to see and hear some parents and children joining in too - thank you!
Praying together was so special and we are excited for the next time we will do this together.
Here are some of the things that our parents said after the Celebration:
"Children you really helped me to think about the love of Jesus - thank you."
"I enjoyed everything about the worship but especially the singing."
"The message that I experienced was that we are all blessed."
"Children continue to pass the word."
These are the words that were used to describe how our Celebrtaion of the Word made our parents feel: happy, humble, proud, lovely, together, amazing, joyful, thoughtful, emotional and blessed.
Recycle 4 School fundraiser for Nugent Care - February 2025
Date: 18th Feb 2025 @ 5:24pm
A huge well done and thank you for all of the donations we have received for our recycling fundraiser project.
On Wednesday the 12th of February, the RE Ambassadors helped to load the van which came to collect our donations - weighing in at 139kg!
We are proud to have worked together with the children to promote recycling, helping to educate them about living sustainably.
The proceeds from our collection will be donated to our chosen local charity, Nugent Care, after half term.
Nugent help to care for, educate and protect vulnerable children, young people and adults and we are so happy to support them.
We look forward to continuing to work hard to recycle with the children and of course working with Nugent Care on future projects.
Rainbow Unit- Spring term Week 6
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 3:32pm
Last week of half term! Last week of our animals topic!
All the children have made lovely animal paintings using their handprints! These are displayed in their learning journeys.
The blue class have took part in some sensory ice play, trying different ways to release the animal from the ice! They have also been doing sorting and organising of animals!
The yellow class have been taking part in lots of fine motor activities, including making animals with the peg boards. The children have completed the animal jigsaws whilst making animal sounds and naming the animals!
We hope you all have a happy and safe half term!
We will return on Monday 24th February 😊
The SEND Team
P.S. Happy Valentines Day! ❤️
NSPCC Number Day in Year 1 - 7th February 2025
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 10:38pm
The children loved welcoming some of our parents in for a special maths hour this morning and proudly wore their number outfits!
It was great to raise money for the NSPCC and also to have fun with numbers.
Our carousel of activities included emoji code breaking, secret picture calculations, dice - more/less game and the cube game.
All of these helped to develop our counting and calculation skills.
It was also a good chance to show our grown ups the type of equipment we use in school to help us with maths.
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 1:55pm
In RE this half term, the children in EYFS have been leanring all about The Magi. We have listened to the story in the Bible and made star headbands to help us remember.
Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem. Soon afterwards, some men who studied the stars came from the East to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the baby born to be the king of the Jews? We saw his star when it came up in the east, and we have come to worship him.”
When they saw the star, how happy they were, what joy was theirs! It went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. They went into the house, and when they saw the child with his mother Mary, they knelt down and worshipped him. They brought out their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and presented them to him.
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 1:50pm
The children in EYFS have had lots of fun exploring numbers up to 20 this half term! We have some great mathematicians here at St Basil's!
EYFS - Communication and Language Stay and Play
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 1:42pm
Communication and Language - Stay and Play!
The children in Reception really enjoyed having our grown ups come to stay and play! The children were able to complete activities with a grown up based around speaking, listening and attention skills.
Thank you to all of the adults who came!
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 1:35pm
Our new English text this half term is, A Walk in the Woods. The children have really enjoyed finding out about all of the different seasons. We were able to go outside and explore to see if we could find any signs of Winter.
The children have talked about their favourite season and have created some beautiful art work to go on their Proud Peg!
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 1:30pm
The children in EYFS have really enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year this half term. We have opened our very own 'Chinese Resturaunt' roleplay area within the classroom.
The children were able to make paper chains and snake masks to celebrate! They have joined in with some Chinese New Year traditional dancing and have watched lots of videos of street parties and festivals! The children have mostly enjoyed experiencing the taste of China! We have tried some traditional chinese food including, noodles, prawn crackers and rice.
"So yummy!" - Ivy
"I like to make noodles with my Dad at home." - Tommy
"I like the sweet and sour sauce!" - Rylee
"It's the year of the snake!" - Bayen
