Our Gallery
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 4:37pm
We have been learning about William Morris in our art lessons and critiquing his designs. We then used his designs as inspiration to create our own flower to print.
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 4:25pm
This week we looked at the justice system during Anglo-Saxon and Viking times. In class, we used role-play to share a scenario that might have taken place in those times. As a class, we had to decide if the accused was guilty or not.
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 4:23pm
Well done to Benji who won our Where's Wally? books in our end of term reading raffle.
We will be starting a new raffle the first week back.
Rainbow Unit- Care of the Environment
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 3:07pm
Orange 🟠and Yellow 🟡 Class
The week the whole of St Basil’s Catholic Primary School have taken two days off timetable to take part in “caring for our world and environment” days.
In the Rainbow Unit, we have taken part in our own activities relating to these days, as well as joining the rest of the mainstream children for some activities too!
In the Rainbow Unit we have:
- Been on a muddy walk, exploring the dens that adults had built and played in the rain
- Made creative symmetric butterfly pictures
- Made beautiful laminated leaves by spreading the paint safely
- Planted our own cress for families to look after at home 😊
- Took part in a sensory activities, painting our hands to create a important message for us all to remember
- Explored dry leaves, feeling them crumbling between our fingers and sprinkling them
We hope you have a lovely and safe half term!
See you on Monday 2nd November 😊
Miss Abbott, Miss Stockton, Mrs Devonport, Mrs Coleman, Ms Mort, Mr Waring and Miss Caine
Y1 - Care of the Environment - St Francis of Assisi
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 1:47pm
We reflected on how well our school has done over the past three years in achieving our Live Simply award from Cafod. To celebrate this, we used water colours to paint a picture of St Francis of Assisi.
Y1 - Care of the Environment - Planting
Date: 22nd Oct 2026 @ 1:45pm
Year 1 enjoyed getting their hands dirty planting plants in our new garden!
Y1 - Care of the Environment - Cheshire Wildlife Trust
Date: 21st Oct 2026 @ 3:12pm
We learned all about the wildlife that the Cheshire Wildlife Trust help and how they do it. We looked at some of the animals that they support like kingfishers, squirrels and grass snakes. We then collaged Some of these animals to display in school.
Y1 Care of the Environment Day - Butterflies
Date: 21st Oct 2026 @ 11:30am
As part of our Care of the Enrivonment days, we learned about butterflies and why they matter so much. We learned they were pollinators and without them, we would have less food. We didn't realise that butterflies were so important.
We used leaves to print the wings of butterflies into our sketchbooks. We loved how they turned out!
Date: 20th Oct 2026 @ 8:22am
We prepared our tiles for printing our floral designs which we created based on the work of William Morris.
Date: 20th Oct 2026 @ 8:17am
We have been enjoying our French lessons this half term. We have been completing work on the theme of this is me.
Date: 20th Oct 2026 @ 8:13am
We have been working on creating quizzes on Purple Mash. We looked at the importance of the design of the quiz and worked on making title slides.
Rainbow Unit Yellow Class- Week 6
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 3:45pm
Yellow Class 🟡
We have had another lovely week in Yellow Class this week and we have taken part in lots of lovely activities!
We have explored Slime Baff in our sensory play and some children (and adults) were more enthusiastic than others in this! We have used bubble paint to create bubbling cauldrons and have printed using apples to make pumpkins. We are well and truly into the Autumn spirit here. We have developed our fine motor skills and have used tweezers to grab Pom poms and stick them to tape. We have also used magnets to try and find our phonics sounds ‘s,a and t’
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Stockton, Ms Mort and Ms Caine
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 3:32pm
Year 1 planned a Celebration of the Word about St Teresa of Avila.
I liked hearing from the Bible. - JH
I enjoyed doing my lines. - SR
I'd pick a different song next time. - ER
Rainbow Unit Orange Class- Week 6
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 2:59pm
In Orange Class 🟠this week we have had yet another busy week!
We have introduced more alphabet jigsaws and alphabet resources and the children have enjoyed these. Some children impressing us by saying some letter names and singing the alphabet song! 🎶
The sensory play this week was slime! Whether the children liked this or not, was very mixed! Everyone did take part, but we understand that slime isn’t for everyone! 😣
The children made lovely pumpkin pictures using half an apple, these are in their bags. They also made lovely cauldron pictures using paint and a tube.
Just a reminder the children finish for half term next Thursday, as Friday is an INSET day and children are off school.
We hope you have a lovely weekend, see you all on Monday
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman, Miss Caine and Mr Waring
Cereal Domino Foodbank Collection
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 2:38pm
We held our annual Foodbank collection again this year and set up our cereal domino train in the hall. This year everyone joined in together and we managed to collect 155 cereal boxes to donate!
Thank you to everyone who brought some boxes in the last few weeks.
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 1:38pm
As the Earth was God's gift to us, we created our own Earth as a gift for someone else.
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 1:33pm
We played a game to find numbers greater than and less than other numbers. We had to complete the sentences "___ is greater than ___" and "___ is less than ___".
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 1:31pm
We listened to and sang a song called Little Acorns. We found the pulse of the song in a variety of ways like patting our knees, clapping our hands and tapping our shoulders. Our partner had to copy us finding the pulse.
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 8:18am
We learnt about managing stress in PD. We learnt how the body and brain respond to stress and discussed strategies to manage stress. We also explained how practising these strategies can help to reduce stress and support long-term wellbeing.
Year 6 Planet Research Presentation
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 8:12am
We worked in groups to research about the planets in our solar system. We presented our information on flip chart paper to share with the rest of the class.
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 8:10am
We used target boards with the key vocabulary on to explain to a partner what we have learnt in our topic on space. We totalled up the scores to see who got the most points.
Years 5 & 6 Peer Mediation Training
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 8:07am
We completed our peer mediator training this week. The peer mediators are all excited to get started.
Date: 14th Oct 2026 @ 11:44am
In maths, we have looked at rounding numbers and thinking about whether we need to round up or down to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000. Y4 loved playing a rounding game to see which numbers they could generate to complete their grids before their partner.
Date: 14th Oct 2026 @ 11:40am
Year 4 have worked hard to create some lovely prints of different leaves, transferring the detail and outlines onto coloured paper.
Year 5 & 6 Mental Health Wellbeing Day
Date: 13th Oct 2026 @ 4:42pm
Today, we went to the community centre and took part in various activities including slime making, making clay models and calming strategies.
