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Y3 - Year of Prayer Collective Worship
Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 7:50am
3AW pupils helped to plan and deliver this week's collective worship based on the Year of Prayer.
We thought about when we pray and why we pray
We then chose a prayer from our KS2 prayer book to say together
Y3 & Y4 - Visit to Martin Mere Wetland
Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 7:47am
On Thursday 19th Year 3 and Year 4 went on our first educational visit to Martin Mere Wetland.
There we found Ava, an osprey who had magically turned half human. She gave us challenges to connect with nature and learn about the wild around us.
She also set us a challenge, to complete 10 more nature activities at home to become a 'Guardian of the Wild'.
When we returned to school, we discussed how this linked to our 'Creation & Covenant' work in RE, and that we are all stewards of God's world. That we must appreciate it, care for it and nurture it.
So far, 3 of us have become Guardians, with many more on our way to achieve our badges.
"I was surprised when we saw Ava, she was from our story at school" - Connie
"I really liked the activity when we made friends with a tree, we had to close our eyes and use our other senses to get to know the tree" - Ethan
"My favourite birds that I saw were the flamingos, they were all standing on one leg" - Jack
Whole School - Visit from Imran Kotwal for Islam week
Date: 22nd Sep 2024 @ 1:40pm
On Friday 2oth September, Imran Kotwal visited school to help us with our learning about the religion of Islam.
As a Muslim, Imran shared some important items with us and talked about how they are used in daily life, particularly with prayer.
We saw prayer mats and photographs of different mosques, as well as sweet smelling oil which can be used as part of the cleaning ritual before prayer.
Imran also told us about the prophet Muhammad, a key person for Muslims.
This is what some of the children felt about the visit in Year 1 and 2.
"It was really good to know about it all."
"I liked finding out new stuff."
"The best bit was watching how Imran prayed."
"I know that praying is very important to lots of people."
"Religions are sometimes not all the same."
"Everyone is special themselves."
Whole School Assembly - Widnes Foodbank Cereal Challenge
Date: 22nd Sep 2024 @ 1:16pm
This week we launched our Harvest campaign to support the Foodbank here in Widnes.
We held a special assembly and remembered what we have already managed to achieve as a school in helping those in need.
Photos of last year's visit to the Foodbank by the RE Ambassadors were a great reminder, as well as the visit from Margaret and Eileen, two of their volunteers.
To continue our promise to try and 'live in solidarity' with others, we will be collecting donations of cereal over the next month.
On Friday 18th October, we will hold our 'Cereal domino rally' with all of the boxes that are donated.
Y1 - Collective Worship on Care for Our Common home
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 10:08pm
Children from 1DD helped to plan and deliver Collective Worship today for Key Stage One.
They thought about which music to use, what to have on our focus table and the reading and prayers we would share.
We reminded everybody about the letter that Pope Francis wrote to ask for help to care for his creation. This letter is called Laudato Si.
At the end of our Worship, we asked the children and grown ups to think about how they can each help to care for the earth and each other.
"I like doing the sign of the cross." - Clay
"I love gathering and singing." - Harper
"We should have put the Pope's picture on the table too." Meredith
"I feel happy about it." - Zach
"It made me feel calm." - Polly
EYFS - Our first week at St Basil's
Date: 12th Sep 2024 @ 8:22am
All the children have really enjoyed their first week at St Basil's.
We are so proud of how they have followed the school rules and made lots of new friends.
The children have enjoyed exploring both inside and outside.
We have spent time in the reading dens, the spaceship and Mr Bear's house!
The children have enjoyed reading our shared reading text, Whatever Next!
Sophia - Mrs Sheppard has made us a baby blanket!
Isla - I am making some cakes
Aoife - We have been playing in the doll's house
Date: 12th Sep 2024 @ 8:18am
What a fantastic afternoon we have had!
The children have enjoyed their first afternoon at St Basil's.
They have made lots of new friends and have enjoyed having some time in our outdoor area.
The children have loved playing in the role play vets and riding on the bikes.
Date: 11th Sep 2024 @ 8:17am
Year 1 enjoyed their first Music and Movement lesson.
Date: 10th Sep 2024 @ 3:07pm
Year 6 have been learning about observational drawing. We have been drawing fruit, focussing on the details and shadows.
We learnt how to start with the rough shape of the fruit and then add the detail.
We also learnt how important it is to look and then draw and keep doing this throughout the process.
Date: 10th Sep 2024 @ 2:46pm
Year 6 have been coding in computing today. We have started our topic by revisiting the code which we used in Year 5.
We have learnt how to add a timer and a score as well as creating an alert.
We are looking forward to completing our first task in next week's lesson.
Date: 10th Sep 2024 @ 7:56am
What a brilliant morning we have had!
The children have all settled well into life at St Basil's and have made lots of new friends.
They have enjoyed experimenting in the water and role playing in the vets.
The children have been to space in the spaceship and built towns and cities.
Y3 - P4C - Who is in charge of the world?
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 2:30pm
As our first session of RE this week, we discussed the P4C question
Who is in charge of the world?
Lots of us said 'God' to begin with, but as we built on each other's answers we critiqued what 'in charge' means
Alice thought this mean you are responsible and have to look after something
Emily used the example that if you buy something then you are in charge of it
James built on this by saying, if you invite someone to your house then your are in charge
When we returned to our question, our thoughts had changed, now some of us thought that everyone is in charge of the world, because it is our responsibility to protect it.
Whole School Friday Worship - Catholic Social Teaching
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 9:10am
Today we celebrated our first Friday Gospel Collective Worship with Mrs Sheppard.
It was all about Catholic Social Teaching
Y1 - P4C - Can Children Look After the World?
Date: 5th Sep 2024 @ 2:35pm
The children started the year by thinking about our world in preparation for exploring creation during our RE lessons. We looked at our stimulus and devloped our own question 'Can children look after the world?'. Some of our responses were:
Sometimes it’s not safe to.
Yes, because the world will be good if they do.
No because they are too small.
Yes, because everyone can keep everyone safe.
Yes, because it is everyone’s job.
Whole School - End of Year Awards
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 2:24pm
We celebrated the end of the school year all together.
In particular we gave awards and trophies to some of our Year 6 leavers.
Every single one of them has been brilliant it was so hard to choose
Stars of the Year:
Progress Awards:
Citizen of the Year:
We also honoured our school leaders throughout the year groups who have been play leaders, peer mediators, reading buddies, RE ambassadors, class and environment forum representatives and house captains.
We also gave certificates to everyone who has taken part in an afterschool or lunchtime club.
We gave out our next round of Read to Succeed prizes to those children in Year 5 and 6 who have read consistently at home this term
Those children who had been present in every single day of the year received some prizes, and everyone who had been in school on time every day this term went into a raffle for some larger prizes.
Finally we gave out everyone's Golden Certificates, to those who have followed the school rules consistently this term.
Y6 - End of Year Performance - Shakespeare Rocks!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 2:11pm
Our Year 6 End of Year Performance this year was Shakespeare Rocks!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 2:09pm
Y3 & Y4 - DT - Food Technology Fruit Kebabs
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 2:05pm
As our final DT unit of the year, Year 3 and 4 focused on Food Technology linked to our Personal Development unit of Healthy Eating.
We researched different fruits and the nutrients in them. Then we designed a kebab to make sure we had lots of colour which means lots of nutrients.
"I tried watermelon for the first time, and I liked it a lot" - Louie
"When I first tried pineapple, it tasted normal at first but then it was tangy. I really liked it" - Henry M
" I tried watermelon for the first time, I wasn't sure because of the seeds and the texture" - Leah
"My favourite new fruit was the pineapple, I really liked it" - Lucy Mae
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:19am
The children have loved exploring and playing with our new sensory equipment in our classrooms this week! Between the two classrooms we have brand new soft play equipment, a mini trampoline for vestibular movement, a sensory light tube and a sensory bubble tube! The children are able to change the colours of the tubes and have loved exploring this! Scroll through the photos to see it all!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:18am
We have had another busy week in the resource base. This week the children have enjoyed playing in the spinning top in our outside area. All of the children have had a go at this and explored the different ways in which you can make it move. Some children have had a go at matching up the head to the correct animal. We have had some strange creatures being made but with adult support, they were able to match them up.
We hope you all have a lovely 2 weeks off and we look forward to welcoming the children back into school on Monday 10th June.
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:16am
How lovely is this weather! The children have had lots of water play this week to cool down, including having an ice lolly for snack!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:16am
Exciting news! We have had a new visitor in our Resource Base this week called Andrew! The children have welcomed him with open arms and we are so happy to see how well he fits into our St Basil’s family!
It has been a busy week this week for the Resource Base. We have had some new outside equipment delivered for our outside area which all of the children have loved playing on especially the climbing apparatus. Some of the children have loved the transport equipment outside too and have played in the water, even watering the plants!
In our creative area, some of the children have been doing some mark making with pencils and felt tips. They have explored using both hands sometimes with hand over hand support when needed. They have continued to enjoy the sand and water play and have been using the sand spinners to fill the trucks! How clever!
Sticking with our topic of animals, Mrs Sheppard brought her trained dog in from home for all children in the school but Wilf (the dog) visited the Resource Base too. Some children where not too sure but some children loved him! We have also been using the animal matching jigsaw game to match the correct parts of the animals together and then making animal noises!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:15am
What a lovely week we have had! The children have continued to enjoy our animal topic and have been playing with and lining up the toy animals that we have in our classroom. We have looked at lots of images of animals from under the sea and from the rainforest. The children have continued to enjoy our nursery rhymes, particularly ‘old Mac Donald had a farm’ with some of the children even singing parts and making animal noises.
All of the children have really enjoyed being outside this week. We have been using ‘ready, steady, go’ when pushing things down the ramp and running around and the children have shown lots of eye contact when waiting to hear ‘go’.
Throughout the week, we have been reinforcing with the children our everyday routines including picking resources up off the floor. All of the children are able to do this with hand over hand support however this week, some children have done this independently following an instruction from an adult. This is something that we will continue to work on as we progress through the term.
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 8:14am
This week we have continued with our animal topic. We have been engaging in intensive interactions using animal noises! Some child have enjoyed looking at the puppets and even watching themselves in the mirror. The children have played beautifully together this week, acknowledging each other more frequently and engaging in the same activity. Story time with Mrs Mort was a big hit and all the children have had story time at some point in the week. Some children enjoyed banging objects on the railings outside so we introduced ‘boom whackers’ and the children loved hearing the different noises when banged on different objects outside. The children also played with a new cause and effect toy this week, the click clack car track!
