It’s the holidays!

Today we said goodbye to Miss Hamilton, Mrs Hill, Mr Dearden, Miss McKevitt and Mrs Buggins. We are looking

forward to hearing good news when Mrs Buggins’ baby arrives! Miss Hamilton is going to live in Germany, Mrs

Hill will be looking after her grandchildren, Miss McKevitt is moving to a school in Kirkby and Mr Dearden has

completed his Sports Apprenticeship. We will miss them all however and thank them for the contribution they

have made to the children and the school.

Could I remind you that when you are buying uniform the school uniform jumpers and cardigans are from

available from Boydells only and are not plain grey jumpers/cardigans. Cloakroom space is limited and pupils

need only a book bag - not rucksacks - which are difficult for us to store.

We will be having building work undertaken over the holidays in the Year 3 & 4 classrooms. We will keep you

informed of any changes on the 5th September.

Finally can I wish you all a wonderful holiday and look forward to seeing all the children again on 6th September.

Thank for your continued support of the school and for all your many kind gifts to the staff – they are much

appreciated.

Mrs Sheppard

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JULY 2017 M T W T F S S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Attendance: 10th-14 July 2017

FSPD FSAW 1KL 1RA 2SW 2KW 3RS 3LE 4EM 4BB 5JH 5SL 6KJ 6LD

95.3% 95.5% 88.9% 93.6% 99.2% 96.7% 97.5% 94% 95.5% 96.5% 90.4% 94.6% 93.6% 90.4%

Whole School: 94.5% National Average 96%

Well Done Class: 2SW

Unfortunately, we had 10 classes who were below the national average last week. We are hoping to see an improvement in attendance from September 2017.

Whole School Attendance: 1st September 2016 – 14th July 2017: 95.3%

Whole School Target 2016/17: 96% plus

51 children arrived late to school on at least one occasion this week.

Please ensure your child arrives at school by 8.55am; any pupil arriving after this time will receive a late mark.

St. Basil’s

Catholic Primary School – Awards

In God's love we learn and succeed by sharing and caring together.

Note from Headteacher

Kaitlyn Addison, Ryley Beddows, Cameron Billington, Olivia Birchall, Anna Blunt-Hunter, Katie Brownbill, Joseph Connolly,

George Corcoran, William Cowen, Daizy-Mae Crompton, Lilly Dalzell, Hope Davis, Grace Dooley, Ethan Dowd,

Ruby Dunbar, Summer Edwards, Molly Gill, Grace Goodridge, Annalise Gorry, Lewis Hague, Millie Hanley, Lewis Harding,

Maisy Harper, George Highfield, Leo Howard, Sophie Jensen, Harvey Jerram, Camron Kelly, Kirstie Lawton,

Ellie Leon-Mort, Sophia Leon-Mort, Jamie Littler, Caitlin Loftus, Jennifer Marsh, Kieran McGahan, Grace McGiveron,

Sophie McStein, Gracie Naisby, Steven O’Grady, Joseph Power, Thomas Purcell, Bodie Pye, Georgia Ratchford,

Gracie Rice-Stephens, Neve Rooney, Kornel Rutkowski, Ella-Mae Sarsfield, Lewis Thompson, Aislinn Turner,

Kacey-Lee Turner, Lee Vose, Alfie Wainwright, Brooke Woodrow.

We wish you every success in your new high school!

And families that are leaving St Basil’s for the last time…

Ryley Beddows, Olivia Birchall, Anna Blunt-Hunter, Katie Brownbill, Joseph Connolly, George Corcoran,

Daizy-Mae Crompton, Lilly Dalzell, Hope Davis, Ethan Dowd, Ruby Dunbar, Summer Edwards, Molly Gill, Grace Goodridge,

Lewis Hague, Maisy Harper, George Highfield, Harvey Jerram, Camron Kelly, Ellie Leon-Mort, Sophia Leon-Mort,

Jamie Littler, Caitlin Loftus, Jennifer Marsh, Grace McGiveron, Sophie McStein, Gracie Naisby, Thomas Purcell,

Bodie Pye, Georgia Ratchford, Ella-Mae Sarsfield, Lewis Thompson, Kacey-Lee Turner, Lee Vose, Brooke Woodrow.

Year 6 Leavers

Goodbye & Good Luck!

Class of 2017

Wow!!! What a wonderful year we have shared together in Foundation Stage. Our teachers and assistants are all

delighted and so proud to see just how much we have grown in so many ways since we joined St Basil’s in September. Last

week we were excited to visit our new classrooms and teachers and have talked a lot about the things which we can look

forward to.

Our learning challenges in class have been all about pirates and this has been great fun! We have also been making

something special for our friends in Year 6 who have been such good prayer partners to us all year. On Friday we will

share a picnic with them before they leave St Basil’s, ready to join High School in September. A huge thank you to year 6 –

we will miss you!

A big thank you to all of you parents too – it has been lovely to see you coming to so many events at school over the

months, and for all of your help and support at home. Have a super summer everybody!

We have been enjoying our last week in year 1, showing off what we can do! We have completed a book review on

Goldilocks and Just the One Bear’, we loved this story, especially the twist at the end! We also enjoyed

taking part in and watching the KS1 Talent Show. We all thought the acts were very good and we loved

judging how good they were!

In English we have been looking at a book called ‘Troll Swap’. We have been comparing the two characters. We have also

learnt how to write speech using inverted commas. In maths we have been practising our calculation skills for addition,

subtraction, multiplication and division.

We celebrated our time in the infants in a very special end of year collective worship as a year group. The theme was

treasures! We remembered special memories, shared a special gospel reading about creation

and looked at a book called ‘The First Slodge’ which reminded us to share God’s special world.

FRIDAY 21ST JULY – SCHOOL CLOSES FOR SUMMER 3.10PM

MONDAY 4TH &– INSET DAY

TUESDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER – INSET DAY

WEDNESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER - SCHOOL RE-OPENS 8.45AM

Foundation Stage

Year 1

Year 2

Diary Dates

In year 3 we have enjoyed taking part in an Art project designing sketches based on musical instruments. We have had a

chance to draw and paint to produce and Art display for our year 3 & 4 area next year. At the beginning of the week we

also had an opportunity to try out various French foods at St Basil’s French breakfast!

We have had a fun-filled last week in year 3!

In year 4 we have enjoyed a lot of things, like the Music Extravaganza! We sang lots of songs and shared our musical

talents. Year 3 did the recorder, year 4 the guitar and year 5 did the brass and woodwind. We have also been writing out

chocolate bar letters in English – we had to choose our favourite chocolate bar and write a letter to Ducan, which is our

chocolate bar owner. In maths we have been investigator, we have been solving different problems. There was a different

problem on each table and we had to solve them all! We are very happy that we won our reading competition and look

forward to spending our voucher!

On Monday 17th July, St Basil’s had a French breakfast and everybody enjoyed it! Years 5 were lucky enough to serve the

breakfast to the younger children. To celebrate the French theme, year 5 wore red, white and blue to represent the

French flag. Some of us even had moustaches and berets to make us look traditionally French. We decorated the KS1 hall

with bunting, flags and menus. We also had a powerpoint with images of France and French music playing in the

background. The kitchen staff prepared our lovely French breakfast – we had chocolate milk, orange juice, pain au

chocolat, croissants and baguettes – it was delicious!

At the end there was enough for year 5 to help themselves to a lovely French breakfast!

Our time throughout St Basil’s has been amazing! We will really miss all the staff that has helped us during our journey

through primary school. We are so sad to let all of this go but our treasured memories will stay in our hearts forever.

Grace Dooley & Aislinn Turner

On Wednesday 5th July some of the juniors went to the stadium and took part in an athletics event and relay. Year 3 & 4’s

girls’ team for the relay came in 1st place! The second I crossed the finish line my heart was beating so fast! I had a lot of

fun and I am proud of myself!

Lucy Brislen 4BB

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Town Sports

Learner of the Week

George Harris 1KLWill Lyons 1KLEvie Flatley 1KLPoppy Page 1KLHarry Kennedy 1KLLaiton Parry 1KLEwan

Black 1RAMacy Robinson 1RAAlfie Swanson 1RAMillie Ryan 1RABartosz Logozny 2SW

Lexi-Mai Brookfield 2SWFreya Hayes 2SWRyan Mercer 2SWIndia Fisher 2SW

Evie Hewitt 2KWRiley Naylor 2KWGracie McKenna 3RSHarry Brumfitt 3RSSonny Threlfall 3RSJake Birch

3LEScarlett Chatterton 3LED’Santo Collett 3LEXiao Huang 3LEGracie-May Pugh 3LEMaximus Murphy

3LEHarvey Adams 4BBIsabelle Knight 4BBShannon Law 4BBLuke Randall 4BBMillie Byrne 4EMAnnabel

Condliffe 5SLMolly Evans 5SLLily Gory 5SLMolly Goulden 5SLReece Robinson 5SLRebecca Swanson

5SLSarah Swanson 5SLJessica Thomas-Blackburn 5SL

Taylor Kehoe 5JHMaddison Mackinnon 5JHShannon Preston 5JHAntonia Rice-Stephens 5JH

Frankie Segar 5JHSteven O’Grady 6KJGeorge Highfield 6KJAnna Blunt-Hunter 6LDJoe Connolly 6LD

Lewis Hague 6LD

French Breakfast

Progress Award

Annie Laughton 1KLJackson-Jamie Tobin 1KLGracie-May Woolley 1KLGeorge Harris 1KLGrace McClaughlin

1KLEmily Flynn 1RAMillie Ryan 1RAAlfie Swanson 1RAEwan Black 1RAAlfie Yardley 2SWEvan Webster

2SWEllis Lynch 2SWRiley Jones 2SWDemi Riding 2SWBen Power 2SWEvie Hewitt 2KWMia Nolan

2KWBobby Smith 2KWJessica Gorry 3RSLillimae Webster 33RSD’Santo Collett 3LEKeira Mannion 3LEElla

Newbolt-Ashton 3LELucas Tuihalamaka 3LEScarlett Chatterton 3LELex Fairbairn 3LECaitlin Morley

3LESophie Swanson 3LETyler Doyle 4BBIsabelle Knight 4BBCaitlin Thompson 4BBRyan Davies

4EMWilliam Philbin-Anderson 4EMEvan Milne 4EMCameron Kehoe 4EMSadie Noone 4EMRuby Baynton

4EMGrace Kelly 4EMCallum Butler 5SLJoshua Halfpenny-Bell 5SLMichael Lawton 5SLEwan Maher

5SLMaisie Nash 5SLMichael Perry 5SLReece Robinson 5SLJack Smith 5SLTaylor Kehoe 5JHJoshua

Lawrenson 5JHJesse Lindsay 5JHAntonia Rice-Stephens 5JHFrankie Segar 5JHChloe Stanley 5JHEmma

Stanley 5JHKatie Brownbill 6KJDaizy-Mae Crompton 6KJKaitlyn Addison 6LD

Citizenship Award

Gracie-May Woolley 1KLJames Challoner 1KLAnnie Laughton 1KLDeclan Kenny 1KLSonia Filip 1KLIsabelle

Horley 1KLAllana Aqui-Nolan 1RAFaith Crossley-Meadows 1RAPablo Pollard-Aranda 1RAAmanda Zikmane

1RAHolly-Lyn Chatham-Hamm 2SWHolly Brislen 2SWRemi Scholoch 2SWChloe-Ann Redfern 2SWFinlay

Dockerty 2SWEvie Butler 2SWRiley Naylor 2KWJason Darlington 2KWJacob Carson 3RSCooper Di

LucaShelby Hall 3LEGracie-May Pugh 3LEJessica Swanson 3LEJoe Bebbington 3LEKyle Law 3LEElla

Newbolt-Ashton 3LElivia Thompson 3LEJoshua Davies 4BBTyler Doyle 4BBFinley Metcalf 4BBJulia

Wozniak 4BBMaddyson Lunt 4EMEllis Jones 4EMGeorge McKeown 4EMMacey Featherstone 4EMIsabella

Crossley-Meadows 4EMRoha Mohamad Ghassan 4EMAnnabel Condliffe 5SLEmily Chatham-Hall 5SLEzekiel

Hitchman 5SLMichael Lawton 5SLReece Robinson 5SLJack Smith 5SLBailey Baker-Roche 5JHTaylor Kehoe

5JHRuby Kenny 5JHJacob Mitchell 5JH

Maisie Mulligan 5JHBodie Pye 6KJGeorgia Ratchfrod 6KJOlivia Birchall 6LDRuby Dunbar 6LD

Well done to all of the children that received a Golden Award for behaviour and 100% attendance certificates!

Have a great summer break!

Star Pupil

Ryley Beddows & Aislinn Turner

Progress Award

Millie Hanley

Citizenship Award

Stephen O’Grady