Flo MellyNews

Summer 2016

Message from theHeadteacherI would like to take this opportunity tothank you all for your tremendoushelp and support for our school overthis academic year. We have had avery busy and successful year inFlorence Melly Community PrimarySchool and we are very grateful to allof our parents and carers for workingin partnership with us andchampioning our school. Thank youall for making sure that your childattends every day and is in school ontime. Your role is vital in promotinggood attendance and good behaviourand I can say that on all of our recenttrips our pupils have been excellentambassadors for the school.

Finally, may I take this opportunity towish you all a very happy, safe andenjoyable summer. I look forward towelcoming all children refreshed andready for the challenges of the yearahead back to school on Tuesday 6thSeptember.

Liverpool Counts Quality Mark We are pleased to announce that Florence Melly hasachieved 'Silver' for the 'Liverpool Counts Quality Mark' forMaths.

The Quality Mark aims to:• raise standards in mathematics and numeracy with fun

and joy of number at its heart• to challenge perceptions and change attitudes towards

number and mathematics• to raise the profile of numeracy using activities, events

and resources basedon real-life

• to bring relevance tonumeracy throughproblem solving,demonstrating it is anessential skill.

As a school, we have allworked hard to achievethis standard and lookforward to embeddingthe aims further as ourintention is to go for'Gold' in the near future.

100% AttendanceA huge thank you to Merseyside Police for donatingour recent attendance prize, a fabulous mountain bike.The 100% attendance raffle was won by one of our year6 pupils. Our local PCS@TO Officer Jacqui McNallyand councillor James Noakes presented the prize.Let’s keep attendance a high priority for our school,remember you have to be in to win.

Athletics Well it has been another successful year in thedistrict championships with a win and second inthe year 5 boys 800m, 1st in the year 5 boys longjump, 2nd in the year 6 boys long jump and 1st inthe year 5 boys relay who were clear winners intheir heat and final. All of these children havesecured their places in the city championshipfinals on 19th July. We also had 3rd in the year 6girls 800m, 3rd in the year 5 & 6 boys hurdles and3rd in the year 6 girls hurdles and relay. A specialmention goes to a girl in year 5 who showedtremendous resilience in the hurdles as she waswinning but unfortunately fell over not once buttwice during the race and still picked herself upto finish the race. Well done to everybody whotook part and represented our school. Our boysbecame district champions fo the large schoolsevent and we would also like to congratulatethem on their success. We wish all the childrenwho have qualified for a place in the CityChampionships on the 19th July Good Luck! Year 2 – Moving On

As it’s almost time for us to say goodbye, we’dlike to thank all of our Parents and Carers fortheir hard work and support over the past year.All Year 2 parents and carers were invited to our‘Moving On’ celebration assembly onWednesday 6th July. The children reminisced,showcased and expressed their goals andexpectations for Key stage 2.

Asda in the Community As part of ASDA's Community Initiative ourlocal Walton store carried out a charity eventwhere local people could nominate anorganisation who would receive a donationfrom their charity fund.Florence Melly weresuccessful and received a cheque for £200.00from Lorraine Ambrose, Walton Store.

Year 4 Summer term has beenfull of exciting eventsfor Year 4. 4B wereawarded certificates forthe 'Hope Challenge'from ProfessorKenneth Newport and had a fantasticexperience at Hope University. All of Year 4 haveenjoyed studying Roald Dahl's 'The Witches' andhave some adventurous trips lined up as wecome to the end of term.

PATCH TraditionalFairground and Maths Party Fun Day This party fun day was a hugesuccess. All the children andstaff thoroughly enjoyed it.Incorporating Maths andLearning into the fun dayactivities worked extremely well.A MASSIVE thank you toeveryone who helped orcontributed on the day.

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Year 5There is no better way to round off a superbyear than a trip to the seaside; especially whenit’s sunny (which it was!) Just ask our fantasticYear 5 pupils. They spent their end of year tripin New Brighton; enjoying a morning ofbowling and laser quest then the afternoon onthe beach. The children enjoyed a fish and chiplunch, ice-cream, cricket on the beach and apaddle in the waves. It really was a fantasticfinale to what has been a successful year.

Silver Reading Quality Mark Florence MellyPrimary Schoolis celebratingbecause wehave beenawarded silverstatus byLiverpoolReadingQuality Markfor all ourachievements inreading. In caseyou haven’theard, every classhas a unique andbeautiful readingcorner. Our schoolhas reading posters, activities everywhere andyou should see our amazing library. I hope thatby September we will have a fully functioninglibrary system (Junior Librarian). And this is justthe beginning.

Year 6 GraduationGood luck to all ofour Year 6 pupils asthey move onfrom FlorenceMelly. We had avery enjoyable daywith a photobooth, afternoontea and the childrenwere photographedin graduation gownsand mortar boardsfor their finalfarewell. We sendour very best wishesand will look forward tohearing how they get on in their new schools.

Year 4 Science TripYear 4 science trip investigating habitats atWirral country park

Community Project – St Aidan’s ChurchWe were privilegedto have been askedto be involved in StAidan’s CommunityCelebration week.Children from allYear groups acrossthe schoolcontributed outstanding pieces of work rangingfrom eye-catching Andy Warhol prints of theQueen by Year 6 pupils, professional lettersdirect to Her Majesty herself by Year 2 pupilsand a collection of knickers inspired by thebook “The Queens Knickers” from Reception.

There were also a pair of knickers for the Queenherself, picture collages of our Communityfrom Year 3 and suggestions from Year 1 abouthow to be a Queen.

As part of ourCommunity ProjectWeek our Choir andSamba group wereinvited to take partin a demonstrationat St Aidan’s Church,

Cherry Lane on 7th June 2016. They performedbrilliantly and were great ambassadors for the school.

We wish all of ourpupils every successfor the future atFlorence Melly or intheir new schools.Thank you all foryour continuedsupport.

The school would like to say thank you to Inter-Comics.com who donated a fantasticbatch of comics to the school on ‘FreeComicbook Day’. The children are reallyenjoying their introduction into the world ofgraphic novels and a different way of reading.

Class 2D2D really enjoyed writing letters to theQueen about her 90th birthday. They arevery proud of some of them being displayedin St Aidan’s church. The children had avariety of questions to ask the Queen.

We have recently been to Hugh BairdCollege and the children really enjoyedreading in their pirate ship reading corneras well as a visit in the aeroplane toexperience safety procedures and whathappens on a flight.

Our class are also enjoying their departurelounge reading area as they have beenenthused by exploring atlases. The childrenare now learning the name of countriesfrom the flags and then how to locate thecountry on the atlas. After that, they thenlocate the country on our class world mapand are then challenged to see if they canfind out the capital city of the country. Allchildren have their own passports and oncethey find countries they get the flag put intheir passport. All children love theirreading for pleasure time and enjoy sittingin our departure lounge.

Library BooksPlease ensure that all library books arereturned before the end of term.

Year 3 Reading MorningOur recent outside reading morning was afantastic success. Thank you to everybodywho was able to make it and support us.