Great Crosby Catholic Primary School
Great Crosby Catholic Primary School
"...that they may have life and have it to the full." John 10:10
Great Crosby Catholic Primary School
"...that they may have life and have it to the full." John 10:10
Great Crosby Catholic Primary School
"...that they may have life and have it to the full." John 10:10
"...that they may have life and have it to the full." John 10:10
Updated guidance advises that children who are unwell and have a high temperature should stay at home and avoid contact with other people. They can go back to school when they no longer have a high temperature, and they are well enough to attend.
Children with a positive Covid-19 test result should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days, which is when they are most infectious.
We will be relying on you as parents/carers to keep your children at home if they are unwell. Thank you for your continued support.
Kind regards
Mrs Speed.
Welcome to Great Crosby Catholic Primary School website. We are a large Catholic primary school serving the parishes of Ss. Peter and Paul and St. Helen’s. Our Catholic mission underpins all we do.
Our school family works hard to provide a place were the Gospel values are lived out each and every day. We strive to create a community based on love, respect and forgiveness; a place where each individual can learn and grow in love of God and of each other.
At Great Crosby we strive to create a place of academic excellence whilst ensuring the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils is given an equally high priority. We want everyone in our school family to simply be the best they can be. We work hard together to ensure that our pupils really do ‘have life and have it to the full.’
Our termly curriculum brochures keep you informed of the themes being studied and ways in which you can support your child at home. Our weekly edition of the Wednesday Word also allows you to support your child and the family in your faith journey.
Great Crosby also has Teaching School designation and works closely in partnership with other schools in Sefton and Liverpool to share good practice and ensure that we stay at the forefront of educational development.
We are also a member of the Archdiocese of Liverpool Primary School Improvement Trust.
P A Speed
Headteacher
The latest news from Great Crosby with news of our Jubilee Day and changes to Sports Days dates for your diary. Please check the Calendar page.
Our staff are ready for a fabulous day celebrating the Platinum Jubilee including making a timeline of the decades and singing to our queen on the field. The children coming to school look fantastic in their outfits from the 1950s to the present day.
Well done and thank you to all our athletes in the Southport and Waterloo AC One Mile Races. We were awarded the overall Fair Play Award. In the year group team competitions, our Y3 boys team came 3rd, our Y4 girls teams were 2nd, Y4 boys and Y5 girls were both 1st and Y6 boys were 3rd. We also had individual placings - 1st in Y3 girls, 1st and 3rd in Y4 boys and 3rd in Y6 girls.
The latest from Great Crosby with news about Miss Bradley and a reminder to check the website calendar for dates for your diaries.
What do you think of when you are asked to picture a scientist? Many people, including children, think of a white man, in a lab coat with grey hair, aka Albert Einstein. We are asking anyone in our school community who works in science to please get in touch. We will be hosting a science workplace workshop for our older children on Monday 27th June in the afternoon. We would love it if you could talk to the children in person. If not, if you could make a short video at your workplace explaining what you do would be excellent. You can see example videos by clicking on the green button below. Many thanks, Great Crosby Science team.
Mrs Speed's latest news of the assessments that have been taking place this week and continue next week. There is more information about them for Y2 and Y1 below. Preparations continue for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Fri 27th May.
Year 6 boys played a thrilling Griffiths Cup semi-final vs Ursuline. Half-time saw the scores level at 0-0. Early in the second half, Ursuline took the lead with an amazingly brave header. With 2 minutes to go, Great Crosby were awarded a free kick which Oscar scored to equalise.
Nail-biting penalties followed, with Great Crosby winning 3-2. Well played to everyone.
The final will be played at Valewood on Thu 9th June at 5.10pm versus either St Nicholas's/Forefield or English Martyrs.
Our Y5/6 girls played an exhilarating match vs Valewood Primary. It was great to watch such enthusiastic footballers battle for a winning goal. A 0-0 draw was the final result. Well done to both teams & thank you to Valewood made us very welcome.
Thirty children from Year 5 enjoyed singing in school and onscreen by Zoom with other schools from the north west of England and the whole of Ireland in the Peace Proms. The concert was broadcast live from The Helix, Dublin, with the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland conducted by Greg Beardsell.
Y5 have all enjoyed their time with Ricky from One Goal Ltd learning how to improve their own mental health and how to be mental health champions.
Next week (from Mon 9th May) it is Mental Health Awareness Week. On Friday 13th May for the Mental Health Foundation we are asking children
to wear a green accessory – socks, hair obble, hat or t shirt over their uniform for a
50p donation.
An update for parents and carers about Little Wandle Letters and Sounds, our phonics scheme, and how you can help your child prepare for the Year 1 Phonics assessment. The videos mentioned in the Phonics meeting video are on our Parents > Information Presentations page. Click on the green button.
This week, Y6 have welcomed James Riley, a former probation officer into school for five daily workshops. He runs the Get Away 'n' Get Safe Prevention Programme with the aim to educate, inspire and empower young people to take control of their future by rejecting the gang lifestyle. James inspired Y6 with empowering messages to make good choices & examples of the consequences of gang membership. His key messages included 'be brave and confident to make the right choice', 'retaliation never solved a problem' and 'be forgiving'.
The latest news from Mrs Speed with a welcome message to parents of children who will join our Reception classes in September. There is news of forthcoming assessments and events after half term.
An update for parents and carers about Key Stage 1 assessments and mathematical methods. There are several ways that you can help your child. The presentation is also on our Parents > Information Presentations and Children > Year 2 pages
We are really looking forward to celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in school and giving the children a real sense of the time frame which this covers. To support our celebrations and the history surrounding Elizabeth’s reign the year groups are going to be split into the 7 decades: Year 6 - 1950s Year 5 - 1960s Year 4 - 1970s Year 3 - 1980s
Year 2 - 1990s Year 1 - 2000s Nursery and Reception - 2010 - present.
The children will have lessons and activities about their decade and significant events throughout the Queen’s reign during the final week of the half term. This will culminate in a party on Friday 27th May. On the day, we would like staff and children to dress up in the clothing style of your decade and hope that we can join together to make a human timeline of the last 70 years. We really hope it will be a memorable and enjoyable celebration for all!
Please click on the green button to read the letter on our History page.
At Great Crosby we follow the Little Wandle phonics scheme. We invested in the scheme this year and it covers phonics from Early Years Foundation Stage and Year 1. Year 2 follow the Liverpool Phonics Scheme which is focused on spelling rules and patterns. Within the Little Wandle scheme we have updated our reading scheme to Collins E-books for EYFS and Year 1. These books are matched to your child's phonic ability and are 90% decodable to them. The e-books are allocated every Friday by your child's class teacher. Find out more on our Curriculum page by clicking the image.
Mrs Speed's vlog with a round up of the end of term and hopes for the summer term.
Mrs Speed's vlog with news of recent fundraising, next week's CAFOD Walk Against Hunger and new guidance from the Department for Education.
Our KS2 children enjoyed a gloriously sunny afternoon having fun, playing a variety of games, buying books, puzzles and cakes to raise money for our Lenten charity, CAFOD, and our school funds. EYFS and KS1 children held their market day in the morning and sold cakes, books and toys to each other. Click on the image to see more photos.
Mrs Speed's latest news from Great Crosby including an explanation of our CAFOD & School Fund Market Day and other forthcoming events.
Today we were pleased to welcome Richard Cooke from CAFOD Liverpool
for 3 assemblies to help us promote our Walk Against Hunger on Mon 4th Apr & our Market Day this Fri 25th Mar, with proceeds going to CAFOD and the school fund. Click on the image above to watch the CAFOD Walk Against Hunger Lent video .
Mrs Speed's latest news from Great Crosby and the Lake District.
Y5 & Y6 thoroughly enjoyed the Musical Tracks schools concert this afternoon at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, including singing 'Songs Of Home In Hope Street', the poignant composition by Ian Stephens & Mandy Ross. The conductor was Melvin Tay & Alasdair Malloy, the entertaining presenter.
Many thanks once again for the tremendous response to the Polskie Merseyside Appeal for Ukraine. All the donations have been collected and are on their way to the Poland/Ukraine border.
Mrs Speed's latest news from Great Crosby after a busy week in school with a thank you to our families and the community.
For the first time in over 2 years, all of KS2 were in the hall together. Year 5 led our Ash Wednesday liturgy including CAFOD's Walk Against Hunger video, John Burland's songs, fasting ideas, dance, prayers & ashes distribution. More photos are on our Catholic Life of Our School page.
Thank you for all the donations for the appeal by Polskie Merseyside for items to be taken to the Poland/Ukraine border. Please bring any items by Thursday 3rd March. Items they are collecting: colouring pencils, colouring books, teddies, school supplies, blankets, emergency foil blankets, soaps, shampoos, shower gels etc, towels, sanitary towels, nappies, sleeping bags, toothbrushes, childrens' clothes (new or nearly new condition), cups (stainless steel), first aid kits, plasters, bandages etc. More photos are on our Great Crosby and the Community page.
Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to our meetings.
The SATs dates are in our 'Calendar' during the week beginning Mon 9th May.
A link to the YMCA Lakeside website is on our Children > Year 6 page along with the administering medicines permission form.
The online safety presentation slides are on the Parents > Information Presentations page.
Click on the image above to go our Love of Reading page which has details of our World Book Day activities.
At Great Crosby, we thoroughly believe that the purpose of World Book Day is to promote a love of reading. The reason why we don’t always dress up is because sometimes this detracts from the act of reading; some parents and carers find creating or finding a costume stressful and many people end up spending money on costumes when the money could be spent on a book instead. So, with that in mind, we have included a reading challenge for your child to complete between now and World Book Day, one for EYFS and KS1, and one for KS2.
Mrs Speed's end of half term review.
Tuesday 8th February is worldwide Safer Internet Day. The theme is ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’. The children will have activities and assemblies to watch during the week. Our Parents > Online Safety page has a number of activities and lots of information to help keep your family safe online, including details of our Safer Schools app, which will give you regular updates. Click on the image.
Mrs Speed's vlog with the latest news from school including next week's Safer Internet Day, our Safer Schools app, parents evenings, Forest School and the foodbank collection next Thursday.
Children have been making tiger tangram pictures to share with our exchange teachers from Shanghai who stayed with us in 2016.
Details of forthcoming parents' evenings can be found on our Parents > Parents Evening page. Click on the green button.
Mrs Speed's latest news from Great Crosby and an appeal for a builder with availability for a job in our Forest school area.
We turned our website purple to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
Year 6 are visited The Plaza Cinema to see, 'The Island on Bird Street' and other year groups learned about the Holocaust through a variety of age appropriate activities on the theme of 'One Day'.
You didn’t think about yesterday, and tomorrow may not happen, it was only today that you had to cope with and you got through it as best you could.
Iby Knill, survivor of the Holocaust
Mrs Speed's first vlog of 2022 with the latest news from Great Crosby.
Parents and carers of children in Reception are invited to attend one of our virtual Parents’ Evenings. Appointments are available on Tuesday 1st February from 3.15pm to 5.30pm or Wednesday 2nd February from 3.15pm to 7.00pm. Please click on the image above to visit our Parents' Evening page to make an appointment,
The deadline for Reception place applications for September 2022, has passed. Please visit our Admissions page to watch a welcome video by our headteacher, Mrs Speed, a 360⁰ walkthrough and a fly-over view. Click on the green button for this and more information.
Wishing all our families a peaceful Christmas and a happy new year. The children return to school on Thursday 6th January - The Feast of the Epiphany.
Please take a few minutes to watch our Christmas Liturgy that we would normally have done in school.
Fr John's blessings to all our families.
Mrs Speed's final video message of 2021.
For the children at home, there will be Teams meetings on Tuesday 21st December at the following times:
5CW - 10.00am and 1.00pm
4L - 10.30am and 1.30pm
5M - 10.30am and 1.00pm
Children should log into Microsoft Teams and check their calendar for the meeting.
Mrs Speed's latest news about our busy week in school and activities for the last week of term.
In the light of the storm forecast for tomorrow and possibly parts of Wednesday, we have taken the decision to re-arrange the Nursery Nativities in the Forest School.
NEW Nativity Thursday 9th December 2:15 pm (all children may go home after their performance, once we have them changed)
NBW Nativity Monday 13th December 10.15am
We apologise for the inconvenience but feel it is in the best interests of the children to do this.
Many thanks for your continued support. We are sure you will be delighted with the
Forest School Nativity. Wrap up warm!
Mrs Speed's latest vlog with news of Nativity preparations, the school levy, the foodbank and final week plans.
Thank you for all the kind donations of food and toiletries for South Sefton Foodbank today.
Father John from Ss Peter & Paul's RC Church has recorded an Advent blessing for our children and families.
The latest from Great Crosby at the end of another busy week. Mrs Speed has news about the fire drill, Christmas badges, our food bank collection day, a new phonics scheme and Christmas dinner.
As Mrs Speed mentioned in her vlog on Monday 22nd November, we have received the annual request from the Archdiocese for our ‘schools levy’ for 2021-2022. Whilst it is often difficult to know what happens to this money, it does go towards funding building projects and repairs in Catholic schools across the Archdiocese. We have as a school benefitted greatly from this fund – new fire alarm, renewal of flat roofs and this year we are asking them to support toilet refurbishments in some of our less modern toilet blocks. If, as a school, we are unable to raise the levy we will have to try and find it from our already tight budget. I know we can count on your support. We ask you for a £10 per family contribution, payable by cheque, cash, online on Pay 360 or by standing order. Thank you to those parents who have already made the payment for this year.
Please click on the green button to download the letter with payment details.
Here is Mrs Speed's latest vlog with news of the Wear White for Mrs White Day, Christmas badges, Nativities and the school levy.
This week the children have spent time in their classes learning about Remembrance Day, making poppy displays, sharing stories and gathering for a two minute silence. We were represented by our pupils on Remembrance Sunday.
Our latest news from school.
Mrs Speed's latest news.
Mrs Speed's vlog at the end of our first half term.
Mrs Speed's latest news from school including a day in memory of Mrs White on Thursday 21st October.
This week is Digital Parenting Week 2021. Parentzone is the lead charity. It has online safety resources from Google. We invite you to take part in a 7-day Digital Wellbeing Challenge. You can choose which day to start. Click on the logo to visit our online safety page.
Parentzone has 'parent guides' about the most popular apps and services, giving advice about parental and privacy controls. The guides are about Instagram, Facebook, Secret Converations, Twitch, Netflix, Live streaming, Influencer marketing, Esports, Fortnite, PEGI game ratings, Tik Tok, Snapchat, YouTube Kids, WhatsApp, Clash of Clans, Virtual Reality, Family games, Connected toys, Pokemon Go, Social media apps, Nintendo Switch, Minecraft, Yubo, Amazon Prime and Skype. There are also guides to self-esteem, digital detoxing, peer pressure and dealing with traumatic events.
Our 2021-22 league starts on Saturday 16th October. Details are in the letter emailed out on Friday 8th October, which is on our letters page. You can click on the green button below. Click on the image to sign up or login to set up your team then follow the instructions in the letter to join our league.
Positive mental health and well-being is very important at Great Crosby. Today we are 'Wearing Yellow' to support the messages from Young Minds Campaign. Children should wear their uniform plus yellow accessories and/or yellow PE top or polo shirt. We are not collecting any money only raising awareness.
If you are struggling to support your children's mental health, click on the Young Minds image to visit their website or click on the green button for the Liverpool CAMHS website.
Mrs Speed has news from school about visits by the school nurses, Year 3's theatre trip, Spelling Shed logins, Covid-19 test result reporting, mask wearing and reading.
The school photographer will be in school on Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th
October. We are asking that all children come into school in full uniform on
these two days. We will not be having PE lessons on these days so they will not
need their kits.
Mrs Speed's latest news about reading, school photos, 'Wear Yellow Day' and flu vaccines.
The latest news from Mrs Speed, including the continued Covid-19 arrangements and a new way of learning spellings.
Mrs Speed's first vlog of the new academic year.
Please visit our Parents > Parents Evenings page for information about our Meet the Teacher Evenings on 22nd and 23rd September.
Welcome back!
It has been lovely seeing the children return to school so well behaved and enthusiastic. They look so smart in their uniforms and are a credit to you all.
An especially big thank you to Year 5 and Year 6 who did a fantastic job of lining the end of the field as the funeral procession for Mrs White passed by. We were so very proud of them. They did truly understand the importance of respect.
We are looking forward to welcoming our new Nursery and Reception children into school on their staggered starts on Monday.
Here’s hoping for a more normal year filled with lots of learning, happiness and fun.
Your support is greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
Mrs Speed.
Dear Parents/Carers,
Ahead of our return tomorrow, please can I refer you to the letter sent out at the end of term regarding the changes to the Covid-19 risk assessments and protocols.
Whilst face masks are no longer obligatory, we would recommend that you still wear them when entering or leaving our site. We have a large number of people passing through and I would regard our site as a crowded place especially during pick up.
As an act of kindness to others and to ensure that we maintain a healthy school population, I would urge you to continue with the face mask rule until the end of September when we anticipate a further review.
Looking forward to seeing you all.
Kind regards
Mrs Speed.
These are the times that children can be collected from school tomorrow, Friday 16th:
Nursery and Reception 1.15pm
Year 1 and 2 1.20pm
Year 3 to 6 1.30pm
Mrs Speed's final vlog of the year with the latest news from Great Crosby.
We would love you to take part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge at Sefton Libraries. The theme of the challenge this year is ‘Wild World Heroes’ and there are loads of amazing prizes for you to earn as you complete each step of the challenge. All you have to do is read six library books, of your own choice! We hope as many of you take part as possible because the winning school with the most readers gets a huge trophy!
Mrs Speed's latest video message with some news for the last two weeks of term.
Fr John has recorded a special video for Ss Peter and Paul's Feast Day, our school patronal feast day.
Mrs Speed's latest video message for parents and carers.
Mrs Speed's latest message to parents in light of the government's announcement on Monday.
Please take a couple of minutes to watch our video of pledges that classes made following the CAFOD national assembly on the theme of Pope Francis's letter Fratelli Tutti.
Pope Francis has written a letter to everyone, asking us to reach out in love to our sisters and brothers in need, whoever they are, wherever they may come from. We are challenged to think of ourselves as one global family, becoming neighbours to all.
Today, we join CAFOD’s national assembly to find out how we can put Fratelli Tutti into action by being a global neighbour. Some children from Great Crosby report on our Lenten Walk for Water fundraising event for CAFOD, in which we raised £1389.87.
You can watch it by clicking on the image above or by clicking the green button.
Oliver designed this super rocket countdown animation just using the 'basic' blocks in his first micro:bit lesson.
Mrs Speed's latest vlog with news of 'Wear A Kit For Jack Day', a request for any school reading books that are at home and plans for the next half term.
This week we have welcomed Jamie Carragher's 'Watch Us Get Fit' team for penalty shoot out competitions. Y5 and Y6 did theirs on Wear Your Kit For Jack Day. Well done to everyone, especially the scorers in the 'top bins'. Our football team looked smart too.
Jack Riding was one of our pupils; he collapsed and died playing the sport he adored on 15th August 2018. He was just 18 years old. Jack was a phenomenal footballer with a ‘crackin’ left foot’. He represented our school, Sacred Heart, Sefton and was also an academy player for Everton. He most recently played for Prescot Cables.
On Friday 28th May, we are having our annual 'Wear Your Sports Kit for Jack Day' to raise money for the Jack Riding Foundation. Children can wear any sports kit to school that day, although swimming kit is not recommended! There is a suggested donation of £1. Thank you.
Mrs Speed's latest news for parents, carers and children.
A lovely message to Great Crosby from our CAFOD Volunteer, Dr Richard Cooke, to thank us for our fundraising towards CAFOD's Walk for Water project during Lent.
Mrs Speed's latest vlog has news of what's going on in school and hopeful plans for the future. Mental Health Awareness Week starts on Monday with a focus on the importance of nature. Please try to spend some time outside, using your senses to appreciate the natural world.
Many thanks to Natalie & Sherrell from Bully Busters who visited school today to talk to Y5 & Y6 about all types of bullying, including cyberbullying. The children responded thoughtfully & honestly. They thought about the people on their 'safe hand' & should remember STOP and SOS. Click on the green button to visit their website. There are also links on our Parents > Online Safety page, our Children > Online Safety page and Parents > Mrs Solkin's Learning Mentor Advice page.
Mrs Speed's latest message to parents and carers. There is important news about reading, uniform and nursery places. There is a welcome to parents and carers joining us in September and some hopes for this term.
Many thanks to those parents who have paid the school levy. For those who wish to make the £10 family contribution, you can now pay online using Sims Pay (click the image above)as well as cheque or cash. We have collected less than one third of the money requested by the Archdiocese at present and we would appreciate any support.
If you are looking for a place in Nursery for this coming September please send your application form in straight away as we will be closing the applications shortly. Forms are available in school office or on the school website.
Apologies for the delay in uploading this video. A welcome back to school after Easter. Sad news about our strings teacher, Mr Taylor. Swimming arrangements, admissions news, a request for the Catholic schools levy to help with buildings' maintenance and information about football for Year 6.
As we begin 2020, we continue our journey to live simply and look after our beautiful world, as Pope Francis has asked us to.
We continue to make simple changes in our school life:
· ensure we recycle paper
· switch off lights when not in use
· use reusable plastic to carry our lunch
· reuse single-use plastic bottles to make and store
· walk/cycle/scoot to school more often
· no longer using single-use plastic for jelly/ fruit in the kitchen
· letters home are electronic, where possible
· one paper-free day per term
We are working towards being zero-heroes for the environment.
Can you as families do any of the above? Or more?
Let us know any good ideas via admin.greatcrosby@schools.sefton.gov.uk
Creator God,
Your world is a wonderful and beautiful place, full of variety, full of wonder, full of life.
Teach us to care for the Earth and help us to build a world that is filled with your goodness.
Amen
If you would like a paper copy of any documents or to contact Mrs Speed, please click on the 'Get In Touch' button to send a message to Mrs Mason in the school office or email: admin.greatcrosby@schools.sefton.gov.uk
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