Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• WADDOW HALL TRIP JULY 2018

  Wed 18 Jul 2018

  A massive thank you once again to the FOTS, (our PTA group) who treated the children to a day of outdoor adventure at Waddow Hall.  All children had a fabulous time and it was great to see all the team work which was going on throughout the day!  The children's behaviour was impeccable and the weather did not dampen any spirits.

   

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• FAMOUS AUTHORS WRITE TO THE CHILDREN

  Tue 03 Jul 2018
  Linking with our Rights Respecting Schools Award and Lancashire's We are Reading Pledge, our junior children wrote to famous children's authors about the need for more story books that include children with disabilities within them (UN Child Article 23).  We were very excited to receive letters, books and stickers from famous authors such as Jeremy Strong, Sue Hendra and Julia Donaldson!

  

• ST MARY & ST JOSEPH'S BIG SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

  Tue 03 Jul 2018

  Year 5 & Year 6 spent the morning at St Mary & St Joseph's RC Primary School, Blackburn.  With over 170 children, the school was enormously different to ours! After a tour of the 3 storey school, our children joined the classes to do some maths challenges and help edit children's writing. Following break, Zeus, the Ancient Greek God, came to answer children's questions in their amazing 4D room!

   

  Madeleine - I liked the design of their new library and how the school was very welcoming.  I do however, prefer the small, family size of our own school.

  Joe - I thought the children were friendly and the 4D room was 'cool' but I much prefer little schools to big ones.

  

• CHIPPING ST MARY'S RC CHURCH & PRIMARY SCHOOL

  Sat 30 Jun 2018

  Both the schools of St Mary's Chipping and Thorneyholme joined together to celebrate the feast of St Peter & St Paul.  Children from both schools, read out the Readings of the mass, wrote their own bidding prayers and took up the offertory.  It was a beautiful celebration and it was lovely to see some familiar faces from St Hubert's parish church there too.  Following mass, the children enjoyed lunchtime together outdoors and later, spent some quality time getting to know one another, through team games.

  

• Stonyhurst Science Fair

  Sat 30 Jun 2018

  Pupils enjoyed a morning of challenging scientific activities at Stonyhurst college. A large rocket was launched outside on the green and pupils had the opportunity to launch their own mini-rockets using water and alka seltzer in the classroom laboratory.  Astronomy was discussed in the Observatory, pupils had the opportunity to use Ipads to look at 3D Space crafts and they had to match different textured chocolates to descriptions of meteorites and rocks.  Following an exciting morning, the pupils watched a performance of West Side Story, by Year 7 & Year 8 pupils at St Mary's Hall.

  

• Sports Day Success

  Thu 21 Jun 2018

  World Cup Fever was in the air, as the children took to the school field for Sports Day!  Teams Brazil, France and New Zealand battled it out to win the most points.  Archery, discus, javelin, the egg & spoon race and the water & sponge race were just some of the challenges the teams faced.  In the end, the results were very close but Team BRAZIL were the ultimate winners!  Well done to all our teams, everybody had a fun afternoon.

  

• You're under arrest!

  Wed 13 Jun 2018

  Children were placed under arrest on Wednesday lunchtime by PC Jonathan Scorah.  With the police van on the school yard, children were put in the back and shown the different equipment he carries including handcuffs!  Many thanks to PC Scorah for giving up some of his time to be with our children.

  

• SHARE THE JOURNEY CAFOD

  Mon 11 Jun 2018
  Mrs Sivills from Salford CAFOD came to visit our children.  She discussed the dangerous journeys some people have to make in order to reach safety.  The children walked a mile as part of CAFOD's walk around the world to Share the Journey with refugees and migrants and they prayed for them.
  

  

• Suffragettes

  Mon 11 Jun 2018
  Children celebrated the fact that it has been 100 years since a big change in the law that allowed women to vote for the very first time.  
  They paid homage to the women of suffrage, and remember the thousands of women currently taking part in marches who want to make their voices heard now.  "Equal seats, equal voices" was being chanted by some group of women demanding a 50/50 representation in parliament. Another group called out for equal rights for women in prisons.

  

• Holy Communion 9th June 2018

  Mon 11 Jun 2018