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SPB NEWS

“FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHRIST”

Y2 Nativity Assembly

On Tuesday and Wednesday, families of Year 2 enjoyed a fantastic Nativity performance. The children performed beautifully, speaking clearly and singing loudly! Well done Year 2!

A wonderful way to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. A time to think about this special baby, who was born into very humble

surroundings, but grew up to be the Saviour of the World.

We would like to wish all our SPB families a very happy and holy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

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Weekly Attendance

Year Attendance%

EYFS – Miss Horton 98.3 EYFS – Mrs Housley 98.4

Year 1 – Miss Powell 96.0 Year 1 – Miss Dever 96.0

Year 2 – Mrs Kinsella/Mrs Woods 94.6

Year 2 – Miss Steer 90.4 Year 3 – Mrs Ashton 96.4 Year 3 – Miss Weeder 100.0 Year 4 – Miss Wilson 97.6

Year 4 – Mr Gowans 93.6 Year 5 – Mr Felton 98.1

Year 5 – Miss Martin 98.0 Year 6 – Mrs Severs 96.3

Year 6 – Mr Gallagher 96.7 Reminder School will close for the Christmas holiday on Friday 21st December @ 1.30pm. Choir Sing at CTK Christmas Carol Concert On Thursday evening, children from our choir, and our two other parish schools, took part in the annual Carol Concert at Christ the King Church. All of the children sang beautifully, our narrators projected their voices and delivered the message clearly and as always the behaviour was impeccable. It was wonderful to see such a good turnout for the event and a great big thank you to everybody who came to support us. It definitely filled us all with lots of joy and Christmas spirit! Reminder: no choir on Monday 17th December. Choir will resume on Monday 21st January 2019. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas! Miss Dever

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U11 Boys Football On Monday, our U11 team headed to Broadgreen to play against Monksdown, and with City Team representation on both sides, it was set up to be a cracker. The players on the pitch didn't disappoint. After starting well - and hitting the crossbar in the opening exchanges, Monksdown took the lead from a well delivered corner. Shortly afterwards, Monksdown scored an excellent second from long range. The pattern of the game didn't really change and we continued to move the ball well and probe for spaces to shoot. It wasn't long before we halved the deficit - and then, just like Monksdown - grabbed a quick, spectacular goal from long-range. We added a third to take the lead, before Monksdown equalised to make it 3-3. Some nice football just before half-time led to us taking the lead again. Half-time score: SPB 4 - 3 Monksdown The second half saw us take a stranglehold on the game, and our players certainly had their long-range shooting boots on. Another wonderful effort led to us scoring a fifth, before we then added another to make it six. Monksdown, just like we had done in the first half, rallied well and scored a deserved fourth goal in the dying minutes of the game. Final score: SPB 6 - 4 Monksdown . Water Polo Tournament

On Tuesday, a selection of Year 5 and 6 boys and girls represented St. Paschal Baylon in the preliminary heats of the water polo competition. We came top of our group winning 4 of 4 games with some exceptional goals and only conceding one goal. We then played a semi-final winning 3-0 and battled hard in the final narrowly missing out to Lister. This meant we went on to the Liverpool finals which took place on Thursday. On Thursday we were up against some tough competition. Unfortunately, the two finalists were also in our group. We were really pleased with the effort from our team. Well done!

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Christmas Dinner On Wednesday the children enjoyed a wonderful Christmas dinner. A big thank you to Chef Terry and the kitchen staff team! Another huge thank you to staff that decorated the tables and served the children. Christmas Fayre – Prize Update Congratulations to Bella Di Blasi who is the winner of the giant teddy! Well done Bella! Christmas Raffle – Tickets now on sale!

Tickets for our Christmas Hamper raffle are now on sale. The hamper includes vodka,

wine, Yankee candle, luxury chocolate biscuits and lots more!

Tickets are just £2 per strip available to buy from school.

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LCQM Maths Puzzle of the Week

Solution to last week’s puzzle

What is the number at the top of the tree? Each number is

the total of the two numbers below it!

The answer was 36.

Well done to Laura Ormandy who correctly solved this

festive puzzle.

We will be continuing our parents’ maths puzzles in the forthcoming half-termly newsletters.

Well done to all those parents who have got involved.

Remember, doing fun maths activities with your child can be very powerful in increasing

confidence and developing interest for the subject.

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Y4 Christ the King ‘With You Always’ Session Dates 18/19 Session Times: Wednesday 4.15pm & 6pm/Thursday 6pm Session 4 – Wednesday 16th/Thursday 17th January – The Eucharist Session 5 – Wednesday 13th/Thursday 14th February – Prayer Session 6 – Wednesday 13th/Thursday 14th March – Reconciliation Session 7 – Wednesday 3rd/Thursday 4th April – The Beatitudes Session 8 – Sunday 14th April 1-3pm (children only) – Palm Sunday Activity Day Please call CTK Parish office for details 0151 722 2231. Diary Dates

Christmas Calendar of Events

Note to Parents/Carers If arriving late at an assembly or nativity play, to avoid disturbing the event, please report to the office where a member of staff will escort you to the hall.

Date Event Year Group Time

Monday 17th December EYFS Christmas

Collective Worship – Miss Horton’s Class

Parents of children in Miss Horton’s Class

welcome! 9.15am

Tuesday 18th December EYFS Christmas

Collective Worship – Mrs Housley’s Class

Parents of children in Mrs Housley’s Class

welcome! 9.15am

Wednesday 19th December

Children’s Christmas Party Day

(Own/party clothes) Whole school All day

Friday 21st December School Closes Whole School 1.30pm

Monday 7th January School Opens

Beginning of Spring Term

Whole School 8.45am

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General/Important Information School Nurse Drop In We have been informed by the School Health Team that there will be no further school nurse drop-ins. Parents/carers can now ring the School Nurse directly, anytime, to make an appointment or discuss any issues/concerns you may have regarding your child. Please call: 0151 295 9700 Walking Bus Walking bus continues on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday and will be using the same route – meet at Chelwood Avenue crossing at 8.30am ready to walk to school. Please note scooters and bikes are not allowed on the Walking Bus for health & safety reasons. Can we also remind parents that the walking bus is for humans only! Some of our children are frightened of or are allergic to dogs. Wednesday Word To view this week’s Parish Version of The Wednesday Word please visit: www.wednesdayword.org - Parents’ Page.

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Community News

Is your child in Reception, Year 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5?

Has your child missed the nasal flu vaccination session in school?

Mersey Care NHS Trust is providing more drop-in clinics across Liverpool:

Monday 17th December 2018, 3.30pm – 5pm at Hartington Road Clinic, Hartington Road,

Toxteth, L8 0SQ

Tuesday 18th December 2018, 3.30pm – 5pm at Hartington Road Clinic, Hartington Road,

Toxteth, L8 0S

Tuesday 8th January 2019, 3.30pm – 5pm at Hartington Road Clinic, Hartington Road,

Toxteth, L8 0SQ

Tuesday 8th January 2019, 3.30pm – 5pm at Room 10, Yew Tree Clinic/Children Centre,

21 Berryford Road, L14 4ED.

Thursday 10th January 2019, 3.30pm – 5pm at South Liverpool Treatment Centre

(SLTC), Church Road, Garston, L19 2LW

Friday 11th January 2019, 3.30 – 5pm at Breeze Hill Neighbourhood Health Centre, 1-3

Rice Lane, L9 1AD

Please ensure that the adult accompanying the child has parental responsibility for them and can

therefore provide consent for immunisation. For further enquiries please call 0151 295 3833.

PLEASE NOTE YOUR GP WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE VACCINE TO YOUR

SCHOOL AGE CHILD

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WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING IN SCHOOL THIS WEEK? EYFS: We started off our week by watching Year Two perform their Nativity Assembly. We loved the costumes, the singing and the dancing! It was very helpful watching the Nativity story as we talked about it and sequenced it in RE. In maths, we were introduced to a new monster called Jerry and we have explored number seven. In our busy time areas, we have completed lots of Christmas themed activities such as 'elf yourself', labelling Santa and making candy canes. We performed our Advent Collective Worship for the infants and then the juniors on Thursday. We can't wait for you to see it next week. Our elf Bud has been up to more mischief this week and when we came into school on Friday, he had put all of the teachers on to the sad planet! Remember that next Wednesday is party day so children are to come to school in their party clothes. Next Thursday, children will be making a Christingle (details have been sent home today) and on Friday they can bring a small toy to school. Have a

lovely weekend filled with festive fun! YEAR ONE: This week, in our English lessons, we have been looking at poems related to fire. We read a poem all about 'The Great Fire of London' by Paul Perro and then in groups we recited a verse. As a year group, we performed the whole poem and even added in some actions. Impressive how quickly everybody remembered their verse! In Maths, we have continued exploring different ways of adding up to 20 and have begun to explore subtraction. We even learnt a new word 'partition' and have been practising partitioning numbers into tens and ones. In RE, we have been reflecting on the importance of Christmas and discussed reasons why people send Christmas cards. We designed and wrote a Christmas card to somebody in school to thank them for something special that they have done for us. Our topic lessons this week have been very messy! We used a range of cereal boxes to create our own London street from 1666. We had to paint the boxes, draw on windows and doors, make roofs and then cut and stick flames to re-create a fire scene. Check out Twitter to see the finished product! We are looking forward to all the lovely things that will be happening next week in our final week of Autumn term!

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YEAR TWO: What a wonderful week we have had in Year Two! We are so incredibly proud of the children for their Nativity performance. They delivered their lines so clearly, showed great expression on their faces and the camel song was simply outstanding! In Science, we wrote a letter to a dentist with the findings of our cereal investigation. Then, we were lucky enough to have a healthy eating presentation from our very own Chef Terry. He brought us a selection of food types and helped us to develop our understanding of a balanced meal. We were very surprised by some of the facts he told us! We now know that he doesn’t add any salt to our meals. On Friday, we had great fun making melting snowmen biscuits! We used this as our stimulus for writing and wrote a set of instructions to help other children make them too! In the afternoon, we enjoyed a special treat for our Nativity performance; a movie afternoon with hot chocolate! YEAR THREE:

We started our week in a very pleasant way - watching the Year 2 Nativity play, which was excellent! We also had the pleasure of watching a Christmas Collective Worship on Thursday - this time it was the Reception classes. Not only that, we enjoyed a fabulous Christmas dinner on Wednesday! It is safe to say that we are starting to feel very festive! In between all that, however, it was business as usual: we started a new unit of work in maths (length); we started to innovate fables in English; created sculptures made from fruit, in order to replicate Claes Oldenburg, in our art lesson and learned more about Advent in RE. Phew! YEAR FOUR It's been an exciting week at Saint Paschal Baylon as we prepare for the arrival of Jesus. Year 4 were treated to two fantastic advent collective worships from Year 2 and Reception, which reminded everyone of the important messages of Advent, and why it is such an important time to us. Despite the build-up of excitement for the Christmas holidays, lessons have continued as usual. In maths, the children have been busy practising methods to answer large division sums, extending to dividing three-digit numbers. Our final English focus this year is narrative poetry. After immersing in Macavity the Cat, the children used computers, dictionaries and thesauruses in order to explore the language used in the poem.

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YEAR FIVE: Year 5 have had a fantastic week! The children have worked extremely hard getting their heads around a variety of multi-step word problems in maths - and we have been proud of the resilience they have shown. In English, the children have continued to deepen their understanding of the story of Oliver Twist, by adapting a section of narrative into a play-script. RE has focused on the importance of waiting patiently in hope, for the coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ. The children recognise that Jesus is hope for all and the light of the world - and discussed both ways they can wait in hope, and studied Scripture linked to this. In Topic this week, the children looked at different Christmas meals around the world, and converted a recipe for different amounts of people to share. If all goes to plan, the children will bring home their very own slice of Yule Log next Thursday. A very productive week was had by all. YEAR SIX: This week we have finished our maths topic on decimals. We are now fully confident with the various methods that we can use to add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals. We have moved on to 'negative numbers' and have looked at the real life situations in which minus numbers are used (including for overdrafts!). In literacy, we have completed our poetry unit and have written our own version of the well-known song 'What a Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong. We created some fantastic versions such as 'what a magical world, what an upside down world and what a beautiful world'. In RE, we have been thinking about the expectations and preparations that take place during Advent. We created a set of guidelines

to help Christians to spiritually prepare for the coming of Jesus.

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