This week’s certificates were awarded to children “for a great variety of reasons which differed class to class!” Class 3: Emilia & Daniel Class 4: Jonas, Louie & Oliver Class 5: Oliver & Elody Class 6: Poppy, Noah, Luke & Annabella Class 7: Holly & Elsie Class 8: William & Elsa Class 9: Sam & Eve Class 10: Ronny & Joshua Class 12: Annabelle & Heidi Class 13: Demetri, Tobias, Noah & Abigail Class 14: Isla, Taujaun & Wilf In EYFS, certificates were awarded to Nathan, Mason Reuben & Benjamin for signing their Christmas songs really well.

EYFS This week we welcomed back our EYFS children. It was fantastic to see them skipping into school on Monday with beaming smiles. They have loved being back with their friends, singing Christmas songs, enjoying our corners and musical benches games, to name but a few on party day, and meeting Santa on the Santa Dash was also amazing! We hope you enjoy hanging your Christmas decoration in pride of place on your Christmas tree because the children have all taken great pride in thinking about their design and glittering it so carefully for you. The EYFS team would like to thank you all sincerely for all the support that they received with home learning during our period of isolation. Since returning, EYFS have welcomed back safe and very happy children rocking around the EYFS garden Christmas Tree and this has made it a fantastic Christmas time in school.

Childwall CE Primary School

Newsletter

Issue 14 Friday 18th December 2020

“And the child grew and became strong; He was full of wisdom and God’s blessings were upon Him.” (Luke 2:40)

“So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the

manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were

amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and

pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and

praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been

told.” Luke 2:16-17

PTFA Christmas Raffle A huge thank you to everybody who bought ‘virtual raffle tickets’ for this year’s Christmas raffle and congratulations to all the winners! After prizes had been purchased, the raffle raised an incredible £1215 for PTFA funds to help school.

Santa Dash Our wonderful children joined in the fundraising and, again, I have to thank all our families for your generosity; not only did they have a wonderful time running the Daily Mile, accompanied by Santa, but, between them, the children raised a fantastic £1287.19 with their Santa Dash!

Our elves have been very kind to us this week. They left ingredients for us to make snowman biscuits and colouring pages to mark 10 more days until Christmas Day. They left the best surprise until Thursday when they gave the children a Christmas party!

Class Worship Plan During this week, we were delighted to be able to share with each of our families a copy of our school worship plan. Created during lockdown, we use this plan each week to guide our class collective worship. We hope you enjoy sharing in at home. We are hugely grateful to one of our lovely school families who gave us so much support in making this happen.

Santa Dash Classes 1, 2 and 11 all had a wonderful time running their Santa Dash this week. Santa was so happy that they were all back at school after their isolation that he made time to come back to school and join them and was even able to hand-deliver some of his selection boxes to our younger children to enjoy after their Christmas party!

Community Links:

Food Bank

I am delighted to be able to make another ‘huge’ delivery to Knowsley Food bank at St Mary’s Church just in time for Christmas. As always, you have been so generous and shown true compassion with your donations of food items and toiletries – which included a wonderful hamper donated by one of our thoughtful parents. I was asked this week if there is any way to make a financial donation to the food bank so include the link below should anyone wish to consider this at any time: https://knowsleyfoodbank.enthuse.com/KnowsleyFoodbank#!/ Again, thank you to everybody who is able to donate at any time; we will continue to collect each day at the front gate. We are committed to supporting local food bank all year round to help our children gain an understanding of the need for commitment to long-term projects which rely on community donations of time and money. Please don’t feel under any individual pressure to donate at any time; our aim is for the children to see us coming together as a school family and committing collectively. Many thanks for your continuing support as always. Should anyone find themselves in a position of need, please do let us know and we can hopefully signpost towards support.