Great Crosby Catholic Primary 01519248661 admin.greatcrosby@schools.sefton.gov.uk
Great Crosby Catholic Primary School
Great Crosby Catholic Primary 01519248661 admin.greatcrosby@schools.sefton.gov.uk
Great Crosby Catholic Primary School
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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 where 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 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.
L Morton
Headteacher
Our Mission Statement
Congratulations to Miss Sharrock who once again completed the London Marathon. Her chosen charity this year is Bone Cancer Research Trust. Look out for her on TV! If you would like to make a donation, please click/tap the image.
Our pupils took part in the kNOw Knife Crime mini-marathon with other Sefton schools. We welcomed runners from Sacred Heart and sent some runners to Forefield Juniors. We're all fundraising for bleeding control kits & cabinets outside our schools. If you'd like to make a donation please click tap the image. To find out about the kNOw Knife Crime campaign set up in memory of our former pupil Colin McGinty please click/tap the green button.
There are more photos on our Catholic Life > Gt Crosby & the Community page
Click/tap the image to see more photos.
Click/tap the green button to watch the Sefton Schools Relay video on YouTube.
Well done to our Y5 pupils who took part in this special news report about air quality in South Sefton and how we can all do our part to improve it. After watching this film, please complete a short survey by clicking/tapping on the green button..
On Fri 15th Mar, we held our CAFOD MARKET DAY. This is an opportunity for children to buy from each other and raise money. The infants bought a book, a toy & a cake for £1. Y5 & Y6 devised their own games and activities to run their own stalls for the KS2 children to play in the hall & on the field.
This week we welcomed Linda and Jacqueline from CAFOD Liverpool for the our Catholic Social Teaching workshops. Years 1 & 2 listened and responded well to the principles of 'Everyone Is Special' & 'Showing We Care'. Years 3 & 4 also focused on 'Putting People in Most Need First'. Click/tap the image to see more photos. Click/tap the green button to find out more about the 7 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching.
Every year during Lent we learn about the work of CAFOD, pray for the people they support and raise money to support their valuable work. On Wed 13th Mar, we held our BIG LENT WALK. For this we asked for a donation of £1 to complete laps of the field. It was a bit drizzly, but we didn't mind.
Click/tap the image if you would like to sign up as a family or individual.
Click/tap the green button to make a donation.
Fri 23rd Feb is CAFOD Family Fast Day. In assembly, Mrs Morton asked all the children and staff to at least give up a snack and to bring the money as a donation to CAFOD's work.
This film shows CAFOD's work in the fishing community where Aaron lives in Liberia.
If you usually have a take away at the weekend, maybe you could donate the money to CAFOD instead?
It was lovely to begin Lent with Mass celebrated by Fr John. We shall be having Mass at 8am every Wednesday morning during Lent. Parents, carers and parishioners are all welcome. Have you seen the display in our entrance?
Pray together for a different intention each day of Lent, using the CAFOD family prayer intention sheet. As you pray colour in each leaf, everyday from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. Click/tap the image to download the PDF.
This video explains where the ashes we recieve on Ash Wednesday come from.
Year 6 had a very busy three days at PGL Boreatton Park. The activities were abseiling, high ropes, problem solving, archery, Jacob's Ladder, canoeing, zip wire, sensory trail & laser tag. The evening activities were 'Ambush' - a giant hide & seek and a campfire where we sang in the rain. I was muddy, but we had fun! Click/tap the image above to find the photos on the Year 6 page..
This week, the Reception children were very excited to welcome baby chicks to our school. On Monday, we were delivered the living eggs and as the week has gone by the eggs have started to crack! Here are some photos of the chicks! The Reception children have made some cards for the chicks to make them feel welcome. We are also looking after some tadpoles and watching them develop. Click/tap the green button to see more photos.
Congratulations to the Year 4 gymnastics team who represented Sefton today at the Merseyside Youth Games in Birkenhead. All the children performed superbly and demonstrated their excellent gymnastics skills, to the best of their ability. The team won the 'Spirit of the Games' award for their group routine doing themselves and Great Crosby proud.
We had Pearl's dad and Grannie in school. Her dad taught everyone in Reception Spanish colours, numbers, and some fruit and vegetables. Her Grannie did some sewing with RHL. Click/tap the image to see more photos.
In the lead up to Paris 2024, our Eco Council have entered the Get Set for Positive Energy 'Design Your Own Sustainable School' competition. Click/tap the image to see some more entries.
The latest Great Crosby news from Mrs Morton.
It's World Book Day and the school is full of children and staff dressed up as their favourite book character, or something representing their favourite non-fiction book. Some children are dressed in pyjamas or their own clothes with a quote or a fact from their favourite book. Everyone had at least 15 minutes of silent reading time. Some classes have watched live lessons from the Literacy Trust and Premier League. The staff have dressed up and recorded 'Masked Reader' videos. Click on the image to visit or Love of Reading page. Can you guess who the masked readers are?
Some Year 2 children took part in the CAPITAL Crosby Schools Diversity and Equality Concert at Mountford Hall, Liverpool University. The photo shows them rehearsing in themorning. Click/tap the green button for the article from Granada Reports.
Year 2 enjoyed listening to & joining in with authors Michael Rosen and Jasbinder Bilan, and illustrator Allan Fatimaharan in the British Library online fairy tales workshop today. They'll be 'cooking up' their own fairy tales this week. .
In Reception we have spotted some signs of Spring whilst in the Prayer Garden this week.
We talked about how Friday is St David’s Day and that he is the Patron Saint of Wales. The children have been working hard when drawing and colouring daffodils this week and how they are national flower of Wales.
Reception were suprised to find out that a bear had visited their classrooms. Watch the video to find out what happened!
Huge congratulations to Joshua, Sophie, Henry, Niamh and Kendal for winning at the Year 4 Sefton Gymnastics Competition. They will be representing Central Sefton in the Merseyside Games in the future. Massive congratulations to Daniel, Aoife, Patrick, Myla and Jessic who came 2nd. Mrs Lloyd is so proud of the bravery, determination and dedication of the entire team. Welld one Year 4! You were out of this world. Click the image to go to the video on our Sports page.
In our Forest school, EYFS childrenare looking for signs of Spring. They're developing hand/eye coordination by using hammers & screwdrivers. Some children have tried tying knots, requiring concentration, resilience & manipulation. They have also had fun measuring worms. Click the image for more photos.
Reception classes welcomed Patrick from Active Sefton to learn about healthy eating. They learnt that water is the healthiest drink & recognised healthy/unhealthy foods. They also made smoothies. Click /tap the image to see more photos.
Our Year 5 and Year 6 children showed great teamwork in supporting each other in the Chesterfield High School Multi-Sports Festival. They enjoyed bean bag in to the basket; long jump & high jump; mini hurdles; giant bal volleyball; curling and archery. Click the image to see more photos.
Click/tap the image to vist our online safety page for lots of resources to help you talk with your child and to keep them safe. Please make some time during the half-term break to talk to your child about what they know about online safety and what they are doing on any devices.
Last weekend our 3M Eco-councillor asked if he could go to Crosby Beach and do litter picking as part of his role. He went down with his Dad and spent time collecting a bin bag full of rubbish. We as a school together with his parents are very proud of him, as he asked to do it without prompting. He is an inspiration. Click/tap the image to see some more photos on our Community > Eco Council page. Click the green button if you would like to join an organised litter pick, by contacting Friends of Crosby Beach or look up Crosby Wombles on Facebook.
Reception have been marking the Lunar New Year with some dragon dancing in the hall. Click/tap the green button to find out about events in Liverpool.
Thank you for the fantastic response to our South Sefton Foodbank collection today. The donations were very gratefully received. Click/tap the photo to see more photos.
We have introduced School Gateway to Great Crosby – a parent/carer engagement app that will allow us to communicate with you efficiently and allow you to pay for school dinners, school trips and any other fees online.
At present you are still receiving messages from us through Groupcall, but we will be moving over to School Gateway after half term.
Thank you to those parents/carers who have already registered. If you have not done so, you will not receive communications from school when we stop using Groupcall. It is essential that we are able to contact all parents/carers quickly, so in order to continue receiving texts/emails from school you must register as soon as possible, if you have not already done so.
Click on the button to read the full letter and instructions.
Today some of our Year 5s led both assemblies to introduce Safer Internet Day, which is celebrated all over the world on Tue 6th Feb. This year’s theme is all about change and influence online. The children gave excellent responses when asked about what to do when something strange or worrying happens. They also gave good examples of who their trusted adults would be.
Click/tap the image to visit our Parents/Carers Online Safety page which has lots of resources and links to have conversations at home.
Congratulations to our cross-country runners who represented Sefton Schools in Arrowe Park on Saturday.
We are awaiting their medals.
Mrs Morton has lots of news from the Spring Term so far.
Birdwatch was the 27-28th January. We hope you got to spot some birds in your garden or local green space!
To encourage birds you could make some easy bird feeders. We made some in Forest school with Nursery and Reception children.
Simple birder feeder ideas:
Scoop out an orange then fuil it with bird seed and hang it with string.
Find a stick or pinecone and spread it with it lard or margarine then dip it in seed ready to hang on a tree.
Click/tap the image to see more on our Forest School page.
As part of our Mental Health Month, our Mental Health Champions led our assembly today with the theme, 'Our Voice Matters'. They support pupilsin our school with their mental health each day by helping children play games well together at play times and lunchtimes.
If they see someone upset or alone, they help them to talk about what has happened and help them find a solution. They also teach other children to have skills to calm themselves when they are feeling big emotions.
Reception and Key Stage 1 have been having fun on Fairy Tales Day. Thank you to our kitchen staff for giving them a a picnic box at lunchtime.
Thank you to Holly from Kooth
for talking to our Years 5 & 6, helping us to launch our Mental Health Month by explaining the ways that the Kooth website can used for free, safe & anonymous support and to boost your wellbeing.
Click/tap the image to visit the Kooth website. Click the green button for our Wellbeing for children page.
Remember to click our Wellbeing tab then Learning Mentor Advice for websites recommended by Mrs Solkin for parents.
The Governors are looking to appoint two Lunchtime Welfare Assistants to start asap, on fixed term contracts until 31st August 2024.
Click the green button to visit Sefton's vacancies page for more details or click/tap the image to visit our Key Info > Staff and Vacancies page.
Completed applications to be returned by Mon 22nd Jan 2024 at 9am.
We have introduced School Gateway to Great Crosby – a parent/carer engagement app that will allow you to pay for school dinners, school trips and any other fees, and allow us to communicate with you efficiently.
At present you are still receiving messages from us through Groupcall, but we will be moving over to School Gateway in this term.
We are already using School Gateway for all online payments and 49% of parents/carers have registered with the new system and 40% have downloaded the app.
To stay up to date with what is going on at school, please download the app for free. Just search School Gateway in your App store / Google Play store and download.
Your login details will be automatically generated using the contact information the school already has, so please make sure the details we hold for you are up to date.
You will open the app, click Sign up, enter the email address the school has for you, enter your mobile number, and click Send PIN. Wait for the text message with the PIN to arrive, enter your PIN and then you can log in.
You can also login to the online version of School Gateway by clicking on the logo above, if you do not have a smart phone, although we do recommend using the app if possible as it makes it easier to get hold of parents/carers when we need to, and it costs less for the school to keep in touch with you, which is really important in these difficult financial times.
Help on downloading the app and accessing School Gateway can be found by clicking on the green button below.
Thank you for your patience and support as we move over to School Gateway.
We encourage as many families as possible to attend one of our churches over Christmas and to visit the cribs.
Ss Peter and Paul’s
Sat 23rd Dec
5.45pm Vigil for 4th Sunday of Advent
Sun 24th Dec
10.30am 4th Sunday of Advent
7pm Vigil Mass of Christmas
Mon 25th Dec
12am Midnight Mass of Christmas,
8.30am, 10.30am Mass for Christmas Day
St Helen’s
Sun 24th Dec
10am 4th Sunday of Advent
8pm Vigil Mass of Christmas
Mon 25th Dec
10.00am Mass for Christmas Day
St Joseph’s
Sat 23rd Dec
6.30pm Vigil for 4th Sunday of Advent
Sun 24th Dec
11.15am 4th Sunday of Advent
10pm Vigil Mass of Christmas
Mon 25th Dec
11.15am Mass for Christmas Day
St Edmund of Canterbury
Sat 23rd Dec
5.30pm Vigil for 4th Sunday of Advent
Sun 24th Dec
9.45am 4th Sunday of Advent
6.30pm Vigil Mass of Christmas
11.30pm Carols then Midnight Mass
Mon 25th Dec
11.30am Mass for Christmas Day
Today we celebrated Christmas liturgies and received blessings from Fr John. We welcomed a real baby into our Nativity tableau.
Unfortunately, Mrs Morton has lost her voice, so she has written a letter rather than recording a vlog. You can read it on our Parents/Carers > Letters page. Click/tap the image.
Congratulations and very well done to all our Stars of the Term who were presented with their certificates and two complementary Plaza tickets. They were chosen for their exceptional progress or for being role models by always following our code of conduct.
The children enjoyed their Christmas parties today, including another apearance by Buddy the Elf.
Thank you to our kitchen and welfare staff for all their work this year, partuclarly today with all the Christmas dinners.
Thank you to everyone who has attended our Christmas Market this afternoon. We hope that you bought some gifts, had fun on our games and enjoyed our choir's singing.
A number of prizes will be sent home on Monday:
Y6 Snowball tray game: Isabelle Y6, Harry y4, Orla Y1 and Hollie's Mum Y6
Today, Reception and KS1 have been entertained by our visitors. Buddy the Elf and Santa. Buddy has also been spotted at our Christmas Market!
This week Year 3 visited The Atkinson in Southport to watch the Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime and to visit the Egyptian Museum and take part in a mummy workshop. Click/tap the image to see more photos.
Well done to our Y6 choir who sang carols and songs at Nazareth House along with choirs from Sacred Heart and Ursuline, helping to bring Christmas joy to the residents, staff and visitors.
Thank you once again for the donations to the South Sefton Foodbank. They were greatly appreciated.
The whole school took some time today to have fun taking part in the National School Games Santa Dash singing Christmas songs along the way.
As part of their local history study of the impact of WWI on Liverpool, year 6 have been sharing their own family stories. They brought in the most amazing artefacts which have been carefully looked after over the years.
Year 5 have enjoyed their residential at The CHET Centre, Little Crosby. They had fun despite the rain. Their activities included: low ropes course; tree tops adventure; climbing wall and curling. In the evening, they ate s'mores cooked on a campfire then took a night walk to the old church. Click/tap on the image above to see more photos.
Mrs Morton shares all the news from a busy November and looks ahead to Advent.
Well done to our Year 2 children who performed their Advent service to Years 3 to 6 and twice to families. Click/tap the image to see more photos.
We have morning Advent Mass in school for families and parishioners at 8am on Wednesdays 6th, 13th and 20th December.
We welcomed Richard Cooke from CAFOD Liverpool to celebrate our fundraising for CAFOD this year. He showed us how the money we raised would #BrightenUp the lives of other people, particularly after the Pakistan floods.
Thank you for all the donations to the Poppy Appeal this year. We were delighted to receive a certificate of thanks from the Royal British Legion as we raised £616.85.
Very well done to all our cross-country runners who represented Sefton in the Merseyside County Primary Schools Cross-Country Championships in Sefton Park, helping Sefton to win bronze.
Click/tap the image for more photos.
Thank you BullyBusters Sherrell & Natalie for our assemblies today. They reminded us that it's good to be different, to use a safe hand to say no & to know our 5 trusted adults. They also worked with our school council.
Our new Great Green Dream Team have created two videos. In the the first one, they introduce themselves and their work. In the second one, they tell us about Switch Off Fortnight, which we are in the middle of. Click on the image to visit the our Great Crosby and the Community page.
On Friday, Orlaith from 5HW read this lovely poem that she had written in our KS2 Star of the Week.
We are delighted to be able to share this lovely certificate from CAFOD thanking us for our fundraising this year. Thank you for the support from our families.
Lots of children & staff are wearing their odd socks today for Anti-Bullying Week Odd Socks Day. In our Stars of the Week assemblies the children showed their understanding of bullying & explained how they were going to be kind & helpful.
On Fri 15th Dec, we are holding a Christmas Market starting at 3.15pm.
In preparation for the Christmas Market, we are asking for contributions to be sent into school. This Friday we are requesting sweets to fill clean, empty glass jars, which we also need.
We will also be collecting any unwanted Christmas jumpers to be sold at the Christmas Market. These can be sent into the school office anytime up to Wed 13th Dec.
We're in the middle of Maths Week England. There are special competitions & activities in lessons during the week. Please encourage your children to spend some at home on Times Table Rock Stars (until Thu) & Mangahigh (until Sat) to improve our competition placings. Click/tap the image you visit our Favourite Websites page.
This is Anti-Bullying Week. We have had assemblies reminding us to be kind & loving. We've talked about using the S.T.O.P. (Several Times On Purpose) hand. KS2 also discussed what is and isn't banter. We are having more activities in PSHE lessons. On Friday we'll have Odd Socks Day to celebrate our uniqueness.
Mrs Murphy led our commemoration of Remembrance Day on Thu 9th Nov in an afternoon assembly. Year 3 children were asked who we are remembering and older children were asked the meaning of 'Lest We Forget'. Mrs Murphy talked about the first Remembrance Day and the sad story of the Grossart brothers who lived in Crosby. Some Year 5s read their moving poppy poems in the style of Laura Mucha. Year 6 led our prayers. Click on the image to see more photos and to hear the poems written and read by Year 5.
Today, we welcomed probably the World's greatest rapper - Jamie Broad and Luke from YKids Charity as part of Bootle Children's Literary Festival 2023. In assembly, he gave us a history of hiphop & took us on a quest for the best rap ever. In Y3 Rhyme Aided Poetry workshops he inspired children & adults to construct 4-line raps, putting rhymes on the 4th beat and using adjectives to match the numbers of syllables in lines.
Parents and carers have received an email with instructions about how to vote in the Parent Governor Election. Please contact the school if you have not received the email.
Parents and carers are encouraged to vote online but paper copies are available from the office if required. Each parent/carer is entitled to one vote. The closing date is Tuesday 21st November at 12 noon.
This week, Mrs Morton led our first two school tours for parents and carers of children applying for September 2024 Reception places. We have more availability on tours this month – Tue 7th, Thu 9th, 16th, 23rd at 10am. To book a place, please contact the school office. Click/tap the image to visit our Admissions page for more information.
Our PTA Annual General Meeting is on Tuesday 7th November from 7pm in the school studio. Please come along if you able to volunteer in any way. It is a super way to support the school life of your children. Click/tap the image to find out more.
Thank you to Fr Mark for celebrating All Saints Day Mass with Years 3, 4 & 6 in school today. At Ss Peter & Paul's, our Year 5s read and said prayers as well as singing.
From tomorrow, 1st Nov, our Y6 children will be selling Royal British Legion gifts to raise money for the Poppy Appeal including snap bracelets, wristbands & reflective poppies for a suggested donation of £1. We'll also have regular poppies for a donation.
Mrs Morton has the latest news from Great Crosby at the end of the first Autumn half-term.
Well done to Olive, one of our Year 5 class councillors, who wrote to The L20 Hub to request books and games for her class. The L20 Hub responded superbly with funding for which the class and school are very grateful.
There is a vacancy for a Parent Governor to serve on the governing board of this school. We are very keen to encourage parents to nominate themselves to fill this place. Details of how to nominate yourself, nomination form and self declaration form are available from the school office or can be downloaded from the our Governors page Click on the image above. Nominations close on 31st Oct at 9.30am. If an election is required, all parents will be able to vote.
We are delighted to have been shortlisted again for the Educate Awards Outstanding Commitment to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Judges said: "Excellent series of activities spread across Great Crosby Catholic Primary School. The commitment to STEM is excellent, and the school clearly enjoys engaging the students with STEM topics."
After writing application letters and being interviewed, our Year 6 prefects have successfully completed at least one week of their duties. Their presence around school has certainly been appreciated.
Our Fantasy Football Premier League starts on Saturday 21st October. Please click on the green button to visit our letters page, to download the instructions, including our private league code. Click on the image to visit the fantasy league website.
Father John joined us for our Star of the Week celebrations this morning and shared CAFOD’s Family Fast Day prayer. Today is CAFOD Family Fast Day and we are asked to give up a meal. If you are able to go without a meal or snack over the weekend and are able to make a donation, that would be lovely. You can watch a short video about CAFOD’s appeal and donate online at https://cafod.org.uk/ Donations can also be made at our churches. Our assemblies on Monday morning will be about CAFOD. Well done and thank you to Nancy and Sophie, who raised £48.30 for CAFOD by holding a cake sale and raffle.
Look at our harvest !
After all hard work in Forest School in the Summer Term we reaped the rewards harvesting our vegetables.
Well done to our green-fingered EYFS! They enjoyed eating at snack time.
Click the image to see more photos.
This Sunday, 1st October, Sacred Heart Catholic Academy are hosting the ‘Crosby Community 5K Charity Run’. We are encouraging all our Great Crosby families and the local community to get involved. The run is raising money for two charities - The Jack Riding Foundation, which pays for heart screening for young footballers, and The Jacob Billington Trust, which provides music lessons for Sefton pupils who otherwise couldn't afford to pay for them. Both Jack and Jacob came to our school, and then to Sacred Heart. Jack was a great footballer. Jacob was a great musician. More details on our Parents/Carers > Letters page.
Mrs Morton shares the latest news from Great Crosby. Please look at our Our Learning > yeargroup pages for Meet The Teacher information, our 'Diary' page for forthcoming events and our Key Info > Uniform page for uniform details.
ITP (Immune Thrombocytopenia) is a rare blood disorder, which affects the platelets. Platelets are one of the three types of blood cells, along with red and white blood cells. ITP affects four in every 100,000 children. Most children recover within the first 6 weeks. Charlotte has had chronic ITP for 5 years. She suffers with bruising, bleeding and daily tiredness. She takes daily meditation and has required other hospital treatment.
Charlotte was lucky enough to be put forward by Alder Hey Hospital to a charity called Destination Florida. They took 75 children from the North West away to Florida for the week on a trip of a lifetime. These children are either terminally ill or who have life limiting conditions.
Y6/Y5 Children and their parents/carers who attended Sacred Heart's Open Evening had the opportunity to meet Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Here's a photo of Sonny who was thrilled to meet one of his favourite authors!
At the end of the Summer Term, Ellison, Isla and Max organised a competition and raised £87.60 for CAFOD. Following their fundraising efforts, they were able to buy a number of World Gifts to help CAFOD's work: 'Happy queen bee'; 'clever self-watering garden'; super soup kitchen'; 'keep clean kit' and 'the goat that gives. Press the green button to find out more about CAFOD World Gifts.
Well done as well to Meara (Y5), Huey (Y2) and Darcey (Rec). They made jewellery and sold it over the summer holidays, raising £16.00 for CAFOD.
Dear Parents and Carers
What a lovely first week I have had here at Great Crosby. Thank you to everyone who has made me feel so welcome on the yard in the mornings and to all the staff and pupils. Everyone has been so warm and friendly. It has been lovely to see the children looking so smart, learning in classes and hearing them laughing and playing on the playground.
We have all been learning about Great Crosby's mission statement at the start of term, starting with staff at the beginning of the week and ending with children in assembly today. It has been a privilege to see the staff's caring attitude towards the pupils helping them all settle in so well and the pupils' positive attitudes, truly living out our Mission Statement on the ground.
We are looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible in our 'Meet the Teachers' over the next few weeks ( dates in the newsletter and the calendar page). We will be sending out our code of conduct and home school agreement at the meetings to promote our parent partnership here at school.
For now, well done to everyone for getting through to the end of the first week in such hot conditions, we will keep a relaxed approach for summer/winter uniform over the next few weeks to keep children cool. Have a well deserved rest over the weekend and I look forward to meeting you moving forward.
Best wishes
MrsMorton
This Sunday 10th September is Education Sunday. Please try to attend Mass at one of our churches.
St Helen’s - Sunday 10.00am
Ss Peter & Paul's - Sunday 10.30am
St Joseph’s - Saturday 6.30pm
Sunday 11.00am
There will be prayers, thanksgiving and a retiring collection. Children are encouraged to wear their school uniform as part of the celebration.
Mrs Crann's final vlog of the term with news of our busy last full week in school.
Please take time read the National Online Safety poster on our Parents > Online Safety page, together with other advice to help keep our children safe during the Summer holidays and beyond. Click on the image.
Today we held a non-uniform day, for which the children brought in donations to South Sefton Foodbank. Thank you for the tremendous response & your generosity. Please follow @SeftonFoodbank on Twitter to keep up-to-date with needs.
On Friday we're collecting for South Sefton Foodbank. In return for bringing items, children may wear non-uniform. The shortage list is: toiletries; tinned items - fruit, veg, potatoes, fish; instant coffee; pasta sauce & squash. Thank you for your generosity.
Following our premiere yesterday at the Plaza Cinema, we can now share the introduction to our 'Great Crosby Does Eurovision Film' funded by a EuroGrant from Culture Liverpool. The backing music is Te Deum (Charpentier) by Voyager - Australia's 2023 Eurovision entrants. Members of the Great Crosby family shared photos of their Eurovision experiences in Liverpool in May 2023.
Thank you to the Plaza Community Cinema in Waterloo for hosting the premiere of our Eurovision film, to the two winning classes 1C (Sweden) and 3C (Iceland) from our Eurovision concerts. Click the image to see some photos from our Eurovision Day.
Some of our staff are running the Liverpool Pretty Muddy 5k Race For Life on Saturday to help members of the Great Crosby family affected by cancer. They would appreciate your support. If you would like to find out more & make a donation, please click on the image.
Parents and carers - please could you check your house for any Great Crosby reading books from the scheme and from the class library. Please return them to school by Friday 7th July, so that we can sort them out, ready for September. Many thanks.
Today we welcomed Tara & Gordon from Sefton Libraries to introduce the sporty Summer Reading Challenge - 'Ready, Steady, Read!' It is free to sign up and there are gifts to collect at the start and when you have read two, four then six books. Tara and Gordon are looking forward to seeing lots of our children in the recently refurbished Crosby Library. Click on the button below to visit the Crosby Library website, which also has a list of regular activities. Click the image to find out more on our Love of Reading page.
The latest news from Great Crosby following another busy week in school.
This week we have been celebrating languages in school, particularly Spanish language and culture. On Monday we had an assembly which included a flamenco dance demonstration. Each Year 6 class then had dance workshops with Patricia and Rosie from Movema. Our school kitchens have added tasters of Spanish dishes, such as paella and tortilla, which the children have been trying. Mrs Benson, our languages coordinator, said that it was a joy to visit classrooms and see children from Nursery through to Year 6 excited about languages and that their enthusiasm has been absolutely amazing.
We wish all our families & followers a happy day on the feast of our patronal saints - Ss Peter and Paul. Thank you to Fr John for celebrating Mass and Holy Communion with us outside. We have changed our website colour to red as it is the liturgical colour for the day. Also it is one of the colours of the Spanish flag and we are in the middle of our Languages Celebration Week, what colour will it be tomorrow?
This week's Great Crosby news, including the continued need to be vigilant for Strep A symptoms, our Quidditch and Musical Theatre Week and lost property.
The latest news following another busy week at Great Crosby with more events coming up this month.
The latest news from Great Crosby ahead of our Sports Days next week.
Well done to St Nicholas Primary, winners of The Jack Riding Tournament in memory of our former pupil. Thank you to our referees, Ursuline and Waterloo who also joined us in our fundraising & Tesco for donating drinks & lollies.
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. Thursday 25th May is our annual 'Wear A 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.
The latest news from Great Crosby.
Mrs Crann's Vlog has news about next week. We apologise for the picture quality with some flickering.
Watch Mrs Crann's vlog for this week's news.
Thank you for all your kind donations for the South Sefton Foodbank. They have been gratefully taken today.
They continue to need: tea, biscuits, tinned rice pudding, tinned potatoes, men's/women's toiletries & toilet rolls.
We’re thrilled to announce that our Eurovision project is funded by Euro Grant through Culture Liverpool; Liverpool City Council; The Department for Culture Media, and Sport; Liverpool City Region and Spirit of 2012. Click on the image to find out about all the exciting EuroGrant projects.
Mrs Crann has news of our Ofsted report and forthcoming events.
A welcome to the Summer Term from Mrs Crann.
If you would like a paper copy of any documents or to contact Mrs Morton, 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
Great Crosby Catholic Primary School
The Northern Road, Crosby, Liverpool. L23 2RQ. email: admin.greatcrosby@schools.sefton.gov.uk
Tel 0151 924 8661
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