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

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• Halton Poetry Festival

  Tue 23 Apr 2024 JD

  A group of Year 4 Children were chosen to take part in the Halton Poetry Festival at St Pauls Church in Widnes.

  The children were asked to perform their own compositions  in front of a full Church which was an amazing achievement. We were so proud of the the way they performed and conducted themselves. They were a real credit to St Michael's. 

• Dot-Art School Competition

  Tue 09 Apr 2024 JD

  We are delighted that some of our children have reached the final of the Dot-art schools competition. This is a prestigious inter school Art competition which is open to pupils from all schools in Merseyside and Halton.

  The dot-art Schools 2023 Exhibition will be held at the prestigious Walker Art Gallery and open to the public from Wednesday 21st June to Sunday 2nd July.

  To vote for your favourite piece of work please head to https://schools.dot-art.com/schools/st-michaels-catholic-primary-school_368

• Willow Statues

  Wed 27 Mar 2024 JD

  It was lovely to see all the children got involved with the Willow sculpture statues which have been created in the school grounds.

  The sculptures look amazing and really enhance our school grounds.

  A big thank you to Sculptor Caroline Gregson for her hard work in helping the children create such amazing statues.

• Reception Parents Forest School

  Mon 25 Mar 2024 JD

  Reception Parents had a lovely afternoon joining in with their children in their Forest School session. This was an excellent opportunity for Parents to get some insight into the activities the children take part in and witness just how much the children enjoy the sessions. 

  Reception class will continue with their  Forest school sessions for the rest of the school year.

• World Book Day

  Fri 08 Mar 2024 JD

  On Thursday 7th March the children came to school dressed in their favourite book character to celebrate 'World Book Day'.

  It was lovely to see the children arriving in school in such imaginative Book Day outfits. Thank you to all our parents for helping the children with their costumes.

  To celebrate 'World Book Day' the Book fair is in school from Thursday until Wednesday 13th March. Parents can accompany their child to the book fair from 3.00-3.30pm each day where there is an impressive array of books for sale that the children will enjoy looking through. 

• Fairtrade Coffee Morning

  Mon 04 Mar 2024 JD

  On Friday  1st March Year 5 hosted a Fairtrade coffee morning in school. Parents were invited into school for a cup of tea or coffee to help support the Fairtrade foundation. This organisation is committed to improving the lives of the farmers and workers who produce much of our food. Fairtrade is about better prices, decent working conditions and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in low-income countries around the world.

  Thank you to all our parents who came to support this event and to Year 5 for organising the morning so well.

• Year 5 Residential to PGL Boreatton Park

  Mon 04 Mar 2024 JD

  Year 5 had an amazing 3 days last week at Boreatton Park which is a multi activity adventure centre set in the Shropshire Countryside.

  The children took part in many outdoor activities  over the 3 days but particuarly enjoyed the canoeing activity and the climbing wall. The evenings were spent having a sing song around a camp fire and playing  games.

  The entire trip was a complete success which we are sure the children will remember for years to come.

• Year 3 Residential Crosby Hall

  Thu 01 Feb 2024 JD

  Our Year 3 children were very excited yesterday to embark on their first experience of a school residential. The day began with a morning  at the Catalyst museum were they made full use of the interactive equipment before enjoying an 'Operation Earth' workshop. After lunch they left for Crosby Hall for a 2 night residential. They will be taking part in an array of outdoor activities including archery, zip wire, an adventure course, pottery as well as a night time camp fire.

  We are sure that the children will have an amazing time -full updates are available on the schools X (twitter) account.

• Forest School

  Mon 22 Jan 2024 JD

  We are delighted to have restarted Forest school sessions for Reception class and After school club. 

  The children are thoroughly enjoying the sessions which build children's confidence, self belief and problem solving skills. The sessions will run until Easter and we are looking to offer the sessions to another year group in the summer term.

• Coffee Afternoon -Advanced Solutions

  Fri 12 Jan 2024 JD

  After a great first week back in school we are ending the week with a very special coffee afternoon for our parents of SEN children. The coffee afternoon is being run in conjunction with 'ADDvanced Solutions'.

  ADDvanced Solutions supports families living with neurodevelopmental conditions, learning difficulties and associated mental health needs.   They provide community-based, learning, coaching and mentoring programmes which are designed to help families to better recognise, understand and meet children's individual needs, enabling them to manage day to day challenges.

  We are looking forward to welcoming our parents into school and sincerely hope that they benefit from attending.