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22nd May 2024What a fabulous morning at Castle Leisure! 21 schools, 84 boys and 84 girls all trying their best at a range of strokes for their respective schools. There were four heats and we were lane 3 of heat 2. The girls started things off with some confident individual performances and the boys also did the school really proud. They...
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22nd May 2024Our cricket team put on a fine display yesterday at Walshaw Sports Club and narrowly missed out on a place on finals day by finishing third. It was lovely to watch their team spirit and a range of super skills on show: bowling, batting and catching! Well done to the team! Thank you to Mr West and the parents...
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2nd May 2024Congratulations to our rugby and tennis teams that took part in some key stage two competitions recently. They all competed to the best of their ability and in many cases were trying something new! Each team won some games, lost some games and drew some games but they ALL had fun along the way and hopefully learnt some new...
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4th December 2023The children in year 5/6 have been truly moved by the events of WWII. Gooden Gate class took a trip down ‘the lines’ to see the impact of a doodlebug missile on Christmas Eve,1944, which landed on Chapel Street (numbers 21 and 23) tragically killing 6 residents. Whitehead Gardens was created through a generous £5000 donation from the Whitehead...
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21st November 2023On Thursday 16th November our football team set out to Goshen to take part in a league group event where the team that finished top, would make it through to the quarter finals after Christmas. There were three other schools that took part and our first opponents were St Joseph’s Ramsbottom. It was a nervy start and Samuel saved...
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3rd November 2023Our boccia team set out to play in a tournament earlier in the week and put on a great display of teamwork and technique! They won some games and lost one, just missing out on a semi final spot! Thank you to Miss Forrest for coaching and transporting the team and to Mrs Seel and Miss Phillips for their...
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13th October 2023Last week our year 3/4 girls performed superbly at a tournament. Yesterday saw Team HB compete in a ‘hat-trick’ of events! In the morning, the year 3/4 boys played in a tournament with some strong convincing victories. Both year 3/4 teams finished third in their group. Thank you to Mr Crawshaw for arranging and transporting to both! Last night our...
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Effective Learner, Enjoy and Achieve, Export, Golden Gate, Grand Canyon, Healthy and Safe, News, Niagara Falls, PE, Sphinx, Taj Mahal1st October 2023If your child is in year 3 to year 6, they will have started their Friday afternoon games sessions. There are five sports available and each half term, they will move onto a new sport to learn skills and compete in matches. The sports include:dodgeball, basketball, netball, hockey, rugby (jag tag) and football! The rota will be shared each...
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14th September 2023Online Safety Newsletter Primary September 2023
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Community, English, Enjoy and Achieve, Golden Gate, Good Communicator, Grand Canyon, Include, Music, Responsibility and Contribution15th July 2023The year 6 did a trememndous job of putting on a super show this week and demonstrated our motto ‘Include, Enjoy, Achieve,’ superbly! It has been an absolute pleasure to watch them grow in confidence.
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11th July 2023Congratulations to our year 2 football team who topped their group without losing, then won their semi final against CC Walshaw. They then faced OLOL in the final but it was agreed, after the score was still 0-0, that the trophy would be shared! Two days later and both our upper key stage two teams took part in the SC...
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25th June 2023On Friday, our year 5/6 children went for a short ramble down to the river banking in Summerseat. They behaved superbly and enjoyed studying the river to reinforce key terminology such as erosion, deposition, mouth, source etc. The created some lovely art pieces within their sketch books too and enjoyed some fun activities on the local park too.
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25th June 2023On Saturday morning we took 20 children from year 3 to year 6 to Market Street running track. The team spirit and togetherness was there to see for everyone as they cheered on their school mates throughout all of the events: relays, sprints, long distance, javelin, jumping and shot putt! Every child exceeded our expectations and really pushed themselves to...
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27th March 2023Children from the oldest four classes in school took part in the second resilience challenge in just a few months. During their first challenge prior to Christmas, the children scored a 7/10 for resilience; this time round the children scored a magnificent 9/10! They all worked really hard and supported each other throughout their difficult triathlon experience! During the morning...
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19th March 2023Since prior to Christmas, Mrs Rothwell and Mr Davies have been proving our new netball team with some fantastic coaching and in the last fortnight, they have taken part in two matches. In their first match it was an extremely close race and they ended up only losing by a late goal to CC Ainsworth but a week later,...
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19th March 2023Congratulations to our 23 pupils that took part in the annual athletics competition this week at Castle Leisure Centre. The team spirit and togetherness was lovely to witness and the children certainly did the school proud with their effort and behaviour! We managed to win our race heats in all 10 races and children that took part in the...
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12th March 2023Well done to our amazing basketball team. You showed a tremendous team spirit throughout and some wonderul skills, winning two games and coming 5th overall! It was a really enjoyable event to be a part of: lots of smiles and laughter throughout! Thank you to Mr. French and also the parents for their support!
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5th October 2022This morning was our annual Harvest Festival. First and foremost, thank you to you all for your harvest contributions, which will be making their way to the local ‘porch project’ charity, a charity that we have supported for years. Special ‘thank yous’ to two year 6 pupils that were the narrators, Mrs Byrne and Mrs Geelan and our fabulous newly...
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7th February 20236 children took part in a Penathlon at the leisure today and as you can see from the pictures below, had a great time and learnt many new skills. They worked really well as a team and supported each other through any ups and downs. A huge thank you to Miss Poulastides and Mrs McLeod for taking the children...
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23rd January 2023As part of our new music unit, the children learnt a new song today and were able to perform it in unison and even add in some dance moves too! The children picked it up so easily and showed tremendous confidence and teamwork! The song originates from South Africa and is titled, ‘Throw Catch!’ Due to their amazing performance, the...