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MacMillan Bake Sale

Date: 30th Sep 2024 @ 1:12pm

Our fantasic Lyme community raised £300 for Macmillan by holding a Bake Sale and a raffle. 

Rights-Respecting Ambassadors Assembly- September

Date: 30th Sep 2024 @ 1:11pm

The ambassadors led an assembly this week to promote their role and about article 12: the right to be listened to. 

Judo assembly

Date: 30th Sep 2024 @ 1:08pm

Anthony delivered an assembly to promote his Judo Club and encourage the children to join our after school clubs after the holidays. 

Road Safety workshop

Date: 30th Sep 2024 @ 1:04pm

Mel from the Road Safety Team came to deliver an assembly to the whole school on how to stay safe near the roads. 

AUTUMN TERM 1 - After School Clubs

Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 11:10am

This half term, the children have been enjoying these after school clubs:

  • Football
  • Gardening Club
  • Yoga and Mindfulness
  • Seasonal arts annd crafts

 

Y6 vs Staff Football Match.

Date: 26th Jul 2024 @ 12:37pm

To mark the Euros this year, the year 6 children took on some of the staff in our own football match. England might not have brought the cup home but the staff certainly did. 

Summer Term Achiever's awards

Date: 17th Jul 2024 @ 2:59pm

Well done to this term's award winners who have demonstrated excellent knowledge, skills, understanding and progress across all the different curriculum areas. 

Brass Band Concert at the Town Hall

Date: 17th Jul 2024 @ 2:49pm

Members of our Brass Band and Y4 class performed at the Town Hall this week. They joined Valley Brass to share several pieces of muisc with a large audience, including the Mayor and her Consort. 

Brass Band visit to the Town Hall

Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 2:12pm

Members of our Brass Band visited the Town Hall this afternoon where they had lunch with the Mayor and her Consort. During their time there they found out lots of information about local history and then played a piece of music. What a fantastic experience!

Lyme's Got Talent

Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 11:15am

We held class auditions this half term for Lyme's Got Talent. Our finalists competed last night in front of a full house of families and our four judges - the Mayoress, Councillor Jeanette Banks, and her consort, Councillor David Banks, along with Ann and Pauline from Business for Youth.  The winners received a voucher and trophy kindly donated by Business for Youth.                 

All of the children were excellent - showing confidence and enjoyment in their performance. The judges had the very difficult decision to choose the winners:

1st place: Jacob and Aleksander 

2nd place: Rihanna

3rd place: Kaitlin 

Pupil Leadership presentation for the Governing Body

Date: 10th Jul 2024 @ 9:27am

Our pupil leadership groups have been fantastic again this year. They have been involved in a variety of different roles across school including decision-making and leading assemblies. This week, representatives presented to the Governing Body on this year's achievements and the impact their role has had on the school and on them individually. 

Summer Fayre

Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 4:16pm

This year's Summer Fayre was fantastic! Members of our school community enjoyed lots of different activities and stalls - even the weather didn't spoil it!

Euro Day

Date: 24th Jun 2024 @ 4:19pm

During our Euro day, we 'travelled' to six different countries in Europe using our special passports. We took part in a range of fun activities and had our passports stamped. Here are some comments and photographs from the day:

  • My favourite country was Spain because we drew funny faces in the style of Picasso.
  • I liked going to the Netherlands because I liked painting with my fingers.
  • I enjoyed visiting Scotland because we played Tug of War.
  • My favourite country was Italy as we built towers using cocktail sticks and mini marshmallows.

Mayor and Mayoress' visit

Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 4:18pm

We were delighted to have a visit from the Mayor, Lynn Clarke, and Mayoress, Hayley Clarke, this week. They were accompanied by Mayor's Cadet, Emily, who is a former Lyme pupil and the daughter of our Chair of Governors, Caroline Unsworth. They presented this week's achievement certificates and Headteacher's awards during our celebration assembly and talked to the children about how they serve the community in their roles. After assembly, 
our Rights-Respecting Schools Ambassadors talked about our recent reaccreditation of the UNICEF gold award and how they are teaching our community about children's rights. Members of The Singing Stars showed off our art display, including playground mural, and talked about our recent Artsmark Award. Madam Mayor was keen to hear about our PATHs curriculum and how we are hoping to be awarded model school status this year - our B's Buddies spoke about their role in using PATHs during break and lunchtimes to support other children. Some of our Y5 pupil gave our visitors a tour around school giving children from each class the chance to ask them some questions.
Madam Mayor commented that: 'The children were an absolute credit to the school and had lots of interesting questions for us.'

GARDENING CLUB

Date: 4th Apr 2024 @ 9:37am

Thank you to the Eco Team and all the children who came to Gardening Club over the Easter holidays. They were very busy bees: creating plant pots and bird houses; preparing the planters; cleaning up the pond area or a nauture garden; planting some fruits and vegetables; creating 3 new bug hotels and planting lots of wild flowers to help maintain and attract our local wildlife. We were all exhausted after two days of very hard work but are looking forward to seeing our results over the next months. 

EASTER CRAFTS

Date: 4th Apr 2024 @ 9:31am

A huge thanks to all the parents and children who attended the Easter Craft Event organised and run by our Student Council. The children had a fabulous and very creative time and we managed to raise some more money towards our much needed sound system. It definitely got us all ready for our Easter break - Enjoy!

Easter Assembly

Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 12:05pm

Today, Reverend Chris came to deliver his Easter Assembly.

He told us the story of a leper and about how Jesus came back on Easter Sunday to teach people how to be better versions of themselves.

It was very thought provoking and made the children think about they treat others.

 

 

ARTICLE OF THE MONTH

Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 4:56pm

Another fantastic 'Article of the Month' assembly delivered by our Rights Respecting Team. This month's article is 'Article 23 -  A child with a disability has the right to live a full and decent life with dignity and, as far as possible, independence'. The ambassadors did an amazing job of educating our school and introducing this month's activities. 

World Book day visitor!

Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 1:42pm

Matt Whitley, a St. Helens RLFC player, visited our assembly this week to talk to the children about his favourite book - and answer some questions about his rugby career!

Reading Ambassador Meeting

Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 2:28pm

Today our reading ambassadors met to discuss their ideas for World Book Day which we will be celebrating on Friday 8th March. 

They created posters for the event and displayed them around the school. 

National Storytelling Week

Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 2:25pm

This week has been National Storytelling Week.  Our reading ambassadors led storytelling sessions in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1.  In our assembly on Thursday we spoke about the skills needed to be a good storyteller.  We looked at celebrity storytellers such as musicians, dancers, actors, singers and authors. 

We are all storytellers! 

National Compliments Day - whole school assembly

Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 3:51pm

Wednesday 24th February was Natonal Compliments Day.  Today we had an assembly to celebrate the process of complimenting and self complimenting.  Some of our children shared their own compliments and we watched a video 'The Reflection in Me' about a girl who listens to what her reflection tells her about herself. 

The main message was to value ourselves and that when we are kind to ourselves, we feel happier and brighter in general. 

 

 

The Christmas Story ... Knock Knock

Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 12:18pm

Today, Reverend Chris came to re-tell The Christmas Story to the children.

He re-told the story in the form of 'Knock Knock' - and he acted out all the characters in the story.  All the children found it entertaining and it certainly was a different way to re-tell the Christmas Story.

His assembly was finished with a prayer of reflection. 

Sports Teams

Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 10:03am

Our Sports Teams have been very active this term so far!

GOLD!!

Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 9:44am

We are very proud to have been reaccredited as a Gold Rights-Respecting School! https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/23911018.lyme-community-primary-school-awarded-gold-status-rrsa-award/

Eco Schools Logo
Green Flag Award Logo
UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Gold Award
Arts Council: Artsmark Silver Award
Three Sixty Degree Safe: Accredited Safer Online

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