The safe place for all to grow in friendship, body and mind within the foundations of the

Christian faith.

This weeks awards go to

Super Work Award

Positive Contribution

None this week

Robins

Ruby White for fantastic writing about the

Wrens

Finlay Ehlen for fantastic maths and great

Sparrows

Giants Causeway
homework

Bella Topping and Elissa Clarke for fantastic

fraction maths

Eleanor Bullough for making the class a better

place and Kai Grant for trying really hard to be

as good as he can

Goldfinches
Hummingbirds

None this week

Archie Shelton for being ready to learn
Owen Sadler for always smiling and being
mature

Macey Turley and Matthew Taylor for being a

pleasure to teach

Anna Welland for being a mini teaching

assistant

Congratulations also to Amelie Marshall who gained 2nd place at the Wirral Festival of Speech and
Drama and Lucy Naylor for achieving a distinction in her Grade 1 Piano exam.

Thanks to Miss Kelly for all her help in the Wrens class and around school. We wish her well when she
takes up her new teaching post after Easter.

School Choir

It was lovely to hear the school choir sing at the family service at St Oswalds Backford church. Once
again they gave us good reason to be proud of them and the school. My thanks go to all the parents
who brought their children along on a Sunday morning.
Red Nose Day Update

This was a great event and we are pleased to say that the final total for Red Nose Day was 358.92.

This included 30 raised by Emily Holroyd baking cakes to be sold at Dads work, and 43.60 raised by
Elizabeth Gray doing a sponsored silence. Well done girls and thanks to everybody who took part and
helped on the day.

Easter Bingo

Please note the date and time for this has been changed to Wednesday 1 April at 6pm. More details to
follow from the PTA but please come along and support this family event.

Active Cheshire Sports Awards

Hopefully you will be aware that the school was shortlisted for the Active Cheshire Sports School of

the Year Award. This was great recognition of our commitment to the inclusion of all children in a wide
range of sports. Last Friday Mr Timms and Mr Wallace attended the awards dinner at the Double Tree
Hilton in Hoole and were accompanied for the first part of the evening by the St Oswalds Sports

Ambassadors who greeted guests as they arrived on the red carpet As always they were a credit to
the school. Sadly we didnt win the award, but as we know in sport, and in life, you cant always win.
We recognise that it was a great achievement to get on the shortlist and would like to thank all the
support we had to get to this stage. Picture are our sports ambassadors with Mr Timms, Mr Wallace
and representatives from Active Cheshire.

Parents Evening

Dont forget to sign up for your parents evening appointment on Monday 23 or Wednesday 25 March if
you havent already done so. Parents evening will follow the same format as last time with all the
childrens trays being in the school hall and individual appointments in the classroom. As last time

teachers will be using their ipads to try and stay on time and avoid long waits for parents. Feedback
from the parents I spoke to about this last time was very positive.
World Down Syndrome Day

The Children were shown a very inspirational Video during assembly for Dress Down for Down
Syndrome Day. If you would like to donate you are able to do so through
www.worlddownsyndromeday.org
ROAD CLOSURES

We have been notified of the following road closure of the A41 at Backford

The southbound carriageway (towards Chester) A41 Liverpool Road, Backford will be closed for
resurfacing work for an estimated five days from Monday, 23 March.

The road will be closed between Whitby Lane and the Moston garage traffic lights between 9am and
8pm. Diversions will be signposted.

Dates for your diary next two weeks

Monday 23 March Parents Evening 3:30pm 6pm

Wednesday 23 March Parents Evening 3:30pm 6pm

Thursday 26 March Stephen leading worship

Thursday 26 March football match v Boughton Heath (away)

Friday 27 March football match v Cherry Grive (home)

Monday 30 March Robins, Wrens and Sparrows trip to Chester

Wednesday 1 April End of term church service at St Oswalds Backford 2:30pm

Wednesday 1 April PTA Family Bingo 6:00pm

Thursday 2 April School closes for Easter at 3:15pm