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• Christmas Tree Festival

  Mon 15 Dec 2014 FRJS

  Our Singers were delighted to be invited to open the St John's Christmas Tree Festival this year.

   

  The children sang a range of Christmas carols to start the celebration before the lights were turned on by Isobel, who won our Christmas Tree competition.

   

  The trees looked magnificent in the church and we look forward to seeing them again in the coming days.

  

• Shoebox Campaign 2014

  Mon 15 Dec 2014 FRJS

  Over 150 shoeboxes crammed full of goodies started their journey to Eastern Europe on Friday 12th December.

   

  The programme, co-ordinated by The Rotary Club, inspired many families to participate and make a difference to a child or young person in another country. Children from Y3 helped load the boxes, making sure they didn't drop them!

   

  Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign.

  

• Farnborough become Merseyside Champions

  Sun 14 Dec 2014 Nick Hanlon

  Farnborough Merseyside Champions

  On a cold and wintery afternoon in St.Helens Farnborough became Merseyside E.S.F.A. County Champions for the second time in three seasons. In the 6^th outing for Farnborough Football Teams this year, once again saw success for the school, yet again completing a competition undefeated. The team will now represent Merseyside in the Northern Counties finals early in the spring.

  The afternoon began with a convincing 2 nil victory over Holy Rosary(Maghull), both goals coming from our top scorer Oscar Thompson. George Brain pulled off two great saves- one in each half and Kian Champion looked solid at the back.

  Match two saw us playing joint group leaders St Jeromes from Formby. Rico Seddon-Davidson opened the scoring with a tricky run and curling left foot finish. Lucas Balshaw worked hard in centre midfield making some crucial tackles and setting up further opportunities for Oscar T and Rhys Graham. Bailey McDonald in goal for this game was able to tip over a long range free kick from the St Jerome’s striker and Oscar made it 2 nil with a well taken strike.

  Final group game against Park Brow(Kirkby) saw Ben Wareing taking over in defence and Dana Amaral moving in to midfield. The team began playing some of their best football of the afternoon with some excellent passing, breaks down the wing and lots of possession. Lawrie Woods had covered every inch of the pitch over the afternoon and scored a well deserved goal, finishing off a six pass move by Farnborough. Oscar scored his fourth of the afternoon and Rico made it 3-1 with another classy finish.

  As group winners Farnborough took on the runners-up from group A, Bedford Road(Bootle). The game saw Farnborough take an early lead through Oscar and should have made it 2 nil when Lawrie hit the crossbar. However Bedford equalised late on and despite Farnborough’s best efforts throughout the ensuing extra-time - the game remained 1-1 and the whistle blew for penalties. Each team scored their first four and a further 3 sudden death penalties, before every player stepped up to take a second: Oscar, Lucas, Dana, Rico, Lawrie, Kian and Ben all scored once again! Finally after 15 successful attempts by Farnborough, George stretched out to save the Bedford attempt and the team were through to the final 15-14 on penalties!

  The final saw a group rematch with Holy Rosary and a tense match followed. Farnborough worked hard to gain an advantage and eventually Dana sent in a free kick that Oscar expertly headed beyond the opposition's keeper. Our defence then worked over time with Dana, Rhys, Lawrie and Ben all making crucial tackles and blocks, with the final touch of the game by Kian blocking a last ditch shot.

  Farnborough once again became Merseyside champions and every member of the team should be proud of the hard work and commitment in their achievement – roll on the Northern Finals!    

  

• 5/4 Ebola Bake Sale

  Tue 09 Dec 2014 Mr Brewer
  Today, Class 5/4 held a bake sale over break time and lunchtime. We raised an astonishing £110, that has been donated to the ongoing Ebola appeal. Well done Class 5/4!

• Assessing Without Levels

  Mon 08 Dec 2014 FRJS

  We held several presentations at the Parent/Teacher meetings last week about how the school is planning for 'life without levels'.

   

  For those who were unable to attend or for those who would like a second look, I have attached a link to the presentation below.

   

  http://www.farnboroughroadjuniors.co.uk/letters/

   

  Please contact me if you have any questions.

   

  Mr Antell

• Year 4 Viking Visit

  Tue 02 Dec 2014 Nick Hanlon
  As part of their history topic Year 4 had a Viking visitor on Friday.They enjoyed learning about Viking life and how they came to have such an influence on Britain. Did you know that Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are all named after Viking gods or that the words: husband, wife and honeymoon all come from Viking times?

  

• Ebola Appeal

  Tue 02 Dec 2014 FRJS
  Our School Council have received an appeal from another group of schools in Sefton and they want to help.

   

  The Waterloo Partnership have worked with schools in Waterloo, Sierra Leone for several years. Sadly this area of Africa has been devastated by Ebola and the Sefton schools are trying to get all School Councils to raise a little money to help this stricken community. The money would be given directly to their friends in Africa to spend in their own towns and villages. The money would be spent on chlorine, mops, buckets and other cleaning materials.

   

  A video has been posted on YouTube about this appeal and the link is included below.

   

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zka1eBBGxUA

   

  As its is MUFTI day for our Christmas Fair on Tuesday, we are asking the children to bring in a small financial gift as well as their Christmas donation. 50p or a £1 would be perfect. We will also take some money from our concert collections over the next couple of weeks and send this gift to the appeal.

   

  Some children want to run their own fundraising activities as well and we are helping them to do this.

   

  Thank you for your help,