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Girls Team Representing Southport FC
Fri 14 Feb 2020Yesterday, our girls' football team made the trip to a blustery AFC Fylde representing Southport FC in the National League Trust Regional Final.
The girls were unfortunate to fall to single goal defeats in 3 games but recorded a thumping 4-1 win over Wrexham, with Sophie bagging 7 goals in the competition and Katelyn netting one.
Well done to all the girls who took part - Sophie, Regan, Evie, Tilly, Alyssa, Charlotte and Macy - who with a bit more luck could have picked up points in those 3 defeats and made the final.
A great (but cold) day was still had by all!!
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Young Voices 2020
Fri 31 Jan 2020Young Voices was AMAZING!!
170 children from our school in a huge choir of 8000 was a fabulous spectacle.
If you have any photos of the night, please email them into school so that we can share them here.
2021 is in the diary already!!
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FRJS Young Voices on TV
Tue 07 Jan 2020Our school appeared on Granada Reports over the holiday when were part of a piece about the Young Voices Concert that takes place in Manchester later this month.
If you missed the video, it is available on the link below. The children did a great job - enjoy!!
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Y5 Smile Challenge
Wed 18 Dec 2019Year 5 have carried out the Smile Challenge in the last week. This involves using a small amount of money to put a smile on people's faces.
5/1 decided to focus on local homeless people and other needy people in our community.
They created small parcels of gifts which they delivered to local homeless people today. They also took donations to Southport Soup Kitchen so that local families can be helped.
What a brilliant thing to do - you have certainly helped some people to smile this Christmas.5.2 made and sold items for their own individual charities - they raised nearly £70 and the charities included Ghana, RSPCA, Cancer Research and Children in Need. They also arranged a gift to make Rod, our caretaker smile - and his dog! It was a hamper with gifts including Christmas dog toys, a Poinsettia plant and a card signed by the children.
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Can you help your child to read regularly?
Mon 16 Dec 2019Are you struggling to get your child to read regularly?
A key part of our homework strategy is for children to read at home at least 5 times every week.
We really don’t want this to be a chore - reading should be a fun and enjoyable activity and it is the key way that children can build their vocabulary.
Don’t forget:-
1. Read ANYTHING - you do not have to read the school reading book all the time. Read comics, newspapers, magazines—read ANYTHING that interests your child
2. It does not always have to be your child reading. Read to each other, read to them, listen to stories on devices.
3. Make reading the last thing your child does each day. We sleep better if we read before bed.
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Homework Changes
Mon 16 Dec 2019You will be very aware that we made some major changes to our homework policy this term.
Learning at home is really important but we want to try and make sure that this is an enjoyable experience.
Our annual parent survey highlighted some concerns that many of you have with homework and we want to make sure that learning at home is focused on what is really important.
Homework in Years 3, 4 and 5 concentrates on the three key aspects of reading, spelling and tables. Year 6 homework follows a similar pattern, but there will are additional tasks for Y6 children to help them prepare for their SATs later in the school year.
We expect these tasks to be carried out by every child every week.We also provided some optional activities to extend your child's learning experience at home and we will update these in January.
We hope that these changes allow homework to prioritise key tasks and help families enjoy a positive work/life balance.
This is a new approach to learning at home and as such, we will ask for your views later in the school year to see what you think about the changes. We will probably do this at the Parent/Teacher meetings in March 2020.
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Can you be a Reading Fairy?
Thu 17 Oct 2019Reading in School
Reading is the most important thing that we do in school - it is the key to the door for learning across the curriculum and a life skill that we all need to master.
Sadly, there is no ‘reading fairy’ who can just make it all happen. Children get better by reading more and this helps them to increase their vocabulary and fluency.
We have asked all children to read 5 times every week at home and I know that many of you not only do this, but go the extra mile to make it an everyday experience. This is the central part of their weekly homework.
Children read in school in a number of ways, but we’d love to hear them even more.
We’d love to have extra staff to hear children read, but there is just not the money to pay for them! We would therefore like to increase our team of school reading volunteers who come in just to hear children read. It makes a huge difference to children and may even help the volunteer on the pathway to a new career!
If you think you can be a reading volunteer and spare a couple of hours, please email me on adrianantell@frjs.co.uk and I’ll make sure you get the information that you need. Maybe you could be the person who can unlock a love of reading into a child in our school community?
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Introducing Rosie!
Thu 03 Oct 2019ROSIE THE READING DOG
Rosie paid her first visit to school this week and the response was amazing! The children loved her visiting classes and one Y5 child stated very loudly to his Teaching Assistant "I love Rosie!"
Rosie is our family dog but she has lots of skills. She has visited a variety of schools as well as Nursing Homes and she has passed lots of assessments to make sure she is safe with children and adults. She is a registered Pets as Therapy dog, but we have insured her as a school dog so that she can visit us a little more.
We want Rosie to come to our school each week to be a reading dog. We also want her to help children who are struggling with other worries as there is lots of research to show that animals can really help with this. We also just want her to be part of our school community.
Once Rosie is settled in with the children, we will start to use her in situations which may benefit them. This may include “reading time”, telling her their worries and therapeutic stroking.
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Come Learn With Me
Mon 30 Sep 2019We welcomed families into school for our Come Learn With Me sessions last week.
Families came to maths, English, music, art and a range of other sessions over the whole week as we opened the doors to our lessons.
This has proved to be a great way to demonstrate how our school day operates and how lessons take place.
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Evergreen Blossom Academy - A Great Story!
Tue 17 Sep 2019As you may well know, our school has a partnership with Evergreen Blossom Academy in Ghana.
The link has existed for nearly 4 years and some of our staff have visited the school to work with the children and staff.
Our current Y6 children have sent letters and pictures to pen pals at Evergreen over the past two years. We also send 5% of the money raised by the Friends of Farnborough Road to our friends at Evergreen.
In the summer, children from Mr Spall’s class raised over £750 for Evergreen as a ‘goodbye’ present to FRJS. We sent the money to Francis, the Headteacher, over the summer and has used it to build a complete toilet block for his school!
He sent a message to our school last week:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you so much for the role your school played for us to get the money to renovate the school toilet facility. I want also to say a very big thank you to the year group who raised the money and to all who in one way or the other contributed for the project.
This is the finished work of the facility. I was able to do the ceiling, doors, front roof, wash hand basins, urinals, cementing work, and the painting works, as well as the labourer cost, and the transportation.
Once again I am very grateful and really appreciate you and the entire school staff and the students.
Francis.
