2019 Macmillan Coffee Morning

On 27th September, St Therese’ Class hosted the annual Macmillan Coffee Morning. Macmillan is a charity that is very close to the heart of the school.

Macmillan understands how cancer can affect people’s whole lives – health, money, family, job; everything. After more than 100 years of caring, they understand that the most important thing is to treat people as individuals, not patients, so it is important that we support them as often as we can.

Macmillan takes the time to understand the support people need to live their lives as fully as they can. From the moment of diagnosis and whenever they are most needed, they are there to help people find their best way through. Their help is totally focused on each individual person, so everyone receives the support that’s best for them. As a school by raising money, we can help them to achieve that.

Our Coffee Morning was an amazing morning, filled with lots of laughter, fun and cakes! The Year 6 children put so much effort into baking, buying and bringing cakes. They worked hard to decorate the hall to make the event really special. As a school, we cannot say how much we appreciate all your hard work in supporting this event. Especially the amount of parents who baked and bought cakes to donate and those that joined us for the coffee morning and came to the bake sale after school. As a parent body, you outshone yourselves with the array of cakes baked and donated: everything from Bara Brith’s to Vegan coconut and Passion fruit cakes to Gluten free cakes.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.

The event was well supported by parents, governors and friends of the school. Father Philip was the first to join us and was closely followed by members of the parish. The atmosphere was lovely and the children enjoyed hosting you all. The children were all very keen to serve the teas and coffees and `encourage` all the attendees to donate. The children and staff enjoyed the jovial atmosphere and appreciated the chance to spend time with each other and just talk.

To date: The amazing news is that we raised an almighty £370

And thanks to you all this total, at the time of writing, is still rising. Our Lady & St. Oswald’s Catholic Primary School has done it again. You are all amazing.

Thank You

We look forward to seeing you.

Mrs Nikki O'Dwyer

Headteacher

Our Lady and St. Oswald's are very proud to be presented with two awards from the Oswestry and Bloom competition.

The two awards received for 2019 are 'Best Kept School' and 'Outstanding Work by Young People'

TERM DATES 2019/2020

*Bank holiday change of date from Monday 2^nd May.

Thank you to all the parents, family and friends that came along to support the children on Sports Day. All photographs taken have now been uploaded on to the school website and can be located in the Gallery section.

Next year the plan is for the children to wear coloured T-shirt's to represent their house colour. The school house will be further promoted next year as we are introducing house points for recognition for good behaviour, effort and achievement.  More information about this can be accessed via the behaviour policy updated June 2019 on the school website, or additionally a hard copy is available from the school office.

A big thank you and well done to our Year 6 Sports Leaders that support superbly on Sports Day.

Unfortunately, due to supply difficulties, we need to swap the Tuesday and Friday menus this week. 

Tuesday July 2^nd Menu will be:  Pizza, Served with Chips or Pasta, Sweetcorn and Peas followed by Rice Pudding or Chocolate Brownie

Friday July 5^th menu will be:     Big Breakfast (bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, scrambled eggs, fresh bread) or Vegetarian Breakfast (veggie sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, scramble eggs and fresh bread) followed by Selection of Fruit Muffins.

Friday May 24th

9am 

A very quiet bunch this morning, they have loved their time in Arthog but they are also ready for home and their own beds.

They are going orienteering this morning then lunch after which they will be returning to school.Having packed and cleared up, we have just had final room inspection and we were awarded 11/10.  Even though she is Maths lead in school, Mrs Stowell is a bit confused by this mark, but very proud of her class.

The bus is due to leave Arthog at 1pm.  Mrs Stowell will confirm leaving time and approximate arrival time at school once they have left.

Thursday May 23rd

12.45pm

They made the top of the mountain - and celebrated.  See picture below.

9 am

Last night's night-line exercise went very well.  Everyone faced some real fears and worked together as a team.

Most of today we are together as a whole group, among other things we are mountain walking - looking for drop bears.

Wednesday May 22nd

1.01pm

Fab morning canoeing the Mawddach estuary.  Basil says it was wet and Jac says he's hungry.  All are happy and ready for the gorge this afternoon.

11.26am

We have received the first set of pictures - see below.

9.00am

Another fab night.  All very rested and they had to be woken this morning.   Even Mrs Ryan slept well. 

Today we are have a voyager boat ride and gorge walk for one group and rock climb and beach clean for the other.  All in very high spirits.

Tuesday May 21st

3.00pm

Group went to Barmouth this morning for hill walking, rock climbing and rock scrambling.  Mrs Stowell says she is a very proud teacher of this amazing bunch and is especially proud of Luke and Leah who overcame some real fears today.  There was then the very real possibility of ice cream.

8.45am

A good night was had by all and everyone is now up and bright, heading for a full cooked breakfast.   The weather continues to be stunning and everyone is in high spirits.

Monday May 20th 1.40pm

Year 6 and staff have arrived at Arthog safely and are now settling in.   They are spending this afternoon on the beach and will be orienteering later on. Mrs Stowell tells us that they have glorious sunshine there at the moment.  So let's keep our fingers crosses for the rest of the week.

Monday May 13th 2019

The group has arrived safe and well.  They have settled in and are now going swimming.   

A good evening was had by all - it was still warm enough to be out and about at 8pm.

Tuesday May 14th 2019

After a good night's sleep everyone was up and ready for whatever today gave them.

Pictures below show the archery session (photographs by William) and preparing for rafting on the lake - no one fell in!!

As you can see the weather continues to be really good, and they are making the most of it.

Wednesday May 15th 2019

Among the activities the children did yesterday was a visit from some birds of prey and the climbing wall challenge.  As you can see, the weather continued to be really lovely which adds to the whole experience.   Mrs H Jones and Mrs C Jones are enjoying themselves too!