'The Most Artistic Choir'

Congratulations to our choir and Mrs Bird for an amazing performance this evening at Blackpool Tower and winning 'The Most Artistic Choir' award. You all sang so beautifully and we were so proud of you, well done!

Social Evening at Our Lady's Church

Our Church Social Committee will be holding an Easter Social event at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish Hall on Friday 1st April at 7.30pm.

This will be a great evening and entertainment by 'Joanne Ashcroft' - a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.

There will also be food served... and all at a cost of only £5 per ticket!!! (Bring your own drinks!)

Tickets can be purchased from Anne Davis at Church or by telephoning 01253 343459.

We hope to see you for a lovely Easter Evening.

'Choir of the Year' competition

Good luck to the members of our choir, who will be taking part in the final of 'The Choir of the Year' Competition at the prestigious Tower Ballroom in Blackpool on Tuesday 22nd March.

This is a very exciting opportunity for our choir who have never taken part in a competitive event so far. This will be a wonderful opportunity to showcase their talents!

We are so proud of our choir and wish them every success in this amazing event.

We also hope that many of our families and friends will be able to come along and support them on the evening of the 22nd March. The competition begins at 6.30pm.

Good Luck Everyone!

The event takes place at the prestigious Tower Ballroom.

Holy Week at Our Lady's

After our (almost) 6 weeks of preparation during Lent we have almost arrived at Holy Week which of course will begin on Palm (or Passion) Sunday this weekend.

To start us on our Holy Week journey - our Key Stage 1 pupils will lead the school in their 'Palm Liturgy' - a song filled celebration of that first Palm Sunday when Jesus rode back into Jerusalem on a donkey! This takes place this afternoon: Friday 18th March at 2.30pm in Our Lady's Church.

Of course, the events which followed were the saddest ones that we remember when Jesus held a last meal together with his disciples, led them out to pray with him and was so cruelly arrested and put on trial. His friends leaving him and even denying that they knew him.

Our school remembers each of these terrible events in our special assemblies next week: Beginning on Monday with Year 3's portrayal of 'The Last Supper', we then move to Tuesday when Year 4 will show us Jesus leading his friends out to pray in 'The Garden of Gethsemane' when Judas betrayed him and brought the soldiers to arrest Jesus. On Wednesday we hear the solemn reflection of Jesus' crucifixion, presented by Year 5. On Thursday, we are told the story of the Resurrection - the day we celebrate Jesus coming back to life to be with us forever. Year 6 lead us in this part of the Easter Triumph.

We hope some parents may be able to join us for these solemn reflections each morning starting at 9.10am each day.

Break for Easter

We finish school for our Easter break on Thursday 24th March at 2.oopm. There is no After School Club on this day.

We return after the holiday at 8.45am on Tuesday 5th April.

We wish everyone a happy and holy Easter break.

Welcome Mrs Harding

We welcome Mrs Harding back to school next week following the birth of her baby. Mrs Harding will be teaching for 3 days throughout the Summer Term, mostly in Year 1. We are delighted to have her back. We have missed you Mrs Harding!

Advert for our new Deputy Headteacher

Today the advert will be posted to appoint a new Deputy Headteacher for Our Lady's for September 2016. The documents will be available to download from Blackpool Council Job vacant pages, found on the Catholic Education Service website and also on our school website. (The documents are on the 'Pupil Voice' Page of our website & all details are available there)

Goodbye Fr Paul

We also say a fond farewell to Father Paul Dadson, our priest at Our Lady's. We only heard the news a couple of weeks ago that Father Paul will be moving up to Cumbria as he has been asked to be in charge of 2 parishes by Bishop Michael.

We will be welcoming our new priest, Fr Burns, just after Easter.

We will really miss Father Paul - it's a shame we are losing him so soon - just as we were really getting to know him; however we look forward to meeting our new priest and wish Fr Paul every happiness in his new parishes.

Easter Card Making Key Stage 1

Our Lady's Ambassadors (from Year 5) re going to make some lovely Easter Cards with our Key Stage 1 children to raise funds for CAFOD this Easter. The cards will cost £1 to buy but there will also be  a winner chosen from each class for the best work.

A great idea everyone!

Shakespeare club perform at the Grand Theatre

On the 8th March Shakespeare Club performed LIVE on stage at the Grand Theatre in "The Dream" in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Well done and thank you to all the children who took part - you were all amazing! Thanks also to all the families and friends who came along to the Grand Theatre to support them!

Just a few photos taken from back stage...

Radio Wave on World Book Day

Following from the book review competition held in school, Joshua from Year 5 was picked to go to Radio Wave on World Book Day to talk about his favourite book. Take a look at the photos of his visit and listen to the broadcast.

Well done Joshua, we think you did a great job!

Egg Decorating Competition

Some Year 6 pupils have been really eager to undertake a little fundraiser as part of their Lenten offerings.

They have decided upon an Egg decorating competition which they will organise and run themselves.

READ MORE ABOUT IT ON OUR PUPIL VOICE BLOG.....

Results of Parent Governor elections.

Many thanks to our parents and families who took the time to consider this post of a Parent Governor for Our Lady of the Assumption Governing Body. Also our thanks if you nominated a candidate and our huge thanks to those parents who did put themselves forward for election.

We were delighted to have such a positive response and it is encouraging to know how many of our parents and families appreciate and support the great work that our Governing Body members do for our school.

Our huge congratulations go to Mr Flanagan who received most ballot votes and will therefore join our Governing Body in the Summer Term. He will receive notification from Local Authority Governor Services in due course.

Of course our huge thanks also go to our other candidates who put themselves forward. School is extremely grateful to you and sincerely hopes that if another vacancy does become available that you would consider becoming a candidate again.