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SECONDARY SCHOOL ALLOCATIONS
FOR PREP 6 PUPILS (as at 06.05.09) |
St Anselms 17
Upton Hall 15
Wirral Grammar (Girls) 4
Wirral Grammar (Boys) 2
Calday Grammar 1
West Kirby Grammar (Girls) 1
Birkenhead High School 3
St Mary's Wallasey 1 |
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| House Points For 8 March |
| Manor |
453 |
| Grange |
451 |
| Outwood |
448 |
| Park |
455 |
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What we are looking forward to at Redcourt this week....
8th – 12th March 2010
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Monday – Chess is cancelled tonight.
Tuesday – Prep 5 enjoy an afternoon visit from “The Potting Shed”. And then in the evening, Redcourt host a House Music Festival for Prep 2 – 4, starting at 6.30pm in the Hall. Always a popular night! Please come along.
Hockey Practice is for Prep 5 & 6 GIRLS tonight. Sorry BOYS, you’re next week!
Wednesday – Prep 1S are celebrating “A Mother’s Day Assembly”. Mrs Sherry has some wonderful surprises in store for 1S mums!! There won’t be a dry eye in the house!
Prep 4 boys are invited to a football training session, after school on the yard, in order to choose a team for a tournament at Liverpool College, on 20th March. Good luck boys!!
Thursday – Wirral Cross Country Race at Arrowe Park, 4pm. We anticipate a further successes – COME ON REDCOURT!!
Also this evening, there is extra Band Practice, 3.30pm – 4pm in the Music Room.
Friday – Redcourt host the CB Rugby at the Fields in the afternoon. Please come along to cheer Redcourt on.
Tafelmusik are back in school at 3.30pm for further trials of woodwind instruments for Prep 1 & 2, in the Music Room. You should by now have been contacted regarding your time slot.
As always, should you have any further queries, please contact
Mrs Nelson or Mrs Darroch who will be happy to help. |
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DR MARK COMES TO REDCOURT FOR
MATHS & SCIENCE WEEK |
Dr Mark visited Redcourt for a day of 'Cool Science' and a day of 'Cool Maths' during our Maths and Science week. All children from FS2 to Prep 6 were involved in his workshops which included lots of fun experiments and mathematical tricks. Some of these involved inserting sharp sticks into balloons and bags of water, but without bursting them or liquid leaking. Ask your child how they work if you want to know how! At the end of his visit we had a whole school assembly where each year group showcased what they had learnt and been most interested in. It was fantastic to see how many children were excited and influenced by Dr Mark and tried to replicate his work, some even added twists of their own.
Well done every one. Thank you also to all the children (and staff!) who bought items from the Tuck Shop. It was very successful and popular once again.
Miss Mazumder |
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Mrs Chan's Bundle of Joy!! |
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Please meet "John James Chan" born 28th December at 1.01am, weighing in at 6lb 6oz!! Isn't he adorable?!!
Both mum and baby are doing well!! |
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THANK YOU FROM MR BIRD |
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11th February 2010
To all the children of Redcourt a sincere thank you for all of the cards, kind thoughts and effort you have made to make me feel so special. It has been a privilege to look after you and the school, and I will cherish the memories I have of our activities over my time at Redcourt.
And I would like to thank all of the Parents for their unbelievable generosity for my parting gift. Thank you all so much.
Mr Bird. |
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End of an Era - A Sad Farewell to Mr Bird |
On Friday 29th January, caretaker of Redcourt Mr Peter Bird, hung up his hat for the last time and said goodbye to his army of fans, parents, pupils, staff and friends.
Mr Bird started at Redcourt on 30th July 2001 and his unique contribution will never be forgotten and he will always be held high esteem. Mr Bird will be greatly missed and irreplaceable. We hope he will come back and visit us soon! |
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Prep 4J have written tributes to him:-
Dylan Davies writes:- He is a lovely man, who always helps around the school. He always helps to keep our school tidy and safe for us. He is warm hearted man and I will miss you when you when you leave. Enjoy your retirement, we will all miss you.
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“Thank you for looking out for me and the school. You are the best caretaker in the whole world! I wish you could stay a bit longer so we could see your smiley face. Who is going to brush all the rain off the playground? Who is going to fix things when they break? I hope you have a nice retirement and do lots of fishing. Love Andrew Wright”
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Mr Bird helps lots of people. He sweeps all the snow away because he doesn’t want the children to fall over. He cares so much for the school. He sweeps the puddles away so no one has wet feet. He says “Hello” to everyone in the school. He orders milk for the Nursery children. He helps people when they fall over. We will all miss Mr Bird when he retires. Everyone in the school will miss you! By Tanya Jacob
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Pablo Broughton says “Dear Mr Bird. I will really miss you when you are gone. All the things you do from cleaning to saying “goodbye”. You do so many things for the school; I don’t know how we will manage without you. You always have a smile for everyone and a friendly word for everyone. Who will get my lunchbox from over the wall? We wish you lots of happiness and good luck for the future. Goodbye.” |
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On Friday's after school, some Prep 1 and Prep 2 children signed up to a Cheerleading Course, with Miss Tengrove. Girls and boys alike enjoy a fun evening, learning the skills and dance moves. The pictures below show what a great time they have!
Click here to see the pictures |
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OLÉ FOR LATIN AMERICAN DAY!! |
On Thursday 21st January, Redcourt held a Latin American Day for the junior children, allowing them to discover South America, with Senorita Cowell and her
amigos!!
They tasted Latin American food, had their faces painted with moustaches and learnt dances such as el caballito (the little horse), el menaito (typical Columbian dance), el oerrito (the little dog) and uno, dos, tres (salsa).
The children all had a great time and managed to practice their Spanish and also had chance to show off their dance routines with a little show for the rest of the school later on in the day!
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6A’s Here I Am Assembly -
Who are Your Special People?
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Wednesday 20th January - We have been looking at Special People and what makes them so special.
Who are your Special People?
- Mum
- Dad
- Carers
- Teachers
- Police
- Doctors & Nurses
- Fire Services
- Friends
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Why?
- Help you
- Love you
- Make you feel special
- Cheer you up
- Fix you
- Make you better
- Educate you
- Devotion
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Special People who make a difference:
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This term Prep 3 have been studying The Romans. On Monday 18th January, a Roman soldier came to visit Prep 3. He told us all about the life of a soldier and we learnt what the soldiers wore. We also looked and talked about what the soldiers carried with them in their packs. Noah even dressed up as a Roman legionary. |
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In the afternoon we went out onto the playground and imagined we were all in battle. Using shields, we created a "turtle" to protect ourselves from enemy fire.
We all had an interesting, fun-packed day! |
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PREP 2 & FRIENDS' SEWING DAY |
Prep 2 enjoyed a puppet sewing afternoon with parents and grandparents as part of our Design Technology class work. Everyone worked hard and the children thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon. It was nice to see so many parents and grandparents in the classroom supporting the children. Thanks for all your help!
Miss Critchley |
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Redcourt Choir Performs at Abbey Lawns and Acorn House Nursing Homes
On Wednesday 9th December, Mrs Harvey and Miss Kennerley took some Prep 5s and 6s to Abbey Lawns Nursing Home, where Molly Geary's dad, uncle, grandpa and grandma work. We had a great time and some of the residents started to cry! They also went back to their rooms singing!
On Thursday 10th December, Mrs Harvey took some children from years 5 and 6 to Acorn House to sing for residents and Mrs Penn's Dad.
Reports by: Molly Geary and Siobhan Howlett, Prep 6M |
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| AJIS QUIZ |
On Saturday the 7th of November four Year 6's took part in the AJIS Quiz in at St Marys Preparatory School in
Crosby, Liverpool.
The team consisted of George Atherton, Toby Whelan, Jonathan Nelson and Harry Jollie.
There were 10 rounds and each round consisted of ten questions; except the finale which had 15 questions. Twelve teams took part, and Redcourt came a
respectable 7th overall.
We all had a really good day - thank you to Mrs Chan.
Written by: Toby Whelan (Prep 6M) |
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Christian Brothers Music Festival
On Thursday, 8th October Mrs Clixby, Miss Mazumder and Mr Arnold kindly took Prep 6M to Liverpool to sing in a Christian Brother’s Music Festival at
St Mary’s College, with the theme of Harvest.
When we arrived St Ambrose were there too. We sang four songs in total, two of which we sang with St Mary’s and
St Ambrose called “When your Father made the world” and “All things bright and beautiful”. Redcourt sang songs by
themselves called “Sunshine” and “Hooray for Harvest”. All schools were awarded a certificate and shield. After that we had refreshments and a little play on St Mary’s
playground. It was great fun and a good experience!
By Olivia Martin & Emily Pennington
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FS2 have been investigating healthy snacks this term!
We have been super at bringing in healthy fruit snacks for our morning break. The children love ‘showing and telling’ different fruit like fig, kiwi and mango! We created our very own delicious-looking fruit bowls to display next to our snack area.
We also conducted a literary study of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. In addition to talking about our fruit preferences and creating a huge caterpillar display, we actually ate what the caterpillar ate on each day of the week! Over that weekend, our FS2 families ate some of the long list of Saturday food, like - pickle, sausage, salami, ice cream, cherry pie, chocolate cake, lollipop, Swiss cheese, watermelon and cupcake! It was really fun to act like the Hungry Caterpillar! Well done FS2!
Miss Suchdev
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Quiz |
On Friday 5th of June two teams of Prep 5 & 6 students headed down to the Hall for a Quiz. The opposition was Birkenhead School. They too had brought down two very intelligent teams. The quiz was organized very generously by Mrs. Chan. After grabbing the last two contestants for the B team. We were all ready to go! The first round was general knowledge which both of our teams had an equal score on (8), I have to mention Alex Dingle was so excited for this round! Sadly the Birkenhead B team had just edged us by one small point. The game was on!!! We were tense we got through all the rounds and people had fabulous ideas. We were edging Birkenhead by a point when the final round came! We were determined to get ten out of ten in this round and won by 4 points, we had won the quiz it was a great achievement!
Mrs. Chan was proud of as she thought we did really well in getting 9's and 10’s for our scores. Unfortunately Redcourt B came forth and had done really well but came forth by one point. We all had our photo taken by the teacher that had brought Birkenhead to our school for this great quiz. We were presented with our medals and were very proud. Here are the people who made up these fabulous Redcourt teams:
The Redcourt B was made up of: Charlotte, Heather, Toby, Alice, Jack & Nicholas.
The Redcourt A was made up of: Naomi, Freya, Alex, Theo, Oscar & Joe.
It was a fabulous day and thank you again to Mrs. Chan who organized this fabulous event.
By Freya Wright, 6K |
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FRENCH TRIP - 2009 |
In April, Prep 6 enjoyed a superb residential week in France, courtesy of Kingswood. The children were so excited about their French Trip - for some, they had been looking forward to it since they were in the Nursery, and others had only heard about it more recently as they joined higher up the school!
It was a long drive on the coach, but the journey soon passed. Mr Arnold was most entertaining - he serenaded us as he sang along to his i-Pod tunes in blissful ignorance that he had mustered up an audience. Prep 6 watched a variety of movies, but chatted away during most of them, proving that the art of conversation was still very much alive!
The Kingswood staff tried their hardest to meet all of our requests, and always with a smile. It was my birthday while we were away and the chef made a chocolate gateau, complete with 21 candles!
We all have wonderful memories of the excursions - Rouen, Neufchatel cheese farm, and the World War 1 Trenches at Arras. We were so proud of Prep 6 - their behaviour was exemplary throughout the week. Indeed, several French people passed comment on their manners when we bought our souvenirs in Criel-Sur-Mer on our last day. The children were very keen to use their French and demonstrate their ever expanding vocabulary, especially in the post office when we bought post cards and stamps.
I would like to say a huge ‘thank you’ to Prep 6 for being such excellent ambassadors for Redcourt and to Miss Jones, Mr Arnold, Mrs, Halligan, Mrs McHugh, Mrs Davey and Alec, for their sparkling enthusiasm, wit and charm which was much appreciated. Indeed, it was the general effervescence and optimism amongst us which helped make our trip so successful and pleasurable (along with great weather!). Thanks again everyone. Photographs are to follow on the website shortly.
Mrs A McIver
Click here to see pictures from Prep 6's visit to France |
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