St Francis RC Primary School

We were so proud of our school community this morning – they raised over £500 for Macmillan at our coffee morning. Staff and parents donated delicious cakes and staff served ‘grab and go’ coffees and teas for our busy parents. Our fabulous lunchtime organisers held a cheese pie lunch and raffle adding to the total. Mr Connolly made two gorgeous sausage rolls for a staff competition and this was won by Miss Catahan – she very kindly shared it with the rest of us.

A huge thank you to everyone in our school family who participated.

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Year 4 have been inspired by the Manchester Bees and have learnt all about how important and interesting bees are. They visited some of the bees that have landed at Manchester City on a very rainy day. We are not sure how Mr Lowe ended up with an umbrella!

We were delighted with the great individual and team performances at the Cross Country competitions at Chorlton Park. The children take part in two different races over two weeks and their scores are added together to give them an individual position and a team position. There are huge numbers of children from all over Manchester who take part in this competition.

Over the few years that we have been participating in this competition we have got better and better and this years results were the best yet. Our boys team was 2nd in Manchester and our girls came 3rd. Our top individual results were very impressive too. Ethan was the number 1 boy in Manchester! Satara was the 2nd girl and Caitlin was the 4th girl. Ike and Elizabeth were both 5th. We are now through to the Finals in November. Good luck to everyone.

We had a great Poetry Slam, with every KS1 and 2 class learning and performing poetry for each other.

The Slam opened with a very atmospheric and moving performance of Iron and The Soldier by Y4. Then Year 1 shared a poem about aliens that they had written themselves. What talented children.

Year 5 performed I am old Father William by Lewis Carroll and Year 3 were excited to note that they were studying Alice in Wonderland by Carroll too.

Y2 not only performed a poem called He used to be a pirate, but also showed us some pirate dances that they had created.

Year 3 shared a lovely poem called Aim High, which Miss Collins said showed our school values in action. It certainly did.

Finally, Year 6 had created a fantastic, active and funny performance of Turkeys aren’t just for Christmas by Benjamin Zephaniah.

It was wonderful to see every child enjoying listening to and performing poetry.

Just before Christmas we had a crack news team look at all the sport on offer at St Francis. This is a brief edit of their extensive study of sporting excellence and fun.

St Francis Sports 2017-18

Year 1 had great fun creating boggarts on the trees outside. They used clay and natural items such as leaves and sticks.