Keep up to date with all the news happening in school at the moment.

• Great News! We are in the process of building our new website! Counting down....

  Wed 09 Mar 2022

• OLSS School Councilors Revealed

  Tue 12 Oct 2021

  Year 1: Malek & Lois
   Year 2 : Adam & Jessica
  Year 3 : Mason & Adrian
  Year 4: Rawda & Mason
  Year 5: Nikki & Amelia
  Year 6: Warnaan & Darcy

• COVID-19 Public Health Communication

  Wed 16 Dec 2020
  Please read the latest letter from school regarding COVID-19 over Christmas period, it is located Parents, Latest Letters - Public Health and DFE guidance to parents letter

• FSM Provided By Sefton Over Half Term

  Fri 23 Oct 2020
  Please see the information from Sefton regarding Free School Meals provision during the half term.

  

• Please See Our COVID-19 Guidance Under "Key Information"

  Wed 16 Sep 2020

• Message from Sefton Active for Holiday Period

  Thu 16 Jul 2020

  Unfortunately Active Sefton are unable to offer delivery of our Be Active school holiday programme in its usual format during the summer break.  This therefore means there will be no physical delivery of sessions at our Leisure Centres or on the lake at Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre.   Health and wellbeing are really important to us, especially during these times, and as such we will be launching our new virtual Be Active Programme on Monday 27th July.  This will include our Be Active coaches providing sessions for children and young people to try at home either by themselves or with close friends and family. There will be a range of activities delivered including yoga, sports, games and family fitness. We will be posting all sessions on our social media channels, and if there is something you would like to see please get in touch with the team using the details below. Our videos will be available to the public as soon as they are posted and will remain accessible throughout so we will continue to build up a library of exciting, fun ways to keep active during the summer holidays.

   

  We are hoping that our coaches will be back delivering Be Active sessions in person for October half term. For more information or to keep up to date with what we have on offer please visit Facebook: Active Sefton, Instagram: active_sefton & Twitter: @activesefton, or email: Active.Sports@sefton.gov.uk.

• OLSS Rainbow Smile Challenge for St Joseph's Hospice

  Sun 03 May 2020 J. Jenkins

  Dear Parents/Carers,

   

  Thank you for all of your support and co operation at this strange time. We hope that you are all safe and well.

   

  We hope that you are finding the work packs of good use. We will continue to add work onto the school webpage to support your children’s learning.

   

  We have also decided as a school that we should do something to raise money for St Joseph’s Hospice. We have put together a Rainbow Smile Challenge calendar for the month of May. As you can see, there is a different challenge for children to complete each weekday. For each challenge they complete, we are asking you to submit a donation of 20p. The easiest way to do this would be to tick them upon completion, total them up at the end of May and then submit a donation to www.justgiving.com/olssrainbowsmile

   

  We would love to see pictures of the children completing these challenges! Please upload them onto the blog, or tag us in your tweets. We look forward to seeing your challenges and raising money for a fantastic cause.

   

  Yours Sincerely

  J. Jenkins

  Mrs J. Jenkins

• New School Blog on the Website

  Wed 15 Apr 2020 Mrs Jenkins

  
  We are really missing seeing our lovely children and families and  hope everyone is keeping well and staying safe.

  
  We have just introduced a blogging page on our website so that teachers can keep in touch with our children and families more directly. You will find it under the Children's Menu- Home Learning -Class Blog. Over the next few days, teachers will be creating accounts for all our children from Y1-Y6, (Foundation will set up a combined site for parents).

   

  They will message you with the details of how you can log your child on soon, so keep checking the Parent App. 

  
  If you know someone who hasn't downloaded this yet, please ask them to do so as they will miss out on important information over the coming weeks.
  Watch this space for more communication and keep checking the website and class pages.

• School Closure and Communication Update

  Mon 30 Mar 2020 Mrs Jenkins

  SCHOOL CLOSURE and COMMUNICATION UPDATE

   

  It has been a long week since we have not been open to all children and we have missed seeing them and all our families. From Monday 30^th March 2020 the school will be closed to all children as alternative arrangements have been made by the few key worker parents, who we were supporting with care last week.

   

  This week teachers have been busy updating the school website and signposting children and families to various websites that can be accessed on line to help your child continue to keep up with their learning for part of the day. (You must take a look at Year 3's Class page week 2. We have a special super hero teaching us!)

   

  Any updates we have about any changes to the current situation we will put on our website. If you are not following our school Twitter account, please follow as we will also be putting updates and messages on this. (@OurLadyStarSea.) Also most of your child’s teachers have also got their class twitter account, so look out for them and follow them directly. As you know we have our Teachers2parents text service that we use to text short messages to you and you can reply through. However, this service only allows a very short text and often we need to say more.

   

  We have recently launched our updated Parent Apps service which the majority of our parents are active within. This app gives us the facility to upload newsletters and longer messages to you. So please download the app and look for our school name. Then we can invite you to join.

   

  With all of these ways of communication, please be aware that the school is closed and office staff, senior leaders and teachers will not be monitoring texts and messages every day. Please be patient with us and be assured that we will be in touch as soon as we can.

   

  Please continue to look after your selves, washing your hands and ensuring your child does too; staying safe and keeping a social distance if you have to go out.

  We look forward to seeing everyone on the other side of these dark days.

   

  Yours Sincerely  

  Mrs J. Jenkins

• Corona Virus _ School Closure 20.03.2020

  Fri 20 Mar 2020 J. Jenkins

  To all Parents/Carers,

  Firstly, I would like to thank you for your patience and support through these difficult times. As all of you will be aware by now, schools across England will close tonight Friday 20th March for the foreseeable future.

   

  School will remain open for a certain number of pupils as outlined by the Government and are being asked to continue to provide care for a limited number of children – children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the Covid-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home. Vulnerable children include children who are supported by social care, those with safeguarding and welfare needs, including child in need plans, on child protection plans, ‘looked after’ children, young carers, disabled children and those with Education, Health and Care |Plans (EHCP). School will contact these families before the close of day today.

   

  The Government has asked parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to remain open only for those children who absolutely need to attend. The fewer children making the journey to school and the fewer children in educational settings, the lower the risk that the virus can spread and infect vulnerable individuals in wider society.

   

  The key message is if you can keep your child at home from Monday then please do so. If you cannot and you know you are needed in the front-line to help others and fight this disease, then please read the criteria attached and use the school text service to contact us.

   

  We know this will put pressure and strain on lots of other families. We know that school closure will have effects on pupils learning and staff have prepared packs of work for your child to take home, or they can be collected from the office. In the packs are a number of on-line learning sites that the children can access. These should also be outlined on the class pages on our website.

   

  Parents should also do everything they can to ensure children are not mixing socially in a way which can continue to spread the virus. They should observe the same social distancing principles as adults.

   

  If your child is entitled to free school meals, you should receive vouchers in the future, however until then; we will try to provide sandwich bags for your children that can be collected at the school gate. We will send a text asking if you require a free school meal for this week or not.

  Please reply as soon as possible so we can have an idea of numbers.

   

  All assessments have been cancelled for this year, the hard work of our children will not be lost and though everyone is unsure of how long school’s will be closed for educational purposes, we will keep in touch with updates via our text messaging service, our Twitter account @OurLadyStarSea and on our website.

   

  For the time being, what I would like to say is that this is a testing time for all of us. As a school, our role does not end at the gates. Please be assured that if you need support, we will do our utmost to try to support all our families as best as we practically can.

   

  Again, please continue to ensure our children are not mixing socially in a way that can spread the virus, keep social distancing as adults and look after each other.

   

  Please keep safe.

  Yours sincerely,

  J. Jenkins

  Mrs J Jenkins

  Headteacher

   

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  KEY WORKERS

   

  Parents whose work is critical to the COVID-19 response include those who work in health and social care and in other key sectors outlined below. 

  Many parents working in these sectors may be able to ensure their child is kept at home and every child who can be safely cared for at home should be.

  If your work is critical to the COVID-19 response, or you work in one of the critical sectors listed below, and you cannot keep your child safe at home then your children will be prioritised for education provision:

   

  Health & Social Care

  This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of  the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributors of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.

   

  Education and Childcare

  This includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.

   

  Key Public Services

  This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.

   

  Local and National Government

  This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVI|D-19 response or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.

  Food and Other Necessary Goods

  This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).

   

  Public Safety and National Security

  This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue services employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security roles, including those overseas.

   

  Transport

  This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.

   

  Utilities, Communication and Financial Services

  This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the  oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and  primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to  network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.

   

  Please remember only to use the school if your child has to attend if they can stay at home then please do so.