Operation Christmas Child Appeal

Many thanks to everyone who supported the Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box appeal. We received over 80 boxes from families. This is an amazing response. All the boxes were delivered to our local drop off point last week and will be dispatched to their destinations in time for Christmas. Thank you again!

Celebration assembly

The whole school will gather together on Monday afternoon to share all that they have been doing during our 'One World Month' - it promises to be a great afternoon!

Themed lunch - Indian

We all enjoyed a fab Indian lunch in school on Friday.
This was the final of the four meals we have shared from around the world in school. The curry was delicious and lots of sandwich children but something from India in their packed lunch.

Bollywood dancing

Well done to everyone in KS1 for their fantastic Bollywood music morning last Tuesday.
Each class had the chance to learn special steps and a dance routine in a Bollywood style.
Pics and Videos will be on the life channel shortly.

Themed lunches - American and Italian

We have been lucky enough to have themed lunches at school both last Friday and the Friday before. Cook has served up fab cuisine from the USA and also from Italy (yum,yum garlic bread!). What will this week's themed lunch be?

International Evening

On Thursday 2nd July we celebrated our International Evening at school. We firstly shared cuisines from all around the world, kindly brought in by many parents. It was great to eat new dishes and share food from lots of different countries.

After this, the hall was set up for an evening show-casing talent with an international flavour. This included Irish dancing, our polish singing groups, performances from guitar and recorder groups and choir, to mention but a few. It was a very successful evening - look at the life channel for videos of the evening and read the article all about it in this week's Harp!

Cooking at Archbishop Ilsley

On Thursday 2nd July children from year 5 and year 4 had the chance to use the great cooking facilities at Archbishop Ilsley.

Year 4 made quiche and Year 5 made Irish soda bread. Both of these were brought back to school and eaten at our taste testing of 'food throughout the world' at our International evening. Both were delicious!

Talk on Rwanda

On Tuesday 30th June, Paul Walmsley from the Birmingham Catholic Primary Partnership came into assembly to talk about how some the money we raise during Lent is used.
He explained how some of our money is used in Rwanda to help build schools for children and to sponsor them through their education.
It was interesting to learn and see images of how we support our neighbours, both near and far.

French Day

Last Friday, we celebrated our 'French Day' in school.
Key Stage Two were all involved in a French workshop by the Freshwater Theatre Company. In the performance, a number of well known stories were retold IN FRENCH. We even learnt how to sing 'Who's afraid of the big bad wolf'.......... in french! Both Mr Barton and Mr Kelly proved to be very scary wolves.
At lunchtime on Friday, our hot dinners had a very french theme. Children who brought sandwiches put something french into their lunchboxes. The hall was also decorated with lots of french flags and famous images from France.
We will have our next themed lunch in school this Friday.

Summer Fayre 2009

Our Summer Fayre on June 20th marked the start of our 'One World' month.
Every year group sang a song from another country. For example, Year 2 performed a song from Mexico, Year 4 sang a traditional French song and Year 6 sang a song from Brazil.
Reception picked 'Don't worry, be happy' from Jamaica, Year 3 danced along to a song from High School Musical, Year 1 performed a song from Africa and Year 5 embraced our Irish roots singing 'Molly Molone'.
All the performances were fantastic - well done!

Summer Fayre and leaflet

Holy Souls School will be starting our 'One World Month' on Saturday. We hope over the next five weeks to find out more about different countries, faiths and cultures which make up our local community and the wider world.

Leaflets about our up and coming 'One World Month' will be distributed tomorrow. On this you will be given lots of key dates and events that we have planned between now and the end of term.

Our One World Month will start at the Summer Fayre this Saturday. There is a fancy dress competition to dress up in the traditional dress of another country or culture. Do you know what you will wear yet?