Our Enterprise Club were given the task of creating a business idea with the intention of raising money for charity. First of all we had a meeting as a group to decide what venture we would like to do and if it would be cost effective. We had a few great ideas such as decorative baskets, soap and bookmarks but finally we decided to make bath bombs. We costed all the ingredients from lots of different places and once we found a total price we asked the St Oswald’s business manager Mr Strom for a business loan to cover the initial outlay. We made many different types of bath bombs including colour-changing lavender, zingy orange, frozen sparkles, rose petal delight, grapefruit sparkle and many more. They were a huge success! We sold out each playtime and had to keep making more to meet demand. We made bath bombs until we ran out of materials, all were sold immediately. Mr Strom then informed us that St Oswald’s would waiver the amount we borrowed from the school.

Therefore we are delighted to announce that St Oswald’s Enterprise Club has raised £206.00 for the charity Sightbox UK.

Throughout the spring term, we have been fundraising for Juvenile diabetes. As a school council, we came together to discuss what we would like to do in order to do this. We met with Scarlet in 6KN to discuss type 1 diabetes and how we could help. We decided to hold a competition involving how much sugar was in a jar of sweets. Children would be able to estimate the amount of sugar in the jar. The closest guess would win the jar of sweets for their class, as well as an additional prize; a £25 gift card for Liverpool One for the junior winner and a giant teddy for the infant winner. In addition to this, we decided to hold a ‘Dance for Diabetes’ event. Mrs Hindley also kindly donated an Everton football shirt, signed by the first team. We decided we would sell raffle tickets for this. After weeks of hard work by School councillors, particularly Olivia and Harry from 5RD and Dominika and Mia from 4DH, we raised £261 for the Juvenile Diabetes charity. We would like to thank everyone that participated in all these events and donated to this very worthy cause. We would also like to congratulate the winners of our fantastic prizes!

Estimate the sweets in the jar (Infants): Freya 1LM

Estimate the sugar in the jar (Juniors): Sharon 4DH

Signed Everton shirt: Teagan 4HI

School council are always working hard at making St. Oswald’s School an enjoyable, safe place to learn, and we look forward to our projects to come.

Dear Parent / Carer,

As I am sure you are already aware at St. Oswald’s we feel it is important to help others where and when possible. Each term we try to have a charitable focus and this term we will be focusing upon raising money and supporting the following charities:

• Wear it Blue for Bobby’ – Bobby Colleran Trust
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation- JDRF
• The Good Shepherd Appeal- Nugent Care (during Lent)

On Friday 3rd March we are having a ‘Wear it Blue’ day in support of The Bobby Colleran Trust.

On this day children need to pay £1.00 to wear their own clothes; children should try to wear blue , whether they are dressed head to toe in blue or they wear a blue top it is entirely up to you.

This is a local charity, which I am sure you will agree is a very worthwhile cause. Road safety is a very important issue which we take seriously here at St Oswalds’ .

The school council have also arranged a few activities over the next few weeks to raise further money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation including:

• A fun dancing session for all children on ‘Wear it Blue’ day and the children are asked to bring small donations for this worthwhile cause.
• A raffle for a signed Everton shirt – 50p for two tickets
• A ‘Guess how much sugar is in a jar of sweets’ competition- 50p for two guesses (A prize will be given to whoever is the closest) .

Thank you for your continued support

Ms C Sime & Mrs G Murphy

Deputy Head Teacher

Spring charities letter

We are extremely proud and grateful of the families of St. Oswald’s Primary for the amount of toys collected for our Marie Curie Toy Appeal. The volunteers for Marie Curie were overwhelmed at the amount of toys collected and said this was the most they had ever seen. We have even made it into the Liverpool Echo! It took a van two trips to take all of the toys to the collection centre and we are awaiting a total on the amount raised through this appeal. We would like to send a huge thank you out to the families of St. Oswald’s for rising up to the challenge set before them. Thank you also to all of our school councillors who raised awareness of the appeal throughout school and helped with loading the van on the day. We hope that these toys may help to make Christmas better for all those who will benefit.

As always, the families of St. Oswald’s Primary School have risen to the challenge set before them. We are absolutely overwhelmed at the sheer amount of toys that have been donated. It is important to us as a school to demonstrate the Gospel Values which we aim to live by. We hope that these toys may go towards helping those who are not as well off as ourselves and aid the mission of the Marie Curie charity.

Link to Liverpool Echo article: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/local-school-supports-marie-curie-12213470