The Parishes of Saint Oswald & Saint Sebastian
Saint Oswald’s Presbytery; Saint Oswalds Street
Old Swan; Liverpool, L13 5SB
Tel: 0151 228 3327
Webpage: www.sebosw.org
Email: stoswaldstsebastian@rcaol.org.uk
9th November 2020

Dear parent/guardian

As you know, things have been rather hectic since I became parish priest of Saint Oswald’s and Saint Sebastian’s. We had the start of Lent, and then a few weeks later, the ‘national lockdown’ began on the 23rd March. And now, as things were slowly starting to get some sort of normality back, we find ourselves in another lockdown. I am sure you are wondering what is happening with the pastoral and Catholic life within our schools during this time, so I thought it best to give you an update as to what is going on.

In the next couple of weeks I shall be meeting with all of the children in our schools (online), which will hopefully give us all a chance to start getting to know each other, and also make sure that your child can put a face to my name. Once these meeting have taken place, we will be looking at the upcoming season of Advent, and we will all be involved in an advent service, where the wreath will be blessed, and the children will have an opportunity to bring up their prayers to be placed by the wreath. These prayers will then be brought into our churches, so that the whole parish community will be able to pray for these intentions together. After that, we will be looking into how we conduct our Christmas services.
I also know a lot of you are wondering about how we will prepare and celebrate our First Holy Communion Masses, especially for the children who are in Years 4 and 5. An online program is being worked out that will hopefully enable all involved to start and work through the preparation course. We will look into celebrating the First Holy Communion Masses in due time.

I am looking forward to walking with you and your children, especially as we prepare for the coming Christmas feast, and I hope that we will be able to celebrate together as a community soon, within both of our churches.
God bless; and stay safe.

Fr. Liam Collister

School Letter Nov 2020

Free School Meal Entitlement

 RE: Provision in the case of a bubble/class being sent home to isolate

Dear parents/Carers,

I hope that you all had a good half term with your children and managed to do something fun and relaxing.

In the event of a class or year group being sent home due to a positive covid case, we have made arrangements with our catering company to provide food boxes to those families who are entitled to benefit related free school meals. The boxes contain food that can be used to make lunches at home, last time there was bread, potatoes, onions, cheese, pasta, rice etc. so all good produce which would enable your child to have a nutritious meal. The boxes would be available from the 2^nd day after the classes being sent home, office staff will be in touch to ask if the boxes are wanted.

In the event of singular children isolating due to family or community links then a packed lunch bag can be ordered daily from the school offices and picked up by a family member. I must remind you that children who have been sent home to isolate must not be brought to the school premises, this is to protect the rest of our school community.

Let us pray that we have a safe half term and these provisions are not necessary.

Regards

Mrs M Walsh

Headteacher

Free school meal boxes

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Welcome to the autumn newsletter 2020. This year like no other has
been full of challenges, but I have been so proud of our children and
families for the positive way that everyone has responded to
returning to full school. It is a joy to see the children in school; their
resilience has been amazing. I also have to thank all the staff who
have worked so hard in the preparation, the procedures, the new
systems of working and all the time putting aside their own
concerns to keep our children safe. We are truly blessed. As the term
progresses we will continue to try our best to keep as normal as we
can, and I look forward to a full and busy next half term. Enjoy a
well-earned, socially isolated break.

Autumn 1 Newsletter 2020

Dear Parents/Carers,

A warm welcome back to school from the St Oswald’s Catholic Primary School PTFA and it is lovely to see everyone back in school learning and having fun with their friends. As I’m sure everyone is aware, face to face meetings between different parents and teachers cannot currently take place in school for our own safety and the safety of others. However, it would be lovely to touch base with all the wonderful parents/carers that have put so much effort into school events and fundraising over the past few years, as well as giving their time and great ideas in past meetings.

A remote ZOOM PTFA meeting will be taking place on Monday 12^th October At 4pm for all our members to catch up, share ideas and discuss how we as a PTFA can benefit the children in school in such challenging circumstances.

Meeting ID: 399 672 1982

All parents are welcome to chat to the PTFA committee members and spread some cheer in these difficult times.

I look forward to seeing you on the Zoom call.

Many thanks

Mr Crowther

(PTFA chair)

PTFA Zoom Call letter

Dear Parents, please find attached a letter from NHS, Track and Trace that is being issued to schools to assist them in the advice to parents regarding covid.

NHS Track and Trace letter