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St Francis Catholic Primary School
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St Francis' Catholic Primary School
Horns Lane, Goosnargh, PR3 2FJ.

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        • Gardening
        • Choir
        • Here to Keep You Smiling!

Latest News

Celebrations and success

It really is hard to believe that we are…

Centenary of the Diocese of Lancaster – The Our Lady of Lourdes Statue Tour

Welcome Our Lady of Lourdes Statue and w…

Farm fun and outdoor learning…

Before we broke up, I was delighted to a…

Wheelchair Basketball and Year 3 and 4 Football Tournament

Yesterday, we joined with our friends fr…

Careers Week and Circus School?

Well,…

World Book Day, Science Week and Ash Wednesday…

During the past few weeks, so much has h…

Goosnargh Showtime Concert

A heartfelt thank you to every parent, f…

From one great week to the next…

It really is 'one week to the next' when…

A great start to the year…and an MP visit in assembly!

Welcome back to a very happy new school…

Lovely Robins and Advent Sparkle

We are well into our very special Advent…

I’m so sorry-I thought you were being a meet and greet!

The day started at 8.00am without a pair…

Space Week, Bright Futures, canal boats and the arts…

As we come to the end of this half term,…

Season of Creation, Pigeon release and French Day.

Last week, Mr Blair came to school with…

Small school mini skills competition

Children from St.Francis and St.Mary’s h…

Welcome back!

Hello all and a very warm welcome back t…

Three schools together with one vision…connection and mutual respect

Belonging isn’t just a feeling, it’s an…

Parish Garden Day Fun! All invited!

Come along to a church fun day!…

Mesmerised, moving and manners at the bonspiel…

Well,…

A lovely report…for you to read.

On International Day of Happiness, we th…

World Book Day, Science Week, Curling and ONIONS!

Well, we have been very busy in school.…

Working with other schools and the community.

Working with other schools and the community.

Tree Planting Environmental Project with our Longridge Cluster of Schools


Fantastic Book Awards


Read about our donation with Longridge Town Juniors F.C

KIND DONATION Click on the link to view.

LINKING WITH ST. JOSEPH’ CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL IN LANCASTER

The amazing St. Francis band performed six pieces to a very excited assembly, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary in Lancaster. Wanting to launch their own band, St. Joseph’s got a taste of what a school band can do when they practice and dedicate themselves to what they love doing! The St. Francis band is made up of nearly a quarter of the school, so two minibuses were required! The children did a fantastic job.

Exciting dates for your diaries:

Macmillan Coffee Morning Concert 27th September at 9.30am in the school hall.

Feast of St.Francis’ Mass and Harvest celebration 4th October 10.00am in church

Harris Museum bring sculpture for grand reveal on Wednesday 9th October. Children across the whole school are working with artists and producing their own work ready to show you on the last week of the half term.

World Space Week-sending a teddy into space with St.Joseph’s Catholic Primary School-a collaborative project!

Valley Singers Christmas Concert with our children-another collaborative project! Our children will be learning songs to sing with a professional adult choir.

SINGING FOR MAYOR…

Mayor invite for choir 2019

Children in our school choir are coming home today with this letter for you to sign and return. Many Thanks!

SAVE THE RHINO

The Goosnargh Cub group have been raising money to help the charity, ‘Save The Rhino’. Check out the PowerPoint presentation they delivered to the whole school – raising £70 from a cake sale. Well done cubs!! Click on the link below to see the presentation.

Save The Rhino Presentation

 

Thursday afternoon UFA group playing board games at a local rest home.

Our school is part of another exciting cluster of schools and we are working on a reading festival to celebrate the ‘We Are Reading’ initiative. We will be working alongside Queen’s Drive, Fulwood and Cadley, Sherwood, St Mary’s St Andrews and St Anthony’s. Mrs. Spellbound will be inspiring our children in the magical realms of reading, writing and all things creative-just as we like it! More information will be coming soon.

Author visits, gymnastics winners, CAFOD, refugee day, WW1 day, small school Catholic cluster days, Steph Slater MBE, artists and much more…

 

 

 

ARMISTICE 2018

St Francis’ is currently involved in an exciting collaborative educational project called “Armistice” and Preston Guildhall has been booked for November 11th 2018 the centenary for the end of “The Great War.”

The project will involve over 500 children and adults from the Longridge School’s Cluster and will tell the story and remember the key events of the conflict through music, dance , drama, poetry and the visual arts. It will culminate with an act of remembrance. We are also wishing to engage the wider community in this project as it was a historical event that touched so many families and communities particularly so in the North of England.

As part of the build-up work, we wish the children to experience a range of different arts and craft based activities, one of which is to knit thousands of poppies 19,240 to be precise which were the number of men who died on the July 1st 1916 the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

We will use the poppies, to create a huge visual display during the act of remembrance, very much inspired by the Poppies at the Tower of London.

We have attached the poppy patterns below

Simple Poppy with Leaf

Knit flat

Crochet Poppy

Knitted Poppy Patterns

If you would like to donate to the Longridge Cluster group (in order to raise £10,000, to fund the project) please click on the link below. All donations are most welcome.

Link to the crowdfunding page

 

 

WORKING WITH SIR TOM FINNEY AND SUPPORTING REFUGEES

A Sporting day supporting Syrian refugees…help us to help them donating baby nappies, toys and clothes. Thank you!

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Year 7 Welcome Mass at Our Lady’s

It was lovely to see Luke, Millie, Ellie and Tallulah at Our Lady’s. They have settled into high school life very well. I took two of our Year 6 children to the Mass and we met our other friends from our small school Catholic Cluster.

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We are very lucky to be part of a Catholic small school cluster. Miss Deakin has meetings with other head teachers from small Catholic schools and together we plan many exciting trips and reflective experiences. Children in Year 2 get to know and make friends from other schools as we start of journey together throughout school. It is lovely to meet up with our friends from other schools. There are seven schools in total and we have another exciting year planned, including a trip to a Synagogue, a Laydewell retreat day, Metanoia Day, Beacon Fell creation day, Year 3 Open Air Mass and much more. We visit each other and enjoy a mixture of new experiences together.

We are also part of the Longridge cluster of schools and we are planning a superb Remembrance performance for next November with 14 other schools. The head teacher at Barnacre Rd, Mr Wallis,  is passionate about a joint performance at Preston Guild Hall and we are all on board. Information will be coming soon!

Our annual Advent Service at Our Lady’s Catholic High School is wonderful and our children always sing with such heart. Individual Preston Lancaster Diocese Primary schools take part in the service, which is always spiritually moving. We are fond visitors at Our Lady’s, linking with another range of Primary school to pray and learn together. We also visit there to watch performances and to meet authors.

Trolls Village Float-yes, we came 2nd!

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Thank you to Mrs Hamer and the team of amazing parents who have worked so hard on our floats. Pictures of the floats can be found n school. I couldn’t take any because I was roller booting behind! Thank you to our friend Alex Johnson, for organising such a great day-again! Alex was also part of Preston College performers who performed a super Puss in Boots pantomime in school at Christmas.

Developing a CAFOD Club toolkit with CAFOD

Gemma, from CAFOD headquarters, London, came to spend a full day in our school to learn about our Catholicity, RE work and CAFOD club successes. We are helping CAFOD develop resources for all school globally to use. This is a super opportunity for our children. Have a look at our first mention on the website…

CAFOD club overview (2)

 

RE Day ‘ Feeding the 5000’

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The children in Year 2 joined together with other groups of Year 2 children from schools in our small schools cluster. The schools met at St Mary’s & Blessed George Haydock Catholic Church, in Cottam. The theme of the day was the story of Jesus ‘Feeding the 5000’. The children spent all day together, taking part in several fun filled activities, ending with a mass in the church. The children made puppets, created a drama, made prayer cards and created a fishy piece of art work. The children made lots of new friends from the different schools and enjoyed their day out, learning about giving to others and trusting in God. It is a fulfilling experience for the children to link together with other local schools and learn together as children of God. The children came away from the day sharing stories and their experiences. We look forward to linking up with the small schools cluster next year.

A Sporting day supporting Syrian refugees…help us to help them donating baby nappies, toys and clothes. Thank you!

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Year 7 Welcome Mass at Our Lady’s

It was lovely to see Luke, Millie, Ellie and Tallulah at Our Lady’s. They have settled into high school life very well. I took two of our Year 6 children to the Mass and we met our other friends from our small school Catholic Cluster.

Our Lady's 2Our Lady's 1

We are very lucky to be part of a Catholic small school cluster. Miss Deakin has meetings with other head teachers from small Catholic schools and together we plan many exciting trips and reflective experiences. Children in Year 2 get to know and make friends from other schools as we start of journey together throughout school. It is lovely to meet up with our friends from other schools. There are seven schools in total and we have another exciting year planned, including a trip to a Synagogue, a Laydewell retreat day, Metanoia Day, Beacon Fell creation day, Year 3 Open Air Mass and much more. We visit each other and enjoy a mixture of new experiences together.

We are also part of the Longridge cluster of schools and we are planning a superb Remembrance performance for next November with 14 other schools. The head teacher at Barnacre Rd, Mr Wallis,  is passionate about a joint performance at Preston Guild Hall and we are all on board. Information will be coming soon!

Our annual Advent Service at Our Lady’s Catholic High School is wonderful and our children always sing with such heart. Individual Preston Lancaster Diocese Primary schools take part in the service, which is always spiritually moving. We are fond visitors at Our Lady’s, linking with another range of Primary school to pray and learn together. We also visit there to watch performances and to meet authors.

Trolls Village Float-yes, we came 2nd!

IMG-20170603-WA0006

Thank you to Mrs Hamer and the team of amazing parents who have worked so hard on our floats. Pictures of the floats can be found n school. I couldn’t take any because I was roller booting behind! Thank you to our friend Alex Johnson, for organising such a great day-again! Alex was also part of Preston College performers who performed a super Puss in Boots pantomime in school at Christmas.

 

 

 

 

 

At.St.Francis,’ we love to work with other schools and the community. We have visitors from other countries who come to experience schooling in England and we have strong links with local schools and small Catholic schools of similar size. We support each other by sharing staff training, coaching staff from other schools and sharing skills and expertise. The children visit other schools and schools visit us. Recently, Year 4 linked with other chldren in Year 4 from our Catholic schools cluster and went to Great Eccleston Scout Hut for a day of Year of Mercy education. Beacon class are going to visit Queen’s Drive school and are going to a Sikh Temple for the day. We work closely with our high schools and regularly attend sporting events, drama events and workshops. The French lessons were very popular and we are soon taking part in a maths challenge. Goosnargh and Whittingham Festival day will be wonderful as we collaborate with the community and enjoy our Star Wars float. Parents of our school have been busy creating the float and we look forward to the Mayor of Preston opening our Pre-School. We regularly fundraise for local and global charities as part of our service to others and we invite our local rest home residents to come to our coffee morning concerts.

 

 

The Queen’s 90th Birthday Street Party

We welcomed all to join us for our street party and it was a beautiful day to get together. Children ate their lunch outside with visitors and it was a great opportunity to enjoy each other’s company.

 

Village Festival Fun!

What a wonderful day we have had today! Our school band and choir performed many pieces at the Goosnargh Festival Concert. We played alongside other artists, schools and Preston College. The Mayor was there and was incredibly impressed by the musical excellence our children displayed. The children were a credit to us and their excellent  behaviour was commented upon many times. I am so proud of them all. Please see our video below. We look forward to being in the paper again so keep looking for the article!

Please click on the music notes to see our band perform.

Please click, to see our band perform.

 

 

 

 

 

Latest Posts

  • Celebrations and success 21st May 2025
  • Centenary of the Diocese of Lancaster – The Our Lady of Lourdes Statue Tour 9th May 2025
  • Farm fun and outdoor learning… 7th May 2025
  • Wheelchair Basketball and Year 3 and 4 Football Tournament 27th March 2025
  • Careers Week and Circus School? 23rd March 2025

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    • Catholic Life at St. Francis’
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    • What do parents and children think?
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    • Attendance and Working Together
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      • Newsletters 2024 2025
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    • CONTACT FORM
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    • Financial Benchmarking
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  • CLASS PAGES
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    • PRE-SCHOOL
      ▼
      • About our Nursery and Pre-School
      • Prospectus
      • 7 Areas of Development
        ▼
        • Communication & Language
        • Personal, Social & Emotional Development
        • Physical Development
        • Literacy
        • Mathematics
        • Understanding The World
        • Expressive Arts & Design
      • The Land of Pure Imagination
      • Gallery
      • Things you need
    • Pendle – Reception Class
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
    • Parlick – Year 1&2
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
    • Fairsnape – Year 3/4
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and home learning
    • Beacon – Year 5/6
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
  • Faith, RE & HRSE
    ▼
    • Catholic Life & Mission
      ▼
      • Catholic Mission Shalom Academy link in Kenya
      • Catholic Mission – LIVING, FEELING, DREAMING
      • Catholic Social Teaching at St. Francis
        ▼
        • Catholic Social Teaching in action!
        • Fundraising and Charity Work
        • Mission Together
        • CAFOD Club
          ▼
          • CAFOD KIDS
      • Parish Links
    • Religious Education
      ▼
      • RE INTENTION WHOLE SCHOOL
      • RE Curriculum Nursery & Pre-School
      • RE Curriculum Reception Class
      • RE Year 1 & 2 Curriculum Sequence Map
      • RE Year 3 & 4 Curriculum Sequence Map
      • RE Year 5 & 6 Curriculum Sequence Map
      • RE Policy
      • Prayer and Liturgy Policy 2023 2024
      • RE Inspection Section 48
    • Collective Worship
    • Wednesday Word
    • RE Inspection Section 48
    • PARENT FEEDBACK
    • HRSE
      ▼
      • HRSE/RSE
      • HRSE Policy
      • TenTen Parent Portal
    • Catholic Education Service – support and resources
      ▼
      • Mental Health Resources
      • Laudato Si and Environmental Resources
        ▼
        • Laudato Si at Home
        • Laudato Si at School
        • Laudato Si Role Models
      • RSE in Catholic Schools
  • Curriculum
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    • Nursery/Pre-School Curriculum
    • Reception Class Curriculum
    • Year 1/2 Cycle A
    • Year 1/2 Cycle B
    • Year 3/4 Cycle A
    • Year 3/4 Cycle B
    • Year 5/6 Cycle A
    • Year 5/6 Cycle B
    • English
      ▼
      • Writing
      • Reading
        ▼
        • Reading Resources
    • Phonics
      ▼
      • Phonics and Reading Schemes
    • Maths
      ▼
      • Maths Progression Maps
      • Maths Progression Maps
    • Science
      ▼
      • Working Scientifically Progression Map
    • History
    • Geography
    • Art and Design
    • DT
    • Music
    • Computing
    • PE
    • MFL
  • SAFEGUARDING
    ▼
    • Safeguarding
    • Parents & Family Support
    • Early Help
    • WELL-BEING
    • Childrens’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
    • Online Safety
    • Safer School App
  • Personal Development and Enrichment
    ▼
    • CAFOD Club
      ▼
      • CAFOD KIDS
    • Rabbit Kingdoms and Cluckingdom Palace!
    • The Land of Pure Imagination
    • Tower Wood
    • ST. FRANCIS CLUBS
    • TRIPS AND VISITORS
    • CHILDREN’S QUESTIONNAIRES AND VOICE
    • STORY TIME WITH MR MCGILL
      ▼
      • BARRY THE FISH WITH FINGERS
      • BARRY AND THE HAIRY SCARY MONSTER
      • GORDON
      • SUPERTATO
      • SUPERTATO AND EVIL PEA
      • THE HIGHWAY RAT
    • GLEE CLUB
      ▼
      • KID’S ZONE
        ▼
        • Hold On – The Only Way Is Up!
        • ST.FRANCIS TEAM – ELECTRIC DREAMS!
        • SCHOOL COUNCIL
        • ECO-COUNCIL
        • WHAT MIGHT THE FUTURE HOLD?
        • SCHOOL MAGAZINE
        • CHILDREN’S BLOGS
          ▼
          • BEACON CLASS BLOGS
        • Gardening
        • Choir
        • Here to Keep You Smiling!