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

  • ABOUT US
    • Mission Statement
    • VISION, VALUES AND AIMS
    • Our School
      • School Day
      • School Dinners
      • School Uniform
    • Contact
    • Catholic Life at St. Francis’
    • RE Inspection Section 48
    • Meet the Staff
    • Governors
      • St. Francis’ Governors
      • Foundation Governors
      • Governor Attendance
    • Prospectus
    • Parish Links
    • Privacy Notices
    • British Values
  • PARENT INFORMATION
    • Holidays & Term Dates
    • Breakfast and After School Club
    • PTFA
      • PTFA Review 2022 2023
      • Social Media Link
      • 50/50 Club
    • Parent Questionnaire
    • What do parents and children think?
    • Admissions and Prospectus
    • Attendance and Working Together
  • SCHOOL INFORMATION
    • Ofsted
    • News
    • Newsletters
      • Newsletters 2022 2023
      • Newsletters 2023 2024
      • Online Safety Newsletters
    • Headteacher’s Blog
    • CONTACT FORM
    • Sports Premium
    • Pupil Premium
    • POLICIES
    • Special Educational Needs
      • Special Educational Needs
        • ACCESSIBILITY PLAN
        • FIND NEWSLETTERS
    • REMOTE LEARNING OFFER
    • Complaints
    • Financial Benchmarking
    • Exam & Assessment Results
    • Financial Benchmarking
  • CLASS PAGES
    • PRE-SCHOOL
      • The Land of Pure Imagination
      • About our Nursery and Pre-School
      • Meet the Team
      • Prospectus
      • 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 – 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
    • 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
    • Whole School Curriculum Overview
    • Curriculum Progression Maps
    • Curriculum Leaders
    • CURRICULUM OVERVIEWS
      • St. Francis Nursery and Pre-School Curriculum Map
      • 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
    • Sports
      • Sports News
    • MFL
  • SAFEGUARDING
    • Safeguarding
    • Parents & Family Support
    • Early Help
    • WELL-BEING
    • Childrens’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
    • Online Safety
    • Safer School App
    • COVID-19 INFORMATION
      • REMOTE LEARNING OFFER
      • COVID-19 CATCH-UP FUNDING
      • COVID-19 POWERPOINT REPORT
  • ENRICHMENT
    • CAFOD Club
      • CAFOD KIDS
    • Rabbit Kingdoms and Cluckingdom Palace!
    • The Land of Pure Imagination
    • Tower Wood
    • ST. FRANCIS CLUBS
    • TRIPS AND VISITORS
    • BBC North West- our TV debut!
    • CHILDREN’S QUESTIONNAIRES AND VOICE
    • 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?
    • WEBSITES FOR ME
    • SCHOOL MAGAZINE
    • CHILDREN’S BLOGS
      • BEACON CLASS BLOGS
    • Gardening
    • Choir
    • Here to Keep You Smiling!
      • STORY TIME WITH MISS DEAKIN
        • BOB AND THE MOONTREE MYSTERY
        • NORMAN THE SLUG
        • MERMAID
        • HANDA’S HEN
        • MISS. DEAKIN’S BLOOPERS
        • THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT
        • THE GRUFFALO
        • SHARING A SHELL
        • THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN
        • ROOM ON THE BROOM
        • WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
        • WINNIE IN SPACE
        • WINNIE THE WITCH
      • 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
  • Catholic Mission Shalom Academy link in Kenya

Latest News

Preston Small Schools Champions!

Preston Small Schools Champions!…

Achieving the Primary Science Quality Mark-GILT AWARD…

Well done to all of our dedicated staff…

CAFOD CLUB Help the Homeless

HELP THE HOMELESS THIS WINTER! Our schoo…

Season of Creation! Laudato, we’ll Si what we can do!

…

Collaboration Concert 2023

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Art Gallery beauty

What a stunning art gallery we held in s…

Aargh! It’s all go!

Last week, we had our first ever joint r…

Celebrating 100 years of Disney

We have had a great time participating i…

Collaboration Music Showcase-come along!

…

First Holy Communion

Last Sunday was incredibly special for 1…

A beautiful May Procession

What a glorious day for our annual May P…

Amazing Learning Bonanza!

It is just such a joy to see all of the…

Easter at Hill Chapel

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Strawberry DNA…with Reception Class?!

Well, this is an interesting week and I…

Action packed!

As we return to school this week, we loo…

Trout farming, The Linking Network and lots of fun!

In typical St.Francis’ style, we have a…

A lovely end to 2022-Merry Christmas from us all!

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Christmas Mass times

Dear all,…

A swinging band and a special Advent Service…

Last Friday, we had a superb band and ch…

Infant Nativity Joy

As we reflect on what Advent means for u…

ST. FRANCIS CLUBS

ST. FRANCIS CLUBS

My Happy Mind Club

In My Happy mind club this week, we went on a nature walk, using all our senses to explore our outdoor environment. We have been learning about how our brains work and sharing tips to help us calm down if our amygdala is in overdrive! We also made some ‘We are Happy Breathing’ door hangers to allow us peace and quiet when we practice our happy breathing exercises.

We have made sensory bottles with glitter and sequins to help us to focus and relax.

 

We made sensory dough with lavender to help us to relax.


Craft Club


Our first eco-brick creation!

Eco-council are pleased to announce that we have made our first eco-brick creation. Keep sending in your eco-bricks… we are beginning to assemble some of these to make quirky furniture items like this fantastic stool…! Some of our children visited other schools to demonstrate how to make eco bricks and help the environment-they did an amazing job of sharing their powerpoint presentation and inspiring other future citizens of our world.

 

Eco-Council Project

Our eco-warriors have been trying to think of ways that we can reduce the amount of plastic waste we throw away. They presented an assembly to share ideas including reusing bottles, bags and packed lunch containers. They have decided to start collecting ‘eco-bricks’ (plastic bottles filled with plastic waste) to avoid it going to landfill. We are enjoying cramming as much plastic into bottles as we can! We hope to make some interesting creations with these next half term.

READING CLUB AND LIBRARIANS

Our children love Reading Club and it is GREAT to see so many of you passing your love of

books on to our younger children. Keep it up!

GREAT TO SEE THE CHILDREN RUNNING THEIR OWN CLUBS

NEW CLUBS FOR 2020

As we like to keep things fresh with St. Francis, we have developed new and exciting clubs for this term. We try to encourage all children to participate in break-time, lunch-time and/or after school clubs – we always have lots to offer. As well as promoting 30 minutes of daily exercise daily, we want children to learn and develop new skills – skills they don’t even know they have! For those children who are gifted and talented – we want clubs to support their love of learning – growing their skills and enthusiasm.

UFA CURRICULUM CLUBS

 

LUNCH TIME CLUBS

CHOIR AND BAND PRACTICE EVERY FRIDAY 2.00pm – 2.45pm

WE ARE INCREDIBLE PROUD OF OUR BAND AND CHOIR – HAVING BEEN ESTABLISHED NOW FOR 3 YEARS, THEY ARE GOING FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH. MR. WARREN DOES AN INCREDIBLE  JOB OR LEADING OUR BAND AND CHOIR, GIVING THE CHILDREN CONFIDENCE IN THEIR ABILITY AND HELPING THEM GROW. ALL CHILDREN ARE WELCOME TO JOIN THE CHOIR AND THE BAND. MR. WARREN CONTINUES TO DELIVER MUSIC TUITION EVERY FRIDAY, PLEASE INQUIRE ABOUT A FREE TASTER WEEK IF YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO LEARN AN INSTRUMENT. OVER A THIRD OF THE SCHOOL ARE IN EITHER THE BAND OR THE CHOIR, WITH MANY CHILDREN TAKING GRADES 1 OR 2 WITH THEIR CHOSEN INSTRUMENT.

 

 

ST. FRANCIS YOUNG SPORT LEADERS

OUR ST.FRANCIS YOUNG LEADERS COMPLETING TRAINING READY TO LEAD SPORTS GROUPS AT BREAK TIMES AND LUNCH TIMES. THEY HAVE BEEN LEARNING: TACTICS, GAMES, LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATIONAL SKILLS IN ORDER TO LEAD AND RUN SPORTS CLUBS EACH DAY IN SCHOOL. MR. HOWARTH IS MAKING SUCH A BIG IMPACT ON OUR CHILDREN, HELPING DEVELOP SKILLS THAT WILL LAST A LIFETIME!  CHECK OUT THE SHORT VIDEO CLIP BELOW.

https://www.stfranciscatholicprimaryschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/YOUNG-LEADERS-20192020.mp4

 

Art Club

Art Club have been working on perspective and vanishing points. They are creating some amazing cartoon-style cityscapes – complete with a variety of crazy monsters!

Our new Lunchtime Clubs

Our new lunchtime clubs are up and running , expertly led by year 5 and 6 children.

Check out all of the exciting things we offer…

CAFOD Club

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We meet every Monday in our Cottage and have over half of the school enthusiastically involved! The children plan meetings, take their own minutes and create newsletters for parents of St. Francis. These go over to church so our parishioners are always well informed about what is going on in school!

Cricket and Judo are due to begin soon. Cross country training begins later this half term and gymnastics club will also begin. ‘Wake up, shake up!’ is led by children on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning.

Clubs and extra curricular activities we offer:

Monday:  Tennis before school         Table tennis after school

Tuesday: Change for life  at lunchtime

Fencing

Wednesday: Football and Netball after school     Chess Club at lunch time         Swimming 

Thursday: Mini Dodgeball for infants

Friday:       Choir at lunch time   Band for infants and juniors at lunch time      Music lessons  throughout the morning -brass/woodwind/percussion

Additional activities run by children:

Chess Club run by the children for the children.

Colouring Club– Monday lunch time-led by junior children for the infants.

School Council-meeting every fortnight.

Fairtrade stall-every Friday breaktime-led by Year 5 and 4.

Various sports clubs-led by sports captains and Year 6 children.

Buddies

Eco Warriers-mixed age children.

 

 

 

Latest Posts

  • Preston Small Schools Champions! 24th November 2023
  • Achieving the Primary Science Quality Mark-GILT AWARD… 22nd November 2023
  • CAFOD CLUB Help the Homeless 10th November 2023
  • Season of Creation! Laudato, we’ll Si what we can do! 13th October 2023
  • Newsletters 2023/2024 11th September 2023

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  • ABOUT US
    ▼
    • Mission Statement
    • VISION, VALUES AND AIMS
    • Our School
      ▼
      • School Day
      • School Dinners
      • School Uniform
    • Contact
    • Catholic Life at St. Francis’
    • RE Inspection Section 48
    • Meet the Staff
    • Governors
      ▼
      • St. Francis’ Governors
      • Foundation Governors
      • Governor Attendance
    • Prospectus
    • Parish Links
    • Privacy Notices
    • British Values
  • PARENT INFORMATION
    ▼
    • Holidays & Term Dates
    • Breakfast and After School Club
    • PTFA
      ▼
      • PTFA Review 2022 2023
      • Social Media Link
      • 50/50 Club
    • Parent Questionnaire
    • What do parents and children think?
    • Admissions and Prospectus
    • Attendance and Working Together
  • SCHOOL INFORMATION
    ▼
    • Ofsted
    • News
    • Newsletters
      ▼
      • Newsletters 2022 2023
      • Newsletters 2023 2024
      • Online Safety Newsletters
    • Headteacher’s Blog
    • CONTACT FORM
    • Sports Premium
    • Pupil Premium
    • POLICIES
    • Special Educational Needs
      ▼
      • Special Educational Needs
        ▼
        • ACCESSIBILITY PLAN
        • FIND NEWSLETTERS
    • REMOTE LEARNING OFFER
    • Complaints
    • Financial Benchmarking
    • Exam & Assessment Results
    • Financial Benchmarking
  • CLASS PAGES
    ▼
    • PRE-SCHOOL
      ▼
      • The Land of Pure Imagination
      • About our Nursery and Pre-School
      • Meet the Team
      • Prospectus
      • 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 – 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
    • 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
    ▼
    • Whole School Curriculum Overview
    • Curriculum Progression Maps
    • Curriculum Leaders
    • CURRICULUM OVERVIEWS
      ▼
      • St. Francis Nursery and Pre-School Curriculum Map
      • 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
    • Sports
      ▼
      • Sports News
    • MFL
  • SAFEGUARDING
    ▼
    • Safeguarding
    • Parents & Family Support
    • Early Help
    • WELL-BEING
    • Childrens’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
    • Online Safety
    • Safer School App
    • COVID-19 INFORMATION
      ▼
      • REMOTE LEARNING OFFER
      • COVID-19 CATCH-UP FUNDING
      • COVID-19 POWERPOINT REPORT
  • ENRICHMENT
    ▼
    • CAFOD Club
      ▼
      • CAFOD KIDS
    • Rabbit Kingdoms and Cluckingdom Palace!
    • The Land of Pure Imagination
    • Tower Wood
    • ST. FRANCIS CLUBS
    • TRIPS AND VISITORS
    • BBC North West- our TV debut!
    • CHILDREN’S QUESTIONNAIRES AND VOICE
    • 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?
    • WEBSITES FOR ME
    • SCHOOL MAGAZINE
    • CHILDREN’S BLOGS
      ▼
      • BEACON CLASS BLOGS
    • Gardening
    • Choir
    • Here to Keep You Smiling!
      ▼
      • STORY TIME WITH MISS DEAKIN
        ▼
        • BOB AND THE MOONTREE MYSTERY
        • NORMAN THE SLUG
        • MERMAID
        • HANDA’S HEN
        • MISS. DEAKIN’S BLOOPERS
        • THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT
        • THE GRUFFALO
        • SHARING A SHELL
        • THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN
        • ROOM ON THE BROOM
        • WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
        • WINNIE IN SPACE
        • WINNIE THE WITCH
      • 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
  • Catholic Mission Shalom Academy link in Kenya