Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Easter Church Service at Coppull Parish
Thu 28 Mar 2024We enjoyed a lovely Easter Service at Coppull Parish Church this morning. Reverend Matt delivered the service and was supported by the children from our Kingdom Club, who gave reading and read their prayers. It was a wonderful opportunity to hear and reflect upon the Easter story and the relationship between Maunday Thursday, the Last Supper and the Jewish feast of the Passover. Thank you to all the parents who were able to join us and to the Kingdom Club for your confident scripture readings.
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Last Choir Singing competition finalists!!
Thu 28 Mar 2024We are delighted to announce that after a brilliant performance last night at St George's Hall in Blackburn, our choir won first place and are now finalists in the Last Choir Singing competition in June. Mrs Bridge, our talented choir leader, is incredibly proud of how well they performed last night and is very excited to be taking part in the finals. The school were treated to a wonderful performance this morning and thoroughly enjoyed the song choices and the choreography. Well done everyone involved and good luck for the finals - we can't wait!
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World Downs Syndrome Day
Thu 21 Mar 2024World Downs Syndrome Day
We have all worn 'lots of socks' today to raise awareness and support World Downs Syndrome Day. Mrs Davison led an assembly, which explained what Downs Syndrome is and challenged the stereotypes that get attached to people with Downs Syndrome and cause prejudice.
At Coppull Parish we feel it is really important for us to recognise that we are all special, completely unique and loved by God. Our children had produced art work of different patterned socks, to show that we are all different yet wonderful, which was on display in the hall. Have a look at the photograph of the whole school and see how many different hair colours, different faces and different socks you can see. Well done Coppull Parish!!!
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World Book Day and Poetry Slam
Thu 07 Mar 2024World Book Day Poetry Slam
What a brilliant day we have had today for WBD 2024. This year we decided to focus on poetry books and asked all the children to come in dressed as a character from a poem or nursery rhyme and they looked absolutely amazing. I don’t think two children wore the same outfit, there was so much imagination on display: we even had a real live Muffin Man, who brought in a tin of delicious muffins for us to eat. We started the morning with an incredible Poetry Slam, that saw all classes performing some wonderful poems and raps, with actions and humour – they had it all. What a fantastic way to celebrate WBD. Thank you to all our families for finding the outfits and helping the children to learn their poems. It was wonderful!! Take a look at our photographs of children and staff joining in the fun.
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Careers Week
Mon 04 Mar 2024This is Careers Week, so we have arranged for a few visitors to join us and tell the children all about their careers. On Monday morning, we had a visit from Jen, who is a copywriter, and Izzy, who is a marketing executive, from Buzz Education, to talk to the whole school about their careers. First of all, we explained that there are many different jobs and careers available to them when they leave school, but they need to make sure they choose something they enjoy doing and that they are good at and school can help them with this.
Jen and Izzy then explained what their jobs entailed and what skills and knowledge they needed to gain employment, and what subjects they needed to work hard at in order to do their job well. Our Kingdom Club also led a 'Who am I?' role play with the school, who did an excellent job of working out which careers they were portraying.
Afterwards, Jen led a workshop in our Year 5 class creating a holiday brochure, while Izzy led a workshop in Year 4 on persuasive advertising. Both classes are going to complete their projects and send it to Buzz Education for feedback.
We also had a fabulous visit from David from Community Rail, who delivered an important talk about rail safety before telling the children about all the varied careers on the railways: from drivers, engineers, cleaners, conductors, dispatchers and the people who work in the ticket offices. He also brought a range of outfits for the children to wear and explained each of the roles. What a great information session we had.
Our visitors and the follow up work we have had in class have definitely got the children thinking about what careers they might like in future and what skills and knowledge they need to acquire.
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Breakfast with Santa
Fri 01 Dec 2023🎅 Breakfast with Santa 🎅 What a wonderful morning we’ve had! A big thank you to the PTFA for organising this fantastic event. The children had a great time and couldn’t believe that Father Christmas knew what they had been learning about in class. To finish the morning off each child received a present from Santa 🎁
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Bridge building STEM challenge
Mon 06 Nov 2023On Friday, Year 6 were lucky enough to have a visit from Emma Charnock, who works for Balvac Balfour Beatty, who undertake the repair and refurbishment of the Silver Jubilee Bridge in Runcorn. She showed them a series of bridge constructions and discussed the merits of different building approaches, then set them a bridge building challenge, using a limited number of straws and construction tape. The children had to really think about the best way to bridge a 20cm gap between chairs whilst holding up a container of pennies. This involved understanding how to keep the cup upright, stable and building strength into their bases. It took a lot of trial and error and working together as a team, but they took on the challenge and had a good go. Only one team was entirely successful, but well done to everyone for persevering and a big thank you to Mrs Charnock for this great opportunity (and all the lovely gifts).
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Anti-hate crime graffiti art competition winners
Mon 06 Nov 2023Coppull Parish, along with the other local schools, were approached by Chorley Borough Council and Lancashire Constabulary to support them with an art initiative to combat hate crime in the local area. We were more than happy to take part, as at Coppull Parish we feel strongly that everyone from any culture, no matter where they were born, or which faith they follow should be welcomed into our community with kindness, love and respect. Our children welcomed the opportunity to produce a range of art which promoted love, not hate, and they created some beautiful and thought provoking art for the competition. And guess what? SIX of our children won and their art work now forms part of a graffiti mural on the side of the Springfield Pub and the railway embankment in Coppull. Here are a few photographs of the presentation ceremony, which took place at the Springfield Pub on Friday 20th October. A huge well done to Noah, Harvey, Oscar, Daisy, Cora and Mia for their winning entries and promoting love over hate in Coppull.
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Year 1 Toy Museum
Wed 18 Oct 2023As part of their History learning this term, our Year 1 class have been investigating toys from the past. We needed our families help with this and asked them to send in any toys that they loved or played with when they were young, so that we could set up a Toy Museum for our children to explore. As you can see by the exhibits, the children wrote explanations for the games and toys, and then spent an enjoyable time playing with them. Thank you to everyone who brought in exhibits for our museum, all the visitors who enjoyed it - and well done to our Year 1 historians!
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New Reading Shed
Wed 20 Sep 2023Our Reading Shed fell into a sorry state of disrepair last year. So we have spent a bit of time rebuilding, re-painting and refurbishing it over the Summer, so that it is a welcoming and cosy place to sit and relax with a good book, or comic during break times. We've got a team of volunteers who are going to help keep it tidy too. A big thank you to Mr Bird for all his carpentry skills and Mrs Clarkson for making it so cosy.
