On Wednesday 5th July, Coppull Parish held their annual Summer Fair. 
Despite the overcast weather, people still attended to support the school at this event.

We manged to raise a total of £900 for school funds. 

Thank you to all the members of PAST for all their hard work to arrange this event. 

Today we were visited by a magician
who had a very special message for us all at Coppull Parish.

We all really enjoyed hearing the stories about
Sue, Bill, Mikey and Oliver, as well as being amazed at the wonderful magic tricks!

 

We were reminded of the following statements and 
how we need to BAND together for a bully-free school.

* Bullying is not okay
* Ask for help
* Nobody deserves to be bullied
* Do your part

This week, Coppull Parish have held a Health Week in school. 
Every class have been taking part in many different activites from keep fit, bread tasting and even smoothie making!

Have a look at some of the photographs from this exciting week.

A small group of Year 5 and 6 children participated in a
Country Folk Dance Festival in Preston this week. 
They joined pupils from numerous schools and learnt six new dances.

It was great fun and made everyone feel happy if somewhat exhausted! 

The children enjoyed it so much that they have taught our younger
pupils the routines at lunch time.

Today Coppull Parish had the amazing opportunity to meet a Paralympian who is aiming to compete in the 2012 London Olympics!

Graeme Ballard came into our school to tell us what is is like to be an elite athlete, as well as sharing his experiences of the Beijing and Athens Olympic games. 

It was great to hear about his exercise routine, healthy diet and also to be able to see an Olympic winning medal! Ballard won the bronze medal on his Paralympic debut on the 200m track event in Athens but missed out on medals in Beijing

We also really enjoyed finding out about the history of the Olympics through the presentation by pupils from Southlands High School. 

Thank you for coming to visit us.  We all really liked your visit.

On Friday June 1st Coppull Parish Church School celebrated the Royal Diamond Jubilee. 

All the children and staff came into school dressed in the colours of the Union Jack flag to complete a morning of fun Jubilee-themed activities on the playground. 

These included...

• Royal skittles and hoopla
• Build a palace
• Pin the tail on the corgi
• Maypole dancing
• Play the national anthem
• Design a stamp for the Jubilee
• Create a commemorative coin
• Name the Royal
• Penalty shoot out
• Welly throwing
• Face painting
• Royal treasure hunt
  
  The celebrations were then rounded off with
  a special themed Jubilee lunch.

Over the past three weeks, the children at Coppull Parish
have been busy collecting pennies as part of a
charity collection organised by the School Council. 

The School Council decided to ask the school to collect
money for the charity The Cystic Fibrosis Trust. 

Some members from the School Council took all of the pennies
to be counted, and there were so many it took over a hour for the
machine to count them all! 

Today, everyone finally found out just how much their class had
raised for this fantastic cause.

The results are as follows....

YR - £19.33
Y1 - £19.91
Y2 - £51.24
Y3 - £59.51
Y4 - £12.64
Y5 - £27.67
Y6 - £27.83

A BIG THANK YOU to all of the children,
but CONGRATULATIONS to Y2 and Y3
who will be having a treat for raising over £50 in their classes.

 

https://www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/

As part of the London 2012 Olympic celebrations, Chorley Sports Partnership organised an Olympic torch relay between all schools in Chorley. 

Today, the torch arrived at Coppull Parish!

 

Children from Southlands High School brought the torch to our school this afternoon. 
We welcomed them with our singing, dancing and flag waving which they definately appreciated. As the torch was passed onto our school, we exchanged pennants between the two schools. 
Look at the documents below to see some our pennant designs.

Our school then had to take the torch all the way to the next school - Coppull St Johns. Children from Year 5 and Year 6 carried the torch and exchanged pennants with St Johns once they were there. 

The children and staff at Coppull Parish were very happy to be part of such a wonderful occasion! 

Thank you to the sport partnership for organising such a great event.

 

Please see Latest News Documents for the Pennant Design documents.

On Wednesday 9th May
Coppull Parish School had an Olympic Day. 
It was so much fun.

 

Early in the morning we had an assembly from two men
telling us all about the London 2012 Olympics. 
One of the men was called Bernie and the other one Scott.

Later on that day they did a few sessions with some of the classes.  One of the things we did was an opening ceremony in which we had to wave flags.  Then they said everytime we answered a question we could have one gold medal.  Midway through the session we played some games.  A lot of the games were for working together and others on your own. At the end of the session I ended up with a grand total of 11 gold medals. 

We also found out some facts about the games...

 - The rings on the Olympic flag represent the five continents (America, Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe)
 - The first Olympic games was held in Athens which is in Greece
 - The Olympics will start in London on the 27th July
 - Many different venues are being used for the games including Old Trafford and Lords Cricket ground

Many thanks to our visitors from the Chorley Sports
Partnership for coming onto our school. 
The day was fantastic and I can't wait for the games to start!

By Kai Shorrock