New Year News

Happy New Year to everyone! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

Cowley News
We're off to a good start to 2014 with two articles in the current edition of Cowley News. There should be some copies of the paper in reception soon or you can pick them up at Temple Cowley swimming pool just inside the front door.

BBC Radio Oxford, Thursday 16th January about 10.30am
Mrs Webb and Sr. Anne shall be speaking on the Malcolm Boyden Show on BBC Radio Oxford on Thursday about the school's history and encouraging listeners to send in their memories as part of our upcoming celebrations for our 80+ years in the community. Listen in for some fascinating stories about our school's past.

Miss Evans' Class Cake Sale
Just before the Chritsmas holidays Miss Evans' class organised a fantastic cake sale raining £200 for class supplies. Thanks to all parents who baked and helped out on the day.

Christmas Hamper Raffle Winners

The draw for the Christmas hamper raffle was drawn by Mr. Roberts at the Foundation stage nativity play this afternoon.

The winners were:
1st prize of a mega hamper: Mary Valle (Mr Tillcock's class)
2nd prize of a smaller hamper: Maya Cibinskia (Mrs Khan's class)
3rd prize of a bottle of champagne: Anne, our lovely dinner lady

Congratulations to our winners and huge thanks to everyone for their support in taking part and throughout the year.

Have a very happy Christmas!

Donations for victims of Typhoon Haiyan

Thank you to everyone who donated items, came to play bingo to raise funds, helped sort and pack donations and drove the boxes to Middlesex for our disaster relief appeal for victims of Typhoon Haiyan. A total of 18 large boxes were packed and delivered to Forex Cargo UK, who kindly agreed to ship them free of charge, last week. Your help and support for this project is very much appreciated.

Christmas Bazaar

Thanks for your help!

Huge thanks to everyone involved with the Christmas Bazaar which was a great success today. It was so lovely to see the children so excited about doing their Christmas shopping.

Thank you to everyone who donated items, decorated mugs and glasses, packed gift packs, helped to sort, lay out and clean up over the last few weeks and all day yesterday and today. It simply couldn't have happened without you.

Christmas Hamper Raffle

Don't forget your tickets! First prize worth over £100.

All children should have received raffle tickets (50p each) in their book bags. The first prize is a bumper hamper of chocolates, biscuits, champagne, whiskey, wine and lots of other seasonal goodies worth well over £100. Second place is a smaller hamper and third place a bottle of champagne.Draw will take place at the Foundation Stage Nativity on December 19th. Good luck!

Bingo Night Success

Thanks to everyone who came along, helped out and had fun at our bingo night for the Philippines on Friday. We're very happy and proud to say the evening raised a whopping £840 for the disaster relief effort.

On Saturday November 30th at 11am in the school hall we will be packing donations into boxes ready for shipment to the Philippines. Come along if you can and help out, even half an hour is a big help!

Celebrating 80 Years at Our Lady's School

Did you know Our Lady's School is 80 years old? To celebrate this wonderful achievement the Friends of Our Lady's School would like to collect stories, memories and photographs of the school past and present.

Are you a past pupil and now a parent? Have several generations of your family been to school here? Are you new to the area and have your children just started? We'd  love to hear everyone's thoughts. Between us could we find the oldest graduate of the school? The eldest graduate with our youngest pupil, what a great photograph that would be.

Where have all Our Lady's' graduates gone? Please spread the word, we might get responses from all over the world!

Please have a think and let us know your thoughts. You can always email us at OurLadysPA@gmail.com

We will also be seeking what the staff, Sisters and pupils think about supporting, working and learning in our school.

Our Lady's - Our School, Our Community

Check our the story on our plans in the Oxford Mail