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Waterpark outdoor residential experience

Outdoor education gives children confidence and a chance to try new and exciting experiences. We have a programme for the outdoors which includes day visits, climbing mornings and longer residential visits.

Currently we take children for the weekend or week to Waterpark on Lake Coniston.

Your child is safe when cycling, insist on a helmet and don’t let young children near busy roads. As a rule we only let Y4, Y5 and Y6’s to cycle to school on their own.

School Sport and Fitness Week

Sport and keeping active are a key part of our school curriculum. Lunchtimes are led by our sports coaches and play leaders and we want every child to have the opportunity to experience and succeed in a number of sporting areas. Our ‘Fitness Week’ is the culmination of a great deal of work by our P.E. staff. We invite a range of professional coaches to school to deliver judo, aerobics, dance, tag rugby, speed stacking, cricket, climbing, golf and curling, to name but a few. Children go off site to some venues and we try to ensure every child has a wonderfully varied week. Our focus on sport and developing the skills of the children and good team work certainly does have a ‘knock on’ effect on performances in school sports competitions. We have won boys and girls schools football, cricket and experienced great success in the Blackpool School Games this summer. Not only do children really enjoy sport we hope it may encourage them to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

Cycling at school

Waterloo is becoming a real cycling centre. We encourage children to cycle safely and sensibly whilst making cycling courses at school fun and active. We introduce our nursery and reception children to bikes ‘without pedals’ (scoot bikes) to develop balance and gross motor skills. We also have Y5 children taking a bike mechanic course, biking breakfasts for parents and children riding to school and a range of bikeability courses for junior aged children. All these initiatives have resulted in a huge increase in the number of children coming to school on their bike.

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Waterloo Win Animation Award!

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Waterloo has won a media Oscar for their film EJECT!
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Fylde schools' job loss fears

SCHOOLS across Fylde face a budget crisis after a shocking 100 per cent rise in water bills.

Controversial new billing system could see school trips, books and even classroom assistants axed in order to pay spiralling utility costs.

Over three years, Blackpool's 40 schools face a £189,000 increase in their annual bills while Lancashire, with up to 700 schools, is expected to pay £1.4m more after United Utilities decided it was undercharging.

Headteachers are outraged at the £1.6m countywide hike which has to be found from their budgets before the new financial year begins at the start of April.

At Waterloo Primary in Blackpool, headteacher Mark Gray is faced with a 97 per cent hike of £2,300 in just one year.

Waterloo's bill will go up from £2,789 to £10,896 over the next three years.

He said: "It's an outrage. It could mean people losing jobs."
A colleague at another Blackpool school added: "It's incredible to think United Utilities is willing to take from our budget for books and resources."

Schools say the shocking price hike has come without warning.
United Utilities is changing the way it charges from the start of next month. The element of water charges relating to Surface Water Drainage (SWD) and Highways Drainage (HD) will become based on the surface area of the site rather than the rateable value of the property.

While it is expected these changes will be "cost neutral" across all United Utilities customers, those sites with a large surface area, such as playing fields, are set to pay a higher charge for discharge of water.

Local councils are expected to be losers under the new charging regime, but city centre tower blocks will benefit from lower bill.
Lancashire County Council for example will save £200,000 in three years on its Preston City Centre properties.

But Lancashire's chief engineer Peter Clark said: "Schools are being penalised for having large surface areas. Already budgets face increasing pressures. It won't be easy to find this money."

A spokeswoman for Blackpool Council said: "Many public buildings will lose out by paying higher charges because of their large sites areas, especially schools with playgrounds. While the new charges are being phased in it still means that local schools will have to find additional money at very short notice."

United Utilities says the new non-domestic charge is supported by water industry regulator Ofwat as it bases bills on the cost of draining the site rather than the council tax band of the property which can be influenced by location.

Brian Hurd, Customer Service Director, said: "The aim is not to increase our revenue, but to provide a system which better reflects the costs involved. This will mean individual customers will see either increases or decreases in these charges.

"Rateable value was the most common method we have used up to now to assess charges. Although this does take account of property size, it's also influenced by a property's location and this can lead to many inconsistencies in charges for surface water drainage."

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