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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!

STOP PRESS!
Waterloo has won a media Oscar for their film EJECT!
We beat many other schools in Blackpool (including several secondary schools) to win this prestigious award in the 'Tell us a Story' catagory.
To read more and see our animations ....Click Here.

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We've finally got our new headteachair

EIGHT weeks ago it was empty.

But now the coveted chair soon to be vacated by outgoing headteacher Peter Rawcliffe has finally been filled.
The vacant post at Waterloo Primary â€“ one of Blackpool's biggest schools â€“ had to be re-advertised three times.
But now new man Mark Gray has tried out the leather chair for the first time ahead of being handed the reins when Mr Rawcliffe retires in July.
He said: "It seems a great place and I can't wait to start.
"The last time I came to Blackpool was when I came to watch my team Sheffield Wednesday play Blackpool years ago.
"The only other time I can remember coming was for a charity parachute jump from Blackpool airport when I was teaching at a school in Bradford. So I have had a good aerial view of the place."
School bosses were starting to get worried when just two teachers applied to the first job advert.
Five applied when it was re-advertised but three of those pulled out before the interview stage, leaving just two candidates, neither of which the governors found suitable.
So it was a case of third time lucky when they found new man Mr Gray.

The Sheffield-born headteacher had only been back in the country 10 days when he spotted the post in the situations vacant section.
He had just returned from a two-year stint as head of a large primary in Auckland, New Zealand.
Mr Gray, 46, is now frantically house hunting in the area with wife Jane and their three sons Matthew, 11, William, 14, and Dominic, 12.
He added: "They are all really looking forward to the move.
"I am a keen golfer so I am pleased to see there are a few nice golf clubs in the area. There also seems to be lots for the boys to do and I am sure we will all be very happy."
The UK is facing a massive shortage of primary headteachers and it had been feared applicants were being put off the Waterloo job because Mr Rawcliffe was just too tough an act to follow.
During his time he turned the fortunes of the school around, earning it an "outstanding" rating from school watchdogs Ofsted.
But Mr Gray is not daunted.
He added: "This will be my fourth headship. Two of the other three were what I would describe as challenges in one way or another and one was very similar to this in size and reputation.
"I view it as a great possibility."

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