Thank you much for all those who were able to support our Christmas Jumper Recycle Sale! We raised £22 for Save the Children and still have more jumpers for sale in reception. We received such a positive response from families to this new initiative and would like to do it 'bigger and better' next year, which will also mean recycling jumpers earlier in November. We will ask for donations in the autumn term of 2025(!) but I've been informed that we have sufficient storage space in school. If you'd like to donate in January to save room in your attic, then please send any unwanted Christmas jumpers in!

Thank you for the Christmas jumper donations. We have been donated around 40 jumpers which will be sold on Monday 9^th December at 3.15pm outside class 3CB. There will be a suggested donation of £1 per jumper. If you have any Christmas jumpers which no longer fit or are of use, we would love to recycle them at Emmaus. Please bring them to school by Monday. Thank you!

For our first full meeting of the academic year, we met with the Eco Council to discuss the ongoing issue of food waste. We want to reduce the amount of food wasted at Emmaus - it's disheartening to see the bin full of unwanted food at the end of lunchtime. We are considering ways to cut down on this and also to find possible uses for this surplus. If you have any ideas, please speak to one of us. 

Our School Council representatives for 2024-25 are:

Year 1: Eloise & Thea 

Year 2: Freddie & Gray

Year 3: Luke & Maisie

Year 4: Penelope & Amelia

Year 5: Alfie & Oliver

Year 6: Isabella & Ethan

Our School Council representatives for 2023-24 are:

Year 1: Reuben & Parker 

Year 2: Paloma & Carter

Year 3: Evie & Jessica

Year 4: Rebecca & Ada

Year 5: Shea & Sofia

Year 6: Elliot & Sadie

The School Council had their final meeting of the year with Cllr Lila Bennett to find out about her role in the local council and to discover more about the general elections which took place last week. They had lots of exciting questions and learnt a lot! Thank you for joining us! 

Our first job as School Council 2023-24 was to record a new video of the Emmaus School mission statement. Click on the image below to be taken to the video elsewhere on our school website.

On Monday 26^th June our School Council members presented an assembly to the whole school to launch the sale of the Emmaus Recipe Book. The children have been meeting with Miss Clifton, our kitchen manager with Hutchison Catering, and helped to select some of their favourite savoury and sweet dishes which we can now make at home! The funds raised from the sale of this recipe book will be donated to Mary’s Meals, a registered charity serving a nutritious daily meal to some of the world’s poorest children to attract them into the classroom where they can gain an education and a brighter future.

There are 67 million primary school-age children out of school around the world; they have to work or beg to survive. And when they do make it into the classroom, hunger affects their ability to learn. 

Mary’s Meals gives children the energy to learn so they can become the men and women who will lift their communities out of poverty in later life.

Mary’s Meals are served in some of the world's poorest countries – Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Did you know:

* The cost of a nutritious school meal is just 10p?

* It costs £19.15 to feed a child for a whole school year?

The recipe book will be on sale from Monday 26^th June for a minimum donation of £1. How many meals will we be able to provide? How many children might we be able to feed for an entire year? We are so fortunate at Emmaus, our children are blessed never to think twice as to whether they will be able to eat at lunchtime. Please give generously! Feel free to buy multiple copies to give to family and friends!

We decided we'd like to raise some money for children who couldn't afford school meals. Watch this space to find out more about our fundraiser for Mary's Meals, an amazing charity. Hear about their work in this video below... 

The School Council met with Jacquie, our cook, to find out more about how the school meals are prepared and to discuss our favourite dishes. They discovered how Jacquie makes sure the meals are nutritious but also stay within a budget. Jacquie brought some lemon muffins and chocolate cookies for us to sample....we all agreed, they were DELICIOUS!

Our School Council representatives for 2022-23 are:

Year 1: Lottie & Theo 

Year 2: Grace & Erin

Year 3: Archie & Faye

Year 4: Sofia & Amber

Year 5: Amber & Mia

Year 6: Joel & Maddison

Their first democratic vote was to decide which colour of School Council badges would be bought for this academic year....and the result was purple!

Our School Council met with Jacquie, our amazing chef with Hutchison Catering, to find out more about the school dinners at Emmaus. We sampled flapjacks and fruit pots and gave suggestions for a Platinum Jubilee themed lunch later this month

Click on the image to check out the menus for this term.

We were forced to take a break in the academic year of 2020-21 as children from different year groups were unable to meet together.

In September 2021 we were delighted that we could recommence our School Council and the children from each class elected their new representatives. They are looking forward to meeting together on Tuesday 21st September. 

Our School Council representatives for 2021-22 are:

Year 1: Jacob & Nancy 

Year 2: Lyla & Nico

Year 3: Jasmine & Edith

Year 4: Paul & Olivia

Year 5: Maddison & Jonathan

Year 6: Finley & Rhys

Operation Christmas Child

Our School Council worked hard to promote this campaign within the school. They planned and delivered a whole school assembly, stuck up posters around the school building to raise awareness, reminded their classmates to fill shoe boxes and then helped to load the van with over 200 shoe boxes.

Yet again Emmaus families have proved to be extremely generous and compassionate in thinking of others who, this Christmas, will not receive any gifts. We supported Operation Christmas Child by bringing in shoe boxes filled with presents for children aged 2-14 years. Class 3CB helped the School Council to carry these boxes to the van which transported them on the first leg of their journey, to the OCC warehouse in Speke. On Wednesday the School Council will visit the warehouse and learn what happens to boxes after they leave our school. Watch this space for more photographs!

Meeting Stephen Twigg, MP & Former Shadow Education Secretary

Our School Council and Schools' Parliament members met with Stephen Twigg when he visited Emmaus on Friday 3rd February. He spoke briefly with us and then answered lots of our very thoughtful and probing questions. It was really interesting to hear about his life split between West Derby, Liverpool and London as he works in both cities.

Operation Christmas Child - volunteering at the warehouse

Members of our School Council had the chance to see where our shoeboxes go when they leave the school. They unloaded shoeboxes, sorted them in to the appropriate gender and age categories, looked through to ensure they were full to the brim with safe and suitable items and even helped to count and record the number of shoeboxes on the pallet ready to load onto the lorries! It was a very busy morning and I was delighted to hear volunteers at the warehouse commenting on how well behaved and polite the Emmaus pupils were.

We discovered that a lorry will leave the warehouse on Saturday bound for Romania and that 18,000 shoeboxes need be checked and ready to transport to Liberia the following week.

If you haven't yet had a chance to fill a shoebox, please consider doing so.