St. Ambrose Catholic Primary School
Alderfield Drive, Speke
Liverpool L24 7SF

Tel: 0151 425 2306
Fax: 0151 425 2167

Email: ambrose-ht@st-ambrose.liverpool.sch.uk
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I feel privileged to be headteacher of St Ambrose Catholic Primary School and to serve the Catholic families of east Speke, and would like to assure everybody that all the staff at the school are dedicated to ensuring that all of our children enjoy their primary school days and achieve their full potential.

Our well resourced school is situated in the southernmost part of Liverpool, in fact the school building is the last building in Liverpool before you reach Halton! The children are a joy to teach and the staff work extremely hard to ensure that as well as the teaching that goes on, relationships, attitudes and behaviour are good, in order to continue to raise standards of achievement and self esteem.

In 1999 there was a major reorganisation to remove surplus places and the infant and nursery building was demolished and now all of the foundation stage, key stage one and key stage two children are accommodated in the one building. We currently have approximately 250 children on the roll of the school.

As a school we are aware that we have clear responsibilities:

  • To develop our children's talents as fully as possible
  • To teach effectively and to set the highest standards in work and behaviour
  • To care for each child when at school as a good parent of a large family
  • To encourage regular communication with parents as a basis for close cooperation between school and home

St Ambrose School Prayer
Bless our school so that by working together and playing together we may learn to love one another and follow the example of Jesus

Trips and visits
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We strongly believe in the value of taking the children on visits to various places to enhance the curriculum and bring the children's learning to life. During the summer term all of the children participated in either a day trip or a residential visit with their respective year group.

The nursery children visited Stockley Farm, near Northwich and all of the infants spent an enjoyable day in Southport. Year 3's knowledge of the Romans was broadened with a visit to Chester which included a tour of the city led by a Roman Centurion. Year 4 visited Knowsley Safari Park and Years 5 and 6 had five day residential visits to Colomendy and the Isle of Man respectively. Also all of the key stage 2 children spent a full day at the IM Marsh campus of Liverpool University for a sports based day of activities.

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At St Ambrose we believe in the benefits of extra curricular activities and participate in many out of school sporting and non sporting activities.

We currently have teams participating in cross country running, badminton, rounders, football, tag rugby, indoor athletics.

On various days each week we also run a variey of after school clubs in a number of disciplines including: drama, homework, art, design and technology and music.

The school is set in extensive grounds on the southern outskirts of the city. Both the infant and junior departments are now located in one building and in 2004 we invested in a state of the art computer suite. A breakfast club is run on a daily basis and many extra curricular activities take place.

We have close links with the local adult education college and run many courses for our parents and the local community throughout the year.

Autumn Term 2005
Friday 21 October School closed for teachers 'Inset Day'
Monday 24 - Friday 28 October School closed for half term
Wednesday 21 December School closed for end of Autumn term
Spring Term 2006
Wednesday 4 January School opens for new Spring term
Friday 17 February School closed for teachers 'Inset Day'
Monday 20 - Friday 24 February School closed for half term
Friday 7 April School closed for end of Spring term
Summer Term 2006
Monday 24 April School opens for new Summer term
Monday 1 May School closed for May Bank Holiday
Monday 29 May - Friday 2 June School closed for half term
Thursday 20 July School closed for end of Summer term (children)
Friday 21 July School closed for teachers 'Inset Day'