This Sunday celebrates the Sixteenth

Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Father will be wearing a Green

vestment.

Abbey News Friday 19th July 2019 No. 38 Headteacher: Ms J A Tallon Sutton Road, Erdington, Birmingham, B23 6QL Tel: 0121 373 1793 Email Headteacher’s PA: a.jackson@abbeyrc.bham.sch.uk www.abbeyrc.bham.sch.uk http://twitter.com/AbbeyPrimary

Erdington Abbey Mass Times

Vigil Mass: 6:00pm (Saturday)

Sunday: 8:00am, 9:15am (Children’s

Mass), 10:30am (Sung)

12:00 Noon, 6:00pm.

Confession Times each week

Wednesday: 10.30 – 11.00am.

Saturday: 10.00 – 11.00am, &

4.30 - 5.00pm.

Gospel Assemblies

We celebrate Gospel Assemblies each Monday in school. As part of this, some pupils are presented with

Values Certificates or Star Pupil Certificates. Historically, parents were invited to join these. Due to

timetabling movements, we paused this during Advent. We forgot to invite you back- whoops!

When we spotted this, we immediately canvassed opinions from pupils and parents. We were surprised to

find out that the majority of responses fed back that assemblies were smoother and had more impact when

kept ‘in house’. We were also shocked to hear the feedback from parents about how much pressure they felt

to attend and the additional demands and stresses this placed on their workload. One parent shared : ‘I hated

having to attend when I worked full time but now that I’m not working , I like it.’

In order to relieve the pressure for all, you will be invited to attend your child’s class assembly.

There is one a year and the dates are set for the whole year. This will enable you to forward plan.

Celebrations in weekly assemblies will be shared via twitter and can then be discussed, shared and enjoyed

as a family after the event.

Twitter Want to keep in touch over the Summer? Share what you’re up to with pics and tweets by

tagging us in ‘@abbeyprimary’

September School Uniform

Please allow time for an unusual / fashion haircut to have grown out before September return.

Thank you to parents of girls, who have followed the uniform policy, set by governors, regarding haircuts,

perfectly this year.

Parents of boys please talk together about the haircut policy in school and agree, as adults, to follow it. The

amount of times we have heard ‘it was his dad that took him’ as a reason for not following the policy is

unbelievable. Another popular response is: ‘We knew it didn’t follow the rules, but we thought we’d chance

it.’

Parents of boys, the policy clearly states that fashion haircuts or extreme haircuts are not permitted.

Please follow this policy.

Thank you Thank you to children, parents, staff and governors for another

wonderful academic year.

We look forward to welcoming you all back in September.

Goodbye and Good Luck

Today we say goodbye to our brilliant Year 6 pupils. It has been an honour for all staff at the Abbey school

to be part of their faith journey and to watch them develop into the wonderful young people they have

become. We hope they continue to follow in the footsteps of Jesus with their friends, family and Parish and

make the right choice to become the person God has called them to be.

We wish them every success for the future

Diary Dates w/c 2nd September 2019

(Dinner Menu: 1)

Return to school Tuesday 3rd September – gates

open at 8:40am.

Tuesday 3rd September

Tea & Coffee for New Reception parents

Thursday 5th September

Y1 trip to Thinktank

Y2 trip to Black Country Museum

Y4 trip to Cadbury World

All trip details sent out via ParentMail

Friday 6th September

Tea & Coffee for New Reception Parents

MESSAGE FOR YOUR EXTENDED FAMILY FOR NEXT YEAR Please let your extended family know that holidays in term time are not okay.

Please tell your family not to book ‘SURPRISE’ holidays for you.

To clarify:

DO NOT GO ON HOLIDAY IN TERM TIME.

TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY NOT TO BOOK ‘SURPRISE’

HOLIDAYS FOR YOU IN TERM TIME.

Note:

Please remember that each child has a locker that is big enough to hold a coat, PE bag and small book bag.

Children, particular KS2, do not need the enormous backpacks they are sometimes being sent into school

with.

We will not be joining the ‘bag police’ in September and checking bags, we just request that you support us

in choosing practical required options.

Bit of Light Reading

Has your son/daughter been involved in school

football?

Check out match reports and league standings on:

http://espsfa.pitchero.com

Secondary Transfer Letters

All New Year 6 parents have been sent a ParentMail

with a letter about Secondary School choice for

September 2020. Please complete your choices online

as detailed in the letter.

Please read admissions criteria carefully and consider

realistic options in order to prevent possible distress

later in the year.

COMMUNICATIONS VIA PARENTMAIL

All of our communication between school and home

are done via ParentMail. Please ensure you check your

ParentMail account on a regular basis to ensure you

DO NOT miss important information.

Message from Mrs Evans

All children will bring home a Sponsor Card

today ‘Read for Good’ to raise money for much

needed reading books and storytellers for our

nearest Children’s Hospital.

You can either pay money in online or return

money to school on 9th September 2019 in a

clearly labelled envelope.

Thank you for your support with this.

HSBC School Bank

Sandra, from HSBC will be back in school on

Monday 16th September 2019.

Welcome Lunches

This week we were delighted to welcome our new Reception children and parents to share Play, Stay and

Pray session with the new classmates and meet their Year 5 buddies.

Deen, Safaa, Elvis, Jacobbie-Eyole, Abel, Michael, Faith, Olivia, Francis, Adaoma, Lyla-Rae, Peter, Niamh,

Taylor, Nela, Acacia, Alverto-Ehab, Roman, Jude, Freya, Joanna, Samuel, Eliab, Eftihia, Eliana, Ariela,

Natan, Caleb, Kuriakose, Mashayio, Isla, Alan, Orry, Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Siye, Chritian, Willow,

Godlight, Rylee, Bona, Natalia, Eli, Allyanna, Isabelle, Marley, Dolly, Hana, Tymon, Isaac, Olivia, Ava,

Cyrus, George, Augustas, Layla, James, Nicola and Bethel.

Please ensure that you collect your bikes/scooters

when we finish for Summer. Anything which is left,

will be removed and disposed of during the summer

holiday.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY WILL

BE ISSUED DURING THE SUMMER HOLIDAY

VIA PARENTMAIL. PLEASE ENSURE YOU

CHECK THESE DATES AND NOTE THEM IN

YOUR DIARY.

Dinner Money Payments for September 2019

Only pupils in Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 pay for a school dinner.

Dinner money payments must be paid via ParentMail the first day of each school week.

Cost £11.75 per week (£2.35 per day)

If you wish to pay for the next ½ term in full 3/9/19 – 25/10/19 cost will be £89.30.

(This takes account of any teacher days during that half term)

Cost of FRIDAY only dinners is £18.80.

It is parent’s responsibility to ensure they inform the school office in writing if their child wishes to change

their lunch arrangements. We need 2 weeks’ notice if they wish to stop having school dinners.

Unless we have it in writing, we will presume that your child’s dinner arrangements will remain the

same from September 2019.

You may be charged for meals that we have booked if you do not notify school

Water Bottles – September 2019

School have set up an option on ParentMail, which will allow you to purchase an Abbey water bottle (New

Reception children will get one FREE) - or just a lid if you need to replace that.

This option is in the shop of your ParentMail account.

Once you order a bottle, it will be sent to your child’s class.

Help our School Win Book Tokens

National Book Tokens are offering schools the

chance to win £5,000 of National Book Tokens

– enough to buy hundreds of new books.

They are also giving parents the chance of

receiving £100 of National Book Tokens for

themselves.

To help our school win National Book Tokens

please go to the link below and nominate our

school.

The more nominations our school receives, the

higher the chance of us winning. Please ask all

your family and friends to nominate Abbey

Catholic Primary School.

The prize draw closes on 31st July 2019.

https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools

Note from Governors

Governors have confirmed the dates for next academic

year and also confirmed, that school will finish at

12:30pm on

Friday 20th December 2019

Thursday 9th April 2020

Friday 17th July 2020

Children will have their lunch before they leave on

these days.

Please note to maximise learning our morning gate will

close at 8:50am from September 2019.

Term Dates

All term dates can be found on our school website.

Please check this on a regular basis for any updates.

In September we return to school on

Tuesday 3rd September 2019

INSET Days 2019/2020

Please note school will be closed on the following dates

for INSET days:

Monday 30th September 2019

Friday 29th November 2019

Monday 2nd December 2019

Monday 24th February 2020

Monday 1st June 2020

Message from PTFA

The PTFA 50/50 draw was a great success this

year, so we continuing with it again from

September 2019.

This time there will be 12 draws, and the first

draw will be on Monday 9th September

2019. Please get your forms back to us, with

your payments, as soon as possible to be in with

a chance of winning – the more numbers you

buy, the bigger the prize and the more money

we make for the children at Abbey Catholic

Primary school.

Forms at end of this newsletter.

Summer Reading Challenge from Birmingham Libraries

During the summer holidays, children can take part in a free, local and inclusive reading challenge in libraries in Birmingham.

This years reading challenge will begin on Saturday 13th July and will continue throughout the summer holidays.

Pupils can join the Reading Challenge at any Birmingham library.

Libraries are great places for children to discover reading for pleasure and there is no better time to do this than during the long summer

holidays.

The Summer Reading Challenge is designed for children between the ages of 4 and 11 years old and is inclusive of all children and

families and all stages of reading development.

Children read six or more books of their choice: fiction, non-fiction, joke books, picture books; any books they like as long as they

are borrowed from the library. They talk about them in the library with a member of staff or young volunteer and receive rewards along

the way and a medal and/or certificate when they complete the Challenge.

There is also a mini-challenge for pre-school children so that the whole family can take part.

Libraries stock accessible texts, audio books, dual – language books, picture books and graphic novels.

Every year the Challenge has a new theme. The Summer Reading Challenge 2019 theme is Space Chase, an out-of-this-world adventure

inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.

Children taking part in the Challenge will join our super space family, The Rockets, for a thrilling mission to track down books nabbed by

mischievous aliens!

Space Chase will feature bespoke artwork from top children’s illustrator, Adam Stower, and will celebrate adventure, exploration,

reading and fun!

Erdington library have a number of activities during the summer holidays as detailed on the following pages of this newsletter.

(Please note this is nothing to do with Abbey Catholic Primary School we are just passing on the information)

MEMBERSHIP NUMBER (to be completed by the PTFA)

Name (to which cheque will be made out should you win)

Telephone no. ___________________

Email______________________________________________________________

Preferred contact: Telephone Email

I confirm that I am over 16 years old

I consent to the PTFA holding my contact details only for the purpose of contacting me with details of my number and

if I win the 50/50 draw

I/we agree to pay the sum of £_ to be allocated _ numbers (insert amount of numbers you wish to purchase at £1

each) for 12 monthly draws from September 2019 to July 2020 via cheque or bank transfer online to the PTFA bank

account by the 6th September 2019. I am aware that if payment has not been received by this date my number(s) will

not be allocated into the monthly draw until such time as it has been.

Signature_______________________________

Date:________________

When we receive this form we will notify you of your number(s) via text or email

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND GOOD LUCK!

50/50 CLUB SIGN UP