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St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School (Hallam)

Meal Week 2 View the meal menu online at

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Attendance and Punctuality View our attendance graph at

stcatherines.academy/attendance The highest class attendance in school last week was 100%, well done to Miss Webb’s class! You’ll be getting a little treat this week Late attendance last week affected children’s learning on 33 occasions, which is an average of 6.6 per day. Overall school attendance for last week was:

96.9%

Class Teacher Lates % Attendance F2ES Miss Sefton 1 95.3

F2AW Mrs Wood & Mrs Hope 3 94.0

Y1RW Miss Webb 1 100.0

Y1WM Miss Marsden & Miss Waller 3 92.2

Y2LD Miss Duggleby 1 97.3

Y2LA Miss Andrew 6 98.7

Y3BH Mr Harper 3 95.7

Y3IF Miss Frost 2 98.3

Y4GG Miss Gleeson 1 98.7

Y4RH Miss Handy 2 99.0

Y5JP Mr Park 1 98.0

Y5RC Miss Conway 3 95.7

Y6MT Mrs Tipping 3 95.3

Y6JW Miss Weir 3 98.0

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Dates for your Diary

Monday 22nd May F2 to Butterfly House Tuesday 23rd May Year 2 Arches Activity Day Wednesday 24th May F1 to Cannon Hall Farm 9:00 Year 6 Leavers party planning 9:00 Coffee Morning – Diversity Workshop Thursday 25th May Year 4 to Crucible Theatre 7:00pm Swim Gala at Ponds Forge Friday 26th May Year 6 Bun Day Last day to pay for milk for June/July Thursday 8th June Last orders for school uniform through school, for delivery in July – you can still order online after this date! Tuesday 13th June Year 4 to Great Yorkshire Show Drax Cricket at Oughtibridge Thursday 15th June Pond Dipping Day! Tag Rugby @ Forge Valley Friday 16th June Hallam Diocese Cross Country Catholic Football Cup Sunday 18th June Corpus Christi procession Tuesday 20th June Y6 Holocaust Centre Monday 3rd July Sports Day in the morning Summer Fair in the afternoon Wednesday 5th July Year 6 Induction Day at Notre Dame Wednesday 12th July Reception Sports Day Thursday 13th July Summer Disco Friday 14th July Reception end of year party - £1 donation towards food please Wednesday 19th July 10:30 and 2:15 Nursery Graduation Thursday 20th July 9:30 Leavers Assembly Friday 21st July 9:30 Leavers Mass in school

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URGENT – Parents of Year 6 Leavers It has become a tradition for Year 6 parents to arrange a party for the children and their families. The party usually takes place after school, during the last week of the school year; it is a lovely occasion! A few Year 6 parents are already thinking about what needs to be done, they will be meeting at the Parent Forum coffee morning on Wednesday 24th May at 9:00am, please come if you can, to help with the planning and decision making

BUNS This Friday it will be the turn of Year 6 classes to provide the buns,

thank you for your continued support!

Year 6, this is your last turn EVER to bring the buns!

Can You Help? There is a Stay and Play group in school every Wednesday afternoon, and they need some helpers … would you be able to please spare some time? If you are able to, please contact the Parent Forum at their coffee morning on Wednesday mornings! Thank you

Family Learning We have a great new course starting after the holidays – it’s called “Woodland Play”, and all of the exploring will be within the school grounds. As part of the course, you will join in with establishing a safe area in the school woodland for injured hedgehogs who could not otherwise live in the wild. Interested? See Tracey and Christine in the office for more information or to book a place. Tuesday mornings! Crèche available.

Parent Forum News This week at Coffee Morning there will be the first of the Diversity Workshops led by parents! Please come along and find out more about a culture different to your own, it will be lots of fun Coffee Morning takes place every Wednesday from 9:00am to 10:00am. Second hand books and nearly new uniform will be available to purchase or swap. ALL parents and carers are welcome!

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The Burngreave Foodbank urgently needs:

Dried milk powder UHT milk (1 litre)

Tinned veg Tinned fruit

Long life fruit juice Coffee

Peanut butter Chocolate/snacks

Please see the information on their website for further details: https://burngreave.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/ If you bring your donations to the school office, we will make

sure that they are delivered. Thank you for your support!

Parents Evening It was lovely to see so many of you at Parents Evening, thank you for coming! If you didn’t manage to attend, please speak to your child’s class teacher to make an appointment to meet either before or after school.

Fidget Spinners Despite making sure that all children know NOT to bring any toys, including Fidget Spinners, into school, we have had a number of incidents of children bringing them in, taking them off each other, damaging them and arguing about them. Can parents please support school and make sure their children DO NOT bring any toys or fidget spinners into school.

Ukulele A while ago, one of our pupils lost her ukulele. We have waited and waited for it to turn up, but it hasn’t … we have searched the entire school … do you have any idea where it might be? The ukulele was lost in April, it was in a pink carrier bag and was in a Year 4 classroom. Please let us know if you have any news!

MILK If you child is not having milk at the moment, but they want to have it after the holidays, the cost is £5.10. You need to pay at the office by Friday 26th May!

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SCHOOL TRIPS

We have some sports events coming up, children have been selected to take part and will have received a permission slip for you to sign!

Tuesday 13th June Ten of our Year 3 children will be representing the school at a Drax Cricket event at Oughtibridge Cricket Club. Thursday 15th June Ten of our Year 3/Year 4 children will be representing the school at a Tag Rugby event at Forge Valley School. Friday 16th June Eight of our Year 6 children will be rerpresenting the school at the Catholic Football Cup tournament at All Saints School. Friday 16th June Twelve of our Key Stage 2 children will be representing the school at the Hallam Diocese Cross Country event at Mylnhurst School. Good luck to all of the children at all of the events!

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SAMBA (20) 3:30 to 4:30

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ATHLETICS (20) 3:30 to 4:30

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ECO & GARDENING (12) 3:30 to 4:45

£2.00 per session Miss Vella

COMPUTER AND CODE (12) 3:30 TO 4:30

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BIG LONG CLUB We offer 30 spaces on this club, which is held in the Crescent Community Centre and the Family Learning Room. Children who attend the club have their tea (e.g. pizza), and they can choose from a range of activities including arts and crafts, homework support, basketball or pool (we have a new table!) or just chilling and playing with the toys.

SWIMMING We offer 14 places on this club, which is for invited children only. The sessions take place at Concord swimming pool, and the children work hard to be prepared for competitive swimming opportunities. Children are chosen for this club through talent spotting at school swimming lessons.

DANCE We offer 20 places on this club, which is led by a professional dance teacher. Each half term there is a different focus (e.g. Street Dance). Each half term we swap around so that each age range has an opportunity to take part throughout the year. This half term, Mrs Wells will be developing dance skills through Gymnastics.

LET’S GET BAKING

We offer 8 places on this club, which is held in the school’s fully equipped Design Technology room. Each week, the children prepare and cook a different food, and then bring it home for you to try!

SAMBA We offer 20 places on this club, which is led by our Music Coordinator. This is a new club, it’s a Children’s University project, the children will use a range of percussion instruments, and prepare for an event in Sheffield in the summer.

MULTISPORT We offer 20 places on this club, which is led by one of our Sports Curriculum Specialists. Each half term there is a different focus (e.g. Gymnastics). Each half term we swap around so that each age range has an opportunity to take part throughout the year. This half term, it’s Athletics, and is suitable for Year 1 to Year 6.

MULTISPORT

We offer 20 places on this club, which is led by one of our Sports Curriculum Specialists. Each half term there is a different focus (e.g. Gymnastics). Each half term we swap around so that each age range has an opportunity to take part throughout the year. This half term, it’s Multisport (a different one each week), and is suitable for Year 1 to Year 6.

ECO & GARDENING We offer 12 places on this club. As well as exploring the environment in our school grounds, the children will be making things – e.g. bird boxes, bird feeding stations, etc. Once every half term, there will be a special event – a (Mrs) Guest appearance from an interesting or exotic animal!

COMPUTER AND CODE We offer 12 places on this club, which is led by our ICT Curriculum Specialist. Miss Franks will support the children to write programs that will develop their existing ICT skills.

We have a pond Year Four have recently built a pond in school to help with their Spring Topic. The children have been involved in the building, digging, planting and designing of our fantastic pond.

We now have lots of creatures taking habitat in the pond, from tadpoles to hedgehogs!

Please come and have a look and see if you can spot any wildlife.

All children will be learning to pond dip on Thursday 15th June – please wear sensible clothes this day!

Pupils Perfect Pond Story by Fimi and Aimen Y4RH

Year 4 made a pond because we were learning about how small actions eventually can change the world.

We started at the beginning of March 2017 and we finished our pond on the 30th March when we had a STEM showcase and set some tadpoles free into our new pond.

The pond is located in St Catherine’s school near the dining room, this is a perfect spot because everyone gets to see it on their way to get their dinner. The Year 4’s worked very hard to dig the pond.

To get more people involved we had a big dig where parents came in on a Saturday to help us. Everyone worked great as a team and the pond looked like a pond by the end of the day.

Mrs Hopewell a teaching assistant in Y4 said “I like learning about all the animals and that Y4 have done a fantastic job creating it”

Jan a Year 4 student said “I love seeing more and more creatures everyday”

Martha added “I like pond dipping and at the end of the session releasing the creatures back into the pond”

Each class will get the chance to go pond dipping on a weekly basis. The project is great for all the school.