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St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School

OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

Friday, 4 October 2019 Issue 2.52 Autumn Term

Tues 8 Oct • Fire fighters visiting Reception & Year 1 in school

Thurs 10 Oct • Year 3 trip to North End Road market

Fri 11 Oct • Year 2 trip to Tower of London

Tues 15 Oct • Parent/Carer Evening. 3.45pm-6pm. School hall.

Wed 16 Oct • Bumblebees trip to Fulham Library • Parent/Carer Evening. 3.45pm-6pm. School hall.

Fri 18 Oct • Nursery trip to Kensington Gardens • Coffee morning celebrating Black History Month. 8.45am. KS2 playground. All welcome!

HALF TERM: Monday 21 October - Friday 25 Oct

St. Thomas of Canterbury Catholic School, Estcourt Rd, Fulham, London, SW6 7HB E: admin@stthomas.lbhf.sch.uk /T: 0207 385 8165 / F: 0207 385 0918

Office Notices > School lunches: All payments must be made in advance and online. Children will be put onto packed lunch if there is a debt of 2 weeks or more. Please give 24 hours notice to change from packed lunch to school meals or vice versa. > Absence: If your child is unwell, has a medical appointment or is going to be late please inform the school office before 9am. > Birthdays: Only jelly sweets, like Haribo, allowed for birthday treats please. > Leave during term time will only be granted in exceptional circumstances. Requests must be made in writing with 10 days notice using the school form.

Bumblebees Jemarius

Badgers Bobby

Hares Lloyd

Squirrels All of Squirrels

Deer Fabriana

Seals Aarmi

Dolphins Poppy

Owls Maisie

Eagles Theo

of the Week Class attendance week of 16 Sep

Ladybirds 99.0% Above average

Bumblebees 93.8% Below average

Badgers 89.0% Below average

Hares 99.1% Above average

Squirrels 99.4% Above average

Deer 92.8% Below average

Seals 100% Well done

Dolphins 98.6% Above average

Eagles 96.1% Above average

Owls 98.8% Above average

NATIONAL AVERAGE IS 96.1%

Playground

Infant Junior

Gracie Lulia

Hares Eagles

Playground £5 voucher winner

Infant Junior

Savannah Divine

Badgers Seals

House of the week St. George (409 points)

St. Thomas’ Harvest Collection Box Please donate non-perishable goods to our school office by Friday 18 October

Today the children looked very colourful as they dressed up in bright clothes to support CAFOD’s Harvest Campaign. Thank you all for your generous contributions.

BRIGHTEN UP FOR CAFOD’s Harvest Campaign

Gold Stars Jason

Silver Stars Lulia, Hermon, Angelica, Ethan, Poppy,

Beza, Mathew, Sarah, Tergel, Christopher, Aarmie, Jason.

Star Class Badgers

MATHLETICS

Deer Writing Showcase

Year 4 have been busy reading their class book ''Mouse, bird, snake, wolf'' by David Almond. The children have been learning about features of a graphic novel and using this as an inspiration for them to plan and create their own story in a graphic novel style. The stories were set in the ocean and included some ocean creatures as part of the topic ‘Blue Abyss’. Here we can see Amarah’s comic style story and also Jan and Fabriana’s. Well done to them all.

Year 5 Maths Challenge Well done to our maths team who went to St. John Bosco College and used their problem solving and maths skills to solve secondary school level challenges. Our team impressed St. John Bosco greatly with their knowledge. What superstars!

Phil the Bag Unfortunately our Phil the Bag collection, which was scheduled for Thursday 10th October, has been postponed. Please keep your old unwanted

clothing until we can fix another date. Thank you!

Larisa Irish Jane

Artist of the Week.

This week Year 6, have been learning about artist Jim Dine as part of their topic ‘Blood Heart’. He is an American artist who is known for his work on heart and skull art. Here Larisa and Irish Jane have sketched skulls very carefully as part of their observational work. Well done to them both.

CAFOD’s Harvest Campaign

Our school will be celebrating Harvest Festival on Friday 18 October and as always, we are asking for donations to help support the Soup Kitchen at St. Thomas’ Church which gives supplies of non-perishable goods to individuals and families in need. All donations will be gratefully received in the box in the reception area of the school. The last day to donate is Friday 11 October.

Jan Fabriana

Book Fair St. Thomas’ book fair will take place on Monday 14 October until Thursday 18 October in the back of the school hall. There will be a great selection of books so please come along and see if anything catches your eye!

Police visit Reception and Year 1

On Thursday, Reception class and Year 1 were very lucky to have not two but four police officers visit them! They learnt about staying safe on the road, calling 999, what to do if they got lost and the importance of knowing their address and parents names. They also tried on the police hats and had a good look at the walkie talkies, handcuffs and the pepper spray. A huge thank you to the police officers for coming in and talking to the children and maybe inspiring some of them to become officers of the law themselves one day!