Newsletter 14 Week ending 14th December 2018

Believe

you can

achieve!

Dear Parents and Carers,

Another great week at St Cuthbert Mayne. On my visits to classrooms this week I have seen a a wide variety of exciting learning taking place. Well done to everyone for remaining focused and trying your best in all that you do as we near the end of this long term.

Well done to our talented children in St Teresa’s, St Catherine’s, St Bernadette’s and St George’s class who blew us all away this week with their energetic and strong performance of Lights, Camel, Action by Antony Copus. Thank you for presenting the story of the Nativity in such a unique, prayerful and uplifting way. We are so proud of you all. Thank you to your talented teachers and staff who have worked so hard to ensure that you could deliver your best performances. Thank you also to Fr.David and the parish for allowing us to use the church for our nativities.

Next week, learning continues as normal but please remember to check the diary dates as we have several festive events taking place as we count down to Christmas.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Natalie McCarthy (Headteacher)

Advent

This week we lit the second candle on our Advent wreath and remembered the example of John the Baptist and his expectations of Jesus. We are preparing for our Advent Mass which takes place on Thursday 20th December at 1.45pm in the church of Jesus Christ Redeemer of Mankind. We hope that many of you will join us to celebrate Advent and the end of another successful term at St Cuthbert Mayne.

Thank you

Thank you for your generous donations to our Christmas collection for CAFOD World Gifts and our school fund. We hoped to raise £150 to buy a cow for a family through CAFOD World Gifts and were amazed to have collected £615.10 so far. We will continue to collect money through donations and also from those children and staff who donate to the collection instead of buying Christmas cards., until the end of Advent. The school council will meet in the new year to decide which gifts to buy for CAFOD.

Open the Book

Thank you to the Open the Book team who deliver an interactive assembly to the children every week, where groups of children are able to get involved in the dramatisation of the week’s scripture. We wish them a well deserved break over the Christmas holidays and look forward to their return in January.

Lights, Camel,Action

It was f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s! Well done to everyone especially Year 6 St Teresa’s Class who took part in their last St Cuthbert Mayne Nativity.

ATTENDANCE

Attendance

figures for w.e.

7th December

2018

Congratulations

to Year One ho

have the highest

attendance this

week.

School Target

96.5%

Diary Dates

DECEMBER

18th C.Y.E. Christmas assembly to children

19th School Christmas lunches and own clothes day

19th 2.45pm Surrey Hills Choir performance

20th 1.45pm Advent Mass ALL WELCOME

21st School Talent Show (children only)

21st 2pm school closes for the Christmas holidays

Christmas Holidays

Monday 24th December– Friday 4th

January

7th Start of the Spring Term

7th Year Two 2.45pm Curriculum Meeting for parents.

9th 9am Year Three Curriculum Meeting for parents.

10th 9am Year One Curriculum Meeting for parents.

11th 2.45pm Year Six Curriculum Meeting for parents.

14th 2.45pm Year Four Curriculum Meeting for parents.

16th 9am Year Five Curriculum Meeting for parents.

17th 2.45pm Reception Curriculum Meeting for parents.

February

7th 3.15-3.45pm

12th 3.15-3.45pm Open Classrooms

15th 9am Parent Forum

March

Science Week 9th-18th

World Book Day 7th

Class %

Reception 84.0%

Year 1 98.9%

Year 2 98.7%

Year 3 96.8%

Year 4 93.8%

Year 5 97.0%

Year 6 97.9%

Whole School 95.2%

Uniform and lost property

Please can all uniform, drink bottles and

lunch boxes be named. Thank you to

those parents who have.

Please can all children have a warm and

waterproof coat in school as we like to

get them outside at break times and

during learning times whenever possible.

Please claim all lost property by the end

of term. Unclaimed items will be donated

to charity.

Poppy Appeal 2018

Well done everyone. We raised an

amazing £241.33 through the sale of

poppies at St Cuthbert Mayne and have

received a thank you card from the

Royal British Legion.

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-

involved/ways-to-give/fundraising-

appeals/poppy-appeal/