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Issue 14, 12th Dec 2016 stcatherines.academy classnews.stcatherines.academy @_stcatherines

Meal Week 3 View the meal menu online at

stcatherines.academy/school-meals

From 1st September 2016, the price of a school meal increased

to £2.00 per day. We have delayed the increase to parents, and

so the new price will apply from Wednesday 4th January 2017

when we return to school after Christmas. (The cost of Nursery

dinner remains the same at £1.75 per day.)

Attendance and Punctuality View our attendance graph at

stcatherines.academy/attendance

Well done to Miss Duggleby’s classes for 99.3% attendance, and

no lates, there will be a little treat for you this week

Late attendance affected children’s learning on 81 occasions,

which is an average of 16.2 per day.

Overall school attendance for last week was

97.0% Class Teacher Lates % Attendance

F2ES Miss Sefton 7 97.0

F2AW Mrs Wood & Mrs Hope 7 98.3

Y1RW Miss Webb 8 98.0

Y1WM Miss Marsden & Miss Waller 8 99.0

Y2LD Miss Duggleby 0 99.3

Y2LA Miss Andrew 8 96.0

Y3BH Mr Harper 5 96.0

Y3IF Miss Frost 5 97.6

Y4GG Miss Gleeson 7 95.4

Y4RH Miss Handy 2 96.7

Y5JP Mr Park 6 98.7

Y5RC Miss Conway 7 98.0

Y6MT Miss Tipping 8 93.3

Y6JW Miss Weir 3 94.1

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Dates for your Diary

Monday 12th December

2:30 Year 5 Plague Play

6:00 First Holy Communion Meeting

Tuesday 13th December

1:30 School of Rock in school hall

2:00 Piano and Mince Pies in CCC

Wednesday 14th December

9:00 Parent Forum Coffee Morning

10:30 and 2:30 Reception Nativity

Christmas Dinner!

School photos going home

Thursday 15th December

9:15 Y4GG Assembly

Vision Screening for Reception children

3:30 School Disco

Friday 16th December

9:15 Mass in school

Year 1 Bun Day

Party for Reception children

Last day for booking clubs!*

Last day for ordering milk!*

Last Day of school, have a happy

holidays!

Monday 19th December

School Council to Houses of Parliament

Saturday 24th December

4:00 Children’s Mass at Church

Sunday 1st January 2017

*Last day for booking clubs if you are

using an online Agora account!

*Last day for ordering milk if you are

using an online Agora account!

Wednesday 4th January

First Day Back to school

School Meals price increase

Breakfast Club back to £1.00

Friday 6th January

First Day Back to school

Wednesday 11th January

First swimming lesson for Y1WM

Wednesday 11th

January @ 2:00pm

Parent Forum AGM

Tuesday 24th

January

Y3 Road Safety Training

Thursday 26th

January 2017

Parents Evening

Tuesday 31st

January


Tuesday 7th

February


Tuesday 16th

May

Year 6 Notre Dame Parents Roadshow

Wednesday 5th

July

Year 6 Induction Day at Notre Dame

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Makaton

Mrs Clark has given us the Makaton Advent Calendar,

which is attached to this newsletter!

Sorry it dropped off of last week’s copy.

Parent Forum News This week there won’t be a guest speaker at coffee morning, but

there will be tea, coffee and mince pies, and the opportunity to

have a chat!

As usual, second hand books and nearly new uniform will be

available to purchase or swap. ALL parents and carers are

welcome, coffee morning starts at 9:00am!

Christmas Fair

Thank you for all of your support with the Christmas Fair last

week, the Parent Forum will let us know how much has been

raised! The Christmas Raffle will be drawn on Friday this week:

Raffle tickets are still on sale!

You can buy them from the school office, and they cost 20p each.

BUNS This Friday it is the turn of Year

1 to provide the buns, thank

you for your support!

Christmas Holiday We break up on Friday for

Christmas, we hope you all

have a happy holiday, and

we return on Wednesday 4th

January.

If you would like to join

Father Albert for Mass over

Christmas, he would be

delighted to see you:

Christmas Eve

4:00pm Children’s Mass

7:30pm Carol Service

8:00pm Mass

Christmas Day

9:00am Mass

New Baby Mrs Atkinson has a brand

new baby daughter, her

name is Aifoe Grace.

Congratulations Mrs

Atkinson!


Christmas Disco The Christmas Disco will be on Thursday 15th December, straight

after school. Tickets cost £2.50 and are available from the

payment desk at the school office. Otherwise, you can pay using

Agora if you have an account set up, and avoid the queue to pay!

You can pay anytime this week, if you wait until Thursday

morning then there will probably be quite a queue.

If your child is normally in an after school club on Thursday,

they do not need to pay for the disco, but they will not get

a refund for the club, please check at the office if you are

not sure whether you need to pay for the disco!

The disco starts straight after school, children do not need to

wear school uniform on this day. Food is provided – hot dog

(meat or vegetarian), crisps, sweets and drinks.

Children need to be collected from their classroom door at

5:30pm. If you need to collect your child early, please arrange it

with the class teacher beforehand, the doors and gates to school

will all be locked until 5:15.

Reception Classes Party Reception classes will not be joining the disco after school, they

will be having a party instead on Friday 16th December in

school time!

Children can wear party clothes on that day, but they need to

be dressed warm and sensible for the outdoors!

Milk We start a new term in

January, and so you need to

pay again if you want your

child to have milk after the

holidays.

You can pay at the office, or

using SIMS Agora.

The cost is £26.35 for the

rest of the year.

After School Clubs Attached is the list of after

school clubs for next half

term, they will start week

commencing 9th January

(there will be no clubs on

Thursday 5th). Please book

your child’s place at the

school office, or using SIMS

Agora.


Walking Bus As you will know, the Walking Bus is an extended school

provision. It was established some years ago to address traffic

congestion around school by encouraging parents and carers to

park at the Sheffield United Academy. The school has met the

cost of providing three members of staff to accompany the

children to and from the Academy car park.

Due to pressure on the school budget, the Governing Body has

had to carefully consider our range of extended school provision,

the cost, and the impact or benefit for our children. With regret,

we are no longer able to provide the Walking Bus and the Return

of the Walking Bus.

Breakfast Club As you will know, at October half term we raised the cost of

Breakfast Club from £1 per day to £2 per day. This is because we

have a limited amount of money available to subsidise our

extended school provision, and we had to address the shortfall.

As we are no longer offering the Walking Bus, we are able to use

the savings for a bigger subsidy on the Breakfast Club, and so

after Christmas it will cost £1 again!

Breakfast Club is open every school day from 8:00am, last orders

are at 8:30, it is open to all children in school. Children in Year 1

and below need to be accompanied by an adult.

There is no need to book a place, just turn up!

School Photos The school photos have

arrived, but they need to be

sorted out ready to give to

you!

We will be sending them

home on Wednesday, please

call into the school office if

you need them urgently for

posting to relatives.

Christmas Eve Mass Father Albert has arranged a

children’s Mass on

Christmas Eve, he would be

delighted to see you! The

Mass starts at 4:00pm.

Pupil Voice Homework

Attached to the newsletter is

a piece of homework about

‘Choice’, it is for all children,

and is due back to school on

Friday 6th January

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Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 For invited children only Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6

BIG LONG CLUB (30)

3:30 to 5:30

£5 per session Mrs Guest

Miss Franks

Mr Hardy

Mrs Clark

Miss Glossop

SWIMMING (14)

3:30 to 4:30

£5 per session Mr Johnson

Mrs Oxley

STREET DANCE (20)

3:30 to 4:30

£2 per session

Performance at the Octagon

theatre in April! Mrs Wells

Mrs Vella

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Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 For invited children only Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6

LET’S GET BAKING (8)

3:30 TO 5:00

£3.50 per session Mr Johnson

Mr Evans

MUSIC TECHNOLOGY (8)

3:30 to 4:30

£2 per session Mr Anthony

Mrs Guest

MULTISPORT (20)

3:30 to 4:30

£2 per session Mr Hardy

Miss Vella

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Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6

MULTISPORT (20)

3:30 to 4:30

£2 per session Mr Hardy

Mr Johnson

ECO & GARDENING (12)

3:30 to 4:45

£2.00 per session Miss Vella

Mrs Ali

COMPUTER AND CODE (12)

3:30 TO 4:30

£2 per session Miss Franks

1. For each club, look at the list of year groups.

2. If it is highlighted GREEN for your child’s year group, this club is suitable for them!

3. If it is highlighted AMBER, it may be suitable for them … please check if you are unsure.

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.

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!

MUSIC TECHNOLOGY

We offer 8 places on this club, which is led by

one of our music teachers. The children work

on iPads to compose music, and then this is

merged electronically to produce a

collaborative piece.

MULTISPORT


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


MULTISPORT


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


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


by our ICT Curriculum Specialist. Miss Franks

will support the children to write programs

that will develop their existing ICT skills.

Pupil Voice at St Catherine’s

Last year, pupil voice was a huge success! Your thoughts and opinions were heard loud

and clear and they made a big impact across school. This year the theme for pupil voice is

choice! We want to celebrate how your voice is heard every day at school through the

choices you make. Every child at our school makes important choices both in an out of

the classroom . You might choose where you sit, who you work with or what activity you

do in the playground. Your choices shape your school day and help you to be a resource-

ful and independent member of your school community.

To launch this years Pupil Voice theme, we want you to come up with a colourful logo and slogan

that could be displayed on our pupil voice display board in the dining room and on the pupil voice

display in each classroom! Imagine, it could be your design that the whole school sees every day!

The design that represents every child having a voice in our school!

Please design your logo and slogan in the box above and return your design to Miss Franks by Friday

6th January.

The School Council will be judging the winning design!

Remember this years theme is ‘choice’.

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