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St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School (Hallam)

Meal Week 2 View the meal menu and pay online.

Attendance and Punctuality View our attendance graph at

stcatherines.academy/attendance

The highest class attendance in school last week

was 100.0%. Well done to Miss Andrew’s class!

You’ll be getting a little treat this week

Late attendance last week affected children’s

learning on 46 occasions, which is an average of

9.2 per day.

Overall school attendance for last week was:

93.7%

Class Lates Attendance

F2ES Miss Sefton 4 86.3

F2AW Mrs Wood & Mrs Atkinson 2 95.3

Y1RW Miss Webb 3 90.3

Y1WM Miss Marsden & Miss Waller 2 94.2

Y2LD Miss Duggleby 2 99.0

Y2LA Miss Andrew 4 100.0

Y3GP Mrs Pirie 3 94.7

Y3IF Miss Frost 0 87.4

Y4RH Miss Handy 4 95.3

Y4IK Miss Kirk 4 98.3

Y5RC Miss Conway 9 84.7

Y5ES Miss Sweeney 3 98.1

Y6MT Mrs Tipping 3 89.6

Y6JW Miss Weir 3 97.7

Dates for your Diary

Monday 26th February

* First Day Back!

* Book sale starts

* Last chance to book after school activities for this

half term!

Thursday 1st March

* World Book Day

* £1 to wear pyjamas instead of uniform!

* Year 4 to Woodland Discovery Centre

Friday 2nd March

* Reception Bun Day

Thursday 22nd March

* Nursery Parents Evening

Monday 26th March

* 9:15 Y3IF Palm Sunday assembly

Tuesday 27th March

* 9:15 Y3GP Last Supper assembly

Wednesday 28th March

* 9:15 Y6JW Garden of Gethsemane assembly

* 3:00 Y6MT Stations of the Cross assembly

* Swimming lessons start for Y2LD

Thursday 29th March

* Mass in school

Wednesday 16th May

* Swimming lessons start for Y1RW

Wednesday 20th June

* Swimming lessons start for Y1WM

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St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School (Hallam)

BUNS

This Friday it is the turn of Reception to provide

the buns. Thank you for your continued support!

You can now buy a Bun Pass for the whole year,

so that you don’t have to remember 20p every

Friday. The Bun Pass is only available to buy

online.

FRUIT

Fruit is available for Key Stage 2 children to buy at

morning playtime, it costs 20p per day.

You can now buy a Fruit Pass, so that you don’t

have to remember 20p every day. The Fruit Pass is

only available to buy online.

Get a colour copy of the newsletter by email,

let the office team have your address!

After School Activities Book places online at the Clubs Store

www.stcatherines.academy/buy/clubs

If you don’t want to pay online, you can book for

Spring 2 clubs today and tomorrow at the office.

Makaton Sign of the Week https://wetalkmakaton.org

A few parents have asked that we keep their child

in at playtimes. We think that there are very, very

few times when children are not able to go outside

for some fresh air for 10 minutes. If a child is too

poorly to go outside, a teacher would notice, and

contact parents. Please make sure your child is able

to wrap up warm at playtime, especially after a

spell of illness!

Year 5 Basketball Miss Glossop will be taking 10 of our Year 5

children to a Basketball Competition at Hinde

House school on Wednesday … good luck to the

team!

Library Visit Mrs Atkinson and Miss Sefton will be taking their

classes to visit the library on Friday 23rd March.

They need lots of adult helpers, please speak to

them if you are able to join the class on their trip!

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St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School (Hallam)

Parent Forum News There will be a coffee morning this Wednesday

starting at 9:00am, and there will be a

workshop starting at 9:20am – Miss Conway

will be letting you know about School Council

Members and Parliamentary Teacher

Advocacy.

Please join the Parent Forum for a cup of tea

and a chat on Wednesday, especially if you

want to find out more about School Council!

Reading Books Sale Each of our classes has been collecting second

hand books, they will be available to buy soon! The

money raised from the sale of books will be used

to buy new reading books for classroom. This is the

number of books that has been collected in each

class:

Nursery 25

F2ES Miss Sefton 20

F2AW Mrs Wood & Mrs Atkinson 18

Y1RW Miss Webb

Y1WM Miss Marsden & Miss Waller 68

Y2LD Miss Duggleby 94

Y2LA Miss Andrew 77

Y3GP Mrs Pirie 25

Y3IF Miss Frost 23

Y4RH Miss Handy 57

Y4IK Miss Kirk 61

Y5RC Miss Conway 111

Y5ES Miss Sweeney 84

Y6MT Mrs Tipping 42

Y6JW Miss Weir 210

World Book Day Children will be coming in pyjamas on World

Book Day on Wednesday 1st March!

It would be great if each child could bring a

donation of £1!

The deadline for the sponsored listen/read is

Friday 9th March!

Children will be bring home their World Book

Day voucher on Wednesday!

SEND Swimming Our SEND Swim Squad have reached the North

Teams Final on 6th June, they will be joining eight

other teams from the North West, North East and

Yorkshire!

Well done, and good luck!

Year 4 Trip Year 4 are on a trip on World Book Day, so will

need to come to school in uniform on that day!

They will also need wellies and a waterproof coat.

The children will wear their pyjamas on FRIDAY

instead for their activities

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F2ES Afla For looking after our environment by putting things back where they live, she is a great

role model to others, well done!

Abel For writing an amazing book all by himself, well done!

F2WA Eimaan For always being a helpful member of the class, thank you!

Winta For writing a fantastic story independently, well done!

Y1WM Abu-Zar For fantastic focus and effort in his Big Write, you wrote the whole part by yourself, well

done!

Ruwaidah For practising extra writing at home to develop her skills, keep up your enthusiasm!

Y1RW Eisa For a huge transformation in focus, effort and independence, well done!

Sham For a huge transformation in behaviour, for having resilience, and for working hard to

make his teacher and himself proud, well done!

Y2LD Awo For great explanations using mathematical language in Maths, well done!

David For working hard throughout this week and always being ready to learn, well done!

Y2LA Robel For excellent sentences about our engineer Jon using the possessive apostrophe, well

done!

Chantel For excellent compound sentences about the Rainforest animals using the possessive

apostrophe, and for amazing editing, well done!

Y3GP Sandile For improved independence, well done!

Yusuf For great descriptive sentences, well done!

Y3IF Hibba For increasing their independence in Maths, well done!

Dibora For amazing writing using many Literacy skills, well done!

Y4RH Eben For his continuous enthusiasm shown in Maths, well done!

Daniela For working really hard in recent weeks in both Maths and Literacy, well done!

Y4IK Josef For having a positive attitude in school, making the right choices for his learning and

working hard on his Literacy, well done!

Sophie For showing a real interest in our project work by researching outside of school time and

sharing with the class, and being a lovely friend to other children in the class, well done!

Y5ES Tunmise For putting in a great amount of effort all week and impressing Miss Sweeney in every

subject, well done!

Zara For trying really hard in the design process of our water filters and thinking carefully about

the materials she will use, well done!

Y5RC

Y6JW No merit Out of school on a trip

Y6MT Grace For putting 100% into everything she does, and showing real determination towards her

learning, well done!

Ryan For putting 100% into everything he does, and showing real determination towards his

learning, well done!

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Lunchtime Awards

WOW

Key Stage 1

Yusuf, Year 1, for eating all his dinners! Big change for Yusuf, well done!

Key Stage 2

Catherine, Alicia and Kacey, for an act of kindness! They found a tooth on the yard for a

KS1 child who was upset that they had lost it!

BEAT IT

MUGA Year 1

LT Challenge Year 6

Reader of the Week F2ES Lena For having a go at reading on her own!

F2WA No reader Book swaps in class this week

Y1WM Haleema For nearly achieving her bronze award, keep going and keep reading!

Y1RW

Y2LD Tyron For giving great contributions about his reading at school and at home!

Y2LA Benedict For excellent engagement in silent reading and in his sound practice!

Y3GP Michelle For great reading!

Y3IF Rio For great reading!

Y4RH Mufaro For her excellent comments about the book she is reading!

Y4IK Emilia For doing a really interesting reading presentation!

Y5ES Benji For producing an amazing reading presentation last week!

Y5RC

Y6JW No reader Out of school on a trip

Y6MT Olivia and

Aminah For achieving their gold award in reading, excellent achievement!

Year 3 Local Walk

Friday 2nd March

Year 3 classes will be visiting the allotment on Friday 2nd March, to research

greenhouses and water collection.

They will be back at school in time for lunch.

Children need to wear sensible footwear, a warm coat, hat, gloves and scarf!

Thanks.

Miss Frost and Mrs Pirie.

What Attendance looks like at St Catherine’s 2017/18

Our target for the Academic Year 2017-18 is 97%

We think that attendance is extremely important at St Catherine’s and work hard to make

sure your child has the best opportunity to achieve.

We celebrate success in Attendance in a number of way:

Sport Vouchers for Good Attendees

Letter home to celebrate improved attendance when move from under 95% to over

95%

Early Bird Week to celebrate whole class punctuality with a class chosen treat

End of Year 100% Attendance Trip to Pizza Hut.

We are going to keep celebrating this and well done to all the children who have fantastic

attendance.

If your child is absent due to illness, please inform school as soon as possible. If we don’t

hear from you, you will receive a phone call or text from school asking for reasons for

absence.

When issues arise around the attendance of your child/ren, you will notified in the

following ways:

Firstly, you will receive a letter if your child’s attendance is under 95% for the Spring Term.

This is an information letter making you aware of the issue. There may be reasons for this

which will be taken into account.

If your child/ren’s attendance does not improve in the following half term, you may be

invited into school to have a discussion with the Attendance Team about how we can

support you to improve the attendance of your child. On occasion, you may be asked to

provide medical evidence for your child/ren’s absences.

All holidays requested in school time will not be authorised, unless there are exceptional

circumstances. Please be aware that taken unauthorised absence during term time may

result in a Fixed Penalty Notice.

Punctuality is also monitored by our Attendance Team. Any child who has more than 3 times,

in a half term will receive a letter as a reminder for this to improve. If there are no

improvements, you may be invited into school to explain the problems that are arising.

If you have any concerns regarding your child/ren’s absences, please get in contact with the

Attendance Team.

Thanks,

Mr. Mitchell and Ms Winterbottom

Parents’ Evening Nursery

Thursday 22nd March

I would like an appointment between the following times:

2.00 to 2.30 2.30 to 3.00 3.00 to 3.30 3.30 to 4.00 4.00 to 4.30

4.30 to 5.00 5.00 to 5.30 5.30 to 6.00 6.00 to 6.30 6.30 to 7.00

I have listed my children below:

Name of child Time given (Office use)

If you are unable to attend Parents’ Evening but would like to see the class teacher to

discuss your child’s progress, please tick here and we will contact you.

If there is another parent who will be attending separately, please tick here and we will

contact them.

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