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ST MARGARET CLITHEROW CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL, POLHEARNE WAY, BRIXHAM,DEVON TQ5 0EE

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Newsletter No. 11: 23rd November 2018

Telephone/Fax 01803 851647

Website: http://www.margaret-clitherow-primary.torbay.sch.uk Email: [email protected]

Headteacher: Mrs F Gill Newsletter No. 1: 13th September 2019

AWARDS

Awesome Achievers Class 1: Darcy for settling into school and giving everything a try! Class 2: Olivia for contributing and being resilient with her learning. Class 3:James for an outstanding start to the year. Class 4: Gracie for showing determination and resilience when editing her writing.

Witnesses of the Week Class 1: Kara for coming back to school with a positive attitude towards her learning. Class 2: Amalie for making the right choices when learning and playing. Class 3: Oscar for showing compassion to others. Class 4: Kailan for giving encouragement and support to his peers. Head Girl and Head Boy We are very excited to announce the appointments of our Head Boy and Girl and their deputies! This is an important role and we are delighted that we have so many wonderful children to choose from. We know they will have a huge impact on our school and MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Head Boy: Oli Damsell Head Girl: Maisie Sanders Deputy Head Boy: Kailan Mager Deputy Head Girl: Amelia Heale Congratulations!

Attendance Best Class this week is Class 2.

Whole School 95.03%

Class 1: 94.94% Class 2: 97.27% Class 3: 95.47% Class 4: 92.42%

We are already below 95% due to holidays taken in Sept! Please don’t book holidays

in term time.

Have you missed anything? The following information was shared this week. If you feel you may have missed anything, please see Mrs Gibson who will be more than happy to help. Please be aware that the school office will not be manned from 12:45 to 1:15 pm each day. Please ensure you leave a message on the answer phone and we will return your call as soon as we can. Should you need to collect children during the day, please tell us in advance. Thank you.

Permission Booklets

Clubs Letter

Home School Agreements

The Wednesday Word

Height and Weight Y6

Data Collection Sheets

Y6 Secondary Admissions

18th September Meet and Greet

3:30-5pm 19th Sept Clubs start (football)

2nd Oct No Dodgeball (Staff Inset) 11th Oct Harvest Celebration

14th Oct Christian Aid Assembly 21st Oct - 25th Oct Half term

28th Oct Staff Inset Day 29th Oct Pupils back to school

31st Oct Individual Photos

Festivals at BCC

(subject to change depending on staffing)

19th Sept Tag Rugby Dolphins 26th Sept Cyclo-cross Sharks

3rd Oct Problem Solving Seahorses 10th Oct High 5 Netball Sharks

Swimming

Sept-Oct Year 5/6 Nov-Dec Year 3/4 Jan-Feb Year 2/3

20th September - Sharks

27th September - Dolphins 4th October - Seahorses 11th October - Harvest

Welcome back to all our families and a big welcome to all our newcomers. We welcomed our new Reception children as well as Matilda, Morgana, Alannah and Ella last week and they are wonderful additions to our school. The children all look very smart too in their fresh uniforms and shiny new shoes - well done to mums and dads for ensuring they are dressed and ready for school. Can I remind you to ensure everything is labelled as we are already looking for misplaced items. We also welcome Miss Fusco who teaches Year 3 in the mornings; and Mr Zaki, our enthusiastic sports apprentice who is supporting all the classes and will be leading an after-school dodgeball club from next week. We have all returned to school energised and excited to be embarking on the next stage of our journey to ‘Good’, ensuring the recommendations of OFSTED are implemented and the improvements made last year are embedded and consolidated further. Hopefully you saw the article in the Herald - a lovely positive note at the end of term.

Mrs Gill(Headteacher)

Dream Believe

Achieve

Learn to love;

love to learn.

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Website: http://www.margaret-clitherow-primary.torbay.sch.uk

Email: [email protected]

Headteacher: Mrs F Gill

Newsletter No. 1: 13th September 2019

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elephone/Fax

01803 851647

Email: ad

min@smcpri

mary.or

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http://www.margare

t-clitherow


Mrs

F Gill, Headteacher


Our Catholic Life We began the new school year thinking about how we will ‘Make a Difference’. The children and staff have collaborated to produce a wonderful display of starfish in the foyer. This was inspired by a short video which can be found here and is well worth a watch! The Boy and the Starfish. The SMC team work together, with everyone doing their bit. We likened it to making a jigsaw; one piece on its own is useless but if we all put our pieces together, we will assemble the full jigsaw. We may not think our one solitary piece is important or ‘worth it’ but without every single piece, the jigsaw could never be completed. We like to think of our wonderful school community in a similar way because by working together, we will be successful and the main beneficiaries of that success will be our children! Our Start of Year Mass was also a lovely celebration on Wednesday. Father Sunny and several parishioners joined us and Owen did a fantastic job as altar server - well done Owen! We are very proud of you!

Our RE topic is CREATION and the children will be thinking about their responsibility towards God’s wonderful, awesome world and how God asks us to be ‘stewards’, caring for the world for generations to come. We have been invited to join with Torquay Girls’ Grammar School who have started a Parliamentary petition to try to ensure that their voices are heard. See below for further detail and watch the video here watch our video - What a way to make a difference!

BRIXHAM THEATRE “CELEBRATING YOUNG ARTISTS” COMPETITION AND

EXHIBITION

and the winners of the ‘In the Sea’ competition are: Millie B, Toby, Harvey and Owen E for their wonderful batik designs and Piper, Kara, Ollie and Kendae from Class 1 for

their beautiful sea-themes pictures.

Well done to these budding artists!!! The exhibition takes place on 21st September in Scala Hall between 10am and 4pm.

There is ‘fun, games, crazy crafts and Magician Mr Cosmo’ to entertain all ages. The award ceremony will start at 1.30pm, all

families welcome.

Dance Classes Please contact [email protected] if you would be interested in street dance classes for your children. These

are starting in October at Torbay Gymnastics and are open to children from 2-16 years of age. There are free taster sessions

on 1st and 4th October. Keshia will be coming into school to do a demonstration and to provide us with leaflets so watch this

space.

Immunisations

As you are all aware, our children are susceptible to many illnesses and infections and we all want them to be safe and well.

The immunisation team will be shortly offering the Flu vaccination to all primary children from Reception to Year 6. This

involves a simple nasal spray. In order to provide consent for your child’s Flu vaccination, please access the consent portal

(https://schoolimms.virgincare.co.uk/flu/2019/devon and follow the online instructions. Please provide consent before 27th

Oct.

Please feel free to sit quietly for a moment in our prayer space after dropping your children

or before you pick them up.

Next Week’s Theme: Found!

Guardian Group would like to invite parents/carers and

parishioners to get involved with some of the exciting plans

they have. Please email [email protected]

FAO Mrs Callaghan.

Thank you Jesus, for caring so much about me. If I get lost you will never stop looking for me. Amen

Dream Believe

Achieve

Learn to love;

love to learn.
























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elephone/Fax

01803 851647

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min@smcpri

mary.or

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ebsite:

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Mrs

F Gill, Headteacher


PENCIL CASES We would like to thank you for equipping your children so amazingly well with pencils, rubbers, highlighters, rulers, glue

sticks… This has really helped towards relieving a little of the pressure on the school’s finances which we can invest in other

resources in order to provide your children with the quality of education they deserve. We realise of course that the

children love the fun rubbers and pencils available but sadly these aren’t always the most effective. It is important that the

children use HB pencils in order to support the development of their pencil grip and their cursive script. The sparkly

notebooks and really large pencil cases are difficult to manage as they don’t fit in the children’s trays and are proving a

distraction when on their tables. Geometry sets with compasses are not necessary for children below Year 5. Thank again

for your support with this matter.

Meet and Greet Wednesday 18th September

Please come and meet your child’s new teacher after school on

Thursday. Teachers will do a short presentation to share class

information and expectations with you and you will then have

the opportunity to chat informally to them and to share any

information regarding your child.

Clubs Clubs start next week from Thursday 19th

September. Check bookbags to find out which

club your child might be attending.

Earth Song

Torquay Girls Grammar Schoolare starting their year off with a campaign. The students are very agitated, as our children are, about climate change and want their voices heard. To this end, they have started a Parliamentary Petition and have invited local primary schools to join the campaign. To promote this, they have made a short video called Earthsong 2019 (see link above). On Friday 20th we will be come together here at SMC to film the children singing the song and we will then send our video to our local MP. As the song goes, “We didn’t start the fire, no we didn’t light it but we’re trying to fight it.” Please support this initiative.

VOLUNTEERS Needed! As you are aware, our pupil numbers have fallen off in recent years. This means that our funding has also greatly reduced. Together with the national funding challenges, this makes it increasingly difficult for us to facilitate off-site activities which take staff out of school and away from the other classes. We love to take part in the festivals at Brixham College but our attendance is dependent on having sufficient staff to acocmpany the children. If you can help in any way either with trips/outings or with hearing children read in school, even for an hour a week, please come and speak to Mrs Gibson or myself. We really do need your help. Thank you! School Dinners Polite reminder that children now in Year 3 need to pay for school dinners unless exempt. This is because the government only subsidise school dinners for Reception and KS1. Please make sure you pay in advance via the portal www.feedinghungryminds.co.uk or pay Mrs Gibson at reception as late and non-payments lead to further strain on school funds. If you think you may be eligible for Free School Meals, please speak to Mrs Gibson who will give you the information you require. This is very important because not only do you get the support you need, but the school also benefits from extra funding.
























https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/272167

http://www.feedinghungryminds.co.uk/

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