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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 class for 99.3% attendance, there

will be a little treat for you this week

Late attendance affected children’s learning on 49 occasions,

which is an average of 9.8 per day.

Overall school attendance for last week was

96.5% Class Teacher Lates % Attendance

F1 Miss Thompson & Miss Wood 0 86.3

F2ES Miss Sefton 3 94.9

F2AW Mrs Wood & Mrs Hope 2 94.7

Y1RW Miss Webb 3 96.7

Y1WM Miss Marsden & Miss Waller 2 99.0

Y2LD Miss Duggleby 2 99.3

Y2LA Miss Andrew 2 98.7

Y3BH Mr Harper 4 98.0

Y3IF Miss Frost 2 97.3

Y4GG Miss Gleeson 8 98.7

Y4RH Miss Handy 8 97.7

Y5JP Mr Park 4 96.3

Y5RC Miss Conway 4 95.3

Y6MT Miss Tipping 4 97.0

Y6JW Miss Weir 1 96.2

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Important Dates

Wednesday 16th November

Parent Forum coffee morning

Friday 18th November

Year 5 Bun Day

14th to 25th November

Interfaith Fortnight

14th November

Anti-Bullying Week

Tuesday 15th November

Reception to Museum

Tuesday 15th November (morning)

Year 2 to Hindu Temple

Wednesday 16th November

School Photographs

Thursday 17th November

Interfaith Prayer Day

Monday 21st November

Year 3 to Sikh Temple

Wednesday 23rd November (afternoon)

Reception to St Catherine’s Church

Wednesday 23rd November

Year 6 to St Philips Church

Thursday 24th November

Year 5 to Buddhist Temple

Year 4 to Islamic Centre

Friday 25th November

Flu Jab for Years 1, 2 and 3

Mon 28th to Wednesday 30th November

Crich (Y6)

Wednesday 30th November (morning)

Year 2 to Hindu Temple

Sunday 4th December at 1pm

90th Anniversary of our Parish

Wednesday 4th January 2017

School Meals price increase

Wednesday 11th January @ 2:00pm

Parent Forum AGM

Thursday 26th January 2017

Parents Evening

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Makaton

Mrs Clark is helping us to introduce ourselves this week!

Here is the sign for “My name is …”

There will be some alphabet sheets at Parent Forum coffee

morning on Wednesday, if you want to have a go at

introducing yourselves using Makaton!

Parent Forum News This week there will be no guest speaker, so you’ll be able to

have an uninterrupted chat with each other! Everyone is very

welcome to attend This might be a good opportunity to start

planning for the Christmas Fair … or you can learn to introduce

yourself using Makaton!

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!

School Photos The photographers will be in on Wednesday 16th November to

take individual photographs of all of the children in school. If you

have younger children who are not in our school or nursery, you

can have a photo of all of your children together! You need to

come to school at 8:30am, the photographers will be in the

school hall, please come via the office WITH ALL OF YOUR

CHILDREN THAT NEED TO BE IN THE PHOTOGRAPH and we will

show you where to go.

BUNS This Friday it is the turn of Year

5 to provide the buns, thank

you for your support!

Family Learning We have a course starting in

January called Be Confident

and Feel Good. We have had

this course before, and it was

really good!

There will be a one-off taster

session on Thursday 8th

December, please put your

name down at the office if

you would like to try it

before you commit yourself

to the full course.

NITS!!!!! A number of parents have let

us know that their child has had

nits. Could you please check

your child’s hair and take action

if necessary! Thanks for your

support.

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Reading Group Do you have an insatiable love of reading? Are you in Year 5 or 6?

Would you love a chance to discuss some amazing books with your

fellow pupils? At St. Catherine’s we are keen to support and develop a

love of reading. A new group is to be run by Miss Waller on a

Wednesday during school time for six children. Each child will be given

a new book and asked to read a selection of pages in their own time.

Every Wednesday we will meet in a small reading group to talk over

the book so far. At the end of each book, a review will be written to

inform others of the books strengths and weaknesses.

Warning! This is not a guided reading session, it is a chance to read

some exciting new books and develop your ability to discuss and

debate literature! If you would like to join the Reading Group, please

complete the slip below and return it to Miss Waller as soon as you

can!

Reading Group For the attention of Miss Waller

I would like to join the Reading Group! (If you have already returned the slip, you don’t need to fill it in again!)

Name: __________________________________________________________

Class: ___________________________________ (Year 5 or Year 6 only)

Year 6 Trip to St Philips Church

23rd November 2016 Morning

St Philips Church

Bus

£ £1

Children will be having lunch in school

Volunteers are not needed!

Year 6 classes will be visiting St Philips Church to find out about

an alternative faith.

Residential

Visits Our Year 5 children have

been to Robinwood, our

Year 3 children have been to

Whirlow, and our Year 2

children have been to

Weston Park Museum; they

have all had a fantastic time!

You can have a look at the

photos on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/y3

whirlow?src=hash

https://twitter.com/hashtag/y2

natm?src=hash

If you are not sure how to,

please come to the coffee

morning and we can show

you!

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Weather Warning Winter is on the way, it’s going to be cold, and we might get

snow. We’ve had some children coming to school without a coat,

but they definitely need one! Please make sure your child is

properly equipped for the cold weather, they are going to need:

Hat

Gloves

Warm coat

Warm shoes or boots

Please make sure that all clothing brought into

school has your child’s name in it. You can buy

a marker pen from the school office for £1, or

you can order sew-in or iron-in labels!

If it snows …

… we will send a message out

on Twitter to say if we’re open

or closed!

… the Twitter feed is on the

Home page, so you can check

it on the school website!

… staff will all be really busy

clearing school and making it

as safe as we can … or we’ll be

stranded away from school …

we probably won’t be able to

answer the phone, so please

don’t call to ask if we’re open!

Texts will only be sent if

we close during the day

and children need to be

collected early.

If school is open,

but you are not

able to get here …

… you need to contact

school to let us know why

you won’t be coming –

please phone and leave a

voicemail, or send an email: enquiries@stcatherines.academy

You will be marked absent,

but it will usually be

authorised!

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WE ARE THE CHANGE THAT WE SEEK Our display of work that was done by the children during

Black History Month.

Celebration at St Catherine’s Church The Parish of St Catherine of Alexandria celebrates 90 years this

year! As a school we will be taking part in the celebration. Miss

Walker is working with the children so that their singing will be

fantastic during the celebration.

The celebration Mass will be held at St Catherine’s Church at

1pm on Sunday 4th December, we would like as many children

as possible to attend, please support the school and the Church!

If your child will be attending (dressed in school uniform), please

let us know by completing the reply slip below!

Thank you for your support.

Breakfast Club Every Wednesday there is a

special breakfast, this week it

is sausage sandwiches!

Celebration at St

Catherine’s Church For the attention of Mrs Rigby

I will be coming to the

celebration at

St Catherine’s Church on

Sunday 4th December!

Name:

______________________________

Class:

______________________________

Signed by parent/carer:

______________________________

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Nativity and Advent Assemblies We have finalised the list of dates for assemblies and here they are!

We welcome parents at all of the assemblies, thank you for your support!

1st Week of Advent Thursday 24th November

9:15am Y5JP

2nd Week of Advent Wednesday 30th November

9:15am Y5RC

3rd Week of Advent Thursday 8th December

9:15am Y4RH

4th Week of Advent Thursday 15th December

9:15am Y4GG

We hope that you can join us for the Nativity productions!

Year 2 Nativity Wednesday 7th December

2:30pm Year 2 classes

Foundation Stage Nativity Wednesday 14th December

10:30am and 2:30pm Reception classes

Interfaith Assemblies We have finalised the list of dates for assemblies and here they are!

We welcome parents at all of the assemblies, thank you for your support!

Tuesday 6th December

9:15am Year 1 classes

Wednesday 7th December

9:15am Y3BH

Friday 9th December

9:15am Y3IF

Name: Class: Due in on Friday 18th November

Friday 18th November is Children in Need!

It’s time to get spotty!!

Wear your spots. Dress to impress in your spotty outfits and

pay £1 which will go towards the Children in Need

charity.

There’s a colouring competition attached to the newsletter with

4 amazing Children in Need prizes up for grabs.