Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Keeping in touch
Tue 31 Mar 2020Tuesday 31st March 2020
Dear Parents/Carers,
I hope that you are all keeping well and staying safe through these strange and difficult times. St Catherine’s remains open, looking after the children of Key Workers and ensuring that we meet all of the ongoing duties requested of us, by the government. Your child’s teacher is either here looking after children or working with colleagues to get future home-learning planned.
We hope that you have found the initial work packs useful in helping your children revise and consolidate their learning. I would like to say thank you to parents and carers for all that you have been doing to keep learning going during this time. We know that everyone is doing their best; please do not worry if everything is not complete. These are tough times and we understand the different pressures that each family faces with children, work commitments and dealing with self-isolation or illness.
As we approach what would have been the Easter break, there will be some optional holiday activity ideas, on the school website: https://www.stcatherineskidderminster.co.uk/home-learning/. Most importantly we see the Easter break as a time for families to do things together less formally.
New work packs will resume when we would normally return after the Easter break on Monday 20th April. These will also be available on the St Catherine’s website on the link listed above. Teachers will be setting a range of activities in fortnightly blocks. We have decided to provide electronic work packs that can be viewed online, they will not require printing. This will allow you to access the work without the need to visit the school site to collect ‘packs’. If you do not have internet access to download the online work packs, please phone the school office to arrange for a paper based activity pack for your child.
These work packs are being designed to give your child daily:
- English sessions (reading based activities, grammar activities & writing activities)
- Spelling or phonics activities
- Maths sessions
- Foundation curriculum activities e.g. Science, History, Geography, Computing, Art, DT, Spanish, PE, etc
Finally, I would like to wish you all a happy and healthy Easter, when it arrives. Stay safe, and know that as soon as we are given the go-ahead St. Catherine’s will be ready and raring to welcome you all back, and this day can’t come soon enough!
Yours faithfully,
Sarah Power
Headteacher
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School closure - Coronavirus
Mon 30 Mar 2020Contacting School
Office hours during the coronavirus closure period are 8.30am - 3.30pm. Please email outside of these times. office@stcatherines.worcs.sch.uk
On-line Lessons
During our closure period links to online lessons will be shared on the home learning page of our school website.
The links to lessons are for our school community only and should not be shared. Our lessons contain the use of licensed materials and follow the specific curriculum planning for St Catherine's pupils.
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Parents' Evening Update
Mon 16 Mar 2020Dear parents, in the light of the current situation and advice from government we will be postponing parents' evening. Interim reports will come out next Monday. Thanks. -
Mothers Day Market
Fri 13 Mar 2020Mother’s Day Market
Friday 20th March 2020
This year to celebrate Mothering Sunday, all
children will be given the opportunity to visit
the school’s ‘Mothers’ Day Market’. Children are
invited to bring £2 into school (in a named envelope),
during the week beginning Monday 16th March.
We would like to collect all money, before the sale
on Friday 20th March. Children who have paid ,
will be given the opportunity to visit the sale
and choose something to buy for their mum,
ready for Mothering Sunday.
Thank you in advance for your support.
All money raised will go towards improving the
Year One playground.
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Sport Relief - Friday 13th March
Thu 12 Mar 2020Remember to come dressed in your tracksuits/sports kit and trainers tomorrow.
We will be fundraising for Sport Relief.
Donations can be made on your Parent Pay account or you can send in cash on the day. Your donations on Parent Pay have already raised over £100. That's amazing.
In the spirit of Sport Relief, the children will take part in a run/jog/walk activity on the rugby club grounds during the day.
Thanks again for your generosity and support.
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Thank you for your amazing support with our school Book Fair
Thu 12 Mar 2020A huge thank you to everyone who supported our Book Fair.
This year saw record numbers of pupils and parents purchasing books and we took a substantial amount of money over the five day sale.
The sales have given us a total of £585.92 in commission to spend on books for the school library and classrooms, which is fantastic.
We really do appreciate all your support.
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Sport Relief - Friday 13th March
Mon 09 Mar 2020On Friday 13th March, as part of our fundraising for Sports Relief the children are invited to attend school wearing their sports kits, in exchange for a recommended donation of £1 towards this charity. In the spirit of Sports Relief, the children will be taking part in a run, walk or jog activity on the rugby club grounds. Red noses and any other comic relief paraphernalia may be worn. You can make your donation via your Parent Pay account (you can make a donation of up to £10) or you can send cash on the day. Thank you for your support.
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Year 5 Assemblies this week.
Fri 06 Mar 2020Well done to both our year 5 classes.
Both 5M and 5H have thoroughly entertained the rest of the school with the Tale of Robin Hood. We've seen some great performances from you all.
A big well done to everyone!
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World Book Day 2020
Thu 05 Mar 2020Celebrating World Book Day at St Catherine's is always such a wonderful day.
We have Where's Wally, Red Hiding Hood, The Mad Hatter, Super-tato, Eeyore, The Queen of Hearts, Harry Potter and Hermione, The Saucepan Man, Mary Poppins and Paddington Bear, to name but a few.
Please take a look at all our photos to see the array of amazing outfits and characters.
Well done everyone, you all look fantastic.
We hope you've enjoyed sharing a book with someone from another year group today.
Don't forget our Book Fair is running after school until Monday 9th March.
The commission we earn from the sales is used to buy new books for school.
We really appreciate all your support with this.
