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Last week of the Summer Term

Wed 19 Jul 2023

The end of this school year is fast approaching.

Our year 6 children are preparing to leave and continue their education journey at their Secondary schools. This week they have performed an amazing Leavers Play to both the whole school and their parents. With the title "I'm a Year Six, Get Me Out Of Here" they took us on a trip through their time at St Catherine's as they earned stars to leave.

It was a really spectacular show and everyone thoroughly enjoyed their acting and singing. Well done to all of them.

They have been celebrating their achievements with pizza, bouncy castles and lots of fun and games.

To say farewell they will have a balloon release on Friday at 2:30pm which parents and family members are invited to attend.

All of our children have had a transition afternoon with their new class teachers and our new Reception class children have attended for stay and play sessions.

We look forward to all that the new school year will bring in September.

End of term approaches

Thu 06 Jul 2023

As the end of term approaches we have been so busy at St Catherine's.

Today we have held our Sports Day. We are so grateful to have had such lovely weather. What a great day it has been and it was amazing to see so many supporters cheering the children on. Well done everyone. Please see the scores for each house below.

Thank you to those of you who attended the Summer Fair at school on Friday 30th July.

Despite the unsettled weather we had a great turn out and the PTA were thrilled to have raised £2333.91. Thank you to the PTA for all their hard work in organsing this event.

The money raised will go towards new IT equipment for use in the classrooms.

Both year 4 classes have held their class assemblies this week. It was great to learn about what they have been learning and hear them play their recorders.

Trips:

This week Year 2 have been to the Black Country Museum and next week Year 1 are visiting Wild Zoo and Year 4 will visit Ludlow Castle, plus the History Guy is visting Year 5's for an Egyptian Day.

Year 6 held their Enterprise Fayre on Thursday and are so thankful to everyone for coming along to support their sale. They are now busy rehearsing for their end of year show.

Our non-uniform day for the RNLI has so far raised £286.00. Donations can still be made on your ParentPay account if you wish to do so. Thank you so much for your support for the work of this charity.

Sports Day - Friday 7th July

Tue 04 Jul 2023

We are looking forward to our Sports Day on Friday.

RNLI non-uniform day - Thursday 6th July

Mon 03 Jul 2023

June activities so far.

Fri 23 Jun 2023

We have had a few busy weeks in school so far in June.

Year 6 have enjoyed their Residential Trip to Llanrug in Wales. They all took part in some exciting and challenging outdoor activities.

Those children who did not take part in this stayed in school and worked on a St Catherine's Leadership Award.

Year 5 have been to Wolverley Secondary School for a science experience morning and were able to visit a planetarium, exploring a spectacular view of space and astronomy.

Reception had their first off site trip and had a really fun day visiting Little Owl Farm.

We have had lots of assemblies:

Year 5 focused on the 'Horrible Literacy Awards' and took us through a quiz on the story book characters they have been reading about this year.

Year 2 took us on a 'Journey through Year 2 so far', sharing many of their memories from the year.

We hope the parents enjoyed these as much as we did.

You may have seen some of our year 5 children taking part locally in bikeability sessions with Worcestershire County Council instructors. Well done to those children who took part in this valuable activity.

Finally thank you all for your support with the 2 non-uniform days collecting bottles and chocolate items for the Summer Fair.

The Summer Fair will be held at school on Friday 30th June 4:30pm - 6:30pm.

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Summer Activities

Tue 06 Jun 2023

Welcome back after half term.

There are lots of activities planned for this half term. Please see some of these below.

Art Days Gallery

Mon 05 Jun 2023

Look at our wonderful creations.

May Half Term

Fri 26 May 2023

We wish everyone an enjoyable May Half Term. We return to school on Monday 5th June.

It has been a really busy week in school with the disco's and our whole school arts days. Photographs and more information about these will be on the June newsletter.

Coming up before half term

Thu 18 May 2023

We are excited to be hosting a whole school arts and vision project on Wednesday 24^th May and Thursday 25^th May 2023. Children are invited to come to school wearing old clothes suitable for painting and craft activities. All classes will be creating art work that underpins the school values. We will be hosting an art gallery show after the half term break to share the children’s achievements. During this time, children will be helping to design an outdoor mural for our new wellbeing and prayer garden in the Year 4 courtyard.

The PTA are holding a School Disco on Tuesday 23^rd May – key stage 1: 3.30-5.00pm, key stage: 2 5.00-6.30pm

Information regarding PTA events will be shared via the new PTA app – Class list. Classlist is completely free and it’s easy to get started:

1. Download the Classlist app on iOS or Android

2. Select (“school name”)

3. Sign up. You can choose what data to share with your fellow parents.

Coronation Celebrations - Friday 5th May

Fri 05 May 2023

What a wonderful day it has been at St Catherine's today.

The children have all been busy making crowns, paper chains, flags, table settings, biscuits and taken part in lots of activities to celebrate the King's Coronation.

We had our street party style lunch outside at lunchtime and it was great to see everyone enjoying their picnics and having fun together.

We hope you all have a good bank holiday weekend and we will see you all on Tuesday 9th May.