Latest News | St Catherine's C of E Primary School

Welcome Back!

Wed 07 Sep 2022

We hope you are all refreshed after the Summer Break.

We are looking forward to seeing you all and the term ahead.

The September newsletter will be available shortly.

Happy Summer Holidays!

Thu 21 Jul 2022

We wish everyone a really restful and enjoyable Summer Holiday.

We will see you all again on Wednesday 7th September.

We wish all our year 6's who have left us today every success at their new schools.

Transition Afternoon

Wed 13 Jul 2022

We hope all the children have enjoyed their visit to their new classroom this afternoon.

We have held two stay and play sessions for our new September Reception intake this week. It has been lovely to meet them and our new parents.

How fantastic it was to hold our Sports Day last Friday. We are sure our parents and families enjoyed being able to attend and there was a wonderful atmosphere with everyone cheering and supporting the children. Well done everyone for taking part and earning points for your House Team. There were only 12 points between all the teams when the scores were counted and the overall winners were Ben Nevis (Blue).

We are really looking forward to our next event this Friday (8th July), with the long awaited return of the PTA Summer Fair. There are lots of stalls and activities, including bottle tombola, splat the teacher, hook-a-duck, inflatable slide, glitter tattoos and beat the goalie. Don't forget your entries for the bake off competition, these can be brought into school at the end of the school day.

Everyone is invited to come and join the fun from 4:30pm, we hope to see you there.

What a wonderful day - joint celebration of the 10th Anniversary of St Catherine's school building and the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Mon 27 Jun 2022

We are all sure that Friday 24th June will go down in the school's history and that both pupils and staff will have lasting memories of this very special day.

Once again St Catherine's was awash with colour, vibrancy, singing and joy!

Well done everyone for taking part.

We visited every decade of the Queen's reign from the 1950's to the present day in our whole school assembly throughout the morning. There were lots of amazing performances and we loved seeing everyone taking to the stage to sing, dance and illustrate the headlines and fascinating facts of the various decades.

Even the staff took to the stage to sing a medley songs of friendship.

We were so pleased that the rain stayed away for the whole school picnic at lunchtime on the school field. How lovely to see everyone enjoying their picnic lunches together.

During lunch we were joined by previous staff members, some of whom even remember the old school building and the opening of the new one. It was so lovely for us to welcome back Mrs Power for the occassion. To mark this special day a celebration cake was cut by Mrs Cope and Mrs Brogan.

The children really enjoyed playing various games during the afternoon, they all sounded like they were having so much fun. The afternoon's activities were finished with a refreshing lolly, kindly given for each of the children by the school's PTA.

Please see a few of the photos from this day below.

Assembly round up!

Thu 23 Jun 2022

Over the last two weeks we've had some great assemblies.

Last week Year 2 took us back to the 1990's - showcasing the hits and headlines from that decade. The children all seemed to have so much fun taking part.

This week Year 3 focused on the Rainforest and have given us an education in this topic. We saw some dancing from them too with Agadoo and Footloose.

Well done Year 2 and Year 3 for entertaining your families and our pupils with your performances.

We look forward to seeing all year groups take part in our celebration day tomorrow.

Each year group will perform to the rest of the school during the morning before our whole school picnic at lunchtime.

Platinum Jubilee and 10th year of the school opening celebration - Friday 24th June 2022

Wed 22 Jun 2022

We will be holding our joint Jubilee and school anniversary celebration day on Friday 24^th June 2022.

The day will consist of year group presentations and we know everoyne has been so busy rehearsing for this.

There will be a whole school picnic lunch on the big field and then traditional games and activities to end the day.

Children are invited to come to school wearing a costume from the decade they are celebrating or they can wear red, white and blue clothing.

Year 6 - The 1950s
Year 5 - The 1960s
Year 4 - The 1970s
Year 3 - The 1980s
Year 2 - The 1990s
Year 1 - The ‘Noughties’
Reception - 2010 to current day

Children are invited to bring a small picnic blanket or cushion to sit on.

There will be open sided tents and gazebos to provide shade for children whilst eating.

In addition, the PTA will be providing ice lollies for the children’s picnic.

We are looking forward to having a really fun day.

A busy half term ahead

Tue 07 Jun 2022

We hope everyone has enjoyed half term and the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

We are really looking forward to our celebration day on Friday 24th June. We will be celebrating the Jubilee and St Catherine's 10 year Anniversay of the new school building.

There are many activities planned for this day, including year group presentations, a whole school picnic lunch and traditional games.

Please read the June newsletter for further information about this celebration day and all the other events coming up this half term.

Happy Half Term

Fri 27 May 2022

Thank you all for your support yesterday with our non-uniform day. We have lots of donations of bottles ready for the Summer Fayre. Donations can still be sent to school after half term.

We are really looking forward to our joint celebration of the Jubilee and our school building's 10 year anniversary on Friday 24th June. There will be a whole school picnic lunch, games and a presentation through the decades of the Queen's reign.

It has been a very busy half term. We are so pleased to be welcoming parents in to school for assemblies and to see the children going out on school trips.

There are lots more things planned for the last half of the summer term. Full details of these will be on the June newsletter.

Coming up this half term

Thu 12 May 2022

This week our year 4 pupils have taken part in bikeability level 1 and our year 6 pupils have completed their SAT's. Well done everyone on completing these.

Over the next few weeks we have the following events:

Tuesday 17th May - Year 5 visit Worcester Mosque

Tuesday 17th May - Parent's meeting for Llanrug residential (year 6), 5pm - 6pm

Wednesday 18th May - 5B Class Assembly, 9.00am

Wednesday 18th May - Whole class photographs

Thursday 19th May - 5S Class Assemby, 9.00am

Tuesday 24th May - RK Class Assembly, 9.00am

Thursday 26th May - RW Class Assembly, 9.00am

Thursday 26th May - Non-uniform day - donations of bottles for the Summer Fayre

Friday 27th May - school closed, TED day