Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Open morning for Reception 2022 - week beginning 4th October to 8th October
Sat 02 Oct 2021Please phone the school office for more information.
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Coming up before the end of term
Tue 29 Jun 2021The following will be happening before we break up for the summer holidays.
Thursday 8th July - School Sports event - The children will take part in races, within their bubbles. All children will need their sports kit.
Please order your child's lolly for after this through ParentPay if you wish them to have one to enjoy after their races.
Sadly, we are not able to invite parents to this year’s sports event. The current government guidelines, for schools, do not permit us to gather all parents on the field.
Friday 9th July - Doughnut Day, the PTA are raising further funds by selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts, which children will bring home to enjoy - Please make sure you have ordered yours by 9am on Friday 2nd July.
Thursday 15th July - the Rainbow Raffle and the mid month draw will take place. Again please pay for your tickets for these on your ParentPay account.
Friday 16th July - the last day of term when we will say goodbye to our year 6 leavers and to Mrs Power as she retires.
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Information from the Starting Well 0 - 19 Wyre Forest Team.
Fri 23 Apr 2021Dear Parents,
We have been asked to share the attached information about some new groups being run by the Starting Well 0 - 19 Wyre Forest Team.
Please look at the Facebook page for further details https://www.facebook.com/StartingWellWyreForest/
Many thanks,
Office Team.
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Starting Well: Wyre Forest Parenting & Community Support
Wed 20 Jan 2021Have you got a child aged 0 to 19 years and need to talk to someone?
Families can contact us for any information or advice needed including:
- Parenting support
- Peer Support and group information
- Healthy Start Vitamins
- Nursery Funding Enquiries
- Food Bank
- General support and enquiries Contact: Brookside Family Hub—01562 827207 (Monday & Friday) Half Crown Wood Family Hub— 01299 877920 (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday) Email: admin.wyreforest@barnardos.org.uk (Monday—Friday) For more information visit: https://www.startingwellworcs.nhs.uk/
Services are up and running and Family Hubs are open on reduced hours
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Mental Health & Wellbeing
Wed 01 Apr 2020Mental Health
Guidance for parents and carers on supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. This advice is to help adults with caring responsibilities look after the mental health and wellbeing of children or young people, including those with additional needs and disabilities, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-on-supporting-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-and-wellbeing/guidance-for-parents-and-carers-on-supporting-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-and-wellbeing-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak
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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.
