Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Thank you so much for supporting Red Nose Day

  Fri 28 Mar 2025
  

• Red noses, t-shirts, sweatshirts, shoes, socks, bows!

  Fri 21 Mar 2025

  St Catherine’s have been supporting Red Nose Day today with a non-uniform day. Everyone has looked bright and cheerful in their red items. Thank you for your support with this fundraising.

   

  Other news this week:

  Our year 2 classes and our Reception classes have visited St Barnabas Church as part of their RE topics.

   

  The winners of the PTA’s golden chocolate bars have been using their rewards including extra playtime for their whole class and some pupils have even been Headteacher for the morning!

• Thankyou for your support

  Fri 14 Mar 2025

  We are so thankful for your generosity and support over the last few weeks. 

   

  Thank you to those families who donated clothing for our Rags2Riches clothing collection last week. There were approximately 50 bags donated and this raised £32.63 towards our school fundraising and supported the work of this charity. Currently the donated clothing is being sent to the Ukraine.

   

  World Book Day was, as always, an amazing day in school. The children looked fabulous in their book character outfits & pyjamas. We hope they enjoyed the day as much as we did.

  Thank you all for supporting our school Book Fair and the PTA's book swap. It's fantastic to see our children's love of books and reading.

   

  A huge thankyou for the donations received today for the PTA's Easter Raffle. Details of how to buy tickets for this will be sent from the PTA on classlist very soon.

   

  Please see the details below of this year's Easter Egg decorating competition. Every entry gets a house point. Entries should be in school on Friday 4th April. We can’t wait to see the children’s eggsellent creativity this year.  

   

  Next week we will take part in fundraising for Comic Relief and there is a non-uniform day on Friday 21st March. Donations towards this can be made using this link:

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• World Book Day

  Fri 07 Mar 2025

  We have had such a great day in school today.

   

   

  

• Young Voices and World Book Day

  Fri 28 Feb 2025

  We've had a busy first week back after half term and there has been lots of wonderful learning taking place in school.

  We are really looking forward to hearing how our amazing Young Voices Choir have got on with their performance at the bp pluse live arena in Birmingham. What an incredible experience. 

  We are counting down to World Book Day and there are many things happening next week for this.

  In addition to the book fair and World Book Day itself the PTA are organising a Book Swap and Golden Ticket Chocolate Bar sales. Please see Classlist for details of these.

   

  Our clothing collection take place next week. Donated clothes can be left outside the DT/Science room on Wednesday.

   

  

• February Half Term

  Fri 14 Feb 2025

  What a wonderful half term we have had. It has gone so quickly.

   

  Thank you all for your support with our fundraising for the NSPCC this week and so far we have raised £338.50.

   

  We have had quite a busy week in school with visits from Ann Mulders (HSBC) who has led money related workshops throughout the school and key stage one have had sessions with representatives from Kidderminster library. We hope they enjoy reading the book they selected to read.

   

  Year 5 had an educational trip on Tuesday to the Islamic Experience Exhibition in Birmingham and we have been fascinated by hearing about what they saw there.

   

  We return to school on Monday 24th February.

  

• Reception's 100th Day

  Thu 13 Feb 2025

  Our Reception classes have celebrated 100 days in school today.

  The children had a fantastic day celebrating this milestone, from decorating biscuits and playing games with Year 6 to getting involved in fun 100-related activities.

  They especially loved parading their hats around the school and sharing their excitement with staff and friends. What a special day!

   

  A huge thank you for all the time and creativity you put into the 100th Day Hats—they were absolutely amazing!

  

• Safer Internet Day 2025

  Tue 11 Feb 2025

  As part of our worship this morning the chidren all heard about how to keep themselves safe online. Why not ask them what they have learnt. See if they can remember 'Too good to be true'.

  

• Upcoming events in school

  Fri 07 Feb 2025

  We have so much to look forward to in February and March.

   

  We are raising money for the NSPCC on Monday 10th February with a non-uniform day.

  The PTA's disco's will be held in school on Tuesday 11th February. Don't forget to get your tickets.

  Next week Year 5 are visiting the Islamic Experience Exhibition in Birmingham and Year 4 are taking part in a States of Matter Workshop at Baxter College. We hope these visits are enriching learning experiences for our children. 

  Our Reception children will celebrate their 100th day in school on Thursday 13th February. We can't wait to see their 100 day hats when they parade through school.

  After half term our Young Voices Choir have their performance on Friday 28th February and we have been enjoying hearing them perform in worship on a Friday over the last few weeks.

  World Book Day will be a fun event taking place on Thursday 6th March. Please see the information below.

  Don't forget our clothing collection on Wednesday 5th March, if you are having a sort out we would be most grateful if you can support us with this.

  

• Wyre Forest Swimming Gala

  Fri 31 Jan 2025

  We are thrilled to report that the 13 children that represented St Catherine's at the Swimming Gala all swam amazingly well this afternoon.

  As a team they came first at the afternoon gala and were placed sixth overall.

  Well done to all our fantastic swimmers. We are very proud of all that you achieved.