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This half term so far

Fri 09 May 2025

What a busy two weeks we have had since returning from the Easter Holidays.

In terms of trips our Year 3 classes have visited the Carpet Museum in Kidderminster and Year 4 have taken part in science activities at Wolverley CE Secondary School.

Well done to our a group of Year 5 pupils who took part in a Mathematics Competition with our Kidderminster Alliance Schools. They performed amazingly and came back with the 1st place trophy which is now on display in the library.

We have had a number of Sports events, our boys and girls football teams have taken part in matches against Cookley Sebright Primary School and a group of our year 3 pupils took part in a tri-golf tournament at Kidderminster golf club.

Children have commemorated VE Day 80 in our worship this week and our school choir were involved in the VE Day service held at St Mary's Church.

Please see below some information on current school activities and the May Newsletter for further information on upcoming events.

Easter Holidays

Fri 11 Apr 2025

Please see below some photos from our Easter Egg decorating competition. This year's theme was Forgiveness and Climate Change. We have been absolutely blown away with the entries. The children have made such an amazing effort to think about and demonstrate their creativity with this theme. Judging took place yesterday and the winners were presented with their prizes by one of our school governors.

Well done to all of those who took part. The display of all the entries was an absolute joy to look at and we hope lots of our families saw them when they came for Parents' evening this week.

We hope everyone has a wonderful Easter holiday and we look forward to a very exciting Summer Term.

Please see the recent Newsletter for details of upcoming events.

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'.