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This week in school.

Fri 12 Jul 2024

We hope everyone had a good time at the Summer Fair on Friday 5th July.

There was a wonderful atmosphere and we hope you all had fun.

We will advise you of the total raised once the PTA have informed us of this. The money raised will go towards our new science lab.

Thank you all for your support with this event.

This week Year 3 had a great visit to Bishopswood and another group of our Year 5's have completed their level 2 bikeability.

Please see below information about events happening in the last week of term.

Activities & Events this week

Fri 05 Jul 2024

Year 1 visited Dudley Zoo.

Year 2 took part in a dance workshop or a scooter event.

Year 5 had a morning at Wolverley CE Secondary School for various science activities and 2 groups from 5S completed their Level2 Bikeability.

Reception enjoyed a day out at the Wyre Forest.

We are so pleased to see the sunshine today for our Summer Fair from 4.00pm – 6.00pm.

We hope to see you there.

Sports Day Update

Tue 02 Jul 2024

We are thrilled to announce the overall 'house' scores from the two Sports Days last week.

Thank you to everyone who came along to support our children take part in their events and those of you who even took part in a race.

It was a true highlight of the school year.

A special thank you goes out to Mr. Grazier for his exceptional organisation of the events. His dedication and hard work ensured everything ran smoothly, allowing our children to enjoy the events that were full of fun and healthy competition.

Sports Days coming soon.

Fri 21 Jun 2024

We are really looking forward to our two Sports Days next week. The children have been enjoying practicing for these in their pe lessons this week.

A group of our year 6 children took part in a local school athletics competition today at Stourport Athletics Track and participated with great enthusiasm in their selected events. Well done to all of them for representing St Catherine’s today.

We eagerly await the return of our Year 5 children and are sure they will have enjoyed their water activity day at Aztec Adventure at Upton Warren today.

On behalf of the Young Leaders many thanks to everyone with their support with the Summer Swap Shop yesterday.

Thank you for your generosity this week

Fri 14 Jun 2024

We have raised an amazing £224.00 for the Air Ambulance through your kind support of our fundraising this week.

Every class visited the Helipod and the children had the opportunity of sitting in the cockpit to use the controls and were able to have a look inside. What a wonderful experience for them all.

The year 4 young leaders have been busy sorting out all the donations for the Summer Swap Shop. They are incredibly grateful for your support with this.

The Summer Swap Shop will take place on Thursday 20th June during the school day for the children and there will be the opportunity for parents and carers to take home preloved items after school until 4pm.

Many thanks on behalf of the PTA for the contributions received today for the bottle stall.

Also this week:

Year 6 took part in the Young Citizens challenge at the Fire station

Year 4 visited Wolverley CE Secondary for an outdoor experience, which included orienteering, ski slope tubing , team building and survival fire skills

Both year 2 classes held their class assembly for parents and carers and went on a ‘journey through year 2’. Well done to them all.

A great first week of this half term

Fri 07 Jun 2024

We hope you all had a great half term break.

We have already had a very busy first week back in school.

We are awaiting the return of our year 6 pupils from their 2 night residential visit to Llanrug in North Wales and cannot wait to hear about all the activities they have taken part in.

The year 6 children who did not participate in this have been involved in lots of gardening, sports and arts & craft activites in school.

We hope the year 5 parents who attended the arts workshop on Thursday enjoyed this session with their child. Thank you for you support with this.

Our year 3 classes have visited the Carpet Museum in Kidderminster. How wonderful to learn all about this important part our the history of our town.

Please see below information regarding upcoming events in school.

Arts Day 2024

Tue 04 Jun 2024

Just before half term, we were thrilled to host our annual whole school arts day. It was a wonderful opportunity for all classes to express their creativity. The beautiful artwork produced by the children will be submitted to the international NATRE competition. We are excited to share some pictures of their creations below. The talent and effort displayed by our children is truly inspiring.

Happy May Half Term

Fri 24 May 2024

We really hope everyone has a wonderful break over May half term.

Yesterday was a fabulous Arts day in St Catherine's and we hope to be able to share photos very soon of all the amazing things each class worked so hard on yesterday. There was a great creative buzz in school.

A week filled with chocolate, flowers, money matters, bikes and lots of fun.

Fri 17 May 2024

Thank you all for your support with the non-uniform day today. You have contributed lots of chocolate items ready for the PTA’s Summer Fair on Friday 5^th July.

Our next non-uniform day will be Friday 14^th June, this time it will be for a bottle donation.

Yesterday RH walked to St Barnabas Church to plant Spring flowers as part of their Community project. If you are passing the church do look to see if you can spot the plants & flowers.

Well done to our Year 6’s this week. We hope they have all been able to relax and enjoy their celebration day today. We were thrilled that we had such favorable weather for them to enjoy the bouncy castles, games and treats marking the end of their SAT’s week.

As part of our work with HSBC, Anne has been in school this week working with our Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 pupils. Reception met Ed & Bunny, and the other year groups learnt about topics such as shopping sense, buying branded or unbranded goods, different ways to make payments, debit and contactless card payments and some classes had fun making rubbings of coins and took part in a treasure hunt.

43 of our Year 4 pupils completed level bikeability sessions this week. The instructors were really pleased with their enthusiasm and progress with this activity. We hope this was a valuable experience for those children who took part. Perhaps they could cycle to school next week!

Our school is taking part in Walk to School Week (20^th – 23^rd May 2024 and Monday 3^rd June). The nationwide event is organised by walking charity Living Streets and designed to help pupils experience first-hand the importance of walking to school.

This year’s challenge, The Magic of Walking, encourages children to travel actively to school every day of the week. Meeting various magical beings along the way, they'll learn about the important reasons to walk and the difference it can make for individuals, communities and the planet! Each pupil will be challenged to travel sustainably (walk, wheel, scoot, cycle or Park and Stride) to school every day for one week using the wallchart and stickers to log their journeys.

Each class will work collectively to make as many active journeys to school as possible across the week. Individual activity diaries, daily stickers and end of week pupil rewards will complement this activity, reinforcing the benefits and keeping children engaged.

What do I need to do as a parent/carer? We would ask, if possible, to make arrangements so that your child/children can travel actively to school on week commencing 20th May, helping our school reduce congestion and pollution around the school gates.

In return, your child will earn special stickers and a reward trophy! Walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling all count! If you live far away from school and need to drive or take public transport, try parking the car ten minutes away and walking the rest of the journey.

Thank you for your support with this activity.