Latest News

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

• This week in school

  Fri 10 May 2024

  Although it has been a 4 day week it has been an eventful one at St Catherine's.

   

  We are eagerly awaiting the return of our year 4 pupils from the 2 night residential visit to Malvern. We are looking forward to hearing about their outdoor activities.

  The year 4 children who remained in school have been busy on many projects, including sewing, junk modelling and cooking.

   

  Reception held an in school parent and carer craft session on Wednesday making Spring crafts. Thank you to those of you who were able to attend this event.

  RY walked up to St Barnabas Church on Thursday as part of their Community project and planted spring flowers. RH will take part in this project next week. 

   

  Reminder : Friday 17th May is a Non-uniform day in exchange for a chocolate donation for the PTA's Summer Fair.

   

  

• What's been happening in our school since Easter

  Fri 03 May 2024

  PTA Spring Disco

  Thanks go to our PTA for organising such a successful event in April. 

  They raised a total of £1200.00 towards our new Science Laboratory.

  Thank you to all our families for their support with this event. We are sure the children who attended all enjoyed themselves.

   

  Parent workshops and Assemblies

  We hope our Year 3 parents and carers enjoyed working with their children for the Computing and Programming Workshop event. We know the children all enjoyed sharing their knowledge and skills with you.

   

  What a treat it was this week for the Year 1 classes to tell us the story of Lost and Found. Well done to all of them for their brilliant participation in their assembly to parents and carers. 

   

  Sports Events

  14 of our year 6 pupils took part in the annual Tag Rugby festival hosted by West Mercia Police. We are so proud of them all for taking part with great enthusiasm throughout their matches.

   

  Trips

  Year 4 have visted Wolverley CE Secondary School and participated in a Science Forces event led by teachers there. Thank you to them for their excellent conduct during this visit and our teachers reported back that the children have a new enthusiasm for this subject.

   

  We hope you all have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.

   

  We will see you all on Tuesday 7th May for the last three weeks of this half term.

   

  During the week commencing 6th May we will see some of our Year 4 children take part in a two night Residential Visit to Malvern and in school a Parent Craft workshop for our Reception classes. We look forward to seeing those families then.

   

  Please see below some details of other upcoming events.

  

• We have so much planned this term

  Mon 22 Apr 2024

  Please see below information about all the upcoming events.

  

• Looking ahead to the Summer Term

  Mon 08 Apr 2024

  Welcome back.

   

  We hope everyone has had a peaceful Easter break.

   

  Please see the April newsletter for all the upcoming events and current information.

• Happy Easter to all our families

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  We were so impressed with all the wonderful decorated Easter eggs and hope you had a chance to look at them on display when you came for Parent’s Evening this week.

   

  A huge well done to the winners.

   

  What a marvellous afternoon the children had on Tuesday, watching a performance of The Jungle Book in school. We hope the children have told you all about this superb show.

   

  The History Guy has been in school today giving year 5 a unique experience of Anglo Saxons, we are sure they have enjoyed this history topic being brought to life.

   

  All other year groups have walked to St Barnabas Church this morning for the end of term Easter Service.

   

  We wish you all a wonderful Easter break.

  

• A big thank you.

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  Once again the St Catherine's community displays great kindness and supportiveness.

   

  Thank you to those families who donated clothing for our Rags2Riches clothing collection this week.

   

  Your generosity has raised £131.35 towards our school fundraising and supported the work of this charity. Currently the donated clothing is being sent to the Ukraine.

   

  We have all enjoyed Red Nose Day today. Thank you for your support with our fundraising for this charity towards their work in the UK and abroad. We will update you with the total raised once all the donations have been received.

   

  Next week in school we have Parents Evenings on Monday and Wednesday. You should have received your invitation to book via email.

   

  M&M theatre shows are back in school on Tuesday and the whole school will attend a production of The Jungle Book.

   

  Year 5 are looking forward to a session with The History Guy on Anglo Saxons on Friday.

   

  As we prepare for Easter,  classes will attend an end of term service at St Barnabas Church.

   

  Don’t forget to enter the Eggspress Yourself Easter Egg decorating competition. Every entry gets a house point. These should be in school on Monday 18^th March. We can’t wait to see the children’s eggsellent creativity this year.  

  

• World Book Day

  Fri 08 Mar 2024

  World Book Day 2024

   

  We had such a wonderful day in school yesterday. The children were wearing some brilliant outfits and it was a joy to hear about their favourite characters and stories. All the classes visited the library and there were lots of reading activities throughout the day.

   

  Year 6 visited Worcester Cathedral and have come in their World Book Day outfits today.

   

  Mrs Ross has been enjoying reading all the entries for the Reading for Pleasure competition. She has been impressed with everyone’s creativity and imaginativeness. The winners will be announced next week.

   

  The Book Fair has been running after school this week. Monday 11^th March will be your last chance to visit if wish to do so. Thank you for your support with this.

   

  Reminder – our Rags2Riches clothing collection is on Thursday 14^th March. Bags need to be left outside the DT room by 9.00am.

• Upcoming events

  Fri 01 Mar 2024

  We are looking forward to many events in school over the next three weeks.

  Please see below for further information.

  

• Reception's 100th Day

  Thu 22 Feb 2024

  Today Reception have celebrated their 100th day in school.

  We have loved seeing all their colourful 100 day hats. Well done everyone.

  What a brilliant day they have had. They have taken part in a parade to show off their hats and played lots of number games.

   

  

• Children's Mental Health Week February 2024

  Fri 09 Feb 2024

   

  The focus of Children's Mental Health Week this year has been 'My Voice Matters'. Children looked at using their voice to share ideas on activities to improve their mental health and to express their thoughts and feelings.

   

  Our pupils have learnt about the five ways to wellbeing : Connect, Be Active, Give, Keep Learning, Take Notice, all simple things that we can all do to improve our emotional health and wellbeing.

  Each class were asked to plan activities based on these for this week to improve their wellbeing at school.

   

  We finished the week with a Non-Uniform Day on Friday 9^th February with the theme ‘Express Yourself’ and the pupils came to school in their own clothes to express their personality or feelings.

   

  So far we have raised £228.00 for the NSPCC and thank everyone for their generous donations towards this charity.