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St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School

OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

Playground

Infant Junior

Kevin Franklin

Badgers Foxes

Playground £5 voucher winners

Infant Junior

Sean-Abel Demi

Moles Owls

Best attendance class for week ending 14 July

Ladybirds 95.2% Below National

Butterflies 94.5% Below National

Bumblebees 95.7% Below National

Hedgehogs 94.2% Below National

Badgers 93.1% Below National

Hares 96.6% Above Average

Moles 96.1% Below National

Foxes 96.9% Above National

Squirrels 97.4% Above National

Otters 98.0% Above National

Deer 96.1% Below National

Dolphins 96.3% Below National

Seals 97.3% Above National

Eagles 96.8% Above National

Owls 95.8% Below National

NATIONAL AVERAGE IS 96.4%

The House with the most House points this week is;

St Patrick

St. Thomas of Canterbury Catholic School, Estcourt Rd, Fulham, London, SW6 7HB

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Dates for your diary

Monday 17th July KS1 & KS2 Sports Day

Tuesday 18th July Year 6 Leavers Mass at 11.30am in St. Thomas Church, all

welcome

Year 2 trip to Littlehampton beach

Friday 21st July Last day of summer term. School closes at 2pm

Wednesday 6th September. Children return to school

School Office Notices *All outstanding dinner money

payments must be paid by

Wednesday 19th July. Unpaid

dinner money will mean that

children will have to have packed

lunches from September.

*Please note that afterschool

clubs finish this week. There will

be no afterschool clubs next

week except for choir.

Friday, 14th July 2017

Ladybirds Reilly

Bumblebees Sophie

Butterflies Tiam

Hedgehogs Tashae

Badgers Alesha

Moles Kayson

Hares Scarlett

Foxes Theo

Squirrels Maya

Deer Taurie

Otters Teagan

Seals Catherine

Dolphins Taylor

Eagles All of the Eagles

Owls All of the Owls

of the Week

Oliver Production Well done to Y6 - The cast of Oliver. The children worked

extremely hard over the past few weeks, learning lines, acting,

dancing and making props. They had a magical, wonderful,

marvellous,

fabulous,

beautiful,

glorious show

and the

audience

were left

saying "please

Y6, can we

have some

more?"

Issue 1.71 Summer Term

Summer Concert

Piano, guitar and violin solos

Thursday 20th July 2017

4pm in the School hall

All welcome

Gold Stars Zane

Silver Stars Jenhnah, Liliana,

Christopher

Mathletics class

of the week Badgers

MATHLETICS Artist of the Week

Year 3 worked hard using line, detail and composition to

create a sense of drama to their printed Viking longship

invasion. Irish Jane used amazing detail on her flag and

viking shields on the side of her boat. Can you spot Irish

Jane’s boat among all the other brilliant ships year 3 pupils

have printed?

Sports Day KS1 & KS2—17th July

Sports day for KS1 & KS2 will be held on Monday 17th July at

Lillie Road Recreational Ground. We would like to invite you to join

us to encourage the children during their events.

KS1 sports day will take place in the morning from 9.45am –

12.30pm. Children will return to school for the afternoon sessions.

KS2 sports day will take place in the afternoon but the children

will arrive in time for lunch from 11.45am – 3.25pm.

Lunch will be at 12pm and you are very welcome to join your child’s

class. All children in KS1 and those in KS2 who are entitled to a

free meal will be provided with a school packed lunch. KS2 children

will need to bring in a healthy packed lunch with them.

Children will need to come to school wearing their full PE kit with

plimsolls, no trainers. If the weather is hot please make sure that

your child has plenty of water, is wearing a hat and that you have

applied sun cream to your child before they come to school.

Just to remind you that you may take photos/videos on the day but

you may not upload them to social media sites without permission

from other parents.

St. Thomas’ multiplication fun

Last week some classes throughout the

school worked with Mrs Haggis to

explore fun and imaginative ways to

learn their times tables. Year 2 made

some wonderful posters of a chosen

table to help them visualise them. Year 3 wrote songs, raps

and poems to help them remember the tables they

struggled with the most. Year 4 went onto the playground

and used chalk to make a times tables hopscotch. They

used these to test a friend and the other children were

then able to play on them at break time. They also made

paper chatterboxes to test each other. Hopefully this has

given them some lovely ideas on how to practice while

having fun at the same time. Please encourage your child to

continue learning their times tables at home over the

summer, maybe using some of these ideas.

Congratulations to Mrs Woodward

She gave birth to a healthy baby boy on the

7th July, weighing 8lbs 9. They have named

him Archie and both mum and Archie are

doing well.

Bute Choir Festival On Tuesday, Deer class took park in the Bute house choir

festival. They performed their samba drumming and

showed how

hard they

have been

working

during the

workshops.

It was a

lovely

afternoon!

Butterflies Trip to Bishop’s Park

On Tuesday, Butterflies class went to the forest school in

Bishop’s Park. Lots of parents joined the children and saw

what the class do during forest school.

They went on a flower and plant hunt and made a frame

using sticks and string. They even managed to have their

picnic before the rain came and soaked everyone!

A big thank you to the parents who came along!

Squirrels Science Museum Trip

On Wednesday, Squirrels learned about

forces and magnets. They learned about

Newton's laws and how an object will not move

until it is moved by another force through push or pull.

They also learnt that for every action (force) in nature

there is an equal and opposite reaction. Finally they learnt

that like poles in magnets repel and opposite poles attract.

Clever Squirrels!