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St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School (Hallam)

SUMMER RAFFLE

Tickets are on sale in the school office, they cost 20p each!

Tickets will also be taken round to class every day for sale!

The raffle will be drawn on the last day of school!

Thanks for your support!

SCHOOL DISCO

Thursday this week!

Year 1 to 6!

DISCO TICKETS

ARE NOW ON

SALE ON THE

SCHOOL WEBSITE

https://www.stcatherines.academy/buy/parent-forum/disco

LOST PROPERTY

Lost property will be out on tables for browsing on Wednesday this week!

The tables will be under cover outside the Year 3 classrooms!

Gates will open at 3:00pm so you can come early and have a look!

Lost property will be taken back inside at 4:00pm!

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Secure Online Store Use this link to visit the school store, to pay

for school meals, school trips, after school

clubs, and all sorts! No login needed!

www.stcatherines.academy/buy

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Attendance and Punctuality View our attendance graph at

stcatherines.academy/attendance

The highest class attendance in school last week

was 100.0%. Well done to Miss Duggleby’s class for

highest attendance for the third week running!

You’ll be getting a little treat this week

Late attendance last week affected children’s

learning on 57 occasions, which is an average of

11.4 per day.

Overall school attendance last week was 97.0%.

Class Lates Attendance

F2ES Miss Sefton 2 98.7

F2AW Mrs Wood & Mrs Atkinson 1 99.7

Y1RW Miss Webb 3 98.0

Y1WM Miss Waller & Ms Haigh 8 96.5

Y2LD Miss Duggleby 1 100.0

Y2LA Miss Andrew 4 96.5

Y3GP Miss Handy 3 99.7

Y3IF Miss Frost 5 97.1

Y4RH Mr Hawksworth 6 98.7

Y4IK Miss Kirk 8 97.0

Y5RC Miss Conway 8 97.7

Y5ES Miss Sweeney 3 95.8

Y6MT Mrs Tipping 3 89.3

Y6JW Mr Fowler 2 93.7

Dates for your Diary

THIS WEEK … Monday 9th July

* Dinner Menu week 3

Tuesday 10th July

* Year 4 to Crucible Theatre – parents invited

from 2:00pm

* Year 2 to Botanical Gardens

Wednesday 11th July

* 9:00 to 10:00am Parent Forum Coffee Morning

* Swimming lessons for Y3 and Y1WM

* 2:00pm Year 5 Photography Exhibition

* Week 5 of Learn Well, Live Well

* Lost property out from 3:00 to 4:00pm

* 1:15pm Stay’n’Play in CCC

* ECODErs to Great Yorkshire Show

Thursday 5th July

* Lunchtime Pizza Hut party for

100% attendance winners

* School Disco for Year 1 to Year 6 – buy tickets

online, office staff will show you if you are not

sure how to!

* No uniform today for Year 1 to Year 6!

Friday 13th July

* Year 6 to Cineworld

* 2:00pm Piano concert

* Year 1 Bun Day

Buy for Next Year The online store will continue to be open 24 hours,

7 days a week! The store will be updated next week,

so that you can buy for next year:

Milk

Bun pass

KS2 fruit pass

After School Clubs

Music lessons

Please remember, you can continue to pay online

for dinner money, and for residential visits for

children who are in Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 or

Year 6 in September!

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Dates for your Diary

… THE WEEKS AFTER

Monday 16th July

* Dinner Menu week 1

Tuesday 17th July

* Local Walk for Platinum Readers

Wednesday 18th July

* Week 6 of Learn Well, Live Well

* Progress Assembly (morning)

* School of Rock (afternoon)

Thursday 19th July

* Year 6 End of Year Performance (time tbc)

Friday 20th July

* Leavers Mass (morning)

* Last Day of this school year

Tuesday 4th September

* Back to school for the new academic year

Makaton Sign of the Week

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Year 5 Photography Exhibition It will be Wednesday 11th July 2-3pm and will be

held in the Y5 classrooms. Parents are invited to

come in and look at our photography project we

have been working on this term. There will even

be chance to buy your child’s photo album!

Our photography expert Isabelle will be there too

– don’t miss it!

Parent Forum News This week at coffee morning, we have a Behaviour

Support Parenting Session! There are a limited

number of places, so please speak to Mrs Biggs if

you would like to attend.

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After School Clubs Please don’t forget, there are no after school clubs

next week!

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Staff News Over the summer, Miss Handy is getting married!

When she returns in September, she will be Mrs

Puchalka. We all hope she has a lovely day, and

enjoys her wedding!

This summer, we have two members of staff

leaving to start a new job elsewhere:

Mr Smith

Miss Webb

We wish them lots of luck in their new jobs, we will

miss them very much!

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Thank You from School Council

School Council had a great time on their sponsored

walk from school to Hillsborough Park, they have

raised £89 for the Steve Prescott Foundation!

Thank you to everyone who sponsored the School

Council!

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Piano Concert On Friday, Mrs Mansergh will be presenting her

piano students at a concert for their families.

The concert starts at 2:00pm in the Community

Centre, there is no charge for admission, but there

will be tea and cakes for sale! All of the

money raised will be donated to the

Children’s Hospital Charity.

100% Attendance

Pizza Hut Party Tomorrow, we will be sending home invitations to

the Pizza Hut Party, which takes place in school on

Thursday this week!

Children will be invited, if they have had 100%

attendance, AND they have been late to school no

more than once each half term.

Some of our children will have had a one day

absence this year for religious observance … if that

is the ONLY absence they have had, AND they have

been late to school no more than once each half

term, they’ll be getting an invitation to the party!

If your child doesn’t get an invitation on Tuesday,

and you think they should have, please speak to

staff in the office and they will print an attendance

summary and check!

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SCHOOL TRIPS On Tuesday, Mrs Vella and Mrs Guest will be taking

four children to the Great Yorkshire Show in

Harrogate. The children won a cheese tasting

competition last time they were there, and they

have been invited back to join the judging panel!

Well done you four, have a great time!

On Wednesday, Mrs Vella, Miss Franks and Mrs

Guest will be taking the ECODErs to the Great

Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate. They entered

their Vegetable Box into a competition, and they

have been shortlisted, they are so excited. Good

luck, we hope you win!

Find out more about the Great Yorkshire Show in

Harrogate: https://greatyorkshireshow.co.uk/

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F2ES Kate For always being fantastic learners, for following the rules, and for helping others, well

done! Adoni

F2WA Merina For fantastic reading and trying to use expression in her voice, well done!

Eldana For being really grown up and positive about moving up to Year one, well done!

Y1WM Kyei For his hard work all week, especially in swimming, following instructions carefully and

encouraging others less confident than himself, well done!

Kalieb For working extremely hard this week, persevering, trying his best, and never ever giving

up, well done!

Y1RW Hassan For lovely writing, well done!

Yusuf For lovely socialising and joining in, well done!

Y2LD Ethan For his great participation in our yoga session this week. He tried hard to follow all the

instructions and did very well holding the different positions, well done!

Armaan For his careful work during our Times Tables board games. Not only did he calculate each

answer correctly, he also worked well with his partner to follow the rules correctly, take

turns, and look after the counters and dice, well done!

Y2LA Rio For his excellent silk screen printing with Hannah from Sheffield Print Team. Rio was really

interested and asked so many great questions, well done!

Rufus For showing great patience with his friends and himself, well done!

Y3GP Evan For being a helpful friend, well done!

Sahil For a fantastic Big Write, well done!

Y3IF Areeb For digging deep when finding things tricky and making great efforts, well done!

Hibba For putting in 100% effort in her Maths, not giving up, well done!

Y4RH Kayleen For excellent listening and enthusiasm during our printing workshop, well done!

Tyler For being a great help to Mr Hawksworth during our printing workshop, well done!

Y4IK Nesochi For being really helpful to other children, making her mood board accurate, and showing

kindness, well done!

Roan For showing determination and resilience for when things don’t go right the first time, well

done!

Y5ES Tunmise For doing some great Maths work and pushing themselves, well done!

Benji

Y5RC Haiqa For always trying her best in every lesson, and making great progress in Maths, well done!

Ethan Y For brilliant Literacy work, writing a book this week, well done!

Y6JW Denzil

For being a great role model for Year 2 in yoga, and for working so hard in the rehearsals

for the Year 6 performance, well done!

May For working so hard in the rehearsals for the Year 6 performance, well done!

Y6MT Josephine For excellent participation in our first aid training; impressive, well done!

Logan For checking and improving his work, well done and keep it up at secondary school!

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Lunchtime Awards Key Stage 1

Wonder Of the Week

Yannick, Xander, Khalid and Awet

For helping Mrs Desouza tidy away the lunchtime equipment, thank you!

Key Stage 2

Wonder Of the Week

Jack and Isha

For being great ambassadors for our school,

keeping the environment tidy and clean, thank you!

MUGA Year 6

LT Challenge Y4 extra play,

and Reception will get adventure playground time this week!

P4C Award

Key Stage 2 Alison

For thoughtful P4C comments, well done!

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Reader of the Week F2ES Larron

For reading with his family until he can try on his own, identifying high frequency

words, well done!

F2WA

Amen

Muhammad

Azmeer

For reading every day, well done!!!

Y1WM Nael For keeping his Reading Record so neat and tidy, and ALWAYS bringing it in every

day, well done!

Y1RW Abynaby For always enjoying reading, well done!

Y2LD

Awo For reading all the new song words very carefully during our singing practice in class,

well done!

Menase For quietly reading to himself at playtimes. He has enjoyed taking himself to a shady

spot to read his book, well done!

Y2LA Dhiya For always finding a quiet place and being very focused during silent reading, well

done!

Y3GP Benji For getting his Platinum award, well done!

Y3IF Christiana For achieving her Gold award, well done!

Y4RH Ibrahim For bringing in his Reading Record every day this week, well done!

Y4IK Patrick For showing constant enthusiasm, well done!

Y5ES Kelvin For producing a fabulous reading presentation, well done!

Y5RC Isaac For always bringing in his Reading Record, well done!

Y6JW Sana For great reading during rehearsals for the Year 6 performance, well done!

Y6MT Louisa For creating and reading some fantastic poetry, well done!

Year 5 Photography Exhibition

Wednesday 11th July 2018

2:00pm to 3:00pm The exhibition will be in the classroom,

please enter through the staff car park in the KS2 building!

Your child has produced a photo album as part of this project, you will be able to see

it at the exhibition, and you can buy it to keep forever!

The album costs £2.00 and you can place your order through school’s online store,

either before or after the event.

https://www.stcatherines.academy/buy/trips/y5/photoalbum

Thank you for your support, we hope you can join us at the exhibition!