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Attendance and Punctuality View our attendance graph at

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The highest class attendance in school last week

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

the third week running! And well done too to Mrs

Wood and Mrs Atkinson’s class, and to Miss

Webb’s class! You’ll all be getting a little treat this

week

Late attendance last week affected children’s

learning on 22 occasions, which is an average of

4.4 per day.

Overall school attendance last week was 97.2%.

Class Lates Attendance

F2ES Miss Sefton 4 87.5

F2AW Mrs Wood & Mrs Atkinson 0 100.0

Y1RW Miss Webb 0 100.0

Y1WM Miss Waller & Ms Haigh 1 91.5

Y2LD Miss Duggleby 2 99.2

Y2LA Miss Andrew 4 100.0

Y3GP Miss Handy 0 99.2

Y3IF Miss Frost 2 96.8

Y4RH Mr Hawksworth 0 97.5

Y4IK Miss Kirk 3 93.8

Y5RC Miss Conway 3 99.2

Y5ES Miss Sweeney 1 99.2

Y6MT Mrs Tipping 1 99.1

Y6JW Miss Weir 1 98.3

Dates for your Diary

Monday 30th April

* Dinner menu week 2

Wednesday 2nd May

* 8:30 Firefighters Rags Collection

* 9:00 Parent Forum – MAST

* 1:15 Stay’n’Play toddler group in CCC

* Year 3 swimming

* Y2LD swimming

Thursday 3rd May

* Breakfast Club in KS2 building!

* Year 1 to Yorkshire Wildlife Park

* Y3 and Y4 Hockey Tournament after school for

invited children

Friday 4th May

* Year 2 Bun Day

Monday 7th May

* Bank holiday – school is closed!

Tuesday 8th May

* Salmon for RED dinner, Pizza for GREEN dinner!

Wednesday 9th May

* 9:00 Parent Forum – World In Our Playground

Monday 14th May

* Year 6 SATs

Wednesday 16th May

* Swimming lessons start for Y1RW

* 9:00 Parent Forum – CAMHS Workshop

Thursday 17th May

* Y3GP Parents’ Evening

Tuesday 22nd May

* Year 4 to Woodland Discover Centre

* Year 6 Notre Dame Roadshow for Year 6

Wednesday 23rd May

* 9:00 Parent Forum – Year 6 Writing

Wednesday 6th June

* Year 4 to the Great Yorkshire Show Ground

Friday 8th June

* Reception classes to Butterfly House

Wednesday 20th June

* Swimming lessons start for Y1WM

Thursday 21st June

* Year 6 to Holocaust Centre

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Makaton Sign of the Week

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Parent Forum News There will be a coffee morning this Wednesday

from 9:00am to 10:00am in the community centre!

The workshop will start at 9:20am, Mrs Biggs will

be attending with MAST to talk about the groups

and services who can offer support to families.

Everyone welcome!

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Dogs Just a reminder that dogs are not allowed on

school grounds, even if they are on a lead.

Not everyone feels confident around dogs, so

please, if you bring your dog with you to collect

your children, stay outside the the fence and well

away from the gates! Thank you for your support!

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Early Birds get to class

before the second bell!

Last week was Early Bird Week, when we very

carefully monitor late arrivals.

There were 4 classes with ZERO late arrivals:

F2AW Mrs Wood and Mrs Atkinsons’ class

Y1RW Miss Webb’s class

Y3GP Miss Handy’s class

Y4RH Mr Hawksworth’s class

Well done!

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Breakfast Club This week, on Thursday, Breakfast Club will be held

in the school dining room … to get there, you need

to walk down the drive into the staff car park, and

use the entrance next to the kitchen.

This is because we have Polling Day in the

community centre!

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Healthy Minds Attached to the newsletter is an invitation for

parents to attend a workshop on Friendship, Self

Esteem and Emotional Wellbeing. We really hope

you can join us! Please register by returning the

reply slip below!

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I would like to register my interest in attending the

Parent and Carer Workshop on Friendship, Self

Esteem and Emotional Wellbeing on:

⃣ Wednesday 16th May 2018

for KS1 and EYFS (Nursery to Year 2)

⃣ Wednesday 6th June 2018

for KS2 (Year 3 to Year 6)

Name: _____________________________________________

Parent of: __________________________________________

Class: ______________________________________________

Parent Forum Workshops

Wednesdays 9:20am

Below is a list of the Parent Forum workshops that

have been confirmed for this half term. Mrs

Redfern is working on the list for next half term

(after the holidays), and we will get it on the

newsletter as soon as we can

02.05.2018 MAST Mrs Biggs

and MAST

09.05.2018 The World in Our

Playground

Parent

Forum

16.05.2018

CAMHS Workshop

General Information

Event about

Supporting

Children’s Emotional

Wellbeing

Miss

Sefton and

CAMHS

23.05.2018

Y6 Writing

Looking at the

quality of children’s

writing

Miss Weir

and Mrs

Tipping

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SCHOOL TRIPS

This week on Tuesday, some of our children will be attending a SEND Games event at Concord. Also

this week, on Thursday, another group of children will be attending a SEND Games event at Concord!

We hope they have a great time!

Year 4

Crucible Theatre

Year 4 will be visiting the Crucible Theatre

TWICE to understand how costumes are

made, and what materials are used. They

will also be finding out the effects of

characters wearing different costumes,

and how this affects the story. They will be

using what they have learnt to create their

mood boards, and to start thinking what

their own costume would look like!

Wednesday 13th June 2018

Tuesday 10th July

Half Day

All day

Volunteers are not needed this time

Children will need a packed lunch

Children will be travelling on the bus

£ £11.00

Year 5

National Holocaust Centre, Newark

Year 6 will be visiting the National

Holocaust Centre to find out more about

the Holocaust and to build empathy.

You can find out more about the venue by

visiting their website:

www.holocaust.org.uk

Thursday 21st June 2018 All day

Volunteers are not needed this time

Children will need a packed lunch

Coach

£ £12.00

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NURSERY

Cannon Hall Farm, Cawthorne, Barnsley S75 4AT

www.cannonhallfarm.co.uk

16th May 2018 All day

Every child must be accompanied, by an adult from home. Younger siblings

can come too if there is space on the coach, and the cost will be £10 for each

extra child.

You will need to take a packed lunch, there will be a group picnic!

Coach

£ 20.00

On Wednesday 16th May, the Nursery will be closed, as we have our annual trip to Cannon Hall Farm!

All of the nursery staff will be going, we have booked a very large coach. There are a limited number

of places available on the coach, we need you to please sign up early, to make sure you get a place!

The children will be learning all about the environment, and they will get a greater awareness of

farm animals and the workings of a farm.

On the day, children will need to wear trainers, but no wellies.

Please go to the school website to book a ticket for you and your child:

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

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F2ES Xander For writing a beautiful poster, with a rubric, independently in his own choosing time, well

done!

Leila For her beautiful neat handwriting, she can even use the lines, well done!

F2WA Azmeer For his amazing homework and for all the effort he puts into it, well done!

Aleen For being so willing and eager to learn, and for showing us how much she has come on

with her reading, writing and maths, well done!

Y1WM Lucas For concentrating and trying so hard in everything this week, he always has a huge smile

on his face, well done!

Divora For showing a mature attitude to her work, fantastic, well done!

Y1RW Levi For working really hard with their writing and becoming more resilient, well done!

Kidus

Y2LD Joseph For great independent Maths work, well done!

Areeba For working hard and having a positive attitude to her learning, well done!

Y2LA Dhiya For such a positive attitude throughout the school day and to all her learning, well done!

Harmony For working extra hard in her Maths learning. Harmony has found a real love of Maths,

well done!

Y3GP Tommy For excellent programming in ICT with Miss Franks, well done!

Nendra

Y3IF Hannah For working hard in literacy and maths, putting in 100%, well done!

Nathaniel For always doing his best and giving 100%, well done!

Y4RH Alex For independently using WAGOLLs in class and showing great initiative, well done!

Hasnayn For trying really hard in all lessons and making the right choices, well done!

Y4IK Raheem For making great choices during a dance lesson and putting 100% effort into the routine,

the teacher was very impressed, well done!

Sophie For contributing good ideas to class discussions and putting lots of enthusiasm into her

learning, which shows in the presentation of her work, well done!

Y5ES

Y5RC Dwayne For impressing all adults in the classroom this week with his literacy work, well done!

Norrel For improving her confidence in Maths and completing tricky Maths challenges, well done!

Y6JW Sana For always having a great attitude towards learning and school life, well done!

Jake For having a positive attitude, and getting an amazing score on his reading assessment,

well done!

Y6MT Mariella For being positive, hard working and enthusiastic in all that we are doing, well done!

Mia For being positive, hard working and enthusiastic in all that we are doing, well done!

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Lunchtime Awards

WOW

Key Stage 2

Year 6 Runners at Parents Evening:

Lydia, Shakylla, Ruby, Ryan, William and Julita, many thanks for all your help!

Key Stage 1

Haris, Year 1 – for making amazing shapes with the Jenga, well done!

BEAT IT Logan, Year 6 – for more than 140 Keepy Uppies with the bat and ball, well done!

MUGA No MUGA winner this week

LT Challenge Year 1 – to have a play on the MUGA!

Reader of the Week F2ES

Harry

Krishna

Mella

For getting their Bronze award, well done!

F2WA Fithawit For reading every day this week, well done!

Y1WM Batseba For achieving her Gold certificate, reading 150 times, well done!

Y1RW Sarah For great reading, well done!

Y2LD Silivana For always remembering to bring her Reading Record, well done!

Y2LA Benedict For always reading at home and for moving all the way up to Blue group in RWI, well done!

Y3GP Benji Chosen by Mrs Woodhouse, for always bringing in his Reading Record, well done!

Y3IF Dibora For bringing her Reading Record every day, well done!

Y4RH Maria For bringing in her Reading Record regularly, well done!

Y4IK Katriel For reading some very difficult and challenging language fluently and clearly from a

Shakespearean story, well done!

Y5ES

Y5RC Haiqa For getting to Platinum in her Reading Record, well done!

Y6JW Eve For challenging herself with the text she is choosing, well done!

Y6MT Feola For having a fantastic attitude towards reading, and bringing in his Reading Record

regularly, well done!

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Are you familiar with local SEND services?

Do you have strong writing skills?

Are you comfortable using computers?

Then you might just be the person we are looking for!

Sheffield Parent Carer Forum has been commissioned by Sheffield City Council to develop,

improve and update the Local Offer website. This website contains information about support

and services available in Sheffield for children and young people with SEND.

We are looking to appoint a part-time worker

(21 hours per week, 12-month contract) to help us with this project.

The post would be suitable for a parent carer with relevant skills wishing to return to the

workplace after a career break. Programming skills are not required, and training can be

provided as appropriate.

To apply, please go to www.sheffieldparentcarerforum.org.uk/news/were-recruiting.

The deadline for applications is Friday 4th May 2018.