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NEWSLETTER NO. 12 AUTUMN TERM – 15 DEC 2017

WEEK AHEAD

January WEEK 1 – NO CLUBS

Monday 8th INSET DAY Tuesday 9th School Opens for start of Spring Term 2018 08.45 Whole School Assembly 08.55 Wednesday 10th U11/U10 Boys Tag Rugby v Beechwood Leave 13.45 Start 14.15

Collect from Venue 15.45 Thursday 11th Friday 12th Chess Assembly + Awards 08.55

Drama & Karate Clubs start

MISSION IN ACTION AWARDS:

RECEPTION Everyone For having a wonderful super duper first term at School

YEAR 1 Annabella For always being kind and gentle in her own quiet way

YEAR 2

Lettie

For being this term’s winners of the Year 2 ‘Kindness Jar’ Liberty

Oscar

YEAR 3 Sophie

For hard work all term and the best work ethic! Bella

YEAR 4 Olivia For an excellent autobiography

Charlie A For a fantastic piece of creative writing about the Elf on the Shelf

YEAR 5 Elena For fabulous Maths sequences

YEAR 6 Hugh For his enthusiasm in Geography and specifically for being able to identify and locate all of the English counties.

CONGRATULATIONS: • Josephine (Y3) and Arabella (Y3) for both achieving the

400m distance of the Swim England Rainbow Distance Award

BOYS’ GAMES COLOURS Congratulations to our Y6 boys for achieving full colours this term and the Y5 boys for their half colours MUSIC COLOURS Congratulations to all our Choir members who have made an outstanding contribution to Music this term, both in the Community and the School. Music colours were awarded to our Y6 Choir Members.

THE FUTURE OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS Do you support Catholic Schools and the right of Catholics to send their children to them? Then we need you to make your voice heard. The Government is making a critical decision on whether to overturn the admissions cap which prevents Catholic Schools from allowing all Catholic pupils to attend. They have acknowledged that this policy discriminates against Catholics and promised to abandon it, now we need you to tell them not to u-turn on their promises to Catholics. Visit http://catholicnews.org.uk/education-cap or search for ‘Catholic Education’ in your search engine to write to the Government and urge them to drop their policy which bans new Catholic Schools.

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Another busy and exciting week at Sacred Heart School where learning is fun!

A big thank you to those children who were able to perform at the concert last Friday evening as part of the Primary Schools Choir. It is always good to be involved in community events and to work together with our friends at the primary school. The Head there is a very keen musician and I have a feeling she and Mrs Bradford will be devising more collaborative events for our choirs! To Arabella, Elena, Charlie D, Madeleine G, Izzy, Phoebe, Amalie and Florence, ‘Thank You’ for turning out on a cold night, singing your hearts out and brightening a dark winter evening!

Following an exciting final of the KS2 Carol Competition, winners were announced as follows: - 3rd - Alfred and Rupert singing Christmas is Here 2nd - The Snowflake Squad singing What Christmas is All About 1st - Snowflake Spirits singing Snowy Owls

All the entries were of a very high standard, and it was a difficult choice but the first place was given to the group from Year 5 because of the quality and originality of their lyrics and singing. Well done to all of those who took part.

You all made a superb effort on our Christmas lunch day, looking very festive in your Christmas Jumpers and raising £80 for the work of Save the Children. Well done!

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Foundation Stage set the bar high

last week with ‘Whoops-a-Daisy-

Angel’, but KS1 did not disappoint

with their unique and charming

production of ‘Hey Ewe!’ Quite a

challenging show for such young

children but they were brilliant!

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This was a beautiful end to our autumn term! Year 6 led the

service, telling the story through tableaux, readings and

songs, supported by contributions from each year

group. A very peaceful end to a very busy term.