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The Catholic School of Saint Gregory The Great
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T H E C A T H O L I C S C H O O L O F S A I N T G R E G O R Y T H E G R E A T
E M A I L : P A R E N T @ S T - G R E G O R Y G R E A T . G L O U C S . S C H . U K
Headteacher: Mrs Charlotte Blanch
Phone Number: 01242 513659
House Points Update
St Teresa 12,001
St Augustine 12,587
St Francis 14,114
St Bernadette
14,706
Having somewhere to
go is HOME
Having someone to
love is FAMILY
Having both is a BLESSING
Positive Mind Vibes
What a start to our St Gregory’s Virtual School on Class Dojo. In just 3 days, a learning community was set-up and we are proud to have already had lots of activity and engagement. Thank you for your support so far. A special thanks to our teachers who spent the last few days before school closure receiving training on how to use it and preparing resources. ALos well done to all the parents and carers—you have taken on the challenge and we applaud you. Working from home and home schooling is not what any of us chose—but you’re doing a great job! Thank you! Please remember NOT to message the teachers via class dojo. You can email [email protected] if you have any queries though.
Counselling Access affordable
counselling for children, young people & adults . Telephone & video call
counselling services available.
www.gloscounselling.org.uk
Teamwork makes the dream work! We just wanted to say a huge thank you for pulling together as a whole school community: children, parents, staff, Childcare Trust and governors when we re-ceived notification that schools were going to partially close. Despite your own reservations, concerns and worries about childcare, keeping your own jobs go-ing, concerns about illness and whether you could get food into your cupboards, the whole community pulled together to get home schooling rolled out and a whole rota of activities and support to provide frontline care for our key workers who are keeping the infrastructure of the country in tact. We wish everyone well in this time of uncertainty and feel very fortunate to be part of the school community we are in.
Sign Language British sign language—Join Natasha and Kelly on their YouTube channel at 1pm
Monday-Friday for a live video on the basics of British Sign Language.
Link below: https://m.youtube.com/channel/
UC9w889Lid1JHB-AX4dCoQoQ
T H E C A T H O L I C S C H O O L O F S A I N T G R E G O R Y T H E G R E A T
E M A I L : P A R E N T @ S T - G R E G O R Y G R E A T . G L O U C S . S C H . U K
STUDENT OF THE WEEK
You have all done so well
with our WEEK 1 Home Learning Ad-venture that we think the parents and
carers should be our STU-
DENTS OF THE WEEK—you’re all awesome.
You are all
doing a wonderful job,
keep it up! We are very
proud of you!
St Greg’s YouTube Channel To enable us to pre-record and share each others’ stories/clips, a St Gregory’s Virtual School YouTube Page has been set-up. Click here and subscribe to our
channel! The staff have been practising being YouTubers! :-)
St Greg’s Useful Website Pages Visit our new COVID-19 webpage to keep up to date and for useful information &
resources.https://www.st-gregorygreat.gloucs.sch.uk/covid-19/
Visit our Learning at Home page for lots of resources/ information and links to top up your learning: https://www.st-gregorygreat.gloucs.sch.uk/learning-at-home/
Keep children occupied & Learning Follow these five steps
1# Keep them engaged in real-time learning 2# Keep them active
3# Keep them full of liquid and healthy snacks 4# Keep things short and simple
5# Keep them coming back for more
LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER
Although we are in Lock down and
some of us are Self-Isolation,
we can still call /text/
email/skype each other to check in and
make sure our loved ones are
ok . Don’t’ forget, the
school is here for you too!
01242 513659 and we’ll ring
He has the whole World in His hands.
T H E C A T H O L I C S C H O O L O F S A I N T G R E G O R Y T H E G R E A T
E M A I L : P A R E N T @ S T - G R E G O R Y G R E A T . G L O U C S . S C H . U K
HELPLINE
A dedicated phone line
and email ad-dress has been set up to help parents with all school re-lated enquir-
ies, including questions relating to
Free School Meals.
01452 426015.
ov.uk
SAMARITANS
If you're struggling with your
mental health during this
very uncertain time, there is
always someone to
talk to. Samaritans
have put together some
resources to help look after
yourself or someone you care about.
https://www.samarita
ns.org/branches/
gloucester/
#FeedCheltenham This is a charity set up to ensure people of Cheltenham have enough
to eat during this tricky time. They are supporting many families in our school—if you can give anything to the charity, please do so following this link.
#FeedCheltenham will only be successful if the general public are made aware of it. Check out the Facebook page If you have not been contacted by us to receive food
parcels and are now starting to find yourself in difficulty, please let us know: [email protected] .
Remote Mass Our Parish is all set up now for virtual church and remote mass. If you would like
to ‘attend’ mass, here is the link: http://stgregorys.org.uk/
Why not try some home baking? Ingredients 75g butter, softened 50ml vegetable oil 125g caster sugar 2 large eggs 125g self-raising flour 2 tbsp milk 1 tsp vanilla extract Method 1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line 2 x 12 hole bun tins or mini muffin tins with paper cake cases. Put all the fairy cake ingredients into a large bowl and whisk together with electric hand beaters until smooth. If you don’t have these you can use a wooden spoon or balloon whisk (see tip). 2. Dollop the mixture into the prepared cases until it’s all used up. Bake for 10-12 mins or until golden and springy. To be sure they’re cooked through, poke a cocktail stick into the centre of one of the cakes in a middle row – if it comes out cleanly, it’s cooked. Leave to cool in the tin for 5-10mins then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating. 3. Mix the icing sugar with enough water to make it the consistency of thick cream. Colour some or all of the icing with a few drops of your chosen food colouring(s) then drizzle over the top of the cooled fairy cakes. Sprinkle with your chosen toppings while the icing is still wet. Leave to set firm before serving. Will keep for 2 days in an airtight container.
To decorate 250g icing sugar food colouring
(optional) Sprinkles or Jellies
T H E C A T H O L I C S C H O O L O F S A I N T G R E G O R Y T H E G R E A T
E M A I L : P A R E N T @ S T - G R E G O R Y G R E A T . G L O U C S . S C H . U K
PGL & KINGSWOOD
Please pay your next
instalment for PGL and
Kingswood
DENMARK ROAD
In light of the current Covid-19 close down of all schools, the grammar heads have agreed to
move the reg-istration open-
ing date to Mon 18th May
2020. The online regis-
tration system will close at
noon on Tues 30th June
2020. Those who fail to register will
not be able to sit the test in September.
The expecta-tion is that the entrance test will go ahead as planned on Sat 12th Sep-tember 2020.
Important Numbers & Helplines We are always here for you at school if there are any issues at home. If you don’t feel you can come and speak to us, please make sure you reach out to people who can help you…..and watch out for each other! Childline—If you’re worried about a child or your own child has
worries: 0800 1111 GDASS—Gloucestershire Domestic Abuse Support Service:
01452 726570 GDAS—Gloucestershire Drug & Alcohol Service for those dependent on
substances: 01452 381166 What's on your mind—child wellbeing support —https://
www.onyourmindglos.nhs.uk/ TIC+ - Parent Support—Free, anonymous, confidential helpline 0800 652
5675 www.ticplus.org.uk - this is for children 9+ years old who are in crisis. Housing Support—Free independent, confidential Service 01425 726 951
www.gloshousingsupport.com Internet Matters—Internet Safety & resources internetmatters.org
The DFE have been informed some parents have received an email stating: ‘As schools will be closing, if you're entitled to
free school meals, please send your bank details and we'll make sure you're supported’. This is a SCAM email - DO NOT
respond, and delete immediately.
Here are some mindfulness activities you can do with your
child to help them build resilience, mental wellbeing
and positive relationships within your family. As a
school, we pledged to help you with ideas for these
activities.
Mindful monsters is a set of ideas for mindfulness
activities that are ‘FREE’ and so accessible by everyone. They
focus on different aspects including:
relaxation (light blue), concentration (purple)
creativity (pink) positivity (orange).
Try out this month’s activities as a family over the Easter break.
Why don’t you let us know how they went? We would love the feedback!
