ST. MICHAEL AND ST MARTIN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL
ST. MICHAEL AND ST MARTIN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL Belgrave Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW4 7AG www.stmichaelandstmartin.co.uk Headteacher
Mrs. N. Duggan
Dates for your diary:
Mrs Duggan Weekly Message
21st June – Nursery talk for parents commencing
We have had a great Science and Healthy Eating Week. The children have enjoyed all the activities and I even got to sample one of the smoothies! There are still four very busy weeks until the end of term, please make sure the children attend school in the complete uniform. Wishing you a very happy weekend.
Sept 16
2:00pm
21st June – Year 1 school trip to Beale Park 9:15am 22nd June – Reception talk for parents commencing Sept 16 1:45pm
23rd June – Nursery Sports Day 24th June – Year 5 Retreat to St. Cassian’s Kintbury 24th June – Year 6 trip to Osmington Bay 27th June – Yr 6 return from Osmington Bay 29th June – Year 5 to 6 transition meeting 2:30pm 30th June – KS1 Sports Day 9:30am 30th June – Year 2 – 3 Transition meeting 2:30pm 1st July – School Fete (After school) 1st July – Nursery open for new pupils 9:30 – 10:30am 4th July - KS2 Sports Day Osterley Sports Centre 10:00am
5th July – Open Day 9:30 – 11:30am / 1:30 – 3:00pm 7th July – Year 6 Production 1:45pm 8th July – Year 6 Production 6:30pm 11th July – Year 6 leavers Mass 10:00am 12th July – Ten Ten theatre group in school 15th July – School closes for the summer 1:30pm
Term Dates: Monday 6th June 2016 – Friday 15th July 2016
(1.30pm close)
Children return to school on Wednesday 7th September 2016 – EXCEPT NURSERY AND RECEPTION CLASSES Wednesday 7th September 2016 – Thursday 15th October 2016 (3:15pm close) Monday 31st October 2016 – Wednesday 21st December 2016 (1:30pm close)
Best wishes Nicola Duggan Headteacher A Reminder Please If you child is riding a bike or scooter into school they must wear a safety helmet. Mrsis Duggan It of great concern the number of children not Head Teacher doing so at present. Please be mindful of their safety and ensure that they are properly protected. Once again this week children have been seen riding into school without helmets. Thank you for your kind consideration in this matter. Please Remember May we please remind all parents / carers that children are not permitted to use any of the equipment outside Nursery and Reception before or after school. This also applies to children playing on or around the Amphitheatre steps and Adobe hut also basketballs or the nets in the junior playground. All equipment and teaching areas are only to be used under supervision by school staff in line with safeguarding procedures. Thank you for your support with this matter.
School Fete: Please watch out for more information regarding this year’s school fete. Your help and support with this is much appreciated.
Tweet Tweet Orleans House Gallery Bird design competition Well done to all the children who entered the bird designing competition for the Tweet Tweet borough competition run by Orleans House Gallery. There were over 1,000 entries in total and all the entries from St Michael and St Martin children were outstanding. Special commendations were given to the following children and their work will be displayed in the Gallery’s exhibition and on their website: Mahalla – 2M Trisha – 2M Ashleyn – 2Me Jordan – 2Me Well done!
Nursery News Our morning and aftgernoon children have been busy following the steps to the Wake and Shake program. They have been learning about how important it is to eat healthily and to exercise to stay fit. Thanks, Nursery Team
Dinner Money Dinner money for this half term’s dinners will be £40.00 (Monday 20th June – Friday 15th July.) To enable us to complete our year end process we would ask you to ensure that your dinner money account remains in credit throughout the next half term. This is especially important for Year 6 children who will be leaving us. Thank you in anticipation for your assistance in this matter. Please also note that when you use the ’Top Up My Account’ facility on ParentPay you must allocate your money to your dinner money account. If you have any problems with your ParentPay account, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Fashion haircuts It has been noted that several children are coming into school with shaved hair or sections of hair. This is not acceptable. If you are uncertain please refer to the school uniform policy which can be found on the school website. Please ensure that all children adhere to the policy at all times. Warm Weather Please ensure that your child has a green sun hat – clearly labelled with their name and class and a water bottle each day. It is very important that they remain hydrated and are able to enjoy being outside. Please remember to apply sun cream before your child arrives at school as we are not permitted to do this. First Holy Communions Please also keep in your prayers all our children who are making their final preparations to receive Christ for the first time at their First Holy Communions. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all at this wonderfully special time.
Sickness Please remember that if your child has a vomiting bug they must stay away from school for 48 hours.
Sponsored Spell
Governors Fund Request
As part of Book Week all children from ReceptionYear 6 took part in our annual Sponsored Spell. All pupils were busy learning challenging spellings and many of you were sponsored by your family and friends. A big thank you to all children who took part and raised money for our school! All of the money raised will go towards purchasing some lovely new books for our libraries and book corners. Congratulations to the following children who raised the most money in their year groups: Reception- James Jacob and Liam MascarenhasGahlen Year 1- Onome Ayigbe and Gabriel Briones Year 2- Sophie Nunes and Jaiden Marklew Year 3 Raphaelle Briones and Sophie Carrasco Year 4-Sanmi Owolabi and Leslie Lemaire Year 5- Hannah Man and Kyle Ferrer Year 6 Carolina Perello- Javar and Carlos Cabillan
Collection of these monies via our ParentPay webpage continues and we would once again like to thank those families who have made this year’s contribution. If you have not yet seen this request letter please visit our website where you can find it by choosing the ‘News and Events’ heading, then clicking into the subpage ‘letter’ followed by ‘Whole School Letters’. This letter can also be found under the ‘Meet the Governors’ subpage also. Should you require a barcode to enable you to pay these monies at your local PayPoint Shop; these can be created if you advise the office. Please do not use your dinner money barcode to pay these monies. Your kind consideration to this request is much appreciated.
A huge congratulations to Darius Dias (2Me) for raising the most money in the school! KS1 raised £2,055.80 KS2 raised £1,558.69
For Your information We are endeavouring to update copies of any letters and event information to our website, so if you think you may have missed a letter or would like to find out when an event may be taking place please visit: www.stmichaelandstmartin.co.uk. If you can’t find what you’re looking for please contact the school office.
Science week! This week was Science Week and Healthy Eating week. The children took part in a variety of organised activities, including: Science workshops, smoothie making, a “wake and shake” exercise programme a scientific invention-designing competition and a Sports Mufti Day. A huge thank you to Miss Rowe for organising these wonderful activities, the children thoroughly enjoyed their week.
“Cosmic Cass was brilliant.” – Mahalla 2M “I loved doing all the scientific experiments during our workshop.” – Darius 2Me “My favourite thing about the week was doing the wake and shake dance every morning.” – Amber 1P
Feast of St Peter & St Paul On Wednesday 29th June is the Feast of St Peter & St Paul. As this is a holy day of obligation, we are expected to attend Mass. Due to Fr Derek’s workload, we are unable to have a Mass for the children at school, however there will be 3 masses at St Michael & St Martin’s Church that day – 7:15am, 9am and 6pm. If you would like you child to attend the 9am Mass, please let us know as this will be marked as an authorised absence for them. Year 6 Leavers Disco A huge ‘THANK YOU’ to those families who have made their payment for this. 3 letters have been sent home via your children outlining plans for this evening. The monies for this are being collect via ParentPay, if you have any difficulties please contact either Mrs Childs or Mrs O’Neill. If you have any hats, feather boas, extra-large glasses, props etc; which could be used for our photo booth we would be most grateful to receive these. We look forward to a fun packed evening for our children. British Armed Forces Day New Lunch Menu Our new lunch menus were sent home with the children on Thursday. For your information this will commence on Tuesday 21st June 2016 as supplies have already been purchased for Monday’s lunches. We hope that the children enjoy the changes made.
To coincide with this day we will be holding a Themed Lunch Menu on Thursday 23th June 2016. Lunch will consist of : British Pork Bangers with Mashed Potato and Baked Beans Vegetarian Cornish Pasty Jacket Potatoes with Cheese and Baked Beans Iced current Buns - dessert
Year 6 PLG trip Our Year 6 children will be leaving on Friday 24th at approximately 10am for their PGL Trip to Osmington Bay, Weymouth. Cases should be bought into school on the morning or the evening of Thursday 23rd June. They should be given to a member of Year 6 at the Large Hall Fire Exit. May we also remind you that children’s cases should be small due to the space available on the coach. Children will return to school at approximately 5.30pm on Monday 27th June 2016 – traffic permitting. We wish them a safe and happy trip and look forward to hearing all about their adventures on their return!
Summer Fete – Friday 1st July 2016 This will be a mufti day – details and requests for donations for this day were sent out in a letter this week: Members of the PTA will be available on Thursday the 30th June 2016 to collect your donations at the school gates. Years 5 & 6 Alcoholic Bottles (Adults Tombola) Years 3 & 4 Fizzy drinks - (Refreshments stall/Children’s tombola) Years 1 & 2 New Toys (Children’s Tombola) – Poundland Reception & Nursery Individually wrapped / packets of sweets (Tuck Shop Stall) We will also be holding a Talent Contest during the fete. If your child is interested in participating in this please complete and return your entry slip along with the payment to the School Office. If you have not received the letter regarding the fete please visit the school website where you can view this.
Year 1 Trip to Birdworld – Tuesday 21st June 2016
Year 5 – RE Retreat
Thank you to those families who have paid for this trip. If you have not yet paid these monies we would ask you to do so as soon as possible. Please ensure that all children have a healthy packed lunch along with a supply of water and snack. Please also ensure that if the day is sunny that you apply sun lotion before school and that your child has a sun hat. If the weather forecast shows less sunny conditions please ensure that your child has a rain coat. We hope that the children have a wonderful day and look forward to hearing about their journey.
This trip will take place on Friday 24th June 2016. Children are not required to wear uniform on this day and should arrive at school for 8am. Lunch is provided on this day. Please remember that children will return to school at approximately 5 – 5.30pm – traffic
permitting.
We hope that the children enjoy this spiritual journey and look forward to hearing what they have learnt.
Reflection
Lord, let my faith be full and unreserved, and let it penetrate my thought, my way of judging Divine things and human things. Lord, let my faith be joyful and give peace and gladness to my spirit, and dispose it for prayer with God and conversation with men, so that the inner bliss of its fortunate possession may shine forth in sacred and secular conversation. Lord, let my faith be humble and not presume to be based on the experience of my thought and of my feeling; but let it surrender to the testimony of the Holy Spirit, and not have any better guarantee than in docility to Tradition and to the authority of the magisterium of the Holy Church.
Amen
NURSERY Meeting – Commencing School in September 2016 This meeting will take place Tuesday 21st June 2016 at 2pm in our Large School Hall. We look forward to welcoming parents / carers into school at this time. Year 2 Trip to Whipsnade On Thursday, Year 2 went on an amazing trip to Whipsnade Zoo. My favourite animals were the lions and the tigers. I especially enjoyed the sea lion show, they were so clever and acrobatic! We were especially lucky as it didn’t rain once all day. Anetta 2M
Mrs. N. Duggan
Dates for your diary:
Mrs Duggan Weekly Message
21st June – Nursery talk for parents commencing
We have had a great Science and Healthy Eating Week. The children have enjoyed all the activities and I even got to sample one of the smoothies! There are still four very busy weeks until the end of term, please make sure the children attend school in the complete uniform. Wishing you a very happy weekend.
Sept 16
2:00pm
21st June – Year 1 school trip to Beale Park 9:15am 22nd June – Reception talk for parents commencing Sept 16 1:45pm
23rd June – Nursery Sports Day 24th June – Year 5 Retreat to St. Cassian’s Kintbury 24th June – Year 6 trip to Osmington Bay 27th June – Yr 6 return from Osmington Bay 29th June – Year 5 to 6 transition meeting 2:30pm 30th June – KS1 Sports Day 9:30am 30th June – Year 2 – 3 Transition meeting 2:30pm 1st July – School Fete (After school) 1st July – Nursery open for new pupils 9:30 – 10:30am 4th July - KS2 Sports Day Osterley Sports Centre 10:00am
5th July – Open Day 9:30 – 11:30am / 1:30 – 3:00pm 7th July – Year 6 Production 1:45pm 8th July – Year 6 Production 6:30pm 11th July – Year 6 leavers Mass 10:00am 12th July – Ten Ten theatre group in school 15th July – School closes for the summer 1:30pm
Term Dates: Monday 6th June 2016 – Friday 15th July 2016
(1.30pm close)
Children return to school on Wednesday 7th September 2016 – EXCEPT NURSERY AND RECEPTION CLASSES Wednesday 7th September 2016 – Thursday 15th October 2016 (3:15pm close) Monday 31st October 2016 – Wednesday 21st December 2016 (1:30pm close)
Best wishes Nicola Duggan Headteacher A Reminder Please If you child is riding a bike or scooter into school they must wear a safety helmet. Mrsis Duggan It of great concern the number of children not Head Teacher doing so at present. Please be mindful of their safety and ensure that they are properly protected. Once again this week children have been seen riding into school without helmets. Thank you for your kind consideration in this matter. Please Remember May we please remind all parents / carers that children are not permitted to use any of the equipment outside Nursery and Reception before or after school. This also applies to children playing on or around the Amphitheatre steps and Adobe hut also basketballs or the nets in the junior playground. All equipment and teaching areas are only to be used under supervision by school staff in line with safeguarding procedures. Thank you for your support with this matter.
School Fete: Please watch out for more information regarding this year’s school fete. Your help and support with this is much appreciated.
Tweet Tweet Orleans House Gallery Bird design competition Well done to all the children who entered the bird designing competition for the Tweet Tweet borough competition run by Orleans House Gallery. There were over 1,000 entries in total and all the entries from St Michael and St Martin children were outstanding. Special commendations were given to the following children and their work will be displayed in the Gallery’s exhibition and on their website: Mahalla – 2M Trisha – 2M Ashleyn – 2Me Jordan – 2Me Well done!
Nursery News Our morning and aftgernoon children have been busy following the steps to the Wake and Shake program. They have been learning about how important it is to eat healthily and to exercise to stay fit. Thanks, Nursery Team
Dinner Money Dinner money for this half term’s dinners will be £40.00 (Monday 20th June – Friday 15th July.) To enable us to complete our year end process we would ask you to ensure that your dinner money account remains in credit throughout the next half term. This is especially important for Year 6 children who will be leaving us. Thank you in anticipation for your assistance in this matter. Please also note that when you use the ’Top Up My Account’ facility on ParentPay you must allocate your money to your dinner money account. If you have any problems with your ParentPay account, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Fashion haircuts It has been noted that several children are coming into school with shaved hair or sections of hair. This is not acceptable. If you are uncertain please refer to the school uniform policy which can be found on the school website. Please ensure that all children adhere to the policy at all times. Warm Weather Please ensure that your child has a green sun hat – clearly labelled with their name and class and a water bottle each day. It is very important that they remain hydrated and are able to enjoy being outside. Please remember to apply sun cream before your child arrives at school as we are not permitted to do this. First Holy Communions Please also keep in your prayers all our children who are making their final preparations to receive Christ for the first time at their First Holy Communions. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all at this wonderfully special time.
Sickness Please remember that if your child has a vomiting bug they must stay away from school for 48 hours.
Sponsored Spell
Governors Fund Request
As part of Book Week all children from ReceptionYear 6 took part in our annual Sponsored Spell. All pupils were busy learning challenging spellings and many of you were sponsored by your family and friends. A big thank you to all children who took part and raised money for our school! All of the money raised will go towards purchasing some lovely new books for our libraries and book corners. Congratulations to the following children who raised the most money in their year groups: Reception- James Jacob and Liam MascarenhasGahlen Year 1- Onome Ayigbe and Gabriel Briones Year 2- Sophie Nunes and Jaiden Marklew Year 3 Raphaelle Briones and Sophie Carrasco Year 4-Sanmi Owolabi and Leslie Lemaire Year 5- Hannah Man and Kyle Ferrer Year 6 Carolina Perello- Javar and Carlos Cabillan
Collection of these monies via our ParentPay webpage continues and we would once again like to thank those families who have made this year’s contribution. If you have not yet seen this request letter please visit our website where you can find it by choosing the ‘News and Events’ heading, then clicking into the subpage ‘letter’ followed by ‘Whole School Letters’. This letter can also be found under the ‘Meet the Governors’ subpage also. Should you require a barcode to enable you to pay these monies at your local PayPoint Shop; these can be created if you advise the office. Please do not use your dinner money barcode to pay these monies. Your kind consideration to this request is much appreciated.
A huge congratulations to Darius Dias (2Me) for raising the most money in the school! KS1 raised £2,055.80 KS2 raised £1,558.69
For Your information We are endeavouring to update copies of any letters and event information to our website, so if you think you may have missed a letter or would like to find out when an event may be taking place please visit: www.stmichaelandstmartin.co.uk. If you can’t find what you’re looking for please contact the school office.
Science week! This week was Science Week and Healthy Eating week. The children took part in a variety of organised activities, including: Science workshops, smoothie making, a “wake and shake” exercise programme a scientific invention-designing competition and a Sports Mufti Day. A huge thank you to Miss Rowe for organising these wonderful activities, the children thoroughly enjoyed their week.
“Cosmic Cass was brilliant.” – Mahalla 2M “I loved doing all the scientific experiments during our workshop.” – Darius 2Me “My favourite thing about the week was doing the wake and shake dance every morning.” – Amber 1P
Feast of St Peter & St Paul On Wednesday 29th June is the Feast of St Peter & St Paul. As this is a holy day of obligation, we are expected to attend Mass. Due to Fr Derek’s workload, we are unable to have a Mass for the children at school, however there will be 3 masses at St Michael & St Martin’s Church that day – 7:15am, 9am and 6pm. If you would like you child to attend the 9am Mass, please let us know as this will be marked as an authorised absence for them. Year 6 Leavers Disco A huge ‘THANK YOU’ to those families who have made their payment for this. 3 letters have been sent home via your children outlining plans for this evening. The monies for this are being collect via ParentPay, if you have any difficulties please contact either Mrs Childs or Mrs O’Neill. If you have any hats, feather boas, extra-large glasses, props etc; which could be used for our photo booth we would be most grateful to receive these. We look forward to a fun packed evening for our children. British Armed Forces Day New Lunch Menu Our new lunch menus were sent home with the children on Thursday. For your information this will commence on Tuesday 21st June 2016 as supplies have already been purchased for Monday’s lunches. We hope that the children enjoy the changes made.
To coincide with this day we will be holding a Themed Lunch Menu on Thursday 23th June 2016. Lunch will consist of : British Pork Bangers with Mashed Potato and Baked Beans Vegetarian Cornish Pasty Jacket Potatoes with Cheese and Baked Beans Iced current Buns - dessert
Year 6 PLG trip Our Year 6 children will be leaving on Friday 24th at approximately 10am for their PGL Trip to Osmington Bay, Weymouth. Cases should be bought into school on the morning or the evening of Thursday 23rd June. They should be given to a member of Year 6 at the Large Hall Fire Exit. May we also remind you that children’s cases should be small due to the space available on the coach. Children will return to school at approximately 5.30pm on Monday 27th June 2016 – traffic permitting. We wish them a safe and happy trip and look forward to hearing all about their adventures on their return!
Summer Fete – Friday 1st July 2016 This will be a mufti day – details and requests for donations for this day were sent out in a letter this week: Members of the PTA will be available on Thursday the 30th June 2016 to collect your donations at the school gates. Years 5 & 6 Alcoholic Bottles (Adults Tombola) Years 3 & 4 Fizzy drinks - (Refreshments stall/Children’s tombola) Years 1 & 2 New Toys (Children’s Tombola) – Poundland Reception & Nursery Individually wrapped / packets of sweets (Tuck Shop Stall) We will also be holding a Talent Contest during the fete. If your child is interested in participating in this please complete and return your entry slip along with the payment to the School Office. If you have not received the letter regarding the fete please visit the school website where you can view this.
Year 1 Trip to Birdworld – Tuesday 21st June 2016
Year 5 – RE Retreat
Thank you to those families who have paid for this trip. If you have not yet paid these monies we would ask you to do so as soon as possible. Please ensure that all children have a healthy packed lunch along with a supply of water and snack. Please also ensure that if the day is sunny that you apply sun lotion before school and that your child has a sun hat. If the weather forecast shows less sunny conditions please ensure that your child has a rain coat. We hope that the children have a wonderful day and look forward to hearing about their journey.
This trip will take place on Friday 24th June 2016. Children are not required to wear uniform on this day and should arrive at school for 8am. Lunch is provided on this day. Please remember that children will return to school at approximately 5 – 5.30pm – traffic
permitting.
We hope that the children enjoy this spiritual journey and look forward to hearing what they have learnt.
Reflection
Lord, let my faith be full and unreserved, and let it penetrate my thought, my way of judging Divine things and human things. Lord, let my faith be joyful and give peace and gladness to my spirit, and dispose it for prayer with God and conversation with men, so that the inner bliss of its fortunate possession may shine forth in sacred and secular conversation. Lord, let my faith be humble and not presume to be based on the experience of my thought and of my feeling; but let it surrender to the testimony of the Holy Spirit, and not have any better guarantee than in docility to Tradition and to the authority of the magisterium of the Holy Church.
Amen
NURSERY Meeting – Commencing School in September 2016 This meeting will take place Tuesday 21st June 2016 at 2pm in our Large School Hall. We look forward to welcoming parents / carers into school at this time. Year 2 Trip to Whipsnade On Thursday, Year 2 went on an amazing trip to Whipsnade Zoo. My favourite animals were the lions and the tigers. I especially enjoyed the sea lion show, they were so clever and acrobatic! We were especially lucky as it didn’t rain once all day. Anetta 2M
