Our Lady s Catholic, Alcester. Newsletter United together as one family in Christ.

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1 Our Lady s Catholic, Alcester Newsletter United together as one family in Christ. Almighty ever-living God, we humbly implore your majesty that, just as your Only Begotten Son was presented on this day in the Temple in the substance of our flesh, so, by your grace, we may be presented to you with minds made pure. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever We welcome families, friends and parishioners to our school mass to celebrate the Feast of The Presentation of the Lord. Thursday 2nd February 10am, (in school).

2 In year 5/6 this week we have looked at the different features of a river in topic. In maths year 5 have been looking at multiplication and division. In English we have planned our persuasive letter to encourage stricter laws to help stop pollution of rivers. Children came up with some fantastic reasons. Reception have been busy looking at a painting of a castle by Paul Klee. We drew the horizon and then used squares, rectangles and triangles to create a castle. We coloured them in with oil pastels and chalks. Here is the original and Isaac s masterpiece. This week in year 1 and 2, we have been learning about multiplication in maths. We have been looking for, using and building arrays. This week in year 3/4 something terrible has happened! The Iron giant has returned! The children thought about how they would feel if they saw the Iron giant and how they would try and capture him. Then he took our class bunny Flopsy! We had great fun doing drama to help us with our writing and now we are planning newspaper reports to tell everyone what has happened.

3 Mrs Elmes enjoying her last day at school before her maternity leave.

4 GOLD AWARDS In our Celebration assembly the following children received Star of the week certificates. All of Reception for making Mrs Elmes proud. Grace Year 1 for fantastic attitude to learning and getting on with her work. Jasmine Year 2 for using a range of adjectives in her wanted poster to describe the wolf. Kieran Year 3 for amazing thinking in English. Katherine Year 4 for excellent maths work. Cairan Year 5 for improved hand writing and effort in all lessons. Matthew Year 6 for challenging himself in maths. HOUSE OF THE WEEK ST ANTHONY We are now very luck to have the flute teacher Alice Baxendale teach her lessons at Our Lady s on a Wednesday instead of at St. Nicholas. If anyone is interested in their child learning the flute from year 2 upwards please contact the office for further information. REMINDER SWIMMING YEAR 3 AND 4 WILL BE SWIMMING FROM JANU- ARY 2018 SWIMMING STARTS WEEK BEGINNING Please can you keep children off for 48 hours after experiencing sickness or diarrhoea. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter. Reminders Can you please ensure that your child/ren do not play on the playground equipment after school. Many thanks. We would like to remind you that dogs are NOT ALLOWED PAST THE SCHOOL GATE. Thank you for your co-operation. CLUBS-SPRING TERM STARTING WEEK BEGINNING TO WEEK BEGINNING Monday Football Reception, year 1 and 2 Go-Pro Elite Monday Dance Years 2,3,4,5 & 6 Miss Gillson Tuesday Netball Years 3,4,5 & 6 Mrs Hastie Tuesday Multiskills Reception, year 1 and 2 Go-Pro Elite Wednesday Drama/Story telling Reception, year 1 and 2 Miss Rowe/Miss Lee Wednesday Photography Years 3,4,5 & 6 Mrs Crawley Thursday Cheerleading Reception, year 1 and 2 Go-Pro Elite Thursday Football Years 3,4,5 & 6 Go-Pro Elite

5 Dates for the diary. January Mass in church New Year 10.30am, all welcome Trip to Shakesspeares House years Years 5 and 6 February Candlemas School, 10am, all welcome Trip to Shakespeares House years 3,4,5 and Year 1 and 2 Assembly 2.45pm Cross Country 11am Town Pancake Races, years 3,4,5 & 6 from 12.30pm onwards Ash Wednesday Mass 10am Disco Break up Teacher Education Day, no children in school Back to school Year 2 and Year 6 SATs information Evening at 6pm. April Back to school Photos Parent s Evening, 4pm-7pm Parent s Evening, 4pm-7pm May Bikeability year 5, 9-3pm Mass, 9.15am Bikeability year 5, 9-3pm May procession/crowning of Mary SATs week EYFS Assembly 2.45pm Break up for half term Teacher Education Day, no pupils in school. 28.5/ Half term June Back to school / Pioneer Centre Year New Parent s Evening 6pm Mass in school 9.15am Parish Barn Dance July March Bikeability year 6, 9-3pm Cross Country The Croft Bikeability year 6, 9-3pm Leavers mass in church 10am Sports Day pm Year 6 Leavers Assembly Break up for holidays st Confessions 11.45am Mother s Day Mass 10.30am St Patrick s Day Dance, pm Year 5 and 6 Assembly 2.45pm Confessions 10.30am Break up for Easter