OLD CATTON NEWSLETTER
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Executive Headteacher:
Mrs. A. D. Best-White MA
Head of School Mrs. K. Connelly
Issue 15
Tuesday 5th January 2016
Dear Parents
Welcome back to January 2016. I hope you all had a
wonderful Christmas and I would like to wish all parents,
staff and children a very happy New Year – may it be a
brilliant one for us all. The Spring Term is now upon us
and I will be sending home a list of dates for the new
term next week. I know that the January start can be a
tough one after the festivities of December so we will
ease the children back into school as smoothly as we
possibly can. I look forward to seeing you all very soon.
All staff would like to say a huge thank you for all the
lovely gifts they received for Christmas from the
children. We are always overwhelmed by your
generosity and very thankful for your kind thoughts.
Stars of the Week!
Congratulations to the stars of the week. A wonderful
array of different reason for being brilliant!
(From the last week of the Autumn term.)
Caiden Saunders – 6E
Evan Arthur – 6E
Owen Tuttle – 6G
Cameron Walker – 6G
Abigail Scantlebury – 6S
Thomas Baker – 6S
Eli Wilshaw - 4E
Joshua Legg – 4E
Steven Sturman – 4W
Freya Chapman – 4W
Jack Parker – 3C
Daniel Lee – 3C
Reece Pleasance – 3H
Ben Coe – 3H
Golden Book
The following pupils have had Wow moments to be
proud of, impressing their teachers and amazing their
peers with special moments of brilliance. Well done!
(From the last week of the Autumn term.)
Katie Horrex
Jack Morris
Lottie Sanderson
Ella Murray
Mahtab Rahmen
Jack Parker
Swimmers!
Well done to the following swimmers for achieving these
distances before Christmas.
10m – Aleta Castelino
25m – Luke Copping
The Nebula Partnership
Christmas Play Timings - Feedback
Thank you very much to those of you who returned the
letter regarding feedback about the Christmas Play
timings for next year. If you still have it lurking about and
would like have your say please send it in with your child
and I can add it to the pile I already have. I really want to
be able to act on the majority feedback for next year in
order to improve things and take on board your opinions.
So don’t delay and have your say!
Clubs Starting Next Week
 Gymnastics Club for years 3 and 4 only –
Monday 3:20pm-4:20pm – starting on Monday
11th January.
 Dance Club for any year group – Tuesday
3:15pm-4:15pm – starting Tuesday 12th
January.
 Italian Club for any year group – Thursday
3:15pm-4:15pm – starting Thursday 7th
January.
Art Club for any year group – Tuesday 3:15pm-4:30pm
(Letters will be coming out for Art Club this week.)
Your child should have brought home a slip before
Christmas to say if they had a place on the Gymnastics,
Dance or Italian Clubs which will start on the dates listed
above. Art Club letters will be sent home this week.
Please return them to Miss Cooper so that she can
organise names for this term.
Italian Club – Miss Emrick
I have been inundated with reply slips for the Spring
Term Italian Club and while I would love to have all of
you in the lessons, it would unfortunately be too big.
With this in mind, I have picked the first 20 reply slips to
attend Italian Club during the Spring Term and I will put
the remainder on the list for Summer. I have sent a letter
to those who will be attending during this term so if you
haven't received a letter, it means that you are on the list
for the summer. Apologies again and many thanks for
the interest in Italian Club.
Mrs Wright’s Maths App of the Week
Math lite - Some games involving simple calculations
and ordering numbers.
TALK HOMEWORK &
‘WOW’ WORDS
Each week we send a Talk Homework
activity and ‘Wow’ Words home and we
would be very grateful for your support.
We are trying to help all our children develop excellent
speaking and listening skills, which in turn will help them
with their writing. “If a child can’t say a sentence then
they can’t write it either!”
Please spend at least 10 minutes talking with your child
about the questions below;
The floods in areas of the UK over the Christmas
period have been terrible to see. Families have had
to leave their homes, abandon Christmas plans and
then return to see their beloved homes ruined by
flood waters. If you had to rescue 3 possessions
from your home what would they be and why? Ask
your family members what their possessions would
be – are they different to yours or similar?
(valued, treasured, prized, favourite, dear,
dearest, beloved, darling, adored, loved, special,
esteemed, worth its weight in gold, revered,
venerated, hallowed)
In Big Talk, we use ‘WOW’ Words to improve our
vocabulary and ‘big up’ our sentences to make them
more interesting!
Our ‘WOW’ Word this week is;
cherished
Please encourage your child to use this word,
in the right context, as much as possible.
 The ‘Talk Homework’ and ‘WOW’ words will be
set every Monday in the newsletter; children
will then share their ‘Talk’ with their class on
a Friday afternoon.
 We will encourage the children to use the
WOW word throughout the week.
Thank you for your support in helping your child.
Please do not hesitate to come into school and speak to
me or another member of staff if you have any questions
or concerns. Have a great week!
Mrs K Connelly.
The Nebula Partnership
The Nebula Partnership