St Cecilia's News

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you all for coming along to our Parent Teacher meetings over the past few weeks, it was good to see so many of you there, we had a 96% attendance over the two evenings. Mrs Martin and I had a lovely two evenings welcoming you all and having a good catch up, often it is so busy at the school gates when we are on duty. Combined with the assessment data report from Arbor, we hope that you have received a good update on your child's progress.

Don't forget that you can find past reports, assessment and attendance data on the Arbor App.

Next week we have Holy Week when we remember Christ's death and resurrection.

We are very grateful to Year 5 pupils and the teaching team who marked the end of our Lenten preparation in school with a solemn but beautiful walking Stations of the Cross, pictured above. With lovely actions, reading and chants we walked around the school grounds bringing the Easter story alive in the minds of the school community.

Don't forget. we close at Midday tomorrow for the end of the Spring Term.

The staff and I wish you a very blessed Easter, we look forward to seeing you back in school on Monday 13 April.

Vince Burke

Headteacher

We hope that you had a Blessed Eid, apologies for our tardiness in sending best wishes!

Our school community is delighted to celebrate achieving the Participator Level of the Oscar Romero Award, recognising our strong commitment to living out Catholic Social Teaching in daily school life. This award highlights the dedication of our pupils, staff, and wider community to values such as justice, dignity, and solidarity.

To mark this special milestone, members of the School Council attended Mass at the Cathedral today, where they joined Archbishop John Wilson in celebration. It was a meaningful opportunity for our pupils to reflect on their role as active participants in creating a more just and compassionate world.

We are incredibly proud of this achievement, which affirms the positive impact of our collective efforts. As we look ahead, we remain committed to deepening our understanding and practice of Catholic Social Teaching across all aspects of school life and our work towards Developer level of the award.

Many thanks to Emma Scripps, Assistant Head for leading our work in this area.

We saw Father Rob, our previous Parish Priest, he is looking well and concelebrated Mass today, he send his love and best wishes to everyone. It was lovely to see him so settled into Cathedral life.

We are joined in the photo above by Michael Feely, CEO and Colette Doran-Hannon, Diocesan Schools Commissioner.

Sports Day has been booked for Thursday 25th June. Children in Years 1 to 6 will need to go straight to the David Weir Sports Centre. Gates to the track will open at 0840. Parking for parents will be available on the field opposite, it's best to allow some additional time as roads around the centre can be very busy during the start and end of the school day.

School will be open for Nursery and Reception children only on that day, siblings from these classes are welcome to attend Sports day with their parents.

Please remember that your child should:

• be in PE kit with a house colour shirt and a baseball cap
• have a bag with a water bottle and sun cream
• have a packed lunch unless you have ordered one from the school (no nuts as always!)

We do not mind some tribal face paint in house colours etc, it's a fun day!

Please join us for the picnic in the middle of the day, bring lunch with you, your child may join you, however children must not leave the venue or go upstairs into the cafe.

Adults will be issued with a security bracelet which will be checked at the entry gate.

We will have lots more information nearer the time but thought some initial information now will help parents to organise their schedules!

The PTA have their Annual General Meeting on Friday 17th April at 9am. Please drop your child(ren) off and come around to the library for the meeting.

Many of our existing core committee members leave us this year as their children are in Year 6.

Please have a look at the document below which outlines the different roles available on the PTA, it would be great to have some volunteers to support their vital work in school.

Please check the diary dates for the summer term below, lots of exciting events coming up.

If you have any links to Science it would be great to hear from you about how we can use your knowledge and talents during the UK Great Science Share which starts on 15 June. Please reach out to Mr Morris, Subject Leader for Science via the school office email - office@stcecilias.school

As we are now part of the Sancta Familia Trust we have revised our term dates and staff training days in order to provide commonality of approach across the Trust. We have attached them for you below as a pdf.

Swimming lessons available locally through Colin Bull swimming. Leaflet below.

London Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM3 9DL

Contact us:

General queries - office@stcecilias.school

Report an absence - absence@stcecilias.school

Anything finance - finance@stcecilias.school

Extra Curricular Activity booking - eca@stcecilias.school

Childcare - childcare@stcecilias.school

Special educational needs - send@stcecilias.school

Admissions - admissions@stcecilias.school

Website www.stcecilias.school

Phone: 020 8337 4566

April

Monday 13 April - Summer term begins

Thursday 16th - National Offer Day - Reception places for September 2026 confirmed.

Monday 20th - Y3 Swimming begins

Wednesday 22 April - Earth Day

Thursday 23 April - Reception Height and Weight check

Thursday 30th - AirMazing Air Quality Day

May

Monday 4th - Y3 St Monica Mission Week

Thursday 7th - Crowning of Our Lady's statue - flower dontations welcome

Monday 11th - Year 6 SATs Week

Tuesday 19th - Year 5 Tower of London visit

Thursday 21st - Year 3 Kew Gardens visit

Monday 25th - Friday 29th May half term

June

Thursday 4th - Year 1 visit to the Look Out Centre, Bracknell.

Thursday 4th - Sporting event at St Elphege's School - details later

Monday 8th - Year 6 residential

Monday 8th Year 5 St John Bosco Mission Week assembly

Thursday 11th - Year 4 Greek Workshop

Monday 15th - UK Great Science Share week begins

Tuesday 16th - Great Science Fair

Thursday 18th - Science Day in classes

Thursday 18th - Year 5 visit to Wintershall

Friday 19th - Year 5 Science Day

Wednesday 24th June - Year 6 Mass at the Cathedral

Thursday 25th - Sports Day for Years 1-6 at the David Weir Centre

Friday 26th - School closed for staff training

Tuesday 30th - Going Forth Holy Communion Mass with Father Benedict

July

Wednesday 1st - Year 6 Secondary Induction Day

Monday 6th - Year 2 St Thomas More assembly and Mission Week begins

Thursday 9th - Reception Year visit to Bocketts farm

Friday 10th - Annual Reports published

Wednesday 15th - End of term for Nursery Class

Thursday 16th - End of Term Years R to 6, school closes at Midday.

• Y6 Leavers Mass at St Cecilia's Church at 0930
• Clapping Out Ceremony on the school field from 1135 - all parents welcome to join us to clap out our Year 6 pupils.
• School closes at midday.

Summer begins!