St Cecilia's News

Dear Parents and Carers,

It's that lovely time of the year when we look back at a rewarding and fruitful school year and look forward to a good break over the summer holiday from school routines.

I hope that you are ready for the summer holiday, just a few days to go.

Y6 Leavers' and End of Year Mass

We say goodbye to our Year 6 on Friday morning, starting with a Mass at St Cecilia's Church to be celebrated by Father Benedict. Years 4-6 will attend Mass, parents are most welcome, please sit towards to back of the Church and move forwards when we are all in!

Clapping out ceremony

We end the term with a Clapping Out Ceremony where we clap out Year 6 and Mr Caulfield and wish them well in their new adventures, at High School for the children and in Scotland for Mr Caulfield. You can join us for this at 1130 on Friday, just come through the blue gate near the Nursery and you will find us on the field and on the green playground. At the end of the clapping out the children are dismissed fairly quickly. We have an ice cream van on site for Y6 children only.

Academy delay

We have been informed today of a possible long delay to our academisation, whilst issues over land are decided by the lawyers. We will get there eventually! You will notice on the DFE website that we are "closing," - please do not worry, this is part of the academy change process as we gain our new identity as an academy school and change our status. We continue to work with the Trust in the meantime.

Sports Premium funding continues

We received good news from Government this week, Sports Premium funding is continuing next year, our after school provision and coaching can continue!

Farewells

We say farewell to our Year 6 children and families who leave us on Friday along with all the other children throughout the school who are moving house, for some of you quite a new adventure in far off lands. Some of our families have been here a very long time with several children of different ages, thanks for having faith in us and for being with us for so long!

We wish you all well and thank you for your time with us, we will have lovely memories of working with your children and with you as a family.

Best wishes to you all for a lovely summer holiday with your families, we look forward to welcoming the children back in September. Term dates and events for the next year are linked below and have been updated on our website.

Vince Burke
Headteacher

Congratulations to Year 6 on their marvellous SATs results, a great achievement after 7 years in primary school. They did exceptionally well in comparison to the national results, you can find full information on our national assessments webpage.

Our successful results show that our curriculum and standard of teaching are working well and that our children respond beautifully to their learning. Results will go up and down as the needs of year groups change, what is clear is that we have the capacity and capability to do very well.

We had our celebration for First Holy Communion last week. Father Benedict celebrated a lovely Mass for us, we had a great breakfast afterwards and a chance to catch up with the children on news of all their First Holy Communion celebrations in the different parishes, at home and abroad. Thanks to the PTA for their support with the breakfast and refreshments for parents, we all had a really special morning.

Congratulations to Y6 on a whimsical performance of Ye-Ha, a comedy set in a Wild West town. Joyous songs and beautiful performances made for a very engaging final primary school play.

We will happily take donations for good quality shoes and trainers for children in the Gambia Please make sure that they are in good useable and clean condition. It helps us if you tie them together somehow so that we do not lose them as a pair. Children may wear trainers for school next week if they have donated their shoes.

Please donate them in the shopping trolley near the school gates. Sorry, I forgot to put the trollies out this morning!

We are pleased to support this local project run by Mrs Carroll, a past parent at the school.

Year 6 are back from a wonderful week in Dorset, they were certainly very lucky with the sunny weather. They have been very busy with activities from breakfast to bedtime. A big thank you to all the staff who accompanied the group and to Y6 parents for their support for the residential, what a lovely experience they have to remember.

We welcome Miss Tunney to the Year 2 teaching team in September, she was with her new class the other day for the Meet the Teacher session, it will be lovely to have her as part of the team for the new school year.

There's lots of community news below, please keep reading.

London Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM3 9DL

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Childcare - childcare@stcecilias.school

Special educational needs - send@stcecilias.school

Admissions - admissions@stcecilias.school

Website www.stcecilias.school

Phone: 020 8337 4566

July

Tuesday 15th July - Year Ahead Meeting for Years 5&6

Thursday 17th - End of Year for Nursery

Friday 18th - 0930 Y6 Mass at St Cecilia's Church

Clapping Out Ceremony from 1130 or so, please join us on the field.

End of Year for Years R to 6 at Midday, no after school childcare

And finally... Summer!

September

Tuesday 2nd - School reopens for Years 1-6. A staggered start over a week for Nursery and Reception.

Monday 22nd - ECAs begin for Years 1-6

Monday 22nd - Y6 Bikeability courses begin

Wednesday 24th - Y5 Residential Camp

October

Thursday 2nd - Year 4 visit to Butser Farm

Friday 3rd - Y6 Young Shakespeare Workshop

Monday 13th - Y6 Young Citizenship Day - Sutton Library

Thursday 16th - Y1 Harvest Festival

Wednesday 22nd - Y1 Knights & Castles day

Monday 27th - Friday 31st October (Half Term)

November

Monday 3rd - School Closed INSET day, no childcare.

Thursday 6th - School Photographer for Yeas R to 6

Tuesday 18th November - Y3 Early Briton's Day

December

Tuesday 2nd - Y2 Discover Christmas

Thursday 11th - Y2 Nativity

Monday 15th - Christmas Lunch (Christmas Jumper Day)

Tuesday 16th - Class Christmas Party Day

Thursday 18th - End of term for Nursery

Friday 19th - School closes at Midday for Years R to 6 - no childcare after school, breakfast club as usual.

You can find our term dates for this year and next on our website, link for you below.