St Cecilia's News

Dear Parents,

Happy St George's Day!

I hope that you had a lovely Easter break, it was a shame that it was so cold. It's lovely to see that we have a sense of normality returning to life at the moment with shops and leisure activities gradually returning. In school we are maintaining our current bubble system and disinfection regimes, I imagine that these will remain until the end of the summer term.

As wider society returns to normal operation, we are hoping to have some of our traditional events towards the end of term and will keep these in view as we wait for the Government to ease lockdown restrictions. If restrictions do ease we hope that the Y6 Play, Sports Day, Reception parent welcome meetings and the End of Year Mass will continue as usual with some modifications for additional safety measures. We will have to wait and see what is announced on the roadmap to recovery.

I'm glad to be back at work after my accident, thanks for all the emails and Dojo messages. Whilst I have permanently lost some flexibility of my right hand it is getting better each day.

I look forward to seeing you at some of the summer term events below, fingers crossed the pandemic road map continues as planned.

We have our Parent Teacher Meetings on Tuesday 11th May and Thursday 13th May. The booking system for these meetings will go live tonight at 6.30pm. Parent Teacher meetings will take place via video link, please follow the links in the emails that are sent to you when booking. We look forward to the return of in-person meetings in the Autumn!

Please book just one meeting per child unless parents are separated in which case we quite understand that a second booking may be required. Where parents reside in one household please make one booking per child.

You can access the system through the link below. remember to sign in with your name as it is shown on the Pupil Asset school database system. Quite often families with hyphenated names can encounter difficulty. Please contact us if you have any difficulty through office@stcecilias.school, we will keep an eye on emails over the weekend so that we can help you.

Following our consultation programme, we have changed our uniform provider from Clothesline to Price and Buckland. They are a national company based in Nottingham and will provide the service through their online shop.

You can access the shop through the link below.

The introduction of the new uniform has been delayed by the pandemic however the shop has now gone live online. We have made some changes to the options available to boys and girls and will be sending home a leaflet which makes our policy clear, we are currently ordering uniform and arranging for the brochure to be compiled.

We have chosen a new sports shirt (available from June) and shorts which more clearly reflect our house colour system, they will also look very smart when we compete with other schools. When ordering your house shirt it is important to order the right colour as we balance the number of children in each house across each year group. Children in reception classes will be placed into their house groups over the coming weeks. We always place siblings in the same house.

We would advise parents to wait for our uniform brochure before placing an order, however if you have an urgent need for a uniform item please use the link below. We will also provide links to other high street stores and supermarkets for non-badged uniform items.

Full implementation

We ask that all children are in the new uniform by April 2023, children can still wear our current uniform until that time.

Now that the school has returned to full attendance we need to revise the end of term arrangements.

As advised previously, Monday 14 June is a staff training day and the school is closed.

The end of term is now Wednesday 21 July at midday for Years R to 6.

The end of term for Nursery will be Tuesday 20 July.

We are working to include some additional activities for year 6 pupils to mark the end of their primary education, I will be writing to year 6 parents next week about what we can offer, we are currently connecting with various providers.

We had the National Primary Offer day during the Easter holiday, congratulations to all our Nursery parents who received a place for their child in the school. We have to wait now for parents to accept their place, we hear about this acceptance from Sutton first and then have to wait for other neighbouring boroughs to update the system. Once all the notifications have been received in late May we will start to communicate with families regarding admission arrangements.

Our Reception 2021 welcome meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 29 June at 6.30pm. We hope that this will be in the school hall, we will also make it available virtually for those who may still be shielding.

Children in Years 2-6 have undertaken PUMA and PIRA assessments to provide information from standardised assessments, this data forms part of the picture when assessing progress. We are working with Pupil Asset to include this data on their system and will let you know when the data is ready for you to view on your app.

On your marks, get set …… GO!

We are participating in Sustrans Big Pedal 2021, the UK’s largest inter-school cycling, walking and scooting challenge. We shall take part next week from 26 – 30 April and are looking to have as many of us as possible from our school to be involved.

On each day of the challenge, schools compete to see who can record the greatest number of pupils, staff and parents who either cycle, scoot or walk to school. By taking part, our school will enter a draw to win some great prizes!

The Big Pedal 2021 is a great way to get more of our pupils travelling actively to school and is a simple way to boost their physical and mental health. It is also a good chance for us to help our pupils to understand the importance of environmentally-friendly travel.

All you need to do is encourage your child(ren) to cycle, walk or scoot to school on as many days as possible during next week, and if you can, join them on their way. Please remind your children about bicycle safety, including the use of a helmet.

We hope to see everyone travelling safely in their family bubbles and that the weather stays dry.

The Sustrans have additional activities which you can complete at home as a family. These activities are on the web link below.

On Tuesday 27th April, Year 6 will be watching a live video presentation and taking part in a virtual workshop delivered by the TfL Safety and Citizenship team that will inform them about active, responsible and safe travel. The presentation aims to help pupils prepare for challenges they may face as they become young adults when travelling on buses and trains and covers topics such as planning journeys, keeping safe, getting help, Zip Oyster Cards and being responsible and the health and environmental benefits of walking and cycling.

London Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM3 9DL

Email: office@stcecilias.school
Website: www.stcecilias.school
Phone: 020 8337 4566