14th June, 2024

Dear Parents / Carers

Please read on to find out more about what has been happening at Cardinal Newman this week and to see what is coming up in the future!

Have a lovely weekend. 

Catherine Burnham

Executive Headteacher

Governors’ Fund classroom iPad appeal

Technology in schools has become a staple used in everyday teaching and learning activities.  It is important that children develop their technological literacy and become comfortable using a variety of instructional materials, tools and programs for their own learning that will help prepare them for secondary school and life beyond.

We are blessed to have a dedicated ICT suite of desktop computers for the teaching of ICT as a curriculum subject but the school would benefit greatly from the opportunity to enhance its technology provision in classrooms to help develop the children’s skills in cross-curricular situations through other subjects. 

Our next focus is to support the school in purchasing 30 new 10th generation iPads (together with anti-shock cases for protection).  This will enable a whole class to work, communicate and collaborate through digital means on a 1:1 basis and will be something available for all year groups to use.

As you will appreciate, keeping up with the latest technology is a costly process and is not something that schools are able to do easily in the current climate of funding squeezes and significant cost pressures.  We would be extremely grateful for any donations you feel able to give towards this worthwhile project, which you can make easily online here.  Thank you for your support.

Mobile phone use onsite

Please can we kindly remind you mobile phones should not be used onsite for safeguarding reasons. Thank you for your co-operation.

News

Sports Day

We are looking forward to sharing our children's sporting achievements with all of you on Sports Day on Friday 21st June.

Children will compete in their house colours and every child will have the opportunity to shine as they each participate in both novelty and running races through the morning. Parents / grandparents / godparents and friends are warmly invited to join us and enjoy the fun!

Timings will be roughly the same as last year:

9am - approx 10:30am - Key Stage 2 Sports Day

10:45am - approx 12 noon - Reception and Key Stage 1 Sports Day

After Sports Day, children will return to their classrooms for afternoon register and packed lunches can be provided by the school kitchen for those who would like them. Collection will be from 12.30pm from the classroom doors like at the end of the day.

As usual, we will operate a soft release on Sports Day afternoon, so children will be free to go once Sports Day has completely finished; in previous years this has been warmly welcomed by families as an opportunity either to picnic in the park, to have an afternoon out or to make an early getaway for a weekend trip! Staff will be in school as usual through the afternoon and any children who remain in school will be looked after until the end of the day.

Parking on Arch Road

Parking in the roads around the school can be very difficult and we ask parents not to park on Arch Road during school arrival and departure times. There is free parking at Coronation Recreation Ground with a short traffic free walk to the school.

An excellent way to avoid the congestion and park just a short walk from the school is to get a parking permit for the Hersham Station car park in Walton Park.  It's completely free and is valid for morning drop off and afternoon pick up times.

To apply for a parking permit, please email the office with your name, address and car registration number. These details will be forwarded to Elmbridge Borough Council who will then post the permit directly to your home address. Thank you for your co-operation. 

AIM Maths Day

On Tuesday 11th June, six children from Year 5 spent the day working through a range of activities to help challenge and push their maths understanding with specialist Jean Knapp and pupils from local schools.  The workshop was interactive, fun and challenging giving the children opportunities to work collaboratively on investigations such as measuring trees in the school grounds!  

14 Jun 2024
District Sports
Well done to all the children who represented the school at district sports this week-you were amazing! For more photos click here.
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Amethyst Class - Forest School
Amethyst had their last Forest School session at Cardinal Newman this week! They took part in a plastic in the oceans workshop, identifying plastics in the environment, litter picking and making their own river models to show the movement of plastics to the ocean. They then had free time and they re...
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Brooklands Museum - School Membership card

Please note the card is now booked up until the Summer holidays but if you would like to go on a waiting list, please contact the office.  If you have booked the card and are no longer able to make that date, please let the office know.

For more information about the museum, please visit www.brooklandsmuseum.com 

National Online Safety: Wake Up Wednesday Guides for Parents 

We would like to make you aware of our ‘online safety’ advice, guidance and support page called ‘Wake Up Wednesday - what parents / carers need to know’.

Wake Up Wednesday, created by The National College, aims to inform parents and carers on topics such as social media platforms, gaming, and IPad security. They include top tips, important reminders and reality checks on a wide range of online safety topics. They are a great resource to keep up to date with the issues children may encounter. 

We will post relevant articles of interest that should help you and your child here on our website.

We thank you for your ongoing support in assuring the safety of our pupils online.  

Eco Committee

 

Fitness Session on the Field

Well done to all the children who took part in our fitness session on the field on Tuesday. It was great to see lots of Year 6 and Year 1 children  playing an enthusiastic game of stuck in the mud! The Commitee did a great job in running the session and hopefully we can run more frequent sessions in the future.

 

Plastic Stationary Collection

Any broken rulers, dried up pens or empty glue sticks? Please bring it to the yellow bin outside Violet Class for Recyling. We will take the bin to the Eco Hub for Recyling. This is part of our Marine project.

 

Spare Plants

Any spare plants at home? Please donate to the Eco Committee so we can sell them at the Summer Fayre to raise money for sensory plants for the prayer garden. So far we have sunflowers and runner bean plants which we have grown from  seed. This is also part of our Healthy Living project.

 

 

Vacancies

Teach Southeast Teacher training

Train to teach with outstanding ITT provider Xavier Teach Southeast. 

Take a moment to flick through XTSE's prospectus here or watch some of our 'success stories' here. 

Follow XTSE on social media to find out about more events, or just pick up the phone today to the Xavier Teach SouthEast team on 01932 578 682 or email j.crome@xaviercet.org.uk 

Xavier Catholic Education Trust Vacancies

To find out more about vacancies within the Xavier Catholic Education Trust, please click here

Parents Association Notes

To contact the PA, please email: PA@cardinalnewmanschool.co.uk  

Year 3 Cake Sale

Thank you for your support with this today

 

Sweets Tombola

The sweets tombola collection will take place on 28th June for the summer fair. Please bring in sweets on that day. This will be a mufti day.

 

 

 

 

Bottle Tombola

 

The bottle Tombola collection will take place on 5th July for the summer fair.   Please bring in a bottle on that day. This will be a mufti day.

 

 

 

 

The Summer fair will take place on Sunday 7th July, 2024 11.00 am - 3.00 pm. More information to follow.

St Barnabas Youth Club

Summer Clubs April 2024

External Run Clubs Summer Term 2024

Please see details of external clubs here.

Teacher led Clubs Summer Term 2024

Please see details of teacher led clubs here.

 

New! Gaelic Football Club - Please click here for more information.

After Crafts - Please find flyer here.

Ballet - For more information, please click here

Chess Club - Please book via Scopay. 

Code camp - Please see flyer here

Engineering club - Please find flyer here

Footbellas Girls Football Club - Please find flyer here.

French Club - Please find flyer here

Irish Dancing - Please email lgsoid@hotmail.co.uk

iRock  - Please find flyer here

Judo class - Please contact Diane Capon on 07960 699 077 or email diane.capon@sky.com

Mini Dance Performers - Please click here for more information

MTech - an extracurricular music technology and creative composition course for children aged 7-13. For the flyer click here.

Spanish club - Please find flyer here

Tae Kwon Do - For Year 2-6. Please find flyer here.

Ukulele club - Please book via Scopay. Dates this term are 

April 24th
May 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd
June 26th
July 3rd, 10th

Please click here for more information. 

Planet Soccer - Please click here for more information. 

Homework Club (Y3-Y6)

Homework club runs from 3.15 pm - 4.15 pm Monday - Friday, cost is £5 (free if your child attends Whizz Kids after-school club). Please book and pay for via Scopay.

Music lessons - during school hours, music lessons can be arranged through Surrey Arts. Please contact them directly by telephone on 01483 519303, by email at surreyarts@surreycc.gov.uk or visit the Surrey Arts web page for more information. You can subscribe to the Surrey Arts newsletter here.

Lost Property

Please collect lost items from the lost property box in the KS1 playground.  Please label everything clearly so it can be returned to the owner. Please note it can take some time for items to reach the lost property box depending on where they were lost. 

Items not claimed from the lost property box will be disposed of periodically as it quickly builds up. Thank you.

Communicating with your child's teacher 

Messages for teachers can be put in your child's reading/homework diary/bookbag, eg. pick up arrangements, homework issues, lost property, requesting a meeting with the teacher or anything else you would like the teacher to know.

For KS2 children, please remind your child to tell the teacher that the message is in there.

Absences should still be communicated via the office. (see below)

Pick-up notes 

Please note that if someone other than a parent/carer is picking your child up, you need to let the teacher or the office know. Please put pick-up notes in your child's reading/ homework diary or bookbag. 

For KS2 children, please remind your child to tell the teacher that the message is in there.

Children will not be released with someone else unless we have been notified of it. 

If you do need to let the office know about a last minute pick-up change,  please do so before 2 pm if possible.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Y6 Independent Walkers

If your child is in Y6 and you would like to let us know they will be walking home from school independently, please email the office.

Y6 Mobile Phones

If Y6 children wish to bring their mobile phone to school, they just need to drop the phone at the school office before school and collect it after school.  Phones should be switched off please and not switched back on until children are off site. 

No need to complete any form or email the office. 

How to report your child being absent or sick

Please notify the school office every day your child is absent from school before 9 am so we can adjust dinner figures and complete the registers. Please either ring the school office on 01932 222536 and leave a voicemail or email absence@cardinalnewmanschool.co.uk. If you email us about an absence, you will not receive an acknowledgement reply due to the large volume of emails we receive in relation to this daily.  

If your child has a stomach bug, they should not return to school until 48 hours after the last episode of illness.

Absence Request

If you require a school absence for your child for some reason, please email the school office with the details. 

Wellbeing

Crisis Helpline

Children and Young People's Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service

Sleep and why it matters

Please click here for information on Sleep and why it matters. More videos can be found on the Childrens Health Surrey website here

National Sleep Helpline: We are here to help

At any given time up to 40% of adults and 50% of children (this rises to 80% with a SEND diagnosis) have difficulties with their sleep. Yet in a recent survey, almost 60% of adults felt there was a lack of support for sleep issues. Sleep problems can leave people feeling isolated and lonely. 

Our free helpline is run by trained sleep advisors, many of whom are specialists in working with SEND. We can talk to young people directly, or parents (we can also talk to adults, including older people, about their sleep issues). 

The helpline is open 5 times a week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday evenings 7-9pm, and Monday, Wednesday mornings 9-11am. The number is 03303 530 541. 

You can read more here: https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/national-sleep-helpline/

Support groups and workshops for parents and carers

123 Magic Parenting course

No one has ever said parenting was easy. Living with children can be one of life’s most enjoyable experiences, but it can also be unbelievably frustrating. 123 Magic is a simple, precise and effective way of managing the behaviour of children. It’s not magic but works like magic! Please click flyer here for more information. 

Parent Wellbeing Service, Barnardo's Referral Form

Please see information flyer here and referral form here for support from Barnardo's Parent Wellbeing Service. 

eSafety and Safeguarding

Reminder: Keeping children safe online and in the real world

At Cardinal Newman School we are always reminding the children how they can keep themselves safe whether in the real world or in the virtual world. Class teachers regularly use the Zones of Regulation to assess how the children in their classes are feeling. Children are encouraged to share their worries using the ‘What I want my teacher to know boxes’ which are in each Key Stage 2 classrooms and the Worry Monsters which can be found in the Keys Stage 1 Classrooms.

Information to support parents can be found on the school website here.

Please continue to report any safeguarding concerns to Mr Flower (Designated Safeguarding Lead) or Mrs Burnham (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead).

Y6 France Residential Information Evening
6:30pm – 7:30pm
17
June
Year 5 trip to Wintershall
All Day
18
June
Sports Day
All Day
21
June
Year 6 French Trip
All Day
From 24 Jun until 28 Jun
24
June
Sweet Mufti Day
All Day
28
June
Whole school mass led by Y3 & Celebration of FHC children Y3 - Y6
2:00pm – 3:00pm
01
July
Bottle Mufti Day
All Day
05
July
PA Summer Fair
All Day
07
July
Y6 Production
7:00pm – 8:00pm
16
July
Whole School mass of Thanksgiving (End of Year) time tbc
All Day
19
July
End of Summer term ( Half day)
12:30pm – 12:30pm
19
July

To see the full Calender of Events, click here.

School Day: 8.40 am - 3.15 pm     Office opening hours: 8.00 am  - 4.00 pm Monday - Friday

Arch Road, Hersham, KT12 4QT    T: 01932 222536   E: office@cardinalnewmanschool.co.uk