News/notes
Xavier Trust Governance Professional
Xavier, which is our school’s Catholic Education Trust, are looking to appoint a person with the suitable skills and experience to lead on governance within the Trust. The successful applicant will go on to play a key role in securing excellence in Catholic education across Surrey. Please see the link below for more details:
Trust Governance Professional
International Food Afternoon - 21st November
On Friday 21st November 2025, our school will come together to celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. To mark this joyful occasion, we’ll be celebrating the wonderful mix of cultures that make up our school family. As all celebrations seem to include food, we would like to celebrate our different cultures and countries by inviting families to take part by preparing a dish from your home country or culture, or from any other country - sweet or savoury. You can bring a single plate or team up with friends or family to create a group of foods or a table of tasty treats.
This has been an extremely successful event for the last few years. The children love sharing their family or favourite traditional dishes and trying new foods from around the world.
We are so grateful to the families who provided food from all around the world last year. We’ve had food from Europe, South America, UK, Asia and the Caribbean. Thank you also to the many families who came to taste the foods.
If you would like to prepare a plate of food, savoury or sweet, or to get together with some friends and family to prepare a table of food from a country of your choice for this year’s celebration, please let Ms. Hunt know as soon as possible.
Bag 2 School Collection
There will be a Bag 2 School collection on Monday 17th November.
Please bring any donations in black bags/plastic bags on the morning of November 6th before 9am. Please note that we are unable to accept donations before this day.
Below is a list of items that Bag 2 School accept.
OPAL Play Donations
School Closure Day Multi Sports Camp
Date: Monday 1st December
Drop-off: 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Pick-up: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Cost: £30 for the day
St Erconwalds Baby & Toddler Group
Parking
Parking is available in the Coronation Rec car park which is just a short walk away from school. Alternatively, you can park for free at Hersham station car park on Walton Park with a permit which you can obtain by emailing the school office your car re
gistration plate.
Please also note that parents dropping their children off for Breakfast Club or any morning clubs are not allowed to park in the school car park.
Mobile phone use onsite
National Online Safety: Wake Up Wednesday Guides for Parents 
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. 
Pick-up notes 
Please notify the school office every day your child is absent from school before 9 am so we can 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. 
