It’s not often that you wake up to glorious sunshine and hope that it starts chucking it down! That was certainly how I felt this morning after having made the decision to postpone Sports Day yesterday, but with a reserve day up our sleeve for early July we rather hope that summer will have started by then and the children will have a really enjoyable morning exerting themselves in the sunshine. I certainly felt vindicated when the heavens decided to open!

Well done to our Year 4 and Year 1 children – they have both been busy with statutory assessments this week. Year 4 children completed the Multiplication Tables Check while Year 1 showed off their reading skills in the Phonics Screening Check. Thank you to parents and carers for all of the great work you do with your children with times tables and learning all the phonics sounds at home.

Summer Fair

The Summer Fair is fast approaching - lots of information in this newletter. Please take a look at the fantastic array of raffle prizes, and purchase your tickets here. Please remember to bring your donations next Wednesday, 19 June at drop off - further details on poster below.

Uniform

We are happy to confirm the details of our new uniform supplier Mapac.  Please see their welcome letter. Please note our secondary uniform supplier Unismart will be in school on Tuesday 25^th June from 2.00pm selling the remaining items of their supply at a competitive price.

PE Kit

Please ensure that your children are wearing a purple t-shirt with the school badge. Black PE shorts should be of an appropriate length i.e. mid-thigh. No hot-pants please!

KS1 Sports Day

Next Friday our KS1 children will be heading over to Glebelands for Sports Day in the morning. Your child should wear a coloured t-shirt to match their house – please avoid football shirts. Parents and carers are very welcome to attend. Entry will be on foot through the gate next to Christopher Robin Nursery at 9.45am. Please do not park in the nursery car park. We expect to be finished by 11.30am. There will be a member of staff from St Cuthbert Mayne present to sign parents in. For safeguarding reasons it is very important that parents stay with our Sports Day group and do not wander the site - it is essential that we adhere to this request as failure to do so risks jeopardising use of these facilities in future years. Please be aware that there are no toilet facilities for adults on-site.

Fatima – BLUE        Lourdes RED       Walsingham – YELLOW      Jerusalem - GREEN

God bless, Mr Thomas Hall

Head of School  

Liturgy 

In this week’s Gospel we hear Jesus describe us as brother, sister and mother to Him; a family. Of course all families experience moments its members rub one another up the wrong way. When these frictions occur it is so important for us to recognise when we need to apologise for our actions.  

Christ Jesus, you ask us to see everyone around us as our brother or sister. Help us to build a global family where everyone is welcomed and loved. Amen.

ONLINE SAFETY ADVICE

GET ACTIVE SHOUT OUT BOARD

Each week our Sports Captains are out and about in the playground keeping a look out for children who are exhibiting a particular school value through the way that they play during breaktime. The slide below is displayed during our Celebration Assembly on Fridays. Congratulations to the children listed below.

WEEKLY CELEBRATION CERTIFICATES.

Attendance

At St Cuthbert Mayne we place great importance on school attendance. Please see the graphic below which illustrates the cumulative effect of continued poor attendance at school. In the first instance we will always work closely with families to support improvement in attendance when necessary.

On 19 January Mr Hall wrote to parents outlining the possibility of Penalty Notices being issued to parents in the event of unauthorised absences. School attendance is rarely out of the headlines - this BBC article details plans to increase the minimum fine from September 2024.

The cost of a family holiday outside of term time can be eye-watering, but we would urge all parents to consider what sort of message they are giving their children about the value that they place on education if they choose to take their children on holiday during term time.

Useful Links:

Fines for parents for taking children out of school: What you need to know

School Attendance Policy

Positive Parking

We continue to be very grateful to all our parents that park and stride/cycle/walk to school, and to those that park safely and respectfully around the neighbouring roads.

We are aware that some people continue to park on the yellow zig-zag lines outside the school and the church car park. Rule 243 of the Highway Code states that road users must not park near a school entrance; for the safety of all the children at St Cuthbert Mayne, we would ask that all members of our community adhere to this rule and do not park on the yellow zig-zag lines.

We must also ensure that we are polite and respectful to local residents at all times.

Please show your children, by your actions, that positive and respectful parking is a way to show that you care about other pedestrians, neighbours and road users. Be a good role model!

For helpful information about road safety please visit: https://www.think.gov.uk/

Classlist

Classlist is the most effective way of staying touch with other parents. Please click this link in order to sign up.

Safeguarding

Keeping children safe is everyone's responsibility at St Cuthbert Mayne. Please see below for some useful links and resources for all families:

Family Lives – very useful parental information website, provides lots of links and resources - they also have a telephone support line for parents/carers. Parenting and Family Support - Family Lives (Parentline Plus)

Mental Health support – suitable for lots of families, especially at this time of year. Mental health support - Surrey County Council (surreycc.gov.uk)

NHS Talking Therapies – it may be helpful for any parents to be able to talk to someone and this is a self referral service Home Mind Matters Surrey - NHS Talking Therapies (mindmattersnhs.co.uk)

Family Conflict – SCC pages for parents. Our resources for reducing conflict between parents - Surrey County Council (surreycc.gov.uk)

Your Sanctuary – Domestic Abuse Support Services. YS Home (yoursanctuary.org.uk)

Relate – resources for relationships –

Get Help | Relate

Find your online centre Relate

Drug and Alcohol Support Services

i-access Drug & Alcohol Service : Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (surreydrugandalcohol.com)

Catalyst – substance and mental health support

Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Service in Surrey (catalystsupport.org.uk)

Citizens Advice – another more general link but useful for newsletters at this time of year

Citizens Advice

Family Information Service – Families can search for services near to them

Family Information Service - Surrey County Council (surreycc.gov.uk)

Online Understanding your child guides – Free for all Surrey residents – use access code ACORN.

Online Learning (heiapply.com)

Our Safeguarding Team: Mr Hall (DSL), Miss Wilkin (DDSL), Mrs Chalstrey (DDSL)

As a team we are always here to support, to be a listening ear, and guide in anyway you feel appropriate. Do get in touch with any member of the team via phone 01483 274961 or email DSL@stcuthbert-mayne.surrey.sch.uk

You are not on your own and many individuals or families do come and ask. 

Mary’s Meals would like to invite you to collect all your foreign currency* no matter how old or obscure.  Clear out your drawers and have a look under the sofa.  Currently, the charity feeds over 2.4 million young children one good meal every day in their place of education – by giving Mary’s Meals your foreign coins and notes, you can help feed the next hungry child.

Mary’s Meals feeds in over 18 countries.  Because of our low costs, we can do this for as little as £19.15 per child per year!  *We will also take UK coins/notes that aren’t legal tender

Donations can be left in the Cranleigh Parish Office, which is outside the SCM green school gates - double white patio doors - on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday mornings.   With thanks from Tracy in the parish office.

Our calendar for the term can be found here.