Did you know that there are over 37,000 children being educated in 77 Catholic schools across the diocese of Arundel and Brighton? With those figures in mind, it really was a privilege to go to Worth Abbey this Thursday to attend the Good Shepherd Celebration. Each Catholic school in the diocese was represented; I was joined by some members of our Faith Council and Mrs Kay-Russell.
In response to the Pope’s invitation for a year of prayer, the focus was on the prayer that Jesus taught us. Schools were invited to reproduce an artistic representation of the Our Father and bring it to Worth. Mrs Kay-Russell coordinated the construction of an enormous cross which bore extracts from the prayer written in different languages by all the children at St Cuthbert Mayne – this was presented at the altar during the liturgy. Bishop Richard drew our attention to the line “thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” - we ask Jesus to fulfil his promise that he will return on the Last Day. We also ask God to bring his kingdom here and now so we might reflect it in our own lives. This cultivates our desire to bring a foretaste of heaven to everyone we encounter.
Thank you to Year 4 for leading a beautiful whole school Collective Worship this week in which they told the story of the life of St Bernadette.
As the academic year draws to a close, we begin to look towards September. Mrs O’Donovan, our new Head of School, visited us this Wednesday, and will join us again next Wednesday. Do say hello to her on the school gate at the end of the day. She will also be attending the new Reception Parents’ Information evening at 5pm.
Next Tuesday will be our ‘Moving Up Morning’, where children will spend the morning with their teacher for next year. With this in mind, now seems an apt time to let you know about some staff changes for next year. We bid farewell to Miss Rowe who leaves us to join another Xavier school - St Edmund’s in Godalming. Miss Rowe has done tremendous work in Year 6 in recent years and we thank her for the dedication that she has shown to the children in her care. At the other end of the school, Mrs Szeremeta leaves us for a new role at St. John's C of E Infant School in Churt – we thank her for the fantastic work that she has done with the younger members of the school community as they join us in Reception and move into Year 1. There are two Learning Support Assistants who leave us at the end of the year – Miss White who has done tremendous work with the children in Year 1 this year and Mrs Robertson who has guided so many children throughout the school both through support in class and as an ELSA. We thank all the staff who are leaving this year – they have answered the call to serve the children of our community and enable them to learn and grow into the people that God wants them to be.
Next year we will be welcoming two new members of staff who are known to many of our school community. Mrs Armstrong joins us from St Dunstan’s in Woking and Mrs Scarisbrick will be teaching in next year’s Reception class.
Please see below for information regarding class teachers for the forthcoming academic year:
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| Reception St David’s Class: |
Ms Peak and Mrs Scarisbrick |
| Year 1 St Andrew’s Class: |
Mrs Quinlan and Mrs Newland |
| Year 2 St Patrick’s Class: |
Ms Robson and Miss Wilkin |
| Year 3 St George’s Class: |
Mrs Woodhams |
| Year 4 St Bernadette’s Class: |
Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Quinlan / Miss Wilkin |
| Year 5 St Catherine’s Class: |
Mrs Patrick |
| Year 6 St Teresa’s Class: |
Mrs Hasler and Miss Wilkin |
KS2 Sports Day
Next Friday our KS2 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 through the staff car park on foot at the east end of the site, not before 9.30am. 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 onsite.
Fatima – BLUE Lourdes RED Walsingham – YELLOW Jerusalem - GREEN
We were blessed with fine weather last Sunday for our Summer Fair at Snoxhall. It was wonderful to see so many families coming together and having so much fun while raising a tremendous amount of money for our school. Huge thanks to The Friends for masterminding the whole event and for everyone who chipped in by helping run all of the stalls. Our Year 6 children also did a superb job with some incredibly enterprising and creative activities and merchandise.
The Friends are looking for volunteers to form the new Friends committee for next academic year. Please email thefriendsscm@gmail.com by Thursday 4/7 if you would like to volunteer.
Mr Thomas Hall
Head of School
