Anybody who has passed through the front door of the school this week will have noticed an array of goods decorating the entrance lobby. The school hall is also festooned with foliage, breads, jams and other goods. Next Thursday we will have a Harvest liturgy in school. Children are invited to bring produce for those who may be in need in our local community; further details contained within this newsletter.

As we get to grips with our new website, you will notice that the calendar is filling up with sporting fixtures, trips and other events. You will have received an invitation to book appointments for the forthcoming parents’ evenings. Please ensure that you sign up as soon as possible – teachers are keen to touch base with you at this early stage of the academic year to catch up on how the first few weeks have been for your child.

A reminder that next Friday is an INSET Day. Please see the flyer in this newsletter for details of a Planet Soccer Camp that will be running here at school on that day.

God bless,

Thomas Hall, Head of School

Collective Worship

Children have a great sense of fairness, and could easily empathise with the workers in the vineyard who had worked all day, yet received the same wage as those that had started work towards the end of the day. Jesus encourages us to be grateful for what we have and try not to be distracted by jealousy.

Generous and giving God, you created the world with enough for everyone. Help us to share what we have been given and make sure all your people have enough. Amen.

Harvest Festival

As we are near Harvest Festival, we would like to make up  some food hampers to give to those who may be in need in our local community. Please can we ask you to help support us to achieve this by donating any tins (tomato soup, sweetcorn, tuna...), dried food (pasta, rice, noodles...), jars (honey, jam, chutney...) etc. The children can bring these in to school from Monday 2^nd October and hand them to their class teachers. The children will parade into the hall with such items as part of our Harvest Assembly next Thursday. So please bring in any items by then.

If anyone has any baskets / hampers / boxes / gift wrap or similar that they would be happy to donate this would be most appreciated too. These can be handed into the school office by Thursday 5th October.

Thank you in advance for your support.

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.

READY - RESPECTFUL - SAFE

This year children have been introduced to three important principles that we follow at St Cuthbert Mayne. Why not start to use the same language at home - we want all our children to be...

Uniform

For the first half of this term children should wear summer uniform.

Reminders

• earrings should be studs only and must not be worn for PE
• hair must be tied back
• no thread hair wraps should be worn
• school colours for headbands / bobbles etc.

We accumulate quite a large number of discarded jumpers and cardigans - the named ones are returned to their rightful owners. The unnamed ones are pictured below! Please endeavour to put nametapes/stickers on your children's clothes (particularly jumpers and cardigans). Please avoid just using initials, as they may not be unique to your child.

FUN FAIR MENU FOR THURSDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2023 

Our wonderful caterers will be cooking a fabulous Fun Fair menu on 5th October.  This menu is in place of the normal choices for that date.  Please book either the Red option for the Hot Dog, or the Green option for the meat-free Hot Dog.  All allergies will be catered for. 

Our calendar for the term can be found here. We are beginning to populate this - a slow process initially as we learn to navigate our new website!