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The May Procession

As you know the week beginning the 20^th of May, is Cultural Diversity Week, where we are encouraging our children and families to celebrate and share their different cultures.

On Tuesday the 21^st of May, we will be having our annual May Procession. After speaking to Fr. Mark about the occasion, he felt it would be a lovely idea for the children to dress for the day in a way that would honour Our Lady.  It would be fantastic, if we could see some of our children in their national dress or bright and colourful clothes (As always no football kits please)

Please as usual, can children bring in a few flowers to present to Mary at the end of the procession.

The procession will start at 2PM, it would be lovely to see you there. 

Operation Encompass

I would like to inform you of a project that is being introduced in South Yorkshire. It is called Operation Encompass, a partnership between South Yorkshire Police and Education, supported by each Local Safeguarding Children’s Board.

Operation Encompass has been designed to provide early reporting on any domestic abuse incidents, where the police have attended and that might have an impact on a child in school.

A key safeguarding member of staff in school will be informed when a domestic abuse incident has been recorded within the previous 24 hours or over the weekend. This will enable school to monitor children possibly affected and, where required, support if necessary.

A letter will be sent out to you all shortly with further details.

We are delighted to announce that our school is participating in a brand new Relationship Education programme for Catholic primary schools, titled Life to the Full. You may hear your child coming home talking about this and we want to give you a brief overview of this new and ambitious programme.

As you may be aware, Relationship Education becomes statutory for all primary schools from September 2020. The Life to the Full programme is based on ‘A Model Catholic RSE Curriculum’ by the Catholic Education Service which was highlighted as a work of good practice by the Department of Education. Therefore, we have confidence that the programme will be fit for purpose in supporting the growth and development of your child.

Life to the Full is much more than a series of lessons. It is an entire platform of creative resources that will engage, inform and inspire our children and, indeed, you as parents. This includes interactive video content, story-based activities, employing a wide range of teaching tools, original worship music and an accompanying programme of classroom prayers.

Life to the Full is intended to be partnership between home, school and church. We know that you already do a fantastic job and we see our new programme, Life to the Full, as a means to further develop, support and enrich the partnership between home, school and church so that your child is fully supported.

There shall be a parent’s workshop to explore this programme in more detail on Monday the 20^th of May at 2:45 in the school hall and to answer any questions that you may have.