At Saint Ambrose everyone recognises regular school attendance is an important part of giving children the best possible start in life. To ensure all our children get the best start in life, we will contact you and support you if we feel your son or daughter's attendance is below an acceptable level.

Attendance will be celebrated weekly in our Gospel Assembly on a Friday and the winning class will be able to select a treat from a list devised by the school Ambassadors. 

Thank you to everyone for remembering the school gates open at 8.45 am and close at 9.00 am as we now no longer have a staggered start. If anyone arrives after 9.00 am they will need to come into school via the main office. Arriving before 9.00 am ensures no learning time is lost-thank you for your support.

Everyone who arrives by 9.00am Monday to Friday will receive a Saint Ambrose bee rubber on Friday 18th March.

On Thursday 17th March (St Patrick's Day) we would like to invite all children to wear something green along with their school uniform. We are asking for a donation that will go to the Ukrainian Appeal. A collection bucket will be at the school gate when you drop your children off in the morning.

On Tuesday afternoon at 3pm Father Lamb will be saying the Rosary for Ukraine as a sign of solidarity. If any families would like to go along with their children you can collect them from school at 2.50pm to go to the service. Please can you advise school prior to collecting your child so that we can have them ready to leave when you arrive.

Appointments are now available book via School Life.

Parent's evening appointments are on either Monday 28th March 3.30pm-6pm or Monday 4th April 4pm-6.30pm and you need only book for one of these dates. (If either date is difficult please speak to a member of staff and we will arrange a meeting on a day and time to suit). I am delighted to say we will be holding the meetings in school but a virtual or telephone appointment can be requested by adding a comment/note when you book.

To ensure we look after each other and keep everyone safe, please remind your children to stand with you at the end of the day. This ensures all children are safe and no accidents can occur. Thank you for remembering not to use the car park at the beginning or end of the day unless you have permission to drive in after 9:10 am or 3:20 pm. Thank you

On Monday morning, we will be celebrating children from each class who have followed our Catholic Mission: 'we do our best by following Jesus' in our Celebration assembly. The children receiving a certificate are:

On Monday 21st March we will again be inviting parents to attend the celebration assembly at 9:10 am. If your son or daughter is receiving an award, notifications will be sent out via a push notification and email from the school office on Thursday 17th March.

Thank you to our wonderful Year one pupils who were all fantastic today. I thoroughly enjoyed the assembly and was wowed by all the  facts they knew about London. It was fantastic to hear how they have so much knowledge now in their long term memories. Well done, Year One, I was very proud of you.

Next week we look forward to welcoming Year 3 parents into school at 9.10 am. Please see the assembly dates for other year groups below:

Year 6 planned a trip to Hagley High School to watch a special performance of 'Born For This'. They researched timings of the trains to Hagley from Kidderminster and their return journey and had great fun experiencing getting the train. All pupils also really enjoyed watching the unique representation of the Stations of the Cross and this has provided them inspiration for their prayer service which they will deliver in a few weeks time.

Thank you Oscar and Alex for creating this week's 'Pupil Newsletter'. Every child will have been given one to bring home. Please make sure that your child enters the competition!

This half term Father Lamb will be celebrating Mass in the school hall to enable him to discuss the parts of the Mass. Parents are welcome to join us.

The Parish are holding a fundraising auction and have kindly asked if any parents could make any donations. i.e do you have a business that could offer vouchers, meals, discounts? Also if you have any unwanted/new gifts that could also be donated the Parish would be very grateful to receive them. 

Please click on the PDF document below to view the parenting and community booklet from Barnardo's.

The Church is currently following a directive from Pope Francis to focus on reflection and sharing of the whole church. Pope Francis states,

"By walking together, and together reflecting on the journey made, the Church will be
able to learn from what it will experience which processes can help it to live
communion, to achieve participation, to open itself to mission."

At Saint Ambrose we aim to enable families to experience the wide parish Community and for us to reflect and learn please complete the survey, see link below. The results will be shared with the parish to enable us to grow and learn together.

PLEASE EMAIL ebrocklesby@st-ambrose.worcs.sch.uk if your son (years 4-6) would like to train as an altar server or your son or daughter (years 3-6) would like to read at Parish Masses.

Father Lamb extends a warm welcome to all families to continue to attend Mass. Please click on the link below which will take you to the Parish website where you can view historical newsletters and get information on Mass times.

Please also click on the PDF to view the most recent Parish newsletter.

Please ensure that your child comes to school in their correct P.E. kit. The P.E. uniform is as follows:

• Black shorts, black leggings, black track suit bottoms (unbranded if possible)
• Maroon round neck T-shirt with embroidered badge
• P.E pumps or black trainer

PLEASE NOTE: P.E. HOODIES CAN ONLY BE WORN ON P.E. DAYS.

Please follow the link below to access this week's Wednesday Word.

Kind Regards,

Mrs Brocklesby