As we come to the end of the Spring Term it has been wonderful to welcome parents back into school for assemblies, Masses and parent consultations. Next term I am delighted to say we will be inviting all parents to class reading workshops and curriculum workshops. Also parents of children in Year 1 will be invited to a phonics workshop and parents of children in Year 4 will be invited to a maths workshop. You will receive a letter about the workshops available and how to book a place on Tuesday 5th April.

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. 

Year 2 have had a lovely day with Miss Poole making pizzas. Miss Poole taught us how to design our pizza. When we made them we enjoyed choosing our own toppings. We are looking forward to eating them for our tea! Afterwards we will evaluate our pizzas based on our original designs.

We made extra pizzas and gave them to Mrs Brocklesby, Miss Downs, Mrs Holder, Miss Gawthorp, Mrs Staite and Mrs Bishop. They all said they were absolutely delicious!!

On Tuesday 29 March, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, set out the next steps for living with COVID-19 in England from Friday 1 April.

Updated guidance STATES:

The second parents evening will be held on Monday 4th April 4pm-6.30pm. Please ensure that you have booked an appointment through School Life, with your child's teacher. Please specify in the comments section if you would like a face to face, telephone or teams appointment. If you are having difficulties please speak to the school office. 

If your child is SEN you can also book an appointment with Mrs Price. Again if you can stipulate if you would like a face to face, virtual or telephone appointment in the comments section and we will accommodate this for you.

Over the past few weeks during assemblies we have been discussing the meaning of the Emmaus logo. The piece of writing below from Oscar identifies the meaning of the three parts of the e that you can see and the meaning of the cross and body of Christ at the centre of our logo.

Our children have grown up surrounded by technology and the internet. For them there isn't a difference between 'online' and 'offline', going online is just part of their everyday life.  

Talking to your child regularly about what they're doing online is a good way to open up the conversation around how you can help to keep them safe. It also reminds them that you're there to support them if anything goes wrong. But we also know it can be hard to know where to start!  

On Thursday, 8 Year 6 girls attended a netball tournament at Blessed Edward's College in Worcester with Miss Noble. The girls played three matches where they lost 3 and won their very last game 4-1. Miss Noble was extremely proud of their sportsmanship and perseverance as they didn't drop their heads once. It was a fantastic afternoon full of fun, sun and a little bit of snow. 

This week gardening club have planted some flower seeds to create a Jubilee Garden by the main gate. On Monday in assembly all children were invited to enter a competition to create a Jubilee flowerbed design to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Please send your entries in by Friday 8th April.

Can we please also remind you that any gardening equipment donations would be gratefully received by Mrs Farmer and our children.

For our charitable work this Lent, our House Captains have decided they would like to run a Readathon and would like all pupils to take part. They would like to raise money for the charity Read for Good which provides new books for children who are in hospital.

Please support your child’s sponsored readathon by helping them record all they have read on the Go Read app.

Should you wish to sponsor your child, you can do so by visiting the following website: https://readathon.secure.force.com/sponsor  and family and friends can use it too.

 Please ensure all sponsorship money is donated by Monday 4^th April.

For more information, check out your child’s sponsorship card and visit www.readforgood.org.

Thank you for your support.

Please see the information flyer below from the Starting Well Partnership about a 'Fussy Eating Webinar.

Please see the term dates below for 2022/23. We have yet to confirm our staff training days.

Please see the assembly dates for other year groups below:

On Wednesday 6th April Father Lamb will be celebrating Mass with the whole school in the hall at 11am. If you are able to join us please email the school office to reserve a seat. Today our altar servers were trained by Mr. Moran so it will be wonderful to see them at school Masses this term and next term.

The Parish auction will be taking place at 2pm on Monday 4th April in the Parish Hall. Everyone is welcome to go along to support this event. Any donations to the auction would still be gratefully received.

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