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 4th April 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 31st March.

Well done to last week's certificate winners. Here they are proudly showcasing their certificate after our celebration assembly.

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. This week classes enjoyed a piece of toast for arriving on time. 

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!  

Year One celebrated their Class Saint's feast day-St Joseph.

Our Class Saint's picture takes pride of place above our prayer table. Just like St Joseph, we decided to be carpenters so we spent the afternoon creating things out of wood. We made a bed and a house for Paddington. We then used a screwdriver and an allen key. It was really fun learning to be like our saint.

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.

This week gardening club have planted some flower seeds to create a Jubilee Garden by the main gate. On Monday in assembly all children will be invited to enter a competition to create a Jubilee flowerbed design to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

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

Take a look at our new prayer tree which is in the entrance to our school. We have been writing prayers for all the Ukrainian people who need our help and support at this difficult time.

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

Please ensure that you have booked your parent's evening appointment using the school life app. The 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.

If your child is SEN you can also book an appointment with Mrs Price on the same dates. 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.

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

Please see the assembly dates for other year groups below:

Well done to Artur and Matisse for their winning entries of last week's newsletter 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.

Please see the flyer below for information on how to get tickets for a piano charity concert that is being held in Kinver. 

We would like to wish one of our pupils, Sammy, all the very best as he will be performing in the concert.

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