Our Catholic Mission: 'We do our best by following Jesus.'

Friday 24th March 2023

Regular attendance at school means that your child will make the most of their education and improve their chances later on in life. At St Ambrose, good attendance is of high importance and we strive to have at least 96% attendance. Please help us with this target. If you need any support, then school is here to help so that your child can get the very best out of the education we provide. 

We will continue sending out regular push notifications about attendance so that you are aware if you child falls below our 96% target and we are working with Louise Howles, our Education Welfare Officer to support us with improvements.

As Holy Week falls in the Easter break, we will be marking it in school next week before we break up. Key Stage Two will be leading services marking the important events across the week, which you are ALL very welcome to join us for in the school hall.

As requested, please see more photo's of our 'dress like a teacher' day.

On Friday 12th May, we will be having a Coronation party at school. Your child can wear red, white and blue for a day full of fun and activities.

During Lent, we have been supporting The Good Shepherd appeal. Before Friday 29th March, please ask your child(ren) to bring in their special envelopes into school with any spare coins you have managed to pop into it. If you have lost the envelope any envelope will do. All monies raised go toward supporting a wonderful charity: Father Hudsons, who help support children, families and adults in need. Thank you.

Year 4's thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Annual CTA Netball competition yesterday. They demonstrated good teamwork and resilience, and had a great experience. Well done, girls! 

Last Friday, Year 6 had the opportunity to travel to London to visit the Houses of Parliament. They had the best time visiting both the House of Commons and the House of Lords with our excellent tour guides and it certainly will be an experience both staff and pupils will never forget!

Last week at St Ambrose we celebrated British Science Week 2023.

The theme for this year is Connections. Connections are made between people, plants, animals, materials, countries and other things in our everyday lives. Connections are all around us.

Miss Crumpler launched Science Week with a whole school assembly, we thought about and identified a range of connections and how we are all scientists.

During the week every class took part in a live lesson.

Year 1 and 2 took part in the NFU KS1 Live Lesson and discovered 'How Are Tractors Connected to Space?'.

Year 5 and 6 took part in the NFU UKS2 Live Lesson and discovered 'How Are Sheep Connected to Seaweed?'.

In addition, each class carried out some activities to explore the theme of connections.

During science week year 2 had a visit form Nick from Kidderminster Harriers Community who launched their extinction project. We used a huge world map to identify the world’s seven continents and five oceans. We all had two animals each to sort onto the world map. We were able to identify the animals that live in Kenya and compared this to the UK and other parts of the world.

Fantastic Fingerprints and Nature Connection.

Please see the Director advert below.

This half term, we are growing to be Learned and Wise.

Learned: learning how God wants us to live our lives Whether we are young or old, we should never stop learning about what God wants of us. We learn many new things each day. By reading the Bible, listening to our teachers and listening to our hearts, we learn more of what God wants.

Wise: knowing how God wants us to live our lives and putting it into practice. God is always with us and hoping that we will live our lives in the right way, following the teachings of Jesus.

If you spot your child being learned and wise at home, please let Miss Holtom know so they can receive a special certificate in our Virtues Assembly - year6@emmausmac.com

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

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

Children are to come to school wearing their P.E. kit on the day(s) listed above. Thank you.

Please read the following tips to share with your son or daughter about staying safe online:

• Never give out personal information. This includes online people you know as well. Keep them private!
• Never send pictures of yourself because once it’s online, it’s there forever, and it could get into the wrong hands.
• Don’t make friends with people you don’t know. People are not always who they say they are.
• Tell your parents/carers what you’re doing online so they can act fast if there are any issues and can vet whether the website is safe for use
• Leave the website and tell a trusted adult immediately if you see something that concerns you or makes you feel unsafe
• Never show your real name, age or where you live in your username
• Use strong passwords which have a mix of numbers, letters and symbols
• Do not share passwords with others
• Don’t open an attachment unless you’re 100% sure it’s safe
• Don’t let strangers into your video calls. Blur your background so you don’t give away any information about where you are.
• Be careful who you webcam with
• Don’t meet up with someone you’ve only met online
• Be nice online
• Think before your post! This applies to when you send or forward content.

Kind Regards,

Mrs Brocklesby