Notes/Reminders

Easter Services

St. Erconwalds (Check website/newsletter for any changes)

• Palm Sunday (02.04.23): 9.15am; 11.15am; 1.30pm Polish Mass 
• Maundy Thursday (06.04.23): No morning Mass; 8pm 
• Good Friday (07.04.23): No morning Mass; 3pm (no Mass) 
• Easter Saturday (08.04.23): No morning Mass; 11.00 Blessing of the Polish food; 4.45pm Italian; 8pm 
• Easter Sunday (09.04.23): 9.15am; 11.15am; 12.30pm Italian Mass; 1.30pm Polish Mass

Please join us for an Easter Egg Hunt after 9.15 mass on Easter Sunday. 

The Catholic Parishes of Hersham & Molesey (Check website/newsletter for any changes)

Free Hockey Camp at Surbiton Hockey Club

We are delighted to be able to offer a free hockey camp to all children in year 2-6 during the Easter Holidays. For details click on the flyer here, booking is available here. 

Ramadan 

Well done to Joseph in Year 5, who has produced this amazing information sheet on the Islamic festival of Ramadan. Joseph worked independently to research and present his findings. What a fantastic learner! 

Home-Start to launch Dad Matters Surrey - you are invited to a launch event!

We are delighted and excited to be launching Dad Matters  Surrey and would love you to come along to one of our launch events to find out about the services we are offering.

Please find attached an invitation from Robbie Forsaith, Dad Matters Surrey Coordinator, with details of three launch events taking place on Tuesday 18^th  (Tadworth)  and Wednesday 19^th April (Woking and Elmbridge). We are thrilled to welcome Peter Grigg, CEO of Home-Start UK, to the event in Elmbridge (Walton-on-Thames) on Wednesday 19^th April.

To reserve a place, please reply to dadmatters@homestartsurrey.org , and feel free to forward this to anyone who you feel would be interested in coming along too. Click here and here for more information.

Marie Curie Fundraiser

A big thank you to the generosity of all children, parents and staff who supported the Marie Curie fundraiser. All money raised will help Marie Curie Nurses provide care for people living with a terminal Illness and support for their loved ones. 

Total raised is £236.46 (£185.65 from after school sale and £50.81 from daffodil sales). Thank you!

Free Easter activities for children - the UK wide 'Wild Escape' project

We wanted to let you know about the free Easter holiday activities organised by Elmbridge Museum in partnership with local Surrey Libraries and national art foundations. 

Pre-Easter celebrations at Dittons Library

Elmbridge Museum is inviting families to explore how Easter was celebrated through history with a fun Easter craft event at The Dittons Library, Mercer Close, Thames Ditton on Saturday 25 March from 11.30am to 2pm. Find out great facts about Easter with a trail around the library and have a go at making your own Easter baskets and chicks. To book, visit https://elmbridgemuseum.org.uk/events/eastercrafts

The Wild Escape Project - Earth Day celebrations -From 3 April to 22 April

Alongside Local Surrey Libraries, and other Surrey Museums, Elmbridge Museum is taking part in The Wild Escape, a nationwide project to explore and have fun with nature and wildlife found in museum collections.

This project is funded by Art Fund, Arts Council England, WWF UK, the RSPB, National Trust and English Heritage.

During the Easter school holiday, they are inviting families to come along to local free drop-in craft sessions across Elmbridge to do fun crafts and help museums to create a community artwork for this project. Info at https://elmbridgemuseum.org.uk/events/wild-escape/

This project is culminating in a ‘Get Wild About Surrey’ Family Festival in Haslemere Museum on Earth Day 22nd April 2023 from 10am to 4pm. With free activities at 15 different museum, gallery and wildlife stalls making wildlife-inspired craft, listening to fascinating talks about Surrey wildlife, finding bat houses and bees and admiring the artworks created by Surrey children for an epic national collective artwork! Info at https://www.haslemeremuseum.co.uk/whatson/index.html

St Erconwald’s Easter initiative

We would love for the children ( any age ) to make an Easter card or draw a small picture to hang on the Easter tree that will be on display in St Erconwald’s Church foyer. We will distribute them during Easter week to parishioners in the community and at St. Peter’s and Walton Hospital. We would love to have the children and parents more involved in these initiatives. So please watch this space for more things to come! Thank you.

Bushy Park Nature Day - Bushy Park Wednesday 5th Apr 2023

FREE drop-in activities for adults and families from 11am – 2pm. Discover the hidden parts of Bushy Park on a guided walk, have a go at nature-inspired crafts, and learn about the wildlife that calls the park home.

https://www.royalparks.org.uk/whats-on/upcoming-events/bushy-park-nature-day3

Children's events at Hersham Library

We'd be grateful if you could share details of the following children's events, taking place at Hersham Library!

Spring craft session: Come make a pop-up craft with us on Saturday 15 April, 10.30-11.30am. This is a free event.

Doodle Club: Do you like drawing cartoons? Writing your name in silly letters? Doodling patterns all over your homework? This club is for you! We'll try out different things to draw and play some drawing games.  This is a 6-week club that will run the first half of summer term, 20/4 - 25/5. £3 per child.

For both the craft session and the Doodle Club, please sign up at the library or at hersham.library@surreycc.gov.uk

School Dinners

Please remember to book school dinners on Scopay at least 1 day in advance or ring the school office before 9am if you have left it too late to book/cancel online for that day.

Allergies

If your child has an allergy please make sure the school office is informed. Please check the menu carefully before booking lunch for your child.