22nd March, 2024
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Dear Parents and Carers
Just a note to say a huge thank you to all of you for your amazing support for our school during the inspection on Tuesday and Wednesday. Our staff team really felt the outpouring of love, support and prayers and we were hugely buoyed by kind messages and generous contributions to our staffroom which were enormously appreciated! Especially the chocolate bars - thank you!
As you know, this was an ungraded inspection. There is therefore no individual grading process for the different areas. The inspector was visiting to ensure that we remain a good school and that safeguarding is effective. It was a rightly rigorous process and we felt that the inspector really understood our lovely school. Our children were amazing at articulating their learning and their pride in our school. Feedback from the parent and staff questionnaires was extremely positive and we are immensely grateful for the support you give us each and every day! Thank you!
We expect the report in the summer term and we will of course share it with you when it arrives. In the meantime, we will go on doing our very best every day for our community of learners, believers and friends.
Thank you again for your support.
Catherine Burnham and Gerry Flower
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Governors’ Fund classroom iPad appeal
Technology in schools has become a staple used in everyday teaching and learning activities. It is important that children develop their technological literacy and become comfortable using a variety of instructional materials, tools and programs for their own learning that will help prepare them for secondary school and life beyond.
We are blessed to have a dedicated ICT suite of desktop computers for the teaching of ICT as a curriculum subject but the school would benefit greatly from the opportunity to enhance its technology provision in classrooms to help develop the children’s skills in cross-curricular situations through other subjects.
Our next focus is to support the school in purchasing 30 new 10th generation iPads (together with anti-shock cases for protection). This will enable a whole class to work, communicate and collaborate through digital means on a 1:1 basis and will be something available for all year groups to use.
As you will appreciate, keeping up with the latest technology is a costly process and is not something that schools are able to do easily in the current climate of funding squeezes and significant cost pressures. We would be extremely grateful for any donations you feel able to give towards this worthwhile project, which you can make easily online here. Thank you for your support.
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Mobile phone use onsite
Please can we kindly remind you mobile phones should not be used onsite for safeguarding reasons. Thank you for your co-operation.
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News
School Uniform
Please note after the Easter holidays, children should wear summer uniform for the summer term.
Clubs next week
Please be aware that during the last week of term next week, there will be no teacher led clubs or homework club.
Some externally run clubs may still be running, so please contact them directly if you are not sure.
Toy Sale
Thank you for your support with this today.
123 Parenting Course
St. Erconwalds Easter masses
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Easter Camps
Planet Soccer Easter camp
Planet Soccer will be running a Multisports camp from Monday 8th - Friday 12th April. Click here for more details.
Footbellas Easter camp
Footbellas will be running a camp at Easter. Click here for flyer.
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22 Mar 2024
Last Thursday, Year 6 were put through their paces by an ARP (Air Raid Precaution) Warden, learning the importance of putting on a gas mask quickly and keeping safe around unexploded bombs. They gained useful insight into life during the war and understanding that 'Careless talk costs lives...
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Brooklands Museum - School Membership card
Please note the card is now booked up until the Summer holidays but if you would like to go on a waiting list, please contact the office. If you have booked the card and are no longer able to make that date, please let the office know.
For more information about the museum, please visit www.brooklandsmuseum.com
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National Online Safety: Wake Up Wednesday Guides for Parents
We would like to make you aware of our ‘online safety’ advice, guidance and support page called ‘Wake Up Wednesday - what parents / carers need to know’.
Wake Up Wednesday, created by The National College, aims to inform parents and carers on topics such as social media platforms, gaming, and IPad security. They include top tips, important reminders and reality checks on a wide range of online safety topics. They are a great resource to keep up to date with the issues children may encounter.
We will post relevant articles of interest that should help you and your child. Previous articles will be archived on a section of the 'computing' area of our website.
We thank you for your ongoing support in assuring the safety of our pupils online.
Please click here for What Parents need to know about Encouraging Open Conversation at home.
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Eco Committee
This week, we have started our drive to recycle single used plastics in school. Instead of throwing broken pens and used up glue sticks in our waste bins, we will collect them all up and take them to Elmbridge Community Hub to be recycled. We also hope that the large bin that we will be using to collect the stationary, will show us all at school, how we need to conserve our resources and try not to be wasteful with them.
Easter Holidays
Our Forest School topic for next term will be focused on our Marine environment and trying to eliminate plastic waste from the oceans. If you are visiting a beach or waterways this holidays please take a photo of the plastic you encounter and send it to our padlet at - https://padlet.com/CardinalNewman/eco-committee-marine-action-2hzse9p6miwjorz3
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Teach Southeast
Train to teach with outstanding ITT provider Xavier Teach Southeast.
Take a moment to flick through XTSE's prospectus here or watch some of our 'success stories' here.
Follow XTSE on social media to find out about more events, or just pick up the phone today to the Xavier Teach SouthEast team on 01932 578 682 or email j.crome@xaviercet.org.uk
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Parents Association Notes
To contact the PA, please email: PA@cardinalnewmanschool.co.uk
Bag2School Collection
Thank you for all your support with the Bag2School collection. We collected an amazing 250 kg!
Y1 Cake Sale
Thank you for your support with this today.
Uniform Sale
Thank you for your support with this today.
Sponsored Read
Thank you so much to all of the children who participated in the Sponsored read, it was lovely to see your works of art & whacky reading locations. Overall £385 was raised which is amazing and will go directly into funding a new lending library and books for the school. THANK YOU!!!
Our prizewinners are:
KS1/EYFS - Poppy R
KS2 - Adam R R
Your prizes (kindly donated from Waterstones Walton) will be left for you at reception.
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School Clubs
Summer Clubs April 2024
After Crafts - Please find flyer here.
Chess Club - Please book via Scopay.
Code camp - Please see flyer here
Engineering club - Please find flyer here
French Club - Please find flyer here
MTech - an extracurricular music technology and creative composition course for children aged 7-13. For the flyer click here.
Tae Kwon Do - For Year 2-6. Please find flyer here.
Ukulele club - Please book via Scopay. Please click here for more information.
Planet Soccer - Please see flyer here
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Lost Property
Please collect lost items from the lost property box in the KS1 playground. Please label everything clearly so it can be returned to the owner. Please note it can take some time for items to reach the lost property box depending on where they were lost.
Items not claimed from the lost property box will be disposed of periodically as it quickly builds up. Thank you.
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Communicating with your child's teacher
Messages for teachers can be put in your child's reading/homework diary/bookbag, eg. pick up arrangements, homework issues, lost property, requesting a meeting with the teacher or anything else you would like the teacher to know.
For KS2 children, please remind your child to tell the teacher that the message is in there.
Absences should still be communicated via the office. (see below)
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Pick-up notes
Please note that if someone other than a parent/carer is picking your child up, you need to let the teacher or the office know. Please put pick-up notes in your child's reading/ homework diary or bookbag.
For KS2 children, please remind your child to tell the teacher that the message is in there.
Children will not be released with someone else unless we have been notified of it.
If you do need to let the office know about a last minute pick-up change, please do so before 2 pm if possible.
Thank you for your co-operation.
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Y6 Independent Walkers
If your child is in Y6 and you would like to let us know they will be walking home from school independently, please email the office.
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Y6 Mobile Phones
If Y6 children wish to bring their mobile phone to school, they just need to drop the phone at the school office before school and collect it after school. Phones should be switched off please and not switched back on until children are off site.
No need to complete any form or email the office.
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How to report your child being absent or sick
Please notify the school office every day your child is absent from school before 9 am so we can adjust dinner figures and complete the registers. Please either ring the school office on 01932 222536 and leave a voicemail or email absence@cardinalnewmanschool.co.uk. If you email us about an absence, you will not receive an acknowledgement reply due to the large volume of emails we receive in relation to this daily.
If your child has a stomach bug, they should not return to school until 48 hours after the last episode of illness.
Absence Request
If you require a school absence for your child for some reason, please email the school office with the details.
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Wellbeing
Crisis Helpline
Children and Young People's Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service
Sleep and why it matters
Please click here for information on Sleep and why it matters. More videos can be found on the Childrens Health Surrey website here
National Sleep Helpline: We are here to help
At any given time up to 40% of adults and 50% of children (this rises to 80% with a SEND diagnosis) have difficulties with their sleep. Yet in a recent survey, almost 60% of adults felt there was a lack of support for sleep issues. Sleep problems can leave people feeling isolated and lonely.
Our free helpline is run by trained sleep advisors, many of whom are specialists in working with SEND. We can talk to young people directly, or parents (we can also talk to adults, including older people, about their sleep issues).
The helpline is open 5 times a week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday evenings 7-9pm, and Monday, Wednesday mornings 9-11am. The number is 03303 530 541.
You can read more here: https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/national-sleep-helpline/
Support groups and workshops for parents and carers
123 Magic Parenting course
No one has ever said parenting was easy. Living with children can be one of life’s most enjoyable experiences, but it can also be unbelievably frustrating. 123 Magic is a simple, precise and effective way of managing the behaviour of children. It’s not magic but works like magic! Please click flyer here for more information.
Parent Wellbeing Service, Barnardo's Referral Form
Please see information flyer here and referral form here for support from Barnardo's Parent Wellbeing Service.
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eSafety and Safeguarding
Reminder: Keeping children safe online and in the real world
At Cardinal Newman School we are always reminding the children how they can keep themselves safe whether in the real world or in the virtual world. Class teachers regularly use the Zones of Regulation to assess how the children in their classes are feeling. Children are encouraged to share their worries using the ‘What I want my teacher to know boxes’ which are in each Key Stage 2 classrooms and the Worry Monsters which can be found in the Keys Stage 1 Classrooms.
Information to support parents can be found on the school website here.
Please continue to report any safeguarding concerns to Mr Flower (Designated Safeguarding Lead) or Mrs Burnham (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead).
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To see the full Calender of Events, click here.
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School Day: 8.40 am - 3.15 pm Office opening hours: 8.00 am - 4.00 pm Monday - Friday
Arch Road, Hersham, KT12 4QT T: 01932 222536 E: office@cardinalnewmanschool.co.uk
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