St Cecilia's News

London Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM3 9DL

Email: office@stcecilias.school
Website: www.stcecilias.school
Phone: 020 8337 4566

I hope you and your loved ones have kept well during the current lockdown. It has been so lovely to have all the children back in school from the 8th of March. Well done to all our children and you as parents who supported the learning throughout this difficult time. We know juggling work, learning, and extended family commitments is no mean feat so congratulations and thank you.

The children have been brilliant at adapting to the safety measures we have in place and these have become routine for them. They are very aware of the importance of good hygiene to keep everyone safe. Thank you to all parents and carers for keeping to the social distancing guidance and wearing masks around the school site. We have been so fortunate to have had only a few positive cases where thankfully everyone has made a good recovery.

We have a large number of key worker parents in our community, and on behalf of us all I would like to thank them for all their hard work in keeping us safe.

Thank you to all our teaching staff who embraced live lessons and held google meets to support the children’s social skills. The variety of lessons planned and the creativity of the children has been wonderful to see.

The children had great fun creating, testing, and investigating a variety of scientific concepts. The range of experiments was amazing from our youngest scientists in Nursery who made volcanoes right through to the older children with their lava lamps and elephant toothpaste! It provided the perfect opportunity for the children to come together and work as a team after such a long time apart. The awe and wonder on the faces of the children were lovely to see. As it was International Women's Day, there was also a focus on women who had achieved incredible things.

You may have done a double-take when dropping off at school on Monday morning as there were some very strange-looking aliens and astronauts entering the school. Year Two had an amazing Space Day - from exploding rockets (always great fun) to making galaxy cupcakes. They even took on the role of researchers for NASA looking for new planets which they then recreated. The highlight of the day had to be trying some Astronaut freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches. A great day was had by everyone - the costumes were amazing and very creative - well-done.

Thank you to St Martin de Porres class, Ms. Humphrey, and Mrs. Kolendo for their hard work in ensuring that the Stations of the Cross took place. This has been filmed and the Junior children watched this as part of their Lenten reflection. It will also be sent to St Martin's parents. This is always a very moving assembly and whilst in a different format this year, it is still very spiritual.

There was a lot of anticipation and excitement over the Easter Egg raffle. Thank you for your generosity, we raised over £600 which will be sent to our lenten charity, the Catholic Children’s Society to support the work they do offering help and hope to families in our society.

We say a fond farewell to Miss Pearson who is returning to her family in Australia. I would like to thank her for all she has done during her time at St. Cecilia’s to support the children in Reception and Year 2. We wish her good luck and every happiness for the future. We welcome back Mrs. O’Dwyer who has returned from maternity leave and is teaching in St. Thomas More's class.

Many congratulations to Mrs. Everton and her husband, on the birth of their baby girl who arrived on Valentine’s Day.

Nursery offers have now gone out to parents for this September. Parents who have applied for Reception places will hear on the National Primary Offer Day of 16th April. We will be in touch with parents who have been successful in their application soon after that, we cannot confirm when the induction meetings will be held but you will be kept informed. We look forward to welcoming you to our school in September.

We would like to celebrate your child's achievements and share their progress with you. We will be holding Parent/Teacher meetings on the 11th and 13th of May. Details of how to book your timeslot will be sent out after Easter.

Thank you for all your kind messages for Mr. Burke. He is making steady progress and we wish him well as his recovery continues.

Easter is a time of hope and this year it is particularly poignant as we pray that the vaccination programme is effective and our lives can return to some kind of normality.

On behalf of all the staff at St. Cecilia’s, we wish you all a Happy and Blessed Easter.

With best wishes,

Mrs Bernadette Martin, Deputy Headteacher