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Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School

11th October 2019

Thank You As we approach our final week of half-term, it has

been marvellous to see that the children are still

working hard to be the best that they can be.

Throughout the week, we have had some visitors to

our school who have all been very complimentary of

the children’s manners, their work ethic, their effort

in their work and the school environment.

It also made me feel extremely proud to be the Prin-

cipal at Corpus Christi when I received an email from

a member of the public who commended the exem-

plary behaviour of our Year six children when he met

them on their return from Plas-Dol-Y-Moch. We

have continued to hear some amazing stories of

their time there alongside some very informative

leaflets that they have produced.

Year five and six also had the privilege of attending

the Romero mass at St Patrick’s Catholic Church on

Wednesday for the Feast day of John Henry New-

man who will be canonised this weekend in Rome.

The rest of the school enjoyed joining Archbishop

Bernard in a live streamed service for the Adoration

of the Blessed Sacrament.

Our school football team had their first match this

week against St Elizabeth’s and they all played ex-

tremely well as a team showing the true Corpus

Christi spirit, emerging with a victorious 8-2 victory.

Our doors will be open to parents on Tuesday at

9.00am and 5.30pm if parents wish to speak with

myself regarding the parent survey or any improve-

ments that you feel could make our school even

better: I look forward to seeing you then.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mr K Shakespeare

Diary Dates

October 2019

Tuesday 15th - Q&A with Mr Shakespeare

Monday 21st to Fri day 25th - Half Term

Tuesday 29th - individual photographs

November 2019

Friday 8th - School closed for

Romero Training Day

Thursday 7th - class photographs

Tuesday 29th & Wednesday 30th - parent’s

evening.

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Every time you spend £30 in any Aldi store you’ll receive a Team GB sticker. You may need to ask the Aldi staff if they are not offered to you. Please bring your stickers into school to help complete our poster. Once the poster is complete with 300 stickers we send it off to receive an exclusive sports kit and be in the chance to win £20,000

Please ensure that your child has

a PE uniform in school all week.

In the colder weather please

make sure your child has a black

sweatshirt or hoody and black

jogging bottoms and trainers

suitable for outside. Don’t forget to name eve-

rything!

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Year 2

This week Year Two would like to take the oppor-tunity to share in our successes. Within English, we have all become young authors writing our own stories. We have innovated the story ‘The Gingerbread Man’ creating our very own special versions. We have invented our own gingerbread biscuits based at Corpus Christi, which have been chased by some very interesting characters such as Mr Shakespeare. The children have worked so hard to improve their handwriting and punc-tuation which you can see below.

As well as being fan-tastic authors, Year Two have also been scientists. This week we have investigated different materials properties. We have worked together to investigate which material would make the best bucket to stop the Great Fire of London spread-ing. We worked as groups to make buckets using metal, paper, fabric and plastic. The children loved testing their buckets and finding out which

one would be most wa-terproof. Have a look at our amaz-ing investiga-tion below.

Catholic Life and Collective Worship

On Wednesday year 5 and 6 joined the Romero Academy and contribut-

ed beautifully for our 4th Romero Mass. From the singing, the musicians, the dance, the prayers and the IT everything worked beautifully together. Sincere thank you to you all! Hopefully the children will remember where they were on the Feast of Cardinal Newman soon to be Saint!

In preparation for transition to secondary school, pupils in Year 5 and 6 can bring a mo-bile phone if they walk unaccompanied by an adult to and from school. The phone must be handed in, switched off, given to the teacher first thing in the morning, and collected from them by the child at home time. Parents are advised that Corpus Christi accepts no liability for the loss or damage to mobile phones which are brought into school or school grounds. Mobile phones are only to be used for texting/phoning parents or carers to

acknowledge safe arrival at school or to make arrangements for the end of the day. If the latter needs to be done in school time, a pupil will be asked to do this under staff supervision. Mobile phones will be confiscat-ed and returned at the end of the day should these rules not be adhered to.

Early years

You may have noticed work is well underway in the Early year’s outdoor learning space. There may be some further disruption next week, and the children will use the key stage 1 playground for outdoor learning. We are hoping drop off and pick up should carry on as normal, but will keep you updated if anything changes. We look for-

ward to the finished result when we return after half term.

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Special Mentions

We had a wonderful celebration

assembly this morning. Well done

shining stars!

EYFS

The whole of Reception

KS1

Friendly, Janice, Mia,

Adele, Sebastian, Ethan, Maya, and Essey.

KS2

Evra, Abigail, Mayley, Lyra, Dominic, Denis,

Luis, Nikola, Diana, Rhoda, Jim and Tasha.

Whole school attendance for week ending 27th September is 97.4%

Whole School overall attendance for this year is 97%, our target for this year is 97.5%.

Well done to Year 5K who achieved 100% attendance last week!

School Applications

https://www.coventry.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Secondary 2020 entry

The application process is now open and closes on the National closing date of 31st October 2019. All applications received after this date will not be considered until after the offer date of 2nd March 2020.

Primary 2020 entry

The application process is now open and closes on the National closing date of 15th January 2020. All applications received after this date will not be considered until after the offer date of the 16th April 2020.

Group Last week Late

Year RC 92.0% 3

Year RW 96.2% 5

Year 1H 98.5% 5

Year 1K 96.5% 6

Year 2SM 96.0% 5

Year 2GL 99.2% 4

Year 3W 97.8% 1

Year 3A 98.9% 1

Year 4M 98.7% 2

Year 4P 98.0% 1

Year 5E 97.2% 6

Year 5JK 100% 6

Year 6DS 97.4% 0

Totals 97.4% 45

Sports News

On Wednesday we had our first match Vs St Elizabeth’s. Corpus Christi won 8-2 and

all of boys showed great spirit, character and sportsmanship as they won the game.

Andy was awarded MOTM.

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Our houses were established 10 years ago and the names were inspired by major Coventry landmarks. The 3 spires and Lady Godiva, creating Christchurch, Trinity, St Michaels and Godiva. The previous years Vice Captains become House Captains each year, they are all in Year 6 and are fantas-tic role models for the school: Jacob, Sophia, Alan and Oliwia. Every child is assigned a house and each week the house points from each class are collected. Children are awarded house points for effort and achievement in their learning, for demonstrating excellent man-ners and care for others an modelling our school rules. This is recorded on the House Point wall in the school hall and published on our newsletters and school website. In the summer term Sports Day is all about team work - each child represents their own house. In every event the child that comes 1st, 2nd or 3rd is awarded points and the house with the most points. These points are added to the running totals for each house and an overall winner is declared. The house cup is awarded to the house that has collectively gathered the highest number of points.

Cardinal Wiseman News

Consultation on Admission arrangements for Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School for entry from September 2021 Cardinal Wiseman is consulting on proposed admission arrangements for the academic year 2021/2022 and beyond. We would welcome representation from all interested parties on this consultation. Admissions to Cardinal Wiseman will continue to be co-ordinated through Coventry LA’s Co-ordinated Scheme. We are proposing to amend the course entry requirements to our Sixth Form. The school wishes to receive any views or comments from parents/carers, church, local community and from anyone else who may be affected. The consultation period will run from 7 October 2019 – 18 November 2019. A draft copy of the school’s proposed new Admissions Policy 2021/22 can be viewed by visiting the school’s website on www.cardinalwiseman.coventry.sch.uk/information/admissions or from Cardinal Wiseman on request. Comments on this consultation should be submitted either in writing to Mr Thomas Leverage at Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Potters Green Road, Coventry, CV2 2AJ or by email to admin@cardinalwiseman.coventry.sch.uk

School Houses

Godiva Trinity Christchurch St Michaels

640 weekly 453 weekly 595 weekly 458 weekly

3081 running total 1843 running total 2437 running total 2067 running total