St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School
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News from St Margaret Clitherow...
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Harvest Donations to the local Foodbank
Fri 06 Oct 2023Thank you to everyone who has donated to our CAFOD Harvest Appeal for items for the local Foodbank - we have been overwhelmed with your wonderful support.
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Share Bracknell Pop-Up Foodbank
Mon 03 Jul 2023Saturday 8th July 11-1pm
Venue: St Margaret Clitherow playground
Entrance: Ringmead Gate
In collaboration with the Shine Charity and St. Joseph's Catholic Church, St Margaret Clitherow will host a pop-up foodbank where the public will be able to come and collect perishable food items donated by local supermarkets.
This initiative will begin this Saturday 8th July and run on a weekly.
Food is free, however, Shine asks for a donation of £1 which contributes to their 'Pay-it-Forward' scheme, whereby donations are invested in other charitable works.
Please spread the word to anyone who you may know is in need of help with rising food costs.
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International Day
Thu 29 Jun 2023On Thursday 29th June we celebrated the Mass of St. Peter & Paul with Fr. Danny.
We also celebrated the diversity of our school community by holding an International Day to acknowledge and recognise the many different nationalities we have at St Margaret Clitherow.
Children were invited to come wearing their country's national dress or items that represented their country/culture. Many of the children also brought in food to share with their class mates.
Many of the children thought that it is important to celebrate our diversity to ensure that all feel welcome and included in our community.
The children stated:
It was good to try new foods – Rafi Yr5
We got to show our cultures and beliefs – Josh Yr5
Fun to try food from different nationalities – Maria Yr6
I enjoyed wearing clothes from my own culture – it made me feel proud – Nisa Yr6
It was fun to see the national dress of other countries - Ansh Yr6
We enjoyed learning about the countries that other children are from e.g. how far away they are, what they do etc. – Logan & Isabelle Yr6
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Coronation Celebrations at SMC
Fri 05 May 2023We have had a wonderful day of celebrations for the Coronation. The song we have been learning was performed as part of the assembly today.
Charlie Bear came to visit us too whilst we had our special picnic. The children all have a special bookmark to commemorate this occasion in school, which they will bring home tonight.
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Book Week 2023
Fri 28 Apr 2023Book Week 2023 has been a busy and exciting week. Here are some of the things we have been doing as a whole school.
- We have had visits from Bracknell Library telling us about how to borrow books and how we can use the local libraries.
- We have all been taking part in ‘Drop Everything And Read’ at the end of the school day and the teachers and children have enjoyed listening to a story or reading independently.
- We have had visits from 2 published authors. They have shared their books with us and we found out where they got their ideas from. We were able to ask them questions about their books and how to become an author.
- We all had the opportunity to dress up as a character from a book for World Book Day. All the children made a great effort and the array of costumes was lovely to see. We showed off our costumes to the whole school during an assembly and lots of children were inspired to read new books and reminded of books that they hadn’t read for a while.
- All the children have been given a Book Token to use at a local bookstore. You can swap your book token for a World Book Day book for Free. Tokens are valid from Thursday 16th February to Sunday 26th March 2023.
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Hair Donation and Fundraising
Mon 20 Feb 2023We are always so proud when we see the children in our community living out their Catholic Social Teaching values. This week Esme, Nancy and Olive joined a very special group of children in donating their hair to The Little Princess Trust. Pictured are all the children who have donated to this charity over the past year.
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Bronze for the Year 5 and 6 Sportshall Team
Fri 27 Jan 2023
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Zero Waste Jumper Swap Day
Wed 16 Nov 2022Working together as a School Community to show:
Solidarity
Care for Creation
Concern for the Poor and Vulnerable
Family Participation and Community
Year 6 will sort and organise all the Christmas Jumpers and bring each class in to choose their Christmas Jumper from our Swap selection.
Parents, grandparents and Siblings all welcome to join in.
We are pledging to not buy any new Christmas Jumpers this year and to ensure everyone has something to wear!
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CAFOD Harvest and Fast Day
Fri 07 Oct 2022Incredible response to request for urgent items that the Foodbank need. Many thanks to everyone in the SMC community who have supported us with this.
Also thanks to Matt White from CAFOD who is running CST workshops all day to help the children understand about their role in giving and looking outwardly to help others.
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Mini Marathon Event
Fri 23 Sep 2022Dear Parents and Carers,
Today we have launched a very exciting event that we have entered as a school! We are going to be running the London 2.6 Mini-Marathon in aid of Make a Wish Foundation.
I am very lucky to be running London Marathon on Sunday 2nd October and I really wanted the children here at SMC to be part of the experience with me. We have had a special launch assembly today and they are certainly up for the challenge.
Mr Prower is going to be putting on special running events over the next two weeks in school to enable the children to all achieve their personal goal of 2.6 miles. As part of this we will all running our final section together as a community.
Running is such a passion for me and it is not about breaking records it’s about exercising outdoors and being part of something bigger. My mantra is always to put one foot in front of the other and not fall over!
Please encourage your children to raise sponsorship of at least £1 for Make A Wish which we will collect over the next two weeks and to cheer each other on along the way. We don’t mind if they run, walk or skip their way to their goal, it’s about doing something as a community together.
Many thanks in advance for your support our Mini-Marathoners!
Kind regards
Mrs Mulholland
