Newsletter 9 Week ending 9th November 2018

Believe

you can

achieve!

Dear Parents and Carers,

Once again we have had a wonderful week of learning both in and out of school. Today I was privileged to

join Year 6 St Teresa’s Class as they took part in the Cranleigh Schools’ Peace Walk. If you have the

opportunity to visit the Cranleigh Centenary memorial garden at Snoxhall this weekend you will see that it

commemorates the 415 soldiers from Cranleigh who have lost their lives over the last 100 years through

conflict. You will also see our fabulous poppies on display.

Well done to Charlie and Joseph who have won the Cranleigh Schools’ poetry competition and have been

asked to read their poem at the war memorial on Sunday. Thank you to Reverend Roy for joining our

celebration assembly and presenting them with their prize. During our assembly we also had a visit from Mr

Deale from the Royal British Legion who talked to the children about the importance of the Royal British

Legion and the work that they do and how important it is to commemorate the end of World War One.

Thank you to all of the children who have supported their appeal this year and bought poppies.

This week in our liturgies we remember all those affected by war and the loss of loved ones.

Wishing you all a wonderful autumnal weekend.

Natalie McCarthy

Welcome from Xavier

We were delighted to officially welcome St Cuthbert Mayne into the Xavier Catholic

Education Trust on 1st November. Xavier CET supports a family of Catholic schools

from across Surrey to work together in collaboration to provide the best possible

education for all the children in our care.

Staff from the central team at Xavier have already been working closely with the school over recent months

and we are now looking forward to the whole community benefitting from the support and collaborative

opportunities that the Trust will provide.

Despite all the good work that Mrs McCarthy and the team have done so far, there are still plenty of

challenges ahead, not least in ensuring that the school is able to recruit the best teachers and support staff

going forward and in regaining the school’s reputation for being the number one choice for families in

Cranleigh and the surrounding area.

We are however confident, given both the school has to offer: delightful children, hardworking staff,

supportive families, governors and the parish and the Trust’s expertise that St. Cuthbert Mayne will be a

centre of excellent Catholic education going forward. Exciting times ahead!

Ani Magill CEO

Xavier Catholic Education Trust

Year 5 St Catherine’s Class Remember

Year 5 recently visited Cranleigh War Me-

morial as part of their World War II topic.

While there, we kept a minute’s silence.

Afterwards, we wrote reflections on our

visit. Joseph wrote, “I thought about their

families and how sad they must have

been. It made me think that war is the

worst thing ever to happen to the world.”

Jack wrote, “I felt so sad that all these

people in Cranleigh died to help our

country win the war so I think they must

have had a lot of guts and bravery to

even set foot on that battlefield. I am

very proud that people actually remem-

ber them with all their hearts and built a

war memorial for this village.”

Along with other schools in the village, Key Stage 2

have made poppies for the Centenary Garden at Snox-

all Field. On the back of the plates the children have

written names from the Cranleigh War Memorial.

trees.

Year 6 St Teresa’s Class Remember

Today, Year 6 St Teresa’s Class braved the small discomfort of the rain to join in with the Cranleigh Schools’

Peace Walk.

During the services and the walk children were asked to make two promises. The first “ We Will Remember”

and the second “We will be peacemakers in our everyday lives.”.

We listened to prayers, poems and the last post which was played on the trumpet as we were asked to

honour those who had fallen to bring us peace. The emphasis was very much on the future and how children

need to learn from the mistakes of the past and become a generation of people who were peaceful. The

children were visibly moved by the number of people who have lost their lives from their own villages in the

last 100 years.

Both Miss Smyth and I were very proud of how the children conducted themselves and also the thoughtful

discussions that were had during the walk.

It is a beautiful

garden and I would

highly recommend a

visit to it with your

children to see the

poppies before the

rain gets the better

of them.

Celebration of Arts in Cranleigh

‘A Celebration of the Arts in Cranleigh’s Schools’ which is being held by the Cranleigh Arts Society this evening from 7pm. Thank you to all of our children who are attending.

Thank you to Mrs Woodhams for co-ordinating this event and thank you to all of the children who have supplied the fantastic art work.

Romanian Shoe Box Appeal

We are once again supporting the Romanian Shoe Box appeal 2018 for deprived and disabled

children. We hope that all families will support this worthy cause. Shoe boxes should be returned to

school on Monday 19th November ready for collection.

Running total 14.

Happiness and Showing Respect

It is always great to see spontaneous examples of children

living out our school values.

Next week we will be building on this value and also focus

on being peacemakers in our homes and school during

Anti-bullying Week.

Please remember to wear odd socks on Monday.

Reception St David’s Class

Remember

Thank you to St David’s Class for this

fabulous school display

commemorating Remembrance Day

2018.

Sports leaders

At St Cuthbert Mayne we understand the important part that PE and

sport plays in keeping us fit and healthy and ready to learn.

Our pupils take part in the daily mile and we have several coaches

enhancing PE and sport in our school and providing support and training

for our teachers.

In addition to this pupils in Year 6 have recently had the opportunity to

be a Sports Crew member. Pupils have had to apply for this role. Their

role is to lead and inspire our pupils to develop a love of being active.

After having recently attended specific leadership training with Active Surrey at Broadwater School,

they will soon be organising an Intra school Mini Mile competition in December and will be leading

activities at playtime, as well as meeting once every half term to identify ways of improving PE and

sport in our school.

In 2018-19 our Sports Crew members are: Ella M, Isobel M, Emily W, and Kazyah.

Year 3 Tillingbourne Tournament

Well done to our Year 3 footballers for taking part

in your first football tournament. We can see from

this photo that you took it all in your stride and

enjoyed yourselves.

YEAR 5 Tillingbourne Tournament

Team: Will, Daniel i, Jack, Carlo, Josh, Joseph, Lewis, Charlie, Zack, Shivan. 1st game: Lost 0-1 vs Tillingbourne 2nd game: Lost 0-1 vs Busbridge Jack was in goal. Fantastic save. Busbridge had a freekick and Jack pushed the ball onto the bar. Unluckily, Busbridge scored in the last minute and then it was 1-0 to them. 3rd game: Drew 0-0 vs Park Mead We held them to 0-0, even though Park Mead won every other game. 4th game: Won 1-0 vs Grayswood (scorer: Charlie) 5th game: Won 3-0 vs Shottermill (scorers: Shivan x2, Charlie ) Overall, 7 points gained in our group and 4th place was ours. Well done to Busbridge who won the whole tournament. Report by Will

Parent Helpers and Volunteers

A very special thank you to all parents and staff who have helped out and shown their support. It has been a very ‘active’

start to the school year and November is proving to be a busy month with numerous sporting opportunities on offer.

Without you these events could not take place and I greatly appreciate all your support and enthusiasm.

Swimming Trials

Well done to all of our children who took part in the swimming trials last Sunday. This Sunday we will be holding our

second school swimming trials at Cranleigh Leisure Centre from 3.30-4.30pm for all Year 3-6 interested pupils. We look

forward to welcoming you. Selections were made and letters sent out on Monday 5th November to those individuals

who have been selected to attended a further training session on Sunday 11th November before representing the school

at the upcoming District Schools Swimming Gala on Sunday 18th November.

Best of luck to everyone and I look forward to seeing you on Sunday.

Mrs Singleton

Dates for

the Diary

ATTENDANCE

Attendance

figures for w.e.

2nd November

2018

Congratulations

to Y3 and

Reception

School Target

96.5%

Diary Dates

NOVEMBER

9th School Discos

10th Children’s artwork on display in Cranleigh centenary

memorial garden

10th Cranleigh Schools Cross Country

12th-16th Anti-bullying Week 2018

12th Odd Sock Day

13th 2.45pm Year 4 St Bernadette’s Class Assembly to

parents invited

16th Christmas Fair donations

19th Romanian shoe boxes to be returned to school

23rd Christmas Fair donations Mufti day

22nd 10am Open Morning for prospective parents

25th 12.15-2.15pm St Cuthbert Mayne Christmas Fayre

29th St Cuthbert Mayne Feast Day

29th am Mass for the Feast of St Cuthbert Mayne

DECEMBER

3rd School Closed

6th 9.30am EYFS/Key Stage One nativity to parents

6th 3.15-3.45pm Open Classrooms

6th Friends wreath making event

7th Parent Forum 2

7th 1.30pm EYFS/Key stage One nativity to parents

13th 9.30am Key Stage Two nativity to parents

13th 6pm Key Stage Two nativity to parents

21st 2pm Last day of Autumn Term

Class %

Reception 100%

Year 1 94.2%

Year 2 99.6%

Year 3 100%

Year 4 97.7%

Year 5 96.0%

Year 6 97.9%

Whole School 98.1%

A book for my birthday

Please can I thank parents and carers for

their generosity around children’s

birthdays. However, in line with Healthy

Schools and concerns raised by our

parents, it is our policy not to give out

sweets at birthday times.

Please can I encourage you to buy a book

for the class library instead.

NO MORE NUTS PLEASE

Thank you for supporting this and ensuring that

only fruit and vegetables are allowed for break time

snacks. Children in St David’s, St Andrew’s and St

Patrick’s class are provided with a fruit snack and

do not need to bring anything in addition with them

to school. Children in Key Stage Two should only

bring in fruit or vegetables as a snack.

Cross Country

Good luck to all our runners. I hope that

you will see the benefit of your daily mile

training in your running.

Thank you to Mrs Singleton for training

the children and to parents for

supporting this event. We are still short

of a few Year 6 runners so if anyone is

free tomorrow please come along.

Dear Parents,

It’s an exciting time of year at school with the lead up to Christmas and we

have many fundraising activities happening at the moment through the

Friends for you to get involved with.

Christmas Cards

Next week your children will be bringing home a scanned proof of their Christmas card design. On the

back there is a unique online order number for you to purchase your cards, wrapping paper and gift tags.

The deadline for online ordering is: Wednesday 20th November. Thank you in advance for your purchas-

es, the school receives money for each purchase you make.

Christmas Fair – Sunday 25th November 12.15- 2.15PM

The Christmas fair is rapidly approaching. Your reps will be getting in contact with you about what activi-

ties each year group is involved with and your rotas are in the process of being confirmed. Pupils will

wear mufti on Friday 23rd in return for Christmas fair donations. We have kept it the same as previous

years, so our suggested donations per family are as follows:

2 filled jam jars of sweets A bottle of booze Baked cake or box of mince pies Chocolate (box or pack of bars) Raffle ticket returns Unwanted gifts – to be used at the teachers stall – kids to buy and wrap a present for Mum or Dad Bric-a-brac (can be brought to school 11-1pm on Saturday) Christmas Fair Raffle –The top prizes are £100, A round of golf for 4 at the Cranleigh Golf and Leisure, and A Luxury Fortnum and Mason hamper and over 30 other lovely prizes that have been very gener-ously donated from local and surrounding businesses. Please can you bring raffle tickets back to school as soon as possible, please hand in sold tickets to the friends, the office or Tracy in the Parish office. If you need more tickets ask Abi, Sarah or Karolina in the playground, or Tracy Laffar in the parish office, this is a major fundraiser so please sell as many as possi-ble. Wreath Making – Wreath making is on Thursday 6th December 7.30pm onwards in the school hall. Tick-ets will be sold on a first come first served basis and we will be selling them after school under the cov-ered area from Monday 19th November. Cost is £25, to include all basic materials and tuition with a glass of mulled wine. Please bring items to personalise and make it your own, you will also need to bring gloves and secateurs. You can email us at thefriendsscm@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to reserve a ticket. Thank you for all your support this term. The Friends.