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We warmly invite all families of future pupils seeking enrolment in Nursery or Reception in 2023 at St Bede’s to come along to our open evening on Wednesday 5 October. This is a wonderful opportunity to experience what our school can offer you and your child. Our school tour will be a great chance for parents to meet our friendly staff and pupils and tour our amazing school facilities.
This year we will be offering a limited number of school tours to interested families. The tours will take place after school and will be limited to ten places. Only one parent should attend without children. This is to limit the number of visitors to school. The dates are below. To book your place please contact the School Office on 01772 335861 or e-mail bursar@st-bedes.lancs.sch.uk
Wednesday 29 September 4pm
Wednesday 13 October 6pm
Thursday 4 November 4pm
Thank you to all the families that sent in the entries to our reading competitions. We are pleased to announce that Megan and Nadia in Y1 and Sienna in Y4 are the winners of Extreme Reading and George in Reception and Jakub in Y6 are the winners of the Potato Book character. Well done! Prizes will be with the winners shortly.
Background
The Governing Body of St Bede’s Catholic Primary School wishes to lower the school age to 3 years from 1 September 2021. This will replace the current Section 27 Nursery arrangement.
The Proposal
The Nursery provision will continue to be for twenty-six places (full time equivalent) with children admitted the term after their third birthday. Places will be available to families in receipt of free childcare through the government’s Extended Childcare Offer. There will be an admissions policy to co-ordinate the allocation of places.
The school’s reception class admission number of 30 will not be changed as a result of this proposal.
How to Respond
The Governing Body of St Bede’s Catholic Primary School want to ensure that parents and any other interested parties have sufficient opportunity to give their views. You are invited to submit comments in writing about the proposal above to: The Chair of Governors, St Bede’s Catholic Primary School, Preston Road, Chorley PR6 7EB
Alternatively you may wish to e-mail: bursar@st-bedes.lancs.sch.uk
Please submit any comments by 22 March 2021. The Governing Body will meet in the Summer term to consider the formal ratification of the change.
On Thursday the Year 3 guitar group handed over eight guitars to Ian Mountain from an organisation called Play for Cuba. Due to restrictions in Cuba, it is difficult to obtain instruments such as guitars and brass instruments. We had a number of guitars which had been left by former pupils. We thought that this was a good way to help children less fortunate than us.
Congratulations to our Y5 team who used teamwork and problem solving skills to win the Thomas Martland Trophy competition last night.
The competition is run annually by the Maths department at Holy Cross Catholic High School and is contested by their local feeder schools.
The event is supported by Mr and Mrs Martland and family in memory of their son Thomas who sadly lost his battle with cancer.
BOOK FAIR
A reminder that our School Book Fair will begin today at 3.15pm in the School Hall and will run each day after school until Friday 21 October. There will be a range of books available to purchase along with stationary, posters and much more. We ask that you to please bring in coins to pay for items (for example £2 & £1 coins, 50p, 20p etc) as we will have a limited amount of change.
CREATIVE WEEK
To tie in with our Creative Week theme of 'Loving Life' we will be holding some competitions for children to participate in this week.
KS1 & KS2 COMPETITION (Open to Year 1 - Year 6)
RECEPTION COMPETITION (Open to Reception Class only)
Competition entries MUST be in by the morning of Friday 21 October - Winners will be announced in Fridays Awards Assembly.