BISHOP MARTIN WEEKLY NEWS
20/12/13
Autumn Term Issue 14
“Inspire, Enjoy, Achieve” Tel No. 01695 724730 Dates for Your Diary Tuesday 24th December – Christmas Eve 4.00pm Carols, Crib and Christmas Cake family service at Christ the Servant Church – everyone welcome. 11.30pm Midnight Mass at Christ the Servant Church Wednesday 25th December – Christmas Day 10.00 Christmas Day Service at Christ the Servant Church
Monday 6th January 2014 8.55am school reopens for all.
Headteacher – Mrs A Gray
www.bishopmartin.lancs.sch.uk
Good Bye and Good Luck Rev. Janet We would like to take this opportunity to say Good Bye, Good Luck and Thank You to Rev Janet Heighton whom has been our schools minister for the last 6 and a half years. We wish you all the best for the future and you will not be forgotten. Y6 Choir Well done to our year 6 children’s choir who visited The Concourse Shopping Centre on Monday to sing Christmas carols. They have done so well and enjoyed it so much they raised over £65 to go towards events in the new year. Thank you for your support especially the parents who turned up to watch.
Bike Raffle Thank you to all the children and parents who bought tickets for the new bike. We raised an amazing £100 to help with the start up of our new Breakfast Club. Well done to Sean who won the bike.
Our children sing for Merrill Osmond If you were around in the 1970s you will know about the American pop group The Osmonds. Their lead singer, Merrill Osmond and his son Justin (who is deaf) have started a charity called The Hearing Fund UK which aims to help deaf children in The UK. Mrs Firth made a video of our children singing and signing May The God of Hope and showed it to Merrill on Saturday. He was really impressed with the children’s singing and sign language skills, saying that it made him feel The Holy Spirit. He is looking forward to finding out more about our children’s singing in our school in the New Year when we will be doing some fund raising for The Hearing Fun UK.
School Clubs W/C 6/1/2014
No Before and after school clubs this week. Photographs and School Events Reminder: Can we ask that any photographs taken at these events are not posted on any social network sites or on any websites? Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. ATTENDANCE Attendance figures for week ending 6th December 2013. Congratulations to the Otters on achieving 97.9% 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
Y1/2 – Otters Y4/5 - Owls Y6 – Lions R – Caterpillars Y4/5 – Dolphins Y3 - Penguins Y2 - Squirrels
97.9% 96.5% 96.1% 95.7 % 93.8% 93.2% 88.5%
95% for whole school attendance
WELL DONE!!! The minimum acceptable attendance is 95%.
Please ensure your children are in school every day and on time. School starts at 8.55am.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all the staff at Bishop Martin.