Llangewydd Road, Bridgend, CF31 4JW. Telephone: 01656 815560 Email: [email protected] Headteacher: Mr Lyndon Watkins, BA (Hons), MA (Ed), PGCE, NPQH Deputy Headteacher: Mrs Rachel Azzopardi, BA (Hons), MA (Ed) (Hons) St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School Ysgol Santes Fair Friday 15th November 2019 This week we celebrate the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary me. Dear Parent, Our next school led Mass at St. Mary’s Church will take place on the Feast of Christ the King, Sunday 24 th November, beginning at 11am. As ever, please do come along and support these Masses which are such an integral part of the Catholic life of our school. Your ongoing commitment to them is much appreciated. This morning a large group of family members joined us and the children in Year 1 as they brought to a close our RE theme on Beginnings. They put across to us the importance of the Sacrament of Bapsm superbly. Thank you to the children and the staff involved for their hard work. This aſternoon our rugby and netball teams travelled to Maesteg to play against St. Mary’s & St. Patrick’s school. We trust that they enjoyed the experience and had a wonderful aſternoon of sport. On Saturday 23 rd November the Entrepreneurship Group who have been meeng on Monday evenings with the support of several staff members will be running some stalls in the Bridgend Market. They will be selling a range of items that they have made in school, both in the club and in various classes throughout. Please do pop along to support them at some point during the day if possible. My thanks to the staff who have given up their me to support the children in order to have this excellent experience. All of the people who are able to purchase some of our end of season honey should now have been informed. All the names were chosen at random electronically. We trust that you will very much enjoy the beauful taste of our honey. The paern of our Navies for this year is once again shown below. Tickets are available from Monday onwards priced at £2.50 each. Please clearly mark on an envelope which performances you want the ckets for and we will get them to you. 11 th December, Year 1/2 Navity at 10am and Nursery/Recepon Navity at 1.30pm 12 th December, Nursery/Recepon Navity at 10am and Year 1/2 Navity at 1.30pm 17 th December, Year 3/4 Navity at 10am and Year 5/6 Navity at 1.30pm 18 th December, Year 5/6 Navity at 10am and Year 3/4 Navity at 1.30pm News from the Friends of St. Mary’s Tickets sll available for our trip to the Christmas Market at Bath on Saturday 30 th November, leaving McArthur Glen at 8am and leaving Bath around 5pm. This should be a wonderful day out, do please come and join us if at all possible. Tickets are priced at £15. Simply send your money into school and we will get the ckets to you. The Friends are organising an End of term Christmas Disco for our children on Thursday 19 th December. It will run from 6-7.30pm and ckets for it will go on sale in a short while. The recent Coffee Morning held by the Friends of the school proved to be very popular and we have had requests to run addional ones. Therefore the Friends will organise a Coffee Morning for Thursday 5 th December at 9am. Please do come along and join us. Take advantage of the opportunity to relax and have a chat for a lile while. Your support of this would be very much appreciated. Many thanks to all the parents who ensure that their children who have packed lunches have a balanced meal. This is something that we teach our children about in school and therefore we would be very grateful if you could support this by ensuring that packed lunches are balanced and do not include too much in the way of sweet and sugary foods. Thank you for helping our teaching in this area. A team of our Year 6 pupils are currently preparing for a Spelling Bee compeon to be held at St. Clare’s school on the 28 th November. We wish them all the best and an enjoyable experience there. Health & Safety noce: Would all parents please ensure they do not enter the school grounds on foot through the large gates at the front of the car park. This presents a significant risk as these gates are only designed for vehicles entering the car park area. Instead please ensure you use the small pedestrian gates. Thanks for your help with this.