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St Teresas Catholic Primary School

Ashingdon RoadRochford

Essex SS4 1RF

Tel: 01702 547918

Fax: 01702 530193

www.st-teresas-rochford.ik.orgHeadteacher: Mrs N. Stevens

St Teresas Parish Church

http://www.rcrochford.org

Parish Priest: Father G. Drummond

FOSTs Mobile: 07598580118

3rd December: Parish CraftFayre

4th December: Family Mass

5th December: 9.30

Reconciliation Yr 4, 5 and 612 1pm FOSTs Meeting

6th December: 9.20 amInauguration of the Boy/GirlBishop

6th, 7th, 8th December: Phase 1Nativity

11th December: 10.30 Boy/GirlBishop to preach

14th December: Carol Mass

3rd January 2012 SchoolClosure Day

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As in previous years, we will be

operating an internal Christmas Post

Box from today. The post box issituated in the library area so that

children will be able to bring their

Christmas Cards to school and post

them to their friends. Please can you

ensure the name (including surname) of

the child the card is being sent to, and

their class, is written

clearly on the front

of the envelope to

avoid confusion!

Year 6 will deliver the

cards just before the

end of term.

Applications for Reception Class places

for children born between 1st

September 2007 and 31st August 2008

are now being accepted by Essex

County Council for September 2012.If you wish to apply for a place at St

Teresas you must complete an Essex

County Council Common Application

Form and a St Teresas Supplementary

Information Form. Essex Countys

online application system will remain

open until midnight on 15th January

2012.

Our next Family Mass will take place

this Sunday, 4th December at 10.30

am. I would urge parents and children

to join us as Father Gerry celebrates

the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on the

second Sunday of Advent. Mrs

Johnson and the Church choir haveextended an invitation for the children

to join the choir on Sunday.

Please see the notice attached tothe newsletter about children who

are entitled to

Free School Meals.

Thank you to the Year 3 and Year 4

children for the very prayerful

Advent Service they presented last

Friday. The readings and the singingwere superb. Well done to everyone

involved.

Thank you to Year 5 and Year 6 who

led our celebration of the Mass last

Monday.

As parents will have seen, the building

work commenced last week. The work

will continue for the next few months.

Certain restrictions have had to be put

in place for the safety of all.

Please note that the barriers at the

front of the building are

for pedestrian access

for visitors and staff to

the school.

A message from Mrs S. Marshall.

The Junior Glee Club will

be performing at 2pm on

Sunday at the Rochford

Lights, Rochford Square.

Please come and support us!

The next FOSTs meeting will be held

on Monday 5th December at 12 pm-1 pm

inthe Annexe. All welcome.

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With very best wishesVeronica Mahon

Deputy Headteacher

Every Wednesday at 9.10 am we hold our

Achievement Assemblies in the School Hall.

All parents and grandparents are welcome.

We would like to invite parents of Year 3

pupils to join us for Morning Prayer onThursday, 8th December at 9.10 am in the

School Hall.

In addition, Year 2 would like to invite their

parents to join us on Thursday, 15th

December.

A message from Father Gerry.

Next Tuesday is the feast of St Nicholas of Myra,

otherwise known as Santa Claus! He is the patron saint of

children, and this year once again we are reviving an ancient

tradition - the St Nicholas Bishop.In the Magnificat, Mary sings that the Lord casts down the

mighty from their thrones and raises up the lowly. In

recognition of this, churches and cathedrals throughout

Europe have traditionally chosen a young person to replace

the Bishop for a week.

Year 6 children are in the process of selecting the Nicholas

Bishop for this year. The Nicholas Bishop will be installed

next Tuesday, 6th December, at the 9.20 Mass and will

preach the sermon on thefollowing Sunday, 11th December.I would urge parents and children to join usfor this special

occasion.

It has become the tradition at St Teresas

that we have a Christmas Hat Parade duringthe morning

of the school Christmas

Dinner. The children are

invited to make a hat at

home which they will bring

to school on Wednesday,

14th December. We look

forward to seeing their

interesting and inventive hats!

A message from Thomas (Year 6)

Last week it was a perfect day to kick start the Football

league. Our first league match was against Great Wakering

Primary School.

St Teresas seemed to start off really strongly as we kept

the ball away from Great Wakering just by passing the ball.

We all battled our hearts out for the first part of the

match but soon we were one nil down. Not long afterwardsWakering came back at us and knocked in a second goal. We

battled on and eventually forced their defence to make a

crucial error and they score an own goal. A couple of minutes

later Jack (Year 5) netted us a second goal and at half time

we had drawn it back to 2 2.

As the second half kicked off we seemed to start really

strongly as Wakering attacked and we were able to stave

them off. We had a lot of chances but were unable to score.

With just a few minutes to go Wakering scored. The final

score was 3 2 to Wakering.

What a brilliant game and what a brilliant team, said Daniel

(Year 6).

Our next game will be this Friday at home, against Our Lady

of Lourdes.

Easyfundraising.org.ukRecently we were pleased to inform you about our new fundraising opportunity with easyfundraising.org.uk.We would be very grateful if you could spare just a few moments to register with this site as it will really help us raisemoney for the children at no extra cost whatsoever. Please rememberto type in Friends of St Teresas School - Rochford(or type in the following URL,http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/fosts).

Many thanks to Mrs Keogh and

Mrs Walker who

organised our recent

Book Fair.As a resultwe were able to choose

books to the value of

524.The books have

already been circulated

to the classrooms forthe enjoyment of the

children. Many thanks

to everyone who bought books.