Please be aware that Father Sean will be signing application forms for Reception places after Mass this Sunday. These forms must be handed in to the school by Wednesday 15th January 2020.

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The Parent/Carer Forum organised a raffle for the children and also for the wider community of St Winefride's and St Stephen's. The children and staff all gratefully received their prizes on the last day of school, but the Community Raffle only had the main prize drawn before the holiday.

As donations of prizes continued to come in we are delighted to announce that a further 12 prizes were awarded and claimed at the Coffee Morning today (Friday 10th January 2020).

We would like to voice our appreciation of the hard work put in by the Parent/Carer Forum and to say thank you to the whole community for coming together to generously provide so many prizes and for then buying so many tickets!

We are delighted to let you know that our new website is in the final stages of being created. It will go live in the next few weeks after we have tested it to make sure that it is working correctly. It will include many of the pages and areas of the current site and also new items and is in a much simpler layout and will be easier to navigate.

Here is the up to date totals of Gold Letters per class:

Class RP - 75

Class RW - 66

Class 1D - 90

Class 1/2H - 74

Class 2B - 77

Class 3G - 40

Class 3/4P - 133

Class 4H - 76

Class 5F - 79

Class 5/6M - 110

Class 6H - 62

There appears to be a little confusion surrounding the 'Parent Contribution' on Schoolmoney. The idea, put forward by the Parent/Carer Forum, was that the school would calculate how much it would expect to ask parent/carers for over the course of the academic year so that families would be able to budget for the year, knowing that no more contributions would be asked for. A sum of £33.00 was agreed between the school and the Forum, which includes non-uniform days, an educational visit and the Summer Fun Day. It does not include any non-uniform days for charity events or things like the Cafod Appeal.

It is also set up so that families may pay in instalments, rather than all at once. A slight problem has arisen with the visits to the pantomimes, where some families have paid and some are yet to do so. This has meant that the school has had to use part of its budget, which is desperately needed to fund the children's education. If you are yet to pay, please make every effort to do so as soon as possible. If you are able to at least make a part payment of £10 to cover the cost of the pantomime, in the interim, that would be wonderful, thank you.