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Welcome to St Bridget's C of E Primary School

School Vision Statement

Inspiring, nurturing and educating our children to serve God by reaching their full potential, serving our local community and by looking after our environment as global citizens of today and tomorrow.

School Mission Statement

'Love your neighbour as yourself.'

Luke 10:27

9-5-25

Dear Parents and Carers,

As always there is a lot to share from the last week in school. You can tell we are in the summer term because the early morning Maypole practice has started, and the final cross-country races have been completed. Children across the school enjoyed wearing read, white and blue to celebrate VE day. In classes teachers spoke to them about what this means and the importance of this day. Today in assembly, I shared that it was Liberation Day for the Channel Islands, and we raised the Jersey flag to celebrate this day too.

Hot Weather Preparation

Hopefully, we will continue to have more hot weather. Please check that your child brings their named water bottle to school and a sun hat as needed. Unless your child has a medical issue or concern, I would ask that they do not wear sunglasses as these have caused any number of issues in school such as falling off, breaking, being lost just to name a few. During hot weather, it is usually enough to put sun cream on at the start of the day. If children have particularly sensitive skin, please discuss this with the class teacher and we will make provision for them to apply their own sun cream during the day. Please be reassured that on the rare occurrence that the weather becomes too hot, we will reduce playtimes, if needed.

Bicentennial News

In school we continue to prepare for our 200-year celebration. We are starting to reach out to former pupils to visit St. Bridget’s on the School and Parish Fayre Day (Saturday 28th June from 1-4pm). My thanks to the PTA who are helping to support this event in so many ways. We have had a recent article published in West Kirby today which may be of interest to you. Link to article

End of school day

At the end of each day my staff take great care to ensure that the children are released to parents or to a known person. At this point we assume that the trusted adult will take care of them. Last week some adults lost their children, possibly when they let them have an unsupervised extra run or additional play in the playground!

Good News from Pupils

Well done to Hayden in year six who has achieved his black belt in Taekwondo. This is something that he has been working towards for five years.
Well done to several Year 5 girls in the Cheshire and Merseyside Schools’ Orienteering League. The girls won and are league Primary School Champions. A special well done to Bronwen who was also awarded Individual Yr5 Champion.

E-safety message

This week I have shared e-safety advice about “Making Friends Online.” Link As always one of the best ways of supporting e-safety with your children is to chat regularly about what interests them, amazes them and worries them.

PTA update from PTA Chair, Steve Jameson

I'm pleased to present the St Bridget's Summer Fair on Saturday 28th June from 1-4pm, with stalls, performances, entertainment, games and refreshments! As a special extra this year, to celebrate the school's 200th year, school is open for Alumni Tours from 12:45-14:45, designed to give students, parents and teachers of yesteryear a short trip down memory lane! We are now actively seeking volunteers to run the event at: https://signup.com/go/zduwcba

Firstly, please ensure this date is circled in your diary to attend, for not only your household, but also your relatives, neighbours, and friends from outside school. It is sure to be a fabulous day for everyone.

This is our flagship event, bringing the school, church and the whole West Kirby community together and as such it’s our biggest fundraiser of the year too. Our overarching aim is raising funds to integrate IT devices into every lesson for as many students as possible, whilst also funding school council ambitions, leavers’ events and environmental projects.

To do this efficiently, we request (and in truth, rely upon) your volunteered support for the event. There are many options to support in the weeks and hours leading up to the event and afterwards too, still allowing you to enjoy the fair with loved ones. Naturally, the stalls need volunteers to run at all, and I hope, with plentiful volunteers, these can be allocated into smaller "shifts" and free up more time for family fun.

Please sign up if and wherever you can at https://signup.com/go/zduwcba

I acknowledge there will be several emails & WhatsApp messages, over the coming weeks. Please be patient with us as we do our best to deliver a successful event. Further fair information, including raffle tickets, donations and non-uniform dates will follow, along with a "key dates" infographic, to refer back to for the whole summer.

My thanks once again. for supporting our community, our school and our children.

Stephen Jameson
PTA Chair
stbridgetspa@gmail.com

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