ADMISSIONS CONSULTATION 2025/26

10th November 2023Mr A Cooke

Consultation on Admissions arrangements for the academic year 2025/26

The Governing Body of All Souls Catholic Primary School are publicly consulting on proposed changes to their admissions arrangements for 2025/26.

The consultation period is running for six school weeks, commencing on Monday 13th November 2023 and ending on Sunday 24th December 2023.

 

A copy of the draft policy can be obtained either from this link or by contacting the school admin team (02476 675 836 / [email protected]) or via the QR code below:

Any comments regarding the admissions policy or proposed changes should be submitted to the school business manager, Linsey Rae either via email ([email protected]) or post (All Souls Catholic Primary School, Abercorn Road, Coventry, CV5 8ED).

 

A summary of the proposed changes to the existing policy, for the academic year 2025/26 are as follows:

  • The inclusion of two addition oversubscription criteria (criteria 5 and 9 in the draft policy) as highlighted below

Oversubscription Criteria

 

  1. Baptised Catholic children who are looked after or previously looked after (See Note 3 below).
  1. Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of The Precious Blood and All Souls who have a brother or sister attending All Souls Catholic Primary School at the time of admission.
  1. Baptised Catholic children living in the parish of The Precious Blood and All Souls
  1. Other Baptised Catholic children who have a brother or sister attending All Souls Catholic Primary School at the time of admission.
  1. Other baptised Catholic children of a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School (see Note 6 below).
  1. Other Baptised Catholic children.
  1. Non-Catholic children who are looked after or previously looked after.
  1. Non-Catholic children who have a brother or sister attending All Souls Catholic Primary School at the time of admission.
  1. Non-Catholic children of a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School (see Note 6 below)
  1. Non-Catholic children.

 

  • The inclusion of a note (note 6) which defines ‘a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School’ as follows:

“… a member of staff working for All Souls Catholic Primary School is defined as an individual who has been employed by All Souls Catholic Primary School for two or more years prior to the application being submitted or where the staff member has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.”

 

Wellbeing and Emotions in Year 2

8th November 2023Dionne Alford

Coventry Compass provided All Souls with an assembly and activities to support a better understanding around emotions and how they might feel and look for different people. That all emotions and feelings are ok as long as we recognise them and know how to manage them. The message was that we all go through a range of emotions each day and manage these really well.

The children enjoyed making ’emotion frieze frames’ and their partners had to guess how they were feeling. This was a great way to reinforce that feelings may look similar but feel different.

Gerald the giraffe!

8th November 2023Dionne Alford

‘Gerald the giraffe’ thoroughly enjoyed supporting the children in writing their character descriptions. He is a very shy and clumsy giraffe called Gerald from the book Giraffes can’t Dance by Giles Andreae.

They wrote their character descriptions and published them onto fancy paper with additional giraffe body parts to enhance them further! Year 6 really enjoyed sharing and really made the Year 2 children feel proud of their work. Great job All Souls children!

V I Pippa – VIP Reader visited Year 2

8th November 2023Dionne Alford

Philippa came to visit Year 2 as a VIP reader and shared a part of the story -The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Phillipa had brought a copy that she was given as a gift from her mother when she was just aged 5. The children were quite excited and learned quickly not to ‘judge a book by it’s cover’. The book was very old and had no illustrations on the cover and minimal illustrations inside. This did not stop them from listening carefully and enjoying the experience and enjoyment.

Philippa also shared her love of visiting the library and  had brought along a selection of lovely picture books from the library to share and inspire the children.

The children have said they would like Philippa to return and share another book another day!

So lovely to see others inspiring our children.

Thank you Philippa.

Year 2 enjoyed visiting Fr Paul’s Garden

8th November 2023Dionne Alford

The children really enjoyed exploring Fr Paul’s garden in search of small creatures and mini beasts. This was our hook lesson getting excited about creating some interesting creatures to write our Non-Chronological Reports. We can’t wait to invite Fr Paul into school to read our final reports!

The sun shone brightly for us which was brilliant after such a soggy weekend! We even popped into the prayer garden to say a prayer of thanks.

WOW Writing, Reading & Listening!

20th October 2023Mrs J Hartwell

Year 2 were fantastic readers this morning as they read their amazing character descriptions of Gerald and the Giraffe. Year 6 were blown away by the detail they provided about not only Gerald’s appearance but also his personality! There was even a surprise visit from Gerald the Giraffe himself…

Year 6 then visited Year 5 this afternoon to read their Legends to another fabulous audience who were so impressed with the atmosphere the authors in Year 6 had created!

Month of the Holy Rosary

18th October 2023Mrs J Hartwell

Today, Catholic Schools were called to participate in a global campaign to get 1 million children praying the rosary for peace and unity in the world. During hymn practice this morning, the Chaplaincy Team led the children in praying the Rosary together.

 

Support with sleep and sleep routines

12th October 2023Mr A Cooke

We would like to make parents aware of a free service that is available to support children and adults for whom sleep and sleeping routines are a problem.

At any given time up to 40% of adults and 50% of children (this rises to 80% with a SEND diagnosis) have difficulties with their sleep. Yet, surveys suggest that almost 60% of adults feel that there was a lack of support for sleep issues. Sleep problems can leave people feeling isolated and lonely.

The National Sleep Helpline is run by trained sleep advisors, many of whom are specialists in working with SEND. They are able to young people directly, or parents (they can also talk to adults, including older people, about their sleep issues).

The helpline is open 5 times a week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday evenings 7-9pm, and Monday, Wednesday mornings 9-11am. The number is 03303 530 541.

You can read more here: https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/national-sleep-helpline/

You can click here to download the PDF file. 

 

Celebrating the Feast of St. Francis in Year 2

10th October 2023Dionne Alford

Year 2 really enjoyed all of the activities celebrating our class Saint.

They sang St Francis’ prayer together, wrote prayers with a nature theme, built churches, made bird feeders and created art in nature – Andy Goldsworthy style.
The children enjoyed leading a prayer service to bless animals and their own pets and sharing their own personal prayers.