Dance Through the Decades 

Summer Fair 2025

St Katherine’s Summer Fair was a fantastic success, with a wonderful turnout enjoying the beautiful sunshine. Visitors browsed a variety of stalls, played fun games and enjoyed delicious food and drinks; all while being treated to an exciting rugby exhibition. One of the highlights was the chance to soak members of our staff - an activity that brought plenty of laughter! Thanks to your incredible support and generosity, which enabled us to raise over £2000, which will go towards further improving our school for all our children.

                            

Charity Work

This week, we witnessed a truly moving act of compassion within our school community. One of our brave Year 5 children, Max, showed incredible solidarity by shaving his head in support of his friend Finley, who was diagnosed with leukaemia in March 2025 and has been receiving ongoing treatment away from school.

Max’s inspiring gesture not only demonstrated amazing friendship and empathy but also raised awareness of leukaemia and vital funds for the charity ‘Finley’s Touch’, which has been a source of personal support for Finley’s family during this challenging time.

To date, Max has raised an amazing £3,300!

 

                              

 

New Football Kits

Our new football kits have finally arrived and are beautifully modelled below by our School Ambassadors. Thank you to Co-op (Snodland) for sponsoring the kits, which look fantastic! We look forward to the children wearing them when they represent the school this year.

Happy Shoes Day

The school was full of Happy Shoes on Friday 22nd September 2023 as we all promoted the benefits of walking to school. Here are some of the children’s thoughts from today:

Pupil Voice:

“Happy Shoes Day is a day to wear your happy shoes to walk to school!' (Emelia – Year 1)

'Happy Shoes Day is about encouraging people to walk to school. It is good to wear the shoes we want to wear.'(Hayden – Year 3)

Macmillan Coffee Morning 

At St Katherine’s, we are committed to ‘helping others’ within and beyond our local community. In doing so, our children learn about key themes such as empathy and diversity, whilst they also understand the difference they can make to people’s lives. This relates specifically to two of our Core Values - Katia Community and Conner & Callie Compassion.

Last week, our wonderful Year 5 children organised Macmillan Coffee Mornings for parents across the school. They hosted, socialised and persuaded parents/ carers to eat as much cake as they could and donate to this great charity.

Thank you to everyone that donated cakes, came to the events or bought cakes after school on Friday. Through your generosity, we raised an incredible £629.30!

Year 6 Bikeability 

As part of their transition to secondary school, Year 6 have recently undertaken bikeability training. They thoroughly enjoyed participating in their level 1 and 2 course, which took place on the playground. Following this, the children were supervised on the road to practise becoming safe and competent cyclists.

Pupil Voice“I enjoyed learning to be a safe cyclist. I will always look in different directions to check for traffic around me when I ride on the road.” (Saraya – Year 6)

Showing Racism the Red Card

On Thursday 12th October, children wore red to school to 'Give Racism the Red Card'. 

                                                                          

Year 4 Hockey Tournament

On Friday 13th October some Year 4 children took part in the Malling Hockey Tournament.

They made it all the way through to the semi-finals without conceding any goals at all. The team came away with fourth place in the whole of Malling! 

These players showed excellence and resilience all the way through the tournament.

Well done to everyone!