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Fr Teddy O'Brien MSC would like to invite you to participate in any or all of the services that will take place during the season of Lent.

Wednesday 26 February   
Ash Wednesday Mass            7.00pm St Anne's, Wappenbury

Thursday 9 April               
Maunday Thursday Mass       7.00pm Princethorpe College

Friday 10 April                 
Good Friday Service             3.00pm Princethorpe College

Saturday 11 April           
Easter Vigil Mass                  8.00pm St Anne's, Wappenbury

Sunday 12 April             
First Mass of Easter              8.30am St Anne's, Wappenbury
Mass of the Day                   10.15am Princethorpe College

If you would like further information about St Anne's, Wappenbury please use the link here.

Friday 14 February 2020 is a non-uniform day. Participation is not compulsory, but pupils are asked to contribute £2.00 if they choose to wear non-uniform clothes. The criteria for what is acceptable as non-uniform is clearly set out in the homework diary.

It is a Blue Day for our Sixth Formers who are supporting Prostate and Testicular Cancer Charities.

The College is also supporting Father Hudson’s Care and CAFOD.

Father Hudson’s Care is the Social Care Agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham. Their aim is to offer help and support to people in need and improve their quality of life. Each year, during Lent, Father Hudson’s care, run an appeal known as ‘The Good Shepherd Appeal’ to help raise vital money to support their work. All Catholic schools within the Archdiocese are invited to take part.

CAFOD, is the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development and we are supporting their Lenten appeal ‘Defend the Defenders’ helping families living in the Amazon Rain Forest where an area the size of a football pitch is destroyed every minute.

Mary Benham
Chaplaincy Co-ordinator

The Immunisation team will be in school on Monday 16 March to offer all Year 9 pupils a booster of the Diptheria/Tetanus and Polio vaccine, this will complete the course they started as babies.

In addition the Meningitis ACWY vaccine will be offered.

As part of a national MMR (Measles, mumps, rubella) catch up programme Year 8 pupils who have not received the full course of MMR will be invited to receive the vaccine on this day. Information packs and consent forms will be sent home with pupils nearer the time.

Further changes to the UK routine Immunisation schedule mean that for the first time Year 8 boys as well as girls are now being invited to receive the HPV vaccine (Humanpapilloma Virus) – this will take place in school on the 15 and 16 June. Again further information and consent forms will be sent home nearer the time.

Further information can be found using the following links:

https://www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/mmr-catch-up-campaign-targets-a-million-children/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/hpv-human-papillomavirus-vaccine/

If you have any concerns or queries please contact Mrs Paula Greig Senior Matron at paulagreig@princethorpe.co.uk

Paula Greig
Senior Matron

We are starting work on the production of our Year 11 Class of 2020 Yearbook.  It is a beautiful keepsake and is received at the final Thanksgiving Service held for Year 11 in the summer.  Each pupil has their own entry where they document their best times here at Princethorpe and where they hope to be in the future.  Pupils have been emailed a form where they are asked to complete their biography - please could you check that your child has done this. The deadline for completion is Friday 7 February, but we will leave the form open over the weekend so that your child can complete it if they haven't already done so. 

Year 11 parents should have received an email with a link to a My School Portal form which asks you to confirm whether or not you would like to purchase a Yearbook (£19).  The deadline for completion of this form is by 7 February but if you haven't completed it already, we will leave the form open over the weekend to give you extra time to complete it. 

If you have any queries, please contact Mrs Houghton or Mrs Boon in the Pastoral Office.  

Please also be reminded that the Year 11 Prom will be held on Monday 22 June at Coombe Abbey; more details to follow nearer the time. 

Beth Sharpe
Deputy Head - Pastoral