Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Year 3 learn to play golf.

  Fri 10 May 2024

  This week, Year 3 have been learning a new sport.  We have been trying our hand at golf! 

   

  We practised long shots with the driver and shorter, more accurate, lighter shots with the putter.  The children also had lots of fun creating their own 'crazy holes' and experimenting with different forces and speeds. 

   

  We look forward to more lessons in the sunshine where will create our own golf courses.

  

• Year 6 get their Leavers Hoodies

  Fri 10 May 2024

  Thank you so much to the Friends of St Mary's for their kind donations towards Year 6's leavers hoodies! We absolutely loved receiving them last week and have been wearing them non-stop! Year 6

   

  

• Year 2 Music Lesson

  Fri 10 May 2024

  Year 2 enjoyed using the glockenspiels to play simple chords to accompany our Minibeast song. They worked with a partner and performed as class. 

   

  

• Friday's Celebration Assembly

  Fri 10 May 2024

  There was much to celebrate in our weekly celebration assembly held today.

  Congratulations to Max and Monte in Year 1 sharing their rugby success by proudly displaying and talking confidently about their medals.

   

  Good luck to Year 6 who have been working hard preparing for their SATs which are next week.

   

  The fabulous swimming gala participants received certificates for their participation.

   

  Certificates from the Year 3 and 4 football tournament at Wadhurst football club - the boys worked hard together and came second overall in this tournament before the Easter holidays. 

  

• First Holy Communion Celebrations

  Fri 10 May 2024

  Last weekend the First Holy Communion mass was held at Our Lady Immaculate & St Philip Neri Catholic Church in Uckfield.  Mrs Scanlon attended when two of our Year 4 pupils Issy and Hal received the sacrament of First Holy Communion during the special mass celebrated with family and friends.

   

  During the Easter holidays, Anit received the sacrament of her First Holy Communion in  India, which was very special to all the family that they could join together on this important day.

  

• Swimming Gala victory for St Mary’s

  Fri 10 May 2024

  Swimming Gala victory for St Mary’s

  It was Wednesday 8^th May and it finally felt like spring had sprung so perhaps not the perfect afternoon to be spending by a hot poolside, or would it be?

  
  22 children from years 3 to 6 and their travelling band of teachers and vocal parents, travelled over to Goldsmiths full of enthusiasm and excitement.

  
  The races started with the width races, short sprints of races in crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. There were magnificent

  performances across a distance that the children are used to,

  including 13 first place finishes and a whole host of 2nds and 3rds as well.

   

  Excitement about overall placing was starting to bubble amongst the team as the gala moved into the length distance events and

  relays. We placed consistently in the top 2 or 3, including three

  victories over the longer distance. All things combined; this left us with a combined score of 97 points –

  enough to be declared overall winners by just 4 points.

  A fantastic achievement by the whole team.

   

  A big thank you to the parents and Mrs. Brand for their support on the day and a huge thank you to Mrs. Tanner and Mrs. Rickwood for their fantastic swimming teaching and preparing the children for the gala. An extra thank you to Mrs. Rickwood and Mr. Smith for the ice creams.

   

   

  

• Marian Liturgy - Whole school assembly

  Fri 10 May 2024

  On Tuesday parents were invited to our special assembly to celebrate the feast of Mary in the month of May.  We held a wonderful celebration of Mary in our Marian liturgy which was led by the RE council. Each class offered flowers to Mary and our oldest and youngest members of our school also crowned Mary during this special liturgy for our school.

  

• Year 3 - Biogrpahies Learning

  Fri 03 May 2024

  This week Year 3 have started our new unit all about biographies.  We started by reading all about different famous people (whilst also enjoying some fabulous sunshine!)  We used the texts to gain ideas about what we might like to become famous for when we're older and also to find some great vocabulary which we can use in our own writing - legendary, award winning, world renowned, chart topping, success!  Watch this space to find out what we aspire to be...

  

• Orange Class Thank You Prayers

  Fri 03 May 2024

  Orange Class made up prayers to say thank you to God for sending the Holy Spirit to come down and guide us.   We used the bubbles to show they were sending their prayers to Heaven.

  

• The plans for a new prayer garden.

  Tue 30 Apr 2024

  Last week, the school council met to start designing the school's new prayer garden.

   

  The school council members were very excited to review the amazing plans which have been submitted by the children across the school. It took them a long time to look through all of the plans and to create a list of the features we should include. Finally, the children created a first draft plan which they will refine over the coming weeks.

   

  Now the children will help to secure funding for this project. It was wonderful to see the children's decision making and leadership skills shine through!