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

• Science work in Year 3 - exploring magnetic forces

  Mon 29 Jan 2024 Miss Cook

  Year 3 have been investigating magnetic force by investigating which is the strongest magnet. 

   

  The had to use a ruler to measure carefully and test different types of magnets to see which one could attract a paper clip from furthest away.  They made some great predictions and enjoyed working together for their experiment.

  

• SubPod Compost and Worm Farm

  Fri 26 Jan 2024

  We are pleased to have taken delivery of the fabulous New Subpod Compost Bin and Worm Farm and raised bed donated by the SubPod company following our campaign to win one last year.

   

  Our new Eco-Club is setting up a composing project across the school .  Mr Puddick has put the Compost and Worm Farm together for us and it is in the process of being installed. 

   

  The children will be learning how the worm farm works and we will be teaching them the benefits of composting food waste in this way. 

  Thank you all our parent's support in getting the composter donated and we will keep you updated with all the lovely  plants that we have been able to grow when we reuse the rich compost.

   

  

• Celebration Assembly today

  Fri 26 Jan 2024

  Children received their learning value awards today in our Friday celebration assembly.

   

  Lottie and Poppy also showed the medals they won in a cheerleading competition.  Poppy won second place for her first ever tumbling solo and they both won medals for first place in the stunt competition.  

   

  Odhran has won a trophy for great participation in Thai Boxing.

   

   

  

• Year 3 reading Leon and the Place Between

  Fri 26 Jan 2024

  In Year 3 we have been reading a wonderful story called Leon and the Place Between. 

   

  We used ideas from both the text and the illustrations to create our own list poems.  We also practised some typing, exploring different fonts, colours and sizes because the book is produced in interesting fonts too!

   

  

• Personal Message from Sir Mo Farah for our Pupils At St Mary's School

  Fri 26 Jan 2024

  During Black History Month, Year 2 learnt about the life of Sir Mo Farah and the children were inspired by his story of perseverance. Arthur in Year 2 then contacted Sir Mo Farah as he was so touch by Sir Mo's story. Recently, Arthur received a video message from Sir Mo who sent an inspiring message for all of the children at St. Mary's.

   

  Well done Arthur!

  Click on Below link to see the video message

  https://st-marys-catholic-primary-school-crowborough.primarysite.media/media/message-from-st-marys-from-sir-mo-farah

   

  Video Files can be found in on our website under Parents and Guardians > Video Resource Centre

• Should I keep my child off school? NHS Advice poster

  Thu 25 Jan 2024

  The UK Health Security Agency in conjunction with the NHS have produced the attached poster with helpful advice when "should I keep my child off school?" NHS Advice.  This provides useful guidance for how long children should be absent for different types of illness and what illness should be reported to the school.

  

• Netball Festival at Beacon Academy

  Wed 24 Jan 2024

  Some of our Year 4 pupils had a fantastic time at Beacon School on Wednesday developing their netball skills and using them to play matches against other schools. 

   

  They represented St Mary's excellently and worked brilliantly as a team with great results.  Well done.

  

• Green class Maths learning - All about shapes

  Fri 19 Jan 2024

  This week in maths, we have been focusing upon shape. 

   

  We have been learning all about different polygons and trying hard to define them.  We have also found out about turning clockwise (in the same direction as  a clock) and anticlockwise (turning the opposite way). 

   

  We have been using compass points to help solve problems and relating quarter, half and three quarter turns to number of right angles.  We have also been identifying right angles in polygons and exploring patterns.

   

  

• Forest School Final week for Year 3 - Dens and dough!

  Thu 18 Jan 2024

  This was the final week of Forest School fun for Year 3.  They had an excellent day building more dens using their lashing skills from last week - lots were also brave enough to test them out with a bucket of water to see how secure and waterproof they were! 

   

  The children also used loppers to safely cut their own cooking sticks before whittling them to remove the bark and used them to cook their dough over the fire. 

   

  The children loved creating delicious fillings from berries, seeds and honey.  

  

• Yellow Class Maths Multiplication learning

  Thu 18 Jan 2024 Mrs Leach

  On Thursday the children in Year 2 were introduced to the multiplication symbol to represent groups of objects.

   

  For example, 'three groups of five' as '3x 5'.

   

  They could confidently draw groups of objects and record the correct multiplication number sentence to go with it.