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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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The Good Shepherd - Worth Abbey, RE Council
Sat 29 Jun 2024On Thursday, our Year 6 R.E. council members represented the school at the Diocese's annual Good Shepherd celebration. The children travelled to Worth Abbey and met with children from the other 76 Catholic primary schools across our Diocese. The theme of this year's celebration was our Lord's prayer - The Our Father.
Over the past few weeks, the Year 6 R.E. council members have been creating a beautiful cross decorated with The Our Father prayer written in different languages representing the nationalities which make up our school community. During the service, our children presented this cross to Bishop Richard who was impressed with the children's hard work. The cross is now displayed in our school's entrance foyer.
The Year 6 children represented our school with pride and thoroughly enjoyed this experience.
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Year 6 Forest School
Sat 29 Jun 2024In this week's Forest School, Year 6 spent some time cooking! We made nettle soup for the whole group, and used the left-over stalks to make into strong string which could be used in our crafting area. We all helped to collect the nettles, peeled potatoes and chopped up garlic and onions from our garden. It was surprisingly tasty and many went back for seconds! Quite a few of us also spent some time tree climbing, with a buddy to spot us and instructing the climbers of a safe passage.
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Zoolab competition
Fri 21 Jun 2024Well done to all entrants for the Zoolab Biome Builders competition! We are so impressed by your efforts and enthusiasm for this project. Miss Brenta has entered all of your designs into the competition- fingers crossed for a winner!
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South Brockwell Farm Visit to St Mary's - Red and Orange classes
Thu 20 Jun 2024Red and Orange class thoroughly enjoyed the visit from Brockwell Farm to St Mary's on Monday. The children thoroughly enjoyed meeting the two miniature ponies the two sheep and the goat and baby kid. The farm let us know how impressed they with our children as they were so keen to learn and join in, listened well and were quiet and respectful around the animals. Well done Red and Orange classes.
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Year 3 Ukelele Concert and Open Day
Thu 20 Jun 2024Year 3 gave a wonderful performance of some of their ukulele songs they've been practising. Many thanks to Mrs. Scott from 'Create Music' for all her help and support this year, and many thanks to our parents and carers for coming to support the children, they loved the opportunity to perform! Afterwards, we shared some class based work we were proud of.
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Year 6 Science lessons about the circulatory system
Fri 14 Jun 2024On Tuesday in Science, Year 6 learnt about blood and all the components within it that help to make our body work. We created our own visual representations of blood: complete with red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma. We then spoke about giving blood, and why it is important to help other people. We researched about the eight different blood types and the process of what happens to the blood we donate. We plan to write our own letters to persuade more people to give blood to help save lives.
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Year 6 trip to Bowles for a ‘Safety in Action’ Day
Fri 14 Jun 2024On Wednesday year 6 took a trip to Bowles (our residential location) for a Safety in Action Day. We had staff from the Fire, Police, and Ambulance Service along with other Bowles staff who gave us very informative and interactive sessions on various aspects of safety scenarios.
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Year 6 Forest School activities
Fri 14 Jun 2024Year 6 spent Thursday enjoying being back at Forest School, and reminding ourselves how to use everything safely whilst working as a team. We spent time in the mud kitchen, playing in the hammock, den building, team building by playing bugs in a flood, mini beats hunting, whittling sticks and wood carving as well as digging in our garden area. Also we enjoyed our traditional hot chocolate and reflection time around the fire pit.
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Year 3 have been learning about the artist Joan Miro
Fri 14 Jun 2024Year 3 have been exploring the surrealist artist Joan Miro. Last week, we looked at his use of colours and lines and created our own collages inspired by his work. This week, we added a second layer with automatic drawing - adding lines and marks with different thickness to reflect our responses and feelings to words and phrases.
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Year 3 have been investigating Shape in their Maths lessons
Fri 14 Jun 2024This week in maths we have been learning lots about shapes. We have built upon the terms horizontal, vertical and diagonal to learn about perpendicular and parallel lines, and thought about different sized angles, identifying acute, obtuse and right angles in the classroom and in shapes. These are tricky concepts to remember and Mrs Cook was very proud of the children's efforts.
