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

• Year 6 News this week

  Fri 04 Oct 2024

  We have been working hard on classification in Science and created our own classification keys for minibeasts. 

   

  We also had our School Council Elections this week!

  

• Harvest Liturgy

  Fri 04 Oct 2024

  This week we were also delighted to hold our Harvest Liturgy on Friday. The children in the RE Council led this

  assembly beautifully and explained the meaning and importance of Harvest in detail.  

   

  Thank you to you all for your Harvest donations. We will be continuing to receive any further donations until Wednesday 9th October and then we will be distributing them to Crowborough Foodbank. 

   

  

• Farewell Mrs Thorpe

  Fri 04 Oct 2024

  It is with great sadness that that we said farewell to Mrs Thorpe this week. Mrs Thorpe  worked at St Mary’s for over sixteen years  and was a valued member of our support staff as well as our resident artist throughout this time.

   

  As such Mrs Thorpe will be very much missed at St Mary’s and we are all very grateful for her hard work and enthusiasm for

  everything she has done for our school and the community throughout her time with us.

   

  I am sure, therefore, that you will join me in wishing Mrs Thorpe well as she leaves to spend more time continuing to focus on her work as a artist and potter.

   

  Thank you, Mrs Thorpe for all your hard work and support for our children, as well as your dedicated service to our school and

  community. We will miss you!

   

  

• Crazy Hair Day

  Fri 27 Sep 2024

  Today we finished the week off with 'Crazy Hair Day' which was a fantastic fun event that the children thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you for all your hard work creating such amazing hairstyles and for all your Bottle donations for the Friends of St Mary's to use at our Christmas Fair.

   

  

• Visit by Olympic Gold medal winner—Emily Craig

  Fri 27 Sep 2024

  We were delighted to welcome Emily Craig, one of GB’s Olympic gold medal rowers into our

  school today. Emily joined us in Assembly this morning and then kindly went to each class to

  let the children hold her gold medal and answer their questions. Our children were so excited

  to meet her and hear about her Olympics experience — they were all very inspired.

  A big thank you to Mrs Dowling who organised this visit for us.

   

  

• Year 1 Geography Field Trip

  Fri 27 Sep 2024

  In Year 1 we were Geographers this week on our first ever Geography field trip. We walked around our local area to identify physical and human features of the landscape. In the classroom, we have learned that Geography is all about "the connections between people and places" and we saw this for ourselves on our field trip around Crowborough!

  

• Year 3 - Colour Wheels

  Fri 20 Sep 2024

  Year 3 have had lots of fun exploring colour mixing.  They made these fabulous colour wheels, learning which primary colours to use to make secondary colours, but also they also explored making different shades.

  

• 'Prayer Bear' Assembly

  Thu 19 Sep 2024

  On Wednesday we welcomed seven new members of our school community - the St. Mary's Prayer Bears! We have been speaking with the children about the importance of prayer time in our lives and how prayer can strengthen our relationship with God. 

   

  Prayer can take many forms including meditation, singing, dancing, reciting traditional prayers and spontaneous prayer throughout the day. Each class was presented with a St. Mary's prayer bear during our assembly. Our bears will help us to think about our spirituality and teach us about different forms of prayer. 

  

• Year 3 - Ukelele lessons

  Fri 13 Sep 2024

  Year 3 enjoyed their first ukulele lesson on Wednesday.  They sung some songs, thought about rhythm and beat and learnt about the parts of the instruments.  Then they sung 'The Cookie' song and learnt to strum in time.

  

• St Mary's Awarded School Games Gold Mark Award!

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  We are delighted to announce that we, St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2023/24 academic year.
   
  The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
   
  With an increasing number of our children competing in local inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.
   
  As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
   
  We look forward to applying once again in 2025!