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

• Year 3 Computing

  Thu 17 Oct 2024

  Over the last few weeks the children have been using stop animation to create their own moving animations. This involves using the iPads on stands and taking different images. They have practiced using pictures, objects and then their own drawings. They really loved exploring the play back feature in different speeds! Great collaboration and discussions! 

  

• Year 3 - Head Circumferences

  Thu 17 Oct 2024

  This week, some children in year three have been thinking like scientists. They discussed a question they wanted to investigate, thought about variables they needed to keep the same and planned a fair test. “We can’t use Miss Cook’s head because she’s older, it’s not the same as us because she’s grown up!” The children made predictions “I think the boys will have bigger heads because men are usually taller!”, “I think that boys and girls will have the same sized heads because we’re all just children!”. Then they enjoyed using the tape measures to find their head circumference and Miss Cook then helped them to work out an average. We discovered that boys heads were a little bit bigger than girls heads because the average boy head circumference in year 3 was 55cm, compared to the average girls circumference was 54cm.  I wonder who has longer legs, boys or girls…? 

  

• Year 3 Stone Age Camps

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  This week, in History, the children have been learning about Stone Age dwellings.  We talked about how the camps would move depending upon the season and the food available.  We loved watching this short video to find out a little more and to gain ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6OeRZB_Wc

   

    We then worked with a partner to design our own winter camp and annotate it with our ideas.

  

• Year 6 - The Rosary

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  Year 6 have been learning about praying the Rosary. We made our own Rosary beads to help us understand the different parts and prayers that are said when praying the Rosary. We discussed the different mysteries that we can reflect on when praying. We are looking forward to using our Rosary beads in class more in our future lessons. 

  

• Roles and Responsibilities - School Council and House Captain and Vice Captains

  Fri 04 Oct 2024

  Our School Council 2024-25 has been elected.

   

  Our House Captains and Vice Captains 2024-25 have been elected.

  

• Year 3 Maths this week

  Fri 04 Oct 2024

  Year 3 have been looking at the composition of 100.  They have been counting forwards and backwards in 10s, 20s, 25s and 50s - we are getting quicker and more confident at this but find it a little tricky to jump backwards!  In our books we have been using part whole models and bar models to help us write calculations and we had a great time outside drawing our own number lines and jumping along them with our friends.

  

• Class Liturgies

  Fri 04 Oct 2024

  The RE Council have been leading class liturgies across the school this week following training from Mrs Lawlor our RE leader. Staff have commented on how confident the children were and also how well chosen their choices of scripture were. Well done RE Council.

  

• 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!