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

• 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!

  

• First Holy Communion - The Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Wadhurst

  Fri 19 Jul 2024

  Last weekend First Holy Communion mass was held at The Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wadhurst.  Mrs Scanlon attended when one of our Year 4 pupils Elliott received the sacrament of First Holy Communion during the special mass celebrated with family and friends.

   

  

• Year 3 - Making pulleys

  Fri 19 Jul 2024

  Year 3 have had an exciting final week of term exploring mechanisms.  They have learnt all about pulleys, explored lots of equipment and worked in groups to design and create their own!  Well done for testing out ideas, discussing problems and making amendments!

  

• Farewells

  Fri 19 Jul 2024

  We also said farewell to three members of staff today: Mrs Williams, Mrs Dann and Miss Turner. we thank them wholeheartedly for their enthusiasm, dedication and commitment towards our children at St Mary’s, as we wish them well in their new endeavours in the coming months.