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

• Gardening Club Team

  Wed 10 Jul 2024

  A huge thank you to my wonderful Gardening Club Team. Most of you will be moving onto secondary school but I wanted to say a massive thank you for being so enthusiastic come rain or shine. Our veggie plot has grown bigger and better thanks to your dedication and hard work and a wonderful legacy to leave for the next green fingered team.

  A special thank you to Mr Martin whose gardening knowledge will remain with you forever.

  Mrs Willmott

  

• Music in Year 2

  Fri 05 Jul 2024

  Year 2 enjoyed playing instruments to accompany songs they wrote in English about the life cycle of a plant. They worked collaboratively and enjoyed performing in small groups to the class.

  

• Year 3 DT

  Fri 05 Jul 2024

  Year 3 have had an exciting time designing and making their own bags.  They first had to practice joining materials together, before drawing plans and making paper prototypes which helped them think about the order that they would need to do things in.  Finally, they had a fabulous session with the fabric and thread, working cooperatively together to make their own bags. 

   

   

  Here's some of the things the children said about their project:

  I love the handle of my bag because I can carry it around all day long!

  Cutting the fabric was rather tricker so my friend stretched it to help me cut it easily. 

  I'm really proud of my work because it looks great!

  It was really difficult to do but I'm proud of myself!

  

• Year 3 visiting the ducklings in the Nursery

  Fri 05 Jul 2024

  This morning, Year 3 went on a trip down memory lane and visited St. Mary's nursery where they also met their three ducklings Geoff, Joyce and Pom-Pom.  The nursery have used an incubator to watch the ducklings hatch.

   

  

• The Good Shepherd - Worth Abbey, RE Council

  Sat 29 Jun 2024

  On 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. 

  

• Year 6 Forest School

  Sat 29 Jun 2024

  In 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. 

  

• Zoolab competition

  Fri 21 Jun 2024

  Well 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!

  

• South Brockwell Farm Visit to St Mary's - Red and Orange classes

  Thu 20 Jun 2024

  Red 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.

   

  

• Year 3 Ukelele Concert and Open Day

  Thu 20 Jun 2024

  Year 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.  

  

• Year 6 Science lessons about the circulatory system

  Fri 14 Jun 2024

  On 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.