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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Year 2's World Book Day activities.
Fri 08 Mar 2024Year 2 had a fantastic Book Day!
They loved reading the book 'Here we are' and discussed how amazing planet Earth is. After that. we listened to 'What a wonderful world' by Louis Armstrong. The children then worked in pairs to generate new lines for the song.
We also welcomed guest readers in the afternoon.
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Year 3 Poetry Skills
Fri 08 Mar 2024Year 3 have had a creative time developing their poetry skills.
Over the last two weeks, they have tried really hard to create calligrams, list poems, descriptive poems and silly poems. They had to think carefully about rhyming words, alliteration, similes, repetition and word choices. They also had to think about layout and word order in order to make their poems rhythmic.
Well done Year 3 for trying so hard, it was great to listen to some of your favourite poems too!
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Selection of World Book Day photos
Fri 08 Mar 2024St Mary's celebrated world book day on Thursday 7th March.
The theme for this year was to invite the children to wear pyjamas to school to recognise how important it is to curl up with a book before bed.
Some children also dressed in costumes of a character from their favourite book.
Reception class took their books outside to their new outdoor pop up library.
Children from Key Stage 2 visited the Key Stage 1 classrooms to read stories to them in the afternoon.
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Year 5 Forest School
Thu 07 Mar 2024Year 5 had their first week of Forest school this week, they had a great time taking part in lots of activities including digging, building an obstacle course and planting daffodil bulbs.
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John Kirk Storyteller visit on Wednesday
Wed 06 Mar 2024We were really excited to welcome the entertaining storyteller, John Kirk, to St. Mary's on Wednesday as part of our World Book Day celebrations. John worked with each of our classes to inspire the children to enjoy the art of storytelling.
With Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children, John retold some well-known fairy tales. The children were happy to help John to act out some of the stories and demonstrated great acting skills!
Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 worked with John to compare the characters, setting and plot of different stories with some favourite and familiar Roald Dahl Classics. The Twits is similar to Mr. Gum because of the main grumpy and mischievous character, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was compared to The Nowhere Emporium where anything can be invented with a special golden pen.
The children were introduced to new texts through some acting, props, discussions and games. If they've enjoyed reading James and the Giant Peach then they will probably also enjoy Beetle Boys, and if they're a Matilda fan, then they're likely to enjoy The Unfortunate Events of Lemony Snicket. If Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of your child's favourite reads then they might like to read The Grimwood series.
John Kirk is running another session at Crowborough Library during the holidays - Tuesday 2nd April at 2pm which you might like to attend.
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Thank you to T C Woodgate for our woodchips.
Fri 01 Mar 2024A huge thank you to TC Woodgate for donating trailer load of woodchips for our Forest School area.
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Year 2 - Jack and the Beanstalk
Fri 01 Mar 2024Strange things have been happening in Year 2 this week.
First, we found a gigantic beanstalk growing out of our classroom floor, the next day we found an enormous footprint outside of our classroom and finally a letter was left on our carpet from a giant!
These events have helped to inspire the children's writing this week as they retell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
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St David's Day - Friday 1st March
Fri 01 Mar 2024Today is St David's day and all members of St David's house group came to a special assembly this afternoon led by our St David's house captains, Indy and Theo.
They told the story of St David to all the members of St David's house and they celebrated their feast day with squash and biscuits.
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Year 3 - Maths work - telling the time.
Fri 01 Mar 2024Year three have had a tricky week practising telling the time, but they have persevered and have definitely gained confidence at telling the time in different forms: digital, analogue and in words. Please see the main newsletter for some great games that can help support your child's learning.
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Year 5 - Science exploring gravity and forces
Fri 01 Mar 2024Today, during their science lessons, year 5 were tasked with designing a parachute in order to land an egg safely without it breaking. Their learning involved exploring gravity and forces.
