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

• Year 3 - bread bakers

  Mon 15 Dec 2025 S. Cook

  This term, as part of their DT learning, Year 3 have been exploring bread.  They analysed products, discussing the features that they liked or didn't like about different breads.  Then they designed thier own bread before making it.  We worked in groups to make the dough, and after it had risen, we divided it up and selected our own ingredients to add to it!  We even made some other bread to cook on the open fire at Forest School - thinking about Stone Age methods of cooking!

  

• Year 4 Athletics

  Thu 11 Dec 2025 S. Cook

  Year 4 had a great time  competing against other schools at the Beacon Indoor Athletics Event.  Our children showed great effort, skills and a fantastic team spirit during the competition.  Well done Year 4!

  

• Carols at All Saints

  Fri 05 Dec 2025 S. Cook

  Last night, the St. Mary's choir joined the Carol Service held at All Saints church. This was the first year we had participated in the event and the choir did us proud!  They sung 'Christmas in your heart' with tender loving care, singing loudly and clearly.

   

  Thank you to all our school community who joined in the festivities.

  

• Celebrating Black History Month

  Fri 05 Dec 2025 S. Cook

  Today, we joined together in a whole school assembly to celebrate our learning of different role models which we'd learned about during our Black History TEAM Day.  A TEAM day is when we spend time thinking about how Together we are Equal At st. Marys.

   

   

  

• Visit from Deacon Mike

  Thu 11 Sep 2025

  Deacon Mike visited us all here at St Mary's. He shared with us all his experiences when becoming a Deacon at the end of last term. The children were very excited to hear what this was like for Deacon Mike and asked interesting questions to find out what it felt like for him during his ordination and what his role entails now that he is a Deacon.

  

• Year 3 Rugby

  Wed 10 Sep 2025

  Year 3 enjoyed their first PE lesson of the new school year. This term they are learning about invasion games, starting with some rugby skills!  Rugby is a challenging sport as it involves passing the ball across your body and backwards - this proved tricky for lots, but they persevered and rose to the challenge! Well done Year 3!

   

  Please make sure full PE kits are in school, including a change of shoes. As the weather turns cooler we will continue lessons outside, so please make sure your child has jogging bottoms (black or navy please) and a jacket with them.

• Year 5 and 6 Residential: Day 2

  Thu 10 Jul 2025

  Message from Mrs Mitchell:

   

  Day two has been a lot of fun in the sun! We have had glorious weather and enjoyed abseiling, high ropes, explorers and bushcraft. We are now having some downtime, playing outdoor games or taking time to rehearse for our talent show this evening! 

   

  More pictures to come tomorrow.......................

  

• Year 5 and 6 Residential 2025

  Wed 09 Jul 2025

  Message from Mrs Mitchell:

   

  We have had a great first day. We started the day with a scavenger hunt and then we built bug hotels. Groups have done archery, bushcraft and buggy build. We are now playing games in the field and having a go on the 'Cresta Run!' 

   

  Fingers crossed for a good night's sleep... 

   

  More updates and photos tomorrow.

  

• Maps

  Fri 04 Jul 2025

  Year 3 have had lots of fun exploring atlases and maps to locate places around the world.  They have been looking at data to focus on countries which visit Disney Land in Florida the most.  We then thought about reasons why some countries are represented, but also why some countries are not represented.  This afternoon, they learnt about a peninsula, we then used the atlases and maps to locate different peninsulas.  Miss Cook challenged us with some examples and non examples but we weren't fooled - we were able to explain that the United Kingdom isn't a peninsula because it's completely surrounded by water and isn't attached to the mainland, so we live on an island!

  

• The Good Shepherd - Arundel Cathedral

  Wed 25 Jun 2025

  Today members of our RE Council and Mrs Lawlor attended The Good Shepherd service held at Arundel Cathedral this year. The children had a lovely time joining with all the schools across the Diocese and were an absolute credit to the school