Reception

Governors have spent the day with children and staff monitoring the school improvement plan. Included in this, the governors also explored behaviour for learning, school values and breadth and balance in the curriculum. They also had an opportunity to meet with parents on the school yards in the morning.   Five of our Governors spent the […]

We are hosting a meeting in the music room where parents can meet with Mr Jones for a cup of coffee (or tea). This is a great opportunity to chat about school and the future plans for the school. Please go to the music room (in between reception and nursery).

Reception and Year 1 enjoyed some cricket practise, developing our catching, throwing and batting skills.

Well done to everyone at St Mary’s School. We have begun our journey to improving our grounds with a superb gardening extravaganza.  The plants we have begun to plant our beginning to leaf or flower as spring has sprung. Congratulations to everyone as not only have we achieved RHS Level One Gardening Award but we […]

Mrs Smith and Miss Loy have decided on a new uniform for the staff!!!

Some of the ‘Girl’s Science Club’ members have been enjoying identifying the birds that have moved in to the nest boxes around school. We put them up last week and they have been quickly resided in! Thank you to the parents that donated them; they will provide hours of entertainment! We look forward to watching […]

Reception enjoyed Science week so much we extended it for another week. We had visits from the vet, Mrs Smith’s rabbits and Miss Robinson’s parrot. We made or role play area into a vets and then wrote instructions how to care for pets. We made them into a book and shared them with Y5. We […]

We enjoy constructing in Reception. It might be indoors/outdoors and with large kits or small blocks. In the Spring half term, we’ve made junk box tractors and trailers or combine harvesters. Some of us were keen to make a wooden tractor with turning wheels and some children even included mud guards and air con! We […]

We’ve been learning about using different coins to make an amount so we went to the post office to change our pounds into 5ps and 1ps. Then we walked to the sweet shop to use our money to buy sweets. We counted out 20p.   Afterwards, we enjoyed our sweets at the park and enjoyed […]

Science Week 2017 has been a massive success; lots of learning and fun have been had by all! The opening ceremony was made spectacular  by the wonderful outfits the children wore. Being dressed as scientists and explorers really got them in the mood. Each class got a box of resources to introduce their topic for […]