St Marie's Catholic Primary School

A very busy last few weeks of the Spring Term I. We have made our decisions on whether 'Dragons are real or are they a fantasy?'

A wonderful final week for Year 1 before our half term holiday. Today we explored the large apparatus in Gymnastics and performed some excellent rolling, jumping and balancing movements in our groups. We really enjoyed it. We also finished our final Frida Kahlo style portraits and shared some lovely homework. We have all worked super hard this term and deserve a lovely rest at home with our families. Well done year 1. We also celebrated diversity day on Monday. It was a fan

What a busy week! On Monday we celebrated Diversity Day and learned about China, Nigeria and Iceland, we are proud of our Northern Lights artwork. We showed real perseverance in D.T. using a running stitch to sew our Bangladesh motif design onto material. We have also enjoyed a story with another mystery reader and tasted some Indian food too, thanks to Mrs Joshy. Have a lovely well deserved half term everyone - you have all worked very hard this term.

Well done, Y5, on all your homework from this half term. Y5 have worked hard to produce some very persuasive letters, poster and presentations on which rainforest animal we should adopt and which charity to support. Next half term, we will announce the animal and charity that the class will be adopting!

We had a great time learning about different countries and their cultures on Diversity Day. In our own class, we focussed on Nigeria, learning about its landscape, wildlife, languages, currency, national food and popular sports. We even learnt a Nigerian song and dance!

That is a wrap! What a wonderful time we have had! The children have been a credit - it has been our absolute pleasure to take them away! Our final day of fun included Geocaching in the village and visiting the local gift shop.

We went on a minibeast hunt in science to complete a survey about minibeasts and microhabitats in our school garden. We used the internet to research different planets in computing and enjoyed two Mystery Readers this week.

Another busy week for year 1! We have loved exploring the life and work of another Famous lady in our history, Frida Kahlo. We are looking forward to developing our painting skills next week when we will be painting a self portrait. We have looked at rolling in gymnastics and done some lovely sequence story writing in English. Maths has been lots of subtracting and finding the difference

A great trip to the Caves, The Ghyll and Bushcraft. The children have been fabulous again. The week has flown by!

We've had a busy week in pre-school! We have made egg box aliens, created yummy 'pizzas' and added our favourite toppings. We have been reading 'Whatever Next' and have made a list of what we would take on our trip to the moon!

Y5 continued with their computing topic of cryptology by sending their own messages in Morse code: well done Y5. Or as we would say in Morse code: -.-- ..... / -.-. --- -. - .. -. ..- . -.. / .-- .. - .... / - .... . .. .-. / -.-. --- -- .--. ..- - .. -. --. / - --- .--. .. -.-. / --- ..-. / -.-. .-. -.-- .--. - --- .-.. --- --. -.-- / -... -.-- / ... . -. -.. .. -. --. / - .... . .. .-. / --- .-- -. / -- . ... ... .- --. . ... / .. -. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . / .-

We are thoroughly enjoying using our music skills to learn to play the African drums.

A fantastic first day - the children have been a credit so far! They have listened really well, taken instruction, had a great time out on the water and enjoyed Mac 'n' Cheese for tea with Apple Crumble. We did some OAA in the dark and explored the grounds. They have all managed to make their own beds and enjoyed nighttime hot chocolate and biscuits.