St Marie's Catholic Primary School

The children have made a great start to the term. They have been learning about why we 'Celebrate' Remembrance day and Bonfire Night. In Maths we have been hunting for different shapes around the classroom and in the outdoor area. The children have also thought about positional langaugae and have made an obstacle course outside.

The whole school walked through Standish on Friday 6th November for Prayer and Liturgy to mark Remembrance Day. The Reception children had made poppies to hang on the tree. The service in church was led by our Year 6 children.

We have been blown away by Year Four's fantastic knowledge on Antarctica! They have written some wonderful postcards pretending to be research scientists exploring the area.

We embedded our learning about the seasons and Autumn.

It's been a super busy first week back at pre-school. We have celebrated bonfire night through creating firework pictures. The children enjoyed creating a pretend bonfire and did a science experiment with Miss Sharples. They have enjoyed taking part in doodlesticks and have read the story "Amazing Daisy". The children discussed how they can show perserverence and have set a goal that they would like to achieve, just like Daisy.

This Week we have learnt about life processes in Science and used our number bonds to ten knowledge to help us with number bonds to 100 in Maths.

This week we have been making volcanoes with playdoh and understanding it’s structure.

As we started our new 'Prophesy and Promise' branch, we read extracts from the book of Samuel which described the boy shepherd David being anointed king by Samuel. We were inspired to act out the story in class.

This week we have been listening to the story 'What the Ladybird Heard!' and thinking about how the thieves drew a map to find the 'prize cow. We also listened to the story 'Coming to England which is the story of how and why Floella Bejamin came to England.

We have enjoyed mapping this week, finding places around Standish using 6 figure grid references. Y6 have shown off some beautiful art skills when researching the textiles of Althea McNish.

We have had a wonderful final week of term. We have been mastering our mapping skills and exploring Black History Month. The children have settled really well this first half and we are very proud of how hard they have been working. Have a wonderful half term!

Year 1 found out about Rosa Parks and how she made a change for the community. Mapping Wek

We have loved designing and making our Titanic bedrooms in D.T. We have been using the large apparatus in P.E. thinking about curling, stretching and balancing. For Black History month we looked at people who help in our communities and wrote postcards to them thanking them for speaking out and for helping others.

We have enjoyed mapping week looking at streets around the local area, drawing maps of Standish with a key.

This week we have created lovely Autumn collages. We have also made yummy autumn soup in the mud kitchen. In 'To know you more clearly' we have discussed The Harvest festival and brought food in to donate to the brick! Well done boys and girls. Have a lovely halfterm holiday! Miss Perrins & Mrs Sivori

As part of mapping week, we took a walk around Standish where we observed and recorded features to include on our own sketch maps.

The children have tested materials to find out which would be the best for Sunny Bear to wear on a rainy day. Threading in Finger Gym is helping with pencil grips in Handwriting.

We have finished our WW2 stories, completed our double page spread and spend time in the school garden finding objects that make us appreciate the awe and wonder of God's creations.