St Marie's Catholic Primary School

As part of Black History Month, we spent some time learning about Windrush and why people emigrated to Britain in 1948. We imagined how the people aboard the Windrush must have been thinking and feeling before and after they arrived in Britain.

We have enjoyed writing poems this week being inspired by all the poets mentioned in 'Love That Dog'. Our To Know You More Clearly topic has led us to make videos all about Baptism and what effects this celebration has on us as Christians. We have also explored events at the end of WW2. We acted out what it would feel like to leave the Caribbean as part of the Windrush Generation - who were invited to the UK to help rebuild after the war. We created some artwork inspired by A

This week, we visited Standish Library. We loved listening to a story about a girl and a fox in the comfort of a ready made den. We then predicted the next part of the story.

This weeks the reception children have been learning the spelling for the sounds 's', 'a', 't' and 'p'.

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This week we have been settling in and learning all about our new topic. The children have enjoyed fin ding out about the Stone Age.

Wow! What a wonderful start to the new school year! We have been wearing our new jumpers with pride and enjoying our learning this week....

Please find attached our Autumn Topic Information Sheet.

All staff and children at St Marie’s Catholic Primary School are committed to make our school a successful Thinking School. The members...