St Marie's Catholic Primary School

A busy week for the reception children

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our 'Annual Summer Picnic'. A great time had by all. A huge thank you to the PTFA and staff who helped make this event happen.

This week we have been doing active maths to help us to tell the time and we started to learn about another faith - Judaism. We had a great day out at Formby Beach, we ate our healthy snack that we made, had lots of fun and lots of learning too. Thank you to all the adults who came to help and the children for their excellent behaviour.

This week has been all about Money! We have learned about the value and properties of each coin and we have practised playing shop using the correct amounts. We have also compared amounts. We had a very special visit from Freddie the Frog on Wednesday too!

We have used our persuasive writing skills to convince people to visit The Anderton Centre. We then used our presentation skills to persuade Year 3 to go there on a residential next year.

This week, we have been exploring ice and discovering what happens as it warms up and melts into water. The children enjoyed observing these changes and learning that when water is placed back into the freezer, it freezes and turns back into solid ice. We have also created beautiful transient art using natural resources. Freddie Frog came to visit us during our Funbox Jo session, we were so excited!

Y5 had a wonderful time at St. Peter's Science event. We all had a go at lighting and using Bunsen burners, building towers out of spaghetti and using microscopes. We also had the opportunity to show off our eco-friendly sustainable house.

Year 1 have tried our best this week despite the very hot weather. On Monday we explored our school ground in search of wild flowers and garden flowers and we compared them. In Maths, we have been looking at tens and ones and comparing numbers.

We have been deep in Oliver rehearsals and enjoying that. We have been doing lots of PSHE about digital literacy and Social Media. We have had a trial run at sewing for our buddies and read with them in the sunshine.

This week we have dug up the potatoes that we planted back in April! We explored the roots and discussed what they needed to grow. The children said they're going to make "chips" "mashed potatoes" "wedges" "jacket potatoes." We have enoyed drawing our favourite place and have loved exploring in the garden.

We had a great time watching 'Punch and Judy' show. At the end end Will showed us 'behind' the scenes. He showed each of the puppets.

Year 1 have celebrated Arts week! Everyday for the last 10 minutes we have shared our videos, art work, writing and music making! It has been so much fun and such a lovely end to each day.

Y5 have been working hard on their sustainabilty eco-house projects for their upcoming visit to St Peter's.

This week in R.E. we have thought about our neighbours near and far and asked the question 'Who is my neighbour?' In D.T. we have started to design our healthy snack to take to the coast. We have been looking at features of a coast and shared some more great homework.

Using our PE skills and having fun on an athletics carousel.

Pre-school have enjoyed creating repeating patterns using famous landmarks in London.

A busy week in reception. We have been thinking about how Jesus is everyone's friend and what makes a good friend. We have made gingerbread people linked to our maths work. The children have also designed disgusting sandwiches for the seagulls to eat from the story 'The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch'.

This week we have all completed our phonics quiz, we all tried our very best. We looked at the parts of the plant in Science and the job of each part and acted out their function in small groups. We have also been finding quarters in Maths.