St Marie's Catholic Primary School

Maths day was magical. We spent Friday afternoon building dens for animals to hibernate in. We toasted marshmallows on the fire-pit.

We have had a fabulously busy week. We began with Maths Day. We took part in a variety of maths activities and had a great time. We also introduced our new topic and all created presentation about the Ocean. The big apparatus was out in PE.

Number day, lots of Maths activities and P.E. with Wigan Athletic.

It has been a lovely first week back at pre-school. We have celebrated number day and took part in an Autumn walk around the school grounds. The children collected lots of twigs and leaves and we discussed what happens in Autumn. We can't wait to make our giant Autumn collage next week!

We spent an active maths lesson revising our work on factors and multiples. We retrieved factors of a given number, combined numbers to make multiples and experimented with organising numbers within venn diagrams.

We loved combining our P.E. and maths skills on Number Day. We used our running skills to sprint between hoops and our maths skills to construct and solve sums using all four operations.

The first day back was a magical day filled with Maths. The children loved the Taskmaster challenges and the costumes and outfits were wonderful. Who loved it more-the children or the staff?

A busy end to the reception classes first half term in school.

For our Design and Technology work this half term, Y5 have been researching, designing and building their own cam mechanisms to create a Viking-themed toy. Well done, Y5, on some fantastic projects. It was great to see real perseverance, resilience, team work and problem solving skills. Well done!

The children loved making 'Journey Sticks' as part of their Mapping Week work. The pupils made a plan map of the classroom and their imaginary town.

The end of a very busy term! This week we have been doing lots of mapping skills in our local Geography work and we showed off our creative skills making our Titanic bedrooms, which we loved. More great topic homework too. Well done everyone for a wonderful first term - you are all superstars!

This week, as part of mapping week, we walked around Standish to observe and record features that keep us safe; keep our environment clean and are community friendly.

Powerpoint used to delivery Phonics Parent workshop.

During week 7 we have celebrated 'Black History' month by finding out about the person who invented the Traffic lights, We have listened to prayers. We are working hard with our phonics.

Year 4 have been inspired by the poet, Benjamin Zephania as part of our celebration for Black History Day.

Year 1 enjoying their morning break at the new snack tables. For 'Black History Day' in school, the children heard about the life and achievements of Rosa Parks. They created freeze frames of scenes from her life and learnt the actions and words to a song inspired by her - She Sat on the Bus.

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.