St Marie's Catholic Primary School

In PSHE, we discussed and made posters about the features of a good community.

It has been a super busy week in pre-school! We have created astronaut helmets and flown around Earth, we have enjoyed making space collage plates and went to the 'dough disco'! It was so much fun.

Are Dragons real or are they a Fantasy?

This week we have produced some excellent writing about Little Red Riding Hood. We have been logging onto the computers and familiarised ourselves with the keyboard and we have been dancing to Bangladesh traditional music.

We have investigated ratio this week, researched Charles Darwin, found the features of non-chronological reports and retold the Wedding at Cana.

We had a fabulous start to the term. We worked hard on converting measure, researching The Lake District and reading mysterious short stories.

As part of our computing work, we have been using laptops and desktops to practice our Microsoft Office skills. This week we practiced saving and uploading documents to our Microsoft Teams class page.

This week we have used the new school laptops in computing. Year 6 helped us to type in our usernames and we learned all about the different parts of the computer and how to use them safely too. We have done some excellent fairy tale writing in English and looked at teen numbers up to 20. We have shown some lovely sharing and teamwork in our areas and explored different body parts in science.

Happy New Year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the lovely Christmas gifts and for your continuing support. Kind Regards, Mrs Hawkins

In PE, we used our listening skills, communication skills, teamwork skills and balance skills to order ourselves in height, age and alphabetical order.

Year 1 have settled in so well to 2026! We have had a lovely week of learning. We have really enjoyed our new learning about Famous Women in History, we have explored hospitals and nursing in the past and present and created a timeline to order key events in the life of Florence Nightingale. We have also looked at the story of the presentation of Jesus from Luke's Gospel and we acted it out in groups.

Happy New Year! A really good first week back in Year 2. We have worked hard in Maths, enjoyed P.E with Wigan Athletic and celebrated the Epiphany by chalking the Epiphany message on the playground.

Y5 had great fun designing and creating their DT projects - a healthy lunch box snack. We worked together to design a product that matched our brief of a lunch box snack that was healthy, affordable, bite-size and delicious. Well done Y5, your mini frittatas were a tremendous hit!

The children have had a lovely first week back in pre-school. We have welcomed new children, and have recited the journey of the 'three wise men.' We found baby Jesus, lying in his manger. It was very exciting. Our new topic this term, is Space. We have been talking about what we might find in space and have learnt special new words. "gravity" and "orbit." The children loved watching a space rocket launch into space, we did a countdown from 10 and shouted "Blast off!"

Please see the document below for all the information on this half term. Please don't hesitate to contact Mr Farley if you have any further questions.

A jam packed week: Dancing at the Christmas Disco; baking our gluten free products and evaluating them; finishing our setting descriptions of A Christmas Carol; making Christmas cards and decorations; a visit from Fr Joseph and a festive litter pick around Standish.