St Marie's Catholic Primary School

We've had a lovely week of learning in pre-school. The children have painted the crib for baby Jesus' arrival and have recited the story of the Angel Gabriel and Mary. We have also created a kindness garden. The children are encouraged to 'plant a seed of kindness' when they have done something kind in the classroom.

As part of our 'To Know You More Clearly' work, Y5 have been learning about the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. To complete our learning on this, we worked in pairs to create dioramas of a Joyful Mystery of our choosing. A huge thank you to everyone who brought in materials from home.

This week, we displayed our music skills in a Xylophone Performance for parents and children in school.

This week, we have enjoyed exploring continuous provision, going on a bear hunt and decorating the Christmas tree whilst dancing to Christmas music. We have also created beautiful handprints of Mary and the Angel Gabriel.

This week we have worked very hard on our quizzes. We visited Standish Library to share some Christmas poems with a local poet and we acted out Mary greeting Elizabeth from our scripture.

The children enjoyed meeting Ray, a published poet. He read some of his poems and got us in the festive spirit.

We have been working on adding and subtracting fractions this week. We have created PowerPoint presentations about important women in the Bible and we have dissected owl pellets to help us understand the main character in our Guided Reading book.

We have been working very hard in Assessment Week. We are very proud of our Double Page Spread Assessments based on our topic 'Who lives in Antarctica?'

Y5 went on a Psalm search. We looked for examples of certain features, emotions and themes within Psalms that had been placed around our outdoor area. This gave us a better understanding of the Psalms and introduced us to some new vocabulary. When we returned to class, we wrote our own versions of a song/poem/prayer in the style of a Psalm.

A busy week making 'Diva' lamps. Reading with our buddies. Finding 4 and 5.

A recipe for a good friend. Year 1 made leaf rubbings in the garden. This was one of their Art skills.

As part of our geography work, Y5 wrote and presented their own news-reporter style programmes that reported on the links between climate change and migration - well done Y5!

This week in Science we classified things we found in the garden. We crossed over tens in Maths and illustrated The Annunciation in R.E. Well done to Toby winning tickets to watch Wigan Athletic!

The children have loved creating their very own Gruffalo to display above our bear cave. We have recited the story "We're going on a bear hunt." and have created wonderful pieces of writing all about our favourite part. The children also enjoyed taking part in cosmic kids yoga- bear hunt.

A wonderful week starting with Peace Hour, a visit from British Legion and ending with a Podcast about Saving the Ocean

We had a wonderful time at The Grosvenor Museum finding out about the Roman invasion and Roman legacies.