St Marie's Catholic Primary School

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 children have demonstrated lovely play skills this week. They have taken on characters during their role play and worked as a team to build various models. To end our topic 'all about me', the children have created their very own self portraits, the children looked in the mirror and discussed what they could see on their faces. These have been displayed in the classroom. We have also created Autumn playdough, discussed 'heavy' and 'light' by weighing natural resources and

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.

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 made lanterns to show how we carry the light of Jesus. We celebrated more topic homework and Black History Month, learning all about Rosa Parks. Well done to Alice and Evie who managed to climb all the way up the ropes.

This week, we have been discussing 'what makes a kind friend'. The children have given some beautiful answers..."I have kind hands" "I love to snuggle my friends." "Sharing is caring." The children have also created an Autumn collage, made scrumptious playdough cookies and shared how special our families are to us during a special circle time.

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.

A busy week in reception - thinking about repeating patterns in maths, in literacy we have been reading the story 'The lonely Scarecrow'...

Basic 2 Week 2 - Graphemes and rhymes are in your child's phonics folders and this 2 tricky words 'I' and 'is'.