St Marie's Catholic Primary School

The children have had a lovely last week in pre-school. We have been practicing wrapping presents at the wrapping station, reciting the birth of baby Jesus and enjoyed a fun disco at tea with Santa! We would just like to say a huge thank you for all the lovely gifts and cards we have received. They are greatly appreciated and we look forward to welcoming the children back in January. Have a very Merry Christmas, and a peaceful new year. Miss Perrins & Mrs Sivori x

We had a great time at the KS2 Christmas Disco. We learnt a lot about the work of CAFOD, from Jane and Leo, and how the money we raised from the Santa Dash is helping people in need across the world. It was our turn to lead Picture News; the Picture Pioneers were amazing sharing how communities help vulnerable people keep warm in Winter.

We are so proud of all the children in reception. They were amazing in the Christmas nativity.

A very busy day. We had a great time with our buddies doing the Santa Dash, we enjoyed a yummy Christmas dinner and loved being festive wearing our Christmas Jumpers.

Year 1 have had such a lovely Christmassy Week! We performed our Nativity for a families and friends, took part in our CAFOD santa dash, had surprise visits from computer explorers and Freddie the Funbox Frog and also made Hot Chocolate as part of our instruction writing.

A lovely week performing our Nativity, a Santa dash, Christmas lunch and lots of hard work in class too. We have read and performed Christmas poetry, researched woodland animals on the iPads and been subtracting two digit numbers in Maths.

We've had a lovely week exploring Christmas in continuous provision. We've made yummy cookies with the play dough, played with Christmas happy street and have loved singing Christmas songs together.

We enjoyed our Santa Dash with Reception. We have taste tested gluten free products for our DT project and we have role played being the ghosts from A Christmas Carol

We had a great time raising money for CAFOD on our Santa Dash.

What a busy week! Nativity rehearsals are well under way. We went into the computer suite to practise logging on, we looked at different habitats in science, learned about Advent in R.E and some children enjoyed P.E. activities with Year 5.

This week year 1 have been learning about 3D shapes in Maths. We have done lots of shape sorting and have enjoyed making patterns with 2D and 3D shapes. In writing, we have been looking at Instruction writing and we have been discussing bossy verbs and how to sequence different instructions.

We have worked hard on dividing and multiplying fractions, finished our newspaper reports about the ocean, debated the title 'Mary the Mother of God' and made models of invertebrates in Science.

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.