February | 2023 | St. Mary's RC Primary and Nursery School

RE, Religious Life, Y2

Liturgical Prayer

27th February 2023

Year 2’s class liturgical prayer took place this week. The theme was based on the scripture verse ‘Love one another as I have loved you’ and the children told the story of the feast of St Valentine to develop this message. The class also described how they could live out these values in their daily lives and spread God’s...
PE, Sports

Football

27th February 2023

A huge well done to the mixed year 5/6 football team, who overcame Corrie Primary School in the first round of the Tameside Schools Football Tournament. Despite going behind early on, they came back strongly, eventually winning 4-2. All the players showed great team spirit and they should be proud of their efforts against a good team. Mr Tomkinson
Modern Foreign Languages, Y3, Y5

French breakfast morning

27th February 2023

Year 3 and 5 enjoyed a French breakfast this morning. Year 5 acted as the waiters and Year 3 as the customers. They asked each other what they would like in French and then enjoyed a selection of delicious French breakfast foods including croissants, crepes, pain au chocolat and brioche. Miss Longden
English, EYFS

Designing a boat for Noi's Dad

17th February 2023

As part of our learning about The Storm Whale in Winter, we have been designing a new boat for Noi's Dad. We began with some floating and sinking experiments, making predictions about different objects and testing them out. Then, we looked at photos of a variety of different boats and talked about their features. Next we designed our own...
English, Y4, Y6

Virtual Author

17th February 2023

Year 4 and Year 6 enjoyed a virtual author visit with Robin Scott-Elliot as part of Tameside's Ready Steady Read festival. The children enjoyed listening to what inspired Robin to become an author and found out about his latest release - Hide and Seek. They were even treated to an exclusive cover reveal of his future book - Sweet...
EYFS, Science

F2 We are Scientists! Ice investigators

13th February 2023

The children of F2 have been doing some fantastic investigating about ice. First we observed melting ice in our classroom: what it looked like, felt like, talking about how it was changing and what happened when we touched it with our hands. Then we received a letter from Stick Man: his three stick children were stuck in the ice! ...
English, EYFS, Y4

Preparation for our Celebration of Writing in 4P

8th February 2023

4P have peer revising and editing their writing before they share their journey stories with F2 this week as part of their celebration of writing. The children ensured they followed our writing success criteria and made changes to their writing to make it entertaining for others.
Newsletters

Weekly Newsletter

3rd February 2023

St Mary's RC Primary School Weekly Newsletter - Friday 3rd February 2023 Dear Parents and Carers, It's beginning to feel like we are heading towards Spring with longer days and the promise of milder temperatures. There's lots for us to look forward to in schoo… Go to this Sway
News

Healthy Start

3rd February 2023

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RE, Religious Life, Y4

Y4 Prayer and Liturgy

3rd February 2023

This week 4P had their class liturgical prayer. They explained 'The Feast of Presentation' to the school community. The children read from the gospel of Luke and discussed the importance of how Simeon and Anna recognised how special baby Jesus was when he entered the temple. The children shared their ideas and ways we can find something special in...