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29th January 2024The class are currently learning about electricity and they have been using electrical equipment to make circuits. They have drawn diagrams of their own circuits and then made them to...
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29th January 2024The class made waist coasts for their teddy bears. This required them to design a waistcoat and then measure and cut their own material before sewing together the shoulders and...
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5th May 2023In Year 6, we have been learning about the life of King Charles III, retrieving information from a range of texts and developing our understanding of key vocabulary. We have also...
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17th February 2023Year 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...
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3rd January 2023GIFT Team delivering their Advent collective worship to Year 1.
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16th December 2022Advent This week, we have been very busy in Year 6, with our preparations for Christmas. The children attended Mass with Year 2 on Wednesday - they read and sang beautifully and...
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2nd December 2022In Year 6, we have been looking at creating art illusions. The children have thought about perspective through their use of lines and shading to create an optical illusion and...
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24th June 2022In science this week, we have been investigating how light travels and how shadows are formed. The children worked in groups to make short videos to explain how light enables...
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29th January 2021In Year 6's Art lessons we have been looking at fashion, one of the lessons involved designing a hat, we looked at designers such as Philip Treacy, this was one...
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22nd May 2020We are looking forward to welcoming our Year 6 children back into school on the 8th June (hopefully!). Following the safety guidelines set out by the Government, school has been prepared and...
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21st April 2020Home learning for all year groups is now available on the class pages. Some of the work may need downloaded to look at but the majority should be able to...
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25th February 2020Year 6 held an assembly to launch the 'Peer Mediation' scheme, after completing their training the Year 6's then explained in assembly how the scheme would work. Peer Mediation is... -
10th February 2020Sister Dolores came into Year 6 to talk to the children about the Mass, looking at how it has evolved from 'The Last Supper' and then subsequently the Apostles meeting...
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6th February 2020Well done to our year 5/6 school football team who put in an outstanding performance to overcome Micklehurst Primary school and progress to the next round of the Tameside Milea...
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13th December 2019Children from Years 5 and 6 were joined by children from St. Thomas More High School and St. John Fisher for the annual Christmas concert. Following performances by St. Thomas...
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5th December 2019Our 4 houses at St. Mary's battled it out to become the Book Quiz champions yesterday afternoon. It was excellent to see the pupils' fantastic knowledge of books, characters, titles...
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5th December 2019Linked to their 'Healthy Bodies' science unit, Year 6 have been learning about the effects of exercise on our bodies. Checking our pulses and our heart rates when sitting, walking,...
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2nd December 2019Y6 had a fantastic time at Robinwood. They had a go at lots of different activities (canoeing, climbing, archery, trapeze, giant swing, high ropes, zip wire). They also worked in...
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16th October 2019After studying the Mayans for a number of weeks =, Year 5's work has culminated in them getting to try out some recipes similar to those the Mayans would have...
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11th October 2019Linked to the RE unit this term the Year 6 children led the collective worship with the theme of the Kingdom of God. The children through roleplays looked at the...
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11th October 2019On Monday, Year 6 enjoyed a great day out at firstly Safe Squad and then onto Sky High Adventure. Safe Squad was a very informative morning about things like, Internet...
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20th May 2019After an extremely busy week of SATs, where every child in Year 6 worked incredibly hard, class 6S went on a well-earned trip to Stockport Air Raid Shelters to find...
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27th February 2019Year 6 enjoyed a very exciting morning when a Viking came to visit to explain what that time period was really like. Not only did the children get to observe...
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13th July 2018Well done to Year 6 who have completed their performances of Matilda this past Tuesday and Thursday nights. On both occasions the children sang, danced and acted their hearts out...
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27th February 2018As part of their topic on WW2 and the Battle of Britain, Year 6 enjoyed a fun day at the RAF museum, Cosford. At the start of the day, the...
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19th October 2017Year 6 were visited by the fire crew from Hyde Fire station to receive a talk on staying safe during the firework season. During the talk the children asked some...
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28th September 2017St. Mary's ended National Poetry day with each class performing a recital of a famous poem. The poems ranged from, 'The Ning Nang Nong' by Spike Milligan to 'Macavity -...
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28th September 2017https://stmarysdenton.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/VID_20170928_094114.mp4 Year 6 kicked off National Poetry Day with a fantastic assembly which told us a lot about poetry including a reading of the oldest known poem - 4000 years old....
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28th September 2017Year 6 had a great time at Robinwood last week. Throughout the three days the children took on such challenges as the giant swing, zip-wire, dungeon of doom and the...
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14th July 2017Year 6 and year 5 wowed audiences over the course of two nights with their amazing performances of Bugsy. Critics throughout the country are hailing it as the best new...
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21st June 2017Year 6 enjoyed a fantastic day out in the picturesque village Hathersage in the Peak District on Tuesday. As a reward for all their hard work throughout the year they...
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26th May 2017Following weeks of outstanding auditions it is finally time to announce the casting for this years production of Bugsy Malone. It was full of tough decisions and each part could...
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30th March 2017Since September, Years 5 and 6 have been receiving guitar and singing lessons from Tameside Music Service. For year 6 this is their second year and the first for year...
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8th March 2017Before half-term Year 6 completed a unit of poetry in English. They watched and listened to some examples of poetry and spoken word from such famous poets as Michael Rosen,...
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17th February 2017Year 6 yet again outdid themselves with their selection of outstanding projects based on The Battle of Britain. Throughout the term the children have been completing a wide range of...
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9th February 2017Year 6 had a fantastic trip to RAF Cosford as part of their topic work on The Battle of Britain. The children had the opportunity to look at artefacts from...
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8th February 2017During their science lessons, Year 6 have been learning about the heart and human body. As well as performing investigations, they have made and painted clay hearts of their very...
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27th January 2017Year 6 led the school in Collective Worship on Thursday with the theme of sacrifice and trusting in God. They told the story of Abraham, who was willing to sacrifice...
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24th January 2017Year 6 have been working hard over the past couple of weeks to prepare costumes and props in order to re-tell the story of Moses freeing the Jewish people from...
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12th January 2017Please find attached letter regarding trip for year 6 to RAF Cosford. Year 6 Trip to RAF Museum Cosford
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14th December 2016As part of their assessment Year 6 undertook first the bleep test followed by the standing long jump yesterday. The bleep test required them to run over a set distance...
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9th December 2016Along with children from St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, children from year's 5 and 6 took part in the annual parish Christmas concert. This years theme was a...
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7th December 2016Year's 5 and 6 began their PE assessments with coaches from Tameside yesterday afternoon. The children undertook two challenges,: the first to test their coordination and the second to test...
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22nd November 2016Year 6 enjoyed an afternoon of maths at St. Thomas More on Monday afternoon, with maths teacher Miss Griffin. They were able to demonstrate their knowledge of shape, angles and...
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18th November 2016Year 6 have been studying classification of living things in science and how they may be grouped. In order to help them with their questioning they first classified some sweets...
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18th November 2016Well done to our Year 5/6 girls football team, who represented the school in the recent TCSSA football tournament at St. Damien's Ashton. the girls played exceptionally well and came...
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4th November 2016Year 6 began their gymnastics coaching on Tuesday afternoon. There were some fantastic movements and some excellent skill on display. Possibly even some future Olympians.
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14th October 2016Below is the link to the Scratch project Year 6 can use an example for their homework in which they create their own Scratch game/project which contains variables and an...
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5th October 2016Today, year 6 attended the Tameside 'Safe Squad' in Hyde to learn about a variety of ways of keeping safe both now and as they get older. Firstly, the children watched...
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29th September 2016Year 6 lead us in today's collective worship all about CAFOD's Harvest 2016. They certainly Brightened up our day and are asking that next Friday everyone joins in and wears...
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22nd September 2016Year 6 have returned safe and well from their adventures at Robinwood, although maybe a little tired. They have spent 3 days/ 2 nights at the activity centre in Todmordon....
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19th September 2016To keep up to date with all the latest news from Robinwood make sure to follow us on twitter. Our username is @stmarysdenton
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13th September 2016Year 6 began their new science unit this week on electricity. They tested out different circuits and investigated which would work and which wouldn't to refresh their memory.
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8th July 2016Well done to Year 6 for their two fantastic performances to packed audiences. Both nights the children received standing ovations. Also, well done to Year 5, who supported the year...
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13th December 2015Years 5 and 6 put on a sensational display in front of a packed St. Mary's Church to open this years concert, which also featured great performances from children from...
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16th November 2015As part of their topic on map reading and learning about longitude and latitude, Year 6 undertook some orienteering in and around the school grounds. They had to read the...
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20th October 2015As part of their topic on The Battle of Britain, Year 6 spent the day at RAF Cosford. After a long two hour drive they were finally able to come...
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29th September 2015Please see attached letter regarding trip to the RAF Museum on 19th October for our Year 6 children. Year 6 Trip to RAF Museum Cosford
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20th July 2015Well done to year 6 and year 5 who put on two amazing performances to packed crowds on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. The acting, singing and dancing were...
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21st February 201524 children from years 5 and 6 enjoyed two days of artistic fun over half-term to create a masterpiece that will certainly brighten up school. With the help of Howard...