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Curriculum, Enrichment, PE, Sports

Virtual Netball

1st May 2020

VID_20200501_110703VID_20200501_110244VID_20200501_110856VID_20200501_111148VID_20200501_111952 The children and staff in school today took part in the TCSSA virtual netball competition by throwing socks into a basket from 2 metres away. The children showed great aim and technique to contribute towards a score of 216 in total. I'm not sure how much of a help the staff were though!
Curriculum, Enrichment, Music

Captain Tom's 100th Birthday

30th April 2020

To celebrate the 100th birthday of Captain Tom, Daniel, Malachy ad Tyler succesfully completed 100 laps of the school playground. Well done boys.
Curriculum, Enrichment, Science

Chester Zoo - Virtual Zoo

26th March 2020

At 10am tomorrow Chester Zoo will be having a virtual zoo day. Once their virtual gates open there timetable is as follows: 10:00 ???? Red pandas ???? 11:00 ???? Rothschild's giraffes ???? 12:00 ???? Asian elephants ???? 13:00 ???? Butterflies ???? 14:00 ???? Sun bears ???? 14:30 ???? Sumatran tigers ???? 14:45 ???? Humboldt penguins ???? 16:00 ???? Aquarium* ???? They have stated that there may be some...
All Pupils, Curriculum, Enrichment

Keeping in touch - pupils@stmarysdenton.com

26th March 2020

At St. Mary's we would love to hear about all the activities and work you have been doing at home during this unusual time. Therefore, we have set up a dedicated email address for you to send in pictures and explanations of your work, activities and anything else you have been getting up to. We will then add these...
Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Being creative in a range of subjects

25th March 2020

Chatterpack; A huge list of free resources and websites, including mental health support; https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/list-of-online-resources-for-anyone-who-is-isolated-at-home Powerpoint which includes lots of useful resources for parents to use at home Seneca; https://www.senecalearning.com/ BBC Bitesize; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
All Pupils, Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Free education subscriptions

25th March 2020

Below is an entire list of websites offering free subscriptions due to the school closure 2Simple AdmitHub ABCMouse/Adventure Academy ALBERT Alchemie American Chemistry Society Backpack Sciences Boardmaker BookCreator App BrainPop Breakout Edu Buncee Century CheckMath CircleTime Fun CiscoWebex CK-12 Foundation ClassDojo Classroom Secrets ClassHook Classtime CMU CS Academy CommonLit Conjugemos Coursera for Campus Curriki Deck. Toys DeltaMath Discovery Ed Dyslexia Academy Ecoballot EdConnect Edmodo EdPuzzle Education Perfect Eduflow Edulastic Edu-Together Elementari Emile Epraise Epic! EverFi Explain Everything Fiveable Flipgrid Fluency Matters Freckle Free Math Gamilab Genially GoGuardian Good2Learn Google For Edu Gynzy Hapara Hawkes Learning HippoCampus Ideas Roadshow IDEA InThinking i-Ready Izzit.org Kahoot Kami KET’s PBS Learning Media Khan Academy Kids Discover Online Kognity LabsLand Learning Apps Libby App ListenWise Manga High Microsoft Education Minecraft: Education Edition MobyMax Mozi MusicFirst Mystery Science NearPod Newsela Nimbus Capture Outschool Otus Packback Parlay Pear Deck PebbleGo By Capstone Peergrade PenPal Prodigy Pronto Rockalingua Salesforce ScienceWerkz Schoology ScreenCastify Seesaw Seneca Seterra Geography Scholastic Shmoop Sight Reading Suite SmartMusic StoryBoard Tailor-ED TechSmith Tes...
Curriculum, Enrichment

Fun, family time activities

25th March 2020

A range of fun activities to do together as a family. 50 things to do activity list 100 things to do indoors The great indoors Activities to do at home Tate Art ideas Learn a new language with duolingo Learn French with Muzzy tocaboca games Live animal web cams at Edinburgh Zoo
All Pupils, Community, Enrichment, PE, RE, Religious Life, Sports

CAFOD - What's your goal?

13th March 2020

Children from F2 to Year 6 took part in our Lent fundraiser – What’s your goal? Throughout the day children showed exceptional skill, determination and knowledge to perform keepie-uppies, score penalties, hit the crossbar and demonstrate their knowledge of football teams. The event was expertly organised the Year 5 children, who despite the cold and wet weather, maintained their...
Curriculum, English, Enrichment, History, Y5

Year 5 Bronte Museum

28th February 2020

Year 5 enjoyed an eventful day at the Bronte Museum, Haworth. After an eventful journey the children finally arrived ready to undertake their day. However, due to the adverse weather conditions their moorland walk had to be cancelled. The children did not let this dampen their spirits though. They had the opportunity to look around the Bronte Museum and...
Enrichment, Fundraising, History, News, RE

Shrove Tuesday - St Joseph's Penny

25th February 2020

As part of our charity work to support the 'St Joseph's Penny' appeal, we decided to sell pancakes at break time as a way to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, before we start our journey through Lent. St Joseph's Penny is a very important charity that supports vulnerable children and families in our local community. We enjoyed our pancakes especially sprinkled with...
Enrichment, PE, Sports

Basketball

14th February 2020

St. Mary's entered two teams into the Tameside Schools Basketball finals on Wednesday after they both qualified from their heats last. Both teams played extremely well. They ended playing each other in the 3rd place play-off with the A narrowly winning 1-0. Well done to all involved.
Art, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, Maths, Nursery, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Winter Topic in F1

14th February 2020

This half term in Nursery we have been very busy learning all about Winter. We have used our senses to look for signs of Winter outside and discuss the changes we have seen. In Literacy we have focussed on the books ‘Say hello to the snowy animals’ and ‘Lost and Found.’ We have been working hard on developing our mark-making...
Enrichment, PE, Sports, Y5, Y6

Football success

6th February 2020

Well 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 Cup.
Art, Design & Technology, Enrichment, EYFS, Maths

Chinese New Year in EYFS

24th January 2020

Today we have been learning all about the Chinese New Year. We found out about the different ways that Chinese people celebrate the New Year and listened to the story about how the different years got their animal names: this is the year of the rat! In our class we have looked carefully at different Chinese artefacts: the children...
English, Enrichment, EYFS

Our Visit to Denton Library

24th January 2020

Today our class had a wonderful visit to Denton library. We listened to stories and had a chance to look at their fantastic selection of picture books. We learnt about library books and how to scan books out of the library. The children loved the visit, especially choosing their favourite books and talking about why they liked them. They...
Enrichment, EYFS, News, Nursery, RE, Religious Life

EYFS Nativity

19th December 2019

We are so proud of all of our EYFS children. They put on a fantastic nativity performance: beautiful singing, actions and story telling. Most importantly all of the children enjoyed themselves and joined in with big smiles on their faces. What a beautiful way to retell the story of the first Christmas. Subect 1
Enrichment, EYFS, News, Religious Life

F2 Delivering Christmas Cards to the Local Community

18th December 2019

As part of our Advent preparations, the children of St Mary's are delivering Christmas cards to our local community. After making our own beautiful pointillism Christmas card creations, the children of F2 delivered their cards to our Kynder Street neighbours. We hope that our cards spread some Christmas cheer.
Enrichment, News, RE, Religious Life, Y1

Year 1 Babushka and Community Christmas Cards

18th December 2019

Year 1 and 2 put on a fabulous of Babushka last week. The year 1 choir were an amazing support to our year 2's, well done! This week we have also made some beautiful Christmas cards and delivered them to our neighbouring community. Merry Christmas everyone!
Enrichment, News, RE, Religious Life, Y2

Year 2 Christmas Play Babushka

18th December 2019

This week, Year Two have performed the Christmas Play Babushka. The children thoroughly enjoyed acting, singing and doing actions. They have worked very hard over the last few weeks learning their lines and perfecting their actions. Well done Year Two! What a fantastic Performance!
All Pupils, Enrichment, Music

Music Assembly

13th December 2019

St. Mary's were joined by members of the Tameside Music Service who showcased an array of instruments to the children. These included a whole drum kit, a flute, a clarinet and a couple of saxophones. The children were enthralled with the spectacular performances and were very enthusiastic about trying out the instruments. Information has been sent out regarding lessons...