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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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7th July 2023As part of our explorers theme, the children of F2 have been on a minibeast hunt! We have been learning about different minibeasts and their habitats- we made predictions about...
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23rd June 2023The children of F2 have been practising their threading skills this week. Linked to our explorer topic and our work on minibeasts, we have been creating our own spiders and...
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19th May 2023The children of F2 have loved adding some new bedding plants into our outdoor environment this week. We have been excited to see some of our plants and bulbs sprouting...
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25th April 2023We have some exciting new visitors in our classroom: five tiny caterpillars! They are living on our discovery table and we are excited to watch them grow. Today, we found...
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29th March 2023As part of our new Spring and Growing theme, EYFS have had a fabulous morning down on the farm this week! We have been stroking rabbits, taking a tractor ride,...
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13th February 2023The 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...
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28th November 2022In science, the children have been learning about levers. We created our own catapults to demonstrate how a fulcrum works and tested them to see which catapult was the most...
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24th June 2022This week in Science, Year 4 have been learning all about bees and how important they are to our world. We have learnt about the different types of bees that...
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24th June 2022In F2 we are learning all about minibeasts! We have talked about different minibeasts, observing the details in photos and making pictures of them. We have been solving minibeast "What am...
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24th June 2022In Science this half term, we have been studying changes - both reversible and irreversible. We have been doing several investigations to show this. We have looked how mixing baking...
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24th June 2022This week in Science, Year 3 have been investigating the strengths of different types of magnets. We tested metal bar magnets, plastic bar magnets, small horseshoe magnets and large horse...
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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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24th June 2022This week in F1 we have been very busy learning all about Minibeast Habitats. We have started to create a minibeast hotel in our outdoor area using pots, boxes and...
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22nd June 2022In Science this week, the children in Year 1 have been considering how they can encourage more birds to visit the school grounds. The children decided that we should feed...
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19th May 2020Emma has been busy baking delicious gingerbread men and growing onions and beans. She has been checking on them everyday to see how much they have grown. -
5th May 2020William has been hard at work on his DT project researching different food groups and calories and their benefits to the human body. He has then written a set of...
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4th May 2020Some more brilliant home learning this time from the children in year 1. They have been finding out Eugenie Clark and the fascinating underwater creatures, producing magnificent artwork in the...
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1st May 2020Isabella and Jasmine continue to be busy keeping up with their home learning. Isabella has produced a fantastic report all about St. George, whilst Jasmine has been finding out where...
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30th April 2020Another array of brilliant examples of the home learning taking place by the children of St. Mary's. Some of you are getting really stuck and look like you are really...
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29th April 2020We have even more fantastic examples of your home learning being sent in. Matteo has been hard at work with his maths and English, whilst Caleb and Luca have bee...
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28th April 2020More fantastic work from year 3 who have been investigating and drawing how your garden grows and writing in heiroglyphics and drawing maps of Egypt. Mrs Farrell is so impressed...
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27th April 2020More brilliant examples of home-learning from the children of St. Mary's who are getting thoroughly involved with the work set on the school website. From planting and observing seeds, looking...
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24th April 2020Wow! The children of St. Mary's are certainly getting stuck into their home learning and producing some amazing English, maths and lots of other amazing activities. Orlaith and James have...
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1st April 2020Some more fantastic examples of the work and activties children have been undertaking at home from keeping up with their phonics, handwriting, maths and researching and learning about the solar...
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26th March 2020At 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...
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Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science25th March 2020Chatterpack; 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
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All Pupils, Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science25th March 2020Below 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...
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14th February 2020As part of our winter topic, the children of EYFS have been investigating ice. In nursery the children have enjoyed playing with ice in the water trays and the small...
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14th February 2020This 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...
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14th February 2020Continuing their science topic on forces, Year 5 this week tested how much force would be needed in order to move a variety of footwear and see what resistance was...
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13th February 2020Year 3 have been learning about Light and Shadows this half term and have really enjoyed experimenting with different light sources, reflections and shadows. Last week the children created shadow puppet...
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6th February 2020During their science unit on forces Year 5 have been learning about a variety of different forces. Last week they studied the relationship between weight and mass and used forcemeters...
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24th January 2020Our current topic in F2 is winter. We have been reading a non-fiction book about winter and also used the internet to find winter facts. We have been looking for...
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5th December 2019The children of F2 have enjoyed exploring light and dark in the discovery area during this half term. We began by looking at lots of different interesting objects, describing them...
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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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28th November 2019This term Year 3 are learning about rocks, soils and fossils. This week we have started to explore different characteristics of rocks by looking closely at 'Sweetie Rocks'. The children...
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27th November 2019This term Year 4 are learning about living things. With millions of different plant and animal species in the world, we have starting learning how to sort according to a range...
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22nd November 2019Year 5 have continued their science unit by investigating which everyday substances were soluble in water. After planning their investigation they donned their lab coats and got to work. They...
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21st November 2019In EYFS our young learners have all been very engaged by our recent "Space" theme. In F2 we have been spending time designing and making rockets in a variety of...
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7th November 2019In year 5 we have started our new science unit investigating materials. The children were given their new knowledge organisers and set straight to work sorting objects based on their properties...
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16th October 2019As part of their science Year 5 investigated how craters may be created on the moon and what effect their height may have on them. They used flour and cocoa...
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13th May 2019The children in F2 are having lots of fun engaging in our Spring and growing topic. We have read non fiction books about the season and looked for signs of...
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10th May 2019We had a fantastic time visiting Cockfields farm. We held rabbits, guinea pigs and chickens. We fed baby goats with bottles of milk and even gave the tortoises a bath!...
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11th March 2019In year 2 we have been busy planting lettuce seeds as part of our science topic - Young Gardeners. We had to read the seed packets carefully to make sure...
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27th June 2017In EYFS we have been on a minibeast hunt! We found out information about different minibeasts from around the world. We talked learnt that different minibeasts are suited to live...
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23rd June 2017Year 5 have had great fun during science week, finding out about nucleation. This involved creating diet coke and mentos geysers. These geysers are caused by a process called nucleation, where...
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22nd June 2017During Science Week, Year 4 have been learning how shadows are formed. By drawing around the shadow of one of the children at different times during the morning, we could...
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7th December 2016Year 5 have been learning about Space and have been finding out about the moon's surface. This week, they planned an investigation to find how craters are formed and whether the distance a...
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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.