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1st May 2020VID_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... -
30th April 2020To celebrate the 100th birthday of Captain Tom, Daniel, Malachy ad Tyler succesfully completed 100 laps of the school playground. Well done boys.
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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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26th March 2020At 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...
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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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25th March 2020A 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...
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13th March 2020Children 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...
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28th February 2020Year 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...
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25th February 2020As 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...
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14th February 2020St. 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...
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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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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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24th January 2020Today 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...
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24th January 2020Today 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...
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19th December 2019We 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...
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18th December 2019As 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...
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18th December 2019Year 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...
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18th December 2019This 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...
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13th December 2019St. 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...
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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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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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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 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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10th October 2019On Monday, Year 4 were extremely lucky to have a Roman soldier visit their class to tell them all about what life was like over 2000 years ago. With a...
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10th October 2019Year 2 had a fantastic time learning about Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong on Tuesday morning through their time travelling guide. The children particularly enjoyed acting out the port of...
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3rd October 2019Year 5 led the school in their collective worship which informed everybody about this year CAFOD appeal to Brighten Up and raise money for Harvest. The focus of the assembly...
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24th May 2019Year 2 had a fantastic time at Sky High Adventure on Wednesday. For two hours the children climbed, clambered and caved their way around a variety of obstacles. Once split...
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18th March 2019As part of our People Who Help Us topic in EYFS we had a special visit in our classrooms from a police officer! We thought of lots of interesting questions...
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7th March 2019This week, the children attended a fun Lantern Making Workshop in preparation for this weekends Lantern Parade which will take part in Denton. The children really enjoyed designing their own...
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28th February 2019The school choir had a brilliant time singing and performing at Manchester Arena for their Young Voices concert. We all had a wonderful time singing songs old and new. We...
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26th October 2018Year 2 lead the school in an excellent collective worship on Thursday telling everyone about how God has chosen people to do special jobs and how we must then trust...
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26th October 2018Year 2 had a fantastic time learning about Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong on Tuesday morning through their time travelling guide. The children thoroughly enjoyed acting out the port of...
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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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23rd March 2018To celebrate World Book Day, the children had a special day in which they interpreted stories through dance. The stories being Where The Wild Things Are and Alice in Wonderland....
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2nd February 2018The KS2 children enjoyed the film night run by the PTA here at school on Wednesday. They had the opportunity to watch “Khumba – A Zebra’s Tale” and all enjoyed...
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31st January 2018The school choir had a fantastic time singing and dancing at the Young Voices Concert at the Manchester Arena on Tuesday. Their behaviour was excellent both during the rehearsal and...
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18th December 2017Our Dragons’ Den Christmas Market was a great success this week. The quality of work from the children (with a bit of help from their parents) was amazing as were...
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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 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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3rd May 2017Before Easter, Year 5 went on an exciting trip to Tatton Park where they became Anglo-Saxon farmers for the day. They took part in many different activities which helped them understand how the...
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7th December 2016Year 1 visited Portland Basin museum to learn all about toys from the past. We played with skittles, diabolo, yo-yo's, ball and cup, music boxes and many more toys from the Victorian...
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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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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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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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7th January 20111. Saving Money We hope that by making small changes to the environmental management of St. Mary’s it will result in some financial saving. This will be achieved by cutting out...
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7th January 2011We're very proud to have been awarded the 'Eco-Schools' bronze award: Our 'Eco-Schools' record can be found here.
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7th January 2011The Eco-Action team is made up of children from throughout KS2, with the help of Mr Whittle and Miss Wilson. We meet every other week to discuss aspects of the...