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💃🕺 Moving and Grooving in Year 1!
Tue 21 Oct 2025💃🕺 Our young dancers showed amazing teamwork, energy, and great listening skills as they followed instructions to create fun dance routines! 🎶✨
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💡 Curious Scientists in Action!
Tue 21 Oct 2025💡 Year 1 explored absorbency today — testing which materials soak up water the best! Lots of predicting, pouring, and discovering along the way. 🧪💧
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Cross Country Is Back!
Tue 14 Oct 2025So many of the children have been asking and yes it is back.
St Mary's Cross Country training will start again on Monday 3rd November 3.30 - 4.30. It will run for every Monday (unless the weather is really against us) and is open to every child in Year 3, 4, 5 and 6.
You don't have to be an Olympic athlete to come and join in. They are fun sessions that are inclusive for everyone, will build on natural fitness and all are welcome.
There are four races in the Salford Championships which are held on Saturday mornings at Buile Hill Park. They start at 9am and runners in Year 3 & 4 are usually finished by 9.30 with runners in Year 5 & 6 by 10.30.
Lots of children come and race and then rush off to play other sports if the kick off times allow it. Even if the children might miss an odd race, they are still welcome to training.
Race Dates are:
Saturday 15th November
Saturday 29th November
Saturday 13th December
Saturday 17th January.
I hope to see loads of children at training for fun and fitness.
Mr Chadwick
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October - The Month of the Rosary.
Mon 13 Oct 2025October is known in the Church as the Month of the Rosary.
The Rosary is a special form of prayer that helps us to think about important moments in the lives of Jesus and Mary. As we pray, we use a string of beads to guide us through a series of prayers — the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be — while reflecting on stories from the Gospel called the mysteries.
Throughout October, our school community will be gathering each morning at 8:45am to pray the Rosary together. Families, pupils, and staff are warmly invited to join us as we take a few peaceful moments at the start of each day to pray, reflect, and grow in faith together.
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Our Harvest Celebrations
Fri 10 Oct 2025Reminder for HARVEST donations
Please send in your Harvest donations between Monday 6th October and Wednesday 22nd October. All donations will be given to the Loaves and Fishes Charity.
Suggested items - non-perishable food (tins/packets), underwear, hats, scarves, gloves and toiletries.
Nursery and Reception are having a HARVEST celebration for parents in the school hall on Thursday 16th October at 2:30pm. Parents are welcome from 2:15pm if they would like a brew and biscuit beforehand.
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World Mental Health Day Assembly - Year 5
Thu 09 Oct 2025Year 5 had a wonderful first assembly of the new academic year and spoke to the school and parents about the impoptance of Mental Health.
World Mental Health Day is celebrated on October 10th which is on Friday and it aims to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world, promote discussion about feelings and emotions and encourage us to think about how we can support our own and others’ mental health.
The children spoke about when we feel happy, healthy and content, we have positive wellbeing and explain how important good Mental Health is for us in today’s world.
The children gave some great top tips in how to improve our mental health and wellbeing so we are absolutely ready to face the world each day.
The children know that our state of wellbeing affects how we cope with stress, relate to others and make choices. It also plays a part in our relationships with family, community and of course friends.
Mental health is important for everyone, whether we’re a pupil, parent, family member or a teacher. Being kind to others and talking about our feelings can help us feel so much better.
Well done Year 5 for a lovely assembly and they have promised to keep an eye on each other, their parents and all the children around the school.
Remember, it is always OK to ask for help.
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House Celebration Day
Thu 25 Sep 2025✝️ Today we celebrated our school houses - Fatima 💛, Knock 💚, Lourdes 💙 and Walsingham ❤️.
The children completed fact files, composed prayers and had great fun taking part in team-building games. They have all earned so many extra ‘house points’! ✝️
Fatima
Our Lady of Fátima is the title given to the Virgin Mary as she appeared before three shepherd children near the village of Fátima, Portugal, in 1917.
Knock
In 1879 at the Shrine in Knock, a heavenly Apparition occurred. Our Lady appeared, in the company of St. Joseph and St. John. Unlike other Marian apparitions, the figures remained silent for about two hours, and although it rained heavily, the location of the vision remained dry.
Lourdes
The Lourdes Apparitions were a series of 18 visions of the Virgin Mary, in the Grotto in France. During these encounters, Our Lady identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception" and directed Bernadette to the grotto's spring.
Walsingham
The Walsingham Apparition refers to the Marian apparitions to Richeldis de Faverches in 1061, where the Virgin Mary showed her the House of the Annunciation in Nazareth and asked her to build a replica in Walsingham, Norfolk, England, as a place of pilgrimage and devotion.
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International Day of Peace 2025
Mon 22 Sep 2025On Friday 19th September, St Mary's celebrated the International Day of Peace 2025. This year's theme is "Act Now for a Peaceful World". The theme recognises that everyone has a role to play when it comes to building a peaceful world. By acting through speaking in classrooms, volunteering and contributing to the community, we can all help promote messages of peace.
We started our celebrations in school on Wednesday 17th September, when Year 6 told us all about the International Day of Peace in a special celebration assembly. Then on Friday, we all completed Caritas In Action work in our classes on the theme of Solidarity and the Common Good.
Please look at these examples of the work we produced.
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Olympic Day
Mon 23 Jun 2025Olympic Day is an annual celebration of the Olympic Movement. It encourages people around the world to get physically active and enjoy the power of sport whilst learning about the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Values of friendship, excellence and respect.
This year, the Team GB Foundation have partnered with The Daily Mile Foundation – an initiative that encourages young people to run, walk or wheel outdoors with their friends for 15 minutes everyday, to experience the physical and mental benefits of being active.
Through this partnership, St Mary’s have been given the opportunity to host a special Olympic Day Daily Mile. The children got physically active through their Daily Mile whilst learning about the history of the Olympic Movement, Team GB and different Olympic Sports.
Two Olympians: Max Whitlock and Abigail Irozuru welcomed the children in to school this morning before hosting a whole school assembly with a question and answer session.
The children got to see the Olympians perform routines from their specialist area - even getting Max Whitlock to perform a backward somersault over Mr Johnson. They then went outside onto the running track, and alongside the children and staff ran the daily mile.
What a memorable day for the whole of St Mary’s School!
Take a look at the photographs in the gallery on our website!
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The Sacrament of Holy Communion
Sat 21 Jun 2025On Saturday 21st June, the Year 3 children who were enrolled on the Sacramental Programme made their first Holy Communion.
The mass was a wonderful celebration, as the children received the Body of Christ for the first time.
Their hard work when preparing for this special occasion was evident in the wonderful and reverent way they shared the readings and bidding prayers, completed the offertory and especially their behaviour.
We are all so proud of the children and are delighted for them to have completed this special milestone.
Take a look at the photographs in the Gallery on our website!
