Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Year 3 for Team GB!

  Fri 26 Jan 2018
  Year 3 are progressing fantastically this term with their gymnastics lessons. We have been working with coaches from Salford Community Leisure on vault, rolls and jumps. Who knows, we could have some future gymnastics stars in our midst!

• Year 6 – Forest School – Den Building

  Fri 26 Jan 2018

  The Year 6 children were set a challenge today. Creating the atmosphere they had been walking in the wilderness when suddenly they had lost track of time. The sun was going down and night was falling. They desperately needed to get some form of shelter built before the cold and rain may have come.

   

  Using some tarps, lengths of rope, wooden sticks, branches and whatever else the children could find they had forty minutes to create their dens. With some fantastic teamwork, bartering for items to use and the odd raids on other groups they all created some great dens.

   

  This involved absolutely no help from adults and was all the children’s own work. Well done all of Year 6.

• Bikeability Safer Cycling Week

  Thu 25 Jan 2018

  Year 5C have been enjoying their Bikeability Safer Cycling lessons this week. After an evaluation in the playground on Monday it was time to hit the roads around the school and learn the all important signals, maneuvers and awareness. The Bikeability team were really impressed with all of the children with a significant number achieving the Level 2 certificate.

   

  Now that the weather will be turning, getting lighter and warmer we will hopefully see more children out on the roads or cycling to school.

   

   

• Cross Country Stars

  Tue 23 Jan 2018

  The final race in the Salford Schools Championship was at Buile Hill last Saturday. It was a really good turn out and again the athletes have excelled and shown such progression from when we started training. Over 20 runners attended almost every training session and the seven races this year which is fantastic. These children have shown great tenacity, dedication and enthusiasm in every training session to race. Some of the races were run in Arctic weather conditions but still they braved it. So a big thank you from Mr Chadwick to all the parents and Miss Crawshaw who was invaluable in stepping in and coordinating races on her own at times and without her the children may not have been able to race..

   

  We must also be proud of two of our Year 5 runners, Ashlee Freilinger and Gabriel McComb who came Second overall in their respective categories. They have now been chosen to represent Salford School in the Greater Manchester Championship on the 3rd February at Heaton Park – First race starts at 11am. It is a great achievement for both Ashlee and Gabriel as they only started running in the club last year. Well done to you both and if you would like to join in supporting them both we’ll see you on the 3rd

• The Best World Book Day Ever – Our book is published!

  Tue 23 Jan 2018

  Before Christmas Year 5L and 5C worked with the author, Sarah Oliver, to create the story lines for a new book, The Best World Book Day Ever. Working in groups the children had to devise the stories, using props, imagination, different genres and themes to talk all about a book day. The aim of the book is to inspire children to read different genres which could be newspapers, magazines, online articles, fiction and non-fiction books.

   

  Sarah took the children’s work away and worked with the illustrator to create the finished article. And here it is! Today the children read the book with Sarah and then as all new book launches require: signed a few copies and the picture mount which will be displayed in the school.

   

  Well done the budding authors and hopefully all will be inspired to get their names on future best sellers lists.

   

• Poet Tony Walsh Visits St. Mary’s

  Mon 22 Jan 2018
  Today was a very exciting day at St. Mary’s, as local renowned poet Tony Walsh visited us for poetry workshops. Firstly in assembly Tony recited his famous Manchester poem ‘This Is The Place’, which was wonderfully inspiring. Then the whole school enjoyed an exciting workshop with the poet, where we wrote some fantastic poems which each and every child should be proud of.

• Our Mission

  Wed 17 Jan 2018

  Year 5C enjoyed welcoming parents, staff and pupils to the first Celebration Assembly of 2018.

   

  The theme of the assembly was Our Missions in life. The children spoke about how John the Baptist was given a mission to spread the news that Jesus was here and then to also baptise Jesus in the River Jordan. Jesus was then given his own mission by God to speak to all mankind – the afflicted, the poor, the sick, the wealthy.

   

  We then relayed through some of the children’s thoughts, their missions for 2018. It was a really lovely assembly with a string message of how we should act on our Christian journey.

• Viking and Anglo-Saxon Experience Day at Tatton Park

  Wed 17 Jan 2018

  Year 5 & 6 visited Tatton Park or Tayt Ton park to experience life in Viking and Anglo times. This is building on the topics each class have covered in History. Year 6 and half of 5C opted for the luxury of the Old Hall as the day was very cold and mist coated the grounds. Year 5L and the rest of 5C braved the outdoors at the Farm.

   

  The groups were split into three smaller teams as they experienced different facets of life in this period. Here the children learnt about fighting and the weapons used. Roaming around the park were deer which would have been present in Anglo times. Also present would have been Wild Boar and here Boris is wearing Little Boris.

   

  The children also had the opportunity to make Bread in the old ways. They had to grind the flour, mix the ingredients and kneed them all before placing them on the open fire. The children also looked at tools and artefacts from the period and had to guess their uses and how much they were worth. Most expensive was the Lantorn made from horns and metal.