Latest News

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

• Novus Solutions sponsors the new St Mary’s Football Kit

  Fri 16 Feb 2018

  Today St Mary’s received a visit from Nigel Linger and Emma Wood of Novus Solutions who have kindly sponsored the new St Mary’s Football Kit. At the end of the Year 6 assembly Mrs Raynor introduced our guests and a selection of Year 5 children proudly showed off the new design.

  Novus Solutions are a family based company based in Salford who undertake a lot of their work with Social Housing Groups across the borough. Currently Social Housing is a major focus and we welcome the partnership with Nigel and Emma. https://www.novussolutions.co.uk/

  Hopefully the kit will spur the team on to even more success. A big thank you again to Nigel and Emma from all the staff and children at St Mary’s.

• St Mary’s achieves the Modeshift Stars Bronze Accreditation

  Fri 16 Feb 2018

  St Mary’s are very proud to have achieved the Bronze Accreditation from Modeshift Stars.

  Modeshift STARS is the national schools awards scheme that has been established to recognise schools that have demonstrated excellence in supporting cycling, walking and other forms of sustainable travel.

  The scheme encourages schools across the country to join in a major effort to increase levels of sustainable and active travel in order to improve the health and well-being of children and young people.

  The school have introduced the Walk To School initiative, set up the park and stride location at Aldi supermarket, spoken with the Mayor of Salford about traffic calming initiatives for around the school, enjoyed participating in the Road Safety Week campaign, had Safer Cycling training for Year 5 and much more.

  As of Sepember 2017, 64 organisations representing around 13,000 schools in England are signed up to Modeshift STARS.

  We are very proud to have achieved the award but will now press on with even more initiatives to achieve the Silver Level. Please support the school and where you can cycle or walk to and from school.

• St Joseph’s Penny Lenten Appeal

  Mon 12 Feb 2018

  Today we began our St Joseph’s Lenten Appeal with a very special visual display of charity.  Each class, from Nursery to Year 6, spent a short time in quiet reflection.  They were then invited to place their silver coins inside a wooden symbol representing the St Joseph’s Penny Charity.  The whole day was beautiful and had a huge impact on the children’s understanding of the poor and vulnerable and how we need to help people in our community.  We raised an amazing £64.43 towards our appeal.    We hope to raise lots more through the St Joseph Penny boxes too!  Thank you for all your donations.

• Year 5C – Kensuke’s Forest School

  Fri 09 Feb 2018

  In English Year 5C have been reading Kensuke’s Kingdom and learning all about how Michael had to survive on his desert island. We learnt that being on an island with a storm hitting isn’t the best place to be without supplies.

  So, with a twist, the children were today given the task of having to build their own shelters using anything they could find or scavenge from around the grounds. They certainly lived up to the task with a few wanting to ask the builders for any spare bricks they could use!

  The wind started picking up and at one point it looked like a couple of the groups might be spending their ‘desert island night’ in the cold air with nothing over them at all. But they pulled together and at least we had some form of shelter.

  Well done to all teams who worked really well together and even had the luxury of a few coconuts.

• Yr 2 Dance Explorers

  Tue 06 Feb 2018
  Year 2 are currently looking at ‘Excellent Explorers’ in their history and we have linked this to our dance classes with Miss Jane to create our very own exploration dance! We are exploring land, space and sea using moves on different levels, some in unison and some in canon and travelling movements. 

• Year 2 Lowry Artists

  Tue 06 Feb 2018

  Year 2 were recently looking at local history and linked to this our local artist L S Lowry. We discovered how many of his paintings showed life in Salford in the 1900’s and we learnt a lot about the landscape and buildings of the time just by looking at them. We took a close look at Lowry’s “Railway Platform” (1953), as Lowry had sketched it at the local Pendlebury train station, and compared it to a local metrolink stop today. These are our versions of Lowry’s “Railway Platform”.

• Year 5L – Forest School Den Building

  Tue 06 Feb 2018

  Last week it was Year 5L’s turn in the Forest School and the challenge was to build a den/shelter using only items found in the school environment to help. Again there was some fantastic teamwork against the clock as the weather warning kept counting down to the oncoming storm. A few might not have survived the wild winds but at least there was a roof over their heads.

   

  Well done Year 5L

• The Victorious Cross Country Squad

  Tue 06 Feb 2018

  As the season finishes well done to all the runners who deservedly received their medals and certificates. Well done also to Gabriel and Ashley who respresented Salford School last saturday in the Manchester Schools Championships and against over a 100 runners in each category finished 15th and 26th respectively.

   

  Ashley helped Salford Girls to Second Place overall receiving a medal and Gabriel helped the boys finish 5th overall.

   

  The cross country squad goes from strength to strength each year so here’s looking forward to 2018/19 when we hope to get more of the children involved and place higher in the Salford Schools Championships.

• Gymnasts get bronze

  Fri 02 Feb 2018

  A yr5/6 and a yr3/4 team of gymnasts represented our school at the Salford Key Steps Clinic. The children performed routines on the vault, floor and body management.

   

  A great day was had by all.

• Year 3’s Classical Concert

  Fri 02 Feb 2018
  Today Year 3 took a trip into the bustling center of Manchester to visit Stoller Hall at Chetham’s School of Music. We all enjoyed a wonderful concert, played by an orchestra, of classical music- including the works of Tchaikovsky , Andersen, Mozart and Beethoven. Back at school we had a class vote and decided our favorite arrangement was Garland’s ‘In The Mood’. Year 3 were an example to all the other children there and Miss Sackfield is so proud- a fantastic trip!