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Beaten finalists

Wed 28 Mar 2018

Year 2 and year 3 took part in the Manchester United football in the community tournament.

Year 2 won all their league games, but unfortunately lost in the final 1-0.

Year 3 reached the final through winning the semi final, but lost 5-1.

A great team performance by both year groups – they made St Mary’s proud.

Refugees and migration workshop

Wed 28 Mar 2018

Year 6, through the help of the British Red Cross, explored the assumptions about the terms such as ‘refugee’, ‘migrant’ and ‘asylum seeker’.

They have come to understand why someone might have to flee their home. They analysed the harmful effects of unwelcoming, hostile or discriminating behaviour.

Finally, they then considered how individual actions can help someone feel more welcome.

Today we held our annual ‘Stations of The Cross’ reflection. Each class has helped in painting the stations and writing a prayer to represent each one. The children were thoughtful, reverent and listened carefully to the scripture as they walked through the story of the Stations of The Cross. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who joined us in our prayer and reflection. We hope you all have a happy and Holy Easter.

St Mary’s celebrates World Down Syndrome Day!

Wed 21 Mar 2018

Today is World Down Syndrome Day and the children in school attended an assembly where they learnt about Down Syndrome and how people with Down Syndrome have three copies of chromosome 21. The chromosomes in our DNA looks like funky socks!
The biscuits sold out very quickly and we have raised an amazing amount of £210 for the Down Syndrome Support Group called DSWest Pennine.
Our cook has promised to bake some more biscuits for the children who didn’t have a chance to buy one.
At the end of our assembly we watched a video published by the Down Syndrome Association to mark the celebration of World Down Syndrome Day. You can watch it here
Thank you for your kind donations.

British Red Cross visits Yr6

Wed 21 Mar 2018

Year 6 took part in a First aid workshop. They discussed the key actions that need to be administered when dealing with an unresponsive and breathing person.

Danger, Response, Airway, Breathing. Followed by turning on thir side before phoning 999.

This was then taken one step further when dealing with an unresponsive and NOT breathing person – administering chest compressions.

Finally, they hot to use a defibrillator on a mannequin.

It has helped the children to understand, cope with, and take action in a crisis.

All square at St Marks

Tue 20 Mar 2018

St Mary’s played St Marks away on Monday in a match that could determine first and second place in the league.

First all season that had St Mary’s trailing at half time 1-0 to an own goal.

With the wind behind us, we scored a great solo goal from Liam which was followed up by another wonder goal by Luca. Another unfortunate own goal levelled the match at 2-2.

Man ofthe match was Ryan – solid defending.

Purple Mash at St Mary’s

Wed 14 Mar 2018

Dear Parent/Carer,

We have recently subscribed to Purple Mash, which is a creative educational website for children. Purple Mash is a cross-curricular resource covering everything from Maths and English to Computing and Art. Your child can access Purple Mash from home on a laptop, desktop or a tablet.

Purple Mash is a safe environment that doesn’t require any downloading or allow interaction with people online and children cannot make any financial transactions.

We will be encouraging the children to further explore the subjects and topics they enjoy from school at home and Purple Mash is a great resource for this. Your child will be taught how to use Purple Mash in school and will be able to use it without supervision but you may want to take a few minutes to explore it yourself so that you can help them with their work.

Creative Tools & Games

There are 20+ open-ended creative tools and games inside Purple Mash. They range in complexity from simple painting programs to sophisticated coding tools. If you’re using something for the first time it is a good idea to watch the help vidoes which can be found by clicking the monitor icon.

Saving and Sharing Work

Purple Mash lets your child save their work online. It’s very easy just look out for the floppy disk icon on the toolbar and follow the simple instructions. To access saved files go to the ‘Online Docs’ tab. Once saved you can also ‘share’ work. Just look out for the globe icon on the toolbar. This will give you a link that can be used to view the work by people that don’t have Purple Mash.

Topics and Themes

Purple Mash has over 2,000 ready-to-use themed writing and painting projects. They cover everything from aliens to the Victorians. You can either use the ‘Themes’ tab to browse by subject and topic or alternatively use the search bar in the bottom right of the screen to look for something specific.

2Code

2Code puts children as young as five on the path to becoming computer programmers. Everything is broken down into step-by-step lessons with video instructions. Coding is now a part of the National Curriculum 2014. If you wanted to find out the kinds of things that your children will be learning then having a go at 2Code yourself is a great place to start.

Serial Mash

Serial Mash is all about getting children to read for pleasure. New books are released each half-term as a weekly serial. The chapters come with a range of fun and educational activities. Serial Mash is great for solo or guided reading and can be read on tablets. You can take a look the current books in the ‘Serial Mash’ tab. The books are aimed at children aged 7-9 and 9-11.

Purple Mash On Tablets

If you have an ipad then there are several free apps that you can download as part of Purple Mash. These include Mash Cams, 2DIY and 2Create a Story. You can download them from the App Store and sign in with your Purple Mash username and password. Alternatively, you can use Purple Mash on a tablet by opening it up in a browser window on your device. Not all of the tools work on tablets but there are lots that do.

Want to know more?

If you’re keen to get to know Purple Mash inside and out there is a video trainer that will lead you through the whole of Purple Mash and explain exactly what it can do. You can view the video trainer using the link below.

http://www.purplemash.co.uk/app/videos/videotrainer

Your child will receive a letter with their personal login and password. If you have not received it by the end of the term, please contact the school office or your child’s teacher.

Hedge Planting at St Mary’s Forest School

Wed 14 Mar 2018

Some of the children in Year 5 assisted Mr Sabatino today with some more planting at the school. Part of the Eco-drive at the school the children have been planting hedges to mark out the Forest School area. There are various species of hedge which we hope will make a fantastic, colourful and wildlife rich boundary for the Forest School area.

St Mary’s V St Boniface

Fri 09 Mar 2018

What a start to the football season!

St Mary’s visited St Boniface for their first football match of the season, and walked away with a 5-1 win.

St Mary’s quickly took a hold of the game scoring a great team goal from Joe within the first few minutes. This was followed by a wonder solo goal by Liam.

Halt time: St Mary’s 2 – St Boniface 0.

An inspiring half time talk gave St Mary’s the inspiration to dominate control of the game. Three quick goals from Liam, Gabriel and Bobby put the game to bed. A late consolation goal end the match at 5 – 1 to St Mary’s.

Full time score: St Mary’s 5 – St Boniface 1.

Man of the match: for being a ‘rock’ in defence – Jack.

Dear Parent/Carer,

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