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• Man Utd Tournament Champions – TWICE!

  Fri 29 Mar 2019

  Our Year 3 and Year 2 five-a-side football teams entered the Man Utd Community Tournament at the Cliff Training Ground and both were crowned tournament winners. It shows that dedication and commitment does pay off. Thanks to Mr Worrall and the boys for their hard work, dedication and commitment to the sports. Well done!

  

• Greater Manchester Schools Games 2019 – Rugby Success!

  Tue 19 Mar 2019

  The St Mary’s Year 5/6 Rugby League squad represented Salford Schools today in the Greater Manchester Schools Games. We were one of only two schools representing Salford and the squad were amazing, tremendous, motivated and passionate about the games.

  It all started with a trip to the Etihad campus where we joined all the other winning schools and were treated to some fantastic dancing, live music, brilliant commentary from our host and then the children received some inspirational words from Olympic and World Bronze medal winner, Emily Diamond. After the opening ceremony it was off on our coach to the Armitage Centre in Fallowfield where the action was going to take place.

  The team were drawn in a tough group and the opening match was a hard fought draw against St Chads and then the squad started to find their rhythm and belief. The next game was an inspiring 2-0 win against Moorfield and we followed it up with a ‘local derby’ (for Mr Chadwick anyway) against St Johns in Chorlton where the team were resilient and triumphed 2-1. Within this game, Oscar was singled out by the opposition for possessing Self Belief and received a badge from their players to show his achievement.

   

  Our final group games was against Sacred Heart where they children went into overdrive with a 4-0 win. The scores were coming from all over the team, Diego, Gabriel, Oscar, Bobby, Brad & Christian and they were backed up with runners and support play.

  So we had won the group and remained undefeated. Now on to the knockout rounds and all to play for. The quarter finals was the hardest game yet with willing runners and wily players on the opposition squad but again St Mary’s triumphed 2-1 after taking the lead and then being pegged back.

  In the Semi-final we took on the eventual winners, Gilded Hollins from Wigan and the contest was even throughout. The squad were tremendous in the teamwork, passion and resilience they showed after we took the lead again ( a running theme in all games), gave away a good score to the opposition before cruelly having a score ruled out. Regular time ran out and it was on to Golden Point time and even though we attacked the opposition just managed to get that crucial score. So our run to the final had ended and the players were all devastated, exhausted and disappointed to go out in a tournament they believed was theirs.

  We had to pick ourselves up for the third place play-off and it was emotionally just a step too far. The team performed again but crucially another disallowed score meant we lost the final match 2-1. All the results show how close the games actually were and the standards in teh knock-out rounds was very, very high.

  Mr Worrall and I were very proud of our squad, all twelve of them. We would like to make a special mention to four of our players, Alex, Daniel, Joshua & Conor, who whilst not receiving the amount of game time they would have wanted, never stopped supporting their teammates and when called upon were just as fantastic as the others. Such difficult decisions for Mr Worral and i were made easier by this splendid attitude and we are even prouder of them. Three of them are in Year 5 so next year they will be leading the team to further glory! It shows that St Mary’s Mates are alive and kicking.

  The team received the glowing endorsement from the organisers that never before had a Salford school been within the top ten so to be the fourth best team in Greater Manchester, out of over 8500 primary schools is a massive achievement and the children should definitely hold their heads high and feel honoured to represent the school, their peers, the local school community, Salford and of course themselves.

  Well played and thank you for such a passionate and determined performance over the day: Alex, Conor, Niamh, Joshua, Diego, Christian, Poppy, Gabriel, Bobby, Daniel, Brad & Oscar.

  

• Spelling Shed becomes competitive in Year 5!

  Fri 15 Mar 2019

  It’s Boys versus Girls this weekend on spelling shed. That would be slightly unfair as there are only nine girls in the class so some of the boys have kindly switches sides and are working in a joint team with the girls to beat the remaining boys.

  Test yourselves – play extreme – try words from all the lists available.

  Do the best you can and have fun!

  May the best team win.

• Forest School Fun

  Fri 15 Mar 2019

  This afternoon Year 6K had great fun in their Forest School session. The pupils were given challenges such as building the tallest tower to hold an egg and the strongest bridge to hold a bottle of water.

  The team work was unbelievable. Well done everyone!

  

• School is looking for a cleaner

  Mon 11 Mar 2019

  There is a Cleaner vacancy in school, somebody who works every day (Monday to Friday) from 3:30pm to 6:30pm to keep our school sparkling clean!

  Deadline for applications is 12:00pm on Monday 25 March, interviews will be Friday 29 March, to commence the post on Monday 29 April 2019.

• World Book Day 2019 – The Piper strolls into town

  Fri 08 Mar 2019
  All the children performed brilliantly, the singing was clear and the actions excellent and the array of costumes certainly made the day! Well done Year 5 (Or Hamlin folk…)

  

• Year 2 Forest Schools Session

  Fri 01 Mar 2019

  This afternoon Year 2 started to make their Easter trees in our Forest Schools session. We started by carefully sawing wood to make the base and then drilled a hole for our ‘tree twigs’. Following this we used clay to cement the twig to the base securely. We were very proud of our creations and the new skills we have learnt. 

  

• Year 2, 3 and 5 visit The Stoller Hall, at Cheetham’s School of Music

  Fri 01 Mar 2019

  As part of our participation in the Cheetam’s Outreach project Year’s 2, 3 and 5 visited The Stoller Hall for a live orchestra concert titled “Around the World in Music.” We travelled with the orchestra through Europe, Asia, North and South America, saying hello in the different languages of different countries. Carefully we listened as the orchestra performed a range of songs from the BBC Ten Pieces repertoire, which linked to a variety of countries. We were taken through the different sections of the orchestra and the different ways they are played. We would like to say a HUGE thank you to all the wonderful musicians at Cheethams and The Booth Charities who kindly paid for the trip.

   

  The Stoller Hall is a stunning, modern venue located next to Victoria Train Station. They hold regular family events and concerts, details of which can be found at https://stollerhall.com/