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• Year 2 Shape work

  Wed 06 Nov 2019 Mrs Murphy
  Year 2 have been exploring 2D shapes this week and their features. We have been making them to check whether our shapes need straight or curved sides and just how many corners they have. 

  

• Year 5 Music Lesson with MAPAS

  Wed 06 Nov 2019
  This half term our Year 5 class have Mr Newton, from our local Music and Performing Arts Service (MAPAS), teaching them a range of percussion instruments along with key musical terminology and skills for their music lessons. 

  

• MAPAS Music Centre

  Wed 06 Nov 2019

  MAPAS is Salford's Music And Performing Arts Service who offer an amazing range of extra curricular activities for all Salford pupils. At St Mary's we have MAPAS tutors teach all our children for half a terms music lessons and some children have taken up private guitar lessons with them. For more information please visit https://www.salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/culture/mapas 

   

  

• Year 6 History: Investigating WWII Evacuee Artefacts

  Wed 30 Oct 2019 Mr Loynd

  Year 6 had a fascinating afternoon investigating a small suitcase, which had been mysteriously delivered to our classroom.  After examining it closely to work out how old it might be, who it might have belonged to and when it might have been used, we took a look inside...

   

  The suitcase had belonged to a child living during World War II, and was used by that child when he or she was evacuated to the countryside in either 1939 or 1940.  Inside the case, we found essential items such as a child's gas mask, an identity card, a ration book, some coins (which had the head of King George VI on them - he was the monarch at that time), a luggage tag and two toys that wartime children would have been familiar with (a wooden yo-yo and a bag of glass marbles).

   

  From these artefacts we were able to draw some conclusions about what the lives of evacuated children might have been like.

  

• Beth Tweddle Gymnastics.

  Wed 30 Oct 2019 L.Johnson

  Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their first gymnastics session.

  During the session they completed different techniques such as:

  • dish shape
  • arch shape
  • straight jump off a springboard
  • shoulder stand
  • forward roll
  • arabesque.

  

• Year 1 Forest School

  Tue 29 Oct 2019

  Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed getting their hands and feet muddy in their forest school session.  They worked very well in their teams and produced some amazing leaf art.  Well done!

  

• Mummification Madness

  Mon 28 Oct 2019 Mr Chadwick

  Year 3 were learning about the Mummification process in Ancient Egypt today. They have learned that to do this job the Egyptians had to be very skilled at their work or anything could go wrong meaning the dead Pharaoh would not be able to enter the afterlife.

   

  The children had the chance to put the process into action (minus removing the brains and organs of course!) We had varying results with some looking like real Mummies and some requiring an extra bit of work!

  

• Cross Country - Race 1 on Saturday is cancelled - TRAINING STILL ON TONIGHT

  Mon 28 Oct 2019 Mr Chadwick
  Owing to the Rugby World Cup Final on Saturday which England will be hoping to win the decision has been made to cancel the Salford Schools Cross Country Race 1 this Saturday 2nd November.

   

  As some of you have stated the dates have already gone out and a change in date would not work for some schools.  The fairest decision would be to cancel this first race and we will run on a 3 race season.
  
  The rules therefore will change slightly and it is important that all runners, parents & schools note that the rules now will be;
  
  FINAL TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL RESULTS WILL BE CALCULATED BASED ON ALL 3 REMAINING RACES. THEREFORE TO QUALIFY FOR MEDALS IT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO ATTEND ALL 3 RACES

   

  Apologies to the children who were looking forward to Saturday's race but we hope that you as schools and the parents will support the decision made.

  

• Classe Deux Journée Française (Year 2's french day)

  Fri 18 Oct 2019 Mrs Murphy

  Year 2 had a magnifique French day learning french greetings , songs and colours in french. They made a fantastique Beef Bourguignon as a class and studied the architecture of the Eiffel Tower. C'etait super!

   

  

• Savoury Snail Snafflers

  Fri 18 Oct 2019 Monsieur Chadwick

  What an end to the day for Year 3.

   

  Not content with making and trying food - writing inn French - doing artwork with a french lilt - building French landmarks, they wanted to end our French Day with sampling that iconic French delicacy - snails.

   

  And judging from the faces and the fact that some came back for second and third helpings it was a mixed result and may not be on the School Dinner Menu any time soon...