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• Cancelled - Due to the Weather Training is cancelled tonight

  Mon 11 Nov 2019 Mr Chadwick

  Training is cancelled tonight due to the weather.

  The first race of the Salford Schools is now on Saturday at Buile Hill Park, Eccles Old Road, Salford.

  Races start for Years 3 & 4 at 9.30.

  

• 3d Shapes

  Fri 08 Nov 2019 Mr Chadwick

  Our maths focus this week has been on 3d shapes. We have discussed what faces, edges and vertices are and have been introduced to some new shape names such as:

  Hexagonal Prism

  Square based pyramid

  Pentagonal Prism

   

  Part of the Year 3 maths curriculum is that children can create 3d models so today we looked at nets and they had to cut, glue and make the shapes. It was a really fun and interesting lesson and the children all challenged themselves with harder shapes.

   

  Next week we'll be making them out of other materials...

  

• Death Mask Design

  Fri 08 Nov 2019

  The class have been combining their History topic with Art. We have looked further into why the Egyptians had Death Masks as part of their burial ritual and the children designed their own. Of course they look far better than King Tutankhamun's!

   

  This week was stage one where we had to cut out the shape of the mask and then paper mache the face mask on. It might have been messy but it was great fun. Today we did part two and painted and undercoat of Gold onto the masks.

  

• Dem Bones Dem Bones Dem Dry Bones

  Fri 08 Nov 2019

  Year 3 are embarking on their next Science topic and looking at the Human Skeleton, Movement and Nutrition.

   

  We had a look at a picture of a skeleton and named some bones and then the children had to recreate it using dog biscuits and chews. First attempts were quite strange - a missing leg, head or even spine but the second efforts were much better.

   

  The class also has a visitor for the rest of term - a skeleton they've named Mr C!

  

• 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