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MINECRAFT CLUB IS BACK!
Mon 10 Feb 2020WE’RE BACK! St Mary's Minecraft After School Club
We are pleased to be able to offer Minecraft after school club running from 3:30-4:45 pm every Monday from 24th February until 22nd May. (The club will not take place on Monday 6th April as Mr Chadwick will be at Lledr Hall with Year 3)
There will be no club over the Easter half term beginning 8th April.
The club is organised, administered and supported by Mi Little Pad Ltd, an external provider who deliver Minecraft clubs across the whole of England and Wales.
As well as completing a range of exciting educational challenges, students will have the chance to work both individually and 'join the same world' to work in teams. As an added bit of fun, students from the club will also take part in a weekly Minecraft competition where parents can vote for their favourites and points are won for the national leader board.
20 Devices with Minecraft on will be available for the children to use as well as a wifi router to facilitate team activities.
BOOK ONLINE
The club costs £3.99 per child per session and is paid for termly in advance. All club places are reserved and paid for online.
Just go to website www.milittlepad.com to book you child’s place. Note… Online sales close the day of the first session, places are limited and late payments may be more expensive.
Any problems please contact us on 07704 991962/ 07411 482996 or admin@milittlepad.com
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Rocking Rocks
Fri 07 Feb 2020Year 3 had a very special visitor today. Mr Garner, an expert geologist, popped in with his fantastic rock collection to talk to the children. They were gobsmacked at all the wonderful rocks, tree fossils, fossils and crystals that were on show. He was really engaging and just spoke about a love of rocks, collecting them from volcanoes, some near misses also.
The children were great and asked some really difficult questions which were fielded superbly. Straight after the lesson it was break time and the children all went out and started hunting!
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Forest School Fun
Fri 07 Feb 2020Year 3 took part in the Forest School Fun today and started helping the St Mary's Birds ready for Spring. We made bird seeders getting our hands dirty with seeds, raisins and lard!
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Year 6 PE: Competitive Games
Fri 07 Feb 2020Year 6 continued our Competitive Games PE unit today, with a lesson which focused on developing the skills of chest-passing and shoulder-passing, before incorporating these into a game of benchball.
We began by having three boys from our class, who are also successful members of our St. Mary's school rugby team, leading a warm-up. The exercises that the boys chose for us were picked especially to help us to prepare our bodies correctly for taking part in competitive games. The boys also gave the rest of the class advice on how to perform these exercises safely.
We followed this warm up with some passing drills, before moving into small-sided, competitive games.
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Children's Mental Health Week 2020
Fri 07 Feb 2020Mental health is our feelings, thoughts, emotions & moods. We all feel different emotions all the time; including feelings of sadness, anger or worry. When we feel like this it is important to speak to an adult you trust & do something to make you smile
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Asda Green Token Giving Programme
Fri 07 Feb 2020A HUGE Thank you to everyone who voted for us in Swinton Asda green token giving programme!
The prize is usually £500 but as the voting was over Christmas Asda have made it extra special...we have won £1000!!!
Today we were presented with the HUGE cheque and our school council, eco council and arts council already have ideas of how it can be spent!
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NSPCC Number Day!
Fri 07 Feb 2020Today the children have come to school wearing Numbers!! Thank you for all your kind donations for the NSPCC! We started the day with an excellent assembly by year 1 and have enjoyed a day filled with maths games!! Please visit our gallery for more photos! (Gallery is under the Children’s Tab)
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Capacity Fun in the rain
Fri 07 Feb 2020It might be NSPCC Number Day today in school but last week Year 3 braved the rain and went outside to have fun in a practical lesson run by Miss Clarke.
They had different containers and had to estimate the capacity, measure it and then work out the difference. Some results may have been different due to the rain falling down but what a great lesson!
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Year 6 discover careers at the Inflatable Manchester Museum
Fri 07 Feb 2020Yesterday, Year 6 experienced a real treat, as the Inflatable Manchester Museum came to our school hall!
We were split into four teams, with each team given a different career relating to some of the artefacts in the museum:
Geologists : We study rocks and minerals. We look at things that have never been alive. We look at how the environment has changed over millions of years.
Palaeontologists : We study things from a very long time ago - before humans were alive! We look at fossils of plants, animals and dinosaurs. We look at things that used to be alive millions of year ago. We study what the environment used to be like.
Archaeologists : We study human history, and objects that have been made. we dig artefacts and human remains out of the ground. We study people who were once alive, and things that were never alive. We look at how humans have lived in the environment over thousands of years.
Ecologists : We study nature. We look at animals and plants that are alive, or have been alive recently. We look at how different plants and animals work together in their habitat. We look at how humans are affecting the environment.
After a general talk about how to handle artefacts carefully (remember those detective fingers, Year 6!), each group was given a tray of objects to investigate. We had to deduce what each artefact was, and then decide which one would be of most use to our groups, based on the job descriptions above.
Every group got to look at all the artefacts, and we learnt lots of things about them. Three of our favourite items were the scarab beetle from Ancient Egypt, the megalodon tooth and the mole!
A reminder to all our children, and especially Year 6:
Manchester Museum is a great place to visit, it's free to enter and it is nearby - on Oxford Road, Manchester.
It's brilliant for Year 6 particularly, and they have some of Charles Darwin's finches there (which link to our Science topic of Evolution and Inheritance). On the top floor, in their tropical vivarium, you can see some amazing Costa Rican frogs (which link in well with our Geography work this term).
At half-term they have extra activities on for children, so if you have the chance then it's well worth a trip.
You can visit the Museum website here, to find out more about what they have to offer:
https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/
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St Mary's Excel Again at the Tag Rugby Finals
Thu 06 Feb 2020There's a strong tradition of rugby now at St Mary's and our teams continue to show their quality and they have done again today.
After making it through the preliminaries last year today was the finals of the Salford Schools Tag Rugby Tournament at the AJ Bell Stadium. We were up against the other five group winners and boy did we give it a really good go.
We won the first two games - the first a thumping 4-1 victory over St Joseph's with tries from Joshua (2), Archie & Kian. The second giving us the local derby bragging rights against Broadoak as we triumphed 3-1 with Josh, Oliver and Aaron bundling over the line with some excellent straight running and dodging those grasping hands.
In the third game we came up against St Paul's and it was real end to end stuff which is reflected in the scoreline as it ended in the narrowest of losses - 4-3 but the highlight came from Sophie running through to score her maiden try. Even more sweeter as she was captain for the game.
We managed to draw the next game 3-3 against Light Oaks who just sneaked the equaliser on the very last play as we failed to capitalise on our early lead. The team's heads never went down though - St Mary's resilience and perseverance shining through and we went into the last game against Holy Family and gave it our all, again narrowly losing 3-2 although we almost got the draw with Jake just being forced out at the end.
However as the format was a mini-league, the amount of tries we scored, the two victories and a draw, meant we sneaked into third place which is absolutely fantastic. The third best team in Salford is quite a satisfying end to the campaign.
Well done to the whole team today - Faye, Niamh, Sophie, Joshua, Jake, Oliver, Archie, Conor, Alex, Theo, Kian & Aaron for their outstanding performances and the school, staff, parents and children of St Mary's are very proud of you.
But we couldn't have managed it without the brilliant leadership of our Head Coach - Alfie! If anyone shows that sporting spirit and how you should never give up, the optimism that we will triumph then it is this young man. Well done Alfie for leading the energy in the team. We couldn't have done it without you.
Enjoy the pictures and there are a few videos in the Video Resource Section of the website - enjoy Sophie's mazy run.
