Latest News

Welcome to the new school year!

Tue 14 Sep 2021 Mrs Raynor

A very warm welcome back to everyone, and a big welcome to all our new families and new St Mary’s Mates!

We are very excited about the year ahead.

It was wonderful to see all the children, staff and classrooms looking so good!

During the pandemic we have had to adopt our approaches in so many ways. Despite so many restrictions by the government’s guidance where children have not had the full range of experiences they deserve, we now move forward. We are determined that our children experience everything that our school can offer so they continue to become confident, determined and resilient learners who are respectful and tolerant of the wishes and feelings of others.

We will continue to email all school letters, any information and advice from the LA throughout this year. Please make sure school has your up to date information.

Continue to visit the school website where all letters are also saved. Here you will find our up to date policies, curriculum information and all you need to know about the school.

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter @st_swinton to see what exciting work the children are doing each day!

The Mobile FARM visits St Mary's

Tue 06 Jul 2021 Mrs Brown

Today we have turned St Mary's into a farm!

It is wonderful to see the children's faces visiting the animals today!

We wanted to treat the children as this year covid has stopped us from being able to do so many things we enjoy, including trips out and visitors to school!

During enrichment week we wanted to see the children smiling and having fun with their friends, looking after their wellbeing and the staff's! We think the farm has done just that! Thank you to Fishers Mobile Farm for making this happen!

Please see the photo gallery as photos will be added throughout the day to the website (go to the Children's tab at the top then Gallery) and also our Twitter @st_swinton

Can you help St Mary's mates raise money for a school pond?

Mon 28 Jun 2021 Mrs Brown

St Mary's school council have spoken...they would really like a school pond!

Mr Sabatino is happy to build this for the children in the gated section of the school grounds. However the materials needed come at a cost, so we hope to raise money starting this week! For safety reasons the pond will only be accessed with a member of staff and used to enhance our science and geography lessons.

This week until the end of the school year, children can enter their names into our draw for 50p per entry (no limit to the number of entries per child) for a chance to win a toy! A very kind parent of a past pupil has donated lots of toys to the school to help us with our project!

Please give your money to your class teacher, each class will have their own pot and an even number of names will be pulled from each class pot in the last week of term. All toys will be displayed in the hall for winners to choose from.

Good luck everyone!

Watch this space for the pond developing soon!

How to Save A Life

Mon 14 Jun 2021 Mrs Kinman

North West Ambulance Service have produced this life saving poster. You may like to share it with your children and family. At St Mary's we will all be completing short activities to raise awareness.

Holy Week

Wed 31 Mar 2021 Mrs Brown

It has been a busy Holy Week:

Year 3 and Year 4 have filmed their Easter production.
Year 6 have filmed the Stations of the Cross.
All classes have completed Easter crafts and been amazing fundraisers creating raffles, quizzes, cake sales and enjoyed Year 5 virtual 'Whats in the Box'

It has been an enjoyable end to a challenging half term!

Thank you to all our parents for your hard work throughout remote learning at the start of the term to supporting our fund raising towards the end of the term.

You can still add your St Joseph Penny donations to our Just Giving Page.

If you are still awaiting COVID results please see our Easter newsletter for the phone number to inform staff throughout the holiday.

Have a wonderful Easter everyone!

PRESS RELEASE: St Mary's RC Primary School recognised in The Parliamentary Review

Wed 31 Mar 2021 Mrs Kinman

St Mary's RC Primary School has been recognised as a best practice representative for the upcoming 2021 edition of The Parliamentary Review; an independent publication which looks at how key British organisations are responding to different political and economic challenges.

The publication is apolitical and reviews the latest events in parliament from a non-partisan perspective. The organisations who write for The Review are – for the most part – apolitical themselves, although some are unapologetically forthright with their views of certain political parties or individuals. This makes for a fascinating series of articles to suit your tastes and challenge your convictions.

Success for organisations of any size does not always come easily, and The Parliamentary Review is indispensable for anyone who seeks to make a difference in their sector. It highlights significant developments and concerns for leaders up and down the country.

The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng says “this year’s Parliamentary Review reflects on a tumultuous and extraordinary year, globally and nationally.”

St Mary's RC Primary School's article can be viewed here: https://www.theparliamentaryreview.co.uk/organisations/st-marys-rc-primary-school

Pending: New St Mary's Mates chirp chirp

Mon 15 Mar 2021 Miss Raynor

*UPDATE*

Mr Sabatino has shared with us that 3 eggs have cracked but no chicks have hatched yet. He can hear chirping from inside some eggs! We are expecting some little fluffy friends in the next day or two... which egg will hatch first?

Hello St Mary's Mates,

We are 'egg'cited to share with you the news that we are 'eggs'pecting some new fluffy arrivals to join our St Mary's Family.

Mr Sabatino is kindly looking after 12 quail eggs in an incubator. The eggs have been keeping warm for nearly 18 days, very soon they will hatch into beautiful Spring chicks for us all to enjoy and celebrate new life.

The eggs are numbered 1-12 and each teacher has been allocated an egg. Their class has decided a name suitable for a chick. We are all eagerly awaiting the arrival of our first St Mary's Mate. The class whose egg hatches first will win treats to celebrate the new life of a chick.

Nursery have named Miss Raynor's egg 'Chickchick'

Nursery have named Mrs Rhodes' egg 'Thunderbird'

Reception have named Mrs Taylor's egg 'Chickadee'

Year 1 have named Mrs Kinman's egg 'Isaac'

Year 2 have named Miss Sackfield's egg 'Nicky the chicky'

Year 3 have named Mrs Brown's egg 'Jom'

Year 3 have named Mrs Royle's egg 'Lil DJ'

Year 4 have named Mr Johnson's egg 'Eggbert'

Year 5 have named Mr Chadwick's egg 'Breakfast in Bed'

Year 6 have named Mr Loynd's egg 'Dino Nuggie'

Mr Brown and Mrs Wood have named Mr Sabatino's egg 'Quinn'

Mrs Raynor has named her egg 'North quails'

Let the race commence! *chirp chirp*

(All hatching updates will be posted here)

World Book Day at the Library

Tue 02 Mar 2021 Mrs Kinman

Hello,

It will be World Book Day this Thursday 4th March, and Salford Libraries will be celebrating online this year!

Parents and teachers can follow us on Twitter @SalfordLibrary and Facebook Salford Community Libraries for all sorts of fun and competitions during the week, including:

Early Years storytelling with Storytime Sue on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 10.30am
Storytelling for older children will go live Thursday
Little Reads family session on Thursday 4th March 10.30am –find out more and book >
Tag us on social media - @SalfordLibrary into posts of children dressed as their favourite book character!
Competitions and chance to win books all week!
Children living near Broughton and Eccles library can order books via our Call & Collect service – find out more >
Free access to e-books via our BorrowBox service at any time

With very best wishes,

The Children’s Library team

Salford Community Libraries

Artsmark GOLD!

Tue 02 Mar 2021 Mrs Brown

Well done St Mary's Dream Team we have done it again!

Due to our commitment and hard work across the arts at St Mary's we have again been awarded with Artsmark GOLD award!

We are all so pleased and thank Mrs Murphy as Arts Lead and all the staff and pupils for all their hard work! We really do enjoy the arts at St Mary's, we haven't even let Covid and lockdowns stop us! WELL DONE!

World Book Day

Wed 24 Feb 2021 Mrs Kinman

Dear parents,

We are very excited about World Book Day on Thursday 4th March and we would love to make this year’s celebrations just as special as last year.

We would like all of the children, in school and at home, to dress up as their favourite book character for the day. There are lots of ideas on the internet to inspire you to make your own costumes.

Your child’s teacher will be choosing a book for the class to focus on. This will be read to the class in their live lesson in the morning. They will then continue with reading and writing activities based on this book for the rest of the morning, therefore there will be no live maths lessons on this day.

All activities will be shared with the children on Google Classroom and Purple Mash.

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