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Our Mission

Wed 17 Jan 2018

Year 5C enjoyed welcoming parents, staff and pupils to the first Celebration Assembly of 2018.

The theme of the assembly was Our Missions in life. The children spoke about how John the Baptist was given a mission to spread the news that Jesus was here and then to also baptise Jesus in the River Jordan. Jesus was then given his own mission by God to speak to all mankind – the afflicted, the poor, the sick, the wealthy.

We then relayed through some of the children’s thoughts, their missions for 2018. It was a really lovely assembly with a string message of how we should act on our Christian journey.

Viking and Anglo-Saxon Experience Day at Tatton Park

Wed 17 Jan 2018

Year 5 & 6 visited Tatton Park or Tayt Ton park to experience life in Viking and Anglo times. This is building on the topics each class have covered in History. Year 6 and half of 5C opted for the luxury of the Old Hall as the day was very cold and mist coated the grounds. Year 5L and the rest of 5C braved the outdoors at the Farm.

The groups were split into three smaller teams as they experienced different facets of life in this period. Here the children learnt about fighting and the weapons used. Roaming around the park were deer which would have been present in Anglo times. Also present would have been Wild Boar and here Boris is wearing Little Boris.

The children also had the opportunity to make Bread in the old ways. They had to grind the flour, mix the ingredients and kneed them all before placing them on the open fire. The children also looked at tools and artefacts from the period and had to guess their uses and how much they were worth. Most expensive was the Lantorn made from horns and metal.

Christmas in the Community

Wed 20 Dec 2017

This week we held our annual Christmas in the Community event. Our wonderful PTA members and Missionary Disciples served drinks and light refreshments for the elderly members of our community. This was followed by some exciting games of bingo called by Mrs Murphy and Mrs Brown. Some amazing hampers were up for grabs! Finally, the afternoon culminated with a wonderful carol service led by our key stage 2 pupils. We thoroughly enjoyed entertaining members of our community and sharing this special festive season with them. An enjoyable afternoon was had by all.

St Mary’s Christmas Bake Off

Wed 20 Dec 2017

This week we held our annual Christmas Bake Off. Our competitors were split into 3 different age categories; 3-5 years old, 6-8 years old and 9 – 11 years old. The standard this year was so high, our wonderful judges, who are local expert bakers themselves, had such a difficult job to do. Winners received a voucher for Slattery’s and the runners up received a baking set or cookery book. Thank you to all who took part!

Wednesday Workshops-Autumn Term

Wed 13 Dec 2017

Thank you to all our parents who attended our English focused “Wednesday Workshops” throughout the Autumn Term. We had a greater attendance than our after school workshops we have delivered in the past.

The evaluations provided outstanding feedback, 100% of parents enjoying the workshops and gaining an insight to how children learn at St Mary’s and how you can help your child at home. The only improvements commented was to provide more for other subjects…well don’t you worry they are coming up!

Wednesday workshops will continue throughout the school year. In Spring, workshops will be focusing on Mathematics and in the Summer we will focus on Science.

Here is the timetable of the Spring Term, we do hope you can attend. The timetable will also be displayed on the parent notice board and in the newsletter.

Thank you again for attending and I look forward to seeing you in the spring term!

Date	Class
17-1-18	Year 6 Maths Workshop
24-1-18	Year 5L Maths Workshop
31-1-18	Year 5C Maths Workshop
7-2-18	Year 4 Maths Workshop
14-2-18	Ash Wednesday-No Workshop
28-2-18	Year 3 Maths Workshop
7-3-18	Year 2 Maths Workshop
14-3-18	Year 1 Maths Workshop
21-3-18	Reception Maths Workshop

Year 2 LOVE Traction Man by Mini Grey

Tue 12 Dec 2017

Over the last few weeks Year 2 have been looking at the story of Traction Man by Mini Grey. We love the adventurous missions he goes on and the different costumes he wears for them! After learning about the story, describing the main character and creating our own costumes for Traction Man to wear, we started to plan our own version of “Traction Man’s visit to school”. In groups we planned his mission, thinking about who would be the victim (e.g. The Poor Pens) and enemy (e.g. Wicked Professor Ruler) in the classroom. Then we set up a mission scenario using things from around our class and our very own Traction Man Action figure. We recorded mini movies of the scenes with narrations and then wrote up our stories using our movies. Our final stories are amazing – even if we do say so ourselves!

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We created zip wires from string, parachutes from pencil cases, swamps out of scissors – all for Traction Man’s school adventure! We LOVED filming them too! We created zip wires from string, parachutes from pencil cases, swamps out of scissors – all for Traction Man’s school adventure! We LOVED filming them too!

Cross Country – Weather Warning!

Fri 08 Dec 2017

Dear Parents,

The third race takes place this coming Saturday 09 December 2017 at Bolton Road playing fields.

We are keeping a close eye on the weather forecast. In the event of a cancellation being unavoidable, a notice will also be placed on this webpage-http://www.jamesbrindleyprimary.com/salford-schools-xc-mini-site/

Please look at the site in the morning before travelling to the venue.

Kind Regards

Mr Chadwick & Miss Crawshaw

Year 2’s trip to the library

Thu 07 Dec 2017

Year 2 enjoyed a lovely trip to Swinton Library to visit Lynn the librarian and explore lots of exciting books. Lynn read us some stories and explained how we can visit the library any time we like. We took time to explore the different genres and titles, we can’t wait to go back again soon!

Mathematics Fun Roadshow

Wed 29 Nov 2017

At St Mary’s, we held two afternoon workshops where parents/guardians were invited to investigate mathematics alongside their child. During the sessions we ‘played’ mathematical games / puzzles which stretched the children’s reasoning and problem solving skills – and also the parents too!

It ended with ways in which St Mary’s and the parents can work together to further develop their child’s mathematical knowledge / understanding at home.

Year 5 are authors for a day!

Mon 20 Nov 2017

Year 5C & 5L were very fortunate last week to enjoy the visit of the author Sarah Oliver. Sarah didn’t come to simply talk about books and her inspirations but turned the visit on its head and had the children working as authors of her new book which will be out early next year. Called ‘The Best World Book Week Ever’ the children had some images of the characters to work with but basically collaborated on different sections of the book to create the words developing the story.

They worked in small groups with Sarah and then Mrs Chandler and Mrs Farnworth to develop their ideas. After keeping each section a secret the children then returned to the hall to plan, practise and act out the performance. It really was an example of action in words. The performance was fantastic considering the short time frame the children had and told the story of Danny and his friends.

Sarah will now go and work with her illustrator to develop the book using the children’s ideas and will return with an official copy of their book for Year 5 to sign and display in school. Our very own group of authors!

You can see Sarah’s website with further details on the activity day the children had by clicking on the link below.

http://saraholiverauthor.co.uk/

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