Free Furniture

We have several pieces of school furniture that we would love to go to a new home: one computer trolley, a coffee table and seven sponge chairs. Photographs of these items are shown here.  Please let the school office know if you would like them. If not collected before next Friday 17th they will be donated elsewhere.

The Crowning of Our Lady for the month of May

Thank you to all the children, families and parishioners that joined the school for our Procession on Wednesday. It was so lovely to join together to celebrate this sacred month. We conducted the procession from school into Church lead by Father Phillip and the children joined together for prayers and hymns. Thank you to our youngest pupil Lacey and our eldest Maks that carried the crown and crowned Our Lady. The flower display is now available in the school hall for all to enjoy, so please pop in and take a look.

I hope everyone had a lovely, relaxing Easter Holiday. Just a few updates regarding first week back.

Monday 29.04.19 - Back to School

No afterschool clubs this week, all clubs start Tuesday 7th May.

Tuesday 30th April - Please can all Red Missio Boxes be brought into school on  ready to collected after the Missio Assembly.

Crowning of 'Our Lady' Wednesday 1st May 9.05am - please join the procession and bring a Flower to celebrate. 

Thank you.

The preparatory work for the new shed, one of the items being funded by Health Shield, went well this weekend.   The ground has been leveled and slabs laid and cemented in.   

Thanks very much to Mr and Mrs Rothera, Mr Bentley, Alice and Isabella for doing this.

We would also like to say a big thank you to Tony and Fenella Dyke for the bench they have donated to Mary's Garden and to Ilona Herbertfor donating slabs for the pond area.

The Friends of Our Lady's are holding a FAMILY BINGO NIGHT at School on Friday April 5th, between 6pm and 7.30pm. 

Eyes down at 6.15pm.

There's a 50p entrance fee plus £1 a game or you can get 6 games for £5.00

There will also be books, refreshments and a raffle.  

Bring the family - its not a "school night"!!

See a member of the Friends Group for more information.

This week we started with a day of exciting science experiments led by Supersonic Sue from Fun Science.
Sue started of with a very exciting assembly, in which at one point she set fire to bubbles on my Mrs Manning's hand! There were a lot of gasps … and not just from the children! All the workshops were fully hands and the children loved them. KS1 and Lower KS2 investigated the science of sweets. They learnt about carbon dioxide and how it is used to make fizzy drinks and sweets. They experimented with different sweets, and enjoyed eating them afterwards. The children loved making gooey slime, especially as it smelt like chocolate, but wasn’t edible. Upper Key Stage 2’s workshops entailed mixing chemicals to see fizzing, bubbling, heat production and liquids that suddenly become solids. A favourite was the popping rockets. Just look at the reactions of St Martin class!

The children had a wonderful visit to Parliament.  As well as the World Book Day events the children got the chance to see parts of the Palace of Westminster.  The House of Commons had debates going on so it was not possible to visit there but the children did get into the Westminster Hall, St Stephen's Porch, St Stephen's Hall and the central lobby where tv interviews happen..  They learnt a bit about the history of the building and about the renovation works that are currently happening to preserve the building for future generations.

They got time to walk across Westminster Bridge and see the building they had visited from the outside.

It was a shame the return journey was so long for everyone, although I think the visit to MacDonalds helped!

The children were really well behaved and asked some great questions.   It was a really memorable day.

We hope you enjoy the pictures - there will be more as the week goes on, so do keep checking back.

This year's World Book Day was one of the best we have had.  The time taken by parents and carers to enable the children to come and join in is really appreciated.   

In the morning there was a special Assembly during which everyone was give the chance to show off their costumes.  The judges had a really, really difficult time deciding on the winners.   

A big congratulations to Elarae who won the KS1 prize in her Mary Poppins costume and to Eli who dressed as Moon Boy from Carolyn Garcia's book.    Both Elarae and Eli received a Booker Voucher so they can choose themselves a new book.

This year there was a special prize given to Year 6 who exceeded all expectations in the costumes they wore - a special mention to the Year 6 boys who surprised everyone with their "outfits".

A big thanks goes to Mrs Ali, Mrs Gibbons and Mrs Edmondson for being the judges.

There were story telling opportunities throughout the day, where children could read to each other.  All pupils have entered the National Book Token competition and entries for the school-based "Design a Bookmark" competition were worked on ready for judging later in the week.

Watch the website for more photographs later this week.