NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

Today is World Children’s Day and we took part in the Diocesan Art competition to mark this special day. The children were invited to...

Today we celebrated National Numeracy Day by inviting our parents into school to do some maths work with their children.  Our teachers...

Thank you to our parents and parishioners who joined us this afternoon for our May Procession.   Mary is the patron saint of our school...

During Lent we carried out a range of fundraising activities to raise money for our 3 chosen charities. We were so grateful and thankful...

This half term the children have been exploring the value of Equality. Through their work they have learnt that equality doesn’t always...

Today we paid tribute to Mr Murray a much loved and valued member of our school staff team.  The theme of our memorial was ‘Rainbows’....

At the end of Spring Term our whole school attendance figure is 96%.  This means we haven’t met our target of 97% collectively as a...

Today we said farewell and wished Mr Bland well as he begins his retirement. Mr Bland has worked at St Mary’s for 10 years and over this...

Today we celebrated World Book Day in School.  We began our day by inviting parents into school to have ‘Breakfast with a Book’ with...

Can you help us with our Lenten Challenge? We are raising money this year for Lymphoma Action, St Oswald’s Hospice and SVP as well as...

We have had some wonderful Christmas performances over the last couple of weeks.  Children in Nursery and Reception told the Nativity...

Our Mini Vinnies visited our neighbours at Rothley Grange to sing some Christmas songs and deliver Christmas cards

This morning our children who have instrumental tuition in school provided a wonderful concert during which they entertained us with...

During our Big Art Week 16th - 20th October all classes in school completely immersed themselves in the works of The Pitman Painters. ...

It has been UK Parliament Week and we have been taking the opportunity to further develop our knowledge and understanding of democracy...

Today we were visited by Pat from the Durham Mining and Heritage Project.  She came to help us to get an insight into life as a Miner so...

We have once again been overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of our school community through the Harvest donations. Our Mini...

We were delighted to hear that some of our children won prizes in the Sarah’s Star Art Competition. Sarah came into school to share the...

At St Mary's the children are allocated a House Team when they enter our Reception Class. They are part of this house throughout their...