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NEWS & EVENTS BLOG


Sir Bobby Robson Cup Football
This group of Y6 children took part in the Sir Bobby Robson Trophy yesterday. This is a special event that is organised by the Greath...
Jun 4, 20241 min read


Winners of the SumDog Maths Challenge
Classes across school registered for the North East SumDog mental maths competition. Well done to Year 2 who were overall winners of the...
May 23, 20241 min read


World Children’s Day
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...
May 23, 20241 min read


National Numeracy Day
Today we celebrated National Numeracy Day by inviting our parents into school to do some maths work with their children. Our teachers...
May 21, 20241 min read


May Procession
Thank you to our parents and parishioners who joined us this afternoon for our May Procession. Mary is the patron saint of our school...
May 19, 20241 min read


First Holy Communion
Congratulations to our Y4 pupils who received the Sacrament of First Holy Communion at St Mary’s church today. The church was full with...
May 17, 20241 min read


A visitor from the RNLI
A huge thank you to Mr Bateman who came to talk to Year 2 today about his role in the RNLI. He came straight from a rescue and talked to...
May 15, 20241 min read


Year 2 Poetry Competition
Year 2 have entered the Young Writers Monster Acrostics Poetry Competition with a chance to have their poems published in a poetry book....
May 7, 20241 min read


Year 4 Trip to Arbeia
Year 4 have had a fantastic day at Arbeia, South Shields Roman Fort in the sunshine! We took part in the TimeQuest archaeological dig,...
Apr 29, 20241 min read


Lenten Giving
During Lent we carried out a range of fundraising activities to raise money for our 3 chosen charities. We were so grateful and thankful...
Apr 22, 20241 min read


Exploring Equality
This half term the children have been exploring the value of Equality. Through their work they have learnt that equality doesn’t always...
Mar 28, 20241 min read


Tribute to Mr Murray
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’....
Mar 28, 20241 min read


Spring Term Attendance
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...
Mar 28, 20241 min read


Mr Bland Retires
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...
Mar 28, 20241 min read


Skipping Festival
Today our Y4 children represented our school at a Skipping Festival held at St Thomas More. They have been working hard, in their PE...
Mar 20, 20241 min read


Lenten Giving continues
We are continuing our Lenten giving through our cake sales and Fill it Up challenge. Thank you to Years 1&2 who provided the cakes today
Mar 9, 20241 min read


World Book Day
Today we celebrated World Book Day in School. We began our day by inviting parents into school to have ‘Breakfast with a Book’ with...
Mar 7, 20241 min read


Dance Festival
For the past 4 weeks our Y5 children have been working with Michael a visiting dance teacher to learn new skills, choreograph a dance and...
Mar 6, 20241 min read


Lenten Cake Sale
Today we began our Lenten fundraising as Year 3 donated and sold cakes to support our Lent Charities
Feb 16, 20241 min read


Lenten Challenge
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...
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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