Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Chinese New Year Celebrations

  Thu 03 Feb 2022

  Our Nursery and Reception children have been learning about Chinese New Year.  Today they had a Dragon Parade and sampled Chinese food to celebrate the Year of the Tiger. 

  

• Friendly February

  Thu 03 Feb 2022 J. MacDonald

  We need each other more than ever right now! 

   

  This month let's focus on reaching out to connect with others and doing our best to be a good friend. Our acts of kindness and connection ripple out and impact so many more people than we realise - and they also boost our own happy hormones too! In stressful times people around us may be feeling the strain, so let's try to keep calm, take time to listen and show compassion.

  

• Children's Mental Health Week

  Thu 03 Feb 2022 J. MacDonald

  Next week we are taking part in Children's Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is  Growing Together.

   

  Growing Together is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt and trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of possibility and potential. However, emotional growth is often a gradual process that happens over time, and sometimes we might feel a bit ‘stuck’.

   

  For Children's Mental Health Week 2022, we will be encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown and how they can help others to grow.

  

• Hockey Festival

  Tue 01 Feb 2022 By Martha and Jarlath Y5

  On Tuesday 1st February 2022, four Y5 pupils and six Y6 pupils from St Mary’s went to St. Thomas Moore for an amazing hockey festival. There were 4 other schools as well as us competing their hardest.

  The first team we faced were St Aidan’s. They were a strong team but with resilience we managed to win 7-0.

  The second team we were up against were St Columba’s. They played their best but so did we. The score at the end of the game was 5-0 to us.

  The next team that we faced were a strong team called St. Bernadette’s and we did really well to walk away with an 11-0 score-line which fully concluded the professionalism in our great team efforts.

  Finally, we played a good team called St. Josephs and we played to our limit and beyond against this great team to bring back an amazing 10-0 win.

   

  This only means one thing… St. MARY’S WERE THE WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!

   

  We all really enjoyed it and can’t wait to represent the school again.