St. Mary's R.C. Primary School

On Friday afternoon, the whole school had the pleasure of watching Year 3 as they demonstrated their excellent drumming skills. They have obviously learned an awful lot this year in their lessons! Well done Year 3, it was a very enjoyable concert.

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A huge well done to year 6 who, this week had their SAT’s. They all worked extremely hard and made us vvery proud of each and every one of them. As a result of this, on Thursday afternoon, they let their hair down and got some exercise by playing games in the hall. The big winner of the afternoon was Just Dance on the Nintendo Wii – what a great workout for them!

Check out the moves!

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WOW! What a turnout! Tonight we had our annual Easter Beetle Drive and Bingo evening and this year it was an absolute sellout! The hall was crammed with parents, grandparents and children, all competing to win the easter eggs. It was lovely to see so many people supporting our school, we are very lucky!
Thank you to all who made it such a lovely evening and we hope you all enjoy a happy and holy Easter break.

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On the 16th March 2012, me and the rest of year 4 went to Eureka for a sleepover.
First we put our bags away and the staff told us that we were doing cosmology first. When we got to the cosmology room they showed us a rocket firing. Then I tried space ice cream, I thought it was as good as real ice cream.
After that we went to the ‘Me and my Body’ exhibit. We were allowed to look around on our own. My favourite part of the exhibit was when me, Morgan and Ted guessed how people were feeling.
Next we had a snack and then we went to Grossology. Grossology was a room where 2 people told us about gross things. My favourite part was ‘Me and My Body’ but I was looking forward to bed!
As I was getting on the coach, I looked back on Eureka and knew that my adventure had come to an end. “I’ll see you soon Eureka”, I said to myself.
By Sam

When we got to Eureka I was dazzled by the amazing exhibits and colours but we only had time to put our stuff where we were sleeping and go to the hall to be introduced to the staff and what we were doing. We’re doing Gift Shop then Cosmology, Me and My Body, snack, Grossology, town hall, snack and sing a long and finally lights out.
When we got to Cosmology, I was amazed. First I went food tasting which was well nice. I tasted the yummy ice cream but other people said they didn’t like it. Next thing was Grossology. I especially liked this because it was GROSS! They showed us how to make fake wounds and told us how you get diarrhoea. It was gross but I learned loads!
Finally, we had the science sing a long (though they were mostly Grossology songs). Then…..Lights out!
When we woke up on Saturday morning we were all really exhausted even though we went to sleep straight away. After breakfast it was the final presentation. I felt sad to be leaving Eureka though I am sure I’ll be coming back again.

By Leah

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On Friday afternoon, Year 3 presented their assembly, the theme of which was… Practice makes perfect! Have a look at the video below with a wonderful performance by Barclay (Joseph). Well done Year 3, it was a fantastic assembly!

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Today, we had a very special mass at St Mary’s as we presented the Salford Diocesan Torch to our Parish community. We had a wonderful turnout of parents and children to support the mass which concluded with African drumming music and the children gathering on the alter to sing Siyahamba.
We had a special visitor in Mass, Barry Brindley, who told us all about his charity work, raising money to help people in Malawi.
Many thanks to all those who came to mass today to support our school and the church community. It was a wonderful way to celebrate a special event.

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We had a fantastic week in school this week as it was our turn to receive the Salford Diocesan Torch from St Joseph’s for our part in the Relay and then to take in on to Our Lady’s Haigh. On Wednesday afternoon St Joseph’s arrived in style, dressed as pirates and with a pirate ship and presented to us a great assembly in which we learned lots of information about their designated country, St Vincent and the Grenadines. They concluded their assembly with very talented musicians playing the hymn chosen for the Relay of Prayer, Christ Be Our Light.
On Thursday, the weather remained dry for our leg of the relay, taking the torch to Our Lady’s at Haigh. We walked from St Mary’s to Blackrod Primary School where we had a much needed refreshment stop after trecking up Station Road!
We then used minibuses to take the children to Our Lady’s for the assembly. We had a fantastic morning and the assemly went very well. Our lady’s school were very welcoming and we stayed for lunch. Our year 6 children made new friends with their year 6 children and are looking forward to seeing each other again when they go to St Joseph’s in September.

Have a look at the photographs below to see what a good time we had and how we all enjoyed the Torch Relay experience.

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On the Pirate Sleepover we had lots of fun. We had pirate names and Captain Cod and Dopey Dick came in. We played Pirates Footsteps and pretended to turn our partner into clay and made them do lots of pirate jobs. Also there was a Treasure Chest with doubloons in it – chocolate doubloons!

In one of the games we played, we formed a circle. Then someone pretended they were a drunken pirate and they were pushed around the circle! Finally, after all the fun and games, we snuggled down into our sleeping bags and watched Peter Pan. After peter pan had finished we all lay down and went to sleep.

In the morning after we’d had our breakfast and everything had been given out, we went in the playground and played until our parents came to take us home.

By Erin

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Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of Paul Cookson and David Harmer in school for the day. This is not the first time they have worked with all the classes and the children thoroughly enjoy the time they spend with the poets!
During the day, Paul and David spent time in all classes, writing poetry with the children and generally having a fun time, culminating in a whole school assembly at the end of the day to showcase the poetry that had been written in the various classes.
In the evening, they were back at school for a performance for the parents and children. We had a fantastic turnout with over 100 people attending the performance!
During the hilarious performance, volunteers were asked for (and forced!) to take part in performances with the poets.
When the performance ended, Paul and David signed their books for parents and children, who all agreed that it was a fantastic evening out!
Many thanks to the school PSA for funding the event and allowing so many people to enjoy the poetry of Paul and David.

Have a look at the photographs below to see just what a good night this was – and see if you can spot any members of staff in disguise!

Click the link below to listen to the children talking about their day!

Reception and Year 1

At the end of the half term, we had a Poetry Assembly where all classes recited the poetry they had written with Paul and David. Have a look at the video of some of the classes performing.

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When I got to school today I felt really exited because we were going to the Octogon. We walked to the coach in two’s. I sat near the back and the journey took about 15 minutes. When we got to the Octogon everyone got really excited and could not wait to see the show. The show was funny, exotic, hilareaus and cool. My favret bit was when the balloon took off without Dorothy because it was funny. My favret character was the tin man because he cept on needing oil. The show was not the real story of the wizard of oz. soon it was the interval and we all got two biscutes and a toilet brake. After that the second half began with it being all dark as a cave. The second half was extremely funny as the same type of way as the first half was. The wiked wich of the west dies in this half. Dorothy is scared of the land of oz because there are witches that are good and bad. There are two good witches and two bad witches. Dorothy merders the bad witches. When I heard that I giggled for a wile.

By Robbie
Year 3

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