Y2 DT: fruit or vegetable?

Our new DT topic on food and nutrition started today with Year 2 squishing, sniffing and labelling a variety of fruit and vegetables. They were pretty good at this, but were all outwitted by a persimmon! We then learnt about the scientific definition of fruit and vegetable. We were surprised to learn that many of […]

International Day…

Get those outfits ready! What will you wear on the day? Will it be a National costume, your favourite football team’s shirt or a beautiful outfit that shows your character off the best? Time to get planning a day off from wearing school uniform.

Year 2 Science: identifying living and non-living things

This term year 2 scientists will be further developing a wide range of scientific skills including identifying and observing, carrying out experiments and fair tests, data collection, research and noticing patterns in findings. Today Year 2 were able to draw upon their sound knowledge of the characteristics of living things to identify and observe details […]

International Day Update

I’m really glad to hear that you are all talking about it! It’s going to be a lovely celebration. Here are some answers to your questions and I will be back on Monday if you’d like to come and talk to me about it. Is it a festival? Well, the children will be doing activities […]

UKS2 DT- Food

We have just embarked on a delicious quest to Indian to learn all about curry! In fact, the world curry comes from the Indian Tamil word ‘Kari’ meaning a sauce or soup to be served with rice. We looked at world maps and found out that curry is quite a global dish- with many different […]

Would you like to win a bottle of champagne or a Sanctuary pamper package?

Well here’s your chance! Let’s keep the celebrations going by making St M’s International Day one to remember this year. If you would like to volunteer to bring food, help on a craft stall or have an idea to share with us on how to make it an even greater day, get writing! I will […]

ReadinG In Y3

Every Friday without fail, Year 3 visit the school library. Today, with the glorious weather, we took our books out onto the grassy bank and had a lovely summer reading session. We hope to do this lots more during the second half of summer term.

Reception – Jubilee Celebrations

This week we have been celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee. We have discussed the royal family, and watched parts of the Queen’s coronation .

Reception – Music

As many of you will know I am sure, we have been busy rapping! Here is a video of us rapping in class! We love this rap as it includes many of our favourite books! If you check Mc Grammar on YouTube you will find this rap along with many other great raps!

Year 1 Art – Inukshuk

In Year One, we has a look at Inuit people and some of the reasons they made Inukshuks. We had a go at creating them using stones (very challenging). We moved on to making the using Jenga blocks and finally boxes! We attempted to make a whole class Inukshuk with interesting results!