Primary Status - St Mary`s Catholic Primary School

S T M ARY ’ S S UPER N EWS
Brought to you by the Children of St Mary’s.
Primary Status
Our big news is from September 2013 we will be a Primary School.
We will have Year 5 in September 2013 and Year 6 from September
2014. This is a very exciting time for us all at St Mary’s. The most
exciting part is Miss Peacham will be teaching Year 5! All Year 4 are
very excited about this!
Volume 5, Issue 2
March 2013
Inside this issue:
By the Editor Alfie Heeney
Dell Farm
2
RE News
3
Maths Year
Class Topics
4
Puzzle Page
5
Spring is Here
6
Teacher News
7
Dress up Days
Sport
8
Special points of
interest:
 We will need a new school
logo and everyone was
invited to submit a design.
The design will be decided
next term.
 Mrs Taylor is our ICT
coordinator and helped to
buy us 30 new laptops,
which we can use in our
classroom so every child in
the class can use a
computer.
 The year 5 classroom is
being prepared for
September.
Children’s and Teachers Points of View
We are going to tell you about the primary decision. Most people are feeling
really excited and happy about St Mary’s becoming a primary school! We will
start with year 5 next year. The new year 5 teacher will be Miss Peacham. She
feels excited because she is going to have a new class and is also nervous because it will be very different. Miss Peacham will be the first year 5 teacher in
our school. She is proud of all the children.
Mrs Healy thinks it is exciting and will be lovely to see the children grow up
with us. Mrs Healy also thinks we will be able to do extra hard maths in year 5
and 6! Mrs Taylor thinks it is ‘fabulous’ and never doubted the decision.
Mrs Keany feels extremely excited and happy about our new status and Mrs
Pollard says ‘lovely jubbly, good news!’ Mrs Vassallo also feels very excited for the
school and happy about the children staying on for two more years. Mr
Chiswell feels really excited, ‘brilliant ‘, he said and he thinks becoming a
primary school is the best thing for all the children.
So what do the children that are leaving think?
Tatenda feels excited and said it will be brilliant moving to a new school,
Paige feels happy!! Kian feels super. Kai feels outstanding, Kieran feels great
and Katherine feels sad.
What do the children that are staying think?
Louise feels excited, Shiv thinks it’s cool and Nicole says it’s
“ wonderful”
By Charlie Noad
Page 2
St Mary’s Super News
Year 4’s Residential Trip to Dell Farm
Dell Farm Outdoor
Residential Centre
provides a range of
quality educational,
social and
environmental
experiences for young
people.
On 27th February, Year 4 went on a trip to Dell Farm, because they went on a
school day, year 3 took their playground friend duty from Wednesday to Friday! There was rock climbing, a night walk, they went to Whipsnade Zoo before they arrived at Dell Farm and they even got to feed and pet the animals!
They had to make their own beds and they served their own meals! There was
also mountain biking.
At Dell Farm we went caving, mountain biking, rock climbing and had
team challenges.
At Dell Farm it was really fun. I
loved it there. We had delicious
food. I loved it when we walked the
ponies and donkeys and groomed
them.
In the Cave of Doom I was scared
but I overcame my fears. I loved going on the night line walk. I got all
muddy. I was in the first group to go
on the night line.
When year 4 went to Dell Farm they
had a really good time. Most people
said their favourite part was the caving. At Dell Farm there were ponies,
donkeys, ducks, turkeys, pigs, pygmy
goats, chickens and a golden Guernsey goat.
By Charlie Noad
By Sophie Knox
When year 4 went to Dell Farm the
children said they had a really good
time. Most people said their favourite
part was the caving. At Dell Farm
there were ponies, donkeys, ducks,
turkeys, pigs, pygmy goats, chickens
and a golden Guernsey goat.
On the 27th of February we went on
an exciting trip to Dell Farm. We
were away for two nights with out
our parents. Some children missed
their family and some were fine. The
three most exciting activities were
caving, mounting biking and rock
climbing. In the mornings one group
went to brush the ponies and donkeys and the other group fed all the
animals. The night activities were
the night walk, orienteering and the
night line. We all had lots of fun.
I thought that the trip was amazing
because of all of the activities. It was
the best trip ever. My best activity was
the mountain biking. We went over
the top of Dunstable Downs and we
went downhill at about 20mph, at
least it felt that fast. We also went
uphill. It was very tricky riding up a
very steep hill. If I were to go on holiday again, I would definitely go to
Dell Farm.
By Alfie Heeney
By Ellen O’Regan
Volume 5, Issue 2
Page 3
RE News
By Ellen O’Regan and Sophie Knox
Local Church
Cafod
Every Sunday some of
the children from St
Mary’s come to our local church to praise our
lord. St Mary’s have a
local church called St
Marys parish. On a
Monday Mr Chiswell
reads the gospel from
church and explains it
to us carefully.
At St Mary’s the teachers decided to ask the classes to raise money to help families in Africa to get a goat. The school had to raise £90 in order to get a goat
to help a family in Africa. Goats provide milk, manure to help crops grow and
if you were running out of money you could sell them. We managed to raise
£106.49.
CAFOD’s Lent appeal during the Year of Faith isn’t just about giving something up for the period, it is a way of bearing witness to our faith to give
someone else a lifeline this Lent.
Three years ago, baby Tabita was malnourished. A drought had hit her village and had devastated the community’s crops as well as her family’s animals. All of her mother’s goats died… apart from one – a ‘dairy goat’ given to
the family by CAFOD.
By giving to CAFOD this Lent you can help ensure another family has a way
out of poverty. Because the goat isn’t just a shaggy smelly animal, it’s a source
of food, fertiliser and milk. For families like Tabita’s it is a source of hope.
For her, it’s a lifeline.
Ash Wednesday
Lent
On the 13th of February
Year 3 & 4 went to a
special mass at St Mary’s
church to celebrate Ash
Wednesday. Each child
had their head marked
with Ashes. Also on Ash
Wednesday the children
didn’t have a roast diner
because Christians
don’t eat meat on Ash
Wednesday.
At St Mary’s we are enjoying celebrating Lent it is a time of year that we all
love. We all enjoyed stations of the
cross and it was good to see so many
parents there and we loved doing the
Easter egg hunt.
Kyra brought her favourite
book into Nursery.
And read the story
‘Jesus’ Christmas
Party’ to the rest of
her class. She says
it is her favourite
book..
Pictures
created by
children
from year 3
Page 4
St Mary’s Super News
Our Year of Maths Continues
On 11th February the Times Tables Challenge started. If we get them right 2
weeks in a row we get 2 team points and we move up a level so we get harder
sums! You can sign up for Maths club now so you can test your maths skills if
you want to! Mrs Healy is very impressed at the amount of people that are
joining Maths club! Don’t forget to keep
Q. Why was six afraid of seven?
sending in maths jokes!
A. Because seven ate nine!
Class Themes
Foundation Stage: they used their
RE themes as their topics and have
been learning about Celebrating
things, Gathering together and Growing and in Nursery they measured
the children in September and again
in March to see how much they have
all grown. Reception made a model
town. They have been learning all
about the church and did a role play
about the church
Nursery
Year 1: in maths, they have been
learning how to figure out tens and
how to multiply them. In RE they
have been learning about Special People.
Reception
Logan
This term we have learnt about
Florence Nightingale, the famous
nurse from the Crimean War.
Florence was born on the 12th
May 1820 and died in 1910. Florence became a nurse but her parents didn’t want her to be a nurse.
Florence travelled to Scutari in
Turkey. Florence and her nurses
were cleaning the hospital because
it was filthy. The soldiers called her
lady with the lamp because she
visited them at night with a lamp.
By Samuel Conway and Kaylee
Loader
Year 2: in literacy, they have been
learning about life on an island, in
maths they have been learning about
symmetry. In science they have been
learning about how to use electricity,
in History they found out about Florence Nightingale, in DT they made
puppets and in RE they have been
learning about bible story book.
=Year 2
Year 3: they have been learning
about writing letters and doing instructions, in science they have been
learning about magnets and springs,
in art and DT they have been making
sculptures, in ICT they have been
learning about databases
Amelia
Bridget
Year 4: in literacy, they have been
learning world at war, in maths they
have been learning about convex and
concave shapes, in science keeping
warm, in art, dreams and in RE they
learnt about communities.
By Jacob Wolfenden, Samuel Conway and
Uchenna De Silva
Angel
Volume 5, Issue 2
Page 5
Super Spring Puzzle Page
by Frankie O’Brien and Rosie King
Copy the Picture of the
Teacher
Colour by Number
1
pink
2 brown
3
black
4
red
Page 6
St Mary’s Super News
Spring is Here
Nature
Spring articles
brought to you by
KS1 journalists
This is a colourful picture it has
lots of colourful flowers in it. I
found this on Bing. You can
find this on an ipad or a computer. Some trees are forever
green trees. The forever green
trees are very cool because in the
winter the leaves do not fall off.
By Chris Godfrey
Leaves are part of growing plants and other facts ….
This is a small write
up about the season
Spring. Rain starts to
fall, lambs and chicks
are born. Blossom
grows on trees and we
eat chocolate eggs and
Easter eggs to celebrate Easter. Sometimes we get snow and
strong March winds
and we can fly our
kites.
Flowers start to grow
in the spring, buds
start to form on the
trees.
Spring is a season for
new beginnings.
By Millie Haylock and
Liam Duncan
Q. What kind of meals do
math teachers eat?
A: Square meals!
Leaves are part of growing plants. Leaves grow on flower stems. Leaves grow
from a bud in the spring. Leaves grow on trees. In the summer it is hot so lots
of plants grow. Flowers grow in all sorts of different places. Some flowers will
grow indoors. Wild flowers grow in the countryside or on waste ground. Garden flowers are grown in parks and gardens. If you went to the beach you
might see birds at the beach called seagulls and fishes like a clown fish.
If you went on a picnic you might see plants and insects. If you went out in
Autumn to look at the trees all the leaves would have fallen off. If you go on
holiday you might see new nature. There is nature all around us. I saw a picture with loads of mountains and grass.
Lady birds are gentle to you. When you go outside in Spring there might be
blossom trees in the garden. Paper wasps chew up wood to make strong light
paper. They use this material to build a nest for the queen and wasps grubs to
live in.
Reptiles are relatives of the dinosaurs. Spines on iguanas back help them protect it from predators. A gecko’s tail helps it to steer as it glides. An orchid
Mantis lies in wait to catch other insects.
Some animals sleep all winter and come out at spring time. There is lots of
nature every season.
In the half term I went to the zoo and these were the animals I saw:
Elephants, Moose, Ponies, Flamingos, Penguins, Cheeky monkeys, Rabbits,
Zebras, Rhino, Fish, Birds, Donkey, Sheep, Goat, Wallaby, Wolf, Bears, Llama, Giraffe, Pigs.
I had a lovely time looking at the animals.
By Sadie Shanley and Liam Duncan
Volume 5, Issue 2
Page 7
Teacher News
New Teacher for Year 3
At the end of 2012 year 3’s teacher;
Mr Munks, left the school. Some of
the Eco and School council from
KS2 interviewed two teachers. They
were both very good but then we
decided we would have a teacher we
already knew; Mrs Keany and she
became our teacher in January.
New Teaching Assistants
for Year 2 and Year 4
We are very happy that Miss McGarry and Mrs Haylock have joined us
this term. We hope they enjoy working at St Mary’s
Q. Why is the
number six so
scared?
A. Because seven eight nine!
.
Ask the Teacher - Interview with Mrs Keany
1. What do you think about your job? I really enjoy my job and especially the children I work with.
2. Do you like it at St Mary’s? Yes
3. Do you think the children at St Mary’s are good? I think they are very kind to each other and they try hard.
4. Do you like teaching? Yes
5. What do you think of your children? The children in my class are wonderful and they try to work hard.
6. How many hours do you work? Many, many hours.
7. When do you plan things? At the weekend and in my planning time.
8. What do you like the most? Drama, music and sport.
9. Would you change anything? I would give more money to schools for resources such as ICT and swimming
pools (if I had a magic wand!)
By Kaylee Loader and Liam Duncan
St Mary’s Clubs
St Mary’s has many lunchtime and after school clubs: Cheerleading, Language, Homework, Needlework and Maths.
We also have a Breakfast and After School Club for anyone
who needs it and they are looked after there. Everyone who
goes to any of our clubs has lots of fun.
And finally ….
Happy Easter Everybody
from the Editor and the Team
Not Forgetting …. World Book Day and Red Nose Day
Sport
Year 4’s epic Manshead Trip.
On 18.3.13 Year 4 went on a PE
trip to Manshead. Some people
played football and some played
hockey. We participated against
different schools in every single
match. The best part of the trip
was receiving the certificates. All St
Mary’s Year 4 children played 5
matches.
On Mondays Year 4 and 3s have
started doing football training in the
afternoon. Year 1 and 2 do their football training in the morning instead
of the afternoon. For Year 1 and 2
their football coach is Dan. Year 4
and 3’s coach for the passed few
weeks was Jamie. When Year 4 and 3
first started for our warm up we did
our gangnam style moves.
B ROUGHT TO YOU BY
THE C HILDREN OF S T
M ARY ’ S .
St Mary’s Catholic Lower School
Dunstable Road,
Dunstable,
Beds, LU1 4BB
Phone: 01582 602420
Fax: 01582 667191
E-mail:
[email protected]
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