Blog Author: Lesley Box

This week has been all about Oliver’s vegetables. On Monday we read the story and wondered what spinach tasted like as lots of us had never tasted it before. This prompted us to write shopping lists on Tuesday, ready for our market stall visit on Wednesday. We took our shopping lists and visited…

Another busy week at St Mary's. Seaside's, SATs and Water Cycles!

Here is a selection of photographs from across school. I hope the children can tell you all about their learning!

Larks have been doing all things measurement this week! The children have loved  learning about volume, capacity and temperature. They have been recording the temperature each day outside so we can look at patterns. The children have been using water to explain if something is full, half full or…

Another busy week in school and around our local area. Wrens were off to the market this week and thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the local butcher shop too.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if our Wrens and Robins could have their own market stall... a day in the life of Barny Markets! Watch this…

How great it is to be back at school with all of our St Mary's family. This term Larks class are on our travels and learning all about holidays and the seaside. We have fully embraced our new topic, packed our bags and we have been off to the beach!  We have small world seaside holiday set up,…

A special visitor this week for our EYFS children, during their forest school session this week. Terrible tusks, and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws!!

This week in science we have been learning about how plants reproduce. We learnt about pollination and fertilisation…

Swifts had a fantastic day at Beamish on Friday to support their learning and experiences of Victorian Life! They were able to experience the Victorian school, explore typical homes and shops and also transport on the trams.

I wonder how the typical school day compares to today and which, if…

What a magical week we have have this week. We celebrated World Book day and as the children love to get messy we decided to make George's Marvellous Medicine. We got a large pan and started adding things we could find around school and I am so glad to report it did not explode! What a mess they…

Larks  have had a lovely week this week with so many different activities. We have been reading The Queen's Handbag so  we decided to open a post office. The children have laughed at sending Miss Alderson lots of bills! They have been writing letters as part of their Literacy and in the post…

Owls thoroughly enjoyed their Retreat at the Youth Village based on the theme 'Lost and Found.'

Mrs Porter, Mrs Norman and Abbie said the children were exceptionally well behaved and a pleasure to take on residential.

It looks, and sounds like you've all had an amazing time-…

It was wonderful to see so many of our parents and Grandparents join us in EYFS this week for our themes Stay and Play. The theme this half term was 'Fire and Ice' linking to their learning in school. I didn't realise some of our children has such super powers! They can freeze you on the spot with…

Robins and Wrens are followers of God and have created beautiful fish footprint artwork after listening to the scripture “You will bring people not fish, come follow me.” Mark 1:16-24.

They have also become super scientists exploring materials and classifying whether objects were magnetic or…