Palm Sunday – 10th April – processions before Mass starting from outside the church. Mass at 9am.
Holy Thursday – 14th April – 7pm
Good Friday – 15th April – 1pm
Holy Saturday – 16th April – 11.00 am Swieconka (Polish food Blessing – see below for more details)
Easter Vigil – Wool – 8.30pm
Easter Sunday – 17th April – 11am
Food Blessing Święconka
Holy Saturday, 16th April @ 11am
Please bring baskets filled with Easter food and chocolates.
We bring eggs (hardboiled and decorated) as a symbol of new life; bread as a symbol of the body of Christ; salt and pepper to add to our other Easter food and any other food you would like to be blessed.
Many thanks to Purbeck Youth Music and Robb from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Joe from English National Opera for a brilliant session of listening to and trying out brass instruments. Visit Purbeck Youth Music to find out about instruments and lessons at St Mary’s , or collect a form from the school office.
Due to some upgrades to our school ordering software, including an update on our payment system, and a few accessibility upgrades, we have had to change the domain of our system. We would like to kindly ask you to use www.crabappleschools.co.uk for any future orders.
Please do not use the old system any longer for bookings AFTER EASTER. The new system is a carbon copy of the old one, so your existing log in details, and all of your childrens details will still be on the system, unless you have registered after 18th March 2022.
The menu for next term is now active on the new site, so you can continue to order as normal. Any orders made before 31/03/22 will be automatically transferred by ourselves.
If you have any questions or issues, please feel free to contact us on 01929 505029, or email schools@crabapplecatering.co.uk we are happy to help with anything.
Thank you for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience caused!
Book Week got off to a great start with Bedtime Stories. Around 90 children returned to school, with teddies and blankets, ready to share stories and hot chocolate!
Many thanks to all staff who entertained classes with some excellent books; to parents for dropping off and collecting and Lisa and Georgie for delivering delicious hot chocolate!
Next week we will taking part in the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel 2022 (the new name for Big Pedal), the UK’s largest inter-school cycling, walking, wheeling and scooting challenge. The challenge runs from 21 March to 1 April. It’s free and we would love everyone to be involved.
What do you need to do?
Encourage your child(ren) to walk, use a wheelchair, scoot or cycle to school on as many days as possible during the event. Children will be able to record their journeys, each day, in their classrooms.
Including everyone
We know that some people come on the school bus, which makes it a little difficult to walk, but if you go for a walk at the weekend then you can tell your teacher about that and tick off some boxes on the class chart. We also realise that some people live too far away to walk or scoot but don’t forget that you are able to park your car for free, before and after school, in the Council car park at the top of De Moulem Road – you can then walk or scoot through Day’s Park.
Why we are taking part
Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel is a great way to build physical activity in children’s daily routine which is important for their physical health and mental wellbeing.
Active school runs also help to reduce congestion and air pollution outside the school gate. A 2021 YouGov study showed nearly half of UK children worry about air pollution near their school. And that children thought active travel was the best away to bring down these pollution levels.
Useful resources
To help you prepare, Sustrans has developed a handy free guide packed with advice, games and challenges to help you have hassle-free cycle, walk or scoot to school.
At St Mary’s in Swanage, we have been a drop off point for donations of clothes, food, nappies, tents, blankets etc. to send to support our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Both the school and wider community have been incredibly generous to the point where we had to temporarily stop any more items being left!
Congratulations to St Mary’s Saxons and St Mary’s Vikings who came first and second respectively in the cluster tournament. We now progress onto the county finals.
The children in years 5 and 6 had lots of questions about the conflict in Ukraine and after some interesting and heartfelt discussion they have written some prayers for peace. We made them into two prayer trees; one of which went to the ecumenical World Day of prayer service and then to our friends at the local Parish church for their Sunday services and the other to Father Tim to share with the Parish at St Edward’s. They include some truly insightful messages that show their compassion, humility and sense of justice for the people of our world.
On Friday 11 March we joined schools across the country in walking to end hunger with CAFOD. We added 277km to the CAFOD total by walking round a cold, damp school perimeter (the field was sodden!).
St Mary's Catholic Primary School 