Children in years 1 & 2 had a brilliant day at Corfe Castle, showing and expanding their learning about castles. They travelled to and from Corfe Castle by steam train from Swanage. A big thank you to Swanage Railway who provided free travel for children and adults.
Year 1 and 2 enjoyed a virtual reading of “Oh, Sir Bragalot!” by the author and illustrator, Sharon Davey. We also had a go at drawing the main character, and heard about where Sharon gets her ideas and develops them into a story.
Here’s a film of how to draw Sir Bragalot if you want to try at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_guQ9koP4k
Following our extremely successful sponsored walk last term we had a visit from School in a Bag charity so we could pack the school bags we bought – 65 of them! The Year 6 chaplains helped set up the assembly line and children from years 2 & 3 packed a bag each. Each bag has exercise books, stationery, a lunch box, spork, water bottle, toothbrush and toothpaste, flannel. Each bag is individually numbered so we should be able to track them and see the children who have received them. Our bags are going to children in Haiti.
Year 1 & 2 chose to support the charity School in a Bag for their social action project. We had just begun work on this when the first lockdown started, but we have now completed a sale of pencil pots and a 3-mile sponsored walk.
Thank you to the amazing children of years 1 & 2 who walked up and down on stony tracks and overgrown paths with wonderful spirit and humour and have raised, together with the sale from last year, over £1300, a wonderful achievement!
Thank you to parents and carers for your support and for helping to get the message out, and to all who sponsored us.
We hope to hold a special assembly (probably next term) with representatives of School in a Bag.
Children in year 1 & 2 had a brilliant afternoon of multiskills. Thank you to the staff from The Purbeck School for planning and running this session, and to our brilliant Bronze Ambassadors who assisted them so enthusiastically.
These free apps come highly recommended for key stages 1 & 2.
Well done and thank you to the two Year 2 children who have been litter-picking on their way to school each morning.
A group of children from key stage 1 have been attending beach schools sessions with Fore Adventure to enjoy being active outdoors, and to develop confidence and speaking and listening skills.
Year 2 represented St Mary’s in style at the Douglas Strickland Bursary 30th anniversary awards evening on Tuesday. They recited a choral poem about Christopher Columbus which they have been learning as part of their topic about Explorers.
We attended the evening to receive a donation from the bursary, with which we have purchased some class sets of books to support the teaching of reading across the school.
A huge thank you must be said to the bursary as we have received many generous donations over the years which we have used to buy a variety of resources to support the teaching of the arts across the school.
Year 2 had a brilliant day meeting and finding out about alpacas.
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