Book Day

We had an incredible collection of costumes today as children and staff celebrated World Book Day. In Years 1-6 children dressed up as a word for our Vocabulary Parade; children in EYs dressed up as book characters.

SMBS Rugby v Wetherby Prep

This afternoon, Year 6 played tag rugby against Wetherby Prep School at their sports’ ground in West London.

Ms Granite said that the class played brilliantly, scoring quite a number of tries. In the end, the score was tied between the two schools.

This is a great opportunity for our pupils to play against a different sort of school (Wetherby is a boys’ independent school), in a much larger space than our school playground.

The children have been able to demonstrate their well-developed Games skills, which they have acquired due to high quality Sports teaching at St Mary’s.

Well done!

Year 6 at the Football Premiership

On Friday, Year 6 visited the Premiership’s Headquarters.

The activities the children did were:

  • meeting a professional referee (Mike Dean)
  • finding out about how football kits are designed and how they decide which kits to wear for each match
  • a quiz on the Premiership’s community work
  • an interactive quiz where the children had to guess what happened next in various matches
  • seeing the Premier League trophy
  • being a sports commentator and filming their own sports news slot
  • finding out about nutrition (some children even tried edible flowers!)

The children had a fantastic time and were, as ever, beautifully behaved.

International Day Assembly

This morning, we held an assembly where all the children shared which country they came from, and showed their traditional costumes.

International Day 2016 Assembly for web

 

Each class also explained to the school the work they had undertaken about the countries they have studied this week.

International Week - Morocco

This week is International Week at St Mary’s. Each class is learning about a country represented by children in our school. This year, we are mostly focusing on countries in the Middle East and North Africa. We are also learning about the British Value of ‘Tolerance for other Faiths and Beliefs’.

Year 1 have been learning about Morocco. They have been painting tiles with Moroccan patterns, and Adam’s Mum visited the class to talk about life in Morocco.

Lord’s Cricket Coaching - Year 3 and 4

Year 3 and 4 are having specialist cricket coaching this term from an expert from Lord’s Cricket Ground. The school has a strong link with Lord’s (earlier in the year, Year 5 pupils acted as tour guides for Year 3 around the ground) and these sessions are helping the children to develop their cricketing skills even more.

Y4 cricket

Classics Day at Wetherby Prep

On Tuesday, Year 6 were invited to spend the day at Wetherby Prep School, sharing their Classics Day. Students from the Classics department of Oxford University led workshops on different areas of classical life, such as theatre, gladiators and writing in Greek. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience, learning about different cultures and languages. They also behaved extremely well and were a real credit to our school. Huge thanks to Wetherby for this fantastic experience!