Welcome to St Mary’s Primary School
Merry Christmas to all our pupils and their families! We hope you all have a wonderful day. A special Merry Christmas to Year 2 from Patches! He's enjoying the holidays but misses you all!
Just a reminder, there will be no Sports Bug clubs this final week of term.
Thank you to those families that have supported the Giving Tree so far. The last day for donations is Tuesday, so please send in any dry and durable foodstuffs by then. This year we will be supporting The Grace Trust.
Year 5 Elves have been busy helping Santa find a new surface for the base of his sleigh. They planned and carried out their own group investigations, testing out many different surfaces, deciding which had the most/least amount of friction.
Early Years have had a magical visit to St Peter's Church to visit the Christmas Tree Festival
We have had an absolutely joyful week of performances. Unfortunately, we only took a couple of photos! The Foundation Stage Nativity was scrumptious - beautiful singing, clear, loud voices, lovely dancing! And the two Carol Services were full of Christmas warmth and energy - they delighted everybody. Well done to the whole school! Thank you to Mrs Bailey in particular, and Mr Michel for setting up the stage.
This week in the Celebrating Culture and Languages SMART group, we found out about the Jewish festival of Hannukah. We also learnt about Christmas traditions in other countries such as the sparkly spider webs that Ukrainian people place on their Christmas trees to bring wealth and good luck. We also talked about our own family Christmas traditions and made some pomanders with oranges and cloves which are still very popular in some European countries.
Hot lunches dates - make a note of these, so that you don't miss out!
The Giving Tree is ready for gifts of food to be taken to the Grace Trust to be distributed before Christmas. Your child will bring a label home with the name of an item on it. If you would like to, please send in the item to go under the tree (or indeed any non-perishable foodstuff). If your child brings home a label and you don't want to take part, just send the label back in with them.
The Samurai Kickboxing session at 3pm today as been cancelled owing to staff illness. The class at 4 pm has been moved to 4:30pm to enable an instructor to travel from another school.
Our main admin system (SIMS) is currently down. We are not sure when this will be back on, and unfortunately this means we cannot send out any group/class emails. If you need to contact school please phone or email admin@stmary.sch.je
Just a reminder that it is Deco Day tomorrow (Friday 29th). Children can wear Christmas Jumpers or hats with their school uniform if they would like to. We have had a few donated, and welcome any more you may have. Parents if you need one, please pop into the office.