Profession artist, Jane McCraken, visited school once again to deliver a number of work shops to the children during our Art Day. Following on from an inspiring art assembly, Jane worked with individual classes in helping the children to produce some fabulous pieces of contemporary art work. These art pieces will be displayed in the school in the coming weeks so please look out for them when you visit school. Thank you Jane for all your hard work!

Further information regarding the work of  Jane McCracken can be found on her website: http://www.janeleemccracken.co.uk

 

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our St Mary Magdalen’s summer fayre. It was a fantastic day with children and parents having a fun filled afternoon! Thank you to all the volunteers and helpers who worked really hard to make sure the day was a success. Thank you also to all our community business sponsors who donated prizes for the fayre. Special thanks must go to Mrs Spence for all her time and hard work in ensuring the children had a day to remember. The current total raised was £1682 with further donations expected to come in this week. The money raised will go a long way in helping to provide further enrichment opportunities for our children. Raffle ticket winners will be posted at the school office, at the end of the school day on Monday 19th, and winning prizes can be collected from our new school hall.

For further photo’s of the day please visit our ‘Whole School Events’ section of the website.

Wishing all of our children, staff and parents a happy and enjoyable summer half term holiday. School re-opens in two weeks time on Monday 12th June.

Mr L J Duncan

We held a very important assembly today looking at the good work of CAFOD. Thank you to Margaret Hodgson who gave a very special presentation to the children. Our Year 6 will be thinking of ways to fund raise, this summer term, to support CAFOD and  all their good causes.

Thank you to M&M theatre productions who performed ‘Oliver Twist’ to KS1 and KS2. It was a great show full of superb acting, singing, laughter and audience participation.

Congratulations to all of our children who made their First Holy Communion this weekend. Didn’t they all look superb on the day? It was certainly a very special occasion for all involved. Thank you to all the helpers and volunteers who contributed to make the day such a memorable one!

The first chick has hatched! Our Reception children have been doing a fantastic job nurturing their chick eggs over the past few weeks. Now they are beginning to hatch and we expect further chicks to hatch today. Exciting times!

Thank you to author Paula Newman who visited our Year 4 children. She spoke about the skills needed to be a successful writer and shared some of her top writing tips with the children. Year 4H & 4W had a fabulous time and are already beginning to use Paula Newman’s top tips in their own writing!