St. Cuthbert Mayne Catholic Primary School Parent Portal - Spring Term

Dear Parents and Carers,

I will keep my message short this week, as this is a longer newsletter with a little round up of the learning that has taken place in school this month.

Year 4 led a beautiful Collective Worship on Tuesday afternoon for the school and their families. They really helped us to think about how Jesus is light of the world an made us think about how can be a light in the world too! They spoke confidently and sang beautifully.

On Thursday morning I was treated to an amazing dance performance by Year 5 and was joined by Reception in the audience! The class have worked hard over the half term with Mr. Good to learn dance moves and choreography, as well as create their own. It was a great example of working as a team, whilst also giving everyone the chance to shine! They are all set for a West End performance of Aladdin!

After school on Thursday, Miss Wilkin and Miss Emms went with Year 6 Footballers and Year 5&6 Netballers to Wonersh and Shamley Green for matches. The footballers one their match 11-4 and the netballers won 13-2. All the children were a real credit to themselves and represented the school really well. Miss Wilkin said the footballers in particular showed great sportsmanship.

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God Bless,

Mrs. Amy O’Donovan

Headteacher

Collective Worship

In Collective Worship on Monday, we reflected on how the disciples would have felt to have been asked to follow Jesus. We also considered how we respond to Jesus’ invitation to follow him in our lives and how people would recognise that we were one of Jesus‘s followers. What would you say to Jesus?

Swimming

Year 2 are swimming every Thursday this term. We are still looking for volunteers to help with this up until Easter. If you are able to help, please contact the school office. Thank you in advance!

Learning this month

St David’s Class

This term our topic is ‘I am a Scientist!’. We have been very curious to explore the natural world through hands on investigation of things such as push or pull, sink or float and loud and quiet. We have discovered how processes and changes occur around us.

In Year 1 we have been learning about primary and secondary colours in Art. We started out with red, yellow and blue playdough and our task was to mix colours together to make a rainbow! We mixed our primary colours together to make orange, green and purple. Using our new knowledge, we experimented next with paint. We dipped Lego in primary colours and observed what happened when we printed primary colours on top of each other.

In Geography, we have been building on our map reading skills. We followed a route on a map of our school collecting things that showed what season it was; we then added them to our very own journey sticks. We have also been learning the different ways we can measure the weather. We have been collecting and measuring rainfall each day this week and even made wind streamers to help us find the direction of the wind.

St Patrick – Year 2

In Design and Technology, Year 2 have been designing and making chairs. They have had to think about stability and how to make their chairs strong. They have used their scientific knowledge of materials to help them choose the best ones for their task and thought about which shapes make stronger structures. Will their chair be strong enough for a bear?