St Mary's Class
Welcome to an insight into St Mary's class, where we cherish every day to learn and love!
Our main class teacher is: Miss Collier and Miss Chambers on a Wednesday.
St Mary's newsletter Autumn 1 2024
St Mary's newsletter Autumn 2 2024
St Mary's Newsletter Spring 1 2025
St Mary's Newsletter Spring 2 2025
St Mary's Newsletter Summer 1 2025Class charity
In our class, we’ve chosen to raise awareness and money for Mary’s Meals. This charity is important to us because we believe every child deserves to have a meal. Many children across the world rely on Mary’s Meals for their own meal in a day. As a class, we decided we’d like to raise money and awareness to help children across the world. Keep an eye out for our fund-raising activities!
Everyone is welcome - class virtue
At the beginning of the year, we were chosen, as a class, to represent the virtue of generosity.
Evelyn says: “I can show generosity by always being kind and helpful.”
Lucas says: “A friend in my class showed generosity when she brought in her own prize box from home and gave a present to three people.”
Ruby says: “I could show generosity at home by washing up or feeding my cat.”
Through our learning, we understand the importance of how everyone is unique and special. We learn to respect and love one another through our inclusive and thought-provoking days.
We designed our own mascots in Internet Safety Week after reading ‘Penguin Pig’.
In our class, we thought it was important to take time to reflect on ‘Remembrance Day’. One of our activities involved making our own poppy.
Beyond the classroom
In our class, we’ve enjoyed a wide range of experiences this year to help us develop our love of learning.
In Autumn, we explored:
- Geography knowledge with a fieldwork trip to Pudsey Park.
- Love for reading with a trip to the local library.
- PE with a 'bootcamp' visitor.
- Creating memories with a colour run.
- Our futures with visitors for 'Career Week'.
- Christmas with celebrations of 'Christmas Dinner and Jumper Day'.
- Drama and singing songs with our AMAZING Nativity performance.
In Spring, we explored:
- Our skipping with a coach to teach us new skills.
- Science with a trip to Lotherton Hall to explore our animals topic.
- RE with a visit to the Church for a Q&A with the priest.
- Love for reading with a whole school parade for our fancy dress as favourite book characters.
WATCH OUT FOR OUR LATEST EXPERIENCES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM DURING THE SUMMER TERM!
Engaging with our learning
Across the curriculum, our minds are filled with wonderful knowledge especially with the help of our exciting and fun lessons.
This year, we’ve had two fabulous visitors into school, who inspired us with a whole school assembly and workshops. The first was a poet called Ian Bland and the second was an author called Jason Beresford.
St Mary’s class absolutely love PE lessons and especially when we have the Leeds Rhinos coach in to help us learn.
In our Science, we’ve been learning about seasons, plants and trees so to help our studying and observational skills, we planted some of our own bulbs!
Geography fieldwork has allowed us to explore our knowledge creatively. We enjoyed playing ‘Simon Says’ to help us with our directions!
The children loved our Design Technology topic in Autumn 2! We learnt how to make sliders…
As part of our work on the History of Pudsey, we visited Pudsey Library to take part in a History Archive workshop.
Our RE has focussed on our understanding of ‘Our Mother, Mary’ and the stories leading to Jesus’ birth. We decided to be creative by making freeze frames of different stories outside.