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Our Infant and Nursery Nativity Story
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The singing by the younger members of our school, brought tears to many of the parents eyes, who managed to come and particpate in this annual act of worship to celebrate Christmas.
Look at these pictures of the angels, shepherds, wise men and of course Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus.
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Christmas Nativity 2008
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KS2 held their annual Nativity Service at St Eanswythe's Church, on a cold December night, but despite the cold the church was packed with parents, grandparents, friends and children all gathering together to hear and see the Christmas Story once again.
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World Wide Weather Watch
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We have been participating in a World Wide Weather project, with over 95 school, both junior and Secondary.
We've worked with countries as afar apart as Australia and the USA.
Listen to our podcast to find out more about what we've learnt and look at the work we've done.
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International Week
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Over 1500 messages were posted on the International online Forum of www.superclubsplus.com during this week and our Year 6's were busy using SCP to mail their e-pals in Poland and Czech republic.
Year 5 wrote to their French pals both by e-mail and by hand!! Year 4 found out about the USA and Finland as well as Iran. Our Year 2's were learning more about their link school in Iran and are sending Peter Rabbit to Kherad school and Paddington back to Italy for Christmas. Both Sunshine and Rainbow classes were discovering more about India, tasting the food and naming their bears to send there.
Foundation classes and Year 3, dressed up as African animals during this week and the newspaper came to take some pictures!
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Victorian School returns to Y5
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The Doctor Who Tardis, transports Year 5 pupils back into the Victorian Age BUT still allows them to use modern technology with digital cameras, superclubsplus online forums and video/ conferences with schools in Czech Republic and the Orkney islands!
Have a peep and see what they've done and listen (coming soon) to their podcasts!
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Remembrance at St Mary's
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Our Year 6 pupils have been busy visiting every class for pupils to buy their poppies.
Year 2 pupils in Planets class have been making poppy wreathes in Art, to help them understand what Poppy Day is about.
On the 11th November at 11am, we will have 2 minutes silence throughout the school as a mark of respect, for those who died.
Look at our Remembrance pages on the site.
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Mystery in Year 5
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Year 5 were presented with a Mystery to solve last week.
Wearing their science overalls and working in their Science groups, they collected evidence using gloves to carefully collect samples, they recorded their findings with our new digital cameras and then investigated these further using the Digital microscopes.
Read more about what the 'Mystery' and what their solutions are!
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Thank you everyone
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Thank you everyone for collecting so many TESCO vouchers for the school.
This week some of our Year 6 pupils, along with Smarty bear, collected part of our new technolgy equipment, from MP Michael Howard at the local Tesco Store.
We've received a new digital camera and programmable toys called Beebots.
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Autumn Weather Photos
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Amazing photographs of the weather taken by pupils in Reception Class and Years 5 and 6.
These have all been submitted to the Photographic Competition being run by Kent's World Weather Watch project, that school is taking part in.
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Visit from the Pupils of our link school Iran
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Friday the 12th September was exciting day for all of us, when teachers and pupils from our Link School in Iran, spent the day with us here at St Mary's.
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Harvest Festival 2008
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Thank you to the many parents and friends who attended one or more of our 3 harvest festival services held in school during October.
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School Fete 2008 raises over £2400.
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On a breezy and sunny afternoon, the annual St Mary's Fete got off to a great start, with clowns tumbling around the playground.
There were Year 6 games, guessing the name of the bear or how many sweets in a jar. Some even delighted in having wet sponges and in some cases buckets of cold water thrown over them!!!
The plant stall quickly sold out, showing that we must all be eco friendly avid gardeners at St Mary's! There were hot dogs, catch the duck, book and toy stalls, as well as the popular tombola and bric a brac stalls. Even 'Fun Sports' were organized by Mr Quilter, and very sadly this will be his last fete. He's always there early at the very beginning to set things up and at the very end of the day, to make sure everything is tidied up. We'll miss him next year.
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Robotics Festival
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Robotic Monsters created by Year 5 pupils at the Education Robotic Festival at the Leas Cliffe Hall on April 2nd.
Secondary schools from across Kent, were demonstrating their ICT skills as well, with future inventions by robots.
Listen to the poems and reports made by Monster Teams 1 and 2.
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'New Life Afternoon Activities'
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On the 3rd of April, all the children in KS2 had a choice of activities to do.
Activities for pupils across the KS2 department of the school included: Mandala Painting, Sketching, Photography, Music, Dance, Animation, News Reporting, Pond Activities, The Future School, Art & Crafts and Cookery.
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Easter Time at St Mary's
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Easter being so early this year, we have the Easter celebrations during term time.
School will be closed for Good Friday and Easter Monday.
Our younger pupils in KS1 had the opportunity to make Easter Bonnets this year and they were brought into school on Tuesday of Holy Week. Have a look at these amazing creations, they should all be going to Ascot!
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Fund Raising
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We try to make the children at St Mary's aware of the plight of others and during the course of a year, raise money for many worthy groups.
In the Next Academic year we will be raising money for children in the refugee camps in Kenya. 'Lucky Families' are being given just £19 to rebuild their homes and lives, having lost everything.
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Internet Safety Latest News
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Are your children persuading you that sites are safe for them to use?
Are you concerned about your child's safe use of the Internet?
Are they and you aware of Internet Safety issues?
This term, we've been covering issues linked to this and on February 12th..International Internet Safety Day KS2 we held an assembly to learn more about the issues on the web and how to be safe, to which many of you came.
Kent and many other local education authorities advise Schools to subscribe to http://www.superclubsplus.com so that all of the pupils in Years 4,5 & 6 can use this safe, social mediated website both at school and at home, in term time and holidays, they can e-mail their friends in safety and have fun creating their webpages, earning their stars and taking part in educational forums.
It also has links to the 'Cybercafe' where they can learn more about Internet Safety.
Look at the other safe links that we have on our website and let your children use them.
LATEST NEWS!
Some of our pupils are being attracted to unsafe sites these do not:
1. Use human mediators, they just have an automatic filtering machine that checks for inappropriate language.
2. Some of the sites you also have to pay for, school has already paid for all of the pupils in years 4-6 to use the safe site of Superclubsplus.
3. People registering for the sites are NOT validated or checked, anyone can join them and become a member in minutes.
4. You don't know who your children are chatting to on line, if they are children or adults as no checks are made on the users.
5. Children will be giving out personal details, (addresses, phone numbers, e-mail accounts very quickly) there is no check being made on the content of their mail or chat.
School DOES NOT recommend the following social sites for the above reasons:
Binweevils... little insects in a bin that talk and play together.
Clubpenguin...small penguins playing and talking to-gether
Runescape...international game with gnomes
Piczo.... USA based site of glitter, music, photos etc:
Dollz...targeted at girls..a social site where they can dress up dolls
Bebo...
My Space
Facebook
The list of online social site grows daily, so please be very aware of what your children are doing online and make sure that their computer is in an open space, where everyone can see it, rather than in their bedrooms.
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Brabner Park Project
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Find out what St Mary's have been doing to help develop our leisure environment.
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International Week Work from around the school
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Christmas at St Mary's 2007
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Pictures from our 3 Nativity services can be found on these pages:
KS1 Nativity Year R 07
KS1 Nativity 07
Events Nativity 2007
International Christmas wishes to everyone.
From Poland...Merry Christmas Global Friends! Wesołych Świąt!
Szkola 707
From Nepal...Friends worldwide!
Wishing you all a great christmas.
we have a small Christmas celebration this weekend at school.
Happy new year to you all from Eurokids Family.
Eurokids International School of Nepal
From Finland...We wish you a merry Christmas... Taas toivotus hyvan joulun... Many greetings from children at Kantokasken Koulo
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Year 5 Visit Canterbury Cathedral for the Day
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Pupils from Year 5 spent an amazing day at Canterbury Cathedral on the 7th November, along with pupils from other church school in this area of Kent.
After a welcome in the Cathedral , they experienced numerous workshops throughout the Cathedral for the day, they became glaziers, stonemasons, knights, artists and musicians.
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Earthquake in Folkestone
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Saturday the 28th April 2007, at 08.17 will be remembered by many, as the day their homes shook and they met up with everyone in the street, to find out what had been happening.
Earthquakes happen in far off places in the world BUT surely not here in Folkestone?
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Summer School 2007
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Monday 6th August, saw 40 lucky children coming back to school in their Summer holidays for a whole week!
Why did they chose to come?
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