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Nest cam
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We have been taking part in the 'The big schools Bird Watch' 2010.
We have a fantastic new bird nesting box with a webcam inside. This means we can watch the birds exploring their new home and preparing their nest. Our bird box has proved popular with the birds and already has a regular visitor. To view the live webcam click on the birdbox photo.
For more photos and latest information about our nest cam, click on the Environment button - Birdwatch 2010
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Swattenden 2010
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We are in the process of planning the Year 6 Swattenden Residential trip. The trip will take place in November. Please click on the photo for further links.
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KS2 Christmas Nativity
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Christmas Once Again
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Stable Manners was presented by children from Year's 3 to 6 at a packed St Eanswythe's Church on a cold frosty evening.
Many hours of rehersals, taken by Mr King and Miss Bryan, certainly paid off for this highly successfull and colourful reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.
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Celts and Romans visit Year 3
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The playground at St Mary's, was full of Celts and Romans earlier this week. Their leaders the Elegant Roman teacher (Mrs McHugh) and the fierce Celtic teacher (Mrs Mason Woods) were all prepared for their Year 3 classes to find out more about what was life for these people, living in our country, hundreds of years ago!
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Harvest + Autumn
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We held 4 services for our Harvest Festival in October as the Autumn colours were beginning to show in our school grounds.
Thank you to all the parents that attended these services, where we were reminded by the students, how reliant we are on the weather and God's help for growing our food.
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Theatre Works...Writers in Action
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For two whole weeks, BBC Theatre Works were working with pupils from Years 4, 5 & 6 at St Mary's.
Every class had 3 individual sessions with these motivating presenters in the hall.
They learnt about beginnings, middles and ends of stories, characters and settings (including inside a piano)!
Hopefully we will have some budding authors in the future after these 2 weeks.
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Science at St Mary's
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Thursday's and Friday's sees many of the Junior children walking around in white overalls, investigating and being scientists for the day. Finding out about soils and volcanoes and about healthy lifestyles are just some of the activities carried out this term.
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Community Cohesion
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Year 6CU , who link with ZS Rudna school in the Czech Republic and our Czech children, had a great Czech workshop on Monday with some of our Czech parents helping put as well.
Year 6LW, who link with Szkola 707 in Poland, helped Year 1 with their Polish workshop, where we also have some Polish children.
Have a look at the pictures of what they did.
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BLP Days
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Both KS1 and KS2 each had a fantastic day working collaboratively across their key stages, in mixed age groups, . There were over 14 different activities on the Building Learning Power days, for pupils to chose from and this method of working enhanced the "Seal" philosophy that school has adopted.
The pupils took 100's of photos of the activities and also recorded some podcasts, so click to find out more from the News reporting groups.
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BBC @ School
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What do the children at St Mary's think about the Credit Crunch and the economic situation at the moment?
BBC World Class sent their reporter, Cordelia, from London to Folkestone and to St Mary's to find out what the children here thought.
A group of Year 5 pupils had been preparing their ideas supported by Mr Wright, for over week and it was hard to chose just 5 of them for the broadcast.
Listen to what they said, with the seagulls supporting them, as their thoughts were recorded outside!
Our link school Worcester prep in the USA, follows us with their thoughts on Credit crunch.
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Teacher's TV World Weather Watch and Data!
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Year 5 pupils showed their skills with handling raw data from the World Weather Watch project, when Teacher's TV came into school to film them in July.
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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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