If your child is starting Primary School in September 2024, we are currently hosting tours of our wonderful school, so give the office a call today to book an appointment. We would love to show you around St Mary’s.
Friendship Forgiveness
Compassion Service
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Fri15Dec2023
Term 2 - End
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Tue02Jan2024
Term 3 - Starts
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Fri09Feb2024
Staff Development Day
Christmas Tree Decoration:
Once again, we would like to thank everyone that took part in our Christmas Decoration Competition. The tops 3 winners from each year group were announced last week and were each given a book token. Their decorations are now hanging on the tree in the KS2 hall.
It really was incredibly hard to choose a winner as all of the decorations were amazing. We therefore decided to put up another Christmas tree in the school reception area to proudly display the rest of the decorations.
A huge well done to everyone that took part. ... See MoreSee Less
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Christmas Jumper Day:
Tomorrow is National Christmas Jumper Day. Children are welcome to wear their Christmas jumper to school instead of their school jumper or cardigan. ... See MoreSee Less
Message from Kent Highway Services:
As part of the ongoing maintenance works to maintain and improve the highway network in Kent, we
will be carrying out safety critical repairs on Wear Bay Crescent, Folkestone between junction with Warren Road outside property Hi-reps Gym and between JW Seagrave Crescent.
The road will need to be closed to carry out these works safely. Vehicular access will be maintained for
access only from the South entrance. Sign diversion route will be provided via Warren Road, Foreland Avenue, Wear Bay Road, Hasborough Road, Wear Bay Crescent and vice-versa.
These works are due to start on or shortly after Thursday, 7th of December 2023 and should be completed in 2 days, weather permitting. Works are scheduled to be carried out between the hours of 08:00 and 16:00 to minimize inconvenience, congestion and traffic delays as far as practicable.
Bus service route 72 will be affected by these works. Temporary bus stop suspension
will be required for Stop Name: Seagrave Crescent in both directions.
I hope that you are reassured that we will continue to deliver schemes to improve road safety in Kent.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of further assistance in this matter.
Martin Niec | Folkestone Operations Highway Engineer | Highways Asset Management l Kent County Council l Kroner House, Eurogate Business Park, Ashford, Kent. TN24 8XU | Mobile: 07970 415 994 | 03000 41 68 10 I www.kent.gov.uk/highway I [Follow Kent_cc on Twitter]@kent_cc ... See MoreSee Less
Year 1 - Visit to Harbour Church:
Last week, the children had a very exciting visit to Harbour Church to find out how they prepare for Christmas. They loved exploring the church and spotted the advent wreath, Nativity scene, stained glass windows and many Christmas trees. They even had a delivery of an extra large one whilst we were there! They played pass the parcel with each layer revealing an important part of the Christmas Story and even had a treat of juice and biscuits. Mary-Jayne really did make the day very enjoyable and interesting for everyone. ... See MoreSee Less
Music Madness:
On Thursday last week, we had a Music Madness Day. Children and staff came to school dressed up as rock stars. The day started with Young Voices performing the songs they have been learning in the whole school assembly. During the day as the children were busily getting on with their work, ‘Stop, Drop and Sing,’ happened. The children stopped their work, dropped their pencils and had a singalong. The Young Voices went off to Folkestone Town Centre for a sponsored singalong and raised lots of money for their coach trip to London.
During the afternoon, we had a Talent Show. Wow, we really do have a lot of talent here at St M’s!
We finished the day with a Cake Sale.
It really was a great day enjoyed by everyone. ... See MoreSee Less
Year 2 - England Class:
Today, the children learnt about reading recipes and made eton mess! They followed the method step by step and made sure they had the correct ingredients. ... See MoreSee Less
In October, you may remember that we had a Tag Day and Cake Sale to raise money for a memory bench for a little boy called George that was sadly involved in a tragic accident.
With your help, we raised a fantastic total of £734.34!
Laura & Family are extremely grateful for everyone's donations to go towards a bench and willow tree for their son George. They would like to send out a big thank you to everyone that donated.
As always, we couldn't have done this without your support. We are extremely grateful. ... See MoreSee Less
Toy Drive Donations:
Following a letter sent last week on Arbor, Toy Drive donations need to be in by Monday 4th December, ready to be collected by The Rainbow Centre and Folkestone Community Fridge. Although the Toy Drive has been organised by Year 1, donations are encouraged and welcome from all year groups!
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Year R -Forest School:
This week, the weather turned quite cold but with hats, gloves and wellies the year R children were still able to go out and have a short Forest School session.
First they became detectives and looked for signs of nature. They found lots of it in the Forest School but they also found a lot of man made things that had been left lying around. They decided that this was not good for nature and had a bit of a tidy up.
They then enjoyed a lovely session playing , digging, climbing and creating.
Let's hope the sunny weather keeps up even if it is a little cold! ... See MoreSee Less
Keeping children safe online:
As part of our drive to ensure children stay safe online, we have a school acceptable use policy (AUP) for all children.
This is reviewed regularly by the school council who decide what is most important for the them to know and how it should be used by all children. This year, the children have made some useful decisions about the AUP, and this week in school we have been sharing this with all the children.
They decided that in KS1 and EYFS, the children needed to have a much simpler AUP. In KS2, we should have pictures to go with the different points on the AUP and should be shared with children one at a time , with regular revisions.
The first of these pictures is now up in classrooms.
Here you can see the KS1 and KS2 AUP which are up in every classroom and signed by all children and the first of our weekly pictures shared around the school.
To help your child stay safe on line please take time to use our AUPs to discuss online safety with them. ... See MoreSee Less
Young Voices:
Today, Young Voices took part in a sponsored singalong in Folkestone Town Centre. They sang the songs they have been learning each week at the Young Voices after school club. All of the monies raised will go towards funding a coach for a singing concert in London next year.
We can’t thank everyone enough that came along to show their support for the children today. Even though it was rather chilly, the children sang their hearts out and made us all incredibly proud, we are sure you will agree.
Well done everyone.
We will update you with the total monies raised early next week. ... See MoreSee Less