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St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School

About Us

Welcome to
St. Mary’s

On behalf of the Governors, staff, parish, children and our wider school community, thank you to those of you who have chosen St Mary’s for your child’s first steps in education and to those of you who are considering choosing our school for your child.

A Message from our Headteacher

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Mrs D Mellor

Headteacher

At St Mary’s, we cater for children from the age of 3-11, Catholic and Non-Catholic. The vast majority of our children move on to St John Fisher Catholic Collegiate, the secondary school within our Multi Academy Company (family of schools). We work closely with them to ease the transition from primary to secondary education for our learners.

We are very proud of the strong support which we receive from our parish priest, Canon Paul, and assistant priest Fr John. All staff and children are very well supported in deepening their understanding of the gospel values, which lie at the heart of everything we do and is included in our school mission statement, â€˜Learning to Live Out Our Calling with Compassion and Love.’ Our children are expected to live out their faith and are well equipped to do so as our Catholic Values permeate throughout the life of our school. 

As an inclusive school, we have high expectations of all children. We instill our pupils with a sense of personal and collective responsibility and we place a great emphasis on the personal, social, spiritual and health education of our pupils. Our children experience a carefully designed, broad and balanced curriculum and we have ensured that our school has the facilities and resources to provide our children with opportunities to discover their talents and interests. We have a strong tradition in music and sports and we take great delight in developing our children’s achievements in these areas.

Our teaching staff view their work as a vocation and actively seek to motivate and inspire our children to hold a life long love of learning. Our school works to enable everyone to become a responsible, happy and compassionate citizen in order to prepare them for the opportunities and responsibilities in our rapidly changing society. We believe that to achieve this for our children, it is crucial for parents, carers and the school to work together in partnership. There are many opportunities throughout the school year to develop this relationship. We have a committed pastoral team who are knowledgeable and resourceful in providing support for all families within school and beyond the school gates.We look forward to continuing to work with you to achieve your child’s full potential. If you have not yet visited our school and would like to come and meet us, please contact the school office to arrange a visit.
We look forward to welcoming you to our school!

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📝Author of the Week📝
This week, Dean Atta shared his exciting picture book ‘Confetti’ 🌈for KS1 and Jo Clarke lured us in with an extract from her historical delight ‘Libby and the Egyptian Escapade’ đŸ‡Ș🇬for KS2. We can’t wait to snap these books up soon! #authoroftheweekstm #readingforpleasurestm

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📝Author of the Week📝
This week, Dean Atta shared his exciting picture book ‘Confetti’ 🌈for KS1 and Jo Clarke lured us in with an extract from her historical delight ‘Libby and the Egyptian Escapade’ đŸ‡Ș🇬for KS2. We can’t wait to snap these books up soon! #authoroftheweekstm #readingforpleasurestmImage attachment

📚Friday Favourites📚
The school loved listening to this week’s top picks! As a bit of change, there were lots of picture books that the children shared this week which were really interesting! #readingstm #readingforpleasurestm #fridayfavoritesstm

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📚Friday Favourites📚
The school loved listening to this week’s top picks! As a bit of change, there were lots of picture books that the children shared this week which were really interesting!  #readingstm #readingforpleasurestm #fridayfavoritesstmImage attachmentImage attachment+7Image attachment


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Well done to Glory and Chloe who have taken home the prayer bag in Year 2 over the Christmas Season and shared in a liturgy with their families. #year2stm #prayerandliturgystm
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Well done to Glory and Chloe who have taken home the prayer bag in Year 2 over the Christmas Season and shared in a liturgy with their families. #year2stm #prayerandliturgystmImage attachment

📚Today, the Year 6 librarians took part in Y6’s Catholic Life Pledge which focused on restocking the Woodland Library at school utilising Newcastle’s charity shops! This pledge not only supported our local charities but also was a great way to sustainably stock up on books and support CAFOD’s Live Simply campaign. The librarians managed to purchase 268 books for our library! After visiting so many shops and carrying all of the books, they were treated to a hot chocolate for their hard work! Thank you to the PTFA for funding our pledge.

The librarians were stopped by a member of the public who was blown away by their behaviour and then was wowed to find out about our Catholic Life Pledge! She was so impressed that she even donated three books to our cause! Thank you so much! 📚 #year6stm #catholiclifestm #readingstm #readingforpleasurestm #ptfastm
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📚Today, the Year 6 librarians took part in Y6’s Catholic Life Pledge which focused on restocking the Woodland Library at school utilising Newcastle’s charity shops! This pledge not only supported our local charities but also was a great way to sustainably stock up on books and support CAFOD’s Live Simply campaign. The librarians managed to purchase 268 books for our library! After visiting so many shops and carrying all of the books, they were treated to a hot chocolate for their hard work! Thank you to the PTFA for funding our pledge. 

The librarians were stopped by a member of the public who was blown away by their behaviour and then was wowed to find out about our Catholic Life Pledge! She was so impressed that she even donated three books to our cause! Thank you so much! 📚 #year6stm #catholiclifestm #readingstm #readingforpleasurestm #ptfastmImage attachmentImage attachment+6Image attachment

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We saw them in the library. They were very polite x

Breaking news from St Mary’s Newsround! A fire has started in London on Pudding Lane! Stay tuned for our full report next week. #historystm #oracystm #year2
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đŸ†âœïžCHRISTMAS WRITING COMPETITON đŸ†âœïž
Well done to Eseola, in Year 2, who won our Christmas writing competition. Take a look at her poem, 'What Christmas means to me.' #englishstm #writingstm

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đŸ†âœïžCHRISTMAS WRITING COMPETITON đŸ†âœïž
Well done to Eseola, in Year 2, who won our Christmas writing competition. Take a look at her poem, What Christmas means to me. #englishstm #writingstmImage attachment

Yesterday, Year 3s maths lesson was all about understanding divisibility. During our discover we used our equipment and knowledge of shape to see how many squares we could make from 13 lollipop sticks. We then tried different numbers to work out the pattern.
#mathsstm #year3stm

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Yesterday, Year 3s maths lesson was all about understanding divisibility. During our discover we used our equipment and knowledge of shape to see how many squares we could make from 13 lollipop sticks. We then tried different numbers to work out the pattern. 
#mathsstm #year3stmImage attachmentImage attachment+1Image attachment

📝Author of the Week📝
This week, Jo Lindsey shared her picture book ‘Hello Winter’ and Philip Kavvadias shared an excerpt from his book ‘Microraptor’. We’d love to hear if you read either of these two books! #readingstm #authoroftheweekstm

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📝Author of the Week📝
This week, Jo Lindsey shared her picture book ‘Hello Winter’ and Philip Kavvadias shared an excerpt from his book ‘Microraptor’. We’d love to hear if you read either of these two books! #readingstm #authoroftheweekstmImage attachment



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School Opening Times

Start of DayEnd of Day
Gates Open8:30am3:00pm
School Start/End8:45am3:15pm
Registration Close9:05am
Office Opening Times8:00am4:00pm

School Dinner Timetable

Year GroupBreak TimeLunch Time
Nursery11:30am
Reception10:00am-10:15am11:45am-12:30pm
Year 1 & 210:30am-10:45am12:00pm-12:45pm
Year 3 & 410:30am-10:45am12:15pm-1:00pm
Year 5 & 610:45am-11:00am12:30pm-1:15pm

What we’re proud of…

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Oracy

“The school has created an oracy rich environment, where voices are valued and listened to. Pupils are provided with significant opportunities to develop their oracy skills in every subject and in every lesson.”
– T&L Review
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Music

“Music is taught very effectively as pupils learn to play instruments and sing to a good standard. Music and singing play a large part in the school’s life. Pupils participate enthusiastically in making music and singing in special events at the school and in the local community. Pupils sing in tune and in harmony using three parts with good tonal quality.” – OFSTED
Child painting with paintbrush

Sports

Achieving the gold mark for Physical Education since 2018!
“The primary physical education and sport premium is spent very well. Pupils have benefited from access to a wide variety of after-school clubs, competitive events and special activities. As a result, increasingly more pupils participate in a wider range of sports” – OFSTED
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Curriculum

“The school’s aims are clear. They are committed to delivering a challenging and engaging curriculum, that is broad and balanced. The curriculum sequence is coherent and clear cross curricular links are made. Such links are further strengthened by the school’s additional ‘Building the Kingdom’ curriculum”
– T&L Review