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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, ‘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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🔥 Pentecost Sunday 🕊️

Today, we celebrate the great feast of Pentecost — the day the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples and filled them with courage, faith and joy.

As the flames of the Spirit rested upon them, the disciples were transformed and sent out to share the Good News with the world.

Pentecost reminds us that the Holy Spirit is still with us today, guiding us, strengthening us and helping us to live as disciples of Jesus in our homes, schools and communities.

“Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.”

Prayer:
Come, Holy Spirit,
fill our hearts with your peace, love and courage.
Help us to spread kindness wherever we go
and guide us to live each day as followers of Jesus.
Amen.

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🔥 Pentecost Sunda

So proud of everyone in our cheerleading club this term! 📣✨
The team have worked incredibly hard learning their routine, and their dedication, teamwork, and confidence have been amazing to watch. Every single cheerleader should be proud of how much they’ve achieved this term – well done girls! 💙🌟

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Today Year 3 have been to visit Apedale as part of their students of the mines for local history week!

They had great fun in the mining museum learning all about what life was like when mining was a cultural way of life. We also had an additional workshop on their favourite topic this year – the Romans!

We even got to explore the mine underground and brought back some coal to keep as a memoire of the day!

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💙📚Friday Favourites 📚💙
So many brilliant book choices today and even better reasons for why they are loved so much! 📖✨.

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Thank you to all of the Year 1 parents who were able to attend the Phonics Check Workshop this week. We are so grateful for your support in helping your children to succeed in reading. Some of the comments from the workshop
include, ‘A really helpful session to aid our support at home’, ‘ Great resources given to support learning from at home. It was nice to see the children so engaged and positive about their learning’ and ‘Really helpful resources to help the children and parents. All the children were so positive answering questions.’ .
#year1stm #phonicsstm

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Today, the children celebrated the Feast of St. Rita by attending Mass together. It was a lovely opportunity for the children to come together in prayer and reflection as we reflected on the life of St. Rita and her example of faith, kindness and perseverance.

The children were respectful and reverent throughout the service and represented our school beautifully. ✝️

#restm #catholiclifestm #year6stm
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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 & 510:30am-10:45am12:15pm-1:00pm
Year 2 & 610:30am-10:45am12:30pm-1:15pm
Year 3 & 410:15am-10:30am12:00pm-12:45pm

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
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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