
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
– T&L Review

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

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
“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

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
– T&L Review











St Mary's Catholic Primary School Newcastle Under Lyme
Thank you to our wonderful leadership team who represented us so beautifully at the Annual Civic Mass. They read the bidding prayers with clarity and confidence. It was wonderful to join with our parish and local community in prayer.
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Congratulations to our Pen Licence winners this week. Elliott and Julia have been working so hard to improve their presentation over the past few weeks. Keep up the hard work!
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🤯📚 WOW! What an incredible achievement! 📚🤯
A huge congratulations to Trishelle, in Year 6, who has now read an astonishing 4 MILLION words on Accelerated Reader! 🌟
What an amazing milestone and a fantastic example of dedication, perseverance and a true love of reading. We are so proud of you, Trishelle! 👏📖
#readingstm #year6stm #readingforpleasurestm
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📚LKS2 – World Book Day 2026📚
Years 3 and 4 had a fantastic time celebrating world book day! We begun our day with a fantastic assembly listening to our teachers read some of the FREE books we can get with our tokens! We also enjoyed exploring the rich vocabulary we had all dressed as and their meanings. We even invented our own silly stories created with these words. Of course, we had the opportunity to talk about our favourite books and make lots of reccomendations!
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🗣️✨ Speak Like an Expert at St Mary’s! ✨🗣️
This term, our pupils took part in a ‘Speak Like an Expert’ challenge, developing their disciplinary oracy across the curriculum. We were absolutely blown away by the quality of talk, vocabulary and confidence shown by the children! 🤩
Each year group became experts in a different field:
🎨 Year 1 – Artists
🏅 Year 2 – Sportspeople
🙏 Year 3 – Theologians
🔬 Year 4 – Scientists
📜 Year 5 – Historians
➗ Year 6 – Mathematicians
Children practised the four strands of oracy:
🧠 Cognitive – organising and explaining ideas
🗣️ Linguistic – using ambitious, subject-specific vocabulary
👥 Social & Emotional – listening and responding respectfully
🎤 Physical – speaking clearly and confidently
The discussions, explanations and expert vocabulary we heard across the school were incredible. We are so proud of how confidently our pupils can now speak like experts! 🌟
#OracySTM #englishstm #year1stm #year2stm #year3stm #year4stm #year5stm #year6stm
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✝️Mass at Holy Trinity✝️
Today, our Year 5 pupils attended Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church Newcastle.
Father Paul shared a thoughtful homily with the children. He reminded us of the importance of not being jealous of others and how we can show peace in the world. He explained that when we live in this way, Jesus is always with us, guiding us and helping us to grow in faith.
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EYFS have had a fantastic day celebrating World book day! We enjoyed acting out how we were dressed, share our favourite stories, designed our favourite books and much more! It has been a fantastic day sharing our love for reading! #eyfsstm #readingstm
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Here’s the choir’s little preview of their Musical Mash-Up they’re currently putting together! 🎭🎶
To celebrate World Book Day 📚, they performed songs from Matilda and The Greatest Showman -two favourites that bring stories to life through music.
We can’t wait to share the full mash-up with you soon! 🌟
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