
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
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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St Mary's Catholic Primary School Newcastle Under Lyme
Take a look at some of our fabulous Year 1 silly, super sentences created from our class words the children came dressed as!
#year1stm
#readingstm
#writingstm
#worldbookday2026
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St Mary's Catholic Primary School Newcastle Under Lyme
Happy World Book Day from Year 1. We have had the most amazing day dressing up as words. We started our day with an assembly, celebrating our love of books and reading.
We shared our favourite books, took part in a book quiz and word wizard workshop as well as freeze framing our words . We designed book marks and book tokens and had so much fun creating silly sentences using words from our class word bank. I think you would agree their handwriting is fabulous too!
#year1stm
#readingstm
#writingstm
#worldbookdaystm
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🎤📚 Fate of a Book Lover 📚🎤
St Mary’s have created their very own music video for World Book Day, inspired by Taylor Swift! ⭐
Our pupils had so much fun singing, dancing and acting as they brought the lyrics to life. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it. 🎶📖
Most importantly, we hope it inspires you to pick up your favourite book and enjoy a good read today!
#readingstm #worldbookdaystm #readingforpleasurestm
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📚✨ Happy World Book Day! ✨📚
Today we had a very special assembly where lots of our teachers shared extracts from their top picks from the World Book Day free book selection! The children absolutely loved listening to the teachers bring the stories to life and were completely captivated by their performances. 📖🎭
There was a real buzz of excitement as everyone discovered new books, and the children can’t wait to spend their World Book Day vouchers tonight and choose their own! 🎟️📚
Afterwards, we celebrated our theme of words and vocabulary by awarding certificates for the most creative costume and the most adventurous word. The effort and imagination on display were fantastic. 🌟🧠
What a brilliant way to start World Book Day. We can’t wait to see what reading adventures everyone gets up to next! 📚💫
#readingstm #worldbookdaystm #readingforpleasurestm
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📚✨ Word Parade! ✨📚
To celebrate World Book Day, everyone at St Mary’s came dressed as a powerful piece of vocabulary. From adjectives to verbs, pupils chose a word they loved and brought it to life with some brilliant costumes! 🎭📖
At the end of our whole-school World Book Day assembly, we processed out of the hall in a Word Parade, proudly strutting our stuff and showing off our ambitious vocabulary. ⭐
Check out our vocabulary choices. We were absolutely blown away by the creativity and the incredible words chosen by St Mary’s pupils!
#readingstm #worldbookdaystm #readingforpleasurestm
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📚✨ World Book Day Storytime with Mr Wyse! ✨📚
Mr Wyse shared his top pick from the free World Book Day books with us in assembly today… Peppa Pig! 🐷📖
The whole school loved listening to his brilliant (and very enthusiastic!) rendition during assembly. There were plenty of smiles and giggles as everyone enjoyed the story together!
We hope you enjoy it almost as much as we did! 🎉📚
#readingstm #worldbookdaystm #readingforpleasurestm #year6stm
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Year 5 and Year 6 had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day 2026. The day began with exciting extracts from the World Book Day collection, followed by a live BBC lesson all about the joy of reading.
Before lunch, children explored the words they dressed up as, using dictionaries and thesauruses to find definitions, synonyms and antonyms.
In the afternoon, they took part in The Great Big World Book Day Footy and Booky Quiz 2026, shared their favourite books and discovered new stories.
To finish the day, children designed World Book Day tokens for a competition, created colourful bookmarks and received a book token to spend on a book of their choice.
It was a wonderful day celebrating stories, creativity and a love of reading! We can’t wait to see which of the stories you choose to spend your book token on! 📖✨
#year6stm #year5stm #readingstm #worldbookdaystm
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