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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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What a treat ! As a thank you to our Year 1 children for their hard work in Phonics they had a wet and wild water play session this afternoon and a lovely ice lolly to finish ! The children said they’d had the best day ever ! #year1stm
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🌟 Our SMGT 2026 Winners! 🌟

A huge congratulations to Milly and Maria, our St Mary’s Got Talent 2026 champions! 🏆✨

What an incredible way to finish their primary school journey – ending it with an amazing win at SMGT 2026 after delivering such a fantastic performance on the night. We are so proud of everything they achieved. 👏

Here is their amazing dance performance that helped secure the winning spot… and trust us, you’ll want to see this one! 💃⭐

Make sure you keep watching! 🎥🎶
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📚 Scholastic Book Stall Success! 📚

A huge thank you to everyone who visited our book stall this week! ✨

Your support has helped us raise money to purchase exciting new books for our school library, ensuring our children have even more opportunities to discover stories they love.

It has been wonderful to see so many children choosing books they are genuinely excited to read. Thank you for helping us nurture a love of reading and making it such a success! ❤️📖

#readingstm #readingforpleasurestm
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St Mary’s Got Talent 2026 has officially come to an end, and what an incredible year it has been! 🌟

The talent this year was absolutely amazing, and it made choosing our top 3 extremely difficult. A huge well done to every single contestant who took part -each and every one of you should be so proud of yourselves.

A special thank you to our fantastic hosts, Leon and Steven, our brilliant judges, and also to St John Fisher Catholic College for hosting our amazing talent show.

We would also like to say a huge thank you to all the parents, families, and supporters who came along and supported the event -your encouragement and support helped make the evening even more special. ❤️

Here are our final results:
🥉 3rd Place -Bethany
🥈 2nd Place – Avantika
🥇 1st Place – Milly and Maria

Congratulations to all of our winners and everyone who participated. We have loved seeing so much talent this year, and we are already so excited for next year and a brand new series full of even more amazing talent. Bring on St Mary’s Got Talent 2027! 🎤✨
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Year 5 had a fantastic day at St John Fisher, experiencing a typical secondary school day. They enjoyed lessons in Geography, Science, Computing, History and English, testing indicators in Science, writing excellent enquiry questions in Geography and learning about machine code (binary code) in Computing.
The children were enthusiastic, engaged and impeccably well-behaved throughout. Thank you to the staff at St John Fisher for such a warm welcome and a wonderful learning experience!
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🌟 Only One Day to Go! 🌟

We are so excited for the St Mary's Got Talent Final tomorrow!

If your child is taking part in the final, please ensure they arrive at 5:45pm.

📍 Parking: Available on the main playground at St John Fisher.

🎭 Show starts: 6:00pm.

🎟️ If you haven't purchased your tickets yet, please make sure to get them from the school office.

This is a show you do not want to miss – our finalists have been working incredibly hard and are ready to put on a fantastic performance!

We look forward to seeing you there!
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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