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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! 👏📖
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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! 🌟
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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! 🎉📚
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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! 📖✨
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🌟🎭 Oracy Superstars! 🎭🌟
A huge congratulations to Millie, Mila, Roosevelt, Alessandra, Richa, Henry and Nicholas in Year 6 for earning a coveted Oracy Sticker during our Readers’ Theatre lesson! 🏆✨
They absolutely smashed the physical strand as they brought our core text Wonder to life, reading with fantastic expression and projecting their voices with real confidence. 🎤📖 Their performance was engaging, thoughtful and a joy to watch.
We are so proud of the effort and enthusiasm they showed. Keep shining, Year 6! 🌟👏
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🎉📚 Incredible Achievement Alert! 📚🎉
A massive congratulations to Trishelle for reaching an AMAZING 3,000,000 words on Accelerated Reader! 🌟 What a fantastic milestone – your dedication, enthusiasm and love of reading truly shine through. We are so proud of you! 👏✨
Keep turning those pages and inspiring others with your brilliant commitment to reading. Happy reading, Trish! 📖💫
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📱✨ Safer Internet Day 2026 ✨📱
Today, dressed in their bold outfits, Year 6 created informative leaflets exploring the pros and cons of talking to AI versus a human, inspired by this year’s theme: Smart tech, safe choices – exploring the safe and responsible use of AI. We are very proud of their thoughtful and responsible approach to technology! 👏
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What a blast we're having at the Valentine's Disco! Music, snacks and a whole lotta fun.
Thank you to the PTFA for organising for us. It's been so fun to bust a move with our friends and teachers.
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