Lee supported us to code our games , by Mrs Rudd

Date: 18th Apr 2016 @ 4:52pm

Lee shared a presentation about Scratch and helped to teach us how to code our own games. What a professional! 

Stations of the cross , by Mrs Rudd

Date: 18th Apr 2016 @ 4:47pm

During Holy Week, we took some time to visit the peace garden and reflect on the last days of Jesus. 

Just Youth - Easter, by Mrs Rudd

Date: 18th Apr 2016 @ 4:42pm

Year 6 worked with Just Youth to teach us about some elements of the Easter story. 

Problem solving , by Mrs Rudd

Date: 18th Apr 2016 @ 4:34pm

We were given 4 plates and tea cups of 4 different colours. We had to arrange them in different combinations so that there were no duplicates. Then, we needed to make sure no cups or plates of the same colour repeated in each column or row. Could you do it?!

Einstein's birthday , by Mrs Rudd

Date: 17th Mar 2016 @ 10:01pm

As part of our celebrations, we investigated the effects of different solutions on gummy bears. The Bears act like sponges and absorb the water therefore grow. 

Einstein's Birthday!!!, by Miss Percival

Date: 16th Mar 2016 @ 9:07pm

For Albert Einstein's 137th birthday, Year 6 celebrated with two fun experiments. For the first one, we mixed bicarbonate of soda with vinegar to inflate balloons. We later found that the more bicarbonate soda added to the vinegar the larger the balloon expanded. This is due to the baking soda being a base and the vinegar being an acid and therefore when mixed CO2 (carbon dioxide) is released, creating a fully inflated balloon. After this experiment we carried out a popcorn blind taste-test where we tasted four different brands of popcorn: Tescos, Walkers, Aldi and Uncle Sams. The majority of Year 6 voted for Tesco's popcorn- we recommend you try some- although Aldi came in a close second! To end the exciting events we sang happy birthday and ate yummy cakes in honour of the great, German, theoretical physicist. Take a look at some of our pictures!

World book day in the EYFS, by Mrs Smith

Date: 14th Mar 2016 @ 10:58am

The children and staff came to school today dressed as their favourite book character today and everybody looked fantastic! Well done everybody 

The children and staff had a fantastic day celebrating 'World book day'

The children enjoyed taking part in lots of fun activities all relating to many different stories.

Celebrating 'World book day' at St Margaret Mary's, World book day – 3rd March 2016 , by Mrs Smith

Date: 14th Mar 2016 @ 10:52am

The children came to school today dressed as their favourite book character. They began the day in a whole school assembly, where the children from each year group took part in a parade, showing of all of their costumes to the rest of the school.

All the children enjoy strutting their stuff along the catwalk (Staff too!!)

To end the assembly Mr Sutton held a ‘book quiz’ and the children all joined in answering questions form the various books Mr Sutton had chosen. The children then enjoyed taking part in lots of fun activities relating to different books.

Everybody had a great day.

World Book Day , by Miss Percival

Date: 3rd Mar 2016 @ 2:32pm

World Book Day- 3rd of March 2016!

Year 6 got into the spirit of World Book Day and dressed up as our favourite characters. We had a variety of costumes from Sherlock Holmes and Watson to Dalmations and Minions! Everybody looked fantastic!

As part of World Book Day we created illustations of our favourite books and wrote quotes from them. 

They are up in our classes to have a look at!

Chinese New Year in Nursery - more pictures, by Mrs Hall

Date: 17th Feb 2016 @ 7:31pm

Here are some more pictures of our Super Learning day for Chinese new Year ...

Pancake day - 9th Feb 2016, by Mrs Smith

Date: 9th Feb 2016 @ 2:43pm

We enjoyed celebrating Shrove Tuesday with traditional pancakes.

We found out how we mark this occasion and how people celebrate in other countries too.

We also sang a pancake song and listened to the stories of 'The big pancake' and 'Mr wolf's pancake'.

EYFS - Chinese New year 'super learning day', by Mrs Smith

Date: 9th Feb 2016 @ 2:12pm

The children in the EYFS enjoyed a day of activities focusing on Chinese New year, learning about the year of the monkey. They started the day by listening to the story of 'the great race' and learnt how each year is named after an animal and how the Chinese calendar is compiled.

The children celebrated by sampling different Chinese Cuisine, they painted boxes to make small dragon puppets, they colour mixed to make lucky blossom pictures.

The children also looked at lots of different styles of Chinese writing, they each then made their own Happy new year cards attempting to copy Chinese writing.

The children then watched a DVD about celebrating Chinese New year, we watched a Dragon parade and watched how it is celebrated in Manchester with lots of fireworks.

We enjoyed lots of fun counting activities relating to 5 little dragons and ordered dragons 1-10 

We also enjoyed role play in our house, we decorated the home corner with some lovely decorations donated by a very kind family in our current nursery class.

GONG HEY FAT CHOI!

Should we have zoos?, by Mrs Rudd

Date: 25th Jan 2016 @ 2:07pm

As part of our work on discussion texts, we held a debate regarding the status of zoos. Do you think they should be banned? 

sales, by Mrs Rudd

Date: 25th Jan 2016 @ 2:05pm

We worked in groups to work out who had the best offer on printer cartridges for Noah.

game designers, by Mrs Rudd

Date: 24th Jan 2016 @ 9:12pm

We have been exploring Scratch so that we can work towards making our own games.

Pupil Voice, by Miss Thornber

Date: 21st Jan 2016 @ 7:16pm

For our Pupil Voice topic we designed and made board games to be using during wet play.

Extreme Earth pastel drawings, by Mrs Thompson

Date: 20th Jan 2016 @ 3:42pm

Hiroshima Project G, by Mrs Hall

Date: 18th Jan 2016 @ 11:03pm

Some of our Year 5 and 6 pupils  took part in an Art, Design and Poetry competition.

We are proud that we were one of three winning Schools in Manchester  helping  to  promote peace.

Some of the Staff, children and parents met the Lord Mayor of Manchester and The Mayor of Japan.

Nursery meet reptiles, by Mrs Hall

Date: 18th Jan 2016 @ 10:30pm

We really enjoyed meeting the reptiles from Bowland Farm.

We met a Boa constrictor and corn snake, giant millipede, a lizard, bearded dragon and Giant African land snail.

We looked at and touched the creatures and thought about their habitat - where they live and their diet - what they eat.

We were very brave and caring with the animals

Year 1 Pictures, by Miss Quinn

Date: 18th Jan 2016 @ 9:19pm

We love music lessons on Mondays!, by Miss White

Date: 17th Jan 2016 @ 10:50pm

Today we learnt the 7 continents of the world and made them using plasticine., by Miss White

Date: 17th Jan 2016 @ 10:44pm

Class 1/2C Photos , by Miss Cuthbert

Date: 17th Jan 2016 @ 8:41pm

Year 6 Christmas Craft Day, by Miss Percival

Date: 17th Jan 2016 @ 4:04pm

We were lucky enough in Year 6 to have a professional Art and Craft designer come to teach us how to make a range of Christmas Crafts. It got very messy but we had great fun making them all!

Year 6- making shapes!, by Miss Percival

Date: 17th Jan 2016 @ 3:56pm

In year 6 we need to be able to classify 2D shapes based on their properties. To help us recognise shapes we made a variety of them in our gymnastics lesson and became Arcitects for a morning by building and designing our own structures using 2D and 3D shapes!