St. Mary’s CE Primary School, Albrighton

We are delighted to be able to share with you some photographs from our twin school, Nasioya SA Primary School. As you may remember, we donated several hundred books to Nasioya which, as a new school, lacked a school library. Thanks to the generosity of St. Mary’s parents and children, these books are now being enjoyed by children at Nasioya.

Year 6 have been learning to make some stop-motion dancing animations.

Making stop-animations is easy. Children used the free ‘Monkeyjam’ software and sounds from the National Education Network audio collection.

If you would like to download Monkeyjam, visit the site here.  All you need is a PC and webcam and an object to animate!

StrictlyStopMotion

2012 is the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Year 6 have been studying the Titanic. A few weeks ago, each child chose the name of a real passenger from the liner. Over the last few weeks, children have been learning about the liner through their passenger. On Wednesday of this week, children completed a range of practical activities to learn more about life on board the Titanic. Children all had a wonderful time and learned a great deal about Edwardian life and the Titanic disaster.

Children in Year 5 received a visit from Severn Trent who came to talk to them about the need to save water.

Children in Year 1 made Medieval Potage as part of their work on Castles. They’re busy planning their Medieval Banquet at the moment.

It was great to welcome parents of children in Reception and Year 1 to Stay and Play afternoon over the last few days.

Children and parents completed a range of activities from designing biscuits, junk modelling and painting. Thanks very much to those parents that came in. Look forward to seeing you again next time!

We always welcome feedback. Please feel free to leave a comment on the afternoon.

November 5th is only a few days away. Children in Year 5 had fun learning and singing a round about Guy Fawkes.

Listen to their podcast here

Learn about Guy Fawkes here

Find out about Firework Safety here

Design your own fireworks for your computer (totally safe! and free!!) Click here for the firework simulator

 Year 3 & 4 visited Ludlow Museum this month. They leant all about the Tudors there and even got to dress up in period costume.

Local poet Andrew Peters entertains the children with his poetry.

National Poetry Day started off with poetry and laughter, when local poet Andrew Peters shared some of his works with the children. The day also saw the launch of our new library and concluded with a book signing with the poet. Many thanks go to Mr Peters for making us all laugh and for sharing his poems with us all.

A big thank you also goes to our Librarian, Mrs Yates, for her hard work and efforts to make our new Library look so inviting.