Class Updates

St Mary’s hosted an inter-school Year 5/6 Kwik Cricket tournament for local Catholic schools.

Pupils in Fernworthy Class were visited by John Ingham from CAFOD, to hear about their Zero Hero campaign.  The main emphasis of the workshop was to raise pupils’ awareness of climate change by discussing the causes of climate change, the impact on the UK and other countries and  consideration as to what can actively be… Read more »

Congratulations to those pupils in Year 6 who have worked hard this year to gain their Torbay and Devon Civic Award. They were awarded their certificates at a ceremony held at St Cuthbert Mayne School in Torquay.   Click on the link below to find out more about how the pupils achieved the award: Torbay and… Read more »

Year 5 have been working with Claudia, Anna and Alison from the Abbey Education Centre to design and re-build our mud kitchen in the Woodland Area. This has taken a lot of hard work, but the area looks fantastic now and has been enjoyed by all of the classes.  The area had an official opening,… Read more »

Pupils from Venford Class joined with other schools to take part in a multi-skills tournament.  The morning was a real success as pupils enjoyed meeting new people and learning new skills.    

Meldon Class have grown lots of vegetables in their new vegetable garden.  So far this year they have harvested broad beans, potatoes and purple sprouting.    

Pupils in Venford designed and created their own scarecrow from recycled materials and entered this in the Devon County Show.

Venford visited Dawlish Warren to find out more about the different mini-beasts who live in the warren and also in the pond there. Although it was a very wet day, lots of living things were collected and identified with the help of our ranger. The most popular part of the trip for many children was… Read more »

Burrator pupils took part in some first aid training with Ian Hutchings, as part of their activities week.  During the day the children learnt basic first aid skills including how to deal with someone who has collapsed, is choking or needs bandaging.  

Fernworthy’s topic has been ‘Producers, Predators, Prey’ and so visited Dartmoor Zoo to learn more about food chains and how living things are related in these. During the visit, pupils saw all sorts of animals and learnt about their habitats. Some people even got to hold a stick insect and a snake!