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On a cold, wet and windy day four football teams from St Mary’s took part in the Catholic Schools’ Football Tournament at St Margaret Clitherow Primary School in Brixham. Despite the weather, the children played a number of matches against other Catholic schools in the area and scored some exciting goals. The football teams had… Read more »

A number of budding scientists from Fernworthy class travelled to the marine laboratory at the Citadel in Plymouth, to take part in some marine biology workshops to celebrate National Science Week. Pupils took part in lots of practical workshops such as analysing different species of fish, identifying plankton under the microscope, looking at seaweed and… Read more »

As part of the preparation for Holy Week, pupils from each class attended sessions help at the Abbey Education Centre. Some pupils took part in Threads of Easter, a spiritual journey around the Abbey where pupils could stop and reflect on the Easter Story using beads to recall the key points on the journey through… Read more »

Pupils were invited to read at the Women’s Day of Prayer service held in Buckfastleigh this year on March 4th. This year the service was written by the women of Cuba and focussed on the needs of the children in that country and worldwide.

Pupils from the whole of Key Stage Two were able to travel to Exeter University’s Great Hall to watch Bournemouth Symphony orchestra perform for a number of schools. The concert provided the opportunity for primary school children to get involved and experience the full Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra first hand. There was lots of audience participation… Read more »

Following the success of the Traidcraft sales at the school’s healthy tuck shop, members of the school council and prefects asked if they could organise a fairtrade sale and refreshments afternoon for parents during Fairtrade Fortnight. Publicity for the afternoon and the preparation (e.g. ordering the products and setting up the refreshments) was carried out… Read more »

Pupils in Venford class took part in a dance festival at Buckfastleigh, along with lots of other local primary schools in the South Dartmoor Sports Partnership. Pupils prepared a ‘Penguin dance’ to perform, which linked with their recent ‘It’s f..f..f..freezing’ topic. Parents and carers along with the rest of the school community also got to… Read more »

Pupils in Burrator worked with Marina Saldanha, local dance teacher, to help create a dance based around Alice in Wonderland for the Body Language Dance festival at South Dartmoor Community College. This annual dance festival is an opportunity for pupils from local primary schools to come together and showcase their dance around a collective theme.… Read more »

Our school council decided to spend some of the profits they had raised from St Mary’s Healthy Tuck Shop, to purchase some snacks from Traidcraft. These have proved so popular that the school council need to place another order! They have also decided to organise a Fairtrade sale for parents and pupils during Fairtrade Fortnight… Read more »

Pupils in Venford class also experienced a Fab Lab workshop, in partnership with the Plymouth College of Art. The children learnt how to programme the computer so that, using vegetables and fruit, it could play a tune with the objects acting like keys on a piano. All the children thoroughly enjoyed their workshop and wanted… Read more »