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Nursery visit to Stockley Farm
Nursery visit to Stockley Farm
Today we have thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Stockley Farm. We saw lots of wonderful animals on the farm and we even had the opportunity to touch them and feed them! We met Gladys the pig, Jenny and Penny hens, Mulan the water dragon, Jemima puddle duck, Smokey…
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Snowdon is Done
Last weekend, St Clare's staff involved in the Three Peaks challenge chalked off a second success on Mount Snowdon in Wales. In very warm conditions, and after detailed preparations, they completed the arduous challenge in good time and followed this with their customary celebrations once down. …
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Three peaks Fund raising Challenge School Mission
Y5 Football at Manchester City
Last week, Year 5 pupils enjoyed a wonderful afternoon taking part in a football competition with Manchester City. The children fully involved themselves, playing well and supporting each other in their usual enthusiastic way during an afternoon they are sure to remember.
Well done to the…
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Royal Wedding Celebrations in Nursery
The nursery children have had a wonderful day celebrating the Royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle! We have had a busy day designing and creating our very own crowns, making Union Jack flags and decorating some royal biscuits! We celebrated in style with a royal tea party and we even…
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Royal Wedding Celebration LKS2
Today, St Clare's RC Primary School celebrated the Royal Wedding with lots of fun and activites.
LKS2 spent the afternoon playing traditional garden games such as; tin can alley, hopscotch, ring toss, duck duck goose and parachute games. They also competed amongst each other to create the…
Category: Curriculum
Spheros in Nursery
Today in nursery the children have enjoyed exploring the properties of 2D shape. We used ‘number of sides’ to classify squares, rectangles, circles, semi circles, pentagons and hexagons. We then introduced the spheros to ‘drive’ around the 2D shapes fixed to the carpet. Well done Nursery! Next…
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Our outdoor classroom
This week in nursery the children have enjoyed taking their learning outside. We used the giant parachute to simulate a space ship and sang ‘five little men in a flying saucer’ using some of our reading bears as our space men! We all exercised some excellent listening skills and followed…
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Y4 Football
Last week Y4 footballers attended a competition at Manchester City and, as usual, represented the school in style, coming very close to winning the final. Level at 1-1 in a very tight game, the boys eventually lost on penalties. A great group, they can nonetheless be extremely proud of…
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Alien Invasion in Nursery!
This week in nursery we discovered that it had been invaded by aliens over the Easter holidays. To introduce our new topic on Space the children explored a rocket ship that had crash landed in the early years playground. They also discovered some moon rocks and even the aliens themselves! A super…
Category: Curriculum
Pupil Strikes Gold
One of our pupils struck gold during recent gymnastics finals and her recent haul comes after much hard work and guidance from her sister. She is incredibly proud of her wonderful achievement and her teacher and teaching assistants were amazed to see her medals and photographs from a very…
Category: Curriculum
KS2 Author Visit
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Our Key Stage Two pupils were extremely lucky this week to receive a visit from published author Eamonn Riley. He delivered an assembly all about what it isn’t like to be an author, and showcased some of his fabulous books.
Some pupils were lucky enough to get up close and personal and bought…
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Debatemate Final
Earlier this week, St Clare's Debate Team were extremely lucky to get to go and debate against other schools, at Manchester University. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed debating in a professional setting and feeling like university students.
The two motions they debated were:
1- This House…
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