Skip to main content

Tag: PTA Disco

Headteacher’s Newsletter – 1st May 2026

Written by Mrs McQueen on . Posted in Headteacher Newsletter.

Dear Parents/carers,

Year 3 Egyption Assembly

What a brilliant assembly the Year 3 pupils shared with us today. It really shows how much learning takes place in the classroom. Thank you to the teachers, children and parents for attending.

Supporting St. Deny’s Church, Little Compton,  Plant Sale on  Sunday 17th May 2-5pm

We are supporting a Church within the parish of St. Mary’s by growing plants. Mrs Dunn has been co-ordinating this mammoth effort. If you would like some plants for your garden or pots for your patio, please come along and support this worthwhile event. There will be tea and cake!

Tennis Coaching

All the children were fortunate enough to take part in tennis coaching sessions this week. Watch out for future stars at Wimbledon!

Year 4 Festival of Languages

Some of our Year 4 children had a fantastic time attending the Languages’ Festival at CNS yesterday. They enjoyed learning some German, Japanese and Latin, and even had the chance to sample lots of delicious French cheese! What a wonderful opportunity to explore new languages and cultures.

Victorian School Rooms

Year 5 had a fascinating time exploring our old school logbooks from the 1860s as part of their History learning on what life was like in Victorian times. Looking back at real records from the past helped bring Victorian school experiences to life and sparked lots of thoughtful questions about how different life was for children then compared with today. Although it was noted that the cane has now vanished, they were as eager about attendance as I am today – who knew!

PTA Disco

The PTA Disco tickets are now available to book on ParentMail.

World Cup Football Friday (£1 to wear your favourite Sports clothes to school) also on Friday 12th June 2026.

All the proceeds raised go towards the school.

Attendance

Whole school attendance this week 95.99% 
Class with the highest attendance this week Year 3 – 98%
Whole school attendance (year to date) 95.7% 
National average 94.6% 
Statutory Attendance (year to date) 96.0% 

Diary Dates

School Calendar

Kind regards,

Mrs McQueen

Headteacher’s Newsletter – 12th December 2025

Written by Mrs McQueen on . Posted in Headteacher Newsletter.

Dear Parents/Carers,

We’ve had another lovely week at St. Mary’s. The EYFS nativity was just lovely and our iRock stars were shining brightly. Thank you to all the parents and carers that attended the performances – the school was packed!

PTA Disco

The PTA disco was just amazing! The music was loud, the games were fun and all the parents were well-behaved! No seriously, the children had an amazing time and thank you so much to all the parents that helped out to make the event such a success. The PTA are so amazing at giving up their time to provide so much for the children of St. Mary’s.

EYFS Nativity

Seeing your child in their first nativity performance is a very special experience and this week it wasn’t any different for all of our families.

Church Celebrations, Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jumpers – a bumper day!

Our Christmas dinner will be on Thursday 18th December 2025. You can view the full festive menu and order on School Grid.

Christmas Jumper Day

We will be holding our Christmas Jumper Day on Thursday 18th December 2025. Children can wear a festive jumper instead of a school jumper but must be in school uniform otherwise. Please bring in a £1 donation to go to Save the Children.

We’d love to see you at Church for our Christmas Carol service at 9.30am on yes, you guessed it, Thursday 18th December.

Staffing Update from January 2026

We are delighted to welcome new staff to our school from January 2026

School Business Manager – Mrs Tinkham, who will be in the office Monday, Thursday & Friday

Administrator – Mrs Strick who will continue to be in the office but on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning.

Year 1 Teacher – Mrs Leah will be teaching our Year 1 class Thursday and Friday along with Mrs Brunt who will be teaching Monday – Wednesday.

Nursery Lead – Mrs Jocefcuk

SENDCo – Miss Wakefield (Monday-Friday)

Attendance

Whole school attendance this week96.62%
Class with the highest attendance this weekYear 3 & Year 6 – 97.4%
Whole school attendance (year to date)96.6%
National average94.7%

Dates for your Diary

School Calendar

Have a lovely weekend and we’ll see you all on Monday for our last week of term.

Kind regards,

Mrs McQueen

st mary's school credentials