St Mary’s R.C. Primary School NewsletterLockington Road, London SW8 4BE Tel: 020 7622 5460 Fax: 020 7622 4922 Email: admin@st-marys-pri.wandsworth.sch.uk Executive Headteacher: Mr Brading BAAssociate Headteacher: Mrs Mitchell BA

Friday 4th March 2016

Dear Parents/Carers

Thank you to all the wonderful mums, grandmas and female carers who attended our ‘Reading Breakfast’ on Thursday morning. It was a fantastic way to start the morning and celebrate ‘World Book Day’.

One of the best things a child can have is a love of reading. Reading is an essential life and one that can provide solace and escape in our lives.It is also crucial for our writing. Good readers make good writers. It also helps our spelling, which is a big area of concern at the moment.

Coming Soon:The St Mary’s Spelling Bee

Fabulous prizes!! Be the best in your literacy group, Be the best in your class,Be the best across the two schools in the federationLook out for the spelling lists and learn them with your child over the Easter holidays.

This week’s exciting sentence type

This week’s example of an Exciting Sentence is a “2 Pairs Sentence”

This type of sentence can help you describe a situation in lots of detail! It is made up of two pairs of related adjectives. Each pair is followed by a comma and then an 'and'.Examples:

Excited and curious, impatient and restless, the class at St. Mary’s could not wait for the new school to be built.

Delighted and proud, thrilled and satisfied, Sarah was very happy with her maths results.

Federation Choir Competition

This Saturday sees the joint choir compete for the first time this year. They are performing 2 songs at the Coulsdon and Purley Choir Competition on Saturday morning. The children have been practicing very hard and it should be a special experience.

I know many parents are already planning to attend. For those of you who wish to watch the children and show your support, the competition will take place this Saturday from 10.10-11.30am at:

Sanderstead United Reformed Church and Halls, Sanderstead HillCR2 0HB

Good luck to all the children and Mr Cronin!

Family Learning

Do you always know how to support your child at home in Maths and English?

If your answer is ‘no’ come to the workshop for Parents *

Where? In school- Mrs Cadden’s room When? 9th March 2016 What time? 9am – 10.15am

Training will be delivered by Lis Snowden – Literacy Support and Janet Goring- Maths support and Zuzana Simkova- Senco

*suitable for parents with children in Y1-Y6Sports update

Athletics Competition- St. Mary’s has come 4th in the Year 3-4 Athletics Competition with lots of positive feedback to learn from.

Water Polo Festival- For the first time at St. Mary’s, 8 students participated in a Water Polo Festival. They played three matches and experienced mixed emotions in their first ever Water Polo matches as they won, drew and lost 1 game each.

Chelsea Battersea League – St. Mary’s girls’ football team flew to victory this week beating Chesterton in the quarter finals. The 2-1 victory came after a dramatic sudden death shoot-out.