Long Standing Service & Christmas Carol Service
Long Standing Service & Christmas Carol Service
The most lovely afternoon began with Mrs Gilmour playing the piano to set the mood as visitors, families and friends arrived for the KS2 Carol Service. We welcomed governors and the Mayor of Garstang to take part in the service alongside our most…
Shining Stars…
When you are a Year 2 (and Year 1) teacher in any school, you prepare the children for being ‘Nativity narrators’ and the other leading parts to tell the greatest story ever told. Miss Cross had certainly prepared the children for their special performance, where Blossom Class took the lead and…
Because you said this…
…We won this!
We are very humbled and grateful for the lovely comments you posted to ‘Play and Bee’ in order to win a trip for EYFS children.
Thank you very much to you all…we won the trip and what a great morning the children had. This greatly supported our personal, social and emotional…
An adventful few weeks & the small school with a giant tree!
What an Adventful week at St. Mary’s!
Keeping with the spirit of Advent, the children at St. Mary’s have been preparing for the school’s Christmas fair. Our school council, along with our wool & stitches charity group and Crafty CAFOD creations group, have teamed up together, working towards…
Parliament Week – Mayor Visit
Parliament Week 2024
St. Mary’s welcomed the Mayor of Garstang for an afternoon assembly with the whole school, looking at Parliament roles and responsibilities; the children even got to try on the chains! Mr. Halford even had tome to be our next ‘secret reader’ for the children in Acorns Class…
A toolkit for life and Mrs Gornall’s toolkit!
Well, this has been an interesting couple of weeks. Children have represented school in the under 7s mini skills competition with other Preston primary schools (and of course alongside of friends at St.Francis’) and no visitor has managed to leave the building without being a secret reader in…
Creative Claughton with ambition for all…
One thing we strive to do at St.Mary’s is to prepare our children for the modern world.
Personal, social, spiritual, moral, emotional and cultural development are at the core of our curriculum and we continue to begin all of our half term topics with big thinking questions. Throughout the year, we…
Exciting visits and visitors!
As always, it has been another exciting week for the children in school.
‘Surprise Reader’ has started in Acorn Class and nobody knows who the weekly reader will be until they turn up on the day! I love it!
Governors, parents and people we know in the community come in and read their favourite…
Pirates, trips, music, art and butterflies!
I am going to start at the very beginning, Acorns Class and the new starters.
It has been so lovely to welcome the new starters for stay and play sessions. Last Monday morning, I found Mrs Brice busy blowing balloons up to tie on the lovely gift bags, which contained a little dinosaur pebble, poem…
Three schools together with one vision…connection and mutual respect
Belonging isn’t just a feeling, it’s an action and a way of living in the world too.
St.Mary’s and Francis’ are coming to an end of the second year in The Linking Network. Last year, we enjoyed working with Deepdale Primary School and only yesterday we enjoyed visiting English Martyrs Primary…