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We would like to say a huge thank You to all those who came along to support our recent nursery fundraising sale. We raised a massive £350 which we are looking forward to spending on some outdoor equipment for our […]

Primary 1/2 had a lovely end of term visit from author and illustrator, Jan Fearnley. She read us two of her stories and drew a picture of Harry the mouse from ‘Harry and the Jaggedy Daggers’. We really enjoyed […]

As our Primary 7 boys and girls leave St Mary’s for High School, we witnessed a lovely moment outside their classroom, with some of the children from King’s Meadow, where they were signing each other’s tops. Lots […]

The boys, girls and staff, spent a lovely day together at East Links Farm. Thank you to all who helped make our trip such a success. What a perfect way to end the year!

As part of Mrs Overmeer’s leaving present, the boys and girls, (and staff!), rummaged through some nursery boxes to choose an item, (or 2!) to wear to have their photo taken. The photos were made into a book to […]

In the event that it is raining, or the grass is very wet on Monday, alternative arrangements have been put in place to hold Sports Day, if need be, at the Aubigny Sports Centre at the same time of 9:45 am on […]

This week we used our learning abut probability to create a board game based around a sprinting race. The boys and girls worked in small groups to design their board game using specific success criteria.
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From the morning nursery to Primary 7, all the boys and girls took part in our very own Opening Ceremony to celebrate the upcoming Olympics. Each class was given a country to represent and they had to perform a […]

The boys, girls and staff from St Mary’s, were delighted today to welcome Mr Gracie, (Ella’s Grandad), who competed at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki.
He told us he became interested in running while at school, […]

In I.T we made our own set of Top Trumps, based on the Beijing Olympics medals table. The boys and girls selected information to put in their cards and found and inserted images of flags representing each […]

This week we were looking at the learning outcome: I can conduct simple experiments involving chance and communicate my predictions and findings using the vocabulary of probability.
We looked at dice and spinners […]

In Literacy and English we were learning how to use persuasion. The children were to convince each other that they deserved to win a 2-week holiday for 5 people, to London to go and see which ever Olympic […]

Primary 1/2 and Primary 5/6 got together this week to share their recent learning of symmetry.  Each child in P1/2 worked with one or two children from P5/6.  The children chose their resources and […]

Primary 6/7 worked on a weaving project last year which culminated in an exhibition which is on view at the new John Gray Centre in Haddington. The winning piece was Justine Cowie’s which is on display in the new […]

Some of the boys and girls from Primary 1/2 have been looking at Symmetry in I.T.
They were asked to make the other side of the butterfly so that it was symmetrical. The children inserted shapes and coloured […]

As part of our Learning Outcome: “I can illustrate the lines of symmetry for a range of 2D shapes and can apply my understanding to create and complete symmetrical pictures and patterns”, (2-19a), we have been […]

To end our topic on WW2, we asked friends and family to join the rest of the school at our Assembly.  The boys and girls had been very busy, organising their own presentations of what they have learned.  We used a […]

Billy Bug 2

A game for you to try out.  Use the arrow keys to take you to where the insect is, then click ‘Feed’.  How long does it take to reach the insect 10 times.  Record your time in your homework […]

Well, Primary 5/6 worked very hard this week to program their Scratch games. They had to follow a complicated list of instructions to make their game work. One of the children asked if this was the “techy” part – […]