St Mary's CVA New Mills

We had our wonderful music lessons today, classes 1 and 3 are learning the glockenspeils, class 2 are learning the recorder and class 4 are learning the ukulele. They sound wonderful!

We are OPEN today but Longlands Road is still very icy. Please don't attempt to drive on Longlands Road.
There will be no late marks today however if your child is going to be late, please e-mail the school office to let me know so that I can mark the register and order lunches. If your child is not coming to school today, please also e-mail me to let me know before 9:15am.
Please only travel if it is safe for you to do so.

School is CLOSED today due to icy road conditions that are making travel unsafe. We have been at school to check the road conditions and black ice on both the road and the pavements means it isn't safe for us to open today.

School is CLOSED today. We have consulted with other local schools to make this decision.

School is open as normal today. Please only travel if it is safe for you to do so. There are no late marks today, please don’t rush to arrive for school opening.
Some of our staff are struggling to get into New Mills so we may not be having a normal teaching day.
Please keep an eye on ClassDojo for updates. Thank you.

What an amazing week! We had the key stage one and key stage two Christmas performances, Christmas dinner day, our Advent reconciliation service, carol singing at Jubilee day centre, carol singing on New Mills prom and our PTA Christmas carousel afternoon with a visit from a special guest. Time for a lie down I think...!!

Please buy a ticket for our school lottery if you can! Money made from the lottery goes to support all of our pupils. Thank you.

https://www.yourschoollottery.co.uk/lottery/school/saint-marys-catholic-voluntary-academy-new-mills?utm_campaign=xmas3000-24&utm_source=cause-admin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Hyperlink

This week, class 1 demonstrated how active they are during a multi- skills lesson and class 3 used their ICT skills to create animations. Class 4 designed their Christmas cards whilst class 2 created their dream jars as part of their 'All about me' lessons. We also had our Christmas crafts session with children due to start school next year, Fairtrade tuckshop run by year 6 pupils as well as our whole school trip to the pantomime in Buxton! Next week we look forward to our key stage one and key stage two Christmas performances, Christmas dinner day, carol singing at Jubilee Day Centre and our amazing PTA Christmas carousel afternoon!!

Exciting day today for all the children today! They all look fabulous! This was all in aid to help raise money for our sister school Busyangwa in Uganda. Please join in and help raise money by making a donation to help towards building their new toilet block. The QR code for this is below in the photos added. You can also go on the website www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/busyangwa_school
Thank you all for everything you have done so far.

Gill Scott came to visit Class One today, she gave us a set of diversity toys from County Councillor Anne Clarke. We looked at the toys and listened to story.

Class one had a lovely time in forest schools this morning, observing the ice, building snowmen and playing together.

We are open today!!

Beatrix is doing something amazing! She's following in the footsteps of her older sister and brother and she's going to have her lovely, long locks cut off so she can donate them to The Little Princess trust to be made into a wig for a child or young person who needs one.
She would like to raise some money to go towards the cost of making the wig - the cost of making and providing a wig is £700, she would be very grateful for anything she can raise towards that cost - Please help her.
The Little Princess Trust provides real hair wigs, free of charge, to children and young people who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or to other conditions such as Alopecia.
The charity is also one of the largest funders of childhood cancer research in the UK.
The Little Princess Trust relies solely on the generosity of its wonderful supporters who help the charity give Hair and Hope to so many children and young people with cancer each year.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/beatrix-hunt-1731926707222?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fbeatrix-hunt-1731926707222&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

One of our families has been collecting items for the Manchester Winter Project, who offer warmth, food and security over the winter period for the homeless and rough sleepers of Manchester. Well done to you all for helping those less fortunate than ourselves. https://www.facebook.com/ManchesterWinterShelter
https://www.facebook.com/groups/966053980560871/

Today we had first aid training for all of our children!