Marlborough St Mary's Primary School

🌟 Marlborough St Mary’s Primary School are delighted to be hosting an Early Help & SEND Support and Information Event 🌟

This event is open to everyone in the community — you do not need to have a child at our school to attend.

Whether you are looking for advice, support, information, or simply someone to point you in the right direction, we are here to help. 💙

Please come along to meet local services, ask questions, and find out what support is available for children, young people and families.

We look forward to welcoming you! 😊

🌿✨ MARLBOROUGH NURSERY OPEN EVENING ✨🌿

📅 Monday 14th July
🕓 Open at 3:30pm
📍 Marlborough St Mary’s Primary School

We are delighted to invite families to our Nursery Open Evening as we begin an exciting new chapter for Early Years provision at Marlborough St Mary’s. 👶🏫

This event is open to:
💙 Children joining Marlborough Nursery in September
💙 Prospective parents considering nursery places
💙 Families wanting to hear more about our exciting future plans

Come along to:
✨ Meet our Early Years team
✨ Explore our specially designed learning spaces
✨ Discover our Hygge-inspired approach to Early Years education
✨ Hear about plans for our future state-of-the-art Nursery and Family Centre

Mrs Palmer and Mrs Crossman are already creating a warm, nurturing and inspiring environment where children can thrive, play and learn. 🌱📚

We would love to welcome you and share our vision for one of the most exciting nursery developments in the area.

No booking required — we look forward to seeing you there! 🎉

🌟 Exciting News Everyone! 🌟

Last night, the Under 5s Committee voted unanimously to formally close the current Under 5s nursery and become part of Marlborough St Mary’s School.

This is a hugely exciting step forward and means that, from September, our nursery children will begin learning in two specially adapted classrooms within the main school building. Mrs Crossman and Mrs Palmer are already enthusiastically exploring fantastic new furniture and resources to create a beautiful learning environment, fully aligned with our Hygge-inspired Early Years philosophy. 🌿✨

Over time, you may also begin to see designers, architects, engineers and builders visiting the current Under 5s site as plans develop to transform the building into a state-of-the-art nursery and family centre, ready for September 2027.

We know that periods of change can feel emotional for staff and families alike, and we would like to thank the Under 5s team for their care and commitment to the children over the years. We are really looking forward to welcoming and working alongside our new nursery colleagues as one team as we begin this exciting new chapter together. 💙

What an exciting future ahead for our youngest children!

We are incredibly proud of Miss Gordon for winning Marlborough Educator of the Year! 🎉

Holly is a valued member of our outstanding TA team, and this recognition is so richly deserved. Her dedication, care, and commitment make a real difference every single day.

We are absolutely chuffed for you, Holly—congratulations! 👏

Thank you to Tesco for donating a Christmas tree to make our corridor just a little more festive!

📚 A Wonderful Book Donation! 📚

We were delighted to receive a generous donation of beautiful books from The White Horse Book Shop, delivered by Amanda Pilgrim, who leads the LitFest outreach to schools.

These books were part of the LitFest High Street Book Hunt, where children searched for them in shop windows around town — a fantastic community activity that many of our pupils loved!

A huge thank you to Amanda and the LitFest team for thinking of our school. We’re excited to add these books to our collection and know they’ll be very well loved.

🌟 Exciting news at Marlborough St Mary’s! 🌟

Many of you may have spotted in the local media that our headteacher, Dan Crossman, is heading to London this weekend for the national Headteacher of the Year finals. It’s now been officially announced that Dan has been awarded a Silver Award 🥈, with the Gold going to a very deserving headteacher, James Parkinson from Yorkshire.

This recognition is a wonderful reflection of the hard work, care and commitment Dan brings to our school every day — and he’s asked us to pass on his huge thanks to the parents, staff and governors who nominated him 💙.

It’s been a fantastic year for the whole school community, with Marlborough St Mary’s picking up several national awards 🏆 — including the big one, Primary School of the Year 🎉. Dan and a small group of staff have travelled to London this weekend to proudly represent the school and celebrate everything the community has achieved together 🙌.

Don’t worry — they’ve promised to behave themselves 😇 and will all be back on Monday morning bright-eyed and ready to go! 🌞

We’re incredibly proud of our school and everyone in it. 💛

It’s a bit windy and rainy at Marlborough St Mary’s this week but Woody has hunkered down in the office to stay warm!