Miss Cain's class
Year 1 EC
St Mary's School
The children are at the heart of everything we do.
The children are at the heart of everything we do.
Miss Cain's class
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Please see below for our Autumn/Create parent letter. Autumn_Parent_Letter.pdf
Take a look at our amazing daffodils and decorated pots. A huge congratulations to our winners, Lexi for best daffodil and Eliza for best decorated pot. We hope you enjoy your easter eggs!
We had so much fun on our recent trip to Douglas Fire Station. We were allowed to sit in the fire engines, have a go with the fire hose and even went up super high in the cherry picker! A huge thank you to Douglas Fire Station for having us and to all of our parent helpers for joining us.
We had a great trip to the Isle of Man Art Society on Friday. All children made a lovely clay portrait. They will be returned to school in a couple of weeks after they have been in the kiln, then we will paint the faces. As always, a huge thank you to all the parent helpers who made the trip possib…
Yesterday we visited Nobles Park for our first school trip of the year. The children created their own portrait using materials from the natural environment. We had a great time and enjoyed a play in the leaves to finish the trip. A huge thank you to all our parent/grandparents helpers who made thi…
A huge thank you to the Friends of St Mary's for our pancakes this morning. They were delicious! We spent some time today to learn about why we eat pancakes on this special day and discussed what some children are planning to give up for Lent.
On Thursday we had a visit from the Road Safety Team to learn some pedestrian skills. All the children learnt how to cross the road safely and dangers they should be aware of when crossing roads.
Wow! What a fun day we have had with Rock Kidz. All the children had so much fun whilst learning some of life's most important messages. Well done to Tiernan who took part in a children vs teachers dance battle, you did amazing!
A huge thank you to everyone who came to watch our Christmas concert, Shine Star, Shine! We hope you enjoyed the show.
Yesterday we had a visit from Isle of Man Cricket. We practiced a range of skills needed in sports such as balancing, throwing and catching and hand-eye coordination. We all had lots of fun! Thank you Mrs Quinn for organising and to Isle of Man Cricket for visiting us.
Here is our spring class letter. Spring_1_Class_Letter_PDF.pdf
Yesterday we looked at our class Saint, Saint Francis. We discussed how saints are important as they have a special relationship with god. We discovered that St Francis is the patron saint of the environment, animals and birds. To show that we can be just like St Francis, we have made bird feeders.…
Yesterday we had a special visitor, PC Lou Kennaugh. PC Kennaugh spoke to us about what Police do and how they keep us safe in the community. The children loved trying on the Police uniform and sitting in a brand new Police car!
A huge thank you to Kelly and Lisa for bringing the Manx Telecom festive tractor to visit us this afternoon. We had a great time despite the weather.
Today we travelled back in time to visit the Great Fire of London suspects. Thomas Farriner, King Charles II, Sir Thomas Bloodworth and Samuel Pepys all shared their account of what they were doing when the fire first began and how they heard about the fire. The children became detectives and wrote…
What an amazing day we had on Thursday! Our day began with a whole story read by Mr. Koala (aka Mr. Rotchell). We then joined a live-stream lesson focused on the book That's MY Flower with author Alice Hemming and illustrator Nicola Slater. Nicola gave us a step-by-step lesson on how to draw the sq…
Today we invited Year 6 to visit our Art Exhibition. They asked us lots of questions about our Project and were very impressed with our clay faces and final portraits. We were able to tell them the Artists and skills we have zoomed in on over the last term.