Year 5 enjoyed their campfire last night and ate lots of marshmallows! They will be back at school by 3:30 this afternoon (traffic permitting).

Year 5 are having a wonderful time and are enjoying the sunshine! Today they have been challenging themselves on the rope course, bouldering and doing a History trail. Tonight they’ll be having a campfire!

Year 5 headed off on their School Journey this morning and have already been taking part in various activities! They had lunch and then tackled the maze and the blindfold trail.

On Thursday, children from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 took part in the Westminster cross country competition in Regent’s Park. There were over 20 schools taking part and overall, St Mary’s came 11th! There were top 20 finishes for some pupils and excellent sporting conduct throughout. Well done!

Yesterday, some children in Year 5 and Year 6 took part in the Westminster Tag Rugby tournament in Regent’s Park. They had skills training and then played 3 matches against other Westminster schools. They didn’t emerge victorious this time but they scored some points and made lots of tags! It was a great day and we are very proud of the children’s determination, sporting attitudes and enthusiasm.

Here are this week’s Dojo winners enjoying their milkshakes:

We talked about the children’s favourite sports and physical activities, which included hockey, swimming, running and playing in the adventure playground.

Today , our KS2 children were joined at Paddington Rec by the Year 4 and 6 children from All Souls School for our annual KS2 school cross country competition. The children had a great day and demonstrated how all their efforts in the daily mile are paying off.

We saw a lot of determination and enthusiasm, alongside smiles and encouragement from all the children.

Some of the winners will go on to represent the school at the Westminster inter-school competition in October.

Thank you to All Souls, as well as all the parents who came along to help out and to support their children.

Year 2 celebrated Roald Dahl day last week. Here is some of their wonderful writing:

Last week’s Dojo points winners had milkshakes on Monday afternoon! We talked about the things that they liked about their new classes, which included funny teachers, challenging work and making new friends.

As it’s still warm outside, we decided that we would have milkshakes instead of hot chocolate! Here are the children who earned the most Dojo points last week.