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Special church visit!

Special church visit!

We were so lucky to be able to go and visit the wonderful St Mary’s Church in Islington. They showed us how the Church prepares for Advent and all the special symbols like the wreath,...

We were so lucky to be able to go and visit the wo...
Christmas Play!

Christmas Play!

Good afternoon! Such a busy week full of Christmas fun! This week we have had our exciting Christmas Play! Key stage 2 children worked so hard to prepare for this play and I really hope the year...

Good afternoon! Such a busy week full of Christmas...
Church of England Christmas Video

Church of England Christmas Video

The Church of England Christmas video for 2022 is live! You can watch the video on Facebook, YouTube or our website now. This year’s Christmas video tells the story of a life supported by the local church. It follows one woman through...

The Church of England Christmas video for 2022 is ...
Christmas Play Preperations!

Christmas Play Preperations!

Dear parents& carers, It’s been a very busy week for us! With Christmas around the corner, we have been getting ready for our Christmas show (please see the photo). We cannot wait to show it to...

Dear parents& carers, It’s been a very busy we...
#FollowTheStar

#FollowTheStar

Take a look the fantastic app, it features daily Advent reflections (1 – 23 December) and 12 days of Christmas reflections (24 December – 6 January). Together, each reflection takes you on a journey that will...

Take a look the fantastic app, it features daily A...
Hackney Empire

Hackney Empire

Today the school was filled with Christmas excitement as the whole school visited the Hackney Empire to watch ‘Mother Goose’. Children (and staff!) had a wonderful time, singing and dancing! A big thank you to staff and...

Today the school was filled with Christmas excitem...
Film festival

Film festival

We participated in two amazing screenings for Into the Film festival. Year 6 students absolutely loved it!

We participated in two amazing screenings for Into...
Pyjama day and Movies!

Pyjama day and Movies!

Dear all, Year 1 had a fun and busy week. We really enjoyed wearing pyjamas to school today and had a blast at the movies. In English, we learnt how to write a letter and spent this...

Dear all, Year 1 had a fun and busy week. We reall...
Science - classification lesson (local area)

Science - classification lesson (local area)

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Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day

Good afternoon! Thank you to all of the parents who came today to Islington Green for Remembrance Day! The children were brilliant! In Literacy this week we continued with our work on Fly, Eagle, Fly! Focusing on...

Good afternoon! Thank you to all of the parents wh...
Christmas and Numbers

Christmas and Numbers

Hey everyone! We have been continuing our in it about the story of Christmas. We this week learnt how Mary knew she was going to have a baby and we made angels to show what Angel...

Hey everyone! We have been continuing our in it ab...
Fantastic Progress!

Fantastic Progress!

Dear Parents, Another week has past and I am genuinely so pleased with all the progress the children are making and the effort that goes into their work. In English, we completed a reading comprehension to ensure...

Dear Parents, Another week has past and I am genui...
Remembrance Services

Remembrance Services

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Our new playground!

Our new playground!

The children in keystage two enjoyed the reopening of their playground. Children have waited patiently whilst the playground underwent redevelopment. We now have a fantastic climbing structure, lots of green space to play, and a...

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Great Scientific Planning

Great Scientific Planning

Well done for a fabulous Autumn 1 and a great start to Autumn 2. Your handwriting is big and round and lovely! Your measuring in maths is accurate (and precise). Your debating skills are frighteningly good! Your...

Well done for a fabulous Autumn 1 and a great star...
Fun week of learning!

Fun week of learning!

Dear Parents and Guardians This week has been a fun week. We have been learning new things everyday. In English we have been writing a letter to Beegu to say goodbye. Year 1 is really trying hard...

Dear Parents and Guardians This week has been a fu...
Half-term fast approaching!

Half-term fast approaching!

Dear all, Another week has passed and half term is fast approaching! We have had a very busy week as usual but it was very fun! In English we wrote a letter to Rapunzel about how to...

Dear all, Another week has passed and half term is...
Almost half term!

Almost half term!

Dear families, With 1 more week of this half term, year 5 have been busy as usual. In Math, we have been adding up to 5 digit numbers and using our problem and reasoning skills to answer...

Dear families, With 1 more week of this half term,...
We love our new playground!

We love our new playground!

Children in years 1 and 2 are enjoying playing in their new playground.

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Harvest Service

Harvest Service

We attended St Mary’s Church for our Harvest Service.

We attended St Mary’s Church for our Harvest...
Happy October Year 3s!

Happy October Year 3s!

Good afternoon and happy October Year 3 families! In literacy we created some beautiful pieces of art, inspired by Anthony Browne’s illustrations in Gorilla. We also looked a bit at fronted adverbials of time as well. In...

Good afternoon and happy October Year 3 families! ...
Look at Year 4!

Look at Year 4!

Well done for another excellent fortnight in Year 4! Your handwriting is improving so much! Your addition and subtraction is really careful! Your Ancient Egypt and science vocabulary is excellent! Your labelled diagrams are really neat...

Well done for another excellent fortnight in Year ...
Creation and the Letter P

Creation and the Letter P

Hi everyone, Since we have no school tomorrow I will show you what we have been up to this week today. We have been learning all about creation in RE. I ready the story from the bible...

Hi everyone, Since we have no school tomorrow I wi...
Settled in!

Settled in!

Good afternoon families, Well done to Year 5 for another good week! They have all settled well into their regular routines. In Math this week we learnt about comparing 6 digit numbers and roman numerals. Next week,...

Good afternoon families, Well done to Year 5 for a...
Macmillan Coffee Morning

Macmillan Coffee Morning

A HUGE thank you to those of you who came along to our Macmillan Coffee morning.

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Wonderful Week!

Wonderful Week!

Dear Parents/Guardians We have been having a wonderful short week in Year 1, but still managed to get some fun work in. In English we stared by describing how Beegus is feeling in one of our pages...

Dear Parents/Guardians We have been having a wonde...
What a wonderful start!

What a wonderful start!

Well done for a wonderful first two weeks in Year 4! Your presentation in maths is really improving! Your bar models are excellent! Your discussions about Ancient Egypt are really outstanding! And your drama skills are wonderful! And...

Well done for a wonderful first two weeks in Year ...
Fantastic work Year 3!

Fantastic work Year 3!

Good Afternoon! It’s been a very busy week in Year 3! Getting back into the swing of things! In Maths this week we have been continuing our place value work, looking at numbers up to 1000. Children...

Good Afternoon! It’s been a very busy week in Year...
New sounds and new topics!

New sounds and new topics!

Hi all, This week we’ve been learning new sounds s,a,t,p and how to write them. Please practice these at home! The children have been great at remembering them so far, but we know practice makes permanent. We...

Hi all, This week we’ve been learning new sounds s...
Settled in!

Settled in!

Dear Parents/Carers, We have had a wonderful week and all the children have really settled in well. In English, we have been learning about poems and trying to work on our rhyming skills. The children were so...

Dear Parents/Carers, We have had a wonderful week ...
Beatitudes and Queen's memorial

Beatitudes and Queen's memorial

Dear families, This week has been a bittersweet experience as the school mourned the death of The Queen, whilst still continuing learning as usual. In Math, year 5 rounded numbers to the nearest 10, 100, and 1,000...

Dear families, This week has been a bittersweet ex...
Platinum Jubilee Celebrations 2022

Platinum Jubilee Celebrations 2022

St Mary’s Church of England Primary School held a wonderful ‘Jubilee street party’ in honour of HRH Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. We celebrated her majesty’s milestone year with a day of festivities. On Friday...

St Mary’s Church of England Primary School held a ...
Opening of our school library!

Opening of our school library!

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Islington School Streets

Islington School Streets

School Street – St Mary’s C of E Primary School Dear Parents and Carers, As part of the council’s People Friendly Streets Programme and Transport Response to Covid-19, we are accelerating the council’s School Streets programme and...

School Street – St Mary’s C of E Primary School ...
Free School Meals

Free School Meals

Your child is entitled to free school meals if they are attending: Islington Children’s centres and early years centres a children’s centre in an Islington primary school North Islington, Margaret McMillan or Kate Greenaway nurseries a primary school in...

Your child is entitled to free school meals if the...
Football skills with Coach Nathaniel

Football skills with Coach Nathaniel

Hi Kids, Hope you’re keeping well! Fancy a quick quarantine break? Click on my video below to learn some fun football skills. If you don’t have a football then you can use a pair of rolled up socks. Have...

Hi Kids, Hope you’re keeping well! Fancy a q...
Beatitudes Day

Beatitudes Day

Reception learnt all about Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. Reception class were rewarded for their fantastic learning. Year 1 learnt all about Blessings and thought reflected on all of the...

Reception learnt all ...
The Little Angel Theatre

The Little Angel Theatre

At St. Mary’s we have strong and established community partnerships. The Little Angel Theatre in Islington have worked with us for a long time and have helped us to realise our school vision in many...

At St. Mary’s we have strong and established comm...
Avengers Assemble!

Avengers Assemble!

We enjoyed another wonderful curriculum day – as we all assembled to help save the world from the evil Thanos! We were all given a mission and had to show our superhero values for good...

We enjoyed another wonderful curriculum day –...
Sports Day!

Sports Day!

We enjoyed another wonderful Sports Day down at Highbury Fields. Thanks to everyone who helped and Danny and Steve for setting up and helping to run a wonderful obstacle course! Everyone had a great day...

We enjoyed another wonderful Sports Day down at Hi...
Year 6 Leavers Deanery Service at St Mary's Church

Year 6 Leavers Deanery Service at St Mary's Church

Yesterday we had a wonderful service at St Mary’s Church with all of the Year 6 classes from our Deanery school. It was lovely meeting some of the new friends we will make in our...

Yesterday we had a wonderful service at St Mary...
Prom Praise Video

Prom Praise Video
Prom Praise

Prom Praise

Wow! What an incredible evening! We were extremely lucky that our school was able to be part of a giant children’s choir performing at Prom Praise. The children all worked extremely hard in the build...

Wow! What an incredible evening! We were extremely...
Red Nose Day

Red Nose Day

Well done to everyone who helped support Red Nose Day at school on Friday. Thank you to all who donated money to dress up and baked delicious goodies to sell in our Bake Sale! As a...

Well done to everyone who helped support Red Nose ...
Songs for Prom Praise

Songs for Prom Praise

Here are the songs our children will be lucky enough to sing at Prom Praise.

Here are the songs our children will be lucky enou...
Disney Curriculum Day - "Who Dunnit?"

Disney Curriculum Day - "Who Dunnit?"

We had an amazing day on our “Who Dunnit” Disney themed Curriculum Day. One of the poor characters had met with an unfortunate accident and all of the children – led by the Great Mouse Detective...

We had an amazing day on our “Who DunnitR...
Anne Booth visits St Mary's!

Anne Booth visits St Mary's!

What an honour! Anne Booth – author of the Refuge (which was a focus for our whole school Christmas Unit) and other wonderful children’s books came to visit us! She read us her book Refuge in...

What an honour! Anne Booth – author of the R...
Aladdin!

Aladdin!

Wow! What a great time we all had watching Aladdin at the Hackney Empire! They never cease to amaze us. We all had a great time laughing, singing and dancing to the ‘panda’ song!

Wow! What a great time we all had watching Aladdin...
Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day

To mark Remembrance Day – St Mary’s held our annual Service, followed by our mark of Remembrance at the War Memorial at Islington Green. Classes laid their own wreaths and shared prayers, the choir sang...

To mark Remembrance Day – St Mary’s he...
Star Wars Day!

Star Wars Day!

We all had a great time on our Star Wars Curriculum Day! We worked really hard to train as a Jedi in our various activities, to stop the evil Empire from taking over our school!...

We all had a great time on our Star Wars Curriculu...
Years 3, 4 and 5 make a film!

Years 3, 4 and 5 make a film!

https://www.stmarys.islington.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/boudicca_in_islington_1280x720.mp4 Years 3, 4 and 5 had the amazing opportunity to work with an artist from a local gallery to create a short film about Boudicca visiting Islington! This was linked to our History learning this...

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Our very own home-grown CARROTS!

Our very own home-grown CARROTS!

Our carrots have Grown! Last year every class planted carrot seeds. Linked to Harvest, we’ve just harvested our crop and… look how they’ve turned out. Everyone is really proud. The carrots will be making their way...

Our carrots have Grown! Last year every class plan...
Harvest Service

Harvest Service

Today we celebrated our Harvest Service at St Mary’s Church – led by our wonderful Youth Minister Rebecca. Thank you to everyone for all of your kind donations, which we have taken down to the...

Today we celebrated our Harvest Service at St Mary...
MacMillan Coffee Morning

MacMillan Coffee Morning

Thank you to everyone who came and supported our MacMillan Coffee Morning on Monday. We raised a great £136.76 for charity. A huge thanks to the parents and children who baked cakes especially for this...

Thank you to everyone who came and supported our M...
Sports Day

Sports Day

We enjoyed a great sports day at Highbury Fields. We all had a super day and the sun was out! Thanks to all the parents who came and watched, helped tidy up afterwards and walk the children...

We enjoyed a great sports day at Highbury Fields. ...
Kingswood

Kingswood

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Choir opens Soul in the City Festival

Choir opens Soul in the City Festival

On Saturday our School Choir were again asked to sing at the opening of the local festival ‘Soul in the City’. They performed a mixture of songs, after the local councillor had cut the red ribbon...

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Pentecost Service at St Stephens

Pentecost Service at St Stephens

We all enjoyed a wonderful service at St Stephen’s this morning. Thanks to Father John for a great story, our Young Leaders for the Bible Readings and Prayers – and thank you to all the parents...

We all enjoyed a wonderful service at St Stephen&#...
Working with a professional artist to create a Peace Dove

Working with a professional artist to create a Peace Dove

In Year 4, we were very lucky to have a professional artist come in and work with us for two days. We spent time exploring different artistic media, learnt a range of different artistic skills and worked...

In Year 4, we were very lucky to have a profession...
Easter Service

Easter Service

Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated our Easter Service with us, we had a wonderful service at St James’. Our children shared readings and prayers, as well as singing beautifully as always. We wish...

Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated our ...
Curriculum Day Spring

Curriculum Day Spring

At St Mary’s we again enjoyed another great curriculum day. We all got to take a journey around the world – visiting a range of different countries, enjoying different cuisines and learning a range of different...

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World Book Day

World Book Day

As always, St Mary’s celebrated a wonderful World Book Day. We all came in dressed up as a variety of different characters from our favourite or famous books. Have a look at some of our photos...

As always, St Mary’s celebrated a wonderful ...
Candlemas Service

Candlemas Service

We celebrated our Candlemas Service at St Mary’s Church. It was a lovely service – thank you to everyone who came and celebrated with us.

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St Mary's sings for The Queen!

St Mary's sings for The Queen!

As part of Scripture Union’s 150th Celebration Service held at St Mary’s Church – our school was asked to perform for the Queen of England! Our choir worked incredibly hard and performed magnificently. They were...

As part of Scripture Union’s 150th Celebrati...
St. Mary's Vision Story Day

St. Mary's Vision Story Day

We had over 120 families joined us on Thursday as we celebrated our St Mary’s Vision Story with our whole school ‘live promenade’ of drama, singing, artwork, story telling and street dancing. Children performed absolutely brilliantly, as...

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