Newchurch St. Mary’s CE Primary Academy
The new year begins...
This year we have welcomed 9 EYFS pupils to St Mary’s, all of whom have quickly settled and are enjoying school life.
It is looking like it will be another busy but exciting year ahead. Our after school clubs started the first week back and have been very well attended – the children are especially enjoying the yoga class! On 6th September we joined thousands of children from all around the UK for a very special live online welcome-back assembly led by Picture News. In light of the riots and unrest during the holidays, they discussed British values and the importance of celebrating our differences. We have once again signed up to be part of the Pendle Sports Partnership and our first sporting activity was Foot Golf for the junior children – great fun was had and new skills learned. The whole school benefited from John Sansom delivering professional gymnastic lessons – once again the children benefited from excellent coaching and the staff, some great continued professional development. Miss Pickering worked alongside the LCC in organising the delivery of the Road Safety modules to the infants. We are very grateful to the volunteers who helped her to keep the children safe, but also have fun whilst learning some very valuable skills.
Friends of Newchurch met up early in September to discuss the planning of their next EQ Fashion Show to raise money for school. The Fashion Show will be held in Barley Village Hall on 10th October at 7:30pm, there will be a delicious supper and raffle prizes to be won. The wonderful local models will be wearing gorgeous clothes supplied by EQ Woman, Clitheroe. Tickets are £15 and are available from school, the FON ladies or EQ Woman, Clitheroe. Please come along. It is a great evening!
Thank you to all who continue to contribute to making St Mary’s a happy and vibrant place to learn.