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1 May 2026

Budding historians

The children became wonderful historians putting clues together to answer the question, “What was life like in Tudor times?” The used their knowledge to make for sale posters for Tudor houses. 
 

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1 May 2026

KS2 Boccia Festival

On Wednesday this week, we staged the annual Staffordshire Schools boccia festival.  With 40 children taking part in the sunshine, from across the KS2 age range, the spectators in attendance were served up a treat of exciting sport.  All the children showed outstanding sportsmanship and…

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30 April 2026

The Howard 3 St Mary’s 3


Man City v Man Utd

PSG v Bayern Munich 

Liverpool v Everton….

The Howard v St Mary’s 

 

What an amazing game of football we witnessed on Tuesday. The boys played brilliantly and showed such team work, perseverance and skill. Everyone there witnessed an amazing end to end game.…

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30 April 2026

Super scientists

Today we continued being super scientists by exploring which biscuit has the best properties to make a good dunker.

 

The winner was…..the mighty custard cream!

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30 April 2026

A walk to our local church

In RE this half term the children have been learning all about what happens in a church. Today the children walked down to the church and completed some beautiful sketches of the building. They talked about the outside features of the church as they added the detail to their sketches. Lovely work…

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30 April 2026

Making music

Today we took our music lesson outside! This term we have been learning how to play the djembe drums. 

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30 April 2026

Geography

Today in geography we have been creating mood boards showing the different amenities in our village compared to those in a city. In each group everyone had a key role. They were;
 “The Tech person” was in charge of getting the information for the group.

“The creative editor” this person was in…

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29 April 2026

Paddington Week

We had a fabulous time during our Paddington themed week. The children completed activities about London, wrote about Paddington Bear and the best part of the week… making Marmalade sandwiches! YUM! 
 

The children worked together to follow a set of instructions about how to make a Paddington…

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24 April 2026

Materials and their properties

We have had lots of fun in science looking at different materials and then exploring their properties.

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24 April 2026

A greener, fairer and wiser future

Today the children have taken part in two workshops to show how we can make changes for a greener, fairer and wiser future. We thought about what happens to our waste, how we can make small changes for a better environment and even had a 360 degree virtual tour of the an Energy Recovery…
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24 April 2026

Geography Fieldwork

Yesterday we conducted some fieldwork which relates to our Geography topic. Children created a tally to show the volume of traffic coming into Elford as well as the types of transport. We then used this data to create a bar graph. 

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