Archive for 'Archive 2010'

The Canteen…

The canteen ladies work very hard all day long to get all the dinners cooked and all the tables in the canteen cleaned and ready to be used. The dinner Ladies are cooking a lot of meals all day and now they have had to cook at least about 200 meals more than usual because [...]

Indoor Sports

The year 6 pupils were enjoying table tennis in the indoor sports hall, one of the facilities St. Mary’s has to offer. A helper commented, “It doesn’t matter if you are disabled or a brilliant table tennis player or not, you can still have fun in this fantastic sport.” A year 12 helper said, “The [...]

Science and English

Pupils from Year 6 were enjoying science and english. We asked Tom from YC what his favourite activity so far was. Tom told us he enjoyed science because of the bunsen burners, they were something he had never used before and it was quite exciting to use one. In english, Ms.Mcmannus and Mr.Irving were teaching [...]

St. Mary’s winners

Sinead Darnell & Georgia Forrester are dancers in crime. They are both brilliant dancers and they both want to be choreographers when they’re older. Sinead and Georgia have been dancing since they were 2 years old; many people have inspired these two brilliant dancers. Sinead and Georgia do many kinds of dancing like street, solo, [...]

Important Person – Mr Cuthill

Mr Cuthill is world renowned as the nicest man ever. Okay, maybe not world renowned, but give it time! Mr Cuthill is the chaplain here at St. Mary’s, which means he is the person who is in change of organizing masses, trips to Lourdes and the Briars, and being the spiritual consciousness of the school. [...]

An interview with Mr. Fitzpatrick

St Mary’s headteacher Mr Fitzpatrick expects high standards of behaviour and effort from the new future year 7’s. “Every child has to have the upmost respect for other pupils and the staff of St Marys College,” he told the Goal Post. He insists on everyone being fair and compassionate to other people. “Everyone should aim [...]

St Mary’s is different in many ways…

St Mary’s is different in many ways to your primary schools; we have tutor periods which you will be experiencing for the first time today. Also you will have your first St Mary’s assembly and of course a P.E. lesson, we are a sports school. From sport to Thai-boxing, Rachel Mackenzie is a Thai-boxer who [...]

Whizz in the music room

Aidan Thompson-Coates is a whizz in the music room. He’s been playing the violin for 4 years and the oboe for 2 years. He plays in the school orchestra and in a string ensemble. His friends call him Crim because of a musical joke (he’s always making people laugh). Aidan says he loves to play [...]

Media Team Effort

Top Row: Lyle, Oliver, Anna, Louise and Hamish. Bottom Row: Joel, Hannah, Bethan and Kim. It’s really fun to be in the media team because you get to meet new people and interview teachers. There are lots of different jobs on media like being a director, editor, camera man, sound man, blogger and many others. [...]

Tchoukball

Tchoukball is game founded in Switzerland and has gradually become popular over the years at St. Mary’s. Tchoukball was meant to enable boys and girls to play together. The year 6′s were enthusiastic and were really focused when it came to the actual game, Tchoukball improves communication between the pupils. The pupils started with a [...]

Maths and Puzzles

The pupils of transition week enjoyed a maths activity today and got stuck in all the fun. Different puzzles and games made the maths activity exciting and enjoyable instead of copying out from a text book. The media team interviewed Mrs Stack, a maths teacher, we asked her the question why is maths important, she [...]

The Sports Academy

On Wednesday, the media team got the chance to interview Mr Kelly. He told us about how the gym can help the students overall fitness and become fit and ready for different sports such as football, basketball, netball, hockey and others. He talked about the benefits and privilidges of being in a sports college and [...]

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