We had a good day last Thursday celebrating World Book Day. Charlie Duncan, an author, spent the afternoon with Year 5 playing reading and cooking games with some of the children and reading extracts from his book: “Gastronimus and the

Legend of Mr Grrrumblebum,” which has a healthy eating theme running through a fun story about a chef from outer space. Just about everyone in school was involved in a cookery activity at some point and our school council decided that everyone in school should be offered free fruit on that day, not just the younger children, so went shopping with Mrs Leith to Somerfield. We also gave book tokens to the four most impressively dressed chefs: Misha in F2, Oliver in Year 2, Giorgio in Year 3 and Eddie in Year 5.

Westminster Student Climate Summit

In February eleven children from St Mary’s represented us at Westminster’s Student Climate Summit at the Council House. Our children were asked to argue for the position of the USA on environmental and climate matters and were in debate with schools representing Japan, Bangladesh, China, India, France and the UK.

Our 11 Year 5 and Year 6 pupils were fantastic and held their own against a barrage of questions fired at them about the USA’s stance - not necessarily the easiest position to defend. Today St Mary’s, tomorrow the World!

Free Concerts

Chamber Zone, a collaboration between the Wigmore Hall and Cavatina Chamber Music Trust, are offering free tickets to anyone aged between 8 and 25 for Chamber Music concerts in April, June and July. There’s a list of dates on the Music Room window, or you can find the full programme at:

 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

This Week

• Thursday: Year 6 to St Mary’s Hospital - injury minimisation programme.

• Friday: Year 5 and Year 6 to the library.

• Friday: Year 5 class assembly

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