St Mary Magdalene's Roman Catholic Primary School

On Friday 13th December members from the choir and Saplings went to Crow Wood Court, Burnley to spread a bit of Christmas love. They sang Christmas songs and spent time talking with the residents.

A very big thank you to the PTFA for organising Just Imagine. The Grinch and Cindy-Lou interrupted the Assembly this morning and had the children and staff dancing, laughing and singing. The Grinch even stole our Christmas tree. I think Mrs Gore has managed to get it back for the Forest School.

On Friday last week, Amelia and Charney took part in a mental health champion training day at the Prairie in Burnley, alongside some other schools from around Burnley. The course was delivered by Charlotte Hartley, a former International hockey player, who represented England in the 2006 Commonwealt...

Penny and Oliver from Year 5 represented St Mary Magdalene’s at the Romero Trust Pupil Parliament this week. Mrs Duffy escorted them to St John Southworth where they met other children and staff from the family of schools in the Romero Trust.

Arthur, from Year 5 has completed the Three Peaks walk last weekend with his dad and cousin to raise money for an Easter pilgrimage to Lourdes. Every Easter over 1,000 disabled and disadvantaged children enjoy a week in Lourdes, staying in hotels with their volunteer helpers. Arthur attended last ye...

This week, school has been celebrating deaf awareness week and learning a range of sign language knowing it is an important skill in the community. Children have discussed and looked at all the different ways of communicating and the need to communicate well. 

This afternoon, myself and Mrs Duffy took some of the children from our Live Simply group to visit residents in our local community. They brought along pocket prayers to share and left some behind for others to enjoy. During our visit, the children spent time chatting with the residents and did a...

Dominic from CAFOD came to school to lead an Assembly on Catholic Social Teaching on both Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th June. He also carried out class workshops for all classes in school.