At St Michael & St Martin we are ❤️Spiritual 🧡Thinkers💛Resilient 💚Independent💙Valued💜Empathetic - we STRIVE 🌈 to be the best we can be every day
#values
Arrived safely to glorious sunshine ☀️ coach emptied and now ready to play suitcase bingo before we head to our rooms to unpack before our site tour, dinner and evening activity 🥘
On our final full day here at PGL we are all up and ready for another full day of activities including fencing, abseiling🧗🏽♂️archery 🏹 and giant swing. All before we head to the site shop and evening disco 💃 🕺
#BustAMove
#ChampionsOfTheDancefloor
And we’re off! 🚌🙌
PGL Bound with a coach full of excited children and staff looking forward to a weekend full of exciting activities and adventures 🏹🚣♂️⚽️🍽️⛹️♂️😎
#Yr6ontour
#PGL2023
Not even the rain ☔️could dampen our fun today! Thankfully the sun 🌞 come out this afternoon for us.🙏
Daily activities ✔️ shopping ✔️ breakfast, lunch and dinner ✔️ now off to the disco to top off another fabulous day 💃🕺
#NoTimeToWaste
#DanceFloorWaiting
Good morning from a sunny Osmington Bay 😎 We all had a restful night, have had our breakfast 🍳and are heading out for our first activity of the day … Dragon Boating 🚣♂️ at the Portland National Sailing Centre.
#Yr6Teamwork
#watersports
#SaturdayVibes
After practicing our team work skills and putting on our life jackets, we are now out in our 3 Dragon Boats!🚣♂️ We are now racing each other and singing our chants that the PGL Leaders have taught us 🎶
#funonthewater
#racetime
#dreamteams
After a busy afternoon playing at ‘Little Wembley’ ⚽️ and an evening filled with fun and laughter exploring the site playing ‘capture the flag’ 🚩we are all showered 🛁 have said our evening prayers 🙏 and are now settling down for the night in our rooms 🛏️
#goodnightfromPGL
We received some very pleasing post this morning from Nick Gibb the Minister of State for School Standards. Well done to all the children and staff for their hard work and commitment to achieving these outstanding results. 👏📗🖌️📊🧪🎭🎨🎼🎲🧩🎤⚽️
4 activities, 3 meals & now looking forward to our evening activity …PGL Tournament 🏀🏈🏓🥅 but which team will be the champions?🥇The sun has taken a nap today but it was warm and didn’t spoil our fun especially on our trip to the beach 😊
#championsofthetournament
Room checks done ✅ We are now ready for our final 2 sessions of our trip in the sunshine 📷 and looking forward to challenging ourselves more before we start our journey home 📷
#FinalSessionsOfFun
#MemoriesMadeForaLifeTime
The school took part in ‘London History Day’ to celebrate the influential people and communities within our city. The children looked wonderful and developed their understanding of the social and moral issues of womens’ right to vote.
#breakingstereotypes
#LondonHistoryDay
Well done to everybody for working so hard last week, either remotely🧑🏽💻👩🏼💻or in school 🏫- we have been so impressed by your resilience and we can’t wait until we are all back together in school! For now, keep going - you’ve got this 👊🏻✍️📚✏️🖼💚💛 x
Introducing this lovely new member to our school community - he is called Kermit 🐶💚💛🐾.Please click on the link to see more information about our new addition on our website.
Taking the opportunity to chill in the shade,😎 taking in our wonderful view following our final activities of our visit to PGL before heading to enjoy our pizzas 🍕 at lunchtime 😊
Y6 are taking part in a brilliant set of activities in our first full day here at PGL: rifle shooting 🎯, wall climbing 🧗♂️, fencing 🤺, and zip-lining! Groups have completed their first two activities this morning and are now making their way to the dining hall to refuel 🥪 🥗
Goodbye and good luck to our wonderful Year 6 - we are super proud of you and all you have achieved at St M&Ms - we will miss you x 🥰🌈👍 💚💛 📚🌟
#choosekind
#workhard
#fondfarewell
A coach full of very happy and excited Yr6s have arrived safely at PGL 😊 and now unpacking before exploring 🗺️ the site for the very first time with our Group Leaders Libby and Paddy
#TineToUnpack
#TimeToExplore
#FunTimesAhead
Cases loaded 🧳 children and staff on board ✅ 🚌 We are now homeward bound and looking forward to sharing our adventures with our family and friends. See you all soon 👋
Thank you to everyone at PGL for making our time here so special.
#HomewardBound
#GrowingInMindBodyAndSoul
We have enjoyed a visit to the sea in the beautiful evening sunshine after dinner before our final activity of the day ‘Passport To The World’. Lots of happy, tired faces all around 🌞🇮🇳🏃♀️🇵🇹🌊🇮🇪🧭
#TeamWork
#FindingFlags
#SunSetActivity
Amazing response to the request for donations for the relief aid to help those currently in need, delivered this morning to the Prosperity Cafe in Twickenham. Thank you to parents, children & staff for all their generous contributions.
#PrayForPeace
#helprefugees
#oneworld
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After a day full of fun and laughter, learning new skills and trying new activities we are all safely tucked up in bed recharging our batteries🔋- finishing with supper and prayers 🙏 ready to enjoy more challenges tomorrow! Hopefully in the sunshine 🌞
#newdayofadventures
Some Year 3&4 children were so lucky to go to The Stoop today to take part in the Harlequins Foundation TAG Rugby 🏉 Takeover Day - well done, especially to Year 4 🥇🌈
@quinsfoundation
@Harlequins
#rugby
We had a ball this evening doing our team building night-time activities including balloon splash and shoe stacking 🎈💦 👟 🏃♂️
Chilling and showering now before pyjamas, biscuits, prayers and lights out at 10…hopefully! 😅
#FabFirstDay
#RollOnTomorrow
#GoodNightSleepTight
This week we have been celebrating the 35+ languages spoken here and the creative aspects of the different cultures, through singing, crafts,poetry & stories. Culminating this morning in a whole school assembly celebration 🎉 🖼🎶📚💚💛
#diversity
#oneworld
🌟🌟🌟🌟Well done Mr bell for receiving this wonderful accolade. Thank you for always inspiring us 'to be the best that we can be' - we all think you are a total superstar 🌟🌟🌟🌟🥇🏆🎾⚾️🏈⚽️🏀🥋🏓🏒🏑🏏🥊
What better way to celebrate being placed 46th in the top 500 state schools in the country than with coffee,cake and extra play ☕️🧁🏃🏻♀️🤹🏼♀️- so proud of all the children & staff who work so hard every day 👏🏾🙌🏼🌟🌈📚💚💛
#workhard
#playhard
@AwesomeCoffee
To all my lovely friends I hope you are getting out for your daily exercise in this beautiful weather - I have just had the longest walk ever! Time for a snooze 😴 I love and miss you all 🐶💚💛🌈🌼
#StaySafe
#NHSheroes
#Schooldog
Delighted to officially open the Sparkle Room this afternoon with our chief fundraiser Mrs Bartholomew ⭐️🌈✨⚡️💫🏵such a lovely space for all our children - thank you to everybody who donated
#sensoryroom
Sending love to all our teachers doing a wonderful job in these challenging times. Thank you all for imparting things beyond the learning found in books. We salute you all 📚🖌📖🍎✏️💚💛
#teacherappreciationday
This is why we are recommending that you keep your child at home unless you have no other alternative, if there is someone who can look after your child then they MUST stay at home 🏡
#socialdistancing
All aboard at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy for a morning on the water. Training completed ✔️, life jackets on and checked,chants ready. The race is on … but which dragon 🐉 boat 🛶 will win?
#ThoseWhoCanDo
#TeamWork
#RedBlueGreen
#MemoriesInTheMaking
Happy World Book Day 📚this year’s theme was inspiring or heroic people (or any other costume you have in the cupboard 😂)
#WorldBookDay
#welovereading
children loved the first book parade in two years
We all had a blast at our disco tonight. Dancing shoes were definitely evident throughout! Now safely tucked up in bed for the final time on a clear warm night here at Osmington Bay… 2 more activities to go before we head home.
#DancingShoes
#TuckedUpForTheNight
#FinalDay
Delighted to welcome
@SeemaMalhotra1
into school this morning to present a special award to Alexander who was highly commended in Parent Zone and Google’s ‘Find Your Balance: A day in my digital life’ art competition, a fantastic achievement 👏🏾🌈
Final checks of cases and equipment before we set off for our weekend adventures on our Yr6 residential trip to Osmington Bay. Just awaiting the most important components … our wonderful children and the ☀️
#makingmenories
#funinthesun
Castle Day 🏰🛡⚔️- Year 2 enjoying their ‘Medieval Banquet’ and immersing themselves fully in their history topic ‘Towers, Turrets and Tunnels’ 🗡⛓
#welovehistory
#castleday
#medievalbanquet
Up bright and early this morning on an overcast morning here. We are all packed 🧳 and carrying out our room checks before heading off for our two final activities of our trip - Orientating 🗺️ and Giant Swing all before lunch.
#MapSkills
#FlyHigh
#FinalMorningFun
“Pupil achievement is outstanding… Pupil behaviour is outstanding…interactions observed during lessons between staff and pupils and peer to peer are exceptional.”
Well done to the children and staff 💚💛👏🌟🕊️🙏
Read our full RE Inspection report here:
We took time to be prayerful and reflective as each year group took part in the Stations of the Cross and chalked their reflections in the playground. During Holy Week, we take up our cross and walk with Jesus👣✝️
#HolyWeek2021
#reflection
#ThePassion
‘We will not have failure- only success and new learning.’Queen Victoria. Year 1 children gaining a new learning experience during their Victorian Day 🎓💼🕰⌛️🕯
Spreading some Christmas cheer🎄 🧑🏻🎄🎅🏽 in a socially distanced way to the residents at Cloisters Care Home 🏡 finished off with some chocolate coins 🪙💰- thank you
A change in weather for the KS1 Sports Day didn’t stop us ☔️we had a fantastic morning of sport and fun ⚽️🏀🥅⛹🏾♀️🏆🤽🏽♀️🏉
#olympicvalues
#NSSW2022
#sportsday
What a fantastic afternoon at our school fair - great to see so many faces, past & present. Thanks to the PTA for all their hard work and to staff and families for supporting our lovely school
#teamwork
#funinthesun
☀️🍹🍦🌭🎠🎉🍭🏫
World Book Day theme - Bedtime stories 🛌
#WBD19
‘There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books 📚 is the best of all.’Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis x
Spring 1 was the most-successful term so far with a record number of children achieving 100% of their Accelerated Reader target. Congrats to those involved; we can’t wait to hand out even more certificates and awards at the end of this half term!
@AccReader
#welovereading
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At St Michael & St Martin we are ❤️Spiritual,🧡Thinkers,💛Resilient,💚Independent,💙Valued,💜Empathetic. Here are today’s fantastic STRIVE 🌈Assembly Achievers! This weeks focus: Being Spiritual 🙏🏼
Safely back on site after a very energetic morning on the water. Sunday lunch went down a treat ! Now visiting the shop before our afternoon activities - archery 🏹 and Jacob’s Ladder 🪜. Looking forward to our disco tonight.
#Bullseye
#ReachForTheSky
#DancingKingsAndQueens
Year 6 had great fun making and trying a Polish delicacy, Koreczki, as part of our Languages Week. Adam K:”I’m going to make mine in the traditional way!”
Great to see our former pupil playing and winning her first round match at Wimbledon 🎾👟today in the junior competition! Keep going Ranah we are so proud of you 👏 💚💜
@Wimbledon
🍓
#thisgirlcan
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Delighted to receive notification this morning that the school has achieved the Primary Science Quality Mark - thank you to Miss Esteban, our Science Lead for all her hard work👍🔬🌡🧪🧫
@PSQM_HQ
#PSQMAwards19
#STEM
Thank you to
@Joehaji
and family for donating this beautiful picture of Our Lady of Limassol - pride of place during the special Month of the Rosary 📿x