Today, we said hello to our Year 1 and Year 3 Faith Champions!
We were very excited to see them all together after Covid-19 and they are excited for their first meeting!
Friendly football 2021
This Tuesday the 28th, our A and B teams played football matches. We all had lots of fun playing our football rivals: Hollymount!
Our A team won 7 – 5 and our B team ended 9 – 2, losing to Hollymount.
We all celebrated and had lots of fun!
School council
Welcome, our new school council! This year, we have a fresh new batch of school councilors and a top team of Head Boy and Head Girl, to lead the rest of us through the year. Say hello to:
Our Head Boy and Head Girl,
Our Reception school councillors,
Our Year 1 representatives,
Our school councillors from Year 2,
Our Year 3 school councillors,
From Year 4,
And these two represent Year 5!
We look forward to see what they can do!
St-Matthew’s Day!
On the 21st of September, we celebrated St. Matthews day with fun on the field for every class from Reception to Year 6. We all had a wonderful time and for some of the younger children, it was their first time on the field. It was so lovely to all be together again after almost two years of bubbles!
It was really exciting to meet all the young children joining reception and was really enjoyable to be as a whole school again!
Say Watt?
Year Six this term are the St Matthew’s ‘in house’ electricians and this week we have been making circuits – we even made one with a dimmer switch using a pencil (there’s a video below if you want to have a go!)
We are putting all this practice in for next week – Science Week. During Science Week Miss Manhire has set us the task of making a working burglar alarm. She wants us to put in place to figure out who keeps taking all her green pens. We will let you know how we get on – and who the culprit is!
How to make a dimmer switch using a pencil http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwfqwTo3K0g
Spring Rugby Success
The rugby season started strongly last Tuesday with our year 5 & 6 team taking to the (slightly) muddy fields at Old Ruts RFC. The day could hardly have gone much better with four wins and two draws for the team in the day.
The team, like a bike that’s been left outside, were a little rusty at first. Letting in soft tries to a Joseph Hood team but scoring good tries of their own. With St Matthew’s trailing 3-2 going into the final minute, Kalvin burst down the left
to score in the corner. The young referee looked uncertain, but with Paddy on the touchline performing an excellent task of commentator, touch judge and third umpire the try was awarded and the team were off to a drawing start.
Paddy has put a lot of work in with these players behind the scenes and it paid off as St Matthew’s set the pace in the next game with fast play from the off. Sam and Jai repeatedly found space and Sarah like a bird in flight enjoyed
time on the wing. Despite missing out on one try for going beyond the dead-ball area, we came out 3-1 winners over Sacred Heart B and held on to win 3-2 against the old enemy (Hollymount) in a nail-biting finish.
The team were buoyed by that result, and took the field for their final pool game against Sacred Heart A expecting to win. However, the defence from both teams seemed to still be on their half term break. The play was end to end,eventually finishing in a 5-5 draw. Time for the teams to catch their breath and see how the other results had gone. We had finished second in our pool,
so a third place play-off against Aragon beckoned. After the small break, the team, unusually, started quickly and with purpose, Katya running in a good length of the field try after a turnover. The defence applied pressure
all game and we finished 4-2 winners, meaning a third place finish and qualification to the finals on Friday 6th.
The Year Three and Four Rugby Team also had a competition this week and thoroughly enjoyed leaving the day undefeated. Well done Team!
World Book Day
Sport’s leaders in action.
This week Year 5 had the opportunity to put their Sport’s Leader skills to the test by inviting Year 2 to try out their PE lesson. They worked hard to set up the stations, create the perfect instruction cards and were able to show the Year 2’s how it’s done. They did a fantastic job and it was great to hear how encouraging and supportive they were. Well done Year 5!
KS1 …get ready to work your muscles!
The Lunch Bowl Project says ‘Thank You’
Thank you!
In assembly last week, Nicole from the Lunchbowl Network came to thank us for our donation of £211 towards the children in Kibera. We sold more than 100 angels and managed to raise enough money to provide over 600 meals to the children in Kenya. Thank- you and well done St Matthews.
What does Christmas mean to you? (House Art Competition)
When we announced the House Christmas Art Competition: What Christmas means to me; we never dreamt that we would receive so many fantastic entries. Mr Peck, Miss Dyer and I have just got back from judging them and we are truly blown away by the creativity, skill and love that has gone into every piece – so thank you to all of you who entered.
Entries
However, it was a competition, and there are house points at stake, so the results are as follows:
3rd
Shiann Wood (Year 6 – Churchill)
2nd
Clementine Griffith (Year 4 – Cecil) and William Boatman (Year 4 – Cecil)
Winner
Kasia Macdonald (Year 4 – Wilberforce)