St Mary’s, Bath Having recently been welcomed into DCET, it is lovely that we can celebrate some of the highlights of our school year with you all. We started the year in September with Y2 – Y6 walking into Bath to take part in the Children’s Literature Festival. This year the children listened to some fantastic children’s authors such as Katherine Rundell, Adam Kay and Henry Parker, Cressida Cowell and Tom McLaughlin. Our Y5 and Y6 class also had a visit from the ‘I Can and I Am’ Bus which is a charity organisation who run workshops aimed at giving young people the tools to learn how to keep their ‘balloons of self-belief inflated’. The chaplaincy team were very busy in October helping to organise activities for ‘Little Ways Week’, leading the rosary in each class as part of the ‘Million Children Pray the Rosary’ and helping to collect food for the Genesis Trust foodbank in Bath as part of our harvest celebration. Christmas was nearing and what a busy time it was! The EYFS and KS1 children performed their nativity ‘Fleece Force’ and we were very lucky to have a very special visitor. The children in Y2 wrote to Bishop Bosco inviting him to their nativity and he excited us with a call to say he would be delighted. Our KS2 children participated in a beautiful carol service at the Church and the choir performed at the Pavilion in Bath at the WEMA Christmas concert. We ended the term with our Christingle service and our Carols around the Tree where we invited all members of our school community. The new year saw the start of a Jubilee Year and we celebrated the launch creating two incredible holy doors with every child producing a piece of artwork based on a biblical story. Later in the year, the KS2 children embarked on their own pilgrimage to St John’s Church in Bath to see the Jubilee Icon and the chaplaincy team took part in a Pilgrims of Hope Day at St Gregory’s with all the Camino schools. This is not the only time we have been lucky enough to spend some time with our Camino community as the Y5 children went off to Kilve for three days of activity, reflection and making of new friends. In May, we celebrated our Feast Day with a Mass said by Father Jeremy before we all set off up to the top of Kelston Roundhill to crown Our Lady. It was such a beautiful day to appreciate God’s wonderful creation from the views at the top and to spend time together having a picnic. The end of the year has continued to bring lots of enjoyment with many classes out on school trips, Y6 went on their residential to Cornwall, St Mary’s Games and sports days were competed in, fabulous performances at the music evening were heard and we look forward to the Y6 production of ‘Pirates of the Curry Bean’ Arrr! It’s been such an action-packed year with lots of fantastic opportunities that I think we all need a holiday to recover!
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