Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
He is Risen!
Year 3 have been learning about the Paschal or Easter candle so we visited St Agatha’s Church to see the 2024 Paschal candle. During our visit, we also looked at the beautiful paintings depicting The Stations of the Cross and we saw the empty tomb reminding us that Jesus, our light, is risen. Alleluia!
Wow! What an interesting morning Nursery and Year 1 had learning all about animals with Mary from Wild Science. We met, touched and held Sir Pent the American corn snake, Hop the Australian tree frog, Milly the African giant millipede, Flick the desert leopard gecko and finally Dougal, the Chinchilla from Chile.
Thank you Wild Science!
Our young talented artists submitted their artwork to the Young Artists’ Summer Show. The competition is closed now and the artwork will be judged by the Royal Academy of Arts by the end of May. Well done and good luck!
Well done to our fabulous St Agatha’s School Choir who ended the term with their Spring Concert.
The evening began with the Choir singing the action song Hand Jive, followed by a lilting Skye Boat Song. Then, the audience was entertained with some wonderful solo performances on piano, guitar, violin, trumpet, voice and cello. Well done to our talented soloists. The concert ended with everyone singing Rio Grande in two parts.
The Choir is looking forward to a well deserved rest and will be back rehearsing at 8am on Tuesday 16th April in preparation for the highlight of their Choral Year, The Festival of Primary School Choirs at The Rose Theatre on Wednesday 19th June.
St Agatha’s Catholic Primary School was invited to attend a very special mass at St George’s Cathedral in London. Our school has been recognised as demonstrating a commitment to Catholic Social Teaching and has therefore been awarded the participator level of The Oscar Romero Award.
The Year 6 RE ambassadors represented the school as they proudly received the certificate presented to them by the Archbishop of Southwark. All the children, who attended the Mass, were very excited about meeting the Archbishop who delivered an excellent homily sharing St Oscar Romero’s values. They enjoyed visiting the Saint Oscar Romero shrine and finding out more about him.
What an honour for St Agatha's to visit such an impressive cathedral.
Massive congratulations to the Year 5/6 netballers who were beaten into second place in the Kingston Borough knock-out competition by worthy winners Christchurch New Malden. The team played their hearts out, showed superb sportsmanship and never stopped trying.
The final score certainly does not reflect how close the game was and how every ball was fought for - it was a thrilling match.
Well done you did yourselves and St Agatha's proud.
Results
St Agatha's 7:15 Chistchurch New Malden
Team
Lauren B, Eleanora, Bella, William, Theo, Isabelle, Niamh, Maxwell
In Reception we have been observing growth.
We planted some broad beans 3 weeks ago. Look how they have grown. Every week we draw and label the changes that we see.
Year 6 have been investigating batteries this week and making them out of lemons, potatoes, salt water and soda solutions. They discovered that the potato produced the highest voltage, but they think this was because the potatoes used were so much larger than the lemons. They will definitely need to complete some further investigations to prove this theory. They were surprised that the 3 cells produced the same amount of voltage as an AA battery.
" Thumbs up for more experiments - we learn so much more."
Pupils in Year 1 enjoyed a special visit from a black taxi and driver. The children enjoyed exploring inside the taxi and had plenty of questions for the taxi driver. Our thanks to him for giving up his time to visit Year 1.
During their class music lessons, Herons and Swans took part in a project to finish an operatic piece for The English National Opera. After sending the two finished pieces of work, Coral by Swans class and Emerald Green by Herons, Mrs Rodgers was delighted to receive the following email from the ENO:
We are delighted to let you know that your Finish This… submission Coral by Swans Class has been chosen to be made into an animation. Our team listened to all the submissions and made a shortlist of our favourites and then Omar Shahryar, composer of Blue, Red, Yellow had the difficult job of making the final decision on which 15 pieces should be put forward to be animated.
Omar provided the following feedback to share with your class:
I like the inventiveness of the vocal composition and the way the voices were accompanied so carefully.
Our team were also super impressed by your other submission - Emerald Green - and wanted to share the following feedback: We love the way you explored Christmas, and your piece had nice clear sections moving through different ideas.
Please click on the link below to watch the animation.
St Agatha's Catholic Primary | Swans | Coral | Finish This... 2023-24 | ENO - YouTube
Nursery have shown brilliant investigation, exploration and creative skills this week when choosing to play with the brand new water area in our outdoor provision.
St Agatha’s Feast Day Mass was followed by an opportunity for all children to celebrate our school’s saint day back in class. Please take a moment to look at the wonderful artwork produced by the children.
