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September 2025
As promised - here are some photographs from a great first week back! Look out for children working on the school value of friendship and a brilliant and interactive assembly from Mr. Dave Price and his troop of musicians. What a week!
June & July 2025
May 2025
April 2025
What would be your message to our new Pope?
March 2025
Across the school children have been performing poetry, this was so successful we arranged an outing for our most enthusiastic poets. We visited St. Michael's Whitefield and recited their poetry in their assembly. One of our Y6 boys has written his very own poem - Abandoned City! Watch him performing it with his friends. Just amazing!
The sun was shining as the Y6 Gold Tie children led the whole school on Stage 1 of our Big Lent Walk. We were joined by local CAFOD representatives who spoke to our children about how they are helping children in Kenya. The ladies from CAFOD loved our school and children. Read their lovely comments in the Visitors Book (below).
Preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Enjoy!
A letter to parents and some key extracts from the St. Monica's High School Ofsted Report. Great work!
February 2025
KS2 SATs information
The Feast of the Presentation of our Lord
Last week, EYFS learned about the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. The feast is celebrated 40 days after Christmas. The children loved acting out the story for their friends and teachers.
Kung Hei Fat Choi
EYFS celebrated by learning some of the language, tasting traditional cuisine and performing a Dragon Dance (which was excellent). All children were given a fortune cookie to take home. Happy Chinese New Year!
EMILE
Recently, our Year 4 children took part in a times tables competition.
Out of over 900 schools we are one of only 30 schools to reach the final!
The children answered over 42,000 times table questions correctly in two days!
The final will take place on Wednesday, 29th January and Thursday, 30th January 2025.
Our Year 4 children have been working really hard, wouldn’t it be amazing if we won the competition!
Y4 Emile Competition - January 2025
STRANGER DANGER - GMP
Great Manchester Police came into school to discuss "Stranger Danger" with our children. GMP have asked us to share "Bee in the Loop" with all our parents, by scanning the QR code it will enable you receive free email alerts from your local officers about any issues in your area. (See below)
JANUARY 2025
Unstoppable! Following on from last year's success where the team earned the opportunity to play at a Premier League Stadium. The Our Lady of Grace Girl's Football Team returned to Manchester United's training facility in Salford to compete again in their annual tournament. The girl's defended their title, finishing as Champions and winning every match! What a day. What an experience. The girls were a credit to the school and their families. We are all very proud.
Gaelic football coaching returned to Our Lady of Grace this month. The visiting coaches were so impressed with the children's enthusiasm, positive attitude and athleticism that they invited many of the pupils to attend trials at a local club!
It is important to celebrate following success. With this in mind the children were invited to wear their own clothes and take part in a celebration day. This was to say thank you for the key part they all played in our recent Catholic Schools Inspection. A variety of activities were planned including the opportunity to watch the film ‘Wild Robot’ with their friends (and a small bag of treats!). The film has strong positive messages which complimented beautifully the children's recent work on British Values. The staff enjoyed a Slattery's lunch!
Towards the Jubilee 2025
Uploaded by Iubilaeum25 on 2023-05-15.
DECEMBER 2024
The finale to the calendar year at Our Lady of Grace is of course our famous Carol Service 'Carols by Candlelight.' This year was particularly special as (for the first time) it involved our wonderful Y2 children. It truly was the perfect way to remind us all of the true meaning of Christmas. See a couple of photos below and a message from Jackie McNally (who is an ex Headteacher and now works for Salford Diocese).
One of the most enjoyable times of the year is when Year 6 invite their grandparents and relatives to watch the concert performance. It was a great turn out with many mince pies eaten and tea drunk. The children performed a fantastic mix of carols and classics to entertain those who came.
Our Lady of Grace took Years 1-6 to watch a wonderful pantomime at Middleton Arena. We watched Sleeping Beauty which was enjoyed by all! It was great to see the whole school having fun in one place on this fantastic trip.
Christmas Party in E Y F S . We had so much fun!
A lovely start to Advent as parents, adults, staff and pupils came together in the hall to watch the Year 6 Advent Assembly.
NOVEMBER 2024
We have a new visitors book and the first two comments are really pleasing as we have been working hard to make sure that everyone who visits our school feels welcome! Thanks Mike (Photographer) & Jackie (Diocesan Consultant)
Card making morning with our families. Thank you Tesco for donating mince pies to get us in the festive spirit. Please check our class page for lots more photos.
Christmas card making club. The children spoke and we listened. A number of children (via the school council) had requested that we have more craft activities here at school in special lunch time creative clubs. Thank you to all the staff giving up their time to make that dream come true!
Over the past few weeks, our Laudato Si Team have been preparing a whole school assembly to share information about National Tree week 2024. We have also successfully applied to the Woodland trust to donate over 120 trees to our school which the Laudato Si Team will be planting in our school grounds.
Check out these odd sock combinations in support of Anti-Bullying Week. Well done for all of our children (and staff) for being true witnesses of their faith and getting fully involved!
Lest we Forget
Year 6 readers for the All Saints Mass
October
CAFOD Harvest Festival was yet again, another massive success! Thank you for all your wonderful donations.
Year 6 have a wonderful time meeting their Prayer Partners, they wrote lovely letters introducing themselves. They will spend this year guiding the Year 3 through their spiritual journey.
