World Book Day
World Book Day was again a fantastic day for everyone in St Matthew’s. We saw so many wonderful costumes, from children and teachers. Book characters are really brought to life and the children loved the opportunity to see everyone in our celebration assembly. Best costumes were judged and they proved very difficult to choose as […]
Art Trip
Art club had a great time at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings. The children spent lots of time sketching and studying the artwork. Year 4 children even recognised one of the artists from a school project. They told us that Alfred Wallis had been the illustrator for the story Mousehole Cat and he often painted […]
Safer Internet Day
Today, Marc, Ben, Felix, Gib, Tara and Leana, who attended an E-Safety workshop last term, helped Mrs Pollard to deliver two assemblies to highlight Safer Internet Day. The theme this year is ‘Be the change: Unite for a better internet’ and the assemblies focussed on pictures and videos. Reception and KS1 listened to the story […]
Sleeping Beauty
Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 watched a very entertaining performance of Sleeping Beauty this afternoon by M&M Theatre Productions. We have been doing a lot of work on story telling, based on our key text of ‘The Story Machine’. It was lovely to see a story told in a different way and […]
Wagtails Worship
Wagtails class, year 2, presented this morning’s worship on ‘The Story Machine’. They read and acted out stories, just like Elliott. We heard stories Anansi and about Noah and we saw some lovely work that the children had done all linked to the key text. Well done, Wagtails.
INFANT AGILITY CHAMPIONS 2017
On Thursday 19th January St Matthew’s became champions at the Infant Agility competition for the second year running. The team consisted of Freya, Lucy, Eleanor, Niamh, Ateefa, Oliver, Charlie, Harrison, Aiden and Ryan. The children had to do 5 activities including, speed bounce, skittles, shuttle run, long jump and chest push and they all performed […]
ELEANOR IS KENT CHAMPION
On Sunday 15th January Eleanor, Saarah, Caitlin and Evan took part in the Kent Schools indoor Decathlon Championships in Ashford. There were over 155 children taking part and all four children performed superbly well. Eleanor was the real star of the show winning 9 out her 10 events and winning the girls competition overall with […]
CHAMPIONS 5/6 INDOOR ATHLETICS
On Thursday 12th January St Matthew’s became Champions for the first time ever at the 5/6 Indoor Athletics Festival at the Angel Centre in Tonbridge. It was an absolutely wonderful day with all eighteen children performing to an incredibly high standard and winning many of the events that they took part in. The team consisted of […]
Christmas Lunch
A delicious Christmas lunch was served today. Lots of children wore Christmas hats they has made and listened to Christmas songs while they ate. Thank you to the catering staff who did such a good job today.
Christmas Fayre
Wonderful news from the PTA. All their hard work has paid off with a very successful Christmas Fayre, raising £2800. Art Club and Sewing club were busy making gifts to sell at the fayre. Thank you to all who helped make this event a success.