Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• The Painsley Catholic Academy on Target to Raise £100,000

  Fri 14 Feb 2020 M Nee

  The Painsley Catholic Academy has raised just over £50,000 for Mary’s Meals at the halfway point in the school year.

   

  In September, all fifteen schools within the academy decided to take part in a campaign that they have called ‘20:20 for Mary’.  This campaign aims to motivate each child and staff member to try to raise a target of £20 for the Mary’s Meals charity by February half term, and another £20 by the end of July during 2020.   The overall aim is to raise an ambitious target of £100,000 in just one school year.

   

  “The concept of Mary’s Meals is so very simple and yet effective, it really appeals to our students,” commented Mr. Steve Bell, C.E.O of The Painsley Catholic Academy. “Mary’s Meals is about providing children with a daily meal at a place of education something that our students of all ages can really relate to.  The efforts of each and every one of our students, from age just 4 or 5 years to 18 years, are very much appreciated. I am proud and delighted that at the halfway point in the year, we are just over halfway to our target.  Well done and thank you to everyone who has supported this worthy cause.” 

   

  The 20:20 campaign began in September with both secondary and primary school children busy running cake sales, fashion shows, raffles, Christmas gifts and craft sales, art shows and sponsored sports events.  The schools have not lost momentum and have more events planned for the next few months including a sponsored skydive, a marathon run, and a sponsored row.

   

  Mary’s Meals was founded in 2002 and has grown from its first feeding operation of 200 children in Malawi to a worldwide campaign, providing free school meals in hundreds of schools and feeding more than one and a half million children daily. Mary's Meals is named after Mary, the mother of Jesus, by its founders, who were inspired by their Catholic faith.  The charity claims that just £15.90 is enough to feed one child for an entire school year.  If The Painsley Catholic Academy can reach its target, this will feed over 6,000 children for a year.

  

• Art Exhibition Raises £150 for Charity

  Thu 19 Dec 2019

  On Tuesday 17th November Class 3 hosted a canal-themed art exhibition at The Orangery, Ingestre. They planned the event to sell their artwork to raise money for Mary's Meals. They managed to raise over £150 for the charity by selling the work that they had created. 

   

  The children produced some fantastic pieces of art on a water theme which was inspired by the work of many great artists. At the event, which was planned and organised by themselves, they talked to visitors with confidence about the work that they had produced. They managed to sell all of their art which and the whole event was a great success enjoyed by all. Well done Class 3 - You are amazing artists!

  

• The Glasgow Gruffalo - Recommended Read

  Fri 29 Nov 2019

  This week's recommended read comes in celebration of St. Andrew's Day this Saturday. Mrs Cornes recommends 'The Glasgow Gruffalo'. She read this to Class 2 and they absolutely loved it! They have been trying to perfect their Glaswegian accents all afternoon. 

  
  "Where ye afftae, wee broon moose? D'ye fancy some scran in ma highrise treehoose." 

  See the video here.

  

• Glass Art Workshop

  Thu 28 Nov 2019

  Naomi Jacques, a contemporary glass artist conducted a fantastic glass art workshop with our Class 3 children as part of their curriculum vehicle. The children then got to design and create their very own canal-themed art using glass. These amazing finished products will be displayed at our Art Exhibition in December. The workshop was a great success and the children discovered the many uses of glass in the process.

  

• Marvellous Me!

  Thu 28 Nov 2019

  Today Class One hosted their wonderful interactive museum 'Marvellous Me', showcasing all of their amazing learning this term. We would like to thank all of the parents, carers and other special guests for coming and supporting the class today. It was lovely to see so many people asking the children about their learning stations. Hopefully, parents, carers and special guests have learned lots of fascinating facts today! 😁

  

• Super Tato Adventures!

  Thu 21 Nov 2019

  Class One children have been learning all about the book 'Super Tato' this week. Early this morning we received an urgent letter asking for our assistance at the Canalside Farm Shop.  We had a super mission to go and find all of the evil peas that were causing havoc for the kind staff in the shop and help all of the vegetables that were in distress! We really enjoyed looking at all of the amazing different types of fruit and vegetables in the shop. We would like to give a huge thank you to all of the farm shop staff for sharing all of their knowledge with us!

  

• Junk Music!

  Mon 18 Nov 2019

  Last Friday, Class 1 and 2 had a fun-filled day of music!  We invited the very talented Lauren to join us, who is part of 'The Junk Orchestra'. Our pupils saw how junk can be transformed into musical instruments and enjoyed an amazing workshop that consisted of playing and making upcycled instruments. We think we have many budding musicians in Class 1 and 2! 

  

• Sensory Adventures for Class 1

  Tue 12 Nov 2019

  This week in Class 1 we are learning all about our senses. This morning we went on a sensory walk around our local area identifying what we could see, hear, smell and feel. When we returned to school we got to taste a scrumptious hot chocolate with marshmallows, the best way to warm up!

  

• History and art brought to life with inspirational canal trip

  Fri 25 Oct 2019

   

  Fifteen pupils, aged between seven and nine, from our school enjoyed a visit to the local canal, including a trip aboard Anglo Welsh’s day boat ‘Abi’ as inspiration for their art project and part of their learning about the history of the local area.

   

  The children had a wonderful canal boat trip along the Trent and Mersey Canal. The experience was to support the children with their topic of learning this term, 'Meet the Artists'. The pupils also got to draw pictures of canal life, which provided the stimulus for the artwork that they have created for their canal-themed Art Exhibition.

   

  As part of the activity day the Canal and River Explorer volunteers provided the children with information regarding the history of the waterways and water safety.

  “We all had a wonderful time and were really enthused to create to some fantastic works of art to display,” commented Amy Dickenson, a teacher at St John’s Catholic Primary School.  “We are really pleased our pupils have been given this opportunity to enjoy a canal adventure day. Our learning project at the moment also involves the children finding out about their local area so it’s great to be able to bring the history of the canals alive with this visit whilst also inspiring their inner artists.  Thank you to both The Canal & River Trust Explorers and Anglo-Welsh Waterway Holidays.”

   

  Following this day out, the children also had a watercolour lesson with local artist, Michael Bowdidge, who spent time showing them his watercolour paintings and demonstrating some useful skills and techniques. The children learned about making an 'impression' using the watercolour paints and then used this to create their own canal paintings in the 'Impressionist' style.

   

  “Our students thoroughly enjoyed this 'masterclass' and are very proud of their masterpieces,” Amy commented.

   

  The class art exhibition will be held in December.

  

• Future Engineers get to Programme Robots at Amazon!

  Thu 24 Oct 2019

  Our students were lucky enough to be invited to Amazon's fulfillment centre in Rugeley this week to take part in a Future Engineers Workshop. They really enjoyed programming their own robots and Amazon even let them bring one back to school! Thank you, Amazon!