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Click on the sun to access resources to help you and your family stay healthy and happy in these difficult times.
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Click on the picture to access Mrs Barwell's Shakespeare club
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Click on logo to follow your class' progress on reading
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Click on the picture for more ideas to keep on reading
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Easter holidays dates :
Saturday 3rd to Sunday 18th April NB: Friday 2nd April is Good Friday - School is closed on that day |
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of ex-Head Teacher Mary Danaher, last Thursday.
Mary was a wonderful head teacher from 1991 to 2004 and a friend to everyone who knew her. A number of our staff have sent beautiful messages to her family, which has touched them greatly. Mary gave Mrs Braithwaite and Mrs Laird their first teaching posts at St Martin's and many of our parents who were former pupils will also remember her with love and respect. You can leave a message of condolence in the box below. When pressing the submit button, your words will be directly sent to her family. |
Thursday 1st April - Message from Mr Gray:
Dear Parents
I am overwhelmed by your generous gifts, cards and words. I cannot do justice to your kindness in an email. You, your children and the staff here have made my time at St Martin's a wonderful experience. It has been a privilege to be headteacher here and I am desperately sad to be going. Please remember me in your prayers.
I wish you all a happy Easter and a restful break.
To our Muslim families, I wish you a holy and fulfilling Ramadhan.
After Easter, Mrs Braithwaite and Mrs Laird will be headteachers. I cannot imagine two better people to lead a school and I know that your children will be in the best of hands. Mrs Laird's work in year 3 on Mondays to Wednesdays will be covered by Mrs Yates who teaches Y2 on Thursdays and Fridays. Mrs Yates is an excellent, experienced teacher and I am delighted that she has agreed to cover Mrs Laird's teaching.
The hard work of your children has continued throughout the week and there has been fantastic learning going on in every class.
Our Stars of the Week are:
Reception: Mahira for super listening in Guided Reading; Amaan for wonderful all round progress in maths and English.
Year 1: Ismail for an excellent recount of our innovated story; Abu-Bakr for hard work on his phonics.
Year 2: Fatima for her maths work on fractions; Hashim for his retelling of the story of the Gruffalo Child.
Year 3: Zoya for her excellent participation and enthusiasm for answering questions during our online Guided Reading; Rizwaan for his excellent participation and answering questions during our online Guided Reading; Livia for an excellent one point perspective drawing in our art lesson; Noah for an excellent one point perspective drawing in our art lesson .
Year 4: Tezzy for a detailed and interesting spy-gadget advert; Maryam for an excellent diary from the perspective of Tommy the Tomato Seed being swallowed and digested.
Year 5: Taigan for super effort in her fraction work; Dean for amazing choice of vocabulary in his writing.
Year 6: Aleena for her excellent ratio work this week; Kazim for a wonderful surrealist piece of Art; Izhan for his work on classification of animals in Science.
Linguist of the week: Freya in Y4 for her work in French lessons.
Musicians of the week: Isabel and Aamna in Year 6 for their performances on the flute in the Birmingham Schools' Spring Concerts.
Leaves - for being attentive and discerning:
Haadiyah-Noor, Rec, for reflecting on our class discussions about Holy Week.
Saron, Year 6, for attentively cleaning the classroom and never complaining it’s other people’s mess.
To all of Year 3 for being attentive during our RE lessons on Lent and discerning in how they all supported our Lenten fundraiser.
Kazim, Year 1, for being attentive to his friends on the playground
Lemuela and Havana, Year 6, for being attentive to one of their friends in the playground
To every child in the school for being so kind and attentive to Mr Gray.
Thank you again
May God bless you and your families.
Justin Gray
Headteacher
Dear Parents
I am overwhelmed by your generous gifts, cards and words. I cannot do justice to your kindness in an email. You, your children and the staff here have made my time at St Martin's a wonderful experience. It has been a privilege to be headteacher here and I am desperately sad to be going. Please remember me in your prayers.
I wish you all a happy Easter and a restful break.
To our Muslim families, I wish you a holy and fulfilling Ramadhan.
After Easter, Mrs Braithwaite and Mrs Laird will be headteachers. I cannot imagine two better people to lead a school and I know that your children will be in the best of hands. Mrs Laird's work in year 3 on Mondays to Wednesdays will be covered by Mrs Yates who teaches Y2 on Thursdays and Fridays. Mrs Yates is an excellent, experienced teacher and I am delighted that she has agreed to cover Mrs Laird's teaching.
The hard work of your children has continued throughout the week and there has been fantastic learning going on in every class.
Our Stars of the Week are:
Reception: Mahira for super listening in Guided Reading; Amaan for wonderful all round progress in maths and English.
Year 1: Ismail for an excellent recount of our innovated story; Abu-Bakr for hard work on his phonics.
Year 2: Fatima for her maths work on fractions; Hashim for his retelling of the story of the Gruffalo Child.
Year 3: Zoya for her excellent participation and enthusiasm for answering questions during our online Guided Reading; Rizwaan for his excellent participation and answering questions during our online Guided Reading; Livia for an excellent one point perspective drawing in our art lesson; Noah for an excellent one point perspective drawing in our art lesson .
Year 4: Tezzy for a detailed and interesting spy-gadget advert; Maryam for an excellent diary from the perspective of Tommy the Tomato Seed being swallowed and digested.
Year 5: Taigan for super effort in her fraction work; Dean for amazing choice of vocabulary in his writing.
Year 6: Aleena for her excellent ratio work this week; Kazim for a wonderful surrealist piece of Art; Izhan for his work on classification of animals in Science.
Linguist of the week: Freya in Y4 for her work in French lessons.
Musicians of the week: Isabel and Aamna in Year 6 for their performances on the flute in the Birmingham Schools' Spring Concerts.
Leaves - for being attentive and discerning:
Haadiyah-Noor, Rec, for reflecting on our class discussions about Holy Week.
Saron, Year 6, for attentively cleaning the classroom and never complaining it’s other people’s mess.
To all of Year 3 for being attentive during our RE lessons on Lent and discerning in how they all supported our Lenten fundraiser.
Kazim, Year 1, for being attentive to his friends on the playground
Lemuela and Havana, Year 6, for being attentive to one of their friends in the playground
To every child in the school for being so kind and attentive to Mr Gray.
Thank you again
May God bless you and your families.
Justin Gray
Headteacher
Due to the current crisis, we are sorry not to be able to open our doors to parents like we used to, this November. However, we would be delighted to welcome new families and we would encourage any parent to "visit" our school by exploring this website and watching this video.
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In this other video, our headteacher, Mr J Gray is giving you more key information on our school.
And this 3rd video will show you the amazing new garden we created last Spring for our pupils:
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"Through Jesus, we achieve our very best"
St Martin de Porres is a voluntary aided Roman Catholic school where the teachings of Christ form the core of our work. We aim to provide high quality teaching and learning for all our members so that they are able to recognise and fulfil the gifts and potential given to them by God. We pride ourselves on being a school which is warm, friendly and supportive. An environment where all can flourish and achieve success. The school was built at the end of the 1960's and takes 30 children into the reception class each September. Application forms for school places and our admission criteria are available from the Parents Tab, Key Information page on this website. 
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A Child’s view
I like St. Martin de Porres, it’s the best of all, A helping hand with any incident or fall, Including everyone, leaving no one behind, Oh! And don’t forget the teachers are really kind, There are lots of subjects and activities to do, And the uniform is really smart too, The dinners are tasty made by the kind cook, If you come to this school you’ve got really good luck! |
Children at St. Martin's achieve high academic standards. OfSTED described the standard of behaviour and relationships at the school as outstanding.
Latest News
Click on the picture on the left to access all important information and messages about how our school is dealing with the crisis.
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Click on Pobble's logo for ideas on non-screen activities
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Ms Steele recommends: Click on the Virtual School Library banner to access this National Literacy Trust/Oak Academy website for reading.
Dear Parents,
In these difficult times when Covid19 makes us send whole classes home for a fortnight more often than we ever wished, we are doing our best to provide your children with other means of learning than traditional school attendance. We are posting worksheets and other resources on the Birmingham Grid for Learning (BGfL365) as well as on this website and are organising online video lessons. However, all this is pointless if our families do not have access to the internet.
The survey below will allow us to assess the ability of our school community to access online learning, to scale the issue and to find solutions for families who do not have access to the internet. We would thus be grateful if you could take a minute to complete the survey here.
Thank you very much for your time.
In these difficult times when Covid19 makes us send whole classes home for a fortnight more often than we ever wished, we are doing our best to provide your children with other means of learning than traditional school attendance. We are posting worksheets and other resources on the Birmingham Grid for Learning (BGfL365) as well as on this website and are organising online video lessons. However, all this is pointless if our families do not have access to the internet.
The survey below will allow us to assess the ability of our school community to access online learning, to scale the issue and to find solutions for families who do not have access to the internet. We would thus be grateful if you could take a minute to complete the survey here.
Thank you very much for your time.
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We are delighted that the PTA are organising an art exhibition during November. We are really looking forward to seeing not only the children's entries but also your own and those from members of your families. Click here for more information.
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Click on these words to access our subject specific pages:
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DAY TO DAY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Click on the picture to get information on...
PLEASE ENSURE THAT CHILDREN ARRIVE IN THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND EACH MORNING BY 8.50AM,
READY TO BE COLLECTED BY THEIR CLASS TEACHER AT 8.55AM.
READY TO BE COLLECTED BY THEIR CLASS TEACHER AT 8.55AM.
