This morning David Milliband the Foreign Secretary came to visit Y6 and the pupil council in response to the wonderful letters that they wrote to the Prime Minister and Mr Anderson, MP about the situation in Kenya and our links with St Anthony's in Nakuru. They put on a fab assembly and Mr Milliband and the other visitors were all very impressed.
Comenius Partnership
We are linked with schools in Germany, Italy and Spain for three years.
During the first year of our partnership all the pupils in each school studied artists of their home region.
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Welcome back to Mrs. McMillan, Mr McCarthy and Miss Hunt after their trip to Kenya to visit St Anthony's Academy. The staff and children all send their good wishes and thankyou all for your kind donations. Our staff had an exciting stay, Fr Humble joined them and said mass to very large crowds. They visited many interesting places and got very close to the local wildlife!
We are delighted to welcome to our school, Sr Sylvia, Lucy Mbuthia and David Wachira. They will be with us from 16th to 30th March.
They teach in St Anthony's school in Kenya. The school now have a new headteacher, St. Anisia.
The previous head teacher, Sr Joyce has been welcomed into our school and parish on several occasions, she has now been moved to a new school with new challenges.
Our visitors are interested in shool life and our lifestyles. It is very different to their own. 
St Mary's has been linked with other schools in Europe for the last 3 years.
We now have 3 new partner schools in Italy, Germany and Spain.
Each year there is a different focus where we share our local interests and cultures.
This year the theme is artists.
St Mary's have chosen Ivan Lindsay, who is a local artist based at Tynemouth.
Dear parents and Children
We thank you for all the shoes we collected for the Blue Peter Appeal. We collected an astonishing amount of shoes, around about 250 pairs. Last friday we loaded them all in to Miss Hunt's And Mr Mc Carthy's Cars and took them to the collection point at Clarks shoes in the Metrocentre .As you know we are sending them to Malawi to exchange for money and equipment for the children’s corners in Malawi. Blue Peter gives many thanks to those who brought shoes in to our school to help the Aids Orphans in Malawi. But we don’t stop here! We stop collecting the shoes on the Friday the 15th.
Many Thanks
The Make Poverty History team Fraser,Matthew and Nicholas.
A special well done to Fraser for organising the collection at school! Also thanks to Anna and Kate who helped carry all the shoes to the Metrocentre.
Mrs Anastasia Patu and Miss Tabitha Kamau, teachers from St Anthony's Academy in Kenya are visitors to our school. They are here until Thursday 15th June. While they are here they have been observing lessons and teaching the children traditional African songs as well as visiting Beamish with Year 6 and seeing how we used to live.
Our link is with St Anthony's school in Kenya. The head teacher is Sister Joyce wgo visited our school earlier.
