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20th March - UN French Language Day
Every year, on the 20th of March, people across the globe celebrate United Nations French Language Day. This special event was created to recognise the importance of the French language and to promote multilingualism. At Mary Elton, we have spent the afternoon celebrating in the following ways;
EYFS: Have been singing Frere Jacques, learning how to say, 'Thank you' in French, found France on the Globe/ Atlas, discussed how people travel to France and tried to recreate the Eiffel Tower with bricks!
Year 1: continued to use their already learnt French greetings and learned a few more as well as the names of colours.
Year 2: learned a French song, the names of colours and the days of the week.
Year 3: held a mini French imaginary cafe where the children could learn and practice types of food and the language around ordering. They also played a traditional French game.
Year 4: Learned how to play 'Boule' and created a French flag using collage techniques.
Year 5: Had a focus on families and learning the vocabulary associated with this. They then completed a family colouring challenge.
Year 6: Completed artwork in the style of Claude Monet and learned the names of colours in French.
We must say MERCI to the HSA who kindly provided a croissant for every child on this day!
19th March 2025 - Y5/Y6 Netball
The year 5 and 6 Netball team travelled to the BGS ground for an intensive Netball tournament. They played 6 other teams, many of whom had been playing together for nearly two years and they did brilliantly. They held their own, defending well, communicating well and working as a team. What was great was the way the girls supported one another even if they were not on the court, they were supporting from the sidelines. We can't wait to organise some more matches soon!
18th March 2025 - Eco Summit!
Eco Summit 2025: Speaking Up for the PlanetWe took part in an exciting Eco Summit, where the children explored ways to protect and care for our planet. The summit focuses on four key themes: Understanding the World, Biodiversity, Energy Consumption, and Food Waste.
Throughout the event, the children learned about the importance of biodiversity and how every living thing plays a role in keeping our environment healthy. They also discussed energy consumption, discovering simple ways to save energy at school and home. Another focus was tackling food waste, where students shared ideas on reducing waste and making more sustainable choices.
It was inspiring to see our children so passionate about protecting the planet! We look forward to putting these ideas into action and continuing our journey to becoming an even more eco friendly school.
Eco Summit 18th March 2025
6th March 2025 - World Book Day!
World Book Day 2025 at Mary Elton Primary School was another huge success! The whole school enjoyed dressing up as their favourite book characters, winning prizes for the best dressed, taking part in a ‘Blind Date Book Swap’ – over 100 children took part and took a new/recycled book home – watching their teachers take part in the Running Book Reading Race (ask them how puffed out the teachers were after that!), receiving their £1 book token (make sure you use them at ‘Books on the Hill’ in Clevedon) and other World Book Day related activities.
We cannot thank you, your children and our staff enough for the positive support given which resulted in a school-wide shared enjoyment of reading today.
11th February 2025 - Safer Internet Day!
Our amazing Year 6 Digital Leaders have led assemblies across the school, sharing important messages about online safety and introducing this year's theme. We are incredibly proud of their confidence and leadership in educating their peers!
On Tuesday afternoon, each year group took part in exciting and thought-provoking activities to help them recognize online risks, spot scams, and become more digitally savvy:
🔹 Reception & KS1 – Learning through stories, the children explored the idea that not everything online is real. They discussed ‘trust’ and discussed what is safe to click on. They sorted personal information into whether we should or shouldn't share as well as becoming scam spotters.
🔹 Years 3 & 4 – Focused on phishing, spotting suspicious links and understanding why we shouldn’t share personal information online. They created their own phishing scams to try to trick each other and posters with top tips to help avoid being caught out.
🔹 Years 5 & 6 – Took on the role of ‘scam detectives,’ investigating real-life examples of online scams, deepfakes, and too-good-to-be-true offers. They worked in teams to sort online safety 'dos and donts', analyze fake messages and discuss the dangers of misinformation.
✅ Think before you click – If an offer seems too good to be true, it probably is!
✅ Check the source – Look for spelling mistakes, unusual web addresses, and pressure tactics in messages.
✅ Talk to your child – Encourage open discussions about what they see online and remind them to ask an adult if they’re unsure.
✅ Use child-friendly search engines – Websites like Kiddle and Swiggle help provide safer search experiences.
We encourage all families to continue the conversation at home and explore online safety together. Thank you for supporting Safer Internet Day 2025 — let’s help our children become smart, responsible, and safe digital citizens!
December 2024 - Destination Bethlehem visits
Clevedon Baptist church outdid themselves yet again with a fantastic, interactive walk through the Christmas story. This year, it was Paddington Bear themed and, yes, we all got to have a marmalade sandwich! Thank you, as always, to Clevedon Baptist church for inviting us along to this valuable, free event.
Destination Bethlehem December 2024
December 2024 - KS2 Carol Concerts
After weeks of preparation, Key Stage 2 sang their hearts out in front of a packed audience at St Andrew's Church. Not once, but twice! Re-telling the nativity story through carols and readings, the children thoroughly enjoyed their experience at the church, and it has certainly helped with our understanding of why Christmas is celebrated. We are proud of the way they not only read and performed, but also how they conducted themselves. Our Christmas spirits are well and truly alive, and we are looking forward to further festive treats.
28th November 2024 - Pantomime!
4th November 2024 - Stewart Foster Visit
25th October 2024 - Harvest Festival
Today, we held our harvest festival assembly. Before assembly, children delivered their food donations to the hall - we had a great variety donated from shower gel to custard and everything in between. Sue and Kelly, members of Clevedon Foodbank spoke to us about where our donations will go and who they will help. Thank you to all who donated.
16th October 2024 - Y5/6 girls football event
On Wednesday 16th October, Mary Elton attended the Year 5/6 Girls Football at Bristol Grammar School. We played a total of 3 matches and despite the torrential rain, the girls all played well. All of the children represented Mary Elton positively, being respectful and playing fairly. On our return to school, Mrs Lucas made all of the girls a hot chocolate to reward them for their resilience as it was extremely difficult conditions to play football in.
10th October 2024 - World Mental Health Day!
9th October 2024 - Year 5/6 Football event
30th September 2024 - Reading Tea Party
Our annual 'Tea Party' was held on Monday 30th September for all those children who completed the Mary Elton Primary School Summer Reading Challenge this year. We were delighted that over 100 children attended the event! This means that each and every child read EACH AND EVERY DAY of the summer holidays, which is a fantastic achievement - they obviously know the importance and value of the treasures inside a good book! We would like to congratulate each and every one of you and hope that you will inspire your friends and family to read more.
26th September 2024 - European Day of Languages!
Today, the whole school celebrated European day of languages. European Day of Languages is celebrated on the 26th of September each year - it is a day where we can celebrate the different languages spoken in Europe. Did you know that there are 24 official languages spoken in Europe? We discussed why it is important to learn other languages and learn about the culture of different countries. Each year group took part in different activities to mark the day. In assembly, we all shared what we had learnt.
18th September 2024 - National Fitness Day!
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17th May 2024 - Ukraine Art Exhibition
EYFS and KS1 children created beautiful artwork to celebrate the Ukranian artist Maria Prymachenko. She liked to work in bright colours and paint pictures of animals and plants. Some of our children had their work on show in an exhibition at the Tropicana in Weston.
17th May 2024 - Eco Summit!
The children had a great time at the inaugural Futura Eco Summit. EYFS and KS1 started us off with a great song with an important message. We then were lucky enough to have an inspirational talk from Tom Walmsley (Head of ministry of Eco Education) who had a lot of exciting stories to tell us. We then spent the rest day discussing and participating in a lot of fun activities designed to ‘Revive’ our school environment. Well done everyone! We would like to extend a HUGE thank you to all parents/carers/families for all of the donations of resources and time. We also need to thank Cadbury garden centre, Tesco Clevedon and Asda Clevedon for their donations too. The day would not have been possible without this help!
Eco Summit 17th May 2024
26th April 2024 - Bath Rugby experience
Some Y5 children recently had a fantastic opportunity through their rugby club - Clevedon RFC. Through their new connections at Bath Rugby, they were invited as special guests to a match to have some bespoke professional rugby coaching and then be the flag bearers for the match - creating a guard of honour for the players as they enter the field.
27th March 2024 - Sports for Champions
Robert Mitchell came into school. Robert is a High Jump Athlete and represents Great Britain. He led an assembly where he talked about his journey as an athlete starting at primary school. He then led the children with some physical activities. Overall, the total amount raised was over £1400. The children participated in all of the activities and it was an enjoyable morning. We wish Robert all the best for his next competition in Sweden.
7th March 2024 - World Book Day!
We all celebrated our love of reading during World Book Day on Thursday 7th March - children and adults dressed in a variety of creative literary costumes (thank you to all our parents and carers for your support with these!). Our children enjoyed a whole school assembly, a visit to the 'Blind Date Book Swap' at lunchtime and all took home a voucher which they can use to get a free book with!
18th December 2023 - Whole school bouncing win!
Our fabulous school community - parents, carers, families, friends of families - all voted to help us to win a whole day 'total bounce' with fantastic inflatables! All classes had a slot throughout the day to have fun with the equipment that was gifted to us for the day. Thank you all!
13th December 2023 - Year 5 & 6 Christmas Performance
Years 5 and 6 gave an outstanding performance to a great number of parents, carers and families! It was clear how much effort had gone into learning the songs.
13th December 2023 - Christmas dinner (and Christmas jumpers)
There was a lovely atmosphere in the hall for our Christmas dinner. The staff enjoyed sitting with the children and singing along to the Christmas music.
13th - 15th December 2023 - EYFS & KS1 nativities
Children from EYFS and KS1 did a fabulous job with their nativities. They worked so hard to learn speaking lines and the song words. The audience absolutely loved watching.
11th December 2023 - Year 3 & Year 4 Carol Performance
Year 3 and 4 sang their hearts out for the parents/carers to enjoy. They worked really hard to learn the songs and it really showed during their performance.
5th-11th December 2023 - Destination Bethlehem
How fantastic was Destination Bethlehem from Clevedon Baptist Church this year?! Every year they surpass themselves and we are so lucky to be invited!
First, the shepherds had a problem because they had a hole in their bucket but they sang us a song to that tune to help us to understand more about Christmas.
Then, Dai Woolridge, a storyteller and award winning spoken word poet, told us about Festive Fred and how he discovered the ‘greatest gift’. We also had a dance with the Cheeky Pandas’ before visiting the stable with the wise men.
The children visited the ‘Bethlehem game zone’ where they were challenged to count the sheep with the shepherds, see who could score the highest points in the flying angels zone and learn how to transport gold without dropping any.
In the bakery, the children decorated gingerbread men - with each element added having a meaning.
16th November 2023 - Children in Need
There was a great array of Pudsey and 'spotacular' outfits across the school today to raise money for Children in Need.
10th November 2023 - Remembrance Commemorations
At 11am, we all gathered on the playground to listen to the last post and to pay our respects through a 1 minute silence. Keeley then read us a beautiful and poignant poem.
28th September 2023 - 40th Birthday Celebrations
Over the week that included Mary Elton's 40th Birthday, we celebrated across the school. We had an 80s theme dress up, a cake for all and an 80s dance party!
