Author: Ellis, Clare

St Martins School

13 May 2022

Year 11 have now transitioned to a modified timetable ahead of their first written GCSE paper on Wednesday. Year 10 will be sitting their biology paper 1 on Tuesday. I wish them all the best of luck, they have worked hard and the effort they have put into their revision will pay off on results day.
The government has recently published an education ‘white paper’ detailing measures they will be putting in place over the 8 years to ‘level up’ education. One of the measures is to have a minimum time in school of 32.5 hours per week for every child from reception to year 11. The biggest impact at St Martins will be on primary students. There fore, from September we will be making the following adjustments to the school day:
Primary gate will open at 8.50am, Primary Registration will take place at 8.55am
Primary students will finish at 3.25pm. Primary parents should not arrive in the car park until the secondary buses have left at 3.20pm
Secondary day will finish at 3.10pm. Secondary parents should pick up and depart the car park promptly; we hope that this will also ease congestion. If you have any queries or questions please contact school in the usual way.
‘Free School Meal’ vouchers will be provided for May ½ term holiday. In the summer holidays they will be provided for 3 weeks. If you think you may be eligible for Free School Meals please use this link to apply—its very straightforward and will give you an answer really quickly
https://shropshire.gov.uk/free-school-meals/apply-for-free-school-meals/
Year 3 have been putting their science and maths knowledge to the test by conducting experiments testing out the pull needed to move Mr Edwards’ toy vehicles on different surfaces. They ensured a fair test by keeping lots of variables the same; changed and measured one variable for each test.
Well done to 7LG who won the recent year 7 swimming gala, pictured are the triumphant team from 7LG with the impressive trophy.
The house trophy for this year will be decided at Sports Day—Tuesday the 12th of July ( in case of bad weather could be moved to the FRIDAY) Have a lovely weekend, Ms Lovecy

St Martins School

13 May 2022

Congratulations to Chirk U14 football team winning the North East Wales Cup last night against Flint Town (Academy team) and Chirk won 6-5- scoring in the last few minutes of the game
Huge well done to year 9 St Martins students Dan Evans, Liam Nicholls, George Owen, Ryan Davies-Dowd and Fenn Jones who set up a goal. Also a massive good luck to Dan Evans ( same as above) who completes in the Shropshire Golf Championships today at Arscott Golf Club.

If you have misplaced any PE kit, water bottles, bags, uniform or anything at all can you please come and check in PE as we have a lot of unclaimed items.
ROUNDERS—season has started!!! Tuesday 17th May, away against Corbet and Oswestry school at Corbet School for years 8 and 9.
Wednesday 18th May, home against Sir John Talbot school for years 8 and 10.
Wednesday 25th May, away against Thomas Adams school for years 7 and 10.
Friday 27th May, home against Lakelands school for years 7, 8, 9 and 10.

Dobbies garden centre have very kindly offered to lend plants to the Prom Committee for decorations. They have a fabulous choice of indoor and outdoor plants that we will be able to chose from and we thank them for their incredibly generous offer.

Well done to the year 7 girls that attended the football training session on Thursday after school. This was lead by Laura Davies who works for the Welsh FA and will be leading girls training session most Thursdays after school in the sports hall.
This is open to all girls year 7-11 most Thursdays.

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