Entries by stmaryshigh

Learning Support Assistant

27.5 hrs per week, Term-Time only Salary Scale: H3 (5-6)    Actual salary (including fringe allowance) £17,095 – £17,356 You will work as part of our Inclusion Team, supporting teachers to provide high-quality teaching and ensuring that all students are able to make good progress in their learning. Ideally, you will have experience of working with […]

Year 9 ‘Food Glorious Food’ Art Project

Wow, Year 9! What a fantastic start to your first term in Art! I am absolutely thrilled with the quality of your artwork and the effort you are putting into your sketchbooks. So many of you are showing real talent, dedication and creativity, producing work that is already demonstrating the focus and ambition of GCSE […]

Year 11 Art Trip to the National Gallery

Year 11 Art students visited the National Gallery for an engaging workshop and guided tour exploring chiaroscuro in painting, directly linked to their GCSE Art projects. They produced thoughtful work, asked really interesting questions and showed great enthusiasm throughout the day. They represented the school brilliantly, and we are incredibly proud of them!

GCSE Art Workshop

Year 10 Art students enjoyed an inspiring workshop with a professional artist, developing large-scale portraits using chalk, charcoal and mixed media. The day encouraged experimentation, strengthened their drawing and painting skills, and helped them develop their portfolios. Students showed fantastic engagement, creativity and enthusiasm throughout.

St Mary’s Community Theatre Trip – HADESTOWN

“See how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is…” Our St Mary’s Community Theatre Trips continue in 2027, and we are delighted to announce our next West End adventure! This time, we’re heading to see the extraordinary Hadestown — and we’d love staff, students, parents, carers and families from across […]

St Mary’s Community Theatre Trip #4 – HAMILTON

6 TICKETS REMAILING! Be in the room where it happens! Following the success of our previous Community Theatre Trips, we are delighted to announce Trip #4 – and this time, St Mary’s is heading to the West End to see the phenomenal Hamilton! Join staff, students, parents, carers, family and friends from across the St […]

Macmillan Coffee Mornings at St Mary’s

Today, St Mary’s CE High School came together to support the wonderful Macmillan Cancer Support charity, with not one, but two fantastic coffee mornings taking place! Our resourceful Year 12 and 13 students organised their own fundraising event, expertly orchestrated by Hannah Oledigbo, raising an incredible £116. Our staff bake sale raised a further £126, […]

Garden Guardians Give Back to the Community

During the last academic year, our student ‘Garden Guardians’ worked incredibly hard, digging, sowing, planting and tending the seedlings in our school garden. This year, growing our vegetables has been particularly challenging. The extremely hot weather created difficult conditions for our young plants, with the intense heat and lack of rainfall making it much harder […]

Supporting Student Wellbeing

As a school, we are committed to ensuring that every young person has the opportunity not only to achieve, but to flourish. We know that academic success and wellbeing are intrinsically linked; students learn most effectively when they feel safe, secure, valued and ready to engage. With this in mind, we are delighted to have […]

Community Theatre Trips #3 – A Wonderful Evening at Oliver!

Our third St Mary’s Community Theatre Trip proved to be another fantastic success as staff, students, parents, carers, family and friends came together for a wonderful evening in London’s West End to see the spectacular production of Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre. It was another brilliant opportunity to spend quality time together outside of school […]