Christmas Festivities 2024 |
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| News of some of the special activities that take place on Tristan over the Christmas period 2024. 28-Dec-2024 |
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Tristan student questions UK Speaker
St Mary's School part of international consultation
Photos from Philip Kendall, Kelly Green and UK Parliament Week website
Savanna preparing to take part in the event holding Speaker Bear
10-year-old Savanna Green represented other students of St Mary's School when she submitted questions to the House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsey Hoyle during a special international event linking many UK and UK Overseas Territory schools.
This occurred in a well-publicised UK Parliament Week designed to provide educational resources to schools to enable students to learn more about how the UK Government works through Parliament. One of these is a distinctive 'Speaker Bear' that can be seen in two scenes on this page and on many web posts.
Savanna during the discussion - showing Sir Lindsay Hoyle on screen
Savanna's first question and Sir Lindsay Hoyle's response.
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Like other schools, St Mary's School on Tristan da Cunha received a pack of resources to support learning in classrooms. Led by Headteacher Peter Foster, one project introduced the idea of voting in an election and to celebrate the arrival of much improved internet bandwidth at school all the children from Class 2 to 4 watched a special American election edition of BBC Newsround. The voting took place shortly afterwards and the children decided who they would have chosen as President. |
| On Wednesday 20th November 2024, Tristan da Cunha was amongst a small group of schools world-wide to take part in the live Question and Answer session with the Speaker. | |
| Representing other students, Savanna took part in this live event, using a laptop in the Post Office and Tourism Centre. She was able to ask two questions, relating to climate change and protection of Tristan's Marine Protection Zone from illegal fishing and potential pollution. | |
| It is significant that the recently-installed Starlink communications system meant that the link-up with Whitehall could be made using a laptop and local wi-fi – a great example of how this system has transformed the quality of internet provision on the island. | |
| Left: The on-screen guide to participant OTs. |
Administrator Philip Kendall was quick to congratulate Savanna saying "St Mary's School student Savanna Green did a fantastic job today representing Tristan da Cunha in conversation with Mr Speaker as part of UK Parliament Week. Well done Savanna!"
Summing up the importance of the Parliament Week educational programme, House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsey Hoyle said:
"Thank you and well done to everyone who took part in UK Parliament Week 2024. I am glad to see so many young people across the UK, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies getting involved and learning about Parliament."
You can see and hear the Speaker's full statement on: Speaker's video statement
Certificate of participation for St Mary's School
Speaker Bear has cropped up a lot on TdC recently
End of Term Report from St Mary's School
Report from Rhyanna Swain
The second school term of 2024 has now come to an end. The children have worked spectacularly hard this term, producing some incredible work and revising hard for their end of term tests. St Mary's School closes today for two weeks holiday with the students returning on the 17th September 2024 and the teachers returning on 16th for an INSET day. After the holidays we will welcome back Head Teacher Mr Peter Foster after being off island for a while.
Pupils with their prizes in the school hall - Photo Rhyanna Swain
There was an assembly on Friday 30th August - the last day of term - to present the children with prizes for most awards, the cup for endeavour awarded to a student for working especially hard throughout this term, despite him being off island for some time, and the shield was awarded to the top house for receiving the most house points for this term.
St Mary's School - Photo by Kelly Green in July 2024.
Term 3 is going to be a very busy term for the students and teachers. We will be preparing for the school concert that takes place at the end of the year. The students will be learning new topics set for the term and will be revising again for their end of year SAT tests. We hope the children and teachers enjoy their fortnight's holiday and look forward to seeing what Term 3 will bring.
Report for the End of First Term, 2024 |
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| Prizes for the term were presented on the 3rd May 2024. 21-Jun-2024 |
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End of School Term 2 Report 2023 |
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| St Mary's School prize giving took place on the 24th September 2023. 28-Sep-2023 |
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Jungle Gym and Swings |
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| A new jungle gym and swings were installed in the school playground in time for Anniversary Day 2023. 17-Aug-2023 |
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St Mary's School Celebrates World Ocean Day 2023 |
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| The school celebrated World Ocean Day on 8th of June 2023. 18-Jun-2023 |
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School End of Term Prize Giving, May 2023 |
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| Prizes were presented at assembly on the 5th May 2023 to the students who had received the most awards over the term. 25-May-2023 |
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Sheila Glass's retirement from St Mary's School |
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| Sheila Glass retired from St Mary's School in February 2023 28-Apr-2023 |
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