Preston Manor Year 5 (0 images)

Children in Year 5 enjoyed a great day yesterday at Preston Manor near Brighton, enhancing their learning and understanding of life in Victorian times. Staff who work at Preston Manor with children from many schools were overwhelming in their praise for our children?s excellent behaviour, positive attitude to their learning and engagement in the activities. Thank you to teachers and parents who give time and effort to ensure our children have these opportunities and experiences

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SESAW Concert (0 images)

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Cross Country Priory Park March 2011 (33 images)

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Maths Week February 2012 (62 images)

The children and staff have had a great time enjoying a wide variety of exciting activities to make maths ?come alive? for the children. The special visits from Ross and Cheryl from Make Believe Arts and Leanne from the ?Puzzle Company? complemented the children's learning in their day to day maths lessons. It was great that so many parents were able to attend the sessions on Wednesday. Thank you to Mrs Dunt and Mrs Roopun for organising these. A good number of parents have said that they found the meetings and the booklets helpful, with lots of good ideas as to how best to help and encourage the children with maths. It is essential that our children develop their mathematical skills and can apply them confidently - it makes such a difference to their options in adult life. Mufti

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Mrs Lavinia Sealy Chairman of Surrey County Council visits St Matthew's (8 images)

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Nativity 2011 (13 images)

St Matthew?s Church was packed full of parents, family and friends as the youngest children, dressed as angels, wise men, shepherds and, of course, Mary and Joseph, performed the story of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. The oldest children presented eloquent Christmas readings and everyone joined in heartily to sing traditional carols. The children in Year 4 who are all learning to play the clarinet entertained with a musical rendition of ?Jingle Bells.? The school choir also performed two Christmas songs.

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Hockey Coaching at The Warwick (2 images)

Well done to the children from Year 6 who enjoyed some specialist hockey coaching at a session held at Warwick School on Wednesday. We are always very keen to enable our children to participate in ?extra? activities such as these, especially when funding has been secured so there is no additional cost! There will be a hockey tournament in the near future with date still to be confirmed. (It was scheduled for 30th November but has been postponed.) Thank you to Mrs Fernandes, Mrs Rusling and Mrs Lawrence for taking the children to this event.

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Year 1at Brooklands (8 images)

Year 1 had an excellent trip to Brooklands motor musuem as part of our topic on transport. We got to board a concorde, sit in the cockpit of a real aeroplane, sit on an old bus, pretend to drive a real Formula 1 racing car, ride a penny farthing bike and lots more!

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Bugsy Malone (10 images)

Pictures of a super and hugely enjoyable production of Bugsy Malone

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Year 2 Nower Wood Trip (14 images)

Year 2 enjoyed a fantastic day out at Nower Wood on Wednesday 13 July. The children have said that their favourite activities were bug hunting and pond dipping! As we always expect from our children, behaviour was excellent. Thank you to parents and others who came along and helped to make it such a great day for the children.

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Take one picture (1 images)

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Year 5 Preston Manor (3 images)

Well done to the children in Year 5 who enjoyed a great day out at Preston Manor, near Brighton, spending the day dressed, living and working as Victorians. The staff at Preston Manor and Hove Museum praised the excellent behaviour of the children and their involvement in the day?s activities. Thank you to the staff and parents who enabled the children to have such an enjoyable learning experience.

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A Royal Wedding Party (13 images)

On the eve of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton (now the Duchess of Cambridge) Reception and Years 1and 2 enjoyed a celebratory party in glorious sunshine on the school field.

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Football Champions (7 images)

St Matthew?s school football team are double winners. They triumphed on Wednesday this week, winning the Redhill, Reigate and Merstham schools tournament. This victory followed the team being joint winners of the local schools? league. Both competitions involve ten local primary schools. Our proud footballers are Sam, Ross, David, Ajith, Ella, Gowtham, Mahdi, Jack, Jewel, Louis, Tyrone. They were a credit to the school and their families not only in the way they played and competed but also in their behaviour on and off the pitch. Thank you to parents, teachers and coaches who have encouraged and supported the children and helped with transport to away fixtures.

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Strictly Come Praising (7 images)

Simply Come Praising! The children and staff have had a great time this week enjoying our first ever St Matthew's Praise Week. Do have a look at the photographs on the school website and examples of the children?s work displayed around the school. All week the school has echoed to the sounds of different styles of music including African dancing and singing with a worship band. The children have also enjoyed a puppet show, art and craft activities, writing prayers and poems, exploring St Matthew's church and making ?Peace Mala? bracelets to keep as a memento of this special week. The week has helped us to learn valuable key messages from different religions and to enhance the wonderful sense of unity here at St Matthew's School and celebrate our different faith backgrounds. We are grateful to Miss Hansford, Mrs Burse and Father Andrew who organised this exciting programme of activities for us to enjoy and to our visitors who freely gave of their time and talents to be with us.

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Red Nose Day (21 images)

On Friday 18 March the children and staff at St Matthew's CE Primary School, Linkfield Lane, Redhill did "something funny for money" by wearing their pyjamas to school! As part of the day's activities they also learned about the places and projects supported by Comic Relief and other charities. Mrs Lightfoot, Headteacher, said, "A strength of our school is the care and support shown to others in so many ways. In recent weeks the children, parents and staff have had a cake sale to support one of our pupils who is very unwell, awaiting further hospital treatment. Also, as we have families from Japan, we have been able to contribute in a small way to showing our care for the people there. It is important that the children learn about the needs in the wider world, in the UK and beyond."

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Bishop Christopher's Visit (15 images)

A special visitor! We were proud to host yesterday's visit of Bishop Christopher, the Bishop of Southwark, to our school. The children, as always, represented our school extremely well, showing courtesy, enjoyment and pride in their school as Bishop Christopher was shown round our school, talking with children and adults. He and our other visitors including the Archdeacon of Reigate, Daniel Kajumba, expressed their appreciation to all who welcomed them and made their visit so enjoyable. Bishop Christopher was presented with a lovely souvenir book full of photographs, artwork writing and other examples of good quality work achieved by the children here at St Matthew?s. Thank you to Mrs Mercer and others who put the book together.

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Big Yellow Cake Sale March 2011 (6 images)

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the great success of last week?s Big Yellow Friday cake sale. The total collected was ?184.89 which will benefit research and treatment of those with liver disease. Your generosity, kindness and on-going prayers are hugely appreciated by the family of our Year 2 pupil who deals with her illness with such fortitude.

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Bishop Christopther (1 images)

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World Book Day (37 images)

On Thursday 3rd March we celebrated World Book Day throughout the school by sharing our books with children from different classes. The older children brought in their favourite books from home and had a lovely time reading them to younger children. Some children even prepared questions on their story to ask the younger children. It was a really enjoyable activity for all children, as the photographs show.

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Year 5 Science & Technology (10 images)

Children in Year 5 and their teachers enjoyed a full and busy day of exciting science and technology activities led by Peter and Malcom from Surrey SATRO. Surrey SATRO has existed for more than 20 years as a charity which brings together education establishments and business, running programmes within schools that enhance young people?s understanding of business, science and technology.

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Football Coaching (7 images)

Since September boys and girls at St Matthew's have enjoyed specialist football coaching from our friends at Redhill Town FC. The photographs show lesson time fun for children in class 3R. Children in Year 2 enjoy weekly football sessions as part of their PE lessons. Each Monday there is an after-school football club for children of all ages. In addition there are lunchtime training sessions for the older children who represent St Matthew's in our school team. As well as developing the children's football techniques, general ball skills and spacial awareness these sessions also enable the children to interact with adults other than their teachers and parents and develop their self confidence and social skills. It's great fun too! Many of the children from St Matthew's School enjoy playing football at weekends for local teams including Redhill Town. www.redhillltownfc.co.uk

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Family Learning - Story Telling (5 images)

A group of 10 children from Year 3 and Year 4 spent an afternoon in school with their parents enjoying a storytelling activity based on the "True Story of the Three Little Pigs," an alternative and amusing version of the traditional story. The children with their parents made their own story book then, after a break for refreshments, made puppets of the story's characters. The children then used their puppets to retell the story. each child was also presented with a brand new book to take home to keep after the session. The event was organised in partnership with Surrey Fanily Learning.

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Chinese visitors (3 images)

In January we were pleased to host a visit by two teachers from Shaoxing University in China. Joanna Haiping and Hongping Gu were with us here at St Matthew?s School as part of a professional development programme enabling them to learn about the English education system and way of life. The visit also, of course, benefited our children and teachers by providing opportunities to learn about China and the education system there.

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Year 2 Trip to the Lookout Discovery Centre (7 images)

Year 2 recently enjoyed a fantastic trip to the Lookout Discovery Centre in Bracknell. The centre is full of lots of fun, interactive, hands on science activities. The children all enjoyed the trip and loved trying out all of the activities. We made fuel then launched a rocket, sent a hot air balloon up to the ceiling and made whirl pools and mini tornados. We also had a show about pushes and pulls, our next topic in science. We learnt how everything needs a force to move. We were asked to jump in the air and stay there, but we couldn?t manage this - apparently gravity was pulling us all back down! We leant all about how exciting science is and had a brilliant day with lovely memories. The trip was great fun and a lot of the children now want to return with their parents.

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Nativity 2010 (14 images)

Nativity 2010 Here at St Matthew's children, parents and staff overcame the snowy weather to keep school open until the end of term! We were determined to hold our carol service and nativity play as planned. The only concession to the weather was that it took place in the school hall rather than St Matthew?s Church. Parents, teachers and children filled the hall as the youngest children, dressed as angels, wise men, shepherds and, of course, Mary and Joseph, performed the story of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. The oldest children presented eloquent Christmas readings and everyone joined in heartily to sing traditional carols. The children in Year 4 who are all learning to play the clarinet entertained with a musical rendition of ?Jingle Bells.?

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Snow December 2010 (11 images)

Lots of fun in the snow! We are very proud of our children?s achievements and, also in this snowy weather, of the determination and commitment of children, parents and staff to get to school. We have had an excellent final week of term with lots of enjoyable learning activities in the classroom and also outside in the snow!

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Southwark Cathedral Year 5 (12 images)

Trip to Southwark Cathedral We had a great time at Southwark cathedral and they showed us around the church. We had a look at lots of Christian symbols and after that we made a clay tile with Christian symbols on it. We went on the 9th of November 2010. We saw lots of things on the train and we nearly fell asleep on the way back. We had a great time and we would definitely want to go again. By Kevin Chung & Nathan Poole

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Choir at the Belfry (5 images)

Choir at the Belfry

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Book Week (5 images)

Book Week (11th - 15th October 2010) Book Week is always one of the highlights of the year at St Matthew's. The children enjoyed a special week of activities on the theme "Stories from Around the World." Highlights of the week included the children working with professional storytellers, a Sponsored Readathon and class visits to Redhill library to learn about and enjoy their facilities. The children have also enjoyed reading and sharing stories with children from other classes. The Friends of St Matthew's Parent Teacher Association ran a successful book sale where popular titles, fiction and non-fiction books, were snapped up by the children, eager to have more books to read at home as well as at school. The children at St Matthew's love reading and hearing stories and enjoy a wide range of creative activities, art, music, drama, to help them develop their vocabulary, comprehension and awareness and confidence with written and spoken language. The ability to read confidently is key to success for the children both at school and also in their adult lives. We are proud of our children's achievements here at St Matthew's and their positive enjoyment of reading.

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New Guinea Pigs! (2 images)

The children in Sun Class, our Special Needs Support Centre, have welcomed two new friends to their class. The guinea pigs, named Rosie and Lily, will be used to help the children who have autism to develop their learning across the curriculum and also benefit their social skills and understanding of others. We are very grateful to Patrick the manager at "Pets At Home" in Redhill who generously donated the guinea pigs, the hutch and other equipment. The children have already enjoyed caring for and learning about Rosie and Lily.

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River Wey Trip (2 images)

On the 21st June the children in Year 4, led by Mr Armitage, enjoyed a fantastic day exploring the area around the River Wey. This was part of their geography lessons, learning about rivers, and a brand new venue for one of our school trips. In the morning, half the group walked from Byfleet Boat Club to Woodham Junction whilst the other children were rowed there in the club's dinghies. Then the children swopped over for the return journey. After lunch the National Trust lengthsman, Dave, explained how the river is maintained so that people can enjoy the waterway whilst also caring for the creatures and plants whose habitat it is. The next stop was Pyrford Marina from where we walked upstream to Newark Lock. Mr Armitage demonstrated how the lock works to enable boats to move along the waterway. The children found this very interesting. It really was a memorable day for the children and a challenge for some of the accompanying teachers and parents who rowed the dinghies! Thank you to everyone who made this such a great trip, especially the members of Byfleet Boat Club who were so welcoming and helpful.

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