Dear parents/carers and school community, I am delighted to share with you all our Ofsted report from our recent inspection. Please do read through this, which I feel is overwhelmingly positive and captures so much of what is amazing here at Welwyn St Mary’s. I feel this is an accurate view of our school and …
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Ofsted – 4th & 5th March 2025
Dear Parents and Carers, We have just been notified that Ofsted will be visiting us on Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th March for a Graded Inspection. Please see below a letter from the Lead Inspector officially notifying parents and carers of the inspection. Inspection of Welwyn St Mary’s Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School …
24/25 Prospective Reception Parents Open Mornings
We will be offering four open mornings for prospective Reception families with children starting school in September 2025. Wednesday 9th October 2024 Wednesday 6th November 2024 Tuesday 26th November 2024 Wednesday 8th January 2025 Open mornings will start at 9.30am with a talk from Mr Whiteland, Headteacher. There will be a chance to tour the …
Year 3 & 4 performance
On the 31st January and 1st February, Year 3 and 4 did a production of Hoodwinked based on Robin Hood. We only had a few weeks to rehearse but we still made it amazing! We enjoyed doing the play and lots of parents came to watch. We had a lot of pressure on us but …
Royal Albert Hall
On Sunday April 30th 2023 the Chamber Choir went to the Royal Albert Hall for a Hertfordshire Gala concert. This was very important as all the schools in our county sang together. There was also a brilliant orchestra and dancers at the front of the stage. We were all singing with the Hertfordshire symphony orchestra …
Green Group – Plastic Free Week
Green Group arranged a Plastic Free Week! The rules were that you had to come into school with a single-use plastic free lunchbox. Each plastic free lunchbox earned points and if the points of every student in the school was over 100 plastic free lunches, we would gain extra play. This is better for the …
School Games – Gold Award
We are thrilled to have received retained the School Games gold award for 2022/2023. A huge well done to Mrs Southall for making this happen.
Year 5 Dance Festival
On Tuesday 21st March year 5 went to the Dance Festival at Campus West in Welwyn Garden City. The dance festival contained four different schools, Welwyn St Marys, Temple wood, Oaklands and Harwood Hill. The theme for this year was ‘to infinity and beyond’. The first class to do a dance was A5 who danced …
The Speakers Cup 2023
Speakers Cup 2023 On Friday 10th March at 9am, our school held the Speakers’ Cup competition. Eight children said a speech on multiple topics including: medicines through the ages, football and Florence Nightingale. They were all really interesting but my favourite was Evie’s speech about secondary school. She came first! Francesca spoke about frogs and …
Thinking day
We supported Girlguiding in celebrating Thinking Day on Wednesday 22nd February by inviting all our children who are part of our local Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Cubs, Beavers and Scouts units to wear their Girlguiding or Scouting uniform to school. Thank you to all the children for taking part – they look very smart in their …