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Teacher Profile - Mrs McDonald

Mrs L McDonald

Primary PE Coordinator

What is your favourite sport?

My favourite sport is boxing, it helps to keep me active and really fit.

What do you do at Bolton St Catherine’s Academy?

I am a Teaching Assistant in year 6 and I am the P.E. Coordinator. I organise lots of sports activities within school and take groups of children to compete and represent the school.

What is something scary about you?

I was born on All Hallows Eve!!!

Why did you choose to work at Bolton St Catherine’s?

My sister was a teacher here and said what a really good school it was, so I decided to work here too!

What other jobs have you done?

I used to be a sports therapist and I have also been a waitress.

What do you enjoy the most about your role at Bolton St Catherine’s Academy?

I love new challenges, I like working with children and I believe that even if I only make a difference in one child’s life - it is all worth it.

Are you married?

Yes, and I have a daughter and three step children.

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Sport Relief Miles

Hundreds of miles clocked up in aid of Sport Relief.

On Friday 19th March, students from Bolton St Catherine’s Academy dressed up in sports clothes and donated money in aid of Sports Relief.

As part of the day, water bottles were on sale and students took part in running a mile each. Even the students in Nursery and Reception took part, they got into teams and shared a mile between them.

The aim of the day was to raise money for Sports Relief. All of the money raised is spent by Comic Relief to help disadvantaged people, both at home in the UK and across the world’s poorest countries. Some of the money will be spent helping kids in Africa get into Primary School - something we take for granted.

So far, Sport Relief 2010 have raised a massive £30 million from people up and down the country running the mile.

Well done and thank-you to all the students and staff who took part in the mile and made it a real success. We really are making a difference.

Also in Sport this term, as Summer is very quickly approaching more and more sports   activities will be taking place.

Mrs McDonald has arranged for 20 Key Stage 2 children to take part in an orienteering       competition at Moses Gate Country Park.

There will be Athletics club after school, as well as rounders club. Watch out for posters around school or ask Mrs McDonald for a permission slip.

Year 5 and 6 will also be going swimming at Horwich swimming baths. They will learn how to swim and how to behave around water. By the end of the course, they will hopefully pass their Key Stage 2 Swimming Award, which certifies that they are aware of the dangers of water and what to do in times of trouble.

If there are any sports that you would like to see happening at Bolton St Catherine’s       Academy, e-mail the Primary Peek with your comments.

China Trip

As part of their Unit of Inquiry, Year 1 and Mrs Potts took a trip to China Town in  Manchester.

On Wednesday 24th February, Mrs Potts led year 1 to the minibus on the playground—their            destination: CHINA TOWN! The children got to see lots of Chinese Architecture, people, shops,                restaurants and really enjoyed themselves.

One of the children, Mia, said “The Chinese Arch was really big and had lots of nice colours.”

Year 1 have been inquiring into how people belong to different communities. They have looked at what being part of a community is like and what different kinds of  communities there are.

The class really enjoyed their visit to China Town, Mrs Potts said “The children were really impressed when we took them into the Chinese Supermarket and they saw all the different foods and the Chinese writing.

London Calling

Students get an invite to London, to discuss new thinking on tackling crime.

On a very cold Thursday morning, 25th February at 7.30 am, a group of students from Bolton St Catherine’s Academy embarked the train at Bolton Train Station, headed for London.

They were invited to take part in the Design Out Crime Project. The 30 students had taken part in a workshop at school to come up with ideas to reduce crime, make the area look good and allow people to feel good about themselves.

The students travelled to the 02 arena and had a tour around, while the staff there were setting up the seating for the Lady Gaga Concert. They went to a special “VIP” area within the Arena, called the “Blue Room”, where they watched a DVD about tackling crime in local areas.

After a very long, hard day of meetings and walking around London, the group headed back to Euston Station, they had to go on two underground journeys to get there.

By the time the group got back to their train to head back to Bolton they were very tired. Mr Caldwell who had been involved in organising the event said, “Everyone was really well behaved and were a credit to our Academy. They have done us proud.”

There will be more from this project in the Summer Term. Be sure to check out our website for updates.

International Events

Bolton St Catherine’s Academy celebrated two International Events in one week this term; World Maths Day and World Book Day, and what a week it was!

World Book day was celebrated on the 4th March this year. Everyone in school had the opportunity to dress up as their favourite book character. In Nursery, the best dressed girl was Brooke, who dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, and Leon was the Tiger who “came to tea!”

In year 2, Joshua had a very impressive Tin Man costume from the Wizard of Oz, and Leah was a brilliant Mini Mouse. In year 5, Callum dressed as James Bond and Millie was Cruella DeVil from 101 Dalmatians. The best outfit of the whole day was Rebekka in year 6 who dressed as the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, she even made her own hat for the occasion.

It wasn’t just the pupils that dressed up, the teachers gave it a good go too, Mr Hill as Bananaman, Mrs Renshaw as Maid Marian, but the winner was Miss Cass, can you see her in the picture? Where’s Wally???

World Maths day was held on the Wednesday, Rebekka and Josh scored very highly in the online maths tournament, competing against children from all over the world. Rebekka, Josh, Saffron and Bradley were in the top 10 out the whole Academy, including children in years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11!!! Well done guys!!!