Winter Magic Arts Challenge

“Every child is an artist”

As part of the School’s Winter Fayre on 8th December, all children of St Matthews Primary School were invited to take part in the Arts Challenge. The theme is Winter Magic.

Over 40 children participated and submitted over 50 art works. Out of all the entries, two teachers selected 15 paintings and drawings for the shortlist submitted to the public vote at the Fayre.

Thank you and Well done to all participants!

Top Prizes

The top prizes were decided by public vote. Congratulations to Sanchi, Sophia and Leon!

Shortlisted artists

The top 6 artists were interviewed by their school friends and fellow artist participants.

Check out the interviews of the Artists

All entries

Rules

Any queries, please email winter.magic@stmatthewspta.org.uk

AGM 2023, with Mr Evans on “Music and Drama at St. Matthew’s”

Update: minutes and reports from the meeting are linked here:

Original announcement

The PTA is holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM), open to all parents/carers and staff, at 7.30pm on Monday 16th October 2023.

If you wish to join remotely: meet.google.com/iqz-zzhy-dyg

If you are interested in joining the PTA committee, please come along, or find out more in advance at https://stmatthewspta.org.uk/about/pta-committee-roles/ or get in touch on pta@stmatthews.cambs.sch.uk

PDF flyer

Colour Run report

We are thrilled with the success of the inaugural St Matthew’s Colour Run, which took place at the end of April 2023. This was a school-wide fun run in which every child from each class could choose to walk, skip, dance, hop or run around the cage dressed in their most colourful clothes to contribute to a total number of laps for each year group. The aim of the event was to raise funds for the leases on some of the schools Chromebooks that are used for delivering the ICT curriculum across the school. This is just one of the projects the school have asked the PTA to help fund during this challenging time for school finances.

It goes without saying that those with the longest legs managed to complete the most laps, however when we looked at the results across the year groups it is striking to see how well Year 4 performed, totting up 4,003 laps – only just behind Year 6’s 4,022 laps.

Altogether pupils completed 22,087 laps in some extremely colourful and imaginative outfits.

Year groups were also competing against one another for who could raise the most funds. Year 2 just made it to the top of the leaderboard with £1,076.91 closely followed by Year 1.

Year groupAmount raised
1stYear 2£1076.91
2ndYear 1£1065
3rdYear 3£1007.02
4thYear 6£944.50
5thReception£906
6thYear 5£901.50
7thYear 4£870

In total, with Gift Aid added, the Colour Run raised an incredible £8,034.38, completely smashing the original £4,000 target. This means we can not only fund the Chromebooks lease renewal but also contribute to the projects that the school has asked for help funding due to its budget deficit.

A huge THANK YOU and well done to everyone who walked, ran, dressed up and/or donated. An extra big thank you to Mrs Woolfe for single-handedly coordinating every run within class PE lessons and bringing so much colour, energy and joy to the event. We really appreciate everything you did to make the event such a success.

As a gesture of thanks for participating, the PTA will be giving a badge to everyone in Reception to Year 6. They will be handed out in PE lessons at the end of June.

Summer Fair raises nearly £5000

Finally, after two missed years due to Covid, the PTA was able to organise a Summer Fair this year, on 15th July 2022. And what a fair it was! Over 40 stalls, delicious food, great music from the Bookstore Band and the St Matthew’s choir, and a fantastic atmosphere all round.

The fair raised a £4,980.35, allowing the PTA to continue to fund equipment, projects and activities at the school. Huge thanks to all the organisers and participants, and a special shout out to Year 6 whose stalls raised £1555!

Spooky Dress-Up Day ?

On Friday 22nd October 2021 all pupils are invited to dress up in their most spooky costumes to help raise money for St Matthews.

On the day, donation buckets will be quivering at all entrance gates during drop off and pick up.

Other ways to donate include Classlist :

https://app.classlist.com/events/#/events/view/851482270

Or if you prefer via our JustGiving page:

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/stmatthews-dressup

Thanks for your support! ???