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Dress up before the summer holiday this Wednesday!

Dress up before the summer holiday this Wednesday! If your class is self-isolating maybe try and have a class google meet where you all dress up?
You can donate on Classlist to help raise money for sports equipment for the school.

Just in from Banana Woman....she's at the Taj Maha

Just in from Banana Woman....she's at the Taj Mahal in India! Come on St Matthew's....we can catch her.
Keep recording those miles and keep your eyes peeled...
#ptafindbananawoman

*Breaking news* Banana Woman spotted at the Burj K

*Breaking news* Banana Woman spotted at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai - the highest building in the world! Can we catch her St Matthews?
Don't forget to record how far you went last week. Every km helps!
https://stmatthewspta.org.uk/round-the-world/
#ptafindbananawoman

Cows About Cambridge is live - check out the cow b

Cows About Cambridge is live - check out the cow by St Matthew’s Primary by the central library

Flower pictures from the recent photo competition.

Flower pictures from the recent photo competition. By Violetta (Cedar), Shreyanshee (Beech), Mia (Larch) and Lulu (Silver Birch).

The weather has been a bit miserable lately, so he

The weather has been a bit miserable lately, so here are a few photos of brighter skies from the photo competition to cheers us up.
Photos are by Louisa (Ash), Eric (Ash), Evangeline (Juniper), Hoorain (Cherry), Juno (Chestnut) and Isla (Chestnut)

HIGHLY COMMENDED photos from Key Stage 2

HIGHLY COMMENDED photos from Key Stage 2

HIGHLY COMMENDED photos from Key Stage 1

HIGHLY COMMENDED photos from Key Stage 1

SHORTLIST KEYSTAGE 2: Claudia (Hazel class) When a

SHORTLIST KEYSTAGE 2: Claudia (Hazel class)
When a picture forces you to ponder, particularly when there are human shapes that aren’t immediately identifiable, then the photographer and the viewer are connecting - this is the purpose of the medium. Claudia has decided to photograph this scene from an unusual perspective requiring us to consider what is happening in the moment. (Martin Bond)

SHORTLIST KEYSTAGE 2: Maeve (Cedar class) The fram

SHORTLIST KEYSTAGE 2: Maeve (Cedar class)
The framing is brilliant with emphasis of focus to the left. The cropping of the extreme left flower shouldn’t work but it does as it encourages the eye to look across to the right. (Martin Bond)

SHORTLIST KEYSTAGE 2: Victor (Rowan class) Who doe

SHORTLIST KEYSTAGE 2: Victor (Rowan class)
Who doesn’t like robins? I particularly liked the blurred background with what looks like grasses providing wonderful texture. A little too tightly cropped at the bottom of the frame though. (Martin Bond)

SHORTLIST KEYSTAGE 1: Arabella (Nursery)
You don’t always ’take’ photographs, sometimes you ‘make’ them and this is definitely one of those pictures. I love whimsical photographs and this one made me smile. A tiny bit too much blur on the left. (Martin Bond)

SHORTLIST KEYSTAGE 1: Martha (Larch class) This h

SHORTLIST KEYSTAGE 1: Martha (Larch class)
This has been nicely framed using the golden ratio where a photograph is divided into nine rectangles along two horizontal and vertical lines with important elements along the lines and at their intersections. There is a nice bokeh which helps to isolate the subject. (Martin Bond)

WINNER KEYSTAGE 2: Jenna (Juniper class) I don’t

WINNER KEYSTAGE 2: Jenna (Juniper class)
I don’t think I could improve on this composition at all. We have leading lines from the railings and the beach huts drawing the eye dead centre where the pier branches out in its entirety. Perfectly exposed with both shadows and highlights intact. I want to be there now! (Martin Bond @acambridgediary)

WINNER KEYSTAGE 2: Tomas (Chestnut class) Reflecti

WINNER KEYSTAGE 2: Tomas (Chestnut class)
Reflections make great pictures and Tomas has very cleverly decided to use a convex mirror at the roadside to photograph his subject. For a second I couldn’t quite work out what was going on here and that’s another sign of a great picture when it asks questions rather than provides answers. (Martin Bond @acambridgediary)

WINNER KEYSTAGE 1: Silas (Larch class) A great com

WINNER KEYSTAGE 1: Silas (Larch class)
A great composition nicely balanced and thoughtfully cropped to accentuate the wide angle view. A certain amount of courage would be required as well! (Martin Bond @acambridgediary)

OVERALL WINNER: Lumi (Chestnut class) Great photog

OVERALL WINNER: Lumi (Chestnut class)
Great photographs tell a story and this from Lumi immediately had me imagining children with fistfuls of chalk working out the sequence of colours. Lumi has also decided to get low to use leading lines - photography is sometimes all about where you stand to take a picture and this one is brilliant. (Martin Bond @acambridgediary)

Thank you so much for all your entries to the PTA

Thank you so much for all your entries to the PTA photo competition – you are all very talented, which has made it incredibly hard to judge!

We were especially lucky to have had Martin Bond, local Cambridge photographer from @acambridgediary
as our judge. We are so grateful to Martin for his support with the competition and for his fabulous comments on the winning and shortlisted entries.

Due to the number of entries we decided to split the competition into Key Stage 1 and 2. There were many more entries in Key Stage 2, so for this reason we have 1 winner in KS1, 2 winners in KS2 and one overall winner.

Thank you again to everyone who submitted a photo!
We hope you enjoyed this activity as much as we have.

Big thanks to all the parent volunteers helping ou

Big thanks to all the parent volunteers helping out at the Broad street closure - the barrier has made such a difference!

Thank you St Matthew's for your fantastic support

Thank you St Matthew's for your fantastic support this morning. Another amazing Bag2School collection! We'll let you know how much we've raised shortly...

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