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Art Work from around the school
Please visit the Art Gallery to see Art work from around the school.
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Fox Awards: How does your garden grow?
St. Mary's, St. Mary's - How does your garden grow? Very well with tender loving care from team "Fox Awards" and guidance from Carol our lovely lady gardener.
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Weekend Report 11 – 13 May 2012
This was a weekend of contrasts with Open Day sandwiched between two fantastic concerts and a camping weekend thrown in for good measure!
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Games Report: 14th May 2012
On Thursday, there was a swimming gala against Leweston! U12 and U13 teams won convincingly, with some really superb performances ...
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- Published on Monday, 14 May 2012
Fox Awards: Charitable Litter Pick
In Fox Awards we always aim to cover at least one of our three core themes of Charity, Expedition and Enterprise in the activities we do each week.
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- Published on Monday, 14 May 2012
Wigmore Reading Group: The Crow Road

The End of an Era Offers a New Challenge. “It was the day my grandmother exploded…” so begins the most talked about Wigmore book since One Day.
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2012
Professor Keith Ward: Mary Ward Lectures
The second bi-annual Mary Ward Lecture was given by Keith Ward in Campion Hall on Wednesday 2nd May.
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- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2012
Venice Choir CD
Venice Choir 2011 CD: You can listen to sample tracks and order a copy of the new CD.
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- Published on Sunday, 06 May 2012
School Council Conference aspires to achieve ...
On Friday the 27th of April, the girls at St Mary’s Shaftesbury hosted their first School Council Conference, which consisted of school councils from St Mary’s, Sturminster Newton High School and Shaftesbury School.
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- Published on Friday, 04 May 2012
Games Report: 30th April 2012
Last week, we didn’t have much luck with the weather as all tennis fixtures were unfortunately cancelled and Bryanston athletics relays were postponed due to the track being waterlogged.
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 May 2012
Fox Awards - Building Shelters.
This week’s Fox Award’s session concentrated on the theme ‘charity’. We were mindful of the many homeless children in the world as we made shelters from cardboard boxes, blankets and wooden poles.
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 May 2012
Upper III Retreat to York 2012
“In the Footsteps of Mary Ward”: Upper III spent a long weekend in York at the start of term learning about the life and work of Mary Ward through the places in which she lived or was associated with.
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 May 2012
Lower V Visit to Tate Britain and Tate Modern: April 2012
Our first stop was at the Tate Britain, where we were due to see the Picasso and British Modern Art Exhibition. Once inside the exhibition we separated to explore the exciting pieces of art which caught our eye.
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 May 2012
Fruit & Flowers for the Diamond Jubilee
Upper III have been planting red, white and blue flowers outside the Lower School Base, St Catherine’s, for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 May 2012
Weekend Report: 27-29 April 2012
Well, we certainly did not let this weekend’s atrocious weather put us off and the spirit of the St Mary’s girls shone through in everything we did.
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 May 2012
Library
The Summer Term edition of 'The Cardigan', the Library newsletter, has been published.
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- Published on Sunday, 29 April 2012
St Mary’s Inaugural School Council Conference with Hilary Wilson
Aspirational Thinking: St Mary’s School Council will be holding its first conference for school councils this Friday. We are looking forward to meeting our counterparts from Shaftesbury School and Sturminster High School ...
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- Published on Thursday, 26 April 2012
Marcus Sedgwick: talk and workshop
On the 22nd of March, Gothic novel writer Marcus Sedgwick came to St Mary's to give a talk and run a workshop.
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- Published on Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Mary Ward Lectures: Professor Keith Ward
As part of the "Mary Ward Lectures" Professor Keith Ward will speak on "The Nature of God".
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- Published on Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Weekend Report: 20-22 April 2012
Although the first weekend of the summer term has been more like mid-winter the girls have had a happy start to the term. The Upper III all left for York on Friday morning ...
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- Published on Wednesday, 25 April 2012


