Family Calendar

These are key dates for across the year.  Rather than just providing a long list of dates, we have grouped dates into themes which you will see below:

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INSET 

•  INSET 1 Monday 2nd September 2024 
• INSET 2 Friday 20th December 2025 
• INSET 3 Friday 23rd May 2025
• INSET 4 Monday 21st July 2025 
• INSET 5 Tuesday 22nd July 2025 

Parent Consultation Nights 

• Whole day consultation day: Wednesday 16th October - office to be aware to set up on Arbor the booking system
• Second consultation day: Wednesday March 26th 2025
• Open evening: Monday 7th July 2025, 3.30-4.30

Church events 

• Harvest Festival Wednesday 2nd October, 9.30 St Mary’s Church (Parents welcome)
• Christmas Carol Service 9th December
• Infant Nativity 18th December 

Class assemblies to parents and school 

• Year 6 Friday 18th October, 9.00-9.25 
• Year 5, Friday 29th November, 9.00-9.25 
• Year 3, Friday 31st January, 9.00-9.25 
• Reception, Friday 7th February, 9.00-9.25 
• Year 2, Friday 28th March, 9.00-9.25 
• Year 1, Friday 16th May, 9.00-9.25 
• Year 4, Friday 27th June, 9.00-9.25 

Enrichment Events 

• In-House Poet Day - Abe on 21st October, Monday
• Tuesday 12th November - Odd Socks Day (anti bullying week)
• St Mary’s Sparklers Night, Friday 8th November, 3.30 after school
• Whole School Christmas show - The Snowman, 4th December 
• Thursday 12th December - Christmas Fair
• World Book Day - PJs, Dressing gown, slippers and a book to read at bedtime, 6th March
• Comic Relief - March 21st
• Film Festival - November 
• Little Angel Theatre - monthly
• Union Chapel KS2 workshops - March 2025
• Tall Stories Studios - Spring 1
• Young Actors Theatre Islington - Spring 1
• Stubbers Residential Trip for Year 6: 9-11th July 2025
• Sports day - when the booking office opens we will let you know the date (July 2025)

Friday Coffee Mornings: 9.00-10.00 

Social

• MacMillan Coffee Morning,  27/09 9.00-10.00

Leadership

• Mr David’s ‘St Mary’s in 2024/25 Vision’ 25th October
• Meet the Governors, 22nd November, 7th March, 20th June
• Meet the Church team - tbc
• SEN 

Curriculum

• Phonics, 24th September workshop
• Phonics screening update Friday 25th April
• Secondary Transfer Year 5&6 discussion Friday 4th October
• Y6 SATs coffee morning, 10th January 2025

Aspire Assemblies - these were an incredible part of school last year. This is a reminder that if you want to share your work life to the children in a 10-15 minute assembly then please contact Ms Finfando.

Regular Enrichment Education 

• Music Education Islington: every Friday, Y3-5 - students learning to play an instruments
• Urban Forest School: this is in blocks of 10 weeks a term, with a different year group in each term
• Cycle and Scooter Training 
• Islington Sport Tournaments
• Little Angel theatre partnership
• Swimming: Each KS 2 class has 2 intensive weeks of swimming at Highbury Swimming Pool, one hour lessons
• Y4 - 16th Sep-27th Sept
• Y5 30th Sept-11th Oct
• Y3 - 30th June-11th July
• Y6 - 2nd June-13th June