Elementary News

“Going once… Going twice… SOLD!” – In class 5M this afternoon, there was an auction taking place.

The Second Harvest boxes are ready for delivery. All the food Elementary boys donate will have a second life by being distributed to people in need.

Inspired by Koru, an integral symbol in Māori art, G5 students are using watercolours to create dark and light variations. 

Grade 3 boys investigate what happens to room temperature water as it warms and cools in science lesson.

Elementary students in St. Mary's took part in the Hour of Code. Students in St. Mary's start learning how to code in RP, which helps them develop 21st-century learning skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication and problem solving.

During quarter 2, Grade 5 have been learning all about explorers!  We have been reading about them in our complex nonfiction unit, writing about them in our research reports unit, and studying about explorers in social studies.

The RP boys have been working on their information writing and have completed a pattern book which we hope will be available to sell in the new year.

Bike Safety presentation. 

A terrific start to the new school year.

Today, our Elementary School had its Spring Sing.

This year in the Elementary school we celebrated Scratch day.

Elementary School is celebrating its first Earth Day

This week Catholic Students celebrated Holy Week.

Last week the boys brought home your family envelope of Carnival Raffle Tickets

THANK YOU very much to those families that have brought in their food items for our Second Harvest hampers

Well done, 5th-grade boys, for raising $2,600 USD

We've had a terrific turn out today for the Grade 5 Water Project fair.

Grade 2 had special visitors who presented about Antarctica today! The boys learnt about the environment and animals that inhabit the South Pole. 

Elementary School had this year's final St. Mary's Book Bowl competition.

We received a wonderful donation of 102 laptops for the Elementary School to use in their learning

Elementary school Liturgy on Tuesday, March 19. Fr. Danilo was the celebrant, with help from Br. Michel Beaudoin, and accompanist, Ms. Moon.

Friday this week, Elementary School celebrated St. Patricks day in fine GREEN fashion. 

We will be having a fundraiser for Tokyo Guide Dog Centre in Kanagawa this Saturday, March 16th from 10am-12pm. 

RP Enjoyed their visit from NASA today, where they learned all about the Solar System.

The Elementary School Assembly is starting at 8:50 in the MPH 21st of March 2019. 

Grade 5 would like to invite you to our biggest fundraising event of the year, our Social Studies Fair. The students have been learning about the water crises around the world with a focus on persuasive speaking and writing.

This is some of the terrific work that our Grade 5 students do when on their ski trip with their iPads. They have created a journal and then exported it into a movie. Enjoy!

We are fortunate to have the opportunity to host a NASA expert, Dr. Paul Abell, on October 30, 2018.

Dr Abell will be in Japan he is to participate in a number of very important meetings related to collaboration between JAXAs Hayabusa-2 and NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex missions.  OSIRIS-Rex is NASA’s first sample return mission to an Asteroid, and Hayabus-2 is Japan’s second.  

Grade 3 classes teamed up to create a graphic novel based on a book they had read.

Today our RP classes presented their Writing Celebration on Opinion writing, the topic was Saving the Earth!

Congratulations to the St. Mary's Book Award art winners. They produced GREAT works of art related to the theme what would "Dragon do if he came to St. Mary's?"

The former Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh and Ambassador to Japan, Vietnam & Laos and High Commissioner to Australia, Fiji, New Zealand & Sri Lanka visited St. Mary's today.

Elementary Boys Participating in a Rugby Clinic.

A new signup system for after school activities and summer school.