St Mary Magdalene's Roman Catholic Primary School

On Friday last week, Amelia and Charney took part in a mental health champion training day at the Prairie in Burnley, alongside some other schools from around Burnley. The course was delivered by Charlotte Hartley, a former International hockey player, who represented England in the 2006 Commonwealt...

Penny and Oliver from Year 5 represented St Mary Magdalene’s at the Romero Trust Pupil Parliament this week. Mrs Duffy escorted them to St John Southworth where they met other children and staff from the family of schools in the Romero Trust.

Arthur, from Year 5 has completed the Three Peaks walk last weekend with his dad and cousin to raise money for an Easter pilgrimage to Lourdes. Every Easter over 1,000 disabled and disadvantaged children enjoy a week in Lourdes, staying in hotels with their volunteer helpers. Arthur attended last ye...

Early this term, Year 6 had the privilege of listening to Paul, who came and shared his stories of his adventures from around the world. Starting with Mount Kilimanjaro in 2003 and along with Everest, which he did in 2007, Paul has also reached the top of Elbrus in Russia, Aconcagua in South America...

Miss Keenan and Mrs Duffy took some children from Year 4 and Year 5 on 27th June 2024 to a Sustainability Conference at Ewood Park. The children and staff have come back buzzing with some ideas about how we can link what they have seen and heard with Pope Francis’ Laudato Si message about...

Dominic from CAFOD came to school to lead an Assembly on Catholic Social Teaching on both Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th June. He also carried out class workshops for all classes in school. 

Wednesday Worship for Key Stage One took place in the Prayer Garden this week. The children enjoyed being amongst the chickens in the sunshine and listening to the Word of God.

Last term, Year 3 children took part in an exciting mission to compose their own music for a project with English National Opera. They had to complete an opera called 'Blue, Red, Yellow...' They chose green as their colour to inspire them, and using their own musical ideas, voices and classr...