Key Dates
In this section you can find the upcoming key dates. Please note that dates added to the calendar since the start of term are in bold.
Lower School
November
13 November: Coffee Morning, 8.30am
13 November: Mini Explorers, 10.00am-11.00am
13 November: Year 5 and 6 Hockey vs Gosfield (away)
14 November: Year 3 and 4 Netball vs St Margaret’s at home, 2pm
15 November: Children in Need
15 November: Flu Immunisations
15 November: PTA Lower School Party Games/Disco Evening: Infants, 4.45pm-5.30pm Juniors, 5.45pm-6.45pm
18 November: Scholarship interviews at the Senior School
19 November: Drama Scholarship interviews at the Lower School
19 November: Book Swap, 8.30am
19 November: Year 5/6 National Science Quiz at New Hall School, 2.00pm-3.00pm
20 November: U11 Hockey vs St Margaret’s (away), 2pm
25 November: Eco ‘Switch-Off’ Day
26 November: Mini Movers, 10.00am-11.00am
26 November: Head Girls’ Lunch
26 November: Year 5 Japanese Embassy Visit
27 November: Bring and Buy Sale (Charity Event)
27 November: Cut Hedge Cross Country, 9am – 12.30pm, Gosfield
28 November: Year 3 Synagogue visit, 9.15-12noon
29 November: Lower School Wassail, 7.00pm at the Senior School
December
2 December: Infant Nativity Dress Rehearsal, 1.30pm (to pupils and staff only)
3 December: Book Swap, 8.30am
3 December: Infant Nativity, 2.00pm
4 December: Infant Nativity, 9.00am
4 December: Kindergarten Nativity Dress Rehearsal, 2.00pm
5 December: Kindergarten Nativity, 9.00am
6 December: Year 5/6 Swimming Gala, 2.00pm
10 December: Whole School Panto Visit to see Cinderella at the Mercury Theatre, Abbey Fields
10 December: Christmas Lunch
10 December: PTA Wreath Making
11 December: Last Day of Clubs
12 December: Charter Hall Carol Service – Cancelled due to the General Election
13 December: Christmas Jumper Day
13 December: Christmas Service at St Albright’s Church
Last Day of Term, 2.30pm Finish
Senior School
November
13 November: Beauty & The Beast Performance, 7.30pm
13 November: Sports Leaders at Year 3 and 4 Change for life festival, Thurstable School 1:30 – 3pm, retuning to SMS at 3:40pm
13 November: School Council Youth Voice Development Day
14 November: Beauty & The Beast Performance, 7.30pm
15 November: Beauty & The Beast Performance, 7.30pm
15 November: Children in Need
19 November: Year 8 Geography and Science Students’ trip to Sizewell Nuclear Power Station, 7.30am-5.30pm
21 November: Blood Brothers Drama Trip, 4pm
21 November: Years 9 and 10 Rotary Young Chef competition – Colchester heat, 5pm-9pm
22 November: French Play, Drama Studio
22 November: GCSE Awards Evening, 7pm-9.30pm
29 November: French Play
December
2 December: Year 7 ESB Examination
2-10 December: Year 11 Mock Examinations
5 December: Year 7 Mercury Theatre, Abbeyfield trip to see Cinderella
5 December: Bag2School collection
6 December: Senior Wassail, 7pm-9pm
9 December: Year 9 ESB Examination
10 December: Buddies’ Christmas Party
10 December: Year 5 and 6 Indoor Athletics at Essex University 9:30am–3:40pm, returning to St Marys at 4:15pm
11 December: Christmas Lunch
12 December: Charter Hall Carol Service – Cancelled due to the General Election
12 December: MegaBowl, 3pm-5pm