Last Friday, eight of our Young Enterprise members went to Greenways Business Park in Chippenham to represent Beeco in the Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Young Enterprise County Competition.
On Tuesday evening, the Fourth Form Music Festival came to a stunning conclusion with an amazing concert that showcased 16 of our talented junior musicians. They all performed for the chance to win the Festival Cup and individual prizes awarded to the winner of each class.
Last weekend saw 96 participants take to the courts to battle it out at this year’s PGSM Tennis Tournament. With the event split into three categories to cater for levels of competitiveness, we started across all 20 courts for four hours of fun and feisty matches!
On Saturday 27th April, Calne was alive with the sound of singing at the Calne Spring Sing, a community celebration of choir singing featuring choirs of all shapes and sizes at venues across Calne town centre. First on the programme in Marden House was our LIV Choir and Major Minors Children's Choir, in their first major public collaboration!
To celebrate the first anniversary of Grow Club, on Monday 29th April we visited the glorious 15 acres of gardens of Highgrove, private residence of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, followed by a visit to Westonbirt Arboretum.
Life for our swimmers has been full of fun with the Independent Boarding Schools Relay Competition, South West Regionals and Rookie Lifeguarding keeping them busy and challenged in the pool!
Last week one of our singing teachers Mr Harrison-Oram stepped in at the last minute to perform Carmina Burana with the Calne Choral Society.
On Friday 26th April, the PE Department invited pupils to join them in celebrating the fantastic sporting achievement over the last year at the annual St Mary's Calne Sports Awards.
On Thursday 25th April, the LVI A Level Economics students visited Bath University to attend a lecture chaired by Professor Nick Pearce in discussion with Torsten Bell, Professor Dame Diane Coyle and Dr Anne Valero on the topic of ‘Ending Stagnation - A New Economic Strategy for Britain’.
It was great to see the LV out in great numbers for the start of the DofE practice expedition on a sunny Sunday morning. The first day of walking was really pleasant with a soft breeze and prevailing sun, and all teams making good progress.
Today we held the first lunchtime concert of the Summer Term, with musicians from LIV to LV performing a variety of pieces ranging from musical theatre to classical music.
Over the Easter break, SMC students were in action in regional and international competition, including Home Internationals and in the England Regional Academy.
It has been a time of celebration for our UVI who applied for higher education courses overseas – instead of or alongside their UK applications. We are delighted to share that they have received a huge number of offers from high calibre, varied and ambitious institutions in the US, Canada, Australia and beyond.
We were delighted this week to learn that Theodora (LV), Sylvie (LV) and Emma (UV) were winners in the Daunt Books Short Story Competition! Impressively, St Mary's Calne students achieved three of the 15 winning stories to be published in the Daunt Books Short Story Anthology 2024!
On Tuesday, Costanza (UVI) presented a Chapel about 'WeCare Projects', an inspiring Italian charity she will be volunteering with in Argentina over this coming summer, building homes and communal spaces alongside the local community.
As a fun finale to close the 150th Anniversary celebrations, today we have launched the ‘150th Bucket List’ - a diverse range of challenging and enjoyable tasks for each student to complete during their time at St Mary’s Calne.
On the 15th of March, we had an amazing maths trip to St Swithun’s for a Maths Team Challenge. Stephenie L (UV), Jessica J (LV), Morolayo A (UIV) and Selina Z (MIV) left school in a minibus on Friday morning, accompanied by Mr Griffin.
During the Easter holidays, 20 girls ventured to Palma to take part in the pre-season tennis training camp at Vilas Tennis Academy in Palma, Mallorca.