Celebrating Community Links
Reception class at Manea Community Primary School have been busy making some wonderful Christmas tree decorations for the church. Using model magic and satsumas they created some very sparkly, orange stars to be hung from the branches. The paper chain was created using shiny card and the amazing angel was also created with the shiny card. You can have a look at the tree decorated by Manea primary School children at St Nicholas Church, Manea.
Christmas Tree decoration
Tuesday 5th May 2020: Manea Community once again come together and join a former Manea Primary School student in creating some impressive art to crack down on lock down boredom. See the full story here:
https://www.fenlandcitizen.co.uk/news/fenland-villagers-join-community-art-project-organised-by-teenage-artist-to-relieve-lockdown-boredom-9108782/?fbclid=IwAR2bz9QsLFbPRZaA7pD2hVy_4SJgRg4Yp0n2CPbvykJtspyVHs7KmOzHYcU
MONDAY 27th JANUARY 2020: We welcomed Donna, Nick and Nick's dog Amber into our school today. Nick and Donna work for Camsight a charity which supports local people with low vision and blindness. The day began with a whole school assembly where Nick explained that he had his full sight up until 6 years ago when he was told he had cancer which resulted in him losing his sight other that seeing bright lights. He told us how he adjusted to life without his sight and the showed us many of the adapted resources he uses in everyday life including a talking clock, a mechanism to say when he has enough water in his tea cup and the apps he has on his phone to talk him through his texts. Following the assembly all the children from Years five and six were taught how to play goal ball by Nick and Donna. It is a game where those who are able to see are blindfolded and have to listen to the bells in the ball to defend their goal and prevent the opposition from scoring. A big thank you to Nick, Donna and Amber for joining us today and to the parent who organised it for our children.
SATURDAY 13th JULY 2019: MANEA GALA. This is where Manea community all come together and celebrate our wonderful village. Our children in Year 6 took part in the gala procession. Have a look at the photos of their float.
FRIDAY 5th JULY 2019: Please read the feedback from Louise at the Life Education Centre about our school and children. "Dear Miss Froggatt, colleagues and pupils at Manea Primary. Thank you so much for the warm welcome we received to your school. It was a real pleasure to work with you all and we were so impressed with the children's enthusiasm, critical thinking, thoughtful questions and superb manners. The children's ability to listen respectfully to each other and reflect carefully on ideas was really apparent. It was a privilege to work with every group and to be a visitor at your school. Manea Primary School is a happy, caring, vibrant place to work and learn. Congratulations to you all for the fantastic job you do. We look forward to being back in Summer 2021 - thank you." Louise Augarde Senior Educator Cambs and Peterborough Life Education.
FRIDAY 28th JUNE 2019: Have you spotted all the scarecrows around Manea - well done all those who took part. We have loved spotting them in people's gardens and at the front of their houses. Have you seen these two?
YEAR 5 MATHS CHALLENGE
THURSDAY 23RD MAY
A team of Year 5 Maths children competed against 8 other schools in the Year 5 Maths challenge tonight. The questions consisted of team rounds and bonus individual rounds and were VERY hard!
Manea's Year 5 team did really well, working together to solve questions in short spaces of time - their best round was the Extra Thinks round.
Overall they came third in the competition with only half a point between them and the team who came second.
This was an amazing effort by all members of the team with lots of hard work and practice during their lunchtimes.
Well done Manea Maths team!
THURSDAY 4th APRIL 2019: SCHOOLS MAKE MUSIC. On Thursday our school choir took part in a music celebration at Cromwell Community College.
Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th March 2019.
Year 3 Art Exhibition. Many of the Primary Schools in Chatteris and March and their surrounding villages took part in creating pieces of art for an art exhibition this week. On Wednesday the art was exhibited for parents and carers to see at Lionel Walden School in Doddington and Thursday the exhibition was at Westwood Primary School in March. Please see the photos below of the all the amazing exhibits on show.
Friday 22nd March- After a successful science week we were pleased to welcome all of the parents in to see our work at the Science Marketplace. Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate the amazing work.
FRIDAY 15th MARCH 2019: Raising money for COMIC RELIEF by wearing our pyjamas to school. Thank you to all the families who brought cakes into school for the cake sale to raise extra funds for Comic Relief.
MONDAY 4th MARCH 2019: OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS ART PROJECT. Today our year three children travelled to Cavalry Primary School in March to work with clay. They had a great morning and came back really enthusiastic about their time there. In the meantime the year three classes from Cavalry Primary School came to Manea and worked with Mrs Stevens, Mr Lenton, Mrs Goude and Mrs Boardman on a piece of art using outdoor materials. The children foraged for materials and created some amazing art. The work will be on exhibition on WEDNESDAY 27th MARCH at LIONEL WALDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL, DODDINGTON and on THURSDAY 28th MARCH at WESTWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL, MARCH from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm.
FRIDAY 15th FEBRUARY 2019: We welcomed parents, carers and families to come and celebrate the learning their children did during maths week. Thank you to all those who attended the event. Please see the photos of the work and the market place.
THURSDAY 14th FEBRUARY 2019: 100% Attendance Treat. All the children who attended school 100% for the Autumn Term took part in a filming session with Mr Lenton. Please have a look at our photos.
Wednesday 12th December 2018
Some of the children who attend choir sessions at lunch times had the opportunity to entertain the Manea Dinners on Wednesday afternoon, singing their Christmas carols. The members of Manea dinners had a lovely time and we too had a lovely time. Thank you for allowing us to share some of the wonderful things we do at Manea Primary school with the community.
07/12.2018
We are very pleased that our new bookshelves in the library are getting full. This is with thanks to one of our governors, Mrs O'Riley, who works for Usbourne books and has done some fundraising to enable use to purchase some new books. They fill the shelves wonderfully, so the children now have a wider range of book to choose from when they change their books. We would like to take this opportunity to share this wonderful news with you all and to thank Mrs O'Riley. 
Just a few of our lovely new books.
16/11/18
Last week we held a special market place that had a focus of challenging stereotypes and different families. Have a look below to see some of our stalls!
11/11/2018
This afternoon, a group of children represented the school in the remembrance service at the church. They placed crosses by the war memorial to mark 100 years since the end of WW1.
18/10/2018
Today the whole school took part in a sponsored buddy read. Each class completed 20 minutes of reading with a buddy from a different class. All children enjoyed their time reading with each other. Please remember to bring in any sponsor forms and any monies raised. Thank you in advance for your support given.
Allotment Art - September 2018. Look at the allotment art from children from preschool through to year 6. This is to celebrate 10 years of Manea allotments and will be on display in the British Legion from 10:30 am on Saturday 15th September. The children visited the allotments at the end of last term to provide ideas for their art work.
Manea Gala
Inter-village athletics competition - Thursday 5th July
On Thursday some children from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 attended the inter-village athletics competition at Lionel Walden School in Doddington.
The events included were the sack race, egg and spoon race, tunnel ball, obstacle race and long distance running events.
The children all tried their very best, especially in the boiling heat that we had.
A fantastic effort to all. Well done!
Schools make music - March 2018
The Manea school choir took part in this year's School's Make Music festival at Cromwell Community College. The children sang two songs acapella, which were also in a different language. The songs were: Siyahamba and Banaha.
They did fantastically well and we are very proud of them. Well done!
Christmas 2017 - Retelling of the Christmas story
Manea School celebrated Christmas at their local church with their annual retelling of the Christmas story by Year 1 and Year 6. The rest of the school accompanied the play by singing songs.
The Manea school choir also sang a range of Christmas carols, new and old, to the Manea dinners and at the Manea Christmas Fayre. These songs were sang acapella and with a great big smile! Well done Manea choir!
20th October 2017: We welcomed colleagues from other primary schools in March and Chatteris and the surrounding villages to our school for a Forest Training Event. There were four groups. 1. Fire making. 2. Whittling with knives. 3. Den building 4. Forest Schools with no tools in the woods.
Wednesday 4th October - Friday 6th October
Year 5/6 Residential Trip to Kingswood in Overstrand, Norfolk.
Our activities included:
Low ropes
Nightline
Obstacle challenge
Camp fire
Laser
Climbing
Aeroball
Fencing
Have a look at our photos.
OCTOBER 2017: DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK. OUR DT MARKET PLACE AND CHILDREN'S WORK.
Science Week 2017
During our Science week this year, we invited parents/carers who have different jobs within the Science field to come and speak to us. All classes had a least one visitor and watched a fantastic assembly by Mr Tarsitano.
Mr Tarsitano, a Science teacher from Swavesey, led two very explosive assemblies, which were a fantastic start to our Science week! 
Mrs Pratt, a pharmacist, led discussions on bones within the human body with years 4 and 6. 
Mrs Downer, who used to work in dentistry, showed years 4 and 5 different teeth models an discussed how dentures were made. 
Mr Clutton, who used to work in research development, discussed how chocolate is made with years 1, 2 and 3. 
Mrs Carter, a research scientist worked with years 2 and 3 they loved seeing all of the glow-in the dark liquids! 
Miss De Stefano from Cromwell, helped year 6 learn about static electricityYear five March Fire Station visit (Spring 2017)
Year five have spent the morning at March Fire Station. The trip is all about safety and how to be safe in our community. Fir class loved every minute of the experience from leaving a 'burning' building to learning about dogs and when you should or shouldn't approach them.
See the images below to get a feel for the activities we took part in and what we learned.
Fir Class at the Fire Station in March
THE SCHOOL LIBRARY PROJECT APRIL - JULY 2016
THE MANEA GALA 9th JULY 2016
YEAR FIVE AT THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S FILM FESTIVAL 8th JULY 2016
THE EUROPEAN UNION REFERENDUM 23rd JUNE2016
September and October 2015
WHAT MANEA LOOKS LIKE TO ME
We are so pleased to have a celebration of Manea board up in our school. This has been a project led by Belinda and has brought a whole host of different people and groups from the community to work on producing parts of a whole board. Can you spot our class pieces? What about the Brownies or British Legion pieces?
11th July 2015
THE MANEA GALA
The children in year six took part in the Manea Gala Parade and dressed up well for the celebrations of 60 years of the Manea Gala.
THE YEAR SIXES CELEBRATE 60 YEARS OF THE MANEA GALA
The Manea Gala Continued
The Manea Gala takes place each July and has done for 60 years. The day begins with a wonderful parade of floats around the village followed by a big gala located on the village park. Our headteacher Miss Froggatt and our year 5 teacher Miss Taylor even took part in the dog show with their dogs!
11th July 2015 The Manea Gala
Choir singing in the 'Schools Make Music' concert.
On the 26th March 2015 our school choir took part in a concert along with a number of local schools at Cromwell Community College. We all celebrated the shows from the Westend and Broadway. Our children sang two songs from 'Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat' and joined with the other schools to sing a couple of Queen songs from 'We Will Rock You.'
The children thoroughly enjoyed the day at rehearsals and performed really well for a crowded hall full of friends and family.
These are the amazing tiles the children in the school and preschool have produced for the community project. Each class worked together to create a tile about what Manea means to them. These tiles will form part of a bigger board with many tiles from other groups within the Manea community and will be displayed for you all to see.