St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
The children have been extremely enthusiastic during their Tuesday swimming lessons and have been very sensible while changing. Well done, Year 1!
This week, the children have planted potatoes. They looked very carefully at the chitted potatoes to see the strong shoots showing. Over the next two months, the children will care for the plants and watch them grow. Hopefully, we will have some potatoes to harvest in July.
We are all looking forward to another exciting and busy term filled with lots of learning. Below, you will find the curriculum overview for this term:
Y1-Curriculum-information-summer term
This month, the children have done a wonderful job learning the Lord’s prayer. It was very moving for them to finish the Holy Thursday liturgy by saying this prayer when they returned to the classroom after ‘Jesus, Remember me’ had finished in the hall.
Later in the morning, the children shared hot cross buns together, focussing on the symbolism of the cross. Thank you very much for your kind donations of buns, which were greatly enjoyed by the children.
Have a very happy and holy Easter together and enjoy your Easter celebrations that the children are looking forward to on Easter Sunday!
On Friday, the children joined up with Year Two for History Day. They enjoyed four different activities, which encouraged them to find out about the past through exploring the clues that real artefacts held. The children had some wonderful ideas and developed their skills in historical enquiry.
Thank you very much for all the donations that were made as part of the cake sale on Friday. Over £200 was raised, which is a phenomenal amount! We will let you know what the children decide to spend the money on. Have a Mothering Sunday that is filled with love.
This week, the children have been exploring patterns and considering ways in which they can change the shape, size or quantity as part of a pattern. They have designed some wonderful new vests for Little Robin Red Vest and are very proud of these.
2nd March is the Year 1 Cake Sale. The children will be designing posters for the sale and then displaying them all around the school. If you have time, enjoy baking cakes with your child; alternatively, shop bought cakes are very popular too. Thank you very much for your support!
On 16th March, we will be holding a History Day – your child is invited to come into school dressed as a character from history.
This week, the children have been learning how to give each other directions, before moving on to programming a toy to move left, right, forwards and backwards as well as making half and quarter turns. One child taught her friends that two quarter turns make a half turn!
This work on position and fractions continued on Friday, when the children made a honey sandwich for their teddy and divided it into halves and quarters.
Thank you very much for the donations that came in as part of our Teddy Bear’s Picnic that celebrated the end of our topic on Toys. The children have certainly learned a great deal about old toys and have enjoyed talking about the family toys that they brought in.
Dear Year 1 children,
Your teddies are having a wonderful evening together. Here they all are listening to Leon, the giant teddy reading them a suitable bedtime story. They are looking forward to making sandwiches with you all on Friday morning!
Lots of love from Mrs Hayes (and lots of teddies!)
As part of their English and Geography learning, the children all wrote thank you letters on their first day back at school and then posted them at the local post box. The children had to follow directions, including using the words left and right in order to get there. The children learned that they can identify their left hand by looking for the L for Left. This only works, if the children remember to look at their finger nails too!
Please continue to use the words left and right with your child as these directions are very easily confused! When we returned back at school, the children drew and labelled a map of their route, something that they thought very carefully about.
The children performed brilliantly in the Christmas production A present for the baby. You should be very proud of them!
Monday 18th December: please send in a present for your child’s kriskringle on Monday.
Tuesday 19th December: details of what you can contribute as part of our end of term celebration have been sent home with your child.
Wednesday 20th December: we look forward to sharing our end of term mass with you on Wednesday at 9am. Children should come into school in party clothes (please make sure that children are still warm, as children will go out to play as normal), ready for their Christmas lunch.
Thursday 21st December: during our end of term celebration in class, children will have a special snack time, during which they will exchange gifts and sing Christmas songs together. Christmas holiday starts at 1.30pm!