Our Classes – St Adrian's Catholic Primary School

Reception – Spring is here!

What a week everyone!!! So many things are growing in our classroom, so many things to care for… It’s all helping us to grow in love and care and be a little bit more like Jesus!

Our beans and cress seeds are getting taller every day. We make sure that the soil is moist all the time and that they get plenty of sunshine. Some of them are still sprouting as others formed roots and leaves. Soon they will be planted in the garden!!!

We learnt lots of interesting facts about how seeds grow and created a beautiful display of a plant:

We also watched a timelapse video of a growing seed. The children were absolutely mesmerized!!!

Our new role play is also ready to be explored. If you need some fresh fruit or veggies, please come to our brand new market. You will find potatoes, cabbage and cucumbers. Also milk, eggs and honey! The children did the labels all by themselves and helped set up the stalls. Well done everyone!

In Little Wandle we read our first super long words like fantastic and swimming. We are continuing learning that if the word is too long and hard to read then it can be ‘chunked’. Some words even need to be chunked into 3… fan-tas-tic!!!

In Maths we are continuing to think about numbers to 10. The children used conceptual subitising to identify a whole quantity within 10 by subitising the smaller groups that make up that number. This skill will support children to develop mental images for addition and subtraction, which helps children to move away from counting on and counting back.

We also made number books, thinking about what’s 1 more and what’s 1 less than a given number.

And finally but not least, congratulations for all your hard work and motivation! You truly deserve the awards, red sash and golden rosette!!!

Dates to remember:
Friday 28th March at 9:00 am – Mother’s day assembly (There will be no reading morning on that day)
Monday 31st March – Deadline for Easter bonnets
Wednesday 2nd April at 9:00 am – Stations of the Cross Assembly (all are welcome)
Thursday 3rd April at 9:00 am – Easter parade (all are welcome)
Thursday 3rd April – Non uniform day (£1 or more for the Catholic Children Society)
Friday 4th April/9:30 – 10:30 – Hot cross bun gathering and Easter craft day (all children are invited to wear purple)
Friday 4th April – School finishes at 1:30pm

Have a lovely weekend!
Looking forward seeing you next week!!!
Mrs Solakova

Year 3: Catholic Social Teaching

During this half term, our focus in Catholic Social Teaching has been on community and participation. Through class discussions, we explored the meaning of being part of a community and reflected on our unique talents and skills. We considered practical ways to use these gifts to improve and enrich our communities. Additionally, we looked at scripture, reflecting on what God teaches us about building a loving and supportive community.

Lent in Year 4

One of the ways the children in year 4 are becoming closer to God through praying is by leading a short reflection and prayer on each station of the cross every day. For example, today we reflected on Simon of Cyrene helping Jesus carrying the cross and this led to the reflection that there are things in life we don’t always choose or want to do. However, it’s important to accept that they need doing and remember that we can always turn to God for help in completing them.

The children have also explored stations number 10, 11 and 12 by sharing the relevant scripture, painting a watercolour illustrating one of them and them writing a description/explanation of it. The children put a lot of planning and effort into creating some beautiful paintings. They then wrote, at length, about their emotional responses to the scenes. The more we considered the story, the more the children made links and brought in other pieces of scripture which meant something to them, such as the centurion who said, “Surely this man was the son of God”. I am very proud of their creativity and thoughtfulness.

March 21st

This week we continued to explore and observe. Spring is coming slowly to the playground. Today we spotted more blossom and a sleepy bumble bee, buzzing between the daisies.

We have worked hard this week retelling a story and today we wrote it out in our books, following a plan we made the previous day.

We have been tracing patterns in time to calm music to develop our pencil control, regulate our feelings and learn to move in time to music.

(“Glances” by Sarah L Mauro – Youtube)

Nursery – 14 and 21.03.2025

As part of science week and our RE topic we have been growing cress. We have been waiting very patiently and observing their growth.

In maths we looked at tall and short and long and short. We made tall and short towers and long and short snakes. The children also had a look at some different length ribbons and decided which ones were long and which ones were short.

Photos:

Library

Next week will be our last visit to the library for this term. I will collect the library books back in on Tuesday 1st April.

Please could all hair be tied up.

Children will need a school summer hat at school in the warm weather. These can be purchased on arbor.

Important Dates

Friday 28th March – No reading morning

Friday 28th March – Mother’s Day Assembly 09:00am

Thursday 3rd April – Easter Assembly 09:00am

Friday 4th April – No reading morning

Friday 4th April – Hot Cross Bun Party 09:30 – 10:30 –

Friday 4th April – Spring term finishes 11:45/13:30.

Summer term begins – Wednesday 23rd April.

Have a good weekend

Miss Taylor

March 15th 2025

This week was Science week and there was lots good activities across the school. In Year 1, we looked at changes over the seasons and how we adapt our behaviour throughout the year. We wear warm clothes in the winter and always have a raincoat, even in summer!

In class we planted grass seed in response to the book “Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish.” In the book, the man destroys the planet to build a rocket. The Dinosaurs come back to life and replant nature.

And we watched them grow.

We shared them in our class assembly.

Reception – A very scientific week!

14.03.25

Dear children and parents,
This week we’ve been busy talking about the world around us and understanding the effects of changing seasons on the natural world. We were looking for signs of Spring and painted posters for each season. We talked about the different activities we can do in different times of year and the colours we see. The weather has been brilliant! Crazy changeable weather bringing much excitement and learning!
How snow and hail are different?
Where is the wind coming from?
What makes a rainbow?

This year’s British science week is ‘Change and adapt’ and that opened up lots and lots of discussions about what is means to adapt and how living creatures change in time. We made a giant caterpillar, painted animal boxes and planted some seeds.

We planted beautiful purple gladioli, talking about what the bulbs might need, how to look after them and how long it will take for them to grow. The children had to think about what comes first, second. They used their brilliant phonics skills to write about it 🙂

In our English lessons we continued to read the story ‘Pirates love underpants’ however we are retelling it with our own words. We also made pirate boats and tested if they will float or sink. Why it is floating? Why it is sinking?

In Little Wandle this term we are focusing on phase 4 phonics. That means that we will be learning how to read even longer words like swimming, fantastic and plurals like queens and boxes. We will not be introducing any new digraphs, trigraphs or tricky words. We are also busy mastering fluency even with super long sentences like:

In Maths we learned how to use simple strategies to discuss time and then progress to ordering and sequencing simple events. Next week we will be using calendars to mark off the days leading up to special events and that will help us understand the passing of time. In learning through play the children measured the time by counting how many times they can write their name in 1 min, 3 min and 5 min.
We also talked about length and height. We went out and found different length sticks, then we arranged them in order starting from the shortest and finishing with the longest.

In RE we read the bible story ‘The good Samaritan’.
We discussed questions like: Who is your neighbour? and Why it’s important to be kind? We helped the robbed person by giving him plasters and lots of kindness and care

And finally but not least, congratulations for all your hard work and motivation! You truly deserve the awards, red sash and golden rosette!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs Solakova

Participating in communities – year 4

Year 4 has thought carefully about which communities they belong to and how they can improve their talents to make these communities even better. Their ideas are now on display.

The children have made a great start with writing their biographies of the character from “The Matchbox Diary” who they have decided is called Leo Francis.

In both “Odd and The Frost Giants” and the Science learning the children have learnt about water existing in different states. Can they find it in the various different states at home this weekend?

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 scientists

This week has been Science Week and we have been exploring Change through our science topic ‘Humans and other animals’. Our favourite activity was finding out about the life cycles of different animals and then creating our own. Here are some examples:

Stations of the Cross in Year Six

In Lent, Catholics try to grow closer to Jesus through a renewed commitment to prayer.

One of the ways that Catholics grow in prayer is by trying to spend time reflecting on Jesus’ love for us and how He showed this through His suffering. We are called to spend time reflecting, praying and accompanying Jesus through the Stations of the Cross.

We worked together to make Stations of the Cross for our class and write devotional prayers to guide our time accompanying Jesus in these moments of His Passion.