St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
04.04.2025
Big thank you for a lovely end to another busy term! What a special gathering we’ve had today! We thought about Jesus and the Cross, about the meaning of the color purple and what happened on Good Friday!
I hope you all have an amazing Easter holiday!
Mrs Solakova
The “lost hour” hasn’t held year 4 back this week at all and they have participated well in the end-of-term events. They showed respect during the Stations of the Cross assembly and have done the same, as well as reflecting well, during the class Lenten daily prayer accompanying each Station of the Cross. They sang beautifully at the assemblies this week and have enjoyed the sun at breaktimes, as we all have.
Many thanks for everyone’s support in helping your children create their own prayers in the class prayer book. I have been moved by the ideas and beliefs expressed in these original, heartfelt prayers which have been carefully written out and beautifully presented. The prayer book will continue to be passed down the register. There will be a new one in year 5.
We completed writing from “The Matchbox Diary” with the children making excellent progress in writing clear, meaningful and well-spelt sentences with a good range of vocabulary. I think there definitely several Geography graduates in the cohort, judging from their interest in the physical features of the earth – especially volcanoes! We will come back to finish some learning on Decimals after the holiday.
We finished the term with creating “stained glass” Easter cards which I hope you all like.
The purses/wallets the children sewed will be on display at “open evening” and will go home at the end of the year. All the children worked very hard on their sewing, whether they are used to sewing or it was their first time. They all showed resilience and good humour in enjoying the pleasures and tackling the challenges of sewing! The class was lovely and calm and there was lots of co-operation throughout the sessions.
Although we all enjoyed the sun this week and are looking forward to our Easter break, there was also some sadness today as we had to say good-bye to someone most of the children have known for a huge part of their lives. We are all extremely sad to lose Bella from our class community. However, just as importantly, we send her off on her adventure with love and best wishes for an exciting new chapter in her life!
For those of us staying closer to home, I wish you all a relaxing, happy two week holiday, hopefully with some sun and fresh air.
It has been another action packed term – the children have led the school in praying the stations of the cross in our passion assembly and the Caritas Ambassadors have organised many events across the term, including our Easter art competition and the very successful community bingo night.
Our learning continues apace and we are poised, ready for our SATs shortly after we come back from the holidays. We have enjoyed all of our learning – developing a deeper understanding of the events of Holy Week, learning about the challenges of migration, which in turn has inspired our own story writing and poetry. We have made and programmed step counters in computing and designed and built model playgrounds in DT.
We are ready for a rest now, ready for the adventures of our final term!
With some wonderful assemblies and events this week, Easter has truly been experienced in Year 1.
The children took different approaches to their Easter Garden Art. And together they are spectacular.
Talk about diversity! Look at these little chicks made by the class. Each one has its own personality.
A very Happy Easter to everyone and we wish you a joyful break.
We have finished the month off with some very exciting PE using the large equipment.
We showed off climbing skills…
Travelling in different ways……
Clambering, hanging and challenging…..
taking turns and listening.
The Year 2 children wrote a song to sing to their mums during the Mother’s Day assembly and they sang it beautifully. They have also created a fantastic card to show just how much they love their mums. It’s been a wonderful week!
28.03.25
Hello children, parents and carers,
The focus for this week was definitely Mothers day! We’ve been busy practicing our song, we painted number flowers and of course decorated fantastic Mother’s day cards! In our writing sessions we were thinking about why we love mummy and how we can help her at home with chores! Here is some of our writing… excellent work reception!
I really hope that you’ve enjoyed our performance. The children worked hard practicing the song and painting special Mother’s day flowers.
In Little Wandle we continued to read words ending in -ing and plurals. We are also continuing to revisit the tricky words, digraphs and trigraphs learnt so far. The children are beginning to learn how to write some long sentences like: The goat was born this morning.
In Maths we were learning to see greater numbers as a whole number and its parts at the same time. The children were encouraged to represent their different compositions of
numbers to 10 by providing varied representations to show the different compositions.
We used the stem sentence 5 is a part and 5 is a part. The whole is 10, 6 is a part and 4 is a part. The whole is 10, etc.
The children used lots visuals to support their understanding and sang various songs like ’10 Green Bottles sitting on a wall’.
And finally but not least, congratulations for all your hard work and motivation! You truly deserve the awards, red sash and golden rosette!!!
To all of you wonderful mums!!!
I love my mum because she is the best!
I love my mum because she always cares for me!
I love my mum because she is beautiful and cooks delicious meals.
I love my mum because she takes me to school every day!
I love my mum because she cuddles me every and reads a bedtime story!
Have a wonderful Mother’s day and make sure you check your child’s Tapestry page for a special treat!
Mrs Solakova
We hope you enjoyed our song at the Mother’s Day assembly. Everyone worked very hard, as an orchestral team, to sing and play together – no mean achievement! A huge thank you is owed to Mrs Newman, who came into school on Thursday afternoon, as an extra visit to help the class know the song better.
We are completing end-of-term checks such as spelling and completing units of learning like fractions. There is further progress being made in times tables recall please keep that practice going.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and Mother’s Day, in spite of the “lost hour”.
This week we learnt about Palm Sunday, the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a Donkey. We listened to a very special story about the donkey and how he came to be chosen by Jesus. Miss Taylor acted out the story using Godly Play and the children have had a chance to do this during learning through play.
Other photos this week:
The children did really well singing in assembly this morning, I know you are really proud of them!
Important Dates:
Thursday 3rd April – Easter Bonnet Assembly 09.00am
Friday 4th April – Hot Cross Bun Gathering – 09:30 – 10:30am
Friday 4th April – School finishes 11:45/13:30.
Wishing you a very Happy Mother’s Day
Miss Taylor
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