St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
The children performed brilliantly in their Christmas play ‘Everyone loves a baby’ and they should be very proud of their enthusiastic singing and wonderful acting. Every single line was delivered clearly as the children reflected on the true meaning of Christmas and had great fun too!
This week, year 4 found out how sound is made. They also started to understand that sound travels well through solids, as the string transmitted the sound of the coathangers against the tables very well.
The children carried out other investigations to see which medium is the best to transmit sound waves to the ear.
Can the children explain how the brain hears sound?
We had great fun on Children in Need day, wearing our pyjamas or Pudsey themed outfits. We looked wonderful and were proud to support this worthwhile charity as part of our Catholic Social Teaching unit of learning about the Preferential Option for the Poor.
This week, the children developed expanded noun phrases to describe the characters in “Cinnamon”. They collaborated in groups, to share their ideas.
A few weeks ago, The children were excited and proud to see their “Iron Man” writing on the wall.
The empty purple board is ready for the children’s own Jesse trees.
The Roman soldier was not very complimentary about the Britons he came across…
The children really enjoyed acting out the St Albans story at the cathedral.
The children learnt what it was like to be a monk in a scriptorium at the Abbey
We had wonderful weather to walk to and from the cathedral on Wednesday. I was very impressed by the children’s fast walking up and down hills and good listening for crossing the roads etc. The cathedral visit was a brilliant way to both get to know the cathedral a bit as we walked round parts most visitors don’t see and were lucky enough to see the pillars illuminated so we could see what they would have looked like before the Reformation in England and the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII.
The children learnt about St Alban by visiting his tomb, the tomb of Amphibalus and role-playing to story of St Alban, the first British martyr, including his martyrdom.
The afternoon was spent in a calm session when the children decorated their own illuminated letters.
Thank you very much to Mrs Simpson who accompanied us. The children were all a credit to you and represented the school very well.
I do have some photos at school and will post them next week (as long as there is space on the website).
The children “published” their own versions of “The Iron Man” on Thursday. They have worked very hard on sentence structure and presentation and they were, rightly proud, of their finished pieces. They loved seeing their work on display.
27.09.25
Hello children, parents and carers,
I am very excited to share with you some of the lovely things we’ve been doing this week. We began the week by thinking about our class saint and saying a little prayer. We all learnt that Saint Adrian is known as the patron saint of teachers, scholars, and students and that his life and teachings continue to inspire Christians around the world to seek knowledge and promote education, just as he did during his lifetime. We thanked Saint Adrian for helping us learn how to write, sing, dance, make friends, look after God’s world, read and do maths. The children were very helpful in creating a lovely class door!
It is so lovely to see the children building confidence and becoming more and more independent looking for things in the classroom, tidying up, getting changed for PE (buttons still very tricky, but practice makes you perfect 🙂 and carrying lunch trays.
In Little Wandle this week the children learnt 4 new phonemes:
We also started sound talking and blending some CVC words like tap, pan, sit and pat. Everyone is trying very hard and I am sure that in no time we will have a classroom full of confident readers 🙂
In RE we discussed how God made our beautiful world and everything in it. On the 7th day he finished his work and had a rest. He was pleased with his creation and said: ‘Indeed it is very good” (Genesis 1:31)
In class we painted every day of his creation and arranged the days in the correct order.
We went on a nature walk and collected many natural objects. Then we created beautiful insects using only materials from God’s world. And just like him we said: ”Indeed they are very good”.
This week, in your child’s pink folder, you will also find Autumn learning grid. There are 6 activities to choose from. You are welcome to bring any home learning to school or if you prefer you can upload it on Tapestry! All home learning will be celebrated and displayed in our classroom! Here is a copy:
And finally congratulations for all your hard work and motivation! You truly deserve the awards, red sash and golden rosette!!!
Have a lovely weekend and looking forward to seeing you all next week!
Mrs Solakova
On Tuesday 23rd September, Year 5 walked to St Albans Cathedral for a Viking and Saxon workshop and history was brought to life for us. No sooner had we sat down in the Cathedral a burly Viking named Bone Crusher came bursting in banging his axe against his shield. Bone Crusher and his assistant then spent time with the class in two groups showing the children through role play, artefacts and replicas about what life was like in Viking and Saxon time. Did you know St Albans at the time of the Vikings was part of the Kingdom of Mercia?
The children learned about how the Abbey’s monastery and a nearby convent were set up during the Saxon times. They also learned about the crimes and punishments of that time- both Viking and Saxon who were for a time living side by side. I think it’s safe to say, we prefer how society is conducted today!
It was a great trip, which the children wrote about once they got back to school.
This week in maths we continued to look at colours – we correctly matched the colours of the objects in the box to the colour card.
We continued our work on Owl Babies, we have created our story map and are learning the story with the help of the actions.
We have also been watching the video below if you’d like to watch at home
Reminders
All bookbags need to have a small keyring attached to it so that the children can identify their bookbag at home time.
Thank you for those have already sent in a family photo and a baby photo. The children are enjoying looking at them in the classroom. Please send in to school if you haven’t done so already as we will be using them for some of RE lessons.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Taylor
Hello Children, Parents and Carers, welcome to the first Nursery blog for the academic year 2025 – 2026. Each week I will let you know what learning has been taking place in Nursery.
The children have begun settling in very nicely and if you pop over to Tapestry you will see some photos of your child playing and exploring the resources in Nursery. Please let me know if you are unable to activate your account.
Magic Moments
It would be lovely as always to see what the children do outside of school and this will be celebrated in class. It would be great to see photos of days out, parties, weddings, holidays, playing at home, completing jobs or tasks, clubs or anything that the children wish to share! Magic moment slips, photos, medals, artwork or certificates can be displayed in class and I know they will enjoy seeing themselves on the big screen if you would prefer to upload photos to Tapestry.
Maths
This week in Maths we look at the colours red, blue and yellow. The children were very good at sorting the colours.
RE
We started our RE lessons this week and thought about Creation. We learnt that God made the world on 7 days and these helpful numbers tell us what he created on what day. We made our own version of God’s world and listened to a beautiful song called ‘What a wonderful world’.
Reminders
Children and parents are kindly asked to wait in the KS2 playground before school until the door is opened. Play equipment must not be used before or after school.
Please could each bookbag have a keyring so that children can identify their own bookbag at home time. Please look in the bookbag each day for letters or artwork. Book bags are ordered on arbor and collected at the office.
If the children are staying for lunch please provide appropriate cutlery for what they are eating and again please check food wrappers as we are a nut free school.
Important Dates
Open Mornings at St.Adrians 9:15 – 10:00 approx.
Friday 26th September 2025
Wednesday 1st October 2025
Thursday 6th November 2025
Thursday 13th November 2025
Friday 14th November 2025
Thursday 4th December 2025
Friday 5th December 2025
Thursday 8th January 2026
Please email the office to book a place at one of these tours.
Applications for Reception place starting September 2026 will open on November 3rd.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Taylor
As part of our learning about printmaking this half-term, we have been learning from the artwork of Peter Clayton. We experimented with describing scenes using blocks of just two colours.
