Year 2 are historians!

This week, we reinforced our learning in history with a day long series of activities focussing on the Great Fire of London. We all looked tremendous dressed up in our 17th century outfits and our teacher for the day, Mistress Sophie taught us many things about how people lived 350 years ago. As the day progressed, we learned more about how the fire developed and what the people of London would have done to try and stop the fire. During the afternoon, we explored artefacts collected from the fire, and considered what they told us about the owner and their life.

We could not have run the day without the support of ten tremendous adults from Year 2 and Year 3 and we are very grateful for their invaluable help and enthusiasm. Thank you!

Year 2 love habitats

Inspired by the story ‘The Journey Home’, about an orangutan, panda bear, elephant and polar bear who have sadly had to leave their own home because it has been destroyed by the actions of humans, we are exploring habitats around the world.

This research has continued at home, where the children have shown amazing creativity and ingenuity when designing and making a shoebox habitat that reflects their interest a particular habitat.

You are warmly invited to our Open Evening on Wednesday, when much of our learning will be on display for you all to see.

Reception – Extraordinary performers!

21. 06.24

Well, what else can I say but what a performance!!! Well done children, you really smashed it today! So confident saying your lines, exceptional singing and fantastic artwork! What else could you ask for! You certainly made me and Mrs Reid super proud and grateful to be your teachers! You absolutely proved that hard work always pays off!

Thank you to all the children who built our ark! 

Thank you to all children who chose an animal and clambered on!

Thank you to all children for creating a beautiful rainbow!

Thank you to all the children for their fantastic singing and the heavy rain! 

And thank you all for the sunshine!

And thank you all for all your lovely writing. It was fantastic seeing all of you thinking about the story and writing amazing sentences!

Hope you all have an amazing weekend!
Looking forward seeing you all next week!

Mrs Solakova

Sport in the sun!

The numbers in year 4 have been depleted this week, with District Sports and The “World Games” taking place. A massive well done to all the year four children who competed at Westminster Lodge, did brilliantly well in their heats and representing the school in good sporting style. Thank you to Mr Creaton and Miss Allen for taking them there. Miss Allen was quite hoarse this morning after all her cheering! I look forward to hearing all about it on Monday.

Let’s all hope the sun stays out this weekend so we can enjoy sometime outside at last!

Year 3: First Holy Communion Celebrations

On Wednesday, we celebrated a significant milestone by participating in our First Holy Communion and mass. During the mass, we were reminded of the importance of receiving Communion, as we read prayers and sang hymns. Dressed in our finest attire, we marked this special occasion. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the parents for the delicious spread that was generously provided.

Nursery – 21.06.2024

Our new role play opened this week – Seaside. The children can play in the sand, buy and sell items in the shop and enjoy ice creams.

In maths this week looked at composition of numbers 3 and 4. We made these numbers in different ways using a variety of resources always recognising that the total was the same.

In RE this we looked at the religion Sikhism. We had a look at some special objects as well as a Sikhism flag.

Other photos this week

Important Dates

Wednesday 26h June – Open Evening 16:00 – 17:30

Wednesday 26th June – 18:00 – 19:00 New reception parents information evening. Mrs Solakova will be talking about all the wonderful things the children will be doing in reception including phonics, how lunches work and the uniform the children will need to wear.

Friday 28th June – Reading Morning 08:45 – 09:00am

Tuesday 2nd July – EYFS Sports Day 10:00am – Please enter school via KS2 gate

Reminders

The weather forecast is looking good for next week, all children will need a sun hat.

Please apply sun cream before school.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

Reception – Trip to St Albans Cathedral!

14.06.24

Hello parents and children,
Without a doubt today’s blog should be dedicated to our amazing trip to the Cathedral. I am absolutely impressed with all children, their sensible behaviour and attentive listening. They reminded us once again that the children of St. Adrian’s are exceptional 🙂

In the first part of the day we walked around the Cathedral to discover the beautiful stained glass windows. The lady was very kind and she explained how they’ve been made and what they represent. Then the children created their own stained glass windows. We are very much looking forward to showing you our fantastic art on the open evening 🙂 

The weather stayed dry so we had our lunch in the park and even managed to watch the nesting peregrines through a telescope. Here is the link for the live camera if you want to have a look too:

https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/peregrine-live-cam

In the second part of the day the children learnt about the different roles in church. They dressed up as priests, flower arrangers, built an arch and recorded wedding messages.

What Is A Father?

A father is someone who’s always around
when you’re stuck for some friendly advice.
A father is someone who knows how you feel
and who’ll help you without thinking twice…
A father is someone so thoughtful and kind
he’s made his own place in your heart…
A father is someone you wish all life’s best
with the love that’s been his from the start.

Happy fathers day!!!

Dates to remember:
Friday 21th June – No reading morning
Friday 21th June – Reception class assembly

Wishing you a wonderful weekend and fantastic Father’s day Sunday!
Mrs Solakova

Year 3: English

In English, we are reading the book ‘The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish’. To deepen our understanding and develop our writing skills, we explored the characters through role play and wrote about how the characters were feeling. Here are some photos of the character being hot – seated.

Year 1

This week we have been learning about positional language using beebots and pretending to b robots.

Creating a little bit of Kew back in class

This week year 4 used their creative skills to design a pavilion based on what we saw at Kew Gardens. They had fantastic ideas and showed outstanding teamwork when working in pairs to build their pavilions. Joining “lolly sticks” together to make a design a reality is quite a challenge and the children rose to the challenge.

We have started reading a new, wonderful book called “The Mermaid of Zennor” and the children wrote some beautiful, original descriptions of the scene in the church with the mysterious lady sitting at the back.

Racing through the Maths topics now, the children are calculating with money. We all use cash very little these days. If you are out and about near shops this weekend, it would be useful to buy some things using cash (if the shop will let you!) Also, just looking carefully at how prices are set out on the shelves would be useful.

Sadly, the weather isn’t forecast to improve much but I hope the chilly weather doesn’t stop you all having a lovely weekend with your family, whatever you do.