Feeling good on and off line

.. has been the theme of this week. Some of what we have done is in the bulletin. On Thursday, the children also thought of an achievement they are proud of and shared this with their table. Also key to good mental health is a healthy outdoor environment and the Eco Councillors and other children planted some saplings on the field which will hopefully grow to provide shade and a home for birds and other animals.

The children are really enjoying “The Firework Maker’s Daughter” which is a beautifully written story of bravery and adventure, laced with plenty of humour.

Reading rich, varied and creative literature is a key aspect of good learning and the children are also loving exploring nonsense poetry, specifically “The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.

They have been learning about data – what it is, the pitfalls of collecting what seems to be straightforward data, and how well-suited computers are to gathering and processing it. They used data loggers, which are borrowed from a local computer hub.

Here is the display of the children’s writing about the (imitation) Roman artefacts we have here and their excellent accompanying sketches the children took great care in drawing.

The children used data loggers for the first time today. They recorded the levels of light and noise and the temperature in different parts of the classroom. Some children went to great lengths to ensure different readings!

Wishing you a relaxing, happy weekend.

Nursery – 09.02.2024

This week we took part in some of the well being activities including Dance with Miss Parkes and Yoga with Miss Cartwright.

In maths this week we carried on looking at and exploring the number 4. We helped Pete the cat get some new buttons for his coat, put 4 objects on a 5’s frame and made squares and rectangles using sticks.

In phonics this week we thought about the sound ‘c’, can you find anything in your house beginning with ‘c’? Upload what you have found onto Tapestry.

Other pictures this week:

RE

It would be lovely if children could share family pictures with us as we are thinking about all the wonderful things families do together. These can be either given in or uploaded onto tapestry.

Important Dates

Half term – Monday 19th – Friday 23rd February.

Parent Consultations – Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th February. Booking via arbor.

World Book Day – Thursday 7th March – Come to school dressed up as your favourite book character.

There will be no reading morning on Friday 8th March as we we will be going to the Mothers Day Assembly – parents welcome.

Friday 22nd March – PTA Break the rules day

Friday 22nd March – EYFS Cake sale after school

School finishes at 1:30PM on Thursday 28th March.

Summer term begins on Monday 15th April.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

Reception – NSPCC Number Day!

02.02.24

Hello children, parents and carers,
This week we’ve enjoyed lots of activities, but the best part was the Number Day on Friday. All children came to school dressed in spots, stripes and numbers and they all looked amazing. In continuous provision the children enjoyed lots of mathematical activities. Numicon prints on the playdough table, ten frames and counting bears and sweet jars ready to be filled with candies. All the activities helped us to secure our understanding of numbers 6, 7 and 8 and to practice the 5 and a bit equations. Here are some photos of the day:

Outside and inside we measured and balanced and poured and emptied. Talked about full, empty, nearly full, nearly empty, heavy, light… lots and lots of mathematical language!

The children also used the stem sentence ‘1 more than ….. is …..’ . Then they made flowers and on each petal the number was one more than the previous one.

In Little Wandle we’ve learnt the last digraph and trigraph from phase 3 sounds and from now until Summer term we will concentrate on reading longer words like puppet, bigger, hammer using all phase 2 and phase 3 sounds.

We were also busy learning 3 new tricky words: are, sure and pure. The last two proved to be extra tricky, so please make sure you practice them at home too!

This week we also started a new Art topic – Still Life Art. First we designed our own still art compositions. As you can imagine everyone had a different view and they are all different. Showing a couple here, but please come and check them out during next week’s reading morning. Then we sketched them on a special paper and next week we will start using the watercolours. Very exciting :)!

Dates to remember:

Wednesday 14th February, 9.15am – Ash Wednesday Service at St Barts – parents are welcome to join.
February half term – 19th – 23rd February

Have a lovely weekend.
Looking forward seeing you all on Monday for another fun filled week.
Mrs Solakova

Number day in Year 3

We marked Number Day with a series of engaging activities, including number investigations, times table games, and challenging number games that tested addition and subtraction skills.

NSPCC Number Day in Year 6

We are enjoying learning algebra at the moment, but the children were insistent that there are more dynamic things to share as part of NSPCC Number Day.

Ironically, in support of the NSPCC, we have been squashing children by making human pyramids: Our maths challenge is to calculate how much mass each person in the pyramid is supporting? Can this amount be expressed as an equation?

Nursery – 02.02.24

Over the last couple of weeks in RE we have learnt that there was a man named Simeon who lived a very long time ago in Jerusalem. He was a righteous man and he was told that he would see the Messiah. Mary and Joseph came to the Temple with Jesus, Simeon took Jesus into his arms and said a very special prayer.

We acted this out in class

In maths this week we continued to look at number 3. Mr Wolf could only eat 3 things so we found things in the classroom we thought he would like.

On Friday we took part in the NSPCC Number day.

We did a number 3 hunt out in the playground, made triangles using lolly sticks and had some number and shape activities at the writing table.

RE

In RE over the next couple of weeks we will be thinking about our families and all the wonderful things families do together. It would be lovely if the children could bring in a photo of their family doing something together e.g. family wedding, birthday, days out. Photos can be given in to share or uploaded onto tapestry.

Important Dates

Half Term – Monday 19th – Friday 23rd February.

Parent Consultation – Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th February.

World Book Day – Thursday 7th March – Come to school dressed up as your favourite book character.

There will be no reading morning on Friday 8th March as we will be going to the Mothers Day Assembly – parents welcome.

Friday 22nd March – PTA Break the rules day

Friday 22nd March – EYFS Cake Sale after school

School finishes at 1:30PM on Thursday 28th March 2024.

Summer term begins on Monday 15th April 2024.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

Year 2 read the bible

Our RE topic over the last four weeks has been all about Books. We have enjoyed reading stories from the bible in both the Old and New Testaments and created beautiful posters about our favourite bible story. Take a look at the slide presentation to see just how proud we are of our posters.

We also enjoyed learning about the baptism of Jesus and acted out the story, once we had created a storymap. After all of this Talk for Learning, we then retold the story of Jesus’s baptism in our own words. We have really enjoyed this topic because we love reading books!

Toy Museum

This week Year One have taken part in a Toys Through Time Workshop. The class played with toys from different eras and made from different materials.

Reception – We are celebrating!

26.01.23

Hello children, parents and carers,
Here are some news from another busy and fun week here at St Adrians.
As you can already guess, this week we took part in different celebrations. Our home corner turned into a party kitchen full of presents, bunting, cakes and sweets. There was also pizza and yummy sandwiches. We prepared some cakes on the playdough table. We’ve made a special chocolate playdough and had lots of gems, sticks and patterned rollers to decorate our ‘delicious’ creations!

All these celebrations were part of our new RE topic Local Church – Community. The children were thinking about what people celebrate and why they celebrate. Next week we will link these experiences with what the parish family celebrates. We will discuss further what ‘Parish family’ means and what sort of celebrations take place in Church.

We also role played a Bible story called ‘Mary and Joseph take baby Jesus to the Temple’ When Simeon and Anna saw baby Jesus, they couldn’t believe their eyes. They waited for a long time to see God’s son. When they finally met him they said that ‘He is the Savior of the world’ and ‘He is the light of the world’.

What a better way to learn the story, but to pretend we are Anna, Simeon, Mary and Joseph. Have a look:

In Little Wandle we learnt 3 new digraphs and 1 new trigraph.

We also learnt 3 new tricky words: my, by, all. We have added them to your child’s orange tricky words books, for you to practice at home.

In English we very much enjoyed a lovely text ‘The snowman’. The children experienced the book in so many ways: made own snowman, danced with snowy ribbons, learnt how to build a snowman, watched the film, cooked biscuits and hot chocolate. The final piece was a very own ‘Snowman book’. I can’t tell you how proud they made me feel while drawing and writing their books. Here are some lovely examples:

And finally. This week has been much warmer and we really enjoyed our garden. We are already planning what to plant and started slowly tiding it up.

Inset day – Monday 29.01.24
February half term – 19th – 23rd February

Have a lovely weekend.
Looking forward seeing you all on Tuesday.
Mrs Solakova

Year 2 get coding

Over the last few weeks, we have been using games, programmable toys and online coding games to explore algorithms. We have created our own algorithms, tried them out, spotted problems and then debugged our programmes to make sure that they work. This has involved lots of mistakes, discussions and problem solving, which has been great fun!