Our Classes – Page 20 – St Adrian's Catholic Primary School

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

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.

Nursery – 17.06.2024

Thank you for attending our Father’s Day Assembly this morning.

In maths this week we looked at 3D shapes, we learnt about cubes, cuboids, cylinders and spheres.

Other photos from this week

Important Dates

Friday 21st June – No Reading Morning

Friday 28th June – Reading Morning

Wednesday 26th June – New Reception Parents Evening 06.00pm

Tuesday 2nd July – EYFS Sports Day

Thursday 11th – Transition Morning

Wednesday 17th July – Teddy Bears Picnic

Friday 19th July – Last day of term – School finishes 11:45/`3:30.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

Reception – Welcome back!

07.06.24

Hello and welcome back to the last half term of Reception! Hard to believe, isn’t it?
This term is going to be a very busy one! There are lots of exciting things to look forward to: St Albans Cathedral trip, Class assembly, Sports day, Teddy bears picnic and transition morning!
In the next 7 weeks we will continue to observe changes we notice from Spring to Summer and will discuss how to stay safe in the heat. In PE we will mainly be practicing for our sports day. The games we’ve prepared are super fun 🙂

Our Little Wandle journey will continue with phase 4 sounds – longer words, plurals and -ing and -ed ends. The children are getting more and more familiar with how to blend, chunk and read those not so easy words. We will really focus on writing sentences, as the children now have the needed skills to develop that love for writing. Please make sure you practice all tricky words regularly. They will help us build fluency when reading more complicated books.

In Maths we talked about grouping and sharing, made doubles using our doubling machine and discussed odd and even numbers. The children used the fair and unfair sharing skills to identify whether a number is odd or even by sharing into two groups. Using language such as ‘odd’, ‘even’, ‘equal’ and ‘unequal’ prompted the children to make the links to the number of objects they are sharing.

The two groups are equal – that number is even.
The two groups are not equal – the number is odd.

Dates to remember:
Thursday 13th June – Trip to St Albans Cathedral
Friday 14th June – No reading morning
Friday 14th June – Fathers day assembly – Parents welcome

Have a wonderful week!
Mrs Solakova

Nursery – 07.06.2024

Now that summer term is here, why not visit the fish and chip shop, the children have enjoyed putting the fish and chips in the cones and sitting on the bench to eat them.

This week the children did an observational drawing of flowers in a watering Can. They worked really hard and now these beautiful pictures are up in the gallery in the cloakroom.

In RE we thought about being a friend of Jesus, we drew a picture of ourselves with Jesus.

Other photos this week

Important Dates

Friday 14th June – No Reading Morning

Friday 14th June – Fathers Day Assembly – 09:00am, Parents welcome

Wednesday 26th June – New Reception Parents Evening 06.00pm

Tuesday 2nd July – EYFS Sports Day

Thursday 11th July – Transition Morning

Friday 19th July – Last day of term, school finishes 11:45/13:30.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

Year 4’s Day out at Kew Gardens

We all had a fantastic day at Kew Gardens, learning about plants and exploring a fraction of the many beautiful and amazing things at this world-famous site. The children were enthusiastic, energetic and represented the school very well. Emma, the teacher, said how much she enjoyed their sense of fun and excitement. She led sessions where we learnt about plant explorers from the past and today and the equipment they need : can your child tell you why you need a trowel when you go looking for plants? The children practised describing plants, using knowledge from their time at primary school such as the names for parts of a plant. They also classified leaves using a key where they thought of the yes/no questions themselves. The children became acquainted with the resident geese, young and old, who appreciated some left-over breadstick and would have happily shared the rest of the children’s lunches, too. The weather was perfect and thank you for sending the children so well-prepared, with everything you were asked to provide. We were all amazed by The Hive, which will give us some insight into what a “pavilion” is in our D&T learning. The plants in the Temperate House and outside the Palm House provided opportunities for the children to practise their sketching skills which they have been learning with Mrs Bartley. The children will use what they did and learnt today in learning back in class.

A huge thank you, as ever, to the parent helpers. Wednesday is not an easy day to get time away from work and we really appreciate the effort made in coming and having to make up for the lost time in either work or jobs at home. Thank you also to Miss Jilly, from the office, who came with us – there aren’t any photos of her, unfortunately. Again, I am sorry for the high cost of the event but we did have a great day, and a full one as they journey there was completed in just under an hour.

Reception – Another half term!

24.05.24

Hello parents and children,
This week we added the final touches to our garden. It is looking wonderful and also attracting lots of bees and butterflies. The children are feeling very proud of what they achieved and every day they will check for weeds and water the plants.

In Little Wandle this week we have been looking at -ed word endings, deciding whether it makes -ed sound like in hunted or -d sound like in bumped. We also read words with -est endings like softest and strongest. We also learnt the last 2 tricky words for reception:

Please practice all tricky words at home too, so your children can feel confident recalling them. Don’t forget to continue reading both practice book and library book.
Thank you for your continued support.

In Maths we explored sharing and grouping which are both different methods of division. We talked about sharing as dividing a set equally between a certain number of groups. And grouping as dividing a set by placing a certain number of items in each group. We learnt that to share we need to take one object at a time and give it to one child before taking the next object and giving it to the next child, repeating this process until all the objects are gone or each child has an equal amount.

Wishing everybody a very restful half term. I have heard lots about your plans for the holidays and can’t wait to hear all about it from the children when they return.
Mrs Solakova

Numeracy Day!

In Year 3, we celebrated Numeracy Day with a series of fun and educational activities. We created our own songs and raps, focusing on times tables and important maths keywords we have learned so far. After spending time perfecting our lyrics, we performed our creations on stage, showcasing our musical and mathematical skills.