St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
This week, we’ve been fully immersed in science experiments aligned with our current learning focus: light and dark. Our journey began with exploring various materials and examining their reflective properties under different conditions. We also learned about how shadows are formed. Then, we created animal shadows with our hands. We concluded the week by planting sunflower seeds in preparation for our next science unit.
As part of RE this week we thought about Spring, a time for new things to grow. We wanted to watch something new grow quickly in the classroom so on Monday we helped put some cress seeds into large dishes and then watched them grow…
We also thought how we grow in love during the season of Lent and we went to look at the Lenten tree. The children were very good at remembering the promise that they had made and told me that they were keeping them.
In Maths this week we consolidated our learning by playing subitising, counting and matching games.
Other pictures this week
Friday 22nd March – EYFS cake sale after school. Donations of cakes can come in on the day via the office/classroom.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Tylor
Just take a look at our beautiful daffodil cards
Ellis came into school and recited a beautiful poem that he had written himself. Here it is:
Springtime by Ellis
Springtime is nearly here and the sky has become clear.
The sunshine comes out and everyone can play about.
Baby animals are being born at the farm. We go to see them, a super charm!!
The flowers start to grow, some start from seed that we have to sow.
The sunshine helps them and the water does too.
We are happy when the skies are blue
Ellis’s amazing skills as a poet inspired us to write our own poem as a class. We discovered how writing a poem takes time as we brainstormed our imaginative ideas and had to agree on what phrases and ideas would go where in our poem.
Daffodils by Year Two
Daffodils are yellow, sometimes white and they use the sunshine to make them bright.
Beautiful daffodils are wonderful to see.
Sitting beside them makes you happy.
Standing straight like soldiers, all in a row.
Be careful not to step on them, or they will not grow!
As Mrs Porter mentioned in the bulletin, the birthday traditions at St Adrians include buying a book for the school library, from the year group’s wishlist on Amazon. Here is year 4’s: https://amzn.eu/cP4l70U
Buying a book for the school library is a wonderful way to contribute to the joy of learning and pleasure of reading for current and future pupils. When a child goes to the library, s/he may see his/her book on the shelves and s/he can recommend it to friends. It will have a bookplate on the front cover so readers can see which kind person shared a favourite read with them.
We celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as our favourite characters from beloved books. Throughout the day, we engaged in group reading activities and shared our favourite stories with one another.
On birthdays we encourage children to donate a book to our class library. As a token of our appreciation they get to wear a non- school uniform on their birthday. Our class wish list can be found on Amazon. Year Three wish-listhttps://amzn.eu/bXpVAyq
The class came dressed as their favourite “book” characters and we shared books with Year 5 and took part in other fun related book activities, like quizzes.
I have started to refresh the book corner to reflect the changing needs of the class and remind the children of the power of our imagination.
In RHE this week we thought how how we could be more like Jesus – caring and sharing with our friends. We learnt that Jesus washed people’s feet so we role played this.
In Maths this week we looked at ways we could make 5, Sammy the Snail and Number 5 helped us how to do this.
Thank you for coming to the Mother’s Day Assembly today, the children enjoyed making their cards. They chose the colours they know you love the most. Have a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday.
Other photos this week:
Important Dates
Reading morning – Friday 15th and 22nd March, 8:45 – 9:00AM in the Nursery classroom.
Friday 22nd March – EYFS cake sale after school. Donations of cakes can come in on the day via the office/classroom.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Taylor
Two chapters in and everyone in class 4 is desperate to know who the creatures are and what adventure is going to happen next in “Odd and The Frost Giants”. We have travelled to a different time and place to meet some very interesting characters… More will be revealed next week…
The book is by Neil Gaiman, an author I’ve been mentioning at consultations. He writes fantastic books – novels and picture books – for children which appeal to many ages and girls and boys. If your child enjoys this book, or even if s/he wouldn’t choose reading as the first thing to do, this author could be for them. Your child doesn’t have to read every word – you could read a page each, or you could chip in when it gets tricky. Any way into reading is really worth it, for so many reasons, not the least being as inspiration for writing. There are Neil Gaiman books in the school library for anyone to borrow. This website is American and shows some of the titles, for all ages he has written- https://www.mousecircus.com/books
Have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing the parents I haven’t seen yet on Monday morning.
This week the children have loved exploring the story ‘Goldilocks at the Three Bears’. We have read different versions of the story which the children have been joining in with. This is the video we have watched in class if the children would like to watch it again.
The new role play opened today so the children have been making porridge and spending time in The Three Bears Cottage.
We have also loved playing with the porridge oats; tipping, pouring and scooping.
We acted out the story during yoga.
The children have enjoyed being back together this week after the break.
Thank you for returning your Lenten Promises. Hopefully the weather will be drier next week so we can go out and pick a branch to hang them on.
There will be no reading morning on Friday 8th as we will be going to the Mothers Day assembly. We have been practising the song we will be singing so it would be lovely if you could join us.
Important Dates
Thursday 7th March – World Book Day – Children can come dressed up as their favourite book character.
Friday 22nd March – EYFS Cake sale after school. Donations of cakes can come in on the day via office/classroom.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Taylor
In English, we were inspired by the book ‘A River’ by Marc Martin to create our own version of the story. We used descriptive language to describe the journey of the river. Here are some photos of our English display.
Maths
In maths, we explored the perimeter of various shapes. Here are a few snapshots from our lesson.
