St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
This year, in order to ‘Show Racism the Red Card’, our school has worn their favourite red clothes to help raise awareness of the problem of racism. This year, we managed to raise £132.50 for this worthy cause and we hope it will benefit the future of young people as they strive to raise awareness of this important issue.
We, the children of St Adrian’s give Racism the Red Card!
Written by Lily Christie, Head Girl on behalf of the School Council.
We have reached the end of a very busy half-term. Its been a great start to the year. The children have all settled into the class very well and we have already made great progress. These are a few snaps of this afternoon in choosing time. Lego and the writing area the being the hot-spots!
Today marks the end of the first half-term in year six: it has been a busy time for all of the children.
We have written several books, ranging from poetry to biographies…
We’ve celebrated the harvest, whilst remembering to share our gifts with the local community and beyond…
We’ve also enjoyed the chance to be creative, as can be seen in some of the work completed for our grid homework – an imagined transitional form, linked to our learning in science and a really impressive natural dye – can you guess what vegetables created this colour?
As we look forward to all there is to learn in the next half-term, I’ll wish you a happy and restful holiday.
Today year 4 used the ukeleles for the first time. I’m looking forward to finding out how they enjoyed it on Monday. The class has a wonderfully sunny upbeat song to share with you next Friday and we’re looking forward to seeing lots of you at Harvest Festival. Thank you for all the Harvest contributions and please keep bringing them.
It was great to share how well the children are doing in year 4, at parent consultations; and I hope you all enjoyed looking at the books.
The children are making good progress with programming – currently using word algorithms to write letters, using different ways if possible – and work collaboratively very well, which is the best way to work with programming.
Those children who have been writing “500 words” stories are able to access it via the Google Suite and can work on them over the weekend, if they would like to.
I hope that you’re all enjoying the new way of doing Maths home learning. These activities match the learning at school exactly, so should really help embed understanding. Nearly everyone in the class was fascinated with Roman numerals and really enjoyed the Maths relating to this this week! There are some of these included in the home learning. I will also allocate some My Maths activities some weeks, to allow for variety.
I hope you all have a lovely relaxing weekend and look forward to seeing everyone on Monday, which will start the last week before half-term holiday.
Hello Parents/Carers
We are currently exploring the book ‘Elmer’ which the children are really enjoying. We read it every day so the children can become very familiar with the story, the characters and of course new vocabulary. This week the children created some wonderful Elmer pictures to put up on the wall using some very funny things called ‘dotty pens’.
The children have also watched the video below if you would like to take a look at home:
This week we went into the hall for our first PE lesson. The children listened really well and followed instructions and rules of the games we were playing. I know they all enjoyed playing the bean game – maybe you could do it at home.
This week we talked about what God made on day 2 and 3 of creation. The children each had a turn at painting the sea, the land and the sky. Over the next few weeks we will add to it.
In maths this week we have been looking at ‘matching’. What is matching? We played some games to support our understanding this.
Other photos from this week:
On Wednesday the Nursery children will go to their first assembly in the hall – they have been working really hard on learning the words to our Harvest song ‘Thank you for the Harvest’ – I am sure they have been singing it at home. The Harvest assembly is on Wednesday 18th at 2pm, parents welcome.
Reminders:
All children need welly boots that can stay here. The children will be able to go outside during rainy weather as they enjoy splashing in puddles but need their wellies to do this.
Library day is wednesday – please make sure books come in each Wednesday so that the children can pick a new book for the week. Please remember to write a comment to say you have read it.
Have a good weekend.
Miss Taylor
In science, we are studying forces and magnets, we had a lot of fun experimenting with the strength of different magnets. We tested the magnet by looking at how many paperclips it could hold.
We have been exploring our senses and using them to investigate and gather data.
This week, we have been working hard in year six to prepare for our class assembly. We celebrated our learning from this first half-term with our parents and the rest of the school.
In our assembly, we shared some of our work inspired by Oliver Jeffers’ book, ‘Here We Are’; we enjoyed using Oliver Jeffer’s voice and style to write about how we work together to make our school a great place.
Our assembly also echoed our learning in RE and our calling to show love in all that we do. We found a good example of this idea lived in the life of Harriet Tubman, who we learnt about as part of Black History Month. Eloise Greenfield’s poem is a powerful celebration of Harriet Tubman’s life, and we enjoyed performing this in our assembly.
In geography, we have learnt about the challenges of a growing world population. We remembered in our assembly that, as well as being part of the St Adrian’s community, we are also part of a global family. This made us appreciate the privileges we enjoy alongside our social responsibility to others – an idea we will explore further in our Harvest celebrations next week.
A big ‘thank you’ to all of the parents who came to share our celebration with us, and for support that you gave to the children in preparing for their roles.
The children have practising the skills needed to write a report, or chronological recount; and writing plans for their report on last Friday’s trip. We’ve talked about including lots of detail, using technical language, a variety of time adverbials and including their feelings and next questions about what they saw and learnt. We also revised the rules on spelling past tense verbs. Next week we’ll start writing the full report.
Today the children used acrylic paints for figures in the style of Julian Opie; and the result is some very colourful and striking pictures of people.
The class is enjoying using the library with the librarians carrying out their duties very well.
We’ve continued learning about electrical circuits, with the children building both complete and incomplete ones. In Maths, we’re coming to the end of our first unit about place value and will move onto addition and subtraction soon. In computing, the children are writing programs with increasing complexity to write capital letters.
I look forward to seeing you all at some point next week to talk about your child’s progress. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the sun this weekend.
