Our Classes – Page 34 – St Adrian's Catholic Primary School

Nursery – 21.04.2023

Welcome back everyone, it was lovely to see the children back on Tuesday. The children took part in circle time where they told their friends what they did in the Easter Holidays. It was great to hear all the lovely things they got up to including easter egg hunts, visiting relatives and going to the cinema to see Super Mario!

This week we have looked at the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Lots of the children already know the story so it was great they could join in with the words. We watched a video about a lady called Mabel, she visited a butterfly sanctuary and told us lots of wonderful things about both caterpillars and butterflies.

Today our special visitors arrived…..

We are going to be watching the caterpillars over the next week or so to see how they change, I wonder how long it will be before they turn into butterflies?

Our new role play areas are open, the children can play in the new school or they could visit the pizza parlour to either make or taste yummy pizza.

This term we will continue to do PE on Monday mornings and visit the Library every Friday.

Please could all spare clothes bags be returned to school.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Taylor

Reception – Easter!

31.03.23

And just like that it’s the end of another term! An amazing term full of fun, learning and excitement!
This week we really enjoyed learning all about Easter, welcoming you for a special Hot Cross Bun gathering, creating Easter cards, making Easter baskets and so much more.

In Little Wandle we continued reading longer words and words that finish with ‘s’ like queens, torches, cheeps. We also practised spelling words like visit and had to remember that we say ‘z’, but write ‘s’. The children are definitely building their confidence and it is so lovely to see them becoming more and more independent.

Our Easter cards are looking fabulous too and we are all very proud with our messages inside… all done by the children. Brilliant writing Reception!

We continued planting fruit and veg outside and the garden is looking smashing! With strawberries on the fence and cabbage, carrots, radishes and lettuce in the raised garden. The children carefully placed some seeds and watered them. We really hope that they will grow!

Thank you very much for coming to our Hot Cross Bun gathering. It was lovely to share our learning with you and sing some songs. And the buns were so delicious!

The Easter Bonnets looked absolutely incredible! Well done to Rosanne and Luke for winning the competition and to everybody else for taking part.

Things to remember:
Easter holidays – 03. 04. 2023 – 17.03.23 (Monday 17th – inset day)
Practise books – due to having a stock-take during Easter holidays (please check your emails) no books have been sent home this week. Instead you can use the Collins Ebook logins and read with your child. All titles read so far have been added (you can find a sticker with your login details in your child’s reading record).
As always thank you for your continued support!

Have an Eggcellent break!!!
Looking forward seeing you soon!
Mrs Solakova

Year 2 learn across the curriculum

This term, we have been busy learning so many different things and here are some of our classroom displays that celebrate our tremendous achievements. Well done Year Two!

To learn, to love, to live together.
Our anti racism display
Walking with Jesus through Lent.
Our beautiful collage daffodils.

Happy Easter from Year 4

We’ve had a great week in year 4. Our Lent learning culminated in this week’s reflection and celebration today and the children’s understanding of the Lent season has deepened. Their contributions to the Liturgical Art competition were varied and stunning.

We very much enjoyed reading “Matchbox Diary” and will start “Weslandia” when we return. “The Lighthouse Letters” is already intriguing and we’re looking forward to continuing that after the holiday.

The “Rock Steady” children gave fantastic performances on Tuesday and the choir gave a rousing, beautiful performance today. A few more members of year 4 joined the choir recently and it would be wonderful to see more children doing the same. Joining in a song with a large group of people is a brilliant feeling.

Thank you for your support of your children this term, whether it be by buying cakes or helping with home learning or all the other positive, supportive things you do for your children and families. I wish you all a relaxing, enjoyable holiday whether at home or abroad and look forward to seeing you all again in late April.

Easter Week at School

We have looked at the Easter Story and coloured our palm Sunday crosses. We have learned about different Easter traditions around the world and decorated a German inspired Easter Branch.

Then the wonderful Easter Gardens arrived and they were a fantastic display.

They were beautifully creative and inspirational. Congratulations to all the children! I wish they were here all the time (the gardens).

It has been such a busy but fruitful term in Year 1. I am looking forward to returning in the Summer term,to hopefully more outdoorsy weather and great learning. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday with crafty fun and outdoor adventures.

HAPPY EASTER!

Nursery – 31.03.2023

This week we read stories around Easter and thought about this special time of year. The children helped to create an Easter Garden.

On Wednesday morning we made easter nests:

The Easter bonnets have looked fantastic being displayed in our classroom this week, this morning we showed them off in assembly.

The children have worked really hard this term and are ready for a rest. I hope you have a lovely Easter break and I look forward to seeing all the children back on Tuesday 18th April 2023.

Wishing you all a very happy Easter

Miss Taylor

Year Two get arty

We have thoroughly enjoyed our Art and Design topic this term. We explored Wassily Kandinsky’s artwork Squares with Concentric Circles and then created our own fantastic artwork using pens, oil pastels, powder paint and clay.

Reception – Easter Preparations!

24.03.2023

Hello everyone,
another week for us in Reception full of new learning and lovely experiences. In RE we were thinking about Jesus and how he dies on the cross to save all of us. We discussed fairness, trust and love for one another. We made beautiful Easter art and Hot cross bun posters. Really looking forward Tuesday, so we can gather together and think about Good Friday.

Vegetable patch update:
Outside we were busy prepping the soil for new vegetables. The children helped clearing everything out and then getting all the weeds out. The soil is all ready and we are planning to plant radishes, beans, onions and carrots. Strawberries are also on the list :). We are all very excited and hope that they all grow big and strong.

In Little Wandle this week we are continuing with Phase 4 sounds and are reading long words like ‘waiting’, ‘zooming’ and ‘singing’. The children are getting better and better chunking the long words up, if needed.

In English we wrote our own captions ‘I will not ever eat…’. We are absolutely loving the book. Why don’t you have a go too:

In Maths this week, the children continued to explore the composition of numbers within 10, focusing on the ‘special case’ of when 2 equal parts combine to make a whole. The children used their skills of comparison and identify when 2 sets are equal or NOT equal. They noticed a range of familiar representations including dice and fingers to explore the idea of ‘2 equal parts’, and then find the whole by combining these parts. They also used the stem sentence: ‘This is a double because ….. is a part and …… is a part.’

Dates to remember:
Tuesday 28th of March, 2:15pm – Hot Cross Bun Gathering
Friday 31st of March Easter Parade (deadline for Easter bonnets is Tuesday 28th).

Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Solakova

Rocking the times-tables – and other learning in year 4

A wave of excitement rolled over year 4 this morning when we saw our classmates’ names topping the leader board in TTRS! And more names are appearing further down the leader board. Great job, year 4 – let’s give years 5 and 6 a run for their money. Keep playing Garage to improve your recall. Then, when your accuracy is there, play Studio and your status will improve.

This was after a lovely mass at St Barts, with years 3 and 4. Behaviour was impeccable and the children were a credit to all their adults.

Thank you to the original works of art which are coming in for the home learning/art competition. Each one is unique and, as a class, we are enjoying celebrating each creation.

The children also used their creativity to illustrate one station of the cross in watercolours, as part of our understanding of Good Friday.

As it’s the end of term, we’re finishing off the learning in topics. We have finished the chapter about fractions and next week will be learning about time, in particular the number of minutes in an hour, weeks in a year, etc. We will have lots of absorbing problems to get stuck into. We’ve all found learning about physical features of the earth such as volcanoes and rivers very interesting. We will start “Letters from the Lighthouse” next week, as our reading book.

Have a lovely weekend and let’s hope the rain stays away.

Spring Showers

Its been a week of multiple absences and changeable weather!

In science the class learned about the changes in daylight hours that occur at this time of year, in relation to the Spring Equinox.

It was beautiful in the playground when the sun shone.

In PE we were practicing skills for rounders. The main teaching point being that when we throw the ball we want the other person to catch it so how can we help them?