St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
This week we have finished our English block on Stanley’s Stick by writing our own version called Sarah’s Sock. We have had a funny time in class exploring all the different things an odd (or pair) of socks can be!
In Maths we have been using manipulatives to make numbers to 40 and we are learning to order, read and write them as well.
We have also spent some time focusing on whole body listening to encourage better focus.
This week we looked at the story The Gingerbread Man. We have read and watched different versions of the story. On Tuesday we made our very own Gingerbread man to enjoy at home. We helped prepare all the ingredients and then put them in to a bowl and gave it a good stir! We all had a piece of dough to roll out and a cutter to make our gingerbread man. Some of us put raisins on our gingerbread man – yummy!
Lent
Thank you for bringing in your Lentern Promises. The children have been enjoying looking at the tree and talking to their friends about the promise they have made.
On Thursday afternoon we joined Mrs Porter and the KS2 children to walk around the path on the field. Mrs Porter is completing The Big Lent Walk during Lent and we wanted to join her to show our support!
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Please join us on Friday mornings between 8:45-9:00am for reading mornings.
Next Friday (17th) we will be going to the Mothers Day Assembly in the hall – parents are invited to attend.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Taylor
We had a great time on World Book Day, celebrating our love of books, reading and writing. The day started with an opportunity to show off our outfits in a whole school assembly, followed by a shared reading session with our Year 6 buddies. After sharing poems with a friend, we then explored rhyming words and wrote our own amazing poems that we published in a class book. We also created our own beautiful bookmarks that we will be able to use in our favourite books. We have all brought a poetry book home, so our next challenge is to learn a poem to recite to our friends.
03.03.2021
A week full of books we’ve all had. With storytelling, bookmaking and dressing up.
We began the week by opening our new Doctor’s surgery. The children are now so confident writing, so we decided to make our own label. We were making sure all the patients are looked after and everyone is healthy.
A key focus in Maths this week was to consolidate the ‘stable order principle’ – rehearsing the order of the first 10 numbers and understanding that the position that each number holds in our number sequence does not change. While working with numbers to 10, the children developed their understanding of the ordinal aspect by consolidating their understanding that each number has a value of ‘1 more’ than the previous number.
In Little Wandle this week we’ve been revisiting the sounds already learned and continued blending longer words. Instead of adding new tricky words (as from now until the end of the spring term we will be revisiting the tricky words already taught) in your child’s orange folder I will be adding longer words like farmyard, carpark. We are learning how to chunk them. Please practise them home for building fluency.
English:
We are beginning to read new book, ‘The tiny seed’ by Eric Carle. First we planted our own tiny seed and then we made books explaining how the seeds grow.
In RE we pretended that our classroom is Church and role played Mass. We had priest and readers. We said the special words for Mass and everyone took part. Have a look at yourself:
And finally what an amazing outfits!!! You all looked AMAZING!
Have an amazing week!
Looking forward seeing you all next week!
Mrs Solakova
There was a wide range of characters in year 4 today – and they were all very keen to take a journey to the centre of the earth and write all about it in books they made themselves. The books are a work in progress as everyone put lots of time and care into their writing and illustrating a cross-section of the earth. As is always the case with geographical and scientific learning, the children are super-keen to acquire knowledge and use word like “magma”, “core” and think about what it must be like at the centre of the earth, where it is as hot as the sun. We were linking knowledge from previous years – basalt, granite, for instance – to understand this year’s learning better.
It was great to see so many dressing up and taking part in this year’s World Book Day.
We joined with Year 2 to read together and share poems.
In PE this term we are completing the Movement Development unit. We explored moving around in space in the hall pretending to be different sized animals e.g. we pretended to be an elephant and made big steps or a snake by moving on our tummies. We then played a game of bumper cars, we had a hoop bumper car and tried really hard not to bump into another bumper car.
This week we looked at the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children took part in a range of activities throughout the week including making and playing with porridge oats, acting out the story in the tuff tray, making a baby bear mask and even tasting some of mummy bears famou porridge – delicious.
Today in school we celebrated World Book Day. The children looked fantastic dressed up as their favourite book characters. We had a trip to the library where they listened to a story about a frog who didn’t want to be a prince. The children chose new books to read at home.
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Please join us every Friday from 8:45-09:00am for Reading Morning.
Mothers Day Assembly – 17th March – 09:05am
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Taylor
This week, we had lots of fun as we took part in our Big Lent Walk with Mrs Porter. We walked (or ran!) for 25 minutes and everyone covered a distance of at least two kilometres each. We are very proud of ourselves.
Please help us to raise money for CAFOD by going onto our school fundraising page, where you can see a record of the walk that we did together. You can find the fundraising page here: https://cafod.enthuse.com/pf/aideen-porter
24.02.23
What an yummy first week back we’ve had. With pancakes and delicious toppings. The children had lovely time mixing the batter and then flipping the pancakes… well at least we tried and nothing went on the ceiling 🙂
Our pancake cafe was fully booked and we even had to have a waiting list! We invited Nursery children too to help us with all the prep work.
In RE this week we talked about Lent, and how during Lent we will try to grow in many ways…. and it could be very hard. The children all had their Lenten promise heart to take home. Please help your children and think about what that promise could be and then return them to school so we can create a special Lenten promise tree.
Wednesday was a very special day as Mrs Porter gave us the ashes. We talked about where do the ashes come from and why we are receiving them.
Finally thank you very much for coming to parents consultations meetings. It was lovely to see you all in person and talk about your children’s progress. And as always thank you very much for supporting us in this journey. We wouldn’t be able to do it well without your help and determination.
Things to remember:
Friday reading mornings – 8:45am to 9:00 am.
3rd of March (Friday) we will be celebrating World book day and the children can come and dressed as their favourite book character.
Please bring in your Lenten Promise by Friday 3rd March.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Solakova
