Our Classes – Page 41 – St Adrian's Catholic Primary School

Science week in Year 6

This week, as part of our science topic, Light, Year 6 have learnt about the work of Sir Isaac Newton.

In 1666, Newton made a discovery about light that led him to develop his Theory of Colour, a theory that still informs our understanding of light today. He placed a prism in front of ray of light, and his observations were incredible.

We worked together to replicate Newton’s discoveries in class. Isaac Newton realised that although light looks white, it is actually made up of all the colours of the rainbow. When these colours merge together, it looks white to our eyes, but we can use a prism to separate the different colours of the spectrum using refraction.

Reception – Snowy surprise

10.03.23

What a surprise this week! Planned to go on a spring walk and ended up building snowmen and having snowball fights 🙂

Despite the cold weather the daffodils we have planted in October are looking amazing and smell gorgeous. The children are looking after them so well… have a look at yourself:

In Little Wandle this week we continued reading longer words. We even read a word with 7 sounds… we had to chunk it not 2, but three times. We are also practising writing sentences and the children are really doing well remembering the rules, capital letter, finger spaces and full stop. In your childs orange book you will find some of the longer words we have read.

In PSED this week we talked about friendships and discussed what a good friend is. The children were able to compare good and bad choices and then to apply different strategies.

Things to remember:
Friday morning (17.03.23) – Mothers day assembly

Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Solakova

Year 4 week ending 10th March

Year 4 finished learning about “The Lion and The Unicorn” by writing their own versions of the story and used creative noun phrases to describe the scary night scene when their main character tried to run away. “Jack felt crushed, he made a decision. Stealthily, he packed his bags and snuck out the back door. Through the garden he weaved through the branches from the dead tree. After that, he scampered through the arch …”

Understanding about fractions is going well and the children are using complex terminology such as “improper fraction”.

The children supported Mrs Porter in her sponsored walk, not letting a bit of rain put them off.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Year 3 Class Assembly!

This week we had our class assembly on Lent. We retold the story of Jesus in the wilderness, and we also spoke about what Lent meant to us. Here are some photos of our fantastic assembly.

Stanley’s Stick

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.

Year 2 celebrate diversity

As part of Racial Justice Sunday, the children created some thoughtful posters promoting an anti-racist message. Take a look to see just how imaginative the children have been.

Nursery – 10.03.2023

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!

Other photos from this week:

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

Year 2 love to read

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.

Sharing poems with Year 6
Here we are in our amazing outfits.
It’s good to read.

Reception – World Book Day

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

Year 4 are authors…

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.