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Girls Football Six-a-side Tournament

On Saturday, 2^nd July, six of our pupils went to represent the school in the Annual Six-a-side Girls Football Competition. This is a competition aimed at Year 6 pupils but is open to all age groups and school sizes. Some large schools in the competition have around 90 girls to choose from to make their team. We were very much minnows in a pond full of sharks.

Our first match was against Alban City School. The girls fought hard with Ruby stepping up to take the goalkeeper role. She may be in Year 4, but Aoilbhe was not going to be pushed around whilst older sister Keeva ( our captain) marshalled the defence. Maddison was up and down the pitch shutting down opponents or supporting the attack. I thought we had signed Fred Astaire for a moment when I looked at wonderful, beguiling footwork from Jess. This was a really tight match but not as tight as the intricate angle with which Lara, teased home the winner ( one nil to St Adrian’s).

Our next match was against Samuel Ryder Academy. This is a much larger School and it showed. The girls fought valiantly, none more so than Lara, whose goalkeeping kept us in the game against the Ryder onslaught. We were two nil down but Ruby gave us a glimmer of hope when her rocket from the edge of the box could not , in spite of last ditched effort by the a Ryder defender, be kept from bulging the net. Alas 2 – 1 is how the score finished.

Our final game was against another large school and tournament favourites, Fleetville. Not only is this school bigger, but also, fielding year 6 girls, they were physically bigger as well and put us to the sword.

Our girls did us proud and , against the odds, managed to come third in our group. I couldn’t ask any more of them.

District Sports

This Tuesday and Thursday was the district sports. Pupils fromYears, 3,4,5 and 6 took part in a mixture of track and field events.

Year 5 Netball

This week, our Year 5 netball team played against a Year 6 team from Bowman’s Green and came 2nd.

Year 5 and Year 6 Football Finals

Football Reports

Aidan and Patrick reporting – The Road to Colney Heath

Year 5 Six-a- Side Tournament (The Preliminaries)

Match report 1

St Adrians FC Vs Maple FC

St Adrian’s 2 – Maple 0

Kick Off

Aidan took the kick off passing out to Leo who later passed to Patrick ,whilst Aidan made a run through the middle but when the pass came, Aidan miss touched it. Moments later, Luca had a nice shot to make it 1-0. Maple took the kick off. Moments later Leo took the ball off the player and made a quick pass to Aidan who accidentally kicked the ground.

Half time

Substitutions: Melville – Dara and Michael – Luca

Straight away, Maple took a quick break away. But it was defended by Patrick’s great defending. Soon Patrick made a great ball to Aidan who shot but it was saved but not caught, so Leo could get the rebound to make it 2-0. Full time came just after Leonardo’s one in a million save to keep it 2–0.

Pundits preview

Hello Aidan, how do you feel about the game?

I think attacking is not that great but defending is brilliant because everyone is making an effort to keep a clean sheet. So overall a great performance by both sides.

Michael, do you think we can play better football?

Yes,maybe a bit more shots on target and also midfield need to drop a bit more.

Thank you Patrick reporting.

Match report 2

St Adrians Vs Colney Heath

7-0

Kick off

Michael passed it to Leo whilst Luca was running down the line to make an option for Leo. Then he made the pass to Luca who played it to Michael who had a clear open shot on goal to make it 1-0.

Colney Heath took the kick off ,Michael won it minutes later out-skilling the defenders to make it 2-0 .to St Adrian’s .

Once again Colney Heath took the kick off and ran clear but Patrick used his strength to knock him off the ball. Later Patrick played a great ball to Luca who had a smashing shot that could have broken the back of the net to make it 3-0.

Then 4-0. Then Melville scored a great bottom corner goal for 5-0

Half time

Substitutions

Aidan-Leo

Melville-Patrick

Straight away Aidan scored a goal through the keepers legs for 6-0

Then he hit the post to get the rebound to make it a whopping 7-0

Ouch that must of hurt for Colney Heath.

Pundits preview

What do you think about the game?

We’re through, come on! Yay.

By Aidan,Patrick and Michael

The road to Colney Heath

The Final Tournament Year 5 Six-a-side Tournament (The Finals)

We all thought we were going to win the 6 A Side Tournament because of our performance on wednesday but we didn’t realize that these teams have been training for years.

The first game unfortunately we lost 4-0 to Garden Fields.

But we didn’t give up. Then in the next game, Luca scored , but then they come back 1,1.

Then Michael scored the winner to win the game to make it 2-1.

In the 3rd game we drew 1,1 with a late equalizer and we all thought we deserved it. For us, we were quite unfortunate. We lost 2,0 to Killigrew and I think we stopped playing well as soon as we lost 4,0 to Garden fields. But this was the first tournament we have played and we think most of the schools have played a lot of tournaments before. We came 7th out of 10 teams but, if we won the first match, we could have come first place or at least 4th place. But our passing was a little bit bad at the first match and we were all doing our own thing and we did not have a plan. But we got better throughout the matches. We have very good players on our team but we didn’t work as a team but we will be better next time .

By Dara, Luca and Melville

The St Albans City Cup Semi Final and Final (Year 6)

The game had kicked off with Bowmans Green starting with intensity and giving us an indication of their style of football.It was going to be a tough match.

It was a balanced game,both sides having their share of chances and within the first five minutes Bowmans Green scored the opener.An exquisite threaded pass from the central midfielder to play the left winger in through on goal. 1 v 1 who would come out on top? Dylan,the great goalkeeper or number nine the wonderful winger?It was a brilliant finish and a well crafted goal from Bowmans Green. The crowd cheered loudly,leaping and jumping in exultation.

Not long after, Bowmans Green scored a second it was going to be tough to come back from this.The colossal central defender played a remarkable pass which went beyond everyone and perfectly dropped to number nine who took the ball astoundingly round our main goalkeeper James and shot as one of our solid defenders,Joe, desperately tried to stop the goalbound shot with a last ditch slide but was unable to keep it from out of the net.2- 0.

After half time Luke did some magical footwork, got round all the defenders and calmly slotted the ball past the Bowmans Green goalkeeper.It was a sensational goal! Some minutes had passed and some beautiful football from Paolo and Luke created a goal scoring opportunity which Paolo hammered in the net.2-2! We could win this

Extra time was a game of tennis back and forth but still no winner. Who would win? Penalties came along and St adrians took the first penalty. Paolo up first, to put St adrians in the lead, and he scored a world class penalty 1-0.Bowmans Green scored a decent penalty, unsavable for James.Next was our star sticker Luke who thumped his penalty into the back of the net. Bowmans Green missed their second penalty -unfortunate for them. Up next was Dylan to put us in the lead. A good penalty but a better save from the keeper.How did he keep that out?

2-2.Bowmans Green’s next pen was fantastically saved by James so it was still 2-2- this game was up for grabs.Theo took next and placed his penalty into the top right corner. It was 3-2 St Adrians.We could win.Bowmans Green scored their next penalty which made the score 3-3.Lewis up next to send St Adrians to the final of the district cup smashed his penalty into the side netting of the bottom left corner. St adrians to the final of the district cup!

It was an astonishing, neck – in – neck football match but St Adrains came out on top! Next is St Columbas in the final.Can we win that too?

Report by Theo.

The St Albans City Cup Final St Adrian’s V St Columba’s

We kicked off knowing what our job was. After a slow start from both teams, St Columba’s showed us what they’re made of and scored the opener 1-0 .

Then St. Columbus scored another goal ( 2 – 0 ). We really had to come back from this one now but it won’t be easy but we thought we could do it when Sonny ( our centre-back) scored a free kick from in line with the centre circle to make it 2-1. St. Columba’s scored another one when a former St Adrian’s student put the ball in the net with the very last kick of the game.

Report by Joe

Final Score St Columba’s 3 – St SAdrian’s 1

Our Year 6 Heroes showing their medals.

Kate Grey Visits St Adrian’s

At Assembly on Monday, as part of our role as Sports Ambassadors, we gave a talk to the school about the Daily Mile and upcoming visit from Paralympian , Kate Grey, on Thursday. When the big day arrived, the whole school was very excited to do the Daily Mile and hear the inspirational talk from Kate.

Kate was very kind and told us all about her life growing up after losing her arm to a sausage machine on her parents’ farm. She was only two years old at the time.

Instead of feeling sorry for herself, she said she saw it as a new challenge and did all sorts of sports and activities. In fact, the only thing she couldn’t do, was the monkey bars. When she went swimming for the first time at the age of 4, she found it difficult but was determined to get better while along the way, learning some important life skills and making new friends. She became so good that she represented GB at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and won a Silver & Bronze medal in the World Championships in swimming. At the end of her talk, we then asked her all sorts of questions about her life journey.

She said how physical exercise had really helped her and that being active every day brings all sorts of benefits. She then led a warm up in the hall which was tiring but fun. Then the whole school went outside to run the Daily Mile (8 laps of our field) .

This week, schools all over Hertfordshire have been encouraged to do the Daily Mile. Quite a few of us realised that it is not as easy as we thought to run a mile but we are determined to get better with practice.

Kate helped us realise next time we have a challenge or think we can’t do something, we should remember what she said and never give up.

On behalf of St Adrian’s, we want to say thank you for coming to our school Kate Grey.

The Sports Ambassadors

Game on!

This week St Adrian’s were represented brilliantly by the girls’ football team at Skyswood. Both teams played with skill and great sportsmanship, with the final score 3-1 to Skyswood. Well done to the whole team.

Tuesday saw St Adrian’s attending the Oaklands Quicksticks Hockey event, for the first time. Two teams represented the school: the “Compete” team played 9 games and the “Aspire” team 8 games so it was a full day. Every child who attended showed energy, commitment, excellent sportsmanship and good humour. Not only did they all enjoy the hockey itself, it was also great fun to meet friends from other schools, compete against them and also compete against the schools’ neighbours, namely Mandeville and Prae Wood. Well done, all the year five pupils who attended. We are all very proud of the way you tried something new and represented your school so well.

News from Year 1 – Happy Easter!

What a fabulous end to a wonderful term. We have really enjoyed learning about the Easter story this week. On Tuesday, we took part in the station of the cross assembly. It helped us remember the story of Easter.

On Wednesday, we had our Easter parade. Well done to all the children that entered. The winners were Aila and Alby, congratulations!

On Thursday, we even got to meet some chicks! As part of a programme called Living Eggs, we were able to handle newborn chicks. We linked this back to Easter Sunday and the coming of new life, like when Jesus rose again.

Thank you for the generous gifts for ,my birthday, I am very lucky to have such a lovely class (and parents!).

Have an ‘egg-cellent’ Easter and a relaxing break,

Miss Battams 🙂

End of the Spring term with Year 6

The children in the Chaplaincy Team this week have been run off their feet! Not only did they have the Stations of the Cross to prepare and perform in but a RE art competition to judge and an Easter parade to organise!

The Stations of the Cross was a beautifully reflective liturgy where the music, singing and performance of each of the station helped the children, staff and parents remember the significance of what Jesus, God’s Son went through on our behalf.

Thankfully, the story of Jesus didn’t end with the events of Good Friday. Three days later He rose again which is why we celebrate Easter and His promise to us for New Life. We experienced the wonderment of new life this week, when we visited the chicks in the Nursery. With careful handling of such small creatures, Year 6 enjoyed the opportunity to see the the new chicks.

The RE artwork that came into school across the school was wonderful and demonstrated the time and effort the children put into this project.

Here are just a few examples, including the winning entry by Dylan O’Leary from our class.

Finally, after weeks of doing maths, English and then more maths and English in preparation for our SATs, we got creative with our DT Project: Designing and Making Playground Structures. After researching some playground equipment the children would enjoy themselves, they then worked in partners to design a playground to the specific design brief:

It had to be safe
It had to be fun
Have something to climb up
Have something to hide in

Some children added a few other apparatus such as swings, which are of course fun to play on. The best thing about a project like this is to witness the children’s team spirit and creative energy.

As it is the end of term, I would like to thank the children and their parents for all their hard work with their homework, classwork, their willingness to help, their polite manners and their ‘I will give it a try’ attitude.

I wish you all a very Happy Easter and a well deserved break.

Lent and Easter at St Adrian’s

As part of our journey through Lent, this week, we have had our own Holy Week and Easter liturgies. The week started with a very thoughtful Stations of the Cross service led by our inspiring Year Six Chaplaincy Team. They created a tableau and reflection for each Station of the Cross and the children sang beautifully as part of this service.

We are raising money for the Catholic Children’s Society
Year 6 and Year 4 lead our Stations of the Cross liturgy
Stations of the Cross
A song to finish off our liturgy
In our Easter bonnets …
… with all the frills upon it.
Our amazing Easter gardens
Inspiring artwork
Created by KS2
We used many different media.
Our school choir sings loud and proud!
With thanks to our wonderful Chaplaincy Team

In contrast, our joyful Easter Parade celebrated the children’s amazing creativity. Children from Foundation Stage made some superb Easter bonnets, Key Stage One children created brilliant Easter Gardens and the Key Stage Two children displayed their immense talents with a wonderful mix of liturgical art. The Chaplaincy Team had the unenviable task of choosing two winners for each class, but we were very pleased to celebrate everyone’s wonderful artwork. Well done to you all!

We wish you all a very happy and holy Easter.

Creating and celebrating in Year 3

It was wonderful to see so many important family at this morning’s assembly. Year 3 were very excited to perform the two poems they’d worked collaboratively to write. All the words and actions were their own and they listened and shared each other’s ideas, to come up with the final versions you saw today.

They have also been busy creating something else for the many Mums, Grandmas, aunts and important women in their lives, but that will be a surprise for the weekend.

We have started to learn about money – how you can make amounts differently and use different ways to add them up. Money is something which really benefits from practical use, for which there’s been little opportunity the last few years. So if there aren’t many real-life opportunities, playing at shop – or Monopoly, or the many Orchard Toys games which are available in all good charity shops – can be a good substitute. One question we answered this week was “Why is there no 79 pence piece?”

Spellings for homework are on Google Classroom. Please do let us know if you have any problems accessing it. There’s no printing or submission requirements – just information for you to use. If you’d like to send a message saying how you’ve got on, or any problems or queries, please do so.

The class library now has some AMAZING books in it. They will start to be sent home next week. A record book will keep a note of all books which go out and to where. It would be wonderful to keep the books rotating as much as possible, so as many children as possible can enjoy them.

I’m sorry – no photos this week. Last week looks like being busy and varied and I will look to post some then.

Have a lovely weekend and, in particular, Mother’s Day.

Thank you to all our Mums

We’ve enjoyed getting ready this week for our Mother’s Day Assembly. For those of you who couldn’t make it, or would like an encore, we’ve added our song to our school YouTube channel. Catch it whilst you can, as I will take it down after the weekend.

https://youtu.be/sYf1NdMsrWQ

It is hard to underestimate just how much our children are enjoying the new books that you’ve so kindly donated to our class library. This is what some of the children would like to say:

Oscar:
The Boy at the Back of the Class is a very fun book. I’m not going to spoil it too much because I want you to enjoy it.

Phoebe:
I just read James and the Giant Peach and it was really good. I like it because it’s a really adventurous book. It is also really interesting. Thank you for donating all the books to our class. We really appreciate it.

Katie:
I just read a book from the year 4 library. It is called the brilliant world of Tom Gates. This is really good because it is funny, odd and really good to read. The author is Tom Gates. He has written lots more books that you might like to read.

Danny:
I love reading Amazing Adventures of Dog Man. It is practically the second-best book I’ve ever read. It is really funny. so please buy some more books for our class.

Beth:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis is a really, really good book. It is magical and adventurous. They speak like people from World War Two so you can see how they spoke. Lucy and Edmund, Peter and Susan were so brave. I would love it if someone would donate some more books so I can read them again and enjoy them.

If you would like to donate a book, you can click on the banner to see our Year 4 wishlist.

Have a lovely Mothering Sunday!

Mother’s Day preparation and amazing miracles

This week has been Mocks week, which was a practice run for SATs week in May. The children coped remarkably well with the changes to routine and we are very proud of them all.

However, we found time to prepare for Mothers Day- after all we recognise the amazing impact all our Mums have on our lives. We each made 3d Mother’s Day cards in art and another one in French.

We have also been practicing for our performance at the Mother’s Day assembly. The children worked together to write their own lyrics for their own version of Mamma Mia. We think our Mums will be pleased with the result when they see us perform it at Friday’s assembly.

In RE, we read and analysed the amazing miracle Jesus performed when he raised his friend Lazarus from the dead. We looked at how the Holy Spirit helped Jesus and what it must have been like for witnesses to this spectacular event. Some members of the class imagined they were characters from the story and we interviewed them by putting them in the Hot Seat.

Ultimately, we realised that Jesus, and only He, could have performed such a miracle. Through this miracle we learn about God’s power over death and His promise of eternal life for us. Jesus said, “ I am the resurrection, He who believes in me will live.”

So despite all our hard work, we have much to celebrate: our successes, our mothers and our faith.

News from Year 1 – from wild plants to Mother’s Day

It’s been another busy week for Year 1 this week. We have enjoyed focusing on plants this week in Science, focusing on both wild and garden plants. The highlight was hunting for wild plants within our school. We found lots of daisies and dandelions, keeping tallies of what we discovered.

We have made some beautiful Mother’s Day cards during learning through play this week. We used forks to to print flowers onto cards, completing them with thoughtful handwritten messages. We hope you enjoyed the Mother’s Day assembly, we really enjoyed performing as both a school and a class, even though we might have been a bit shy!

Also during learning through play, we have been acting out the Preparation of Gifts. We really liked dressing up and blessing the bread and wine (Jesus’ body and blood), just like a real priest.

Have a fabulous weekend,

Miss Battams 🙂

Year Two Reach Out For Refugees

Monday was our St Albans wide Reach Out for Refugees Day. We read the very poignant story of Lubna and Pebble and reflected on how difficult it must be to leave the place, people and possessions that you love.

As part of our English learning on the book ‘If all the world were …’, we have each written a poem and here is our very thoughtful class poem, which includes a verse from every member of the class.

If all the world were …

If all the world were scary, I would hug, hug and hug until the scary darkness was gone.
If all the world were poor, I would welcome the poor into my cosy house.
If all the world were awful, I would pick a red, shiny rose and smell it so I try and forget about it.
If all the world were hideous I’d suck it up and fill it with happiness.
If all the world were darkness, I would light the world up.
If all the world were poor I would give everyone a home.
If all the world were wonderless, I would hug my family.
By The Amazing Alligators

If all the world were …

If all the world were sorrowful, I would give away my teddy bear.

If all the world were poor, I would fly to them to give them a blanket to sleep with and some more money.

If all the world were empty, I would give the poor love.

If all the world were full of worry, I would bring some people to the sandy, windy beach to see the sun set.

If all the world were sad, I would give people my teddies.

If all the world were unhappy, I would give people my shiny money.

By The Fabulous Foxes

Blue and Yellow to mark Reach out for refugees Day

If all the world were …

If all the world were death and destruction, I would fill it up with love.
If all the world were sad, I would give away my teddies.
If all the world were full of poor people, I would give them medicine.
If all the world were selfish, I’d stand up for people.
If all the world were scary, I would give people my teddy.
If all the world were miserable, I would try to cheer people up and make a better place.
By The Marvellous Monkeys

If all the world were …

If all the world were horrible, I would give someone a great, red and beautiful rose.

If all the world were empty, I would fill the world with love.

If all the world were war, I would give them a home.

If all the world were poor, I would empty my money box for charity.

If all the world were worrying, I would tell people that they’re the winners.

If all the world were painful, I would wrap my lovely sisters, mummy and daddy in a warm blanket.

By The Wonderful Wolves

What an amazingly creative and talented group of poets we have in Year Two!

If you would like to hear the story of Lubna and Pebble again, then follow the link below to hear it read by the author herself.

Year 4 Reach out to Refugees

Today, children in Year 4 have come to school dressed in yellow and blue in support, not only of children and families in Ukraine, but of all people in the world who are seeking refuge.

We wrote prayers, asking God to help for those who face such danger in their lives that they must flee to seek safety elsewhere. We also gave thanks for those who keep us safe and protect us from harm.

Lily’s prayer:

Dear God,
Thank you for reminding us about the good and bad in this world. Make sure we know about the unseen as well as the people we can see.
Help us to not be selfish and let us recognise what is happening in the world. We have all been selfish before, but please forgive us and change us into good people of the world who care and share.
We all know what’s happening in Ukraine, but help us to remember the others in the world who have no choice to flee their home country.
Forgive us for forgetting but then let us see the right path. You can help us to change our ways through your Holy Spirit.
Amen

Jessica’s prayer:

Dear God,
Help the people who are in need in Ukraine to find a lovely and nice place to stay. Sorry, God, for when I have not given safety or love to people who need it. I wish everyone could have the same safety as I do so nobody gets hurt or harassed.
Amen