St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
The children have made a very happy start to Year 2 and we are all having a wonderful time as we get to know each other and start our new topics.
It was lovely to see so many Year 2 parents on Monday 9th September. Notes from the meeting can be found below:
Date for your diary: KS1 Christmas play on 12th December at 7pm
I hope that you have all had a lovely holiday. It is good to welcome the children back for the start of a new school year.
We have not set maths and English homework this week. School reading books have been sent home today and I ask that you encourage your child to read regularly at home, supporting them to develop the habit of reading for enjoyment. It may be that your child is already reading a book from home or from the library. If this is the case, I would be grateful if they would note this in the school reading record.
I have updated the RE home learning section with details of our current topic. In the first of our themes, People, we will be learning about the family of God in Scripture.
During the next month, I would like you write a special prayer for your family. Your prayer will form part of our class prayer book – Take time to decorate your prayer and make it look wonderful. Your neat handwriting might help persuade me that you are ready for your pen licence! You will need to hand in your RE homework by Wednesday, 2nd October.
Our RE topic for the next four weeks is based around the theme of Families.
We will be considering the big question Who is in your family? Why do you have a family?
The children will learn everyone belongs to the family of God. It is in the love of a family that Christians first experience the reality of Church . By the end of the topic the children will have knowledge and understanding of; the love and care shown in the family and God’s love and care for every family.
Key words for the topic are: family, belong, different, love, care
For their RE home learning, the children have been asked to bring in a picture of their family to share with the class and prompt discussions throughout the topic. Alongside this, please could the children create a poster, model or creation of their family to bring in by 16th September. The children may bring this in before if they wish.
The class have had a fantastic week and have settled in to year one amazingly! We started this term discussing all the amazing adventures the children got up to over the summer and finding out what they would like to learn this year. Turns out we have a lot of future divers in the class!
PE will be on Monday and Tuesday afternoons so please make sure your children have the appropriate clothing for these sessions.
We have golden time every Friday after lunch. This allows the children to bring one toy in from home to play with.
Please make sure you pay via the office if you wish for your child to have milk at break time.
Sharing Friday begins again on Friday 13th September if you wish to join us after school. ‘Meet the teacher’ for Year One will be on Tuesday 17th September at 9am. This is last for approximately 30 minutes. I look forward to seeing you all then.
Any questions, feel free to speak to me before or after school. If you wish for a longer meeting, please arrange through the office.
I am really looking forward to an exciting year with your children.
I hope you have a relaxing weekend.
Miss Perry
I would like to say a huge thank you for all your kind words, cards and gifts but also for your support since I have been teaching year 1. 
I have really enjoyed teaching the class through the summer term and watching them blossom ready for year 2 with Mrs Hayes, where I am sure they shall continue to be enthusiastic learners.
If you find yourself with a spare minute, please try to fit in some reading with your child and ask them to write any adventures they get up to, practising joining letters together.
I wish you all a very relaxing summer and hope the warm weather continues!
Miss Perry
The Summer Reading Challenge 2019 theme is Space Chase, an out-of-this-world adventure inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
Children taking part in the Challenge will join our super space family, The Rockets, for a thrilling mission to track down books nabbed by mischievous aliens!
Space Chase will feature bespoke artwork from top children’s illustrator, Adam Stower, and will celebrate adventure, exploration, reading and fun!
Illustrations © Adam Stower 2019 for The Reading Agency
The Summer Reading Challenge is aimed at children aged four to eleven and it is run in almost all libraries in the UK.
Visit your local library during the summer holidays to sign up – the sooner you go, the longer your child will have to read six books!
Staff will register your child for the Challenge and give them some fun materials to get them started.
Many libraries will also offer pre-school activities suitable for under-fours, including specially designed Summer Reading Challenge materials. Visit your local branch to find out more.
The Summer Reading Challenge is the UK’s biggest free reading for pleasure event for children. It is run by the national charity The Reading Agency in partnership with the UK public library network.
The aim of the Challenge is to encourage children to read any six books of their choice from their library during the summer holidays.
Children receive special rewards each time they finish a book and there’s a certificate for everyone who completes the Challenge.
Key dates :
Tuesday 16th July: Children to come to school at 6.30 pm to get changed for the performance which will begin at 7.00 pm.
Wednesday 17th July: Leavers’ Mass 7.00 pm
Thursday 18th July : Leavers’ Assembly 9.00 am
Please could children bring a plastic bag to school on Monday to take their books home in.
Many thanks,
Mrs Butterworth
Reading
Please continue to read as much as possible and when responding ensure you are asking increasingly challenging questions. Many of you are now asking more challenging questions with the help of the question stems provided. This will really support your understanding when responding to the texts you read.
If you are looking for some great books to read, below are two lists that should have something for everyone.
Spelling
You have been given the Y5/6 spelling list. Please ensure you are continuing to practice these words at home – use the spelling pattern revision posters attached to help you. You could pick one to focus on each day, writing three sentences using words that fit that pattern in your spelling journals.
Please find the year 5/6 National Curriculum spellings attached. You should continue to revise these over half term.
HWT English
It has been a very busy week for year 1, but I would like to cast back to last weeks class assembly which the children put so much effort into. Mrs Ruffell and I were so impressed with the motivation and confidence year 1 had to showcase just a handful of their recent learning to you and the school. The children really did us proud. Thank you for helping them learn their lines at home. This helped greatly with their confidence and projection.
In science &D&T we are learning the uses of materials to build house for the Three Little Pigs. Last week we usedlego to ensure secure structure and a solid roof to keep the Big Bad Wolf out. This week we have started to use a range of materials to build another house which we shall then test to see whether they are wind and rain proof.
Miss Perry
This week’s home learning is located in the Year 5 home learning drop down menu on the right hand side of this page.
Today we had a Thanksgiving mass in school to celebrate many of the Year 3 class members taking their First Holy Communion recently.
It was a lovely chance for the children to celebrate this special occasion with each other. I also think they enjoyed getting to wear their special clothing and share it with their friends. They all looked so smart and grown-up!
Thank-you to the parents for sending in their outfits and for the kind donations of food and drinks for our celebration afterwards!
