St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
A big, big thank you to all of the Y6 children and parents for your generous gifts, cards and kind words for Baby May. My husband and I are truly grateful. I have promised the children that I will bring her/him in to meet them at some point after Christmas.
I wish all of the Y6 children the best of luck for the rest of year.
God bless.
Mrs May
This week, we have been learning about the religion of Islam. Arafa brought in her prayer mat and taught her friends about the way in which she prays five times every day. Arafa taught us all a huge amount about how Muslims pray.
As part of their learning about Signs and Symbols, the children created some beautiful baptism candles and thought very carefully about the signs and symbols that were meaningful to them. Well to everyone.
Everyone worked hard to find out about the science of sound. Working in groups, the children planned and presented a short TV programme to share what they had learnt. We all enjoyed watching our videos afterwards.
The children have had a great start to Year 2 and have been very excited about their new learning. What has been especially rewarding is the enthusiasm with which pupils have brought in information from home about current learning. Thank you for the high quality of their home learning, including the posters about Saint Teresa and beautiful baptism candles.
We had an inspiring drama session earlier in October. The children paid great attention during the session and showed themselves to be wonderful actors. Well done to you all!
The Year 2 children have a great passion for art, so I look forward to seeing their artwork inspired by the theme of Bread of Life.
Have a wonderful half term break with your family.
What a great start to the year we have had! Below is just a few of the things we have been up to.
Skip2bfit
Sport Day at St Michael’s
Chaplaincy Team
Harvest Food Bank
Head Boy and Girl/ Deputy Head Boy and Girl
Prefects
Y6 Assembly
An exciting competition is taking place across the county. The task is to:
Create a piece of artwork entitled ‘The Bread of Life’.
Encourage your child to think about what the blessed sacrament, the Eucharistic host, means to them and then create a piece of artwork reflecting their thoughts. The artwork needs to be A4 in size and can be created using any medium, including paint, collage or printing. Please label the back of the artwork with your child’s name and year group and return to your class teacher by 9th November.
More details can be found here:
Today we had visitors in from Explore Learning to complete different maths challenges. The children were engaged and enjoyed debating each other’s ideas about which method was best!
This week, the children learnt all about our senses and which parts of our body are associated with which sense. For this, the children conducted experiments in a carousel style activity.
Smell The children used smelling pots and had to try and guess what was in each pot. Some guessed lavender and some guessed cinnamon.
Taste The children played a game in which they were given some fruit and they had to use their sense of taste to decide what the food was. They particularly enjoyed this one!
Touch The children were given a bag with different objects in and had to guess what the objects were according to their properties.
Sight The children played ‘Kim’s Game’ with Mrs Ruffell. This involved looking at objects in a tray and memorising them. Mrs Ruffell then took an object out of the tray and the children had to identify which object was missing. They were very good at this one!
Sound One child came into the middle of the circle and had to shout, “Stop!” The child who was holding a puppet had to say something and the child in the middle had to use their sense of sound to identify the child.
In Art, we are learning about European artists and designers. Yesterday, we learnt about the life and work of Coco Chanel, whose first shop sold hats that she had decorated.
