St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
I was really pleased that so many children put themselves forward to represent our class on the school council and I was very impressed with the quality, thoughtfulness and humour with which each child shared their ideas for this role this year.
The votes have been counted and verified and I am delighted to announce that our class representatives on the school council for Year 4 are Sophie A and Noah.
Congratulations and thank you to everyone who took part.
It was good to meet so many of you on Thursday. I hope that you found the meeting useful.
For reference, a copy of my presentation can be viewed below. I have also repeated some of the key points that were shared at the meeting.
Children are able to change their reading book during the ‘soft start’ each morning. Before selecting a new book from the school reading scheme, I ask children to complete a short book review and add this to their reading folder. Children are encouraged to supplement their reading from the reading scheme with books from home and books borrowed from libraries.
Pen licences
In year four, children progress from writing in pencil to writing in pen. I will let each child know when I think that they are ready. I will also provide the pen when the great moment comes. There are two things that I look for to tell me a child is ready for a pen:
At the start of year four, children nationally are expected to know many of their multiplication tables by heart. These are the 2, 5 and 10, the 3, and the 4 and 8 times tables. We will check the children’s recall of random facts drawn from these multiplication tables each week.
During the autumn term of year four, we will also introduce and secure the rapid recall of 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 times tables. We will add these to our weekly multiplication check as these are introduced.
Children are also expected to be able to count on and back in multiples of 10, 25, 50, 100 and 1000.
Year 1 have had another brilliant week!
In our Maths lessons this week, we have continued to secure our understanding of numbers up to 10, thinking about which words we can use to compare numbers. The children learnt lots of new vocabulary such as bigger than, more than, greater than, smaller than, less than, fewer than, the same amount as, equal to and as many as. It would be great if you could continue to use these words at home so that the children become more familiar with them.
In our English lessons, we started to look at what shared writing is and completed a piece together. As a whole group, we planned and wrote our own version of Gervase Phinn’s poem ‘Noises Off’ using sounds from the dining room.
Ongoing home learning
Can I please ask that the children learn how to do their ties and top buttons over the course of the next week as these are the pieces of clothing which cause the most trouble to the children!
Additionally, can I ask that the children are encouraged to get ready as quickly as they possibly can at home as our PE lessons are currently being cut short by some time to allow for extra changing time.
It is time to choose our school council members for year 4.
If you would like to represent your class-mates on the school council, I would like you to think about why you would be good at the job and be ready to share your ideas with the class on Wednesday next, 26th September.
We will then have a ballot to vote for your choice. Everyone will have to votes and we will elect a girl and a boy to represent our class.
Everyone is welcome to stand!
It was so nice to see so many of you at the ‘Meet the teacher’ this morning. Please see above the presentation that was shared and includes key information about the year ahead, including diary dates.
Remember, you will need your PE kit today because we have a skipping workshop this afternoon.
The children have had another great week in Year 1. They have started their split classes for English and maths and myself and Mr King are very impressed with the way that they have shown a great deal of maturity with this.
Yesterday, we started looking at creating a map of our classroom which developed today into creating a ‘Messy Map’ using the resources around the classroom. The children pretended that they were birds and decided what shapes they would see if they were in the sky. This was in order to develop the idea of an aerial view.
There is not necessarily any ‘formal’ homework this week as the children are still in transition but I would ask that they continue to read their books at home as part of ongoing homework.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Teixeira 🙂
It was lovely to meet with so many of you again this morning. Below, you will find notes from the meeting, along with a curriculum overview for the term.
As ever, please do come and speak with me if you have any queries at all. Emma Hayes
Thank you for all who were able to attend today’s meeting. For those of you who were unable to make it, or for those of you who would like to refresh your memories of everything spoken about, I have attached the PowerPoint.
Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!
Our guitar and recorder lessons with Mrs Goldsmith start this week. You can check to see what day your lesson is going to be.
Don’t forget to take your guitar or recorder home again so that you can practise each week.
