St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
It was lovely to meet so many of you on Tuesday 17th September at the ‘Meet the Teacher’ meeting. I have attached the slides from the meeting below for you to refer to.
In the mornings, we have been focusing on letter and number formation. It would be great if you could spend some time practising this to reinforce their learning.
I hope you all have a relaxing weekend.
Miss Perry
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.
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 we were lucky to have Rush from Judaism for Schools to teach us about her faith. On Thursday she led a workshop for year 1 and provided lots of information about The Story of Moses which we have also be learning about during RE.
Year 1 had lots of fun learning about Judaism and sampling some of the food they have during Passover.
Miss Perry
When you return to school on Tuesday you may notice a new addition by the gate in the playground … it is our new recycling bin!
As you can see, it clearly states which materials are accepted and we would love for you to get involved by donating some clothes, towels, sheets, blankets, curtains or even shoes. The bank holiday weekend is the perfect time for a spring clean and all donations are greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance,
Miss Costello and the Eco Council
On Friday, Year 1 and Year 5 paired up to share their favourite stories. It was lovely to hear the children reading aloud and enjoying each other’s books!
As part of our design and technology topic, linking to our animals topic in science and toys topic in history, the children have started to design their own hand puppets. The children will need to be able to sew two pieces of fabric together and so we practised this skill yesterday with a big, plastic needle. The children realised that it was trickier than it looked, but persevered with the result of some great running stitches!
