St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
We had great fun on Children in Need day, wearing our pyjamas or Pudsey themed outfits. We looked wonderful and were proud to support this worthwhile charity as part of our Catholic Social Teaching unit of learning about the Preferential Option for the Poor.
The Year Two children came back to school with great enthusiasm and it has been lovely to get to know them better. The children have all worked hard, reflecting on our Mercy tradition and the values that shape our time together at school, as we all return to school ready To learn, To love, To live, as a community of God, with Christ as our teacher.
Our ‘meet the teacher’ meeting is on Wednesday 10th September, this week. I look forward to welcoming you to our classroom and sharing with you some of the highlights of the year ahead. Please feel free to join Mrs Porter in the hall for a quick cup of tea or coffee ahead of the meeting, which will start at 9 o’clock.
This week, we had a wonderful time preparing for our sports day on Thursday. We learned how to do a relay race and were also guided by the Year Five children as they taught us how to compete in the obstacle race as well as develop our javelin throwing skills, among other things! Sports Day was tremendous fun; we all showed great sportsmanship and supported one another to do our very best. Our wonderful day finished with a delicious lolly, provided by the PTA, so we say a great big THANK YOU to them.
This year, the prayer garden has received a much needed revamp. The year started with overgrown ornamental grassses being removed and replaced with tall perennials, which are just about the flower. The children have worked hard to make the area around our statue of Mary spiritually uplifting. They have planted shade loving ferns around her and created beautiful butterfly prayer cards that reflect their study of Paul’s letter to the Galatians where he writes about the fruits of the Spirit. The prayer garden is somewhere that the children love to visit to take a break from their busy day and spend time with God.
The Year 2 children all had a wonderful visit to Lee Valley Park. The weather was glorious and we were rewarded with lots of minibeasts in a range of habitats including walls, trees, grassland and a stream filled with coot, moorhen, Egyptian geese and mallard ducks. The children had many questions and the air was filled with excited voices as the children found so many interesting creatures. A fabulous time was had by all and we are very grateful for all of the parents who accompanied us on the trip as we could not have gone without you!
The Year 2 children should be very proud of their singing today. They sang beautifully in our whole school assembly to celebrate their friendships, with people at school and also their family members. There were a huge amount of words to learn and they did themselves proud. Well done, Year 2!
The children have also brought home a smashing Father’s Day card, which they designed and made for themselves. They love artwork and were keen to impress their dads. Have a wonderful Father’s Day, everyone.
As part of our learning in Art and Design, we have been exploring butterflies in art. We explored the artwork of milliner, Philip Treacy who created a tremendous headpiece filled with butterflies made out of painted turkey feathers.
We were inspired by Philip Treacy’s artwork and had a go for ourselves. Just look at our wonderful class creation!
This week, the Year Two children returned to school for their last half term in the infants. They were very proud of the Bee and Butterfly garden that they have been caring for and watering over the last few weeks as it is filled with flowers that are being visited by many insects.
Hidden amongst all those flowering plants, there were also lots of ripening strawberries. Through the week, we have been harvesting the strawberries and freezing them. On Friday, we finally had enough to make our own strawberry and banana milkshake. It was delicious and now the children know how make a milkshake as well as a wrap. Here are the instructions if you would like to make one too!
This term, we have been learning about the Eatwell plate and what foods go in each food group. We have learned that it is really important to have foods from a variety of food groups in order to eat healthily. We taste tested combinations of ingredients to see what went well together and then designed a wrap that would be tasty and healthy.
We had great fun preparing ingredients for our wraps and learned how to chop foods up with a knife by making a bridge with our hands. Once we had made our wraps, we reviewed them against our success criteria to see just how tasty and healthy they were. We tried to include ingredients from at least three food groups in our wrap and we have found that there are new foods that we will try.
When reviewing the wraps, many of the children said that they were wonderful, tasty, fantastic, delicious and brilliant. Lucy said ‘I loved it so much’ and Tadhg wrote ‘I’ve never had a wrap that good!’ Well done to the Year 2 chefs who have learned a great skill that they will be able to do at home too.
We launched May by thinking about Mary, Mother of Jesus. The children prepared a lovely display ‘Mary, Queen of Peace’ and enjoyed singing many hymns in our Celebration of the Word dedicated to Mary.
