St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
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!
Remember, you will need your PE kit today because we have a skipping workshop this afternoon.
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.
It is great to see all of the children back at school after the long summer holidays and full of enthusiasm for the term ahead.
Everyone has worked really hard this week as we have been settling in to the new school year and preparing ourselves for the start of our split English and maths groups on Monday. Our groups provide a fantastic opportunity for the children to benefit from learning as part of a small class, taught by either Mrs Butterworth or myself.
I have been really pleased to see how well the children have come into school each day prepared for the lessons ahead. Next week, the children will need to remember their PE kits for Monday and swimming kits for Tuesday. If anyone has their reading record or school reading book at home, I would be very grateful if you could bring it in.
On Thursday, 20th September, from 9:00 until 9:30am, we have our ‘meet the teacher’ meeting . This is a chance for parents to hear about learning in Year 4 and I look forward to meeting you all then.
Week ending: 8th September 2017
It’s great to see all of year 4 back at school and full of enthusiasm.
Our learning this year is built on the solid foundation of what has gone before. For maths, it is particularly important that children can count in multiples and recall and use multiplication and division facts.
Children at the start of year 4 should be able to count in steps of 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 50 and 100. They should also be able to recall and use multiplication and division facts for the following multiplication tables : 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10.
Please support your child to check that they have secured these.
Through year 3 and 4, children work to secure the spellings of the statutory word list. There is a copy of this list in the back of their spelling journal. I have asked the children to choose 5 or 6 spellings to learn during the week ahead. We have also revised different spelling strategies. This week we have concentrated on Trace – Copy – Write strategy.
It is important that the spelling journal comes back to school each day as this is a tool that supports all of our learning.
The final piece of homework focused on punctuating direct speech. Please complete this homework in your English homework book. Take care to get the punctuation right.
Our PE day is Monday. Please make sure that you have a labelled PE kit in school for our lesson.
Our swimming lessons start on Tuesday.
Mrs Goldsmith will be starting guitar and recorder lessons next week. The children will need to bring their instruments to school on the following days:
| Guitars A Monday |
Guitars B
Wednesday |
Recorders
Wednesday |
Guitars C
Thursday |
| Hana
Roisin Christian Oliver Noah Celeste Amelia Jack M |
Owen
Ciaran Katy Adam Melanie Adam |
Camille
Niamh Sofia Jacob
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Holly
Archie Sean Lois Toby Amadeus
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I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
During the height of the pandemic in 2020, St Adrian’s 60th Anniversary took place. We felt that this occasion should be marked and so to begin our school year, we would normally hold a Mercy Mass. The Sisters of Mercy founded the school and it opened in September 1960. The Maryland Associates, the lay people in St Albans, still advocate their work and very kindly donated a tree and a plaque in commemoration of this special anniversary.
Previous Headteachers, Sr. Margaret, Mrs Yvonne Hawkes and Mr Dominic Bedford joined us for the celebrations. As well as some original pupils whose names were in the first register.
Report of the day written by Lily- Year 6
On Wednesday 5th October , we celebrated the Mercy Mass for our school (it had been postponed because of Covid) and I am very happy that I got my Chaplaincy team tie and I am part of our new Chaplaincy Team. I also got to see my old Headteachers like, Mrs Hawkes and Mr Bedford.
There was also another Headteacher, which was the Headteacher when my mum went to this school. Her name was Sister Margaret. I knew this mass was a very joyous occasion because Brother Nelson Dionne, Father Michael O’boy as well as Bishop Paul Mc Aleenan were all there. We got gifted from Mrs Cath White the secretary of the Maryland associates who carry on the work of the sisters of Mercy, a tree which we have planted at the main entrance where the parents and staff members came to watch.
Then, all of the classes planted little flowers around this tree. There are also ribbons around this tree which the old Head teachers put on there . They put the word ‘TRUTH’ and the colour of the ribbon was red for the martyrs who spoke the truth of God’s word. They tied the word PEACE – blue is the colour of tranquility. We work for peace and tranquillity in our school and the world. Finally , they tied the word JUSTICE with a yellow ribbon witch is the colour for true happiness. The Chaplaincy team, parents and teachers and the priests attended the ceremony.
I was worried about it because I had a reading. The reason why I was worried was because of the amount of people that were there but it was all OK. It was a very good day. It made me think more about our school motto ‘To learn, to love ,to live as a community of God with Christ as our teacher.’ It was a good day. It made me feel like I was important because of the new tie and that I could be part of our Chaplaincy Team.
