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Nursery – 02.05.25

Something very exciting happened this week, the children went to their first Hymn Practice and Mrs Porter awarded the trophy to Nursery for their beautiful sitting and beginning to join in with the hymns and actions. Well Done Nursery!

The caterpillars are now changing and we now have 4 cocoons, hopefully we will have 5 by next week and then we can move them into the net.

Today in RE we talked about the Holy Spirit and how the Apostles were together when they heard a noise from Heaven which sounded like a strong wind. They saw something that looked like flames of fire over each person, they were filled with the Holy Spirit. We made our own Holy Spirit crown which we will keep at school so we can wear them for our Pentecost party.

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Important Dates

Monday 5th May – Bank Holiday – School Closed

Monday 6th May – Class photographs – Winter Uniform

Thursday 8th May – VE Day Assembly – 09:00 – parents invited

Thursday 8th May – Wear red, white and blue. Please bring in a piece of cake/cupcake to enjoy as a treat on the field

Friday 9th May – Reading Morning 08:45 – 09:00

Sun Cream

Named sun cream can be kept in Nursery, a roller sun cream is the easiest for the children to use, they need to know how to apply it and be able to rub it in themselves.

School Caps

Available to purchase on arbor and can be collected from the office.

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend

Miss Taylor

Welcoming May, the month of Mary

Year 4 has done this beautifully this week, with a wonderful, calm and instructive mass led by Fr Michael on Wednesday. Fr Michael was impressed by the children’s respectful behaviour and well they led the service. He took opportunities to help the children understand aspects of the service and the importance of Mary in her role as an intercessory, explaining why we crown her with flowers.

The children’s illustrations for “Mary ascended into heaven” were beautiful and were well-presented at today’s moving “Crowning of Mary” assembly.

We have been reading scripture from John and learning about the time after Jesus’s resurrection. We were very lucky today, that Saint Peter came to visit us and agreed to be “hot seated” to share his feelings about the events by the lake, when Jesus appeared to the disciples. The children immersed themselves in the topic very well and showed empathy in considering Peter’s feelings at the time. Yesterday, they acted out the scene when Peter discovered that the tomb was empty.

The children built shelters to explore ideas of what would make a good shelter, which formed the basis for their initial sentences based our new book “Weslandia”. A few of them are below. The children are also enjoying our class reader called “The Pebble in My Pocket”. The pebbles you see daily could be 450 million years old! They are also enjoying our guided reading text “The Firework Maker’s Daughter”.

Nursery – 04.04.2025

Thank you for coming to the Hot Cross Bun Gathering this morning, the children really enjoyed having their grown ups there to help them with the craft activities.

Have a lovely Easter break. If you remember, please add photos to Tapestry so we can talk about what the children did in the break on the first day back.

I will see the children for the start of summer term on Wednesday 23rd April.

Miss Taylor

Year 2 are thoughtful artists

Inspired by the amazing artist, Charles McGee, we have been exploring colours, patterns and shapes to create our own artwork using pens, charcoal and sculpture. Here is a selection of the tremendous artwork that we made during our art project.

Our next challenge was to create 3D sculptures using our amazing drawings. We are very proud of the end results!

Matchbox Memories in Year 4

Thank you for returning the matchboxes containing objects for memories. Please could you return the rest on Monday, when we will use them for writing. The children’s imagination has really been sparked by “The Matchbox Diary” and they have completed some thoughtful writing inspired by it.

It is was great to discuss your children’s successes and achievements with you on Thursday and I look forward to doing the same with the rest of you on Tuesday.

We’ve come to the end of learning about perimeter and area and the children enjoyed working with shapes. Next week we’ll move onto Fractions. Please complete the MyMaths home learning for this as this will help get everyone off to a good start. Thank you.

Loving to read, reading for pleasure, choosing reading as an occupation, etc is important and a great habit to get into. I’ve discussed this with a number of parents during these consultations and there is evidence that, worryingly, this love of reading for pleasure is fading in children. As one of our guided reading carousel sessions, children read one of the books from the class library, for pleasure. (By contract, choice from the school library is completely free, so a child may choose a picture book, or a fact book in small print, or anything else, as they choose.) Hopefully these sessions will help to encourage this and also introduce the children to authors they will want to read more of. Here is the whole class enjoying reading today.

I hope that you all have a relaxing weekend in sunshine!

Nursery – 28.02.2025

We started our new book this week, Goldilocks and the three Bears. In the classroom we have a Goldilocks and the three bears small world and the three bear cottage will be our role play for this half term. This morning we watched Miss Taylor act out the story using the props. The children were very good at joining in and found it funny when Miss Taylor used different voices.

We have also watched this story:

This week the children have enjoyed being back together and today we could finally spend lots of time outside in the sunshine

Books from home

If the children would like to bring in their favourite story from home I would love to read it to the class at home time.

Important Dates

Thursday 6th March – World Book Day – Children can come to school dressed up as their favourite book character (please be mindful that the children will still be playing outside).

Friday 7th March – Reading Morning

Have a good weekend

Miss Taylor

Year 2 focus on their wellbeing

We all performed brilliantly in our class assembly this week and we are very proud of ourselves. As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, we shared our top tips for how to boost wellbeing and cheer ourselves up when we are feeling down.

Here are our top tips for good wellbeing:

First of all, connect with the people around you. We created a paperchain to show all the things we do that connect us together.

Don’t forget to Be Active: we start each day with a song and dance and we love to run laps around the playground to keep extra fit.

Remember to Give: small acts of kindness are a great way to give to one another. We look out for our friends in the playground and give our clothes to charity to help to raise money.

Take notice: we love to spend time in the great outdoors and we have planted lots of seeds in different conditions to see how well they grow. We have learned that in addition to water, sunlight and air, seeds also need heat to grow well.

Finally, don’t forget to Keep Learning. There are so many wonderful things to find out and each day, we love to learn something new!

Year 3: DT

In Design and Technology, we have been learning about electrical systems. Over the past few weeks, we have explored and built circuits, gaining a strong understanding of their components and how they function. We then applied this knowledge creatively and made cross-curricular links to history and created electrical posters.

Going back in time in Verulamium….

Like the Romans, year 4 went on a good march on Wednesday – to Verulamium Museum and back, via the hypocaust. Every child was a credit to their parents and St Adrian’s. I felt blessed to have a day out with such enthusiastic learners, who showed the best respect for the artefacts and the people in the museum and on the way there and back. We saw nearly as many dogs as people! Luckily, on the way back the playpark was completely empty so year 4 made the most of the opportunity to play there.

A massive thank you to Ms Carey and Mrs Donnellan, who came as parent helpers. These trips aren’t possible without voluntary help and it’s very much appreciated. Also thank you to Mrs Finnie and Miss Jilly, from school who came along too. Miss Jilly still found time to order some learning resources bought with cake sale money of which I will post photos when they are unwrapped and used.

Other learning has also gone on this week but I’ll post that later. I hope you all have a relaxing weekend and look forward to seeing everyone next week.

(The slideshow of Wednesday is in chronological order if you “swipe” to the left first.)

Nursery – 17.01.2025

This week we went up to the library for the first time and the children were really excited to visit a different part of the school. We will visit the library every Tuesday so children can take out books, if the previous book has not been returned they will not be able to take out a new one. Please comment or sign their reading record once read.

In maths this week we looked at subitising number 3, that means looking at a group of objects and seeing 3 without counting them. We played some different games to support this.