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Mary Assumed into Heaven

Year 4 drew careful, beautiful pictures of Mary for our lovely service this morning for the Crowning of Mary.

Amongst other learning this week, the children have been working very hard on their persuasive writing about plastic pollution, a topic they feel strongly about. They made a great start with cricket and have been very interested to understand more about how the Internet works – it is not the same as the World Wide Web is the key message!

I hope you all have a lovely, relaxing Bank Holiday weekend together with your families.

Nursery – 03.05.2024

The caterpillars have grown over the course of the week and this morning when the children came in, they were excited to see that one caterpillar is now in full cocoon stage so we just need to wait for the others to do the same. Hopefully by the time we come back after the Bank Holiday we will have 5 cocoons and we can move them into the net.

In maths this week we have been looking at capacity and using the words such as ‘full’. ’empty’, ‘nearly full’ and ‘nearly empty’.

At the beginning of the week enjoyed playing outside in the sunshine.

On Wednesday in RE we continued to think about how Jesus sent his new friend, the Holy Spirit who is our friend who helps and guides us. We cannot see the wind but we can feel it, in the same way we cannot see the Holy spirit. We made our own flags to and talked about how the wind will lift the kite and will help it to fly. We will try and get outside next week to fly them when we have a windy day.

Other photos this week

Important Dates

Monday 6th May – Bank Holiday, School closed.

Wednesday 8th May – Class Photos

Friday 17th May – no reading morning

Friday 17th May – Pentecost Party 9:15 – 10:15

Half term – Monday 27th May – Friday 31st May

Friday 14th June – No reading morning

Friday 14th June – Fathers Day Assembly 09:00 – Parents invited

Friday 21st June – No reading morning

Friday 21st June – Reception Class Assembly

Saturday 29th June – PTA Summer Fair

Tuesday 2nd July – EYFS Sports Day

Thursday 11th July – Transition Day

Have a lovely long weekend

Miss Taylor

Year 2 care for their environment

We have been learning about the impact of plastic pollution on the environment as part of our learning in science and geography this year. We read a very interesting book called A Planet Full of Plastic by Neal Layton and you can find out more by watching his great video.

We are all stewards of the world around us and we have enjoyed litter picking in the school playground to ensure that it is safe for us and the animals that we share it with. We have learned a great song reminding us ‘Don’t drop litter, put it in the bin. Let’s keep our playground tidy, neat and clean so don’t drop litter, put it in the bin’. If you see one of us in passing, we will be very happy to sing it to you.

As part of our learning about plastic pollution, we have learned that the most important thing to do is to try and reduce the amount of plastic that we use, especially single use plastic and we are very pleased to use a refillable drinks bottle everyday and make sure that our daily snack comes in a plastic re-useable pot, rather a new plastic wrapper or bag every day. We can all do our own bit to help this precious planet. Remember …

Nursery – 26.04.2024

As part of Geography week this week we looked at and talked about what happens when plastic (and of course all rubbish) ends up in the rivers, lakes and oceans and what can happen to the sea life that live there. We took part in an activity where we had to remove all the plastic from the water tray.

We went back into the hall this week for PE and had a great time playing parachute games.

We continued our work on the hungry caterpillar this week and are keeping an eye on the caterpillars as they get bigger. We made some smoothies using the food from the book.

In RE we learnt that the word ‘Alleluia’ is the Church’s special Easter word meaning ‘Praise God!’ and we made a flag using the Pentecostal colours.

Other photos this week:

Important Dates

Friday 3rd May – No Reading Morning – Crowning of Mary Assembly at 09:05 – Parents Welcome

Bank Holiday, school closed – Monday 6th May

Friday 17th May – No Reading Morning

Pentecost Party – Friday 17th May 9:15 – 10:15

Half term – Monday 27th May – Friday 31st May

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Taylor

Year 3: Geography Week

At the beginning of the week, we celebrated Earth day, reflecting on the things we’re grateful for on our planet. We also created pledges to protect it.

We began our new geography topic, which explores Europe and North America. We have linked this to our English work, where we have been developing our speeches about plastic consumption and how we can preserve our planet. We used our geography skills to analyse data to find out which country had the highest plastic usage.

Discussing Online Life with Your Child

Sent home with the school bulletin on Friday 26th April.

This video gives good advice about discussing online life with your child in a constructive way.

St Albans Cathedral – Wednesday 17th April

We had a wonderful time at the cathedral on Wednesday. The children’s behaviour was excellent, they listened very well and really enjoyed the practical map reading activities, outdoors. They created some beautiful illuminated letters, each one different and individual.

Easter “Chique” and farewell to Miss Cartwright

Year 4 enjoyed seeing the chicks who were only born one week ago but already have adult feathers coming in!

Everyone is sad to say good-bye to Miss Cartwright and wish her lots of luck in her new ventures

Happy Easter from Year 4

It’s been a short but packed week. We finished reading “Odd And The Frost Giant”, which we all loved. The children wrote some great writing in the adventure story genre and when asked what they’d learnt from this, said:

“I’ve learnt how to write similes.”

“how to use dialogue”

“how to tell a story from a different point of view- from the “baddy’s” point of view”

One technique to get children talking and sharing ideas is hot-seating and we enjoyed using strategy to get closer to the characters in the story this week:

The children also really enjoyed experimenting with “Chrome Music Lab”, a fantastic piece of software to write melodies with lots of different apps which the children can use at home, if they choose to.

It was lovely to see parents at both the assemblies this week – the Stations of the Cross on Tuesday and Easter celebration on Wednesday. Well done to the children who won prizes for their careful, beautiful artwork. All the entries were stunning.

We are all sad to say good-bye to Miss Cartwright. In year 4, she has been more than the PE teacher as she has listened to readers, accompanied us on trips and generally supported the children in the school day. We will really miss her, but wish her well as she starts her degree. She has a brilliant future ahead of her and many other children will benefit from her teaching.

The office will inform all parents the details of netball club after we return from the holiday. It will start a few weeks into the summer term, with the start date and the day yet to be confirmed. When it does start any interested year 4s are very welcome to join. There are no more league games or tournaments now so the focus will be on playing together as a team and skill practice. I know that there are some very keen netball players which is fantastic there is a brilliant opportunity to build new, confident school team next year!

I hope you all have a lovely two-week break together, starting with celebrating the Good News of the Resurrection and then enjoying relaxing, seeing family, going on holiday or whatever plans you have to have a good time. I look forward to seeing everyone in April. Happy Easter!

It’s a Material World

RHE this week was about distinguishing between behaviours which are, wrong, unacceptable, unhealthy or risky. The children enjoyed deciding which category behaviour like calling someone names because they are different, singing in front of people or eating food from the dustbin fall into. Many of them fell into two categories.

On Thursday, the children learnt about materials through a workshop at school, when all the resources where brought in and set up by an organisation called Setpoint. The children worked in pairs to carry out four investigations or experiments. They listened and focused brilliantly and made the most of this fantastic active learning opportunity. Many thanks to the parents who came in to help, without whose help we couldn’t run these sessions.