St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
This week, we have been learning about the religion of Islam. Arafa brought in her prayer mat and taught her friends about the way in which she prays five times every day. Arafa taught us all a huge amount about how Muslims pray.
As part of their learning about Signs and Symbols, the children created some beautiful baptism candles and thought very carefully about the signs and symbols that were meaningful to them. Well to everyone.
The children have had a great start to Year 2 and have been very excited about their new learning. What has been especially rewarding is the enthusiasm with which pupils have brought in information from home about current learning. Thank you for the high quality of their home learning, including the posters about Saint Teresa and beautiful baptism candles.
We had an inspiring drama session earlier in October. The children paid great attention during the session and showed themselves to be wonderful actors. Well done to you all!
The Year 2 children have a great passion for art, so I look forward to seeing their artwork inspired by the theme of Bread of Life.
Have a wonderful half term break with your family.
An exciting competition is taking place across the county. The task is to:
Create a piece of artwork entitled ‘The Bread of Life’.
Encourage your child to think about what the blessed sacrament, the Eucharistic host, means to them and then create a piece of artwork reflecting their thoughts. The artwork needs to be A4 in size and can be created using any medium, including paint, collage or printing. Please label the back of the artwork with your child’s name and year group and return to your class teacher by 9th November.
More details can be found here:
You are invited to take part in this year’s Young Writer competition, organised by Rotary International in Britain and Ireland. Children at St Adrian’s have enjoyed great success in this competition in the past, with Natalie’s writing getting through to the National finals.
The competition is open to anyone who was aged between 7 and 17 on the 31st August 2018.
To enter the competition, you should produce a written or typed story entitled, ‘My Inspiration.’
Your writing could be fiction or non-fiction, a story or a poem, as long as the piece relates to the theme. Questions have been asked about spelling and although this is not an issue the only advice to be given are that judges of this competition have made comment upon spelling in the past.
An A4 page or up to 500 words is a suggested suitable length.
The closing date for the local St Albans heat is 12th January 2019.
Entries should be sent to the Stage organiser at the address below along with the completed entry form.
Rotary Young Writers Competition
St. Albans Priory
Verulam Golf Club
London Road
St Albans
Herts
AL1 1JG
Prizes
The competition is organised in three stages: local heats, district finals and national finals. At all stages, competitors will receive a certificate of participation. The national winners will be given appropriate awards.
Get writing and good luck!
Dear Parents,
It has been another eventful week in Year 5.
Parents Meeting
It was so lovely to see so many of you at the Parents meeting. Please find attached a copy of the powerpoint I used to remind you of the key points.
Skip2Bfit
On Tuesday, we were treated to a skipping workout from Skip2Bfit. The children really got into and are keen to beat their personal bests for skips in 2 minutes ( so am I after being fit-shamed !)
Science – Earth in Space
The children have been learning about the scale of the Solar System and to reinforce this, we modeled it on the playground. For those interested , the order is : Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid belt; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus and Neptune.
Mercy Mass
It was a lovely morning with the children celebrating Mass. The singing was lovely and the children really warmed to Fr Michael. The picnic outside was also very enjoyable.
RE – Ourselves
In Re we are studying a topic entitled : Ourselves. Here is some more information about it:
Have a great week,
Mr Creaton
In year 6, we have introduced new morning and afternoon prayers. You will need to learn them off by heart.
Morning Prayer
The Guardian Angel Prayer
Angel of God, my guardian dear,
to whom His love entrusts me here,
ever this day be at my side,
to light and guard, to rule and guide.
Amen.
End of Day Prayer
Lord, keep us safe this night,
and free from all our fears.
May angels guard us while we sleep,
until morning light appears.
As a school we are taking part in the Angelus, daily at 12pm. Please learn the words off by heart.