St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
Today, our school proudly wore red to stand united against racism, demonstrating our commitment to equality and inclusion. We were inspired by the ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ campaign, joining together to say a collective “no” to racism in all its forms.
Harvest Donations
We are still accepting harvest donations and kindly ask that all contributions must be brought to the school by Friday, 25th October. Please see the image below for a list of suggested donation items.
The classroom is looking very cheerful with the children’s posters about classes of words around the walls. Hopefully, this will help them remember the different definitions of nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Last Friday the children made pinch pots to create Greek pots. They will paint them with Greek-style pattern or pictures.
Please remember to bring in donations for the Harvest Festival next Friday. The children are looking forward to performing their song to you.
The children wrote some thoughtful, perceptive versions of “The Varmints” this week. We talked about the importance of proof-reading, for both correcting errors and for looking for improvements in the writing.
I hope you all have a relaxing weekend.
13.09.24
Hello and Welcome to St. Adrian’s Reception Class! It has been lovely to get to know your children and hear all about the wonderful experiences they’ve had over the summer holiday. I feel very lucky to be able to spend this academic year with all of them!
This 2 weeks we purely enjoyed each other company, exploring the classroom, finding out where things are and how to put them all away at the end of the day.
The children were very good lining up, waiting for their lunch and then clearing their trays. They were superstars listening to the rules and trying their best!
I am already very proud!
In the classroom we explored the different areas. We were camping with our friends, played with the sand, read books in our Autumn reading corner and sang songs. Every morning the children had different busy fingers activities.
In the garden the children were very helpful and everything now looks absolutely amazing. Plants have been looked after, grass has been cut and playground was cleaned. Well done children! We also picked some carrots, beans and tomatoes 🙂
On Friday we had our very first PE lesson and everyone enjoyed playing parachute games!
Please make sure that your child has a full, named PE uniform, placed in a named school PE bag. It would be great to spend some time teaching your children how to be independent dressing and undressing. Of course, myself and Mrs Reid will always be ready to help if needed.
I hope you have an amazing weekend!
looking forward seeing you all next week!
Mrs Solakova
The new year got off to a great start for year 4. They have used handwriting pens in their RE and English books, started listening to the brilliant book “The Iron Man”, begun their Maths learning with place value and were excellent representatives for St Adrians when they went swimming on Thursday. I wished that I had worn my sunglasses, when faced with the dazzling display of brightly-coloured summer costumes on display! All the children have been put in groups and next week the lessons will start in earnest in both the smaller and large pools.
It’s been a great three days and the children are really ready for all aspects of learning and life in year 4.
The first lots of home learning are on Google Classroom – spellings for Tuesday and Maths for Thursday, please. Times- table is a major focus for home learning. It’s really essential that the children learn these facts off by heart. Thank you for your support in doing this.
I look forward to seeing you all at meet the teacher on Wednesday 11th September. In the meantime, I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
At last some sun came out so year 4 could have some fun playing rounders and having an ice-cream afterwards. As usual, it’s been a busy end to the school year. All the work has gone home, the lockers are empty and year 4 is ready to move on and up to year 5! I have loved being your teacher this, year 4; and wish you all the happiness and success you all deserve. I look forward to hearing about your holidays and adventures when we are back in school in September. Stay safe over the holidays and have lots of fun!
Year 4 performed really well at today’s assembly, showing the rest of the school the three songs they’ve over the last few weeks. From a standing start in September, they can now all play 5 chords and play together as a fantastic ukelele orchestra. I was really proud of them, as was Mrs Newman, the dedicated ukelele teacher who has taught them every week. As well as the notes, she’s helped them with maintaining the pulse and singing while playing an instrument, which are difficult skills especially when you are doing it with 25 other people.
Have a great weekend and enjoy the game on Sunday evening!
The sun chose the right day to appear this week and all the children in year 4 competed brilliantly. I am always impressed by the way the children at St Adrians throw themselves into all sporting activities with gusto and confidence.
The children in year 4 have really peaked with their writing this week and are writing some stunning stories, based on “The Mermaid of Zennor”, when they retell the story from the point of view mermaid (or merrymaid, as they say in Cornwall). The story and text by Charles Causley are beautiful and inspirational and have really captured the children’s imagination. I look forward to what they are reading and love seeing the way they are changing the order of clauses in a sentence or using language they’ve read in their own books.
Another book we are enjoying is “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”, when the children read different parts out loud to the class. They read with expression and good pace.
With two weeks left of year 4, the children will start bringing things home. Please could you send one (or two) very strong, roomy plastic bags, or the “everlasting” shopping bags on the last Monday of term – the 15th July – and we will send books home one day that week.
Please could you also dig out any library books, school reading book and, class reading books which could be anywhere in your house. We will be doing a check of which library books are out against which children and will need to ask for replacements for any which are missing. Next Friday, 12th July, will be our last visit to the library.
Thank you very much for digging these all out, so future children can benefit from them.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and look forward to hearing about the Gaelic football event next week.
We spent an incredible day exploring life in the 16th century, focusing on the catastrophic event of the Great Fire of London. We learnt how the fire spread, examined maps to track its path, and used our archaeological skills to dig up and analyse artefacts, which provided us with valuable insights into what happened.
Throughout the day, we participated in a variety of engaging activities, such as candle making, sewing, creating our own ink, making perfume, and experimenting with herbs to craft medicine, among many others. A huge thank you to all the volunteers, your assistance was invaluable, and the day would not have been possible without you!
On Wednesday, we also hosted an open day to celebrate our achievements over the past year. Thank you to everyone who joined us and supported our work.
The numbers in year 4 have been depleted this week, with District Sports and The “World Games” taking place. A massive well done to all the year four children who competed at Westminster Lodge, did brilliantly well in their heats and representing the school in good sporting style. Thank you to Mr Creaton and Miss Allen for taking them there. Miss Allen was quite hoarse this morning after all her cheering! I look forward to hearing all about it on Monday.
Let’s all hope the sun stays out this weekend so we can enjoy sometime outside at last!
