St Adrian's Catholic Primary School
To learn, to love, to live
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Use the embedded PowerPoint to learn our Mother’s Day song. We need to know it ‘by heart’ as we won’t have the words for the assembly on Friday.
Have fun (and practise sotto voce!)
We have had a busy week back from Half-term.
In maths we have been looking at 2d and 3D shapes. We have labelled everything in the class and played I spy using the properties of shape.
We have been singing this lovely shape song.
On Ash Wednesday we received Ashes and made a simple cross. We talked about what we could give up for the period of Lent.
As it gets nearer to Easter we will decorate these in recognition of a more joyful celebration.
As part of this week’s Mental Health Week, we have been thinking carefully about all the different things that we can do to maintain our wellbeing. We did some of these great activities as a class and some with our friends in Year 1. Click on the slide presentation below to see all the wonderful things that we have done this week.
This week in Year I, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week we have talked about connections and worked with different people in our class and other classes. We have taken part in daily Yoga sessions and learnt about being safe when connecting with people on the internet.
We have been drawing our feelings using different media. Mostly we have been learning how to share our feelings in a positive way and help ourselves feel better when we are sad.
In our science learning this week, Year Six investigated the affect of exercise on our heart beat. We had fun finding our pulse and measuring our pulse rate before and after exercise. Not only did we find out that exercise causes our hearts to beat faster, we plotted the time taken for our pulse rate to recover. We also used our scientific understanding to explain why our healthy bodies need our hearts to pump faster during exercise.
We supersized our art work this week, continuing our learning about Michelangelo’s David, but this time working in charcoal.
We have been exploring materials this term and have had great fun learning the new words transparent, opaque, waterproof, absorbent, flexible and rigid.
You’ll never guess what though. Goldilocks was going for a walk to visit the three bears, only to discover that it was raining, so she needed a hat that would stop her from getting her flowing, golden locks wet. We carried out some investigations to see what materials were waterproof and we recommended that oil cloth was the best choice because it is flexible and waterproof.
As part of our learning in English and science, we have been reading the story of The House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser. It is a beautiful book and as a result of reading it, we planted sweet pea seeds and a tree that will be part of our schools contribution to The Queen’s Canopy. We have been learning about different sentence types and we wrote command sentences to give clear instructions on how to plant seeds. Our handwriting has got better and better this term and we are very proud of it.
Despite so much illness in school, we are busy preparing for our Christmas play and we are looking forward to performing it to you on 14th December.
With Advent, carol concert practice and classroom decorations, Christmas is really on its way. The children have their names for their Kriskringles. We have been talking about what we can do during Advent, the period of preparation for Christmas; and the children suggested that doing small daily acts of daily kindness is one way of showing love for one another, in the way that God showed his love for people by sending Jesus. We are practising songs for the carol concert in earnest and looking forward to seeing you at the concert on Monday 12th. We are learning this fantastic Christmas song. Please could you practise it at home. Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lnYDohCNSM
The classroom looks very festive.
The children’s fantastic explanation writing is on display – either on the or in one of two books. This week they completed a very different piece of writing, retelling “FaRther” with a different ending, when they used personification, similes, expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials to write figuratively. In both cases every child focused and wrote incredibly well.
In Maths we’ve moved onto applying multiplication and division facts. The children are using the correct terminology for division; and used practice of the facts using manipulatives to make generalisations about division. For example, the class worked out that if the dividend and the quotient are the same, then the divisor has to be one. Or, if the dividend and divisor are the same, then the quotient must one 1. Today they have been constructing sentences like “The product of 8 x 4 is 32” or “6 x 3 is the same as 3 x 6 because of the commutative rule in multiplication.” Can your child explain these terms to you, in different contexts?
Please remember the deadline for the Called RE home learning which is 8th December.
Today was the last session of Gaelic Football which the children really loved. I will send a thank you email to Rory of Herts GAA for providing this first-class coaching to the school.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
The children are getting to know their way round the library and are very much enjoying their time there. The beautiful books there, both fiction and non-fiction, complement the “reading scheme” books. As with the class reading books, the children have completely free choice with the library books. The reading scheme books are carefully matched to their reading age and are to be read independently and fluently (which means with 95% accuracy). The class and library books can be read independently by the children, or shared with adults, or can be read by the adults to the children.
The reading stars sheets have been added to the children’s books and are ready for signatures to be added, which will be converted into housepoints.
Thank you for the beautiful birthday books which have been bought for the library, by Darragh and Gabriel. Children over the years will love reading them.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
As you can see, everyone in year 4 looked wonderful in their spots and stripes. There are the art entries from the class. Ralph was a proud school winner with his very jaunty Pudsey Bear! Thank you for all your generous donations to Children in Need this year.
