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• Friday 11 September 2026 Year 3's first full week! It has been a full week of learning in Year 3! The children have been very enthusiastic in lessons, including computing where we have been learning about digital devices:
• Friday 11 September 2026 What a Super Start to our Reception School Year! We are so proud of the start that children have made to their Reception school year. Children have enjoyed making new friends, exploring their new environment, learning new songs and getting to know all the different spaces in school.
• Friday 11 September 2026 Night of the Gargoyles Our first English unit is based on the book ‘Night of the Gargoyles' by Eve Bunting. This week, Year 6 has been exploring how the author creates mood and atmosphere. They have been thinking about using precise vocabulary to describe characters and settings and how we can convey character through dialogue. They acted out scenes to help them use the ‘show, not tell' technique. In art, the children produced some very imaginative chalk drawings of gargoyles.
• Friday 4 September 2026 Welcome back Year 2 Year 2 have had a fantastic start to the school year! We talked about our worries and explored different ways to manage them, and we made our own ‘Helping Hands' to remind us of the trusted adults we can turn to when we need support. We have also written our own prayers for our class prayer book, taking time to reflect and share our thoughts and hopes. Well done, Year 2!
• Friday 4 September 2026 Welcome to Year 6 This week, we welcomed our new Year 6 children back for their final year at St Andrew's. Over the last two days, they have been thinking about their hopes and aspirations for the coming year and the new opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. They wrote “survival guides” with top tips on how to have a successful time in Year 6 and also thought about their trusted adults who can lend a helping hand if things get tricky.
• Friday 4 September 2026 Welcome back! It's been a lovely couple of days with the children, welcoming them back and getting to know them!
• Tuesday 21 July 2026 Goodbye Nursery!
• Tuesday 21 July 2026 Goodbye and Good Luck! In their final few days, the Year 6 children enjoyed one last lunch and playtime with the Reception buddies that they have supported so well this year. They were treated to a pool party followed by ice creams and had fun getting their shirts signed by the whole school community. Our Voyager House Captains proudly lifted the house point trophy on behalf of their team. The children rounded off their time at St Andrew's in the usual tradition, passing through the tunnel of love and ringing the school bell to mark the end of their time at Primary School. We will miss them all and wish them luck as they begin their new adventures at Secondary School.
• Friday 17 July 2026 It's The Final Countdown Our Year 6 Leavers' Service was a special opportunity to celebrate the children's time at St Andrew's as they prepare for the next stage of their journey. With parents and families joining us, we reflected on happy memories, celebrated their achievements, and wished them every success for the future. It was a memorable occasion filled with pride, gratitude, and excitement for all that lies ahead. A fantastic performance of "It's the Final Countdown" by Jesse provided a fitting and memorable send-off to our Year 6.
• Friday 17 July 2026 Peter Pan Performance Our end-of-year production of Peter Pan was a fantastic celebration of our students' talent, creativity, and teamwork. Their confidence, enthusiasm, and hard work shone through in every performance. We are incredibly proud of all the children and staff who helped make the show such a wonderful success.
• Sunday 12 July 2026 Picturesque projects The children have produced some amazing work this year with their home learning projects, from volcanoes to famous families of Hitchin to bees! The range of ideas has been truly impressive and the children have loved presenting them. Thank you so much for your support – it's really something to celebrate!
• Sunday 12 July 2026 Picturesque projects The children have produced some amazing work this year with their home learning projects, from volcanoes to famous families of Hitchin to bees! The range of ideas has been truly impressive and the children have loved presenting them. Thank you so much for your support – it's really something to celebrate!
• Friday 10 July 2026 Peter Pan Despite the hot weather, the Year 6 children have been busy rehearsing for their end of year production of Peter Pan. The children have worked hard learning their lines, improving their acting skills, choreographing dances and making props. Our audiences are in for a treat!
• Friday 3 July 2026 Success at the North Herts Schools District Athletics Congratulations to the Year 6 children who took part in the North Herts Schools District Athletics Championships at Ridlings Athletics track in Stevenage. There were some fantastic performances resulting in convincing wins by both the boys' and girls' teams, by 25 and 28 points respectively. A great demonstration of teamwork! Many thanks to Mrs Williams for training the children and to those parents who supported them on the day.
• Thursday 2 July 2026 Performing non-chronological reports The children enjoyed performing their non-chronological reports to Year 2 today, in the library.
• Thursday 25 June 2026 The Case of the Missing Treasure Reception arrived at school to find that the treasure chest that we had on our Investigation Station had disappeared! We set off with magnifying glasses to see what clues we could find. We have made posters which we have stuck up around the school to ask if anyone has any information on the missing treasure and been busily making maps of the clues we have found.
• Thursday 25 June 2026 Heatwave Nursery have been keeping cool in the heatwave! We painted our feet and walked across paper to see the prints made. We then dipped them into the paddling pool and pretended we were at the beach!
• Friday 12 June 2026 Legacy Sport Event This week, Year 5 had a fantastic day at the Legacy Event in Baldock, taking part in dodgeball, handball, boccia and dance activities. Some children also took on the role of sports reporters, interviewing participants and sharing the highlights of the day. The children showed great enthusiasm, teamwork and excellent sportsmanship throughout, making it a fun and memorable event for everyone involved.
• Friday 12 June 2026 Planets of the solar system Nursery were inspired by Reception's class assembly, where the children shared their learning about the planets in the solar system. We decided to make our own planets by drawing around circular objects, cutting them out, and decorating them.
• Friday 12 June 2026 Parts of plants
• Thursday 11 June 2026 Dinosaurs and much much more.... Our last full day on the Isle of Wight and what a busy one it was! Chair lift, sand shapes, glass workshop, fossil hunt, dinosaur museum.... the list goes on. Hopefully, the photos speak for themselves!
• Wednesday 10 June 2026 Fun, Fun, Fun! Today, we headed off to Tapnell Farm Park, where we had so much fun visiting the animals, playing crazy golf, driving go-karts, enjoying the slides and trampolines and having fun on the bouncy pillows. This evening, the children had the best time ever doing water sports.
• Tuesday 9 June 2026 Isle of Wight Day 2 - more photos
• Tuesday 9 June 2026 Stepping Back in Time We started our visit to Osbourne House by discovering what life was like for the servants in the 1870s. The children learnt to set tables, polish the silver, make the beds, prepare the fire lighters and lay the tea trays in preparation for the arrival of Queen Victoria. After that we toured the house and explored the garden, finishing up at the private beach where we had our picnic lunch and treated ourselves to ice creams. Then, it was on to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway where, once again, we were transported back in time with the sights and smells of a bygone era. The children enjoyed a scenic ride through some of the island's stunning countryside. This evening, Year 6 impressed us with their imagination and creative skills in our annual sandcastle competition.
• Monday 8 June 2026 Day 1 - more photos
• Monday 8 June 2026 Day 1 on the Isle of Wight Year 6 are happily settled into their new 'home from home' after a fun day visiting HMS Victory and the Naval Museum. After a breezy trip on the ferry, we arrived at our hotel where we enjoyed a tasty dinner before heading to Sandown Beach. The brave souls amongst us (the children) ventured into the water before playing games on the beach or building sandcastles. We then headed back for biscuits and a bedtime story.
• Friday 5 June 2026 Sports Day Nursery took part in the whole school Sports Day. The children participated in an egg and spoon race, an obstacle course, a running race, and a throwing competition. Thank you to all the parents who came to support the children.
• Friday 5 June 2026 Sports Day This afternoon, Year 6 demonstrated their leadership as Team Captains on Sports Day. Every one of them supported the younger children in their teams, encouraged them during the carousel of activities and ensured that everything ran like clockwork as they guided their teams from one station to the next. They then set up all of the obstacle races, organising the equipment quickly and efficiently. At the end of the afternoon, they even had energy left for relays and the endurance race. Congratulations to all of you and well done to the winning team, Phoenix.
• Wednesday 3 June 2026 Drama Workshop for Reception
• Sunday 31 May 2026 Year 4 Week 6 Summer 1 During the final week of the Summer 1 term, we enjoyed a fantastic Culture Day on Wednesday. We travelled through a variety of countries and collected stamps in our passports worthy of James Bond himself! It was thrilling to learn so much about each country's culture, school system, food, famous landmarks, and distance from the UK.
• Friday 22 May 2026 Enterprise Week - What a Success! Enterprise Week was a fantastic success, with children showing great business skills and teamwork throughout the week. On Tuesday, the children enjoyed selling their hand-crafted products as well as second hand toys and games to pupils from Year 1 to Year 6. On Thursday, the Year 6 children organised and ran a variety of fun games for everyone to enjoy. The children raised a wonderful amount of money, which will go towards the Year 6 end-of-year treat.
• Friday 22 May 2026 Laps and starjumps Well done to Year 3 for their assembly this morning! All children did fantastically and we hope you learnt lots about what they've been doing.
• Wednesday 20 May 2026 Trip to Wimpole Farm
• Friday 15 May 2026 Celtic Harmony We all had a fabulous time at Celtic Harmony on Thursday, learning about the stone age!
• Friday 15 May 2026 Enterprise Preparations Each afternoon this week, after SATs, the children have been busy preparing for next week's Enterprise Event, using their creativity and craft skills to design and make a fantastic range of handmade products to sell across the school. There are some amazing pencil sketches, beautifully designed greeting cards, colourful key rings, bracelets and impressive paintings on offer. The children have shown great teamwork, imagination and enthusiasm while creating their products, and we are so excited to see all of the stalls ready for next week's event!
• Friday 15 May 2026 SATs
• Friday 15 May 2026 Park the Cars by Number! The children have been parking the cars in the correct spaces by matching the amount to the number on each car. They have been developing their subitising skills by recognising quantities quickly without counting (“look, don't count”).
• Sunday 10 May 2026 WEEK 4 in Year 4 This week in Year 4, we have enjoyed analysing speeches by Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai. We explored how differently each speaker addressed their audience and identified a range of persuasive techniques that we can now use in our own persuasive letter writing. The children were particularly thoughtful when discussing tone, powerful language and the impact of rhetorical questions.
• Friday 8 May 2026 Spinning spiders This week we started a new text in Literacy called "Aaaarrgghh! Spider!" by Lydia Monks. We discussed whether spiders would make good pets and shared our opinions, giving reasons for why we liked or disliked them. We also drew our own spiders, hung them up using string, and went outside to search for real spiders. On the play dough table, we pretended to make minibeast fossils by pressing bugs into the play dough and seeing what marks they left behind.
• Friday 8 May 2026 Instructions and commands This week, the children have started writing commands as instructions for a text they'll write about going on an imaginative journey!
• Friday 8 May 2026 Good Luck for SATs
• Thursday 7 May 2026 Cloud Busting in Year 5 Year 5 have started a very unusual book this week. By Malorie Blackman, it tells the story of a friendship between Sam and the new boy in school, Davey, aka Fizzy Feet. The whole book is written in verse; the language is accessible but also very effective in describing the developing friendship. And there is a twist! Ask your child to ell you what they think so far!
• Wednesday 6 May 2026 Climbing Frame Joy There was great excitement in Reception today as the children were able to play on the new climbing frame for the first time. The children laughed and chatted as they climbed across it, taking turns beautifully.
• Friday 1 May 2026 Our new friends We've had some new arrivals in Nursery! Our caterpillars have arrived, and we're looking forward to seeing our tiny friends grow.
• Friday 1 May 2026 Fun Revision This week, Year 6 revised grammar in a fun and engaging way by creating colourful posters focused on word classes.
• Wednesday 29 April 2026 Very Strange Happenings in Reception! Reception arrived at school this morning to some find some very strange items in our garden area. Wires, pipes, a spacesuit, dials and machinery were all found.
• Saturday 25 April 2026 Our Class Assembly On Friday, year 5 enthusiastically performed their class assembly to the whole school and their families and friends.
• Friday 24 April 2026 Is Happiness the Purpose of Life?
• Sunday 19 April 2026 A Scientific Week This week, we have been learning about life cycle in both plants and animals.
• Friday 17 April 2026 999! This week in PSHE, the children talked about how to keep themselves safe in an emergency.
• Friday 17 April 2026 Welcome back Nursery! We have settled back into Nursery very well after the Easter holidays. Our topic for this half term is minibeasts, and we have been creating artwork linked to this, including drawing minibeasts using our pre-writing knowledge and skills. In the atelier, we made repeating pattern caterpillars by printing with paint.
• Friday 17 April 2026 Understanding Electricity This week, Year 6 completed their science unit on electricity. Having spent several lessons investigating how different components function in a circuit, the children summarised their learning in the form of a poster.
• Wednesday 15 April 2026 Green Fingers in Repection At the end of last term the children planted some seeds. Today we transplanted some into our raised beds and others into larger pots to continue to grow before being planted out.
• Friday 27 March 2026 A Happy Easter
• Friday 27 March 2026 Exploring Islam
• Friday 27 March 2026 Happy Easter This week, we have centred our learning around Easter. We explored the Easter story and created egg designs using our knowledge of pre-writing patterns and shapes, carefully cutting them out to practise our scissor skills. We have been focusing on holding scissors correctly, using a comfortable grip (fingers on the bottom, thumb on top, elbow down) and turning the paper with the other hand. The Nursery children have made great progress with this since the start of the year. Well done, everyone!
• Wednesday 25 March 2026 Great Athletes Sponsorship Challenge.
• Tuesday 24 March 2026 Great Athletes - Steve Frew This week, the children took part in an exciting fitness circuit led by Great Athletes. They showed great determination and perseverance, and all successfully completed the circuits.
• Tuesday 24 March 2026 Visit from Dr Adler Thank you very much to Dr Adler for coming into teach us about the digestive system. The children all enjoyed jumping up and down to be chewed up, crawling down the oesophagus, spinning around in the stomach, tiptoeing round the small intestine, walking along the large intestine before crawling out into the toilet!
• Tuesday 24 March 2026 Gymnastics in Reception
• Tuesday 24 March 2026 Free verse poems Today, in small groups, the children experimented with creating a free verse poem about the noise they would hear on the road outside school, using vocabulary and presentation for effect whilst thinking about how the poem would be performed by the reader. Particularly, the children considered onomatopoeic words, e.g. swoosh!
• Sunday 22 March 2026 The life of a Mayan in print Our art this term has been linked to the our autumn term history project on the Mayans.
• Sunday 22 March 2026 The Promise Last week, we completed our own version of The Promise by Nicola Davies.
• Friday 20 March 2026 Pre-writing pattern fun We have been working hard on developing our pencil grip and control through pre-writing shapes and patterns, including lines, circles, and zigzags. The children explored these on large paper, strengthening their fine motor skills. Our work was inspired by the paintings of Henry Matisse and Yayoi Kusama, which we explored in maths earlier in the week.
• Friday 20 March 2026 Spring Concert This week, our talented musicians were given the opportunity to showcase their skills, first in front of the whole school and then, in the evening, for parents. The range of instruments and the quality of performance was so impressive. The children demonstrated courage, performing in front of such large audiences. Congratulations to this year's winners of the St Andrew's Music Cup and Medals.
• Thursday 19 March 2026 We are Authors! Inspired by the stories we read together in class, Reception have been inspired to write and illustrate their own 'Journey Stories'. Our characters visited beaches, London, the dessert and even the moon!
• Friday 13 March 2026 Happy Mothering Sunday This week we have been thinking about our own mothers and the concept of mothering in general. Along with their Reception buddies, Year 6 led a beautiful service at St Mary's Church. They also used watercolours to make cards illustrated with their mum's favourite spring flowers. We hope you enjoy some special family time this weekend.
• Friday 13 March 2026 Fruity Calligrams! The children had fun today bringing in an assortment of fruit, from apples to pineapples, on which to base calligrams!!
• Friday 13 March 2026 Signs of Spring We have been learning about Spring and exploring what this season looks like. We went on a “Spring Walk” to see what signs of Spring we could find in our environment. Afterwards, we created blossom trees by independently selecting and using a range of resources.
• Thursday 12 March 2026 Science Week in Reception We learnt all about worms and enjoyed finding them on our Outside Area. We made them a temporary home of dead leaves, soil, sand and water while we observed them.
• Saturday 7 March 2026 Why do we decide to read a specific book? To celebrate World Book Day, year 5 thought carefully about the types of books love to read, particularly at bedtime.
• Saturday 7 March 2026 Plant reproduction As we continue our science topic around life-cycles, we have been learning how plants form seeds.
• Friday 6 March 2026 Dinosaurs History
• Friday 6 March 2026 World Book Day
• Friday 6 March 2026 World Book Day The St Andrew's theme for this year's World Book Day was bedtime stories. Children (and staff) loved being able to come into school in their comfy pyjamas. The day started with an assembly where children from each class shared their favourite books. Year 6 then spent some quiet time reading with their Reception buddies. They also enjoyed a book swap, made bookmarks and enjoyed listening to teachers' favourite bedtime stories. What a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the joy of reading!

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