Enrichment

Our exciting day at Wicksteed Park with Years Four, Five and Six was filled with smiles, laughter, and endless fun from start to finish. Everyone enjoyed exploring the park, sharing […] […]

Years Five and Six visited the Hazard Alley Safety Centre in Milton Keynes. Our morning was spent learning important messages about drugs and alcohol. During this session, the children learnt […] […]

This week, Year Six completed their Bikeability training course at school. They began by practising key cycling skills on the playground, building their confidence and developing their understanding of safe […] […]

Today, Danes Class enjoyed participating in the 2026 GoConstruct K’nex challenge. This is an engineering challenge involving around 180 schools across Hertfordshire and surrounding areas. Led by a local STEM […] […]

We had the best time visiting Hertfordshire Zoo. First we enjoyed the dinosaur trail. It was really exciting seeing all of the life-sized dinosaurs – even though some of them […] […]

On Wednesday 15th April, Year Five enjoyed a walk in Astonbury Wood. This was kindly arranged by Mr Falder and led by Iain Ward of the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife […] […]

Today, the whole school attended our annual Christmas Carol Service. It was wonderful that so many friends and family were able to join us. Many children from across the school […] […]

What a wonderful evening of Christmas singing we enjoyed on Monday 8th December! Both our Upper School and Lower School singing groups have been practising hard each week to prepare […] […]

On Friday 14th November, Danes and Puddlebridge Classes enjoyed a visit to The British Museum. This supported their historical learning about the Ancient Egyptians. Our day began by exploring the […] […]

Thursday 21st October – 10:30pm Today was a very important day – Ted’s birthday. We all rose bright and early to kick-start the celebrations; we gathered together in the lounge […] […]

Today, a group of children from Years Five and Six had a wonderful PE opportunity at the Stevenage Golf and Conference Centre in Aston. The sun was shining for the […] […]

We were delighted that 22 children from Years Five and Six (with two children from Year Four competing in the Year Five team) were able to represent our school at […] […]

What a fantastic concert we enjoyed to end our school year! Four bands, each of nine children, have been working hard in rehearsals together since February. We are delighted that […] […]

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We had such a great day at Stanwick Lakes. We were plant detectives and pond dippers for the day. […]

Today, Years Five and Six had an extended PSHE session in order to complete their First Aid training. They learnt lots of important knowledge and life skills in order to […] […]

What a fantastic day we had celebrating VE Day together! On Thursday, 8th of May, our school was a sea of red, white, and blue as everyone came in with […] […]

Following winning the local football tournament in December at Stevenage FC, our Year 5 and 6 team were invited to participate in a national football tournament representing Stevenage FC.  Teams […] […]

We have been thinking a lot about our local area and the environment we live in. We have been talking about the kinds of plants and animals that live in […] […]

Danes and Puddlebridge classes enjoyed an exciting day at the Natural History Museum to enrich our geographical learning. We began the day exploring different areas of the museum before heading […] […]

On Wednesday 27th November, we were very excited to welcome Steve Frew (a Commonwealth Games Gymnastics Gold medalist) into school. During the afternoon, each year group participated in a challenging […] […]

Year Six had a wonderful time on their recent trip to Marchants Hill PGL Centre in Surrey. Please enjoy the video to share some of the highlights of their trip. […]

Today, we had a special visit from three magistrates. They taught all of us in Years Five and Six about how the judicial system works and what job magistrates play […] […]

What a brilliant day we’ve had! To enrich our historical learning, we decided to become evacuees for the day.  Our special day began with finding the classroom looking rather different; […] […]

We had our class trip to Mill Green Water Mill Museum which linked with our history topic about The Great Fire of London. We enjoyed many activities including, identifying and […] […]

Thursday 24th October 7:00pm Wow! Standup paddle boarding was so much fun, the lake was so cold and the children got so wet! Everyone ended up in the lake and […] […]

Today we had the privilege of taking our School Council to visit the ‘Foodshed’. This is a local foodbank in Stevenage that supports people in our local community who are […] […]

Puddlebridge and Danes classes had a wonderful day at Duxford Imperial War Museum.  The visit supported our learning about World War Two and The Battle of Britain. We started our […] […]

What another great show! So much talent in our school and it was wonderful to see all of the children performing together and having fun! Well done to each and […] […]

Today, Year Six enjoyed ‘ringing the changes’ during a visit to St.Mary’s Church. Mr Falder taught us all about the bells and how to ring them. We were amazed to […] […]

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It was wonderful that our open morning today was so well attended. The children were so proud to share their learning; we really do appreciate the support of all the […] […]

To celebrate World Book Day this year, each class read The Invisible by Tom Percival. The book centres around very important themes, including poverty, gratitude, invisibility, community, empathy and hope. […] […]

Haffydown had a brilliant day visiting the British School Museum in Hitchin to explore our local history unit – Joseph Lancaster. When we arrived, we were given aprons and caps […] […]

To celebrate National Poetry Day, we started the day with a special assembly during which some of the adults shared some of their favourite poems. Each class then prepared a […] […]

On Wednesday 4th October, Danes and Puddlebridge classes spent the day in St. Albans. Our morning was spent visiting Verulamium Museum to support our learning about Roman Britain. During our […] […]

What another great show! So much talent in our school and it was wonderful to see all of the children performing together and having fun! Well done to each and […] […]

What a fantastic day we had! After thinking that we may not even be able to go yesterday when our coach broke down, we were very grateful to travel in […] […]

Today, Years Five and Six had an extended PSHE session in order to complete their First Aid training. They learnt lots of important knowledge and life skills in order to […] […]

Year 2 explored the school grounds and found different habitats as part of our learning about Living Things and their Habitats. We found a woodland, grassland and hedgerow habitats. We […] […]

As part of our fairy tale topic we read the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We really enjoyed this story and thought a lot about the bridge that […] […]

Today we were very excited to take another trip out of school 0 this time to the theatre! We have been really enjoying books by Julia Donaldson and so we […] […]

To kick start our new History topic about Alfred Russel Wallace, Haffydown went to visit Hertford Museum. Alfred Russel Wallace lived in Hertford and went to school there. He was […] […]

On Thursday 2nd February, we visited Bayfordbury Observatory to support our learning about Earth in Space. First, we enjoyed a presentation all about our universe and beyond. We learnt so […] […]

We have been learning about the police and the job that they do. We had a fantastic afternoon solving our own mystery – the case of the missing sweets! We […] […]

We were excited to welcome a special visit from some feathered friends this week! We really enjoyed learning all about the birds and were even brave enough to handle them. […] […]

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We had an amazing time going out on our first school trip! It was really exciting to go in a minibus to St Christophers School and meet all of their […] […]

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PLEASE NOTE: We have just looked at the posts on a phone and realised that some of the photos are better viewed on a computer Thursday 20th October – 10:00pm […] […]

On Friday 7th October, Puddlebridge and Danes classes visited the British Museum to support and enrich their learning in History. We had a fantastic day and were so very proud […] […]

Haffydown had the opportunity to visit West Stow Anglo Saxon village as part their history topic. The At the start of the day, the children had the chance to explore […] […]

What a show! So much talent in our small school and wonderful to have everyone performing together again. Well done to the whole cast. […]

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Year Six had a fantastic day at Redbourn County Showground. They learnt lots about farming, food production and the countryside. Highlights of the day included a tractor ride and a […] […]

Puddlebridge and Danes classes had a fantastic day out at the Natural History Museum to support our ‘Extreme Earth’ topic. We started the day by exploring the Volcanoes and Earthquakes […] […]

What a fantastic day we had on World Book Day! It was wonderful to see everyone dressed up as favourite book characters. Classes across the school focussed on the book […] […]

Puddlebridge and Danes class had a wonderful day at Duxford RAF Museum.  The visit supported our learning about World War Two and The Battle of Britain. We started our day […] […]

A few songs to share for the end of the school year! […]

We are so proud of Years Five and Six for their fantastic performance of ‘The Jungle Book’. Enjoy! […]

Watch the film: Friday 28th May 2021 And some final fun on the coach home to end the most amazing of times at PGL! Thursday 27th May 2021 9:20pm How […] […]

Key Stage 2 took part in an interactive Esafety assembly, investigating the 4 worlds of ‘Interland’ . The children learned about appropriate information when sharing online, how to spot a […] […]

Danes class had a wonderful time at the Natural History Museum. […]

We are very proud to have entered two teams of Year 5 pupils into the Hertfordshire Cross Country Championships for the first time. The championships took place in St. Albans […] […]

Despite the rain, Danes class had a wonderful day at Duxford RAF museum to support our learning about World War 2 and in particular The Battle of Britain. Later in […] […]

On Wednesday 5th June, we celebrated World Environment day. Our theme for the day focused on the negative effect that plastic is having on our world’s oceans, the dangers it is […] […]

On the evening of Monday 21st January, Danes class enjoyed a visit to Bayfordbury Observatory. At first, we spent time learning some interesting facts about space from one of the […] […]

On Friday we spent the day celebrating the marriage of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle by having a Royal Wedding of our own. Everyone went to church where we acted […] […]

  At Aston St Marys a Reward Day is enjoyed by all the children that have worked hard and followed our school rules. Mr Nash and Rising Stars organise a […] […]

On Sunday 11th March our school choir took part in the Hertfordshire music festival at the Royal Albert Hall.     […]

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Mother’s Day service this morning at St Mary’s Church. The children all sang beautifully and as always put lots of lovely […] […]

We had a fantastic day at the Natural History Museum. Our visit supported our learning in both Geography (Extreme Earth -Volcanoes and Earthquakes) and Science (Evolution and Inheritance). We started […] […]

On Thursday 28th September we visited Duxford IWM as part of our history theme – The Battle of Britain.  We had a fantastic day exploring the many exhibits.  A volunteer […] […]

Here at Aston St Mary’s, we enjoy our coffee morning gatherings. Parents, Governers and friends in our community are all invited for us to say “Thank you” for all the […] […]

On 31st March the whole school held a trinity day which included the Easter story and an Easter breakfast of hot cross buns and fruit juice.  Each class made their […] […]

Wizards, scientist and even Albert Einstein came to school for our Science day. Cosmic Chris and Nitro Nick from “Mad Science” showed us lots of cool things with dry ice. […] […]

The choir sang at the Christmas Tree Festival at Aston St Mary’s Church on 5th December 2015. […]

We had a celebration on VE day. The whole school enjoyed a day of VE celebrations just as Great Britain did in 1945. We listened to Sir Winston Churchill’s speech […] […]

Thank you to Coreys Mill Sainsburys for donating 8 “Mog at Christmas” books to our school library. […]