Enrichment

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 […] […]

On Tuesday 11th November the whole school walked up to the church to take part in our Remembrance service. Pupils from Year Six led the prayers and shared a bible […] […]

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 […] […]

As the new school year begins, we have been holding elections across the school to choose this year’s school councillors. These elections gave every child the opportunity to take part […] […]

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. […]

Congratulations to Coventry House who, once again, were the winners of sports day. It was a beautiful morning and the children were supported by many parents, friends and family. It […] […]

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 […] […]

Shackadell class went to Hertfordshire zoo. We have been learning all about dinosaurs recently and we really enjoyed the dinosaur trail at the zoo. It was amazing to see how […] […]

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 […] […]

Today, Year 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 what […] […]

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 […] […]

Today, Danes Class enjoyed participating in the 2025 GoConstruct K’nex challenge. This is an engineering challenge involving around 180 schools across Hertfordshire and surrounding areas. Led by our local STEM […] […]

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 […] […]

We were delighted to be joined by so many family and friends for both of our carol services on Tuesday 17th December 2024. Year Six did a wonderful job of […] […]

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 […] […]

This week we have been learning all about Autumn. We were excited to go on an Autumn walk around the village and invited our grown-ups to come in and join […] […]

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 […] […]

We talked about boundaries and hazards. We made story sticks to represent our first session of forest school with Ranger Skull. […]

Despite the rain, we were delighted that 21 children from Years 5 and 6 were able to represent our school today at the Stevenage Sporting Future Teams Cross Country competition. […] […]

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 […] […]

Our Spring class trip was very exciting! We were lucky enough to be invited back to St Christopher School in Letchworth, to visit their on-site animal centre. After a ride […] […]

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. […] […]

Congratulations to all of the children who were voted onto the School Council and all of the children who put themselves forward for their year group elections. Pupil Voice is […] […]

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. […]