Enrichment

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 scam, creating strong passwords and being respectful to others on […]

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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 on Saturday 1st February. The children competed over 1600m against […]

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 the term, we will focus on the First World War […]

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 causing to our environment and the small changes we can […]

On Wednesday 12th June, four children from Danes Class represented Aston St. Mary’s in the Stevenage Speaks public speaking competition. This takes place every two years. Mr Falder worked with the team over several weeks to prepare them for the […]

Today, Danes class learnt some important life skills during their First Aid training session. This included: how to check whether somebody is conscious; how to put somebody in the recovery position; how to bandage an injury and also what to […]

Year 6 really did do themselves proud this week! They have worked so hard all year and this week tackled their SATs assessments with enthusiasm and confidence. Whatever their results, we are proud of every single one of them. On […]

On Friday 8th March, Danes class visited Barnwell School for their science and technology fair. This is a very well-run and popular event in which the children get to experience a range of activities to develop their understanding of biology, […]

Author Visit On Tuesday 5th March we were visited by Billy Bob Buttons, award-winning author of thirteen children’s novels including the Rubery Book Award finalist, Felicity Brady and the Wizard’s Bookshop, the much loved The Gullfoss Legends, TOR Assassin Hunter, […]

K’nex Challenge On Tuesday 19th March Danes Class participated in this year’s K’nex Challenge organised by SETPOINT Hertfordshire. Their task was to make a plane using K’nex. The children worked with enthusiasm throughout the morning and their designs showed much […]

World Book Day 2019 On Thursday 7th March we celebrated World Book Day. The children arrived at school in an amazing array of costumes inspired by their favourite books. The day was spent enjoying a range book based activities in […]

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 astronomy students. Bayfordbury Observatory features 7 large permanently-mounted optical telescopes, […]

Today the children took part in a Nativity Day.  In mixed age groups they traveled around the school meeting some special visitors…… characters from the nativity story,     […]

On Wednesday 7th November, we were very lucky to have a European Gold Medalist , Rion Pierre, join us.  He gave us an inspirational talk about his life, struggles and success.  We were also put through our paces as he taught […]

Saturday 27th October Just a taster of the photos we have of the trip – there are so many more! Please join us for our assembly on Monday 12th November at 2:45pm. We look forward to sharing memories of our […]

Since half term, Year 6 have been enjoying swimming lessons at Heath Mount School. They are split into two groups, whilst one group swims the other has a Forest school session led by Mrs Skull. Today, they were set the […]

What a fantastic day Danes class had at Whipsnade Zoo! In class we are learning about classification so we had a workshop session called ‘Fur, Feather and Scales’ in which we learnt all about the classification of vertebrates. In geography our […]

Today Danes class took part in the K’nex challenge which is taking place in 100 schools across Hertfordshire. This year’s challenge involved designing and building a crane to lift a bucket of weights. Different types of crane were considered and […]

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 out our own wedding, We even dressed up in wedding […]

Today we celebrated our Easter breakfast together. We talked about the real meaning of Easter and why we take part in some traditions […]

  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 fun filled day.     […]

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 smiles on everyone’s faces. PHOTOS OF THE SERVICE     […]

We had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day 2018. The whole school loves to get involved with storytelling, acting, costumes, props and lots of laughter! The snow didn’t stop us all having fun!   […]

On Tuesday 6th February, the whole of Year Two and the rest of Orchard Class took part in a Florence Nightingale Day led by History off the Page. It was a highly engaging and interesting day had by all. The day […]

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 our visit by attending the ‘Emergency! Earthquakes and Volcanoes’ show. […]

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 in the Battle of Britain hangar shared his expert knowledge […]

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 support and work they do for our lovely school. […]

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 own bonnets to wear for the day. On 1st April […]

World Book Day.   The whole school loves to get involved with story telling, acting, costumes, props and lots of laughter.   […]

Euro fever took over the school when the children and staff cheered on England v Wales during Euro 2016. At halftime, we enjoyed pop corn, drinks and sweets provided by the wonderful PTFA.     […]

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.  We also enjoyed time in our classrooms learning new things […]

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 and stories, sang songs, decorated the school and had a […]

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