Our learning question this half term is: How does praying throughout the day, help a Muslim in their everyday life. […]
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 […] […]
We were very excited to perform our Nativity – A Bundle of Joy! We worked really hard on a variety of skills for this performance. Singing, dancing, using our performance […] […]
We were excited to join in with the community tree festival at the church. All of the children in our school made a decoration to add to the tree. It […] […]
Today we celebrated the start of Advent by having our annual tree dressing service. The staff read a story all about the tradition of trees and the representation of each […] […]
Today we went to church for our service of Remembrance. Danes and Puddlebridge classes were dressed as evacuees as part of their learning about the Second World War. It was […] […]
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 […] […]
This half term, Haffydown Class has been exploring Hinduism, with a special focus on the festival of Diwali. We’ve enjoyed learning about the significance of Diwali, including the famous story […] […]
We will be learning about the creation story. We will also learn how to appreciate all of the natural beauty in our world. […]
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 […] […]
Today we celebrated in school with a Christingle service. We all came together throughout the morning to make our Christingles. We know that the orange represents the world and the […] […]
This week we were thrilled to perform our Nativity – The Sleepy Shepherd. We have worked really hard to learn our lines, songs and dance moves in order to perform […] […]
The choir have been very busy performing this month. On Thursday 7th December, they sang at the newhousing development. Unfortunately, it was very wet, but that did not stop them […] […]
This year the whole school presented a Christmas carol service to our families. We all went to St Mary’s Church and sang Christmas carols. Many of the children across all […] […]
It is an Aston St Mary’s School tradition to gather together to dress the Christmas tree. All of the staff tell a story explaining what each of the colours and […] […]
On Friday 17th November we spent that day celebrating ‘Children in Need’. We had a fantastic day learning about how ‘Children in Need’ support children across the country. We were […] […]
On Friday 10th November the whole school walked up to the church to take part in a remembrance service. Pupils from Year 6 read prayers and some of them performed […] […]
We have been learning all about Diwali. We read a brilliant book called ‘Little Glow’ by Katie Sahota which explains about lots of different festivals. We loved making our own […] […]
What gifts might Christians have given Jesus if he was born in their town? We have been talking about giving gifts and we thought about the gifts that The Three […] […]
Today we celebrated harvest at Aston St Mary’s School. We collected food to support our local food bank called ‘Foodshed’. We all went to church and thought about why we […] […]
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 […] […]
Our Learning Question this half term is – ‘What do Christians believe God is like?’ We are looking at some of the parables that Jesus told. […]
We have been discussing groups which we belong to. We talked about how we feel included in these groups. We wrote about a place or group where we felt we […] […]
Today we had our house sports day for 2023. It was a fantastic morning where we were able to have lots of fun whilst also displaying so many of our […] […]
We were thrilled to invite Rabbi Neil from a local Jewish school to come and talk to our pupils today. He lead worship this morning, teaching us all about Jewish […] […]
Wow! What a performance! On Sunday, our Year Four, Five and Six choir performed at the Hertfordshire Gala Concert at The Royal Albert Hall. This event last took place just […] […]
We have had a very busy term and have spent this last half term learning about the death and resurrection of Jesus. Each class has been learning about this, which […] […]
For the whole of this half term we have been learning about the Easter story, starting with Palm Sunday, through some of the events of Holy Week, to Good Friday […] […]
We had a very special collective worship time today where we honoured Mrs Crowley who is retiring after 23 years working at Aston St Mary’s School. She has taught us […] […]
We had a wonderful morning sharing in our Easter breakfast together. We talked about the Easter story and why it is such an important date in the Christian calendar. We […] […]
Today we had a special time celebrating the Mums and other special women in our lives. We all went to church and sang songs about our mums; ‘Happy Mother’s day, […] […]
We have been learning all about Shrove Tuesday and why Christians eat pancakes on this day. We also started to think about some of the things we could give up […] […]
We had a wonderful Christingle service at school. In the morning we worked together to create our own Christingles. Danes class supported their buddies in Shackadell and the rest of […] […]
We had a wonderful time sharing our Nativity service with so many parents and carers in our school community. ‘The Raggedy King’ was performed by our Reception and year 6 […] […]
The children looked at words to describe God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Using pieces of art work they matched images and symbols to these words as […] […]
Our Christian Character […]
Today we went to the church together to have a remembrance service. We were able to spend time reflecting on the sacrifices of the service men of our country and […] […]
How wonderful it was to be able to come together in church this morning to celebrate our Harvest Festival. For our youngest children, this was their very first visit to […] […]
Every year children from Shackadell and Danes are paired up as buddies. We have had such a wonderful year together, playing, enjoying our lunches together and having weekly buddy reading […] […]
As part of our curriculum ambitions in the EYFS, Shackadell class had to plan a fundraising event. The children really wanted to raise funds to help look after some of […] […]
Platinum Jubilee celebrations were in full here at Aston. What a delight it was to see all the children having a wonderful time celebrating this historic event! I am sure […] […]
Today we were happy to invite our Mum’s, Grandma’s and all of the special women in our lives to a special service. We sang songs to our families and had […] […]
On Tuesday 7th December 2021, the whole school enjoyed a fun filled geography and RE enrichment day to discover how Christmas is celebrated around the world in different countries and […] […]
Today we had a special collective worship where we dressed our Christmas tree. Mrs Holmes told us a story while year 6 dressed the tree. This is always a special […] […]
On Tuesday 16th November Bishop Michael Beasley, the Bishop of Hertford came to visit our school. We had asked Bishop Michael if he would like to come and bless our […] […]
This year we celebrated harvest altogether which was wonderful. Reverend Angela lead the service and the choir sang ‘Glory Hallelujah’ to the whole school. We collected so much food that […] […]