Special Events

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 […] […]

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 […] […]

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 […] […]

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 […] […]

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 […] […]

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 […] […]

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 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 […] […]

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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 […] […]

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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 […] […]