Sports and Fun Day!

What an exciting week at Pope Paul School! Year 5 had a great time on the go-carts, bouncy castle and shooting range on Wednesday morning, before giving it their all in the races. We also decorated biscuits to cheer on their house teams or England.

I hope the children all had a wonderful day. There were certainly a lot of smiling faces! Well done to our overall winner, St Vincent’s.

Have a wonderful weekend. I look forward to seeing the children either at usual time OR at 10am on Monday.

Mrs Lines

 

Home Learning:

Mathletics

Study ladder

Year 2 Blog 09-07-2021

Sports Day 2021!

On your marks, Get set, Go!
Year 2 took to the field to take part in our whole school Sports Day 2021. The children showed off their amazing throwing skills with the shot put. They zoomed through the obstacle course and made light work of the 25 m sprint. Plenty of concentration was required for the football station. The children had great fun cheering on their houses and everyone enjoyed a well deserved ice-pop at the end. Congratulations to St. Vincent House, the overall winners of Sports Day 2021!

Fun Day 2021!

Go-Carts + bouncy castles +Mr Magic + face-painting + crafting = A fun-filled day!

 

Home Learning:

Sign up for the Hertfordshire Libraries Summer Reading Challenge!

https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk

Enjoy the football final…. fingers crossed for England! It’s coming home!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Davey

Summer 2 Week 4

In Year 5 this week, we have continued to convert units of measure and have been working towards our Greek myths. In History, we thought about the achievements of the Ancient Greeks and reasoned about which were the most/least important. Graphing skills were our focus in Science as we made line graphs to show the data we collected last week. Our RE learning about discipleship had us looking at the story of Jesus asking Simon, Andrew, James and John to be fishers of men. Year 5 thought about how this story demonstrated the Catholic beliefs of Social Justice and the Common Good.

On Tuesday, Year 5 represented Pope Paul at the St Peter and St Paul mass at Our Lady and St Vincent. As father Shaun explained, this was the beginning of their role as leaders of our school.

Well done to Sandro, Mia, Megan, Nabira, Manus, Darcie-Louise and Phoebe. They lead the whole school assembly this morning, telling all about the life of Prince Phillip, who they had been researching for an English project.

We had a very sad ending to our week. Johnny-Mac will be leaving us and joining a new school on Monday. We wish him all the best and will miss him greatly.

 

Home learning:

Week 5 spellings

mathletics

Year 2 Blog 02-07-2021

We have got the bug….. The Computing bug that is!  We have been learning about algorithms and repetition in our programming unit of learning. Year 2 thought of plenty of great examples of what you could program a robot to do.

Everyone delighted in creating maps with 2D shapes for their Bee-Bots to move across.  The Bee-Bot can remember up to 40 commands consisting of forward, backwards, left and right movements to maneuver around. The children discovered that giving precise instructions is very important!

What do you think of our gigantic Beebot maze?

Home Learning:

StudyLadder:

Number revision – One more to 20

Half and quarter turn patterns

Spelling 300 High Frequency Sight Words.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Davey

 

Reception Week Beginning 28.6.21

We started the week on Monday by saying goodbye to our beautiful butterflies…

Following on from the children’s interest in snails last week, Reception decided to spend the week learning more about them. The class did lots of research and found out lots of new facts.

We found out:

  • Most snails live from 2 to 5 years, but in captivity, some have exceeded 10 or 15 years of age.
  • The mucus of the garden snail is used to treat wrinkles, spots, and scars on the skin.
  • Snails do not change shells when they grow up. Instead, the shell grows along with them.
  • The size of the shell of a snail reflects its age.
  • Snails can see but can’t hear.
  • Snails are nocturnal.

The children have continued to develop Snail World- today we counted over 25 snails living happily on there!

In English, the class have enjoyed listening to the story of The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson. The children all thought and wrote about where they would like to go, if they were on the tail of a humpback whale!

In Maths, the children have been exploring and representing patterns with numbers up to ten and thinking about how quantities can be distributed equally. Reception class had fun relating this to the story Mr Gumpy’s Outing; a story about a man named Mr Gumpy who went out in his boat on the river and all the animals he met wanted to come too. Due to the unequal distribution of people and animals, the story ends disastrously with everyone falling in the river!!

Reception class re-enacted the story and worked out what Mr Gumpy should have done to avoid the boat tipping over. The teachers were very impressed by their problem solving and how they all worked together. Following this, the children were challenged to make their own boat from tin foil and then see how many marbles it could carry without sinking. The children had lots of fun doing this activity and many went on to make more boats from different materials and test these too!

On Wednesday Reception have their very first Sports Day. Please ensure that they are wearing trainers or plimsols, have a water bottle, hat and are wearing sun cream.  Please note, the children just need to come in their usual Reception uniform and will be given a coloured team band when competing.

Have a wonderful weekend,

The Reception Team

Year 6 – 02/07/21

This week has flown by! In RE, the children were recognising the character traits that Jesus displays in the gospels, then thinking about how we emulate these characteristics ourselves. In English, we have continued using the Spiderwick Fieldguide to the Fantastical World Around You to revise how we can vary sentence structure in our writing. In Geography, the children were learning about the importance of farmers in National Parks. In RSE, our topic this week was menstruation, whilst in Wellbeing, we had an excellent discussion about body image.

We have also been doing a lot of High School Musical rehearsing this week, and it is coming together wonderfully! Please continue practising lines, songs, and dances this weekend, especially the speech parts in Counting on You and the dance in the chorus of We’re All In This Together. Click here for the playlist.

This afternoon, the Year 6s taught their Reception learning partners some skills in preparation for Sports Day next Wednesday. As always, they displayed fantastic kindness and patience with them.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Donatantonio

 

Friday, 2nd July 2021

       

Children in Year 4 were busy using their talents this week.

They spent time looking at secondary sources and evaluated them for reliability to judge Henry VIII’s character and ruling style as part of our Tudor topic. They then used Hans Holbein’s famous painting to create pencil portraits of the prominent king.

On Tuesday, the children participated in watching Mass online celebrating the feast day of St Peter and St Paul and learning about these two wonderful saints from Fr Shaun in his homily.  Later during the week, after doing some research on Simon Peter’s life, they have written CVs acting as Peter, applying for the position of first Pope.

On Wednesday, they have further developed both their bawling and their batting and fielding skills throughout ‘Monster Cricket’, an exciting game taught to us by Coach Tom. Well done team!

On Thursday, we had the pleasure of participating in our next Djembe lesson with Caz, where the class worked in pairs to compose their own call and response patterns as part of a competition. Congratulations to Ela-Maria and Caroline, whose winning composition will officially become part of our performance piece!

Today, lead by Mrs McNamara, the children did some cooking and continued on developing and fine-tuning their Scratch programming skills. They also spent time preparing for Sports Day doing running races and free standing jumps.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend,

Ms Varga and Mrs McNamara

 

Please see your Home Learning below:

Home Learning Friday, 2nd July 2021
Spelling Please log onto Spelling Frame and spend some time practicing this week’s words before testing yourself.

https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/73/35-Word-list-years-3-and-4—t-to-w

Reading Please log onto Read Theory and complete at least 2 activities. Please update your reading log about the books you have read for pleasure.

https://readtheory.org/

Multiplication Please spend 15 minutes practicing your mixed number facts.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Topic research project Please carry on with your research project set last week based on areas of The Tudors.

The deadline for those are Friday, 9th July 2021.

 

 

Week 11

In Maths, the children have been finding a half of a shape and of a number. They started by folding shapes and writing half as a fraction. Then they used resources to find half of different numbers and then they drew pictures to show their answers.

In Literacy, we have been reading poems about the sea. Then the children described the sea and how the sea makes them feel. They used these descriptions to write their own poems.

In Geography, the children have been learning about different habitats and the different animals who live in rockpools. They learnt about a food chain of animals in a rockpool.

 

In Art, we made crabs, sharks and octopuses out of plates and bowls and decorated them to add them to our seaside area.

The children are loving the cricket and tennis lessons each week.

Next Friday we are going to the seaside! The children are very excited.  We aim to leave school at 8.30am. Please be at school by 8.15am with a backpack, their lunch, two drinks and a small towel. No lunch boxes. Children to wear PE kit with trainers, remember a sunhat,  and apply suncream before school.

Home Learning

Mathletics

Studyladder

 

Mrs Carey

Summer 2 Week 4

This week the children have worked hard to finish their Egyptian stories based on the novel The Egyptian Cinderella. I have been so impressed with their use noun phrases and description. It has also been wonderful to see how they have used their historical knowledge in their stories. In History, the children have also investigated where, why and how pyramids were made. During Art they created their own Egyptian necklaces.

In cricket the class have focused on their battling skills – trying hard to strike into space.

During Maths the children have been using arrays and grouping to divide and multiply.

In RSE we have explored what community means and how our family, friends, school and Church community help us feel loved and closer to God.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

Home learning

Spelling – https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/85/8-The-l-sound-spelt-%E2%80%93el-at-the-end-of-words

camel
tunnel
squirrel
travel
towel
trowel
tinsel
Read theory – please spend 20 minutes on the comprehension quizzes and log this in your reading records.
French  – please spend 20 minutes on Duolingo http://www.duolingo.com passwords can be found on google classroom.