The children in Year 4 had yet another busy week with some practical tasks in Art and D&T.

In Maths, the class moved on to formal division with chunking whilst in English, they have written an accurate recount of the events of the ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker, focusing on action sequences punctuated by commas and fronted adverbials. Later in the week, they also planned their own continuation of the story coming up with ideas as to where the 2 main characters could go next and what adversities they will overcome with the help of their magic crayons. The children will write their narrative based on these plans next week.

In RE, the class discussed the next Catholic Social Teaching principle of ‘Human Dignity’ and prayed the Stations of the Cross. The class then used maps and images to discuss how Jerusalem looked like at the time of Jesus’ death, focusing on important characters from Mark’s Gospel, such as Caiaphas, the Sanhedrin and Pontius Pilate. We also walked down to the church on Tuesday to rehearse for our Way of the Cross service next week.

We baked cakes to support our Lenten Charity cause on Thursday…

and later painted fruit composition inspired by Paul Cezanne.

I would like to thank the children as they showed amazing patience and respect after I’ve lost my voice on Tuesday and were brilliant throughout the rest of the week, helping me with all aspects of classwork! Thank you Year 4!

Next week, we are walking down to the church on Monday morning, so the children will need hooded coats in case it rains.

On Tuesday, we are off tour our Year 3-4 charity walk, therefore they will need wellington boots or old trainers (that you don’t mind getting dirty) that day. In the evening, we will also participate in the KS2 Way of the Cross at Church. Children should wear normal uniforms for that with a tie.

Wednesday, is the children’s last swimming, whilst Thursday is our last day of the term. Please remember, it is early pick up time at 1pm, followed by the Easter Egg Hunt organised by FOPPS. Make sure you buy your entry for that through School Gateway.

Have a lovely weekend,

Ms Varga

This week the class have been learning about Holy Week. They have retold The Last Supper and created collages about Palm Sunday.

In Maths this week, they have been learning to tell the time. They have revisited o’clock and half past and begun focusing on quarter to, quarter past and intervals of 5 minutes.

In English, they have identified and used different sentence types.

Our new Science topic is Plants and I have been very impressed with the classes plant knowledge and their enthusiasm for gardening. Please send shoes/boots in on Monday that are suitable for a muddy walk and gardening. 

Home Learning – Due Wednesday

Mathletics – please complete the time activities set.

Spelling – please practice this list of homophones on spelling shed.

there
their
here
hear
see
sea
too
two
blew
blue

Reading – please read daily and send your child’s reading book and record in on Wednesday.

Reminder – school finishes at 1pm next Thursday.

Wishing you all a restful weekend.

Miss Pringle

This week, Year 6 joined the rest of the school in celebrating British Science Week; the theme this year was ‘Time’.

To kick start the week off, the children were asked the BIG QUESTION-

Does taller mean faster?

Initially, and after much debate, the children decided that they thought that taller did in fact mean that you would be quicker, due to your legs being longer and therefore covering more ground, more quickly. They were asked to put the question to the test.

First, they planned their test, thinking carefully about how they were going to ensure that it was fair.  They then measured one another’s legs from hip to ankle and plotted the measurements on a table.

Then the class went outside onto the playground and began their tests, recording results as they happened!

Back in class, the children reflected on their results and represented these on a dual bar chart.

Upon finishing,  Year 6 came to the conclusion that taller DID NOT mean faster!!!

Continuing with British Science Week, on Wednesday, Pope Paul were joined by Mr Kelly, one of the science teachers from Nicholas Breakspear, who delivered a special science lesson about dinosaurs, and how paleontologists are able to know about how life on our planet used to be, because of their work with fossils. The class then enjoyed a fun, practical activity, where they dug around for bones in layers of jelly and sand!

On Wednesday, Year 5 and 6 represented Pope Paul School at OLASV, where they attended mass to celebrate the feast day of St Louise de Marillac. As usual, the children made staff proud with their reverence and beautiful singing.

Today, the whole school were treated to a wonderful St Patrick’s Day assembly by Year 3. Fern , Caitlin and Lucy also took part in the assembly, wowing the audience with their amazing Irish dancing. Well done girls!!

Well done to Christoph and Eliana, who sent pictures of themselves with fairtrade products, this week!

Well done for today’s brilliant rehearsal with Year 5, for the upcoming Way of the Cross. For your home learning, please practise your words if you are reading: if you have left them at school, you can also find a copy here:

The Way Of The Cross – 2024 parts

Please also practise the songs here, which will need to be learnt off by heart by the service (Tuesday 26^th March).

Science Whole School Home Learning

Take a Science Selfie! Can you complete a science experiment at home and take a selfie of you and your family? Below are some websites with some ideas. Please bring in a photo to your class teacher.

https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/resources/kitchen-science/?fbclid=IwAR3pgsL9Z4JzVUVbdci8OqeDSw9x1Dg3i7lxaAUawWtZgMihAmqwjfqZYzE_aem_Admn5arF3jT7xcfVN1DfUBA7wIol_zEdHihfnVfpWenDYAdSWmn7C7TFFUpdPYK4EBU

https://pstt.org.uk/resources/science-fun-at-home/?fbclid=IwAR1QCsKUdVQhkCpHGs1GVh1-YSnWJJr6hF8DIGHG0mhUVAA-f3mtgasuD88_aem_AdlWck7NCJkc74ueKc12WHPDa3cPBlycv3YRIcjGlrLE3ECWC1KTmZE-9eWEzrq1-ds

Spelling Shed

• Words with an /oa/ sound spelled ‘ou’ or ‘ow’
• Using hyphens to avoid ambiguity

Daily reading

TT Rockstars

What a wonderful week of leaning we have had in Year One! This week was Science week and as a school we all had an investigation to undertake! Our question to investigate  was ‘Does taller mean faster?’

The children made their own predictions and talked about the various ways they could answer this question. As a class, we made our predictions and then planned how we could work out who the tallest children in our class were.  Year one decided  that it would be sensible to measure each child in the class and record our results. The children brainstormed ideas on how to measure each other and it was decided it would be best to use a metre stick, as rulers and measuring tapes were deemed too small to measure the height of the children.

The children worked in groups to measure each other’s heights and record their results in a chart. Next, we would need to race each other to see if the tallest children were the fastest! In PE, we raced individually to record our fastest speed and then raced each of the fastest children against each other. After this, the children were able to compare and discuss their results and noted lots of comparisons. Due to the results, Year one concluded that tallest, was in fact not the fastest.

On Tuesday, we were very fortunate to have a parent scientist join us in leading a morning of fun experiments. These experiments ranged from making rainbows with skittles, floating and sinking and investigating mixing liquids in water with other materials. eg oil/ food colouring and Alka- Seltzer to see what happened to them! We would like to say a big thank you to Dr Holly for organising this marvellous experience for everyone.

On Monday, we had our first workshop from the Hertsmere Mental Support team. In this first session, the children learned about Emotions and expressing their feelings. They talked about the range of emotions they know about including happy, sad, angry, scared and how these may show in our actions. Over the next few weeks, the children will be learning how to express their emotions and will develop a ‘backpack of skills’ to help them with this.

On Thursday morning, we had an online Road Safety talk. The children learnt some very important lessons about what they could wear to make sure they’re easily spotted when walking. They also learnt some rules about crossing the road.

On Thursday morning we also took a walk to Dame Alice Owens school. When we arrived we were greeted by the Science teacher, Mr Friedlander who took us to their Science lab. The children were very impressed with the lab and even more impressed by the height of the stools! We did an investigation to find out who had drawn a picture of him and all the children were very engaged in trying to work out who the suspect was. Thank you to Bethany’s mum, Freddie’s dad and Anna-Maria’s mum for walking with us.

Well done to Harvey, Amelia and Joshua for finding Fairtrade items!

Mathletics – please complete the activities set.

Handwriting sheet – practice letters sent home. You do not need to send this back as they are also practised daily in school.

Spellings – please practice the spellings with your child for a spelling test next Friday. This also does not need to be sent back.

Reading – 5/10 minutes daily.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Poyiadzis & Mrs Barnes