Entries by Margaret Joyce

Reception Class- Autumn Term 2 Week 2

Reception class started the week  participating in a two minute silence at 11 o’clock, to commemorate Remembrance Day. The children have also been thinking about the friends and family that they have lost and have been praying for them every day during special prayer time. This week has also been Anti-bullying week. The children have […]

Autumn 2 Week 2

We are Called to Serve This week, Year 5 were called upon to serve their school community in a variety of ways. On Tuesday, a selection of children attended the training centre at the Diocese of Westminster, to support Mrs Joyce and Mrs Heymoz. They showed teachers from around the diocese how we use music […]

Year 2 Blog Week 10

In Religion this week we have been learning about the Liturgical Year and the start of Advent. This is Year A and we will be concentrating on the Gospel of St. Matthew.  We have been finding out about St. Matthew and the children used their computing skills to create a word cloud about him. It […]

Week 10: 15th November

This week was Anti-bullying week and the main focus this year is ‘Change starts with us.’ Here at Pope Paul we are proud to support Anti-Bullying Week and the children participated in a range of activities  to raise awareness. They also took part in a workshop ‘This is Me’ and learnt about how unique they […]

Week 2

This week was Anti Bullying Week. We have learnt about what bullying means and what we should do if we are bullied or see bullying. We have talked about how we can be a good friend to others. We continued learning about the Parliament. Year 5 showed us different objected and taught us about what […]

Reception Autumn Term Week 9

Welcome back! We hope you all managed to have a restful half term. Reception have been very busy learning about Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, this week. They learnt about some of the customs and traditions used to prepare families for this special celebration. The children heard the story of Rama and Sita and […]

Week 9: 8th November, 2019

This week the children have been working hard in many areas of their learning. In English, they have begun their new unit on Mythical Magic which will be focusing on Roman Myths.  They wrote about their own Gods and Goddesses and will be using these as a writing resource next week. In Maths the class […]

Year 6 – 08/11/19

Well done, Year 6, for a beautiful class mass on Wednesday. Your reading, singing and participation was wonderful and you made me very proud. This week has been both Parliament Week and Judaism Week. For Parliament Week, we discussed the current political climate, then the children wrote about what issues are important to them and […]

Year 2 Blog Week 8

In November we pray for the people we love who are no longer with us. This week Year 2 created a beautiful display of poppies for our sacred space. The children also wrote the names of people they are praying for on poppies and hung them from our prayer tree. This week was UK Parliament […]

Autumn 2, Week 1

We have had a busy week, learning about and planning our our Willow Pattern fables in English. We have also completed online adverb activities using spag.com and explored when to use the words a or an. The children all did very well in their adverb spelling tests – thank you for supporting their learning at […]