Entries by Margaret Joyce

Autumn 1 Week 2

The children started their week with scooterbility, where they learnt about road safety, demonstrated control and learnt the importance of using their brakes. In English, the children have used adjectives and nouns to describe aliens. They have also completed a tricky word and phonic assessments. In Maths, they have placed numbers along number lines using […]

Year 6 Week Beginning 4.9.23

Welcome back! Year 6 have had a fantastic first week in their new class and have settled really quickly. The weather has been hot, hot, hot; despite this, the class have worked incredibly hard and given their best, all week long. This year, Pope Paul School is celebrating the Year of Diversity. The children have […]

Year 5 – 08/09/23

It has been an extremely busy first week of Year 5! We began by choosing our first class novel in a World Cup of Books. It was tight competition, but the winning book was Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun, which we have been enjoying reading in the Peace Garden this week. We have also […]

Welcome to Reception!

It has been lovely meeting you for lunch this week to begin the children’s journey at Pope Paul School. The children settled into the class well and have started to learn some of the class routines. It was wonderful to see the children getting to know each other and sharing their different interests. We have […]

Friday, 8th September 2023

Welcome back ! The children in Year 4 have had a lovely first week! They’ve settled into the school year well and tried their best in all activities. We are celebrating Diversity at Pope Paul School this year and the children have learnt that diversity means differences. In class, they shared what makes them unique […]

Autumn 1 Week 1 w.b. 04.09.2023

Welcome to Year 1! The children have had a lovely start to the new school year and a very busy week. They were all excited to see each other and it was lovely seeing them all spending time with each other again. They joined the first school assembly and learned about The Year of Diversity […]

Autumn 1 Week 1

What a lovely first week we have had together in Year 2. The children have settled into the school year well and have tried their best all week. We are celebrating Diversity at Pope Paul School this year and the children have been learning that Diversity means differences. In class the children have shared what […]

Friday 8th September, 2023

Fun, scary, exciting are some of the feelings of  Year 3’s first week back at school. This week in Year 3, the children have been working hard to get back into the mode of learning after a long summer break. We started the week with a class act of worship in which the children wrote their […]

Friday 21st July 2023

Our final week has been filled with making memories. On Tuesday we spent time with our Reception partners having a movie and popcorn afternoon. On Wednesday, it was wonderful to join together for a mass to celebrate the end of the children’s Pope Paul journey. We followed that with a fantastic pizza and ice cream […]

Goodbye!

It is the end of the year! Well done to all of the Year 3 children who have been a pleasure to teach! Thank you for your kind words, cards and gifts for all of the staff in Year 3. It has been a wonderful year of fun and learning and the children are ready […]