Warm welcome back everyone! The children had a really busy first week. On Monday, we launched our RE focus on the Stations of the Cross and Catholic Social Teaching (CST). Throughout Lent ,we will be focusing on a different CST principle each week, prompted by an art piece that the children can explore and discuss. […]
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful half term This week we have been reading the story Farmer Duck. The children have been predicting what happened to the farmer next. They have been planting vegetables outside and playing in the farm shop. The children took on the role of the farmer or the duck […]
Spiritual Growth: To honour the significance of Lent and drawing closer to God, the children participated in the sacrament of Reconciliation. They engaged in a Reconciliation service alongside Years 4 and 6, followed by individual confessions with either Fr Shaun or Fr Robert. Catholic Social Teaching (CST): Throughout Lent at Pope Paul, we will be […]
Wishing you all a lovely half term! Here are some photos of us celebrating Mardi Gras with pancakes on Thursday, and tasting some of the components of the Passover Seder meal yesterday! Passover food:
This week in RE, the children have enjoyed learning about Shrove Tuesday and the Seder Plate, Passover meal. They were also fantastic at reading, singing and responding to the prayers during our Ash Wednesday Service. Today they made Lenten promises, which were added to the hall display in assembly. The class have also enjoyed making […]
It has been a very busy last week of term for the children in Year one! We finished our English unit on Poetry with the children writing their own squirrel poems. In Maths, the children continued practising writing numbers to twenty and representing these in different ways. In Science, the children were super excited to […]
Our final week has been a busy one, filled with some wonderful activities. On Tuesday we celebrated Mardi Gras and made pancakes. The children showed fantastic cooking skills with the crepe maker. On Wednesday, along with the rest of Key Stage 2, Year 3 attended the Ash Wednesday mass at OLSV. Thank […]
Our story this week has been The Elves and The Shoemaker. The children have been describing what they think the elves would look like, designed clothes for the elves and designed magic shoes for themselves to wear. Some children pretended to be the old man, the old woman or an elf and the others asked […]
The children in Year 4, had a very busy last week to their first Spring term. On Monday, we solved a real life mathematical problem involving fractions of chocolate, whilst on Tuesday, we celebrated Mardi Gras day by first researching the festival then decorating Mardi Gras masks and sampling some delicious pancakes with Golden syrup. […]
This week, in Year one the children have been learning a poem called ‘One Silver Speck’ by Laura Purdie Salas all about a little mouse. We practised performing the poem, focussing on projecting our voices and varying the intonation. We talked about what a mouse would like to eat and what would a mouse be […]
