The children battled through a wet morning with a coastal walk and a game of Capture the Flag on the field, before a peaceful journey back on the coach! Well done Year 6 on an excellent week! Have a restful weekend and I’ll see you again on Monday!
This week in Year 5 the children have been busy with their learning as well as experiencing The Mini Police Awards Assembly. It was lovely to see parents attend the Year 5 Mini Police Assembly on Tuesday and for the children to receive their Mini Police certificates from Inspector Robertson. At 9:30am on Tuesday […]
It has been another busy and interesting week in Year 4. In Maths, the children extended their understanding of the long division through open ended problem solving activities whilst in English, they have written their final, extended, pieces in our playscripts unit. In RE, the class learnt about Shavu’ot, an ancient Jewish festival which they […]
Year 1 began this week by learning to skip count. They counted in multiples of 2s, matched the total with coins, wrote multiplication number sentences, drew arrays, wrote repeated addition sentences and drew around the 2p coins we used to gain a secure understanding of what multiplication is. Please continue to support your child to […]
In Art this week read the book The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas and explored how colours make us feel different emotions. In PE, we have learnt to how to volley (use a high five shot) in tennis and how to control our breathing when swimming front crawl. We also took part in a cricket […]
After a wet morning, the sky cleared and gave us a beautiful final full day 🌞 Today’s activities were trapeze, rifle shooting, challenge course and beach walk, and once again the children enjoyed trying new things and challenging themselves! We spent our final night at the beach with a stunning sunset to celebrate a fantastic […]
Today has been the day for challenging fears, encouraging classmates, and displaying fantastic team spirit! We all started with Passport to the World, which was a country and flag-themed scavenger hunt around the PGL site. Team Spain were the winners! Groups 1 and 2 then had Jacob’s Ladder, buggy building and rock climbing, whilst group […]
Today has been action-packed to say the least! Raft building, buggy building, abseiling, giant swing and photo challenge all featured, then we ended the day on the beach and had evening prayer with the sun setting over the sea. Thank you for the letters that you have sent; the children love receiving them. Time for […]
We arrived safely at Bawdsey Manor and went straight to the beach, where we had lunch, skimmed stones, played football and collected shells. We then played games back at the centre before being shown to our dormitories, having some time to relax, then enjoying sausages or chicken Kiev for dinner followed by chocolate fudge […]
To Infinity and Beyond! Year 5 created a fruit solar system on Monday to represent the relative sizes and distances of the planets. They discovered how small and close the rocky planets are and how large and distant the gas planets are. Once we had finished, all that was left was to eat Jupiter! Stop! […]
In Maths, we have been learning to find fractions of amounts. The children have learnt to draw bar models to solve fraction problems. Children have realised the importance of knowing times tables to support them in lots of maths learning. In English, the children have been excited to read Iron Man By Ted Hughes. They have […]
This week, the children in Year 4 used their artistic skills to complete creative learning pieces. First and foremost, they added their final touches to their bedside lamps and attached any last details, such as paws, ears, etc. They then built their own simple series circuits with 2 light bulbs and a handmade switch securing […]
The children enjoyed learning about money this week. They were learning how to recognise, order, compare, add and even exchange different amount of coins. Please continue to support your child with exploring money at home and using the Mathletics games. The children have completed their Phase 5 phonics and are now revising all the alternative […]
In tennis this week we have been working on our footwork and we learnt how to play a backhand shot. In English we have written recounts and focused on the suffixes ly, ful and less in our spelling sessions. In maths we have been learning to read o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to […]
Below are some revision aids to assist you in Using calculations/Metric units/Line symmetry/Translation/Time Using Calculations Revision Using Calculations using-calculations-answers Metric Units Revision Metric Units Metric Unit Answers Translations Translations Translations-answers Symmetry Line-symmetry line symmetry answers Time Time Time-answers Click on the CGP link […]
O Mary we crown thee with blossoms today, Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May! This morning, to mark the beginning of May the month of Mary, the whole school came together to honour Our Lady by bringing her flowers. The Liturgy Leaders led us in prayer in the hall, and then Joseph […]
Although this has been a shorter week for us, Year 5 have managed to cram in a busy week of learning! On Wednesday, the children went to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre – they met Katie their group leader who took them on a tour of this beautiful cultural landmark located on the bank of the River […]
Year 3 have had a short but busy week. In English, we have been reading The Iron Man and identifying interesting vocabulary. The children have been using this vocabulary to write their own descriptions. In Maths, the children have been learning about unit fractions and non-unit fractions. Children have been drawing pictures and bar models […]
After a lovely long weekend, the children accomplished a lot this week. In Maths, the class further consolidated their application of the formal written multiplication by playing two very competitive games, ‘Crooked Multiplication’ and ‘Sabotage’. In English, they turned a poem into a playscript, applying all text and language features of the genre such as […]
I hope you all enjoyed the four-day weekend and the additional Inset this week. We have changed reading books but have not managed to read with every child so will have to play catch up again next week. On Friday the children showed respect and appreciation as they joined the school in celebrating the life […]
We went on a lovely walk today to explore fields next to the school. They enjoyed seeing the beautiful yellow rapeseed crop, butterflies, bees, beetles, buttercups, dandelions, birds and trees. On Monday we will be writing about our walk. We also took part in the May procession and enjoyed making crowns and honouring Mary with […]
Although a day shorter, the children in Year 4 had a very busy week. In Maths they have practiced using formal short multiplication without and with regrouping, whilst in English, after some acting, turned playscripts into narrative using speech punctuation correctly. In Science, they classified conductors and insulators using simple series circuits, whilst in RE […]
‘A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come!’ We have focused on Act 1 Scene 3 of Macbeth this week by exploring the setting of the Scottish heath and the interactions between Macbeth, Banquo and the weird sisters. The children have written beautifully descriptive pieces and created artwork using tints and tones to show the landscape […]
In Maths, the children have been solving multiplication and division word problems They have been drawing bar models to show how they solved the problems. In English, the children have been looking at different adventure stories and identifying the features and the most exciting parts of the story. Please encourage your child to read an […]
In Maths, we have been solving multiplication and fraction word problems as well as learning to read o’clock, quarter to, quarter past and half past on analogue clocks. In English, we have identified past and present tenses and practised applying the suffixes ed, er, ing and est. PE Days – Monday – tennis Wednesday – […]
Summer Term Week 1 w.b. 25.04.2022 Year 1 have had an active week and are ready for their four-day weekend! On Monday the children enjoyed their first tennis coaching session before their first swimming lesson on Wednesday. I was super impressed about how quickly Year 1 changed and how safely they behaved during their session. […]
It’s been a busy first week back. Welcome back after the Easter Holidays. We hope you all enjoyed your break and did lots of enjoyable things. The Summer term is always a busy term and there was plenty going on in Year 5 this week. The first day back was a buzz of excitement for many […]
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Happy Easter and welcome back to a new term! Year 6 have worked so hard in their first week back. We have been doing SATs practice in Maths and English, learning about the Resurrection in RE, and running for different distances in PE. This morning, house captains Phoebe and William led an assembly about St […]
Welcome back, I hope you had a wonderful holiday. In class this week we read Luke’s account of the Resurrection and created pictures with the characters and symbols mentioned. Thank you for the beautiful Easter gardens that the children made over the Easter break. In English we have been busy editing, while in Guided Reading […]
Happy Easter! I hope you had a wonderful holiday. This week the children listened to Luke’s account of the Resurrection and retold it from a character’s point of view. Thank you for the beautiful Easter gardens that the children made. Please send your garden in next week if you have not already. The children made […]
The children in Year 4 looked very well after returning from their holidays. It has been lovely to hear about their trips and experiences during spending time with family and friends. In Maths, the class moved on to formal written multiplication and division, building physical models and representing their calculations in different ways whilst in […]
Happy Easter! I hope you all had a lovely break and it was lovely to see all the children back and ready for their last term in Year 1. The children worked well together to transform our Lenten R.E. prayer space to reflect the white, gold and new life of Easter. They completed a retell […]
The end of another term! The children have worked hard this term and should be proud of themselves. This week Year 3 took part in their first Stations of the Cross Service. The children sang beautifully. In Religion, we listened to the story from Luke’s Gospel on the crucifixion and discussed what Luke wanted us […]
Year 4 have had a busy last week to the end of the Spring term and even in my absence, I know that they have worked very hard in class. In Maths, they completed their fraction learning by applying all that they have learned in problem solving situations, using bar models to help them identify […]
The children have worked so hard this term and should be proud of themselves. In Religion this week, we retold The Last Supper using Book Creator on the iPads and listened to the story from Luke’s Gospel about the crucifixion. During PE we have used our communication skills to solve different problems and challenges. We […]
Wishing you all very Happy Easter! Our final week of term has seen the conclusion of our English unit, for which the children have written fantastic non-chronological reports about their invented magical creatures. The week has also contained discussion and writing about who was responsible for Jesus’ death; Pilate, God, Adam & Eve, Jesus himself, […]
This week, Year 5 have shone tremendously! After working so hard on their readings for the Stations of the Cross service on Tuesday evening, they spoke so well at the church and many parents and parishioners praised them for their reverence and confidence. Well done to all the children and thank you to parents for […]
This week Year 1 began their new Geography unit on ‘Where do we live?’ They were surprised to find out that no everyone lives in Potters Bar! Year 1 learned Luke’s Gospel scriptures for The Last Supper and Good Friday. They were very respectful as we learnt about Holy Week and Easter Sunday and how […]
Thank you to those who attended the information meeting for PGL and SATs 2022. As promised, please find the powerpoints below, as well as the list of recommended websites for SATs practice: PGL Information Meeting SATs Information Meeting Links for SATs practice: KS2 SATS Online 10-Minute Tests: https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/resources/ks2-sats-online-10-minute-tests Arithmetic practice: https://myminimaths.co.uk/year-6-mini-maths/ PDF Maths Workbooks: […]
Please use the lyrics and links below to learn the songs for the KS2 Way of the Cross service. Year 6, please wear all black and bring this into school on Monday. My Soul is Sad My soul is sad. My heart is breaking tonight. Could you not watch and comfort me until light? Am […]
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We have had a lovely week, writing diaries, applying our multiplication skills and using mixed media to create art work. Have a lovely mother’s day Miss Pringle Home learning spelling https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/134/21-ew new few grew flew drew threw chew screw Letterjoin – please log in and practise phonics phase 5 ew and writing the harder letters. […]
This week in Year 5, we have begun our new English unit on instructions. So far we have given and followed oral instructions and evaluated written ones. In order to evaluate, we channelled the Great British Bake Off and took part in our own technical challenge! Much like on television, the children had a range […]
Spring Term Week 11 21.03.22 In History Year 1 identified older toys, placed them into their relevant decades and ordered them into chronological order. I was very impressed with their group learning and listening to each other before deciding on where to place the toys. We enjoyed exploring this website on toys: http://www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/spotlights/toysandgames/index.htm (does not […]
The children in Year 4 this week, moved on with their fraction learning in Maths and started working on adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator. In English, they carried on with the publishing process of their Non-chronological reports, as well some basic sentence work to prepare them for the next unit of work. […]
Today is the Feast of the Annunciation, Year 3 and 4 went to church and sang and responded beautifully. In PE, we continued practising balancing. The children were excited to demonstrate their balances on the equipment. In RE the children reflected on the story of the Last Supper and what Luke was telling us about […]
It was lovely to return to school on Thursday. Thank you for your well wishes. As part of Science week we thought about what scientists do. We took part in a Science workshop and observed what was growing in the school grounds. Each class are going to take part in a competition to grow the […]
This week has been Science Week, for which the theme has been ‘Growth’. We were lucky enough to have a crystal growing session with Mr Friedlander from Dame Alice Owen School yesterday afternoon, and are looking forward to seeing how much they grow over the weekend! We celebrated St Patrick’s Day with a fantastic display […]
Science Week On Monday, a school challenge was set: which class can grow the tallest sunflower? In Year 5, we have been asked to investigate if the type of soil we use can effect this. We have planted seeds in clay, compost and sandy soil. The children made some great predictions about what might happen […]
This week was Science week so we started the week thinking about what scientists do and naming famous scientist. Each class are part of a competition to grow the tallest sunflower. Year 3’s question was Does the size of the pot effect how the sunflower grows? The children planned their own investigation to answer the […]
It has been another busy week in Year 4 with Science week and St Patrick’s day just to mention a few. In English, the class started their final writing pieces of non-chronological reports and wrote lengthy paragraphs based on their plant and animal species. They will write further paragraphs next week about their […]
Spring Term Week 10 14.03.22 Year 1 enjoyed exploring their Big Question for Science Week ‘What do seeds need to grow?’ They discussed, gathered their ideas before planting sunflower seeds. We hope they are going to grow really high so we can win the Sunflower Height Challenge! They also worked hard to weed and turn […]
This week, the Year 6 House Captains have been busy organising fundraising events, whilst the Fairtrade Group have been out and about in Potters Bar, spreading the word about the work of Fairtrade. They went to Sainsbury’s to buy Fairtrade goods, and then presented to Year 5 pupils at Cranborne school. They spoke fantastically, and […]
We’ve had another busy week in Year 5. Today we kicked off Science Week by taking part in a whole school assembly and then a class workshop this afternoon. This Year, the theme is ‘Growth’ and we will be completing learning based on this throughout next week. Take a look at some of the things […]
We have had a fun and busy week in Year 3. We have lots of amazing singers and musicians in Year 3, it was lovely to see so many of them taking part in the music concert. All of them were fantastic! On Tuesday we had a talk about Road Safety where we learnt about […]
Thank you for all your kind welcome back massages, it was so lovely to see the children again and they were so excited to tell me what they had been learning with Mrs Moccia in my absence. The children shared with me their fantastic knowledge of the different Stations of the Cross this week after […]
The children in Year 4 had opportunities this week to live out their Mission statement of using their talents to the full. During Tuesday’s music concert, they showed off their beautiful skills playing the piano or the violin. Well done! The class carried on extending their understanding of fractions in Maths calculating unit and non-unit […]
This week in Year 5 we have embraced a very busy but exciting week! We celebrated Shrove Tuesday with our Mardi Gras theme and wow, did our children design wonderful masks that they showed off to the rest of the school during our whole school parade. Ti was our class winner for the fastest pancake […]
On Tuesday, we celebrated Mardi Gras buy taking part in pancake races, dancing, making masks and eating pancakes. On Thursday we celebrated the 25th anniversary of World Book Day by dressing up as characters from our favourite books. The children recommended, shared and discussed their books and characters. If you have time this weekend please […]
We have had a busy and fun week in school! On Tuesday, we celebrated Mardi Gras by taking part in pancake races, dancing, making masks and eating pancakes. On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as characters from our favourite books. The children were able to discuss their characters and name their […]
The children in Year 4, had a fun filled week. They built their shells for their bedside lamps on Monday, whilst on Tuesday, they participated in a very busy Mardi Gras day. They flipped pancakes, decorated masks and sampled some lovely scotch pancakes in class. On Wednesday, they have received ashes during Mass and thought […]
What a busy week for our school! Year 1 participated in Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and World Book Day all in one week! Mrs Moccia said the children really enjoyed learning to spell numbers to twenty in words this week. I heard some French numbers were also learnt! Mrs Heymoz continued Year 1’s R.E. unit […]
It’s a been an extremely busy but exciting week this week, with Mardi Gras on Tuesday, followed by Ash Wednesday and then World Book Day on Thursday. Have a look at the fantastic Mardi Gras masks that they made! We ended the day on a high with a pancake race and a Mardi Gras dance […]
This Lent, the whole school is trying to answer the question: ‘How can we build a better world?’. To do this, we will look at a painting or an image each week to inspire us. This week, we have been discussing a painting called The Seven Acts of Mercy by Pieter Brueghel. I was blown […]
I have missed the children this week but have heard that they have been working very hard. In Maths they have been learning to use column addition with and without regrouping. In English, the children have been researching an unusual sport and writing a non-chronological report. I am looking forward to reading them all! In […]
The children in Year 4 came back to a busy week, after their well-deserved holiday. In English, we introduced our new genre for this half term, non-chronological reports. They looked at exemplar texts identifying text and language features whilst also reading our book for inspiration, Norman Messenger’s The Land of Neverbelieve. In Maths, the class […]
Spring Term Week 7 21.02.22 Year 1 began their new unit ‘From Lent to Easter’ in their religion learning this week. They were knowledgeable about arms giving, prayer and fasting. They are looking forward to celebrating Mardi Gras and beginning their Lent journey next week. They even got themselves prepared by finding all the purple […]
Welcome back! I hope that you all had a lovely half-term break. It has been lovely to chat with many parents during the Year 5 Consultations. For those parents who had technical problems etc…please get in touch via the school office. It has been a busy week in Year 5 this week. The children have […]
It has been lovely to welcome the children back to school after the half term. In History, we have been learning about the development of the telephone. We made versions of Robert Hooke’s 1672 string, mouth and ear piece phones. On Monday we will be posting our letters to you. Please could you write […]
In the last week before half-term, year 5 have been working hard in all their subjects. The focus in Maths has been multiplication, which will continue after half-term. This has also included lots of practice with times tables and family facts. In English, they have continued reading The London Eye Mystery, and developing their knowledge […]
This week has been Internet Safety Week, during which Year 6 have reflected on their internet usage and how they can ensure they are not opening themselves up to danger and putting themselves at risk when online, especially in the context of gaming and social media. This morning, we took part in a workshop with […]
Year 3 have had a wonderful week. On Tuesday we had a great day as Iron Age Farmers at Celtic Harmony Camp. The children helped out to make soup with herbs, learn how to make flour and bread. Then they made bracelets dipped in dye and learnt how to weave. Following the trip, the children […]
A huge well done to Year 4 this week for their hard work, especially in English. They have written wonderful myths in class using all their writing tools and the features of the genre covered over the last 5 weeks. In Maths, they have furthered their understanding of parallel and perpendicular lines in quadrilaterals by […]
Thank you to Reception class for sharing their assembly on St. Valentines with us all this morning. Year 1 have been thinking about how to show love and kindness in our school and have taken the snowflakes off their season tree to make way for kindness hearts after half term. Our R.E. learning this week […]
As part of our History topic – communication – we have learnt about Morse code, telegrams and how Carrier Pigeons were used to send messages during WWI. After half term we will be writing and sending letters and finding out who invented the first telephone. Please could you send in a first class stamp by […]
The children in year 5 have been working hard on their learning. In maths this week, they continued their learning and practice with column addition and subtraction. In English, they have just started reading a new book: The London Eye Mystery; this is continuing their learning about mystery and suspense writing. They also learnt how […]
We have been busy exploring capacity in Maths this week. Next week we will be learning about different graphs and tables. I hope you enjoyed celebrating your child’s shark writing with them. They have worked very hard researching, editing and illustrating their books. In PE we have explored travelling over, across and between different apparatus. […]
Year 4 had yet another busy week. In English, the children placed their last Roman myth into context looking at artifacts and maps to gain a deep understanding about the characters and settings. Later in the week, they used that myth to plan their own version upon. The children came up with brilliant ideas and […]
Another busy week in Year 3. In Maths, we have continued learning and applying mental strategies for subtracting. In English we have begun learning about non-chronological reports and using non-fiction books to research different sports. We have been learning about the features of a non-fiction text. On Wednesday, it was the feast day Candlemas. We […]
On Wednesday, we celebrated Candlemas, an important feast day in our Church’s calendar when we remember the wonderful story of when Jesus was presented in the Temple of Jerusalem, 40 days after he was born, and an old man Simeon – who had been waiting for the coming of the Messiah all his life – […]
Year 1 led the school in the Candlemas assembly this morning. They were very respectful throughout and spent lots of time this week preparing for it- well done Year 1! Our R.E. learning this week has reflected on this important act of bringing Jesus to the temple and spreading the good news. Year 1 thought […]
Year 5 have had a really interesting and varied week. On Wednesday the children came in dressed as Vikings, which they have been studying in History with Mrs. McNamara. During the day, the children made rune stones out of clay, played a Viking game called the Fox and the Geese. They baked Viking bread, which […]
Year 5 had a very exciting day being Vikings Click this link to see what the children got up to: http://popepaul.herts.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Viking-Day-.pdf
This week has been Other Faith Week, and Year 6 – along with the rest of the school – has really enjoyed learning all about Hinduism. The highlight of the week was our trip yesterday to Bhaktivedanta Manor – the Hare Krishna Temple in Watford – which was donated by George Harrison to the Hare […]
This week was other faith week and we have been learning about Hinduism. On Monday we visited Bhaktivedanta Manor Hindu Temple. The children were extremely respectful throughout and learnt a lot about the Hinduism religion. Thank you to Isabelle’s mum for coming as a parent helper. After our visit the children learnt about the different […]
The children in Year 4 had a fantastic week following the theme of Other Faith Week, Hinduism. On Monday, the class visited the Bhaktivedanta Manor in Watford experiencing the Hindu way of life first hand. They had the opportunity to visit the stables, ride on a cart pulled by 2 of the newest oxen on […]
R.E Year 1 joined in with Pope Paul’s learning in Hinduism this week to promote the awareness of tolerance and respect to other faiths. They learned about Hindu symbols, their meaning and what celebrations they have. Year 1 took their first coach trip to the Jainism Oshwal Temple in Northaw on Wednesday. Year 1 represented […]
We enjoyed learning about Hinduism the week as part of Other Faith Week. We visited the Oshwal Centre, Jain temple on Wednesday and learnt the story of Rama and Sita, which we will retell next week. The children’s Hindu home learning projects are fantastic. In Gymnastics we have been learning to travel, balance and turn […]
The children have worked very hard this week on their learning. In Maths this week, the focus has been on working on mental strategies to support addition, before we begin our work on formal addition. The work has continued in English, on our mystery and suspense unit, with the focus on The Watertower. The children […]
This week we revisited ordering and comparing numbers, using number lines and > < and symbols. We discussed why certain numbers could or could not to placed in certain places, using mathematical language. We also used equipment to prove our answers. In English, we have continued creating where, when, how, what and why questions to […]
In our R.E. topic ‘Being a Sacramental People’ we discussed how God is present in the world all around us even though we cannot physically see him. We drew around our hands and wrote inside them how we know God is present in our lives. The children cut them out to make a display and […]
On Wednesday, as part of our RE topic about God being with us in the world today, we went searching for God in Darkes Lane. We found him in the memorial garden next to the station, in the buds of new life coming through on the trees, the lady in Sainsburys who smiled and waved […]
The children in Year 4 had yet another busy week. In English, they used role play to get into character and based on well-known Roman myths, such as the story of Diana and Orion or Aeneas and Jupiter, wrote diary entries and descriptive paragraphs using figurative language (metaphors, personification and similes). In Maths, the class […]
This week we began subtracting in Maths. We discussed how subtraction is not commutative like addition. The children practised taking away a multiple 10 from a 2-digit number using Dienes and drawing pictures. Then they took away a 2-digit number from a 3-digit number without regrouping. In English, we have continued reading the book The […]
Friday 14th January 2022 Year five have had a busy week with their learning. The children started a new piece of work on mystery and suspense writing. They have been reading and analysing a book called The Watertower by Gary Crew. The children have greatly enjoyed reading the story alongside the visual images that accompany […]
This week has flown by in Year 6! In Maths, we have been familiarising ourselves with the vocabulary multiple, factor, prime, square and product. The children learnt how to find common factors and common multiples, which has prepared them for beginning fraction learning next week. In RE, the children wrote beautiful poems about where they see and notice […]
We have had a busy and an exciting week! The highlight of our week was going swimming. The children were excited to get on the coach. At the swimming pool, the children were quickly put into groups. In PE the children learnt a dance called Pat a Cake Polka. They were fantastic! Then they taught […]
This week has gone very quickly! In Religion we have discussed where we see God in the world around us; answers included creation, our friends, family and our school community. We have started a non fiction unit in English all about sharks! Creating our own what, where, when, how and why questions, that we are […]
The children in Year 4 had a busy first full week. In Writing, the class started a new unit of Roman Myths, where we looked at Roman Gods and Goddesses; acting them out, writing a school report about their often naughty behaviour and composing free form poetry to depict their beauty. In Maths, we looked […]
Happy Friday and welcome to our first full week of the Spring term. This week we have continued reflecting on the feast of Epiphany and added the Wise men into our own version of the Christmas story. In our new R.E. topic ‘Being a Sacramental People’ we discussed our knowledge of Jesus and the things […]
Happy New Year to you all, I hope you all enjoyed a good Christmas and New Year break. Thank you once again for all the kind gifts. Yesterday afternoon the children attended Mass with Father Shaun in the Hall to celebrate the Feast of Epiphany. The children have also been learning more about the three […]
Happy New Year and welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. It has been lovely hearing the children’s news. On Thursday, we celebrated the Feast of Epiphany by thinking of gifts we can share with others, many of the children chose the gift of friendship, peace and kindness. We also learnt about the […]
Happy New Year and Happy Epiphany for yesterday! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Here the children are in their crowns, and here is our Epiphany display. Today, we had a Science Day where we investigated the question: How does the distance between an object and the light source affect the size of […]
Happy New Year and Happy Epiphany to all! It has been lovely welcoming back the children after their Christmas holidays and seeing how well rested and content they are. They all told me lovely things about their break and showed gratitude towards every present or experience they have received. We focused on the Feast of […]
Welcome Back! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. The children have enjoyed telling me about their holidays. On Thursday, we celebrated the Epiphany by learning about the meanings of the gifts that the wise men took to Jesus. The children thought of gifts that they will bring to 2022. They thought of the gifts […]
This week in year 5 has been eventful. The children greatly enjoyed their Christmas lunch in the main hall on Wednesday. The year 5 classroom has been a hive of activity this week, with multi-coloured paper chains, Christmas Angels and other decorations adorning the room. The children have all worked really hard and been very […]
It’s been an incredibly busy week, in which we’ve had lots of Christmas fun and creativity combined with lots of hard work writing too! See the photos below for a snapshot of the week. Well done Year 6 – you’ve had a fantastic first term, and you all deserve a well-earned rest with your families. […]
We have had a great last week in Year 2, filled with joy! The children have been busy making Christmas cards and calendars. They also enjoyed Christmas lunch and performing their Nativity play for the parents. Thank you for the generous gifts for the adults in class. Have a restful and happy Christmas Miss Pringle […]
A great last week filled with joy in Year 3! The children have been making Christmas cards and calendars. In Science, we have been learning about magnets and investigating what objects are magnetic and what materials magnets can still attract magnetic objects through. The children planned, recorded their results and wrote a conclusion for each […]
We had a fantastic last few days in Year 4 this week, with practical activities such as finishing our design and technology mechanism cards or turning ourselves into Elves using collage technique. They had a lovely Christmas lunch on Wednesday and a Christmassy Karate lesson Thursday afternoon. In Maths, the children applied their formal addition […]
Week 14 wb 13.12.21🎄❄️ Year 1 were fantastic in their Nativity shows this week. We do hope you all enjoyed it. We all had a very festive lunch on Wednesday and looked fab in our outfits. 🎄❄️The Year One teaching team wish you all a very Merry Christmas and look forward to welcoming you back […]
This week has been an exceptionally busy week in year 5. The children worked really hard in their preparations for the beautiful Advent Service on Wednesday evening. Everyone tried really hard and this was evident in their wonderful performance. In Maths this week the children have been looking at Divisibility Rules and working on their […]
If we weren’t feeling festive before today, we definitely are now! This morning, we all had lots of fun decorating the classroom with paper chains and snowflakes, meeting Santa, and having a dance to Christmas music and cake this afternoon! This afternoon, the choir went down to the church to sing to the Over-50s club […]
This week we enjoyed watching the reception children’s play and also performing our Nativity play for the rest of the school, we can’t wait to perform to you all next week. In Maths, we have used doubles and near doubles to add two numbers. 6 + 6 = 12 6 + 7 is 1 more […]
This week we enjoyed watching the KS1 nativities. I was proud of all of the children who took part in the Advent service on Wednesday night. They read, sang and danced beautifully. In Maths, we have continued to work on mental calculations using think 10 and think 100. In Religion, the children have been comparing […]
The children in Year 4 this week, lit the second candle on their Advent Wreath and carried on reflecting on their Advent Promises and their journey, bettering themselves, until Christmas arrives. After several practices and walks to the church, they performed beautifully during Wednesday’s Advent Service. I am very proud of them; I though every […]
Week 13 wb 06.12.21 ❄️ 🕯️In the second week of Advent Year 1’s Advent promises were to say please and thank you, tell someone they loved them and to let someone go in front of them. 🕯️ In Science the children were learning to identify and name common birds. The home learning for this week […]
On Monday, we placed the first flame on our Advent wreath, as the time for preparation for Christmas began! We have also spent the week in full swing practising for next Wednesday’s Advent Service. Please continue to practise the songs here, so that you know them off by heart. In RE, we have looked at […]
It has been a week of preparation for our Advent Service and the children have been working hard to learn their parts and learn the songs for this special service. The class have been to the church to practice and did this with great reverence. Well done! In RE this week, the children have developed […]
Year 3 have been busy learning the songs, readings and dances for the Advent Service. The children drew beautiful pictures to show God’s creation. In Maths we have been adding by using our number bonds to ten to help. We been using the Think 10 strategy to add 1, 2 and 3 digit numbers. In […]
The children in year 4 were busy practicing for their Advent Service this week. We walked down to the church to practice our readings and acting, whilst in class, we sang our songs ready for next week Wednesday. In RE, we looked at St Luke’s Nativity and came up with definitions for the different titles […]
Week 12 wb 29.11.21 This week was the first week of Advent and Year 1 were able to open the Advent calendar each day to see what their mission was. Their promises this week were to pray more, smile, say hello, pick up litter and to be kind. In art the children continued their clay […]
We have been very busy in R.E. this week, preparing for Advent. Our prayer table has changed to purple and we have made Advent wreath pictures, Advent promises and a class Advent calendar, where behind each window is a prayer written by the children. We have also been practising our reading, acting and songs […]
Year 6 were lucky enough to welcome a scientist into the classroom this week to help us in our learning about refraction of light. Dr Alan from University College London showed us what happens when a prism refracts light; we were all amazed to see rainbows projected onto the ceiling and around the room! This […]
Another busy week in Year 3. In Religion, we made a class Advent calendar. Behind each door is a prayer written by the children. The children painted pictures after reading the story of Mary visiting Elizabeth and they wrote their own litany. We have been practising our songs for the Advent service. Children’s readings have […]
This week Year 1 continued their learning on the season on Advent and on Friday they worked well to prepare the prayer space to mark the change in Liturgical season. In Religion they learnt about the Advent Wreath and how the candles help us countdown to Jesus’ birth. Year 1 drew and collaged their […]
The children in Year 4 had a really busy week. In Maths, they have moved on to formal written methods for addition and subtraction, whilst in English, they further consolidated their understanding of speech punctuation and learnt about the use of prepositions. Next week, they are going to plan and later write their first big […]
Another busy week this week in Year 5 ! The children have been busy writing up their World Explorer leaflets either on the Polar Region or The Jungle! They have planned the content for their text and have worked hard to engage the reader using hooks. Today, the class looked at each other’s leaflets and […]
Please find full lyrics to songs that we are singing in our Advent Service here . Use the videos below to practise them, trying your best to learn the words off by heart. Wait for the Lord (Until 0:52) Like a Candle Flame Growing in Jesus (Until 1:20) Think of a World Without any Flowers […]
This week has been Anti-Bullying Week, in which Year 6 have thought not just about what constitutes bullying and how it feels to be on the receiving end of bullying, but also the potential factors that play into someone choosing to bully in the first place. Additionally, it was interesting to learn that there are […]
This week in year 5, the children have worked really hard, and a real focus for that hard work has been the fact that it has been Anti-Bullying week. Following two very engaging lessons this week, they put together short role-play scenarios using sock puppets and props that they made themselves. They also produced well-considered […]
Another busy week of learning in Year 3. Thank you to the parents who came to look at the children’s learning. This week was Anti-bullying week. Following on from the workshop last week, the children have been listening to different scenarios and explaining how they could show courage and kindness. The theme this year is […]
This week in Year 4, the children spent time revising their knowledge of the use of speech punctuation in English, whilst in Maths, they have learnt a new mental strategy for addition called the equal sum or rebalancing. In Science, they have used their understanding of how far sound spreads and thought about volume in […]
Week 10 wb 15.11.21 This week Year 1 worked well to understand what is meant by bullying, how to stop it from happening and how to be a good friend. Anti-bullying week had the theme of ‘One kind word’ so we worked hard to ensure we all said at least one kind word to our […]
The children have had an exciting week in year 5. They have been working very hard towards their class assembly, that took place today. It was lovely to see so many parents this morning. The children were delighted to see you all, if a little nervous, but they performed magnificently. The theme of the assembly […]
It has been extremely busy and varied in Year 6 this week! We began Monday with a workshop on waste awareness and recycling, which continued our mission to become better stewards of creation. We were reminded of the importance of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, learnt about what happens at recycling plants and had a go at […]
Week 9 w/b 08.11.2021 Thank you to Year 5 who led the school in an assembly all about kindness today. It has prepared us well for anti-bullying week next week. We continued our learning on Remembrance to understand the significance of marking Remembrance Day. We learnt about the signs and symbols we might see, what […]
On Monday, we took part in an anti-bullying workshop as a lead up to next week’s Anti-bullying week. During this workshop, the children learnt about using kind words and their power. As part of ‘Maths Week England’, we completed various interactive and practical tasks involving money. In English we have been applying our phonic knowledge […]
In preparation for Anti Bullying Week, the children took part in a workshop to understand how to recognise bullying and how to show kindness to people who are being bullied. The children acted out lots of scenarios to show their understanding. Next week we will complete different activities about bullying and being kind. In Maths, […]
The children in Year 4 had a really busy week, with lots of practical activities. On Monday, the class participated in an anti-bullying workshop as a lead up to next week’s Anti-bullying week. During their workshop, the children learnt about bullying and understood the difference between 1 isolated, unkind incident and something that would happen […]
I hope you all had an enjoyable half-term break. It was lovely to ‘meet’ many of you this week through the online parent consultations. For those of you who were unable to book an appointment please contact me through the school office email. The highlight of this week for year 5 was undoubtedly […]
Thank you for attending this week’s parent consultations; it was wonderful to discuss and celebrate your children’s start to Year 6 with you. Today we began our new RE unit – From Advent to Christmas – by thinking about the symbolism of Advent traditions, in particular the Advent wreath. They made their own wreath and […]
It was lovely to meet most of you for parent’s consultations this week. In Maths we have been learning about the magnitude of number. The children have to add different numbers to an empty number line using their halving and estimating skills. Please practising halving numbers. In English we have been listening and reading newspaper […]
Welcome back! It has lovely to see the children return from the half term refreshed and ready for learning. Today the children were very excited to lead their first assembly, all about Remembrance Sunday. They produced some beautiful artwork to share with the other classes and read very well in the assembly. It was lovely […]
This week in Year 4, the children published their persuasive travel brochures which went on display in the classroom and started their next English unit, a narrative, based on Angela McAllister’s book, ‘Leon and the Place Between’. They liked the story, which is set in a circus and includes all sorts of dark and mysterious […]
Week 8 w/b 01.10.2021 Welcome back! It was so lovely to see the children return from the half term refreshed and ready for their autumn 2 learning. Today the children were very enthusiastic as we welcomed a new child into our Year 1 family. They were able to share their knowledge of our routines and […]
For One World Week, the school has been learning about the upcoming COP26 summit and recognising that our world was entrusted to us by God, but we are now damaging our common home. In Year 6, we learned about the 4 main goals that Sir David Attenborough deems as being imperative to meet if we […]
We have reached half-term; the weeks have flown by! In English, the children have continued to work really hard on their research and planning for their biography about Mary Anning, a 19th century self-taught pioneering palaeontologist. The children have spent the last few days composing their biographies based on all their hard work. We’ve looked […]
This week was One World Week. We have been learning about COP26 and what we can to do to protect our world. The children made promises to protect our world, grew cress seeds to encourage people to grow their own food, read books about climate change and made their own posters. In art the children […]
On Monday, we had a tour of the church. The children learnt about the signs and symbols in the church. The children shared their wonderful knowledge of stories in the Bible. The children were extremely respectful while walking around the church. In Maths, we have been ordering 3 digit numbers. The children played a game […]
The children in Year 4 had yet another very busy week with One World Week activities, a Class Mass and a big writing to complete! In English, they finished their brochures explaining the benefits of their chosen attractions and using persuasive techniques such as rhetorical questions, over-eggaretation and persuasive openers. The pieces all read very […]
What a busy half term! Year 1 have settled into their new classroom and routines well and are showing amazing efforts in their learning. Year 1 joined the whole school this week in exploring the big question: Who does the world belong to? The children worked well to come up with lots of ideas and […]
As I sit here in the Year 5 classroom, smelling the recently cooked Oat biscuits, I reflect on another productive week. Our biographical work has continued this week with the introduction of relative clauses and relative pronouns. Through the children’s written work and presentations to the class over the last week, we now know more […]
Year 3 were fantastic today at their class assembly! They read their lines clearly, acted well and their singing was beautiful. In Maths, we have been adding and subtracting 1, 10 and 100 to and from a 3-digit number. We have been using equipment and drawing pictures to regroup when we cross a hundred. We […]
This week in Year 4, the children finished off a great piece of persuasive writing, arguing that Purple Beard and his trusted crew mates should not embark on a treacherous journey across the sea. We displayed their fantastic ‘Pirate Postcards’ just outside their classroom. In Maths, the class started a new timed multiplication activity, that […]
Week 6 w/b 11.10.2021 Year 1 would like to thank Year 3 for leading assembly this morning. In Religion this week we were learning about God the Trinity and how he is just one God but we can represent him in different ways. We have been learning the Hail Mary prayer this week and the […]
The class have used adjectives, nouns and commas to write some wonderful list poems about Autumn this week. After writing them out onto a leaf template, in their best handwriting, they used watercolour ink to decorate them in Autumnal colours. During Maths the class have solved and learnt to understand < and > inequality. […]
In English this week, Year 6 have been editing and completing their WW2 persuasive speeches. Some have delivered theirs to the rest of the class and it’s safe to say that we have some future world leaders in our midst! In RE, the children looked at metaphors for God in the Old Testament and even […]
I’ve been really pleased to read so many biographies of famous people that the children have clearly spent a lot of time and effort researching and writing. We look forward as a class to hearing more about the person each child has chosen and for some of the children who shared their research today, learning […]
In maths this week we have been finding equivalent calculations and comparing numbers using the symbols > < and =. While in English, we have read and compared various poems. We have studied micro habitats and made careful observations of worms. Our focus in art is observational sketching. We have sketched detailed pictures of ladybirds […]
Another busy week of learning in Year 3. In English we started reading and identifying features of playscripts. The children compared a play script with a story of Alice and Wonderland. We have been looking a verbs and adverbs and acting out words so I partner could guess. In Maths we have been adding 10 […]
A huge well done to all the children in Year 4 for their beautiful assembly this morning. Great reading and acting! They took on the responsibility with maturity and motivation. Very proud of them all! This week, beyond practising for their assembly, the children completed learning on number magnitude (the size of a number […]
Week 5 w/b 04.10.2021 Thank you to Year 4 who led assembly this morning on St. Francis. Year 1 really enjoyed it and learned a lot. The children have been challenging themselves in P.E. with their balance and movement skills. They decided to try to balance with their hands out, on their heads, on their […]
This week in English, Year 6 have started writing their final piece for our unit on persuasion. They are writing a speech to warn people of the horrors of the bombings in the Blitz and persuade parents to leave their children in the countryside. What they have all written so far is fantastic and I […]
1st October 2021 In year five we have had another busy week! Everyone went swimming for the second time, which they greatly enjoyed. If the girls or boys wish to change into their costume before the swimming session at school, we are more than happy to set time aside for them to do this. In […]
This week the children have written a speech to persuade a king to share his food and performed the speech to the class. Then the children planned and wrote their own fables. I was impressed with their adjectives, conjunctions and prepositions that they used in their writing. They were very proud to write them neatly […]
This week, the children in Year 4 carried on with their Place Value learning by comparing, ordering and flexibly regrouping whole numbers. In English, they copied up their first final pieces in their neatest handwriting. These are now displayed in class. We therefore started a new unit of work, still based on persuasion inspired by […]
I have been very impressed with the children’s attitude to learning this week. They have edited and published their space adventure stories, which are now proudly on display in our classroom. Next week we will start a poetry unit in English. In Maths next week we will be finding equivalent calculations and using our number […]
This week Year 1 joined in the whole school celebrations and learning on St. Vincent de Paul. The feast day was on Monday so the children attended an assembly before the St. Vincent team enjoyed an extra treat. During the week we learnt about St. Vincent, his life and his work. The children knew that […]
Well done on your assembly this morning, Year 6, which kicked off October, the month of the Holy Rosary. Thank you, parents, for coming to support them. Here is this week’s home learning: Maths Mathletics assignments: · Nearest Whole Number · Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 Reading Completion of 5 passages on ReadTheory Spelling To […]
Since Day 1 of Year 6, the children have been asking me, “When are we getting our reading partners?!” Well, today was the day. The children spent the afternoon getting to know their Reception partners and reading to them in the dappled sunlight of the Reception outdoor learning area. They were absolutely fantastic with them […]
We have had a very busy week in Year 5. The children greatly enjoyed going swimming for the first time with the school on Wednesday. They swam with confidence and the instructors were very complimentary about them. Today, we joined the rest of the school in the main hall for […]
This week in Year 4, the children consolidated their understanding of Place Value in Maths and played a very competitive strategic game using nine sided dice as a finish off to their first unit. In English, they carried on using their inference skills when telling the story of Flotsam, discussing the pictures in the book […]
This morning we had our first whole school mass. Year 3 sang and responded beautifully. In Maths, we have been representing 3 digit numbers using equipment, drawing pictures and written representations. In English, we have continued learning about fables. The children have been acting out the fable War and Peas and writing what thoughts the […]
We have been very busy creating story maps and starting our space stories this week. The children have used adjectives and conjunctions in their writing and next week, they will be editing and publishing their stories. In Maths, we have been regrouping numbers to 20, using whole part models and tens frames. We have identified […]
Week 3 w/b 20.09.2021 Today and this weekend is very special for all at Pope Paul and the Parish as we share in celebrations for the Feast of St. Vincent de Paul. Fr Shaun celebrated our Welcome mass today and the children joined in and sang beautifully- well done. We have had a fantastic week […]
This week has been another busy one! Everyone in the class has clearly worked hard on learning and reciting a short poem which was set as part of their home learning last weekend. Well done to all those children who wrote their own poems as well. The children enjoyed listening to one another and for […]
Week 2 w/b 13.09.2021 Welcome to our learning round up of week two! Our class worship sessions this week have centred around ‘The Year of Growth’ where we wrote our own message on how we will grow closer to God in faith and added them to our new tree display. In Science we enjoyed […]
Another fun, busy week in Year 3! In Maths, we have continued using equipment and pictures to make numbers to 100. We have been using mathematical vocabulary to compare numbers and have been investigating different ways of making 3-digit numbers. In English, we read War and Peas by Michael Foreman. We imagined we met the […]
The children in Year 4 had yet another busy week. In English, they spent a few days planning and writing their own ‘Dirty Beast’ poems inspired by Roald Dahl before starting their new unit of work based on David Wiesner’s Flotsam. They became beach detectives on Thursday, opening bags of flotsam left behind, trying to […]
Gardening Thank you for the donations to our class gardens, as you can see we have been busy preparing the soil and planning where to put the plants. The children have loved taking ownership of these gardens and are looking forward to watching them bloom. I was also very pleased with the care they took, […]
In RE this week, we begun learning about the four sources of revelation. We went outside and looked for where God reveals himself to us in nature, and we thought about traditions in our faith which come from our beliefs in God. In English, we continued our with our unit linked to evacuation. The children […]
We have had a lot of fun with our learning this week. During RE we have looked at how our mums ae like Mary, when she protects, cares and comforts us. We really enjoyed celebrating Marys birthday. In Maths, we have been using our number bonds and ordering skills to place missing numbers along blank […]
It’s been an exciting and very busy first full week back! This morning, Year 6 attended Mass then had a leadership morning at the church, during which they found out about inspirational female leaders in the modern world, and discussed how they displayed different qualities of Mary. This then led them to think about the […]
Happy Birthday Mary! During a busy week in Year 4, the children revised their key writing tools such as adverbs, conjunctions and noun phrases in English. We put emphasis on handwriting and introduced the first set of spelling words. In Maths, we introduced Roman numerals and looked at the history of this ancient number system. […]
We have had a busy week in Year 3! In Maths, we have been using equipment to make different numbers in different ways to show the value of each digit. Then the children explained the similarities and difference between two numbers. In English, we have been reading different fables and identifying their morals. Then we […]
It has been a busy week in Year 5! The children have settled back into the classroom routines well and have been very eager to start their new topics in many areas of the curriculum. We have also welcomed two new members to the class – VJ and Nicholas who I am sure will see […]
Week 1 w/b 06.09.2021 First day Year 1 have had a lovely start to the new school year and have been so excited to share all our news with our friends again. We went to our first ever school assembly where we were presented with our prayer cloth and candle which we used to dress […]
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Welcome back! We have had a fantastic first day in Year 6, and I am delighted with the focus, kindness and beautiful manners that the children have displayed today. We spent much of the day exploring our Mission Prayer; we identified where in scripture the mission values come from, and we thought about how we […]
Welcome to Year 2 and our special Year of Growth! It has been wonderful getting to know the children today and seeing how happy they were to see each other again. I have also been very impressed with their learning and behaviour. Well done Year 2, you are proving to be very good role models […]
It was wonderful to welcome the children back to school for their first day as Year 4 pupils. I hope they enjoyed their day and I look forward to seeing their smiling faces on Monday. Mondays and Wednesdays are going to be our PE days this term, so please make sure you […]
It was lovely to see the children this morning. They settled into the class and their new key stage well. We started the day with an Act of Worship where the children shared their feelings about the year ahead. In the afternoon, we had great excitement using the KS2 playground equipment. PE Days are Tuesdays […]
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. – Dr. Seuss We have been reflecting on our memories of our time together in Year 2. Today we came together for our Act of Worship – A Moment in Time. We remembered with joy all of our achievements however […]
Our final full week in Year 5 was filled with creativity. After learning that the Ancient Greeks used their pottery to depict aspects of their life, Year 5 created their own. We used Modroc around a balloon and card base which we will paint on Monday. We have designed what we will put on them […]
Our last full week in Year 1! We have had a busy week, making clay sea animals and a paper mache fish. In Maths, we have been finding a quarter of a number or an amount. We used resources to share between four and we drew bar models to show our learning in pictures. In […]
This (final full) week in Year 4, we have finished planning and writing our extended narrative pieces based on Stitch Head by Guy Bass. The children have truly enjoyed telling their ending to this lovely story. After they finished, we read the last chapters together comparing their versions to the original ending. We also painted […]
Our penultimate full week in Year 6 has been fun-filled to say the least. Sports Day, bouncy castle, go-karts, HSM rehearsing and of course plenty of football fever have been highlights of the last 5 days. Congratulations to St Vincent House for winning Sports Day! Please continue to practise over the weekend all lines/songs/dances for, […]
In Year 4 this week, we have carried on with our narrative unit based on our class book, Stich Head by Guy Bass. It has been wonderful to see how many of you kind parents purchased the book series for your children. They absolutely love the story and it’s greatly impacting their outcomes too! In […]
Year 1 have had a fun busy week. In Literacy the children have been reading and solving riddles and then they wrote their own. In Maths we have been finding quarters of shapes. On Wednesday, we had a party day! The children loved dancing, going on the bouncy castle, go-karts and making and decorating cakes. […]
Sports Day 2021! Year 3 used all of their sporting talents on Wednesday, when competing in our whole school Sports Day. We have some very talented shot putters, long jumpers , footballers and sprinters in our class. I was also very impressed with their dodging and balancing skills, when zooming through the obstacle course.! Well […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Year 4 has had a great week filled with opportunities to design, investigate and actively participate! In Science, they have planned and carried out an investigation, building on their existing skills of fair testing to find out how fast different liquids move. They thoroughly enjoyed getting their hands ‘dirty’ and completed learning of great […]
We have launched into our new unit in Science – Living Things and their Habitats. The children had great fun exploring the different micro-habitats in our outdoor areas. The children learnt the difference between things that are alive, things that are dead and things that have never been alive. They recorded their answers with beautiful […]
Another busy week in Year 1. In Maths we have been sharing equally using manipulatives and drawing pictures. Then the children solved problems involving division. In RE we have been learning about how we can be a follower of Jesus in class, in school, at home and in the community. Some different looking fruits were […]
Another week in Year 5 has flown by. In science, we have been exploring thermal insulators and conductors. We ran an investigation into which material would keep water the warmest and discovered tin foil was the best. In English, we have been busy writing our own adventure for Greek King, Odysseus. We fill finish these […]
The children had great fun in Science this week, exploring the different magnetic forces and performing magnetic playscripts that they had written. We have played continuous cricket in P.E. – developing our batting and fielding skills. I have been very impressed by the Egyptian projects the children have completed – thank you for your continued […]
What a lovely week of learning it has been! We enjoyed our tennis and cricket sessions in the glorious sunshine. In Science, the children investigated different habitats in our school gardens and observed the humble earthworm. It was a wriggly good time! In Religion, , we have been learning about the story ‘Jesus calls the […]
This week has once again been very busy. We have used secondary sources in History to research the Ancient Egyptians and created a timeline of key events. We have also begun to paint our canopic jars – next week we will add hieroglyphics. In PE we have learnt the difference between bowling and throwing in […]
In Maths, we have continued to read the time and solve problems with time. We have been learning about seconds, minutes and hours and choosing activities that take different amounts of time. In English we have continued to write instructions and look at the features of good instructions. In Science we observed how cress has […]
We have come to the end of another busy week and we have been fully emerged in Greek mythology. We have followed Odysseus on his agonising journey and we have now created our own beasts for him to battle next. I was so impressed with Year 5’s creative ideas. In maths we have been using […]
Year 4 has had, yet another lovely week in the (mostly) sunshine. On Monday, we painted silhouette pictures of Castle Groteskew from our class book Stich Head to support our descriptive writing. On Tuesday, we used the iPads to create Popplets in Science. First, we came up with really interesting questions to start our new […]
It has been a busy first week back filled with arrays, collages, cricket, tennis and cheese puffs to name but a few things. Say CHEESE!!! In Geography, we have been learning about why it matters where our food comes from. Why are there so many dairy farms in Devon? The children learnt about the main […]
It’s been a very busy first week back for our final half term. In RE, we began learning about discipleship; in Maths, we looked at how we could manipulate equations to work out derived calculations; in Science, we planned an investigation that will help us understand how Darwin came up with his theory of evolution […]
I hope you had a wonderful half term! Year 1 have taken advantage of the beautiful weather with tennis and cricket this week. The children enjoyed learning the two games and had fun taking part. In Maths, we have been learning to turn quarter turns, half turns, three quarter turns clockwise and anti-clockwise. Then we […]
Year 4 has had a lovely first week back, helped greatly by the hot and sunny weather! We completed learning based on our new class book, Stich Head by Guy Bass. The children loved listening to the adventures of this little creature and can’t wait to start writing their own (child friendly) horror stories. In […]
Our first week back was certainly a scorcher! I hope you all enjoyed the lovely weather over the half term. In maths this week, we have been learning about angles. We have been identifying, acute, obtuse, reflex, right and straight angles and ordering them. Year 5 used this knowledge to make some wonderful angle pictures. […]
This week Year 3 have found themselves immersed in their new History topic, Ancient Egypt. They have created some fantastic pharaoh portraits and scarabs in Art using their collage skills. While in History they have used secondary sources to research some of their own questions. In English they have used their inference skills to ask […]
Our final week of the half term saw us taking part in Spirituality Week. It was wonderful to spend time in the presence of God and reflect on the message of hope. One of the main highlights was sharing prayers with Year 1. I was incredibly proud of how Year 5 interacted with the younger […]
Year 6 – PGL Day 5
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThe children battled through a wet morning with a coastal walk and a game of Capture the Flag on the field, before a peaceful journey back on the coach! Well done Year 6 on an excellent week! Have a restful weekend and I’ll see you again on Monday!
Friday 20th May 2022
/0 Comments/in Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceThis week in Year 5 the children have been busy with their learning as well as experiencing The Mini Police Awards Assembly. It was lovely to see parents attend the Year 5 Mini Police Assembly on Tuesday and for the children to receive their Mini Police certificates from Inspector Robertson. At 9:30am on Tuesday […]
Friday, 20th May 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt has been another busy and interesting week in Year 4. In Maths, the children extended their understanding of the long division through open ended problem solving activities whilst in English, they have written their final, extended, pieces in our playscripts unit. In RE, the class learnt about Shavu’ot, an ancient Jewish festival which they […]
Summer Term Week 5 w.b. 16.05.2022
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozYear 1 began this week by learning to skip count. They counted in multiples of 2s, matched the total with coins, wrote multiplication number sentences, drew arrays, wrote repeated addition sentences and drew around the 2p coins we used to gain a secure understanding of what multiplication is. Please continue to support your child to […]
Summer 1, Week 6
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn Art this week read the book The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas and explored how colours make us feel different emotions. In PE, we have learnt to how to volley (use a high five shot) in tennis and how to control our breathing when swimming front crawl. We also took part in a cricket […]
Year 6 – PGL Day 4
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceAfter a wet morning, the sky cleared and gave us a beautiful final full day 🌞 Today’s activities were trapeze, rifle shooting, challenge course and beach walk, and once again the children enjoyed trying new things and challenging themselves! We spent our final night at the beach with a stunning sunset to celebrate a fantastic […]
Year 6 – PGL Day 3
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceToday has been the day for challenging fears, encouraging classmates, and displaying fantastic team spirit! We all started with Passport to the World, which was a country and flag-themed scavenger hunt around the PGL site. Team Spain were the winners! Groups 1 and 2 then had Jacob’s Ladder, buggy building and rock climbing, whilst group […]
Year 6 – PGL Day 2
/1 Comment/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceToday has been action-packed to say the least! Raft building, buggy building, abseiling, giant swing and photo challenge all featured, then we ended the day on the beach and had evening prayer with the sun setting over the sea. Thank you for the letters that you have sent; the children love receiving them. Time for […]
Year 6 – PGL Day 1
/4 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceWe arrived safely at Bawdsey Manor and went straight to the beach, where we had lunch, skimmed stones, played football and collected shells. We then played games back at the centre before being shown to our dormitories, having some time to relax, then enjoying sausages or chicken Kiev for dinner followed by chocolate fudge […]
Friday 13th May 2022
/0 Comments/in Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceTo Infinity and Beyond! Year 5 created a fruit solar system on Monday to represent the relative sizes and distances of the planets. They discovered how small and close the rocky planets are and how large and distant the gas planets are. Once we had finished, all that was left was to eat Jupiter! Stop! […]
Summer 1 Week 4
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn Maths, we have been learning to find fractions of amounts. The children have learnt to draw bar models to solve fraction problems. Children have realised the importance of knowing times tables to support them in lots of maths learning. In English, the children have been excited to read Iron Man By Ted Hughes. They have […]
Friday, 13th May 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week, the children in Year 4 used their artistic skills to complete creative learning pieces. First and foremost, they added their final touches to their bedside lamps and attached any last details, such as paws, ears, etc. They then built their own simple series circuits with 2 light bulbs and a handmade switch securing […]
Summer Term Week 4 w.b. 09.05.2022
/1 Comment/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozThe children enjoyed learning about money this week. They were learning how to recognise, order, compare, add and even exchange different amount of coins. Please continue to support your child with exploring money at home and using the Mathletics games. The children have completed their Phase 5 phonics and are now revising all the alternative […]
Summer 1 Week 4
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn tennis this week we have been working on our footwork and we learnt how to play a backhand shot. In English we have written recounts and focused on the suffixes ly, ful and less in our spelling sessions. In maths we have been learning to read o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to […]
Year 5 Wednesday 11th May
/0 Comments/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceMultiply and Divide Practice Multiply and Divide Answers
Revision Aids SATs Wednesday
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 6, Year 6 Archive /by Margaret JoyceBelow are some revision aids to assist you in Using calculations/Metric units/Line symmetry/Translation/Time Using Calculations Revision Using Calculations using-calculations-answers Metric Units Revision Metric Units Metric Unit Answers Translations Translations Translations-answers Symmetry Line-symmetry line symmetry answers Time Time Time-answers Click on the CGP link […]
Year 6 – 06/05/22
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceO Mary we crown thee with blossoms today, Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May! This morning, to mark the beginning of May the month of Mary, the whole school came together to honour Our Lady by bringing her flowers. The Liturgy Leaders led us in prayer in the hall, and then Joseph […]
Friday 6th May, 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAlthough this has been a shorter week for us, Year 5 have managed to cram in a busy week of learning! On Wednesday, the children went to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre – they met Katie their group leader who took them on a tour of this beautiful cultural landmark located on the bank of the River […]
Summer 1 Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 3 have had a short but busy week. In English, we have been reading The Iron Man and identifying interesting vocabulary. The children have been using this vocabulary to write their own descriptions. In Maths, the children have been learning about unit fractions and non-unit fractions. Children have been drawing pictures and bar models […]
Friday, 6th May 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAfter a lovely long weekend, the children accomplished a lot this week. In Maths, the class further consolidated their application of the formal written multiplication by playing two very competitive games, ‘Crooked Multiplication’ and ‘Sabotage’. In English, they turned a poem into a playscript, applying all text and language features of the genre such as […]
Summer Term Week 3 w.b. 02.05.2022
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozI hope you all enjoyed the four-day weekend and the additional Inset this week. We have changed reading books but have not managed to read with every child so will have to play catch up again next week. On Friday the children showed respect and appreciation as they joined the school in celebrating the life […]
Summer 1 Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe went on a lovely walk today to explore fields next to the school. They enjoyed seeing the beautiful yellow rapeseed crop, butterflies, bees, beetles, buttercups, dandelions, birds and trees. On Monday we will be writing about our walk. We also took part in the May procession and enjoyed making crowns and honouring Mary with […]
Friday, 29th April 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAlthough a day shorter, the children in Year 4 had a very busy week. In Maths they have practiced using formal short multiplication without and with regrouping, whilst in English, after some acting, turned playscripts into narrative using speech punctuation correctly. In Science, they classified conductors and insulators using simple series circuits, whilst in RE […]
Thursday 28th April, 2022
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret Joyce‘A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come!’ We have focused on Act 1 Scene 3 of Macbeth this week by exploring the setting of the Scottish heath and the interactions between Macbeth, Banquo and the weird sisters. The children have written beautifully descriptive pieces and created artwork using tints and tones to show the landscape […]
Summer 1 – Week 2
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn Maths, the children have been solving multiplication and division word problems They have been drawing bar models to show how they solved the problems. In English, the children have been looking at different adventure stories and identifying the features and the most exciting parts of the story. Please encourage your child to read an […]
Summer 1 – Week 2
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn Maths, we have been solving multiplication and fraction word problems as well as learning to read o’clock, quarter to, quarter past and half past on analogue clocks. In English, we have identified past and present tenses and practised applying the suffixes ed, er, ing and est. PE Days – Monday – tennis Wednesday – […]
Summer Term Week 1 w.b. 25.04.2022
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozSummer Term Week 1 w.b. 25.04.2022 Year 1 have had an active week and are ready for their four-day weekend! On Monday the children enjoyed their first tennis coaching session before their first swimming lesson on Wednesday. I was super impressed about how quickly Year 1 changed and how safely they behaved during their session. […]
Summer Term Week 1: 22nd April
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt’s been a busy first week back. Welcome back after the Easter Holidays. We hope you all enjoyed your break and did lots of enjoyable things. The Summer term is always a busy term and there was plenty going on in Year 5 this week. The first day back was a buzz of excitement for many […]
Year 6 – 22/04/22
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceHappy Easter and welcome back to a new term! Year 6 have worked so hard in their first week back. We have been doing SATs practice in Maths and English, learning about the Resurrection in RE, and running for different distances in PE. This morning, house captains Phoebe and William led an assembly about St […]
Summer 1 Week 1
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWelcome back, I hope you had a wonderful holiday. In class this week we read Luke’s account of the Resurrection and created pictures with the characters and symbols mentioned. Thank you for the beautiful Easter gardens that the children made over the Easter break. In English we have been busy editing, while in Guided Reading […]
Week 1 Summer 1
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceHappy Easter! I hope you had a wonderful holiday. This week the children listened to Luke’s account of the Resurrection and retold it from a character’s point of view. Thank you for the beautiful Easter gardens that the children made. Please send your garden in next week if you have not already. The children made […]
Friday, 22nd April 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 looked very well after returning from their holidays. It has been lovely to hear about their trips and experiences during spending time with family and friends. In Maths, the class moved on to formal written multiplication and division, building physical models and representing their calculations in different ways whilst in […]
Summer Term Week 1 w.b. 18.04.2022
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozHappy Easter! I hope you all had a lovely break and it was lovely to see all the children back and ready for their last term in Year 1. The children worked well together to transform our Lenten R.E. prayer space to reflect the white, gold and new life of Easter. They completed a retell […]
Spring 2 Week 6
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe end of another term! The children have worked hard this term and should be proud of themselves. This week Year 3 took part in their first Stations of the Cross Service. The children sang beautifully. In Religion, we listened to the story from Luke’s Gospel on the crucifixion and discussed what Luke wanted us […]
Friday, 1st April 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 4 have had a busy last week to the end of the Spring term and even in my absence, I know that they have worked very hard in class. In Maths, they completed their fraction learning by applying all that they have learned in problem solving situations, using bar models to help them identify […]
Spring 2Week 6
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children have worked so hard this term and should be proud of themselves. In Religion this week, we retold The Last Supper using Book Creator on the iPads and listened to the story from Luke’s Gospel about the crucifixion. During PE we have used our communication skills to solve different problems and challenges. We […]
Year 6 – 01/04/22
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceWishing you all very Happy Easter! Our final week of term has seen the conclusion of our English unit, for which the children have written fantastic non-chronological reports about their invented magical creatures. The week has also contained discussion and writing about who was responsible for Jesus’ death; Pilate, God, Adam & Eve, Jesus himself, […]
Friday 1st April, 2022
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceThis week, Year 5 have shone tremendously! After working so hard on their readings for the Stations of the Cross service on Tuesday evening, they spoke so well at the church and many parents and parishioners praised them for their reverence and confidence. Well done to all the children and thank you to parents for […]
Spring Term Week 12 28.03.22
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozThis week Year 1 began their new Geography unit on ‘Where do we live?’ They were surprised to find out that no everyone lives in Potters Bar! Year 1 learned Luke’s Gospel scriptures for The Last Supper and Good Friday. They were very respectful as we learnt about Holy Week and Easter Sunday and how […]
PGL and SATs Meeting
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThank you to those who attended the information meeting for PGL and SATs 2022. As promised, please find the powerpoints below, as well as the list of recommended websites for SATs practice: PGL Information Meeting SATs Information Meeting Links for SATs practice: KS2 SATS Online 10-Minute Tests: https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/resources/ks2-sats-online-10-minute-tests Arithmetic practice: https://myminimaths.co.uk/year-6-mini-maths/ PDF Maths Workbooks: […]
KS2 Way of the Cross – lyrics to learn
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 /by Margaret JoycePlease use the lyrics and links below to learn the songs for the KS2 Way of the Cross service. Year 6, please wear all black and bring this into school on Monday. My Soul is Sad My soul is sad. My heart is breaking tonight. Could you not watch and comfort me until light? Am […]
Spring 2 Week 5
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have had a lovely week, writing diaries, applying our multiplication skills and using mixed media to create art work. Have a lovely mother’s day Miss Pringle Home learning spelling https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/134/21-ew new few grew flew drew threw chew screw Letterjoin – please log in and practise phonics phase 5 ew and writing the harder letters. […]
Friday 25th March 2022
/1 Comment/in Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceThis week in Year 5, we have begun our new English unit on instructions. So far we have given and followed oral instructions and evaluated written ones. In order to evaluate, we channelled the Great British Bake Off and took part in our own technical challenge! Much like on television, the children had a range […]
Spring Term Week 11 21.03.22
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozSpring Term Week 11 21.03.22 In History Year 1 identified older toys, placed them into their relevant decades and ordered them into chronological order. I was very impressed with their group learning and listening to each other before deciding on where to place the toys. We enjoyed exploring this website on toys: http://www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/spotlights/toysandgames/index.htm (does not […]
Friday, 25th March 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 this week, moved on with their fraction learning in Maths and started working on adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator. In English, they carried on with the publishing process of their Non-chronological reports, as well some basic sentence work to prepare them for the next unit of work. […]
Spring 2 Week 5
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceToday is the Feast of the Annunciation, Year 3 and 4 went to church and sang and responded beautifully. In PE, we continued practising balancing. The children were excited to demonstrate their balances on the equipment. In RE the children reflected on the story of the Last Supper and what Luke was telling us about […]
Spring 2 Week 4
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt was lovely to return to school on Thursday. Thank you for your well wishes. As part of Science week we thought about what scientists do. We took part in a Science workshop and observed what was growing in the school grounds. Each class are going to take part in a competition to grow the […]
Year 6 – 18/03/22
/1 Comment/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThis week has been Science Week, for which the theme has been ‘Growth’. We were lucky enough to have a crystal growing session with Mr Friedlander from Dame Alice Owen School yesterday afternoon, and are looking forward to seeing how much they grow over the weekend! We celebrated St Patrick’s Day with a fantastic display […]
Friday 18th March 2022
/1 Comment/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceScience Week On Monday, a school challenge was set: which class can grow the tallest sunflower? In Year 5, we have been asked to investigate if the type of soil we use can effect this. We have planted seeds in clay, compost and sandy soil. The children made some great predictions about what might happen […]
Spring 2 Week 4
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week was Science week so we started the week thinking about what scientists do and naming famous scientist. Each class are part of a competition to grow the tallest sunflower. Year 3’s question was Does the size of the pot effect how the sunflower grows? The children planned their own investigation to answer the […]
Friday, 18th March 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt has been another busy week in Year 4 with Science week and St Patrick’s day just to mention a few. In English, the class started their final writing pieces of non-chronological reports and wrote lengthy paragraphs based on their plant and animal species. They will write further paragraphs next week about their […]
w.b. 14.03.22
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozSpring Term Week 10 14.03.22 Year 1 enjoyed exploring their Big Question for Science Week ‘What do seeds need to grow?’ They discussed, gathered their ideas before planting sunflower seeds. We hope they are going to grow really high so we can win the Sunflower Height Challenge! They also worked hard to weed and turn […]
Year 6 – 11/03/22
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThis week, the Year 6 House Captains have been busy organising fundraising events, whilst the Fairtrade Group have been out and about in Potters Bar, spreading the word about the work of Fairtrade. They went to Sainsbury’s to buy Fairtrade goods, and then presented to Year 5 pupils at Cranborne school. They spoke fantastically, and […]
Friday 11th March 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceWe’ve had another busy week in Year 5. Today we kicked off Science Week by taking part in a whole school assembly and then a class workshop this afternoon. This Year, the theme is ‘Growth’ and we will be completing learning based on this throughout next week. Take a look at some of the things […]
Spring 2 Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have had a fun and busy week in Year 3. We have lots of amazing singers and musicians in Year 3, it was lovely to see so many of them taking part in the music concert. All of them were fantastic! On Tuesday we had a talk about Road Safety where we learnt about […]
Spring Term Week 9 w.b. 7th March
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozThank you for all your kind welcome back massages, it was so lovely to see the children again and they were so excited to tell me what they had been learning with Mrs Moccia in my absence. The children shared with me their fantastic knowledge of the different Stations of the Cross this week after […]
Friday, 11th March 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 had opportunities this week to live out their Mission statement of using their talents to the full. During Tuesday’s music concert, they showed off their beautiful skills playing the piano or the violin. Well done! The class carried on extending their understanding of fractions in Maths calculating unit and non-unit […]
Friday 4th March, 2022
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week in Year 5 we have embraced a very busy but exciting week! We celebrated Shrove Tuesday with our Mardi Gras theme and wow, did our children design wonderful masks that they showed off to the rest of the school during our whole school parade. Ti was our class winner for the fastest pancake […]
Spring 2 Week 2
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceOn Tuesday, we celebrated Mardi Gras buy taking part in pancake races, dancing, making masks and eating pancakes. On Thursday we celebrated the 25th anniversary of World Book Day by dressing up as characters from our favourite books. The children recommended, shared and discussed their books and characters. If you have time this weekend please […]
Spring 2 – Week 2
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have had a busy and fun week in school! On Tuesday, we celebrated Mardi Gras by taking part in pancake races, dancing, making masks and eating pancakes. On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as characters from our favourite books. The children were able to discuss their characters and name their […]
Friday, 4th March 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4, had a fun filled week. They built their shells for their bedside lamps on Monday, whilst on Tuesday, they participated in a very busy Mardi Gras day. They flipped pancakes, decorated masks and sampled some lovely scotch pancakes in class. On Wednesday, they have received ashes during Mass and thought […]
Spring Term Week 8 28.02.22
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWhat a busy week for our school! Year 1 participated in Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and World Book Day all in one week! Mrs Moccia said the children really enjoyed learning to spell numbers to twenty in words this week. I heard some French numbers were also learnt! Mrs Heymoz continued Year 1’s R.E. unit […]
Year 6 – 04/03/22
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceIt’s a been an extremely busy but exciting week this week, with Mardi Gras on Tuesday, followed by Ash Wednesday and then World Book Day on Thursday. Have a look at the fantastic Mardi Gras masks that they made! We ended the day on a high with a pancake race and a Mardi Gras dance […]
Year 6 – 25/02/22
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThis Lent, the whole school is trying to answer the question: ‘How can we build a better world?’. To do this, we will look at a painting or an image each week to inspire us. This week, we have been discussing a painting called The Seven Acts of Mercy by Pieter Brueghel. I was blown […]
Spring 2 – Week 1
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceI have missed the children this week but have heard that they have been working very hard. In Maths they have been learning to use column addition with and without regrouping. In English, the children have been researching an unusual sport and writing a non-chronological report. I am looking forward to reading them all! In […]
Friday, 25th February 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 came back to a busy week, after their well-deserved holiday. In English, we introduced our new genre for this half term, non-chronological reports. They looked at exemplar texts identifying text and language features whilst also reading our book for inspiration, Norman Messenger’s The Land of Neverbelieve. In Maths, the class […]
Year 1 Week 7 w.b. 21.02.22
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozSpring Term Week 7 21.02.22 Year 1 began their new unit ‘From Lent to Easter’ in their religion learning this week. They were knowledgeable about arms giving, prayer and fasting. They are looking forward to celebrating Mardi Gras and beginning their Lent journey next week. They even got themselves prepared by finding all the purple […]
Friday 25th February, 2022
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWelcome back! I hope that you all had a lovely half-term break. It has been lovely to chat with many parents during the Year 5 Consultations. For those parents who had technical problems etc…please get in touch via the school office. It has been a busy week in Year 5 this week. The children have […]
Spring 2 Week 1
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt has been lovely to welcome the children back to school after the half term. In History, we have been learning about the development of the telephone. We made versions of Robert Hooke’s 1672 string, mouth and ear piece phones. On Monday we will be posting our letters to you. Please could you write […]
Friday 11th February 2022
/0 Comments/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn the last week before half-term, year 5 have been working hard in all their subjects. The focus in Maths has been multiplication, which will continue after half-term. This has also included lots of practice with times tables and family facts. In English, they have continued reading The London Eye Mystery, and developing their knowledge […]
Year 6 – 11/02/22
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThis week has been Internet Safety Week, during which Year 6 have reflected on their internet usage and how they can ensure they are not opening themselves up to danger and putting themselves at risk when online, especially in the context of gaming and social media. This morning, we took part in a workshop with […]
Week 6
/1 Comment/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 3 have had a wonderful week. On Tuesday we had a great day as Iron Age Farmers at Celtic Harmony Camp. The children helped out to make soup with herbs, learn how to make flour and bread. Then they made bracelets dipped in dye and learnt how to weave. Following the trip, the children […]
Friday, 11th February 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceA huge well done to Year 4 this week for their hard work, especially in English. They have written wonderful myths in class using all their writing tools and the features of the genre covered over the last 5 weeks. In Maths, they have furthered their understanding of parallel and perpendicular lines in quadrilaterals by […]
Spring Term Week 6 wb 07.02.22
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozThank you to Reception class for sharing their assembly on St. Valentines with us all this morning. Year 1 have been thinking about how to show love and kindness in our school and have taken the snowflakes off their season tree to make way for kindness hearts after half term. Our R.E. learning this week […]
Spring 1, Week 6
/1 Comment/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAs part of our History topic – communication – we have learnt about Morse code, telegrams and how Carrier Pigeons were used to send messages during WWI. After half term we will be writing and sending letters and finding out who invented the first telephone. Please could you send in a first class stamp by […]
Friday 4th February 2022
/1 Comment/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in year 5 have been working hard on their learning. In maths this week, they continued their learning and practice with column addition and subtraction. In English, they have just started reading a new book: The London Eye Mystery; this is continuing their learning about mystery and suspense writing. They also learnt how […]
Spring 1, Week 5
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have been busy exploring capacity in Maths this week. Next week we will be learning about different graphs and tables. I hope you enjoyed celebrating your child’s shark writing with them. They have worked very hard researching, editing and illustrating their books. In PE we have explored travelling over, across and between different apparatus. […]
Friday, 4th February 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 4 had yet another busy week. In English, the children placed their last Roman myth into context looking at artifacts and maps to gain a deep understanding about the characters and settings. Later in the week, they used that myth to plan their own version upon. The children came up with brilliant ideas and […]
Week 5
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAnother busy week in Year 3. In Maths, we have continued learning and applying mental strategies for subtracting. In English we have begun learning about non-chronological reports and using non-fiction books to research different sports. We have been learning about the features of a non-fiction text. On Wednesday, it was the feast day Candlemas. We […]
Year 6 – 04/02/22
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceOn Wednesday, we celebrated Candlemas, an important feast day in our Church’s calendar when we remember the wonderful story of when Jesus was presented in the Temple of Jerusalem, 40 days after he was born, and an old man Simeon – who had been waiting for the coming of the Messiah all his life – […]
Spring Term Week 5 wb 31.01.22
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozYear 1 led the school in the Candlemas assembly this morning. They were very respectful throughout and spent lots of time this week preparing for it- well done Year 1! Our R.E. learning this week has reflected on this important act of bringing Jesus to the temple and spreading the good news. Year 1 thought […]
Friday 28th January 2022
/0 Comments/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 5 have had a really interesting and varied week. On Wednesday the children came in dressed as Vikings, which they have been studying in History with Mrs. McNamara. During the day, the children made rune stones out of clay, played a Viking game called the Fox and the Geese. They baked Viking bread, which […]
Year 5 Viking Day
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 5 had a very exciting day being Vikings Click this link to see what the children got up to: http://popepaul.herts.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Viking-Day-.pdf
Year 6 – 28/01/22
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThis week has been Other Faith Week, and Year 6 – along with the rest of the school – has really enjoyed learning all about Hinduism. The highlight of the week was our trip yesterday to Bhaktivedanta Manor – the Hare Krishna Temple in Watford – which was donated by George Harrison to the Hare […]
Week 4
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week was other faith week and we have been learning about Hinduism. On Monday we visited Bhaktivedanta Manor Hindu Temple. The children were extremely respectful throughout and learnt a lot about the Hinduism religion. Thank you to Isabelle’s mum for coming as a parent helper. After our visit the children learnt about the different […]
Friday, 28th January 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 had a fantastic week following the theme of Other Faith Week, Hinduism. On Monday, the class visited the Bhaktivedanta Manor in Watford experiencing the Hindu way of life first hand. They had the opportunity to visit the stables, ride on a cart pulled by 2 of the newest oxen on […]
Spring Term Week 4 wb 24.01.22
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozR.E Year 1 joined in with Pope Paul’s learning in Hinduism this week to promote the awareness of tolerance and respect to other faiths. They learned about Hindu symbols, their meaning and what celebrations they have. Year 1 took their first coach trip to the Jainism Oshwal Temple in Northaw on Wednesday. Year 1 represented […]
Spring 1 Week 4
/1 Comment/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe enjoyed learning about Hinduism the week as part of Other Faith Week. We visited the Oshwal Centre, Jain temple on Wednesday and learnt the story of Rama and Sita, which we will retell next week. The children’s Hindu home learning projects are fantastic. In Gymnastics we have been learning to travel, balance and turn […]
Friday 21st January 2022
/1 Comment/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children have worked very hard this week on their learning. In Maths this week, the focus has been on working on mental strategies to support addition, before we begin our work on formal addition. The work has continued in English, on our mystery and suspense unit, with the focus on The Watertower. The children […]
Spring 1, Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week we revisited ordering and comparing numbers, using number lines and > < and symbols. We discussed why certain numbers could or could not to placed in certain places, using mathematical language. We also used equipment to prove our answers. In English, we have continued creating where, when, how, what and why questions to […]
Spring Term Week 2 wb 17.01.22
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozIn our R.E. topic ‘Being a Sacramental People’ we discussed how God is present in the world all around us even though we cannot physically see him. We drew around our hands and wrote inside them how we know God is present in our lives. The children cut them out to make a display and […]
Year 6 – 21/01/22
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceOn Wednesday, as part of our RE topic about God being with us in the world today, we went searching for God in Darkes Lane. We found him in the memorial garden next to the station, in the buds of new life coming through on the trees, the lady in Sainsburys who smiled and waved […]
Friday, 21st January 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 had yet another busy week. In English, they used role play to get into character and based on well-known Roman myths, such as the story of Diana and Orion or Aeneas and Jupiter, wrote diary entries and descriptive paragraphs using figurative language (metaphors, personification and similes). In Maths, the class […]
Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week we began subtracting in Maths. We discussed how subtraction is not commutative like addition. The children practised taking away a multiple 10 from a 2-digit number using Dienes and drawing pictures. Then they took away a 2-digit number from a 3-digit number without regrouping. In English, we have continued reading the book The […]
Friday 14th January 2022
/0 Comments/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceFriday 14th January 2022 Year five have had a busy week with their learning. The children started a new piece of work on mystery and suspense writing. They have been reading and analysing a book called The Watertower by Gary Crew. The children have greatly enjoyed reading the story alongside the visual images that accompany […]
Year 6 – 14/01/22
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThis week has flown by in Year 6! In Maths, we have been familiarising ourselves with the vocabulary multiple, factor, prime, square and product. The children learnt how to find common factors and common multiples, which has prepared them for beginning fraction learning next week. In RE, the children wrote beautiful poems about where they see and notice […]
Week 2
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have had a busy and an exciting week! The highlight of our week was going swimming. The children were excited to get on the coach. At the swimming pool, the children were quickly put into groups. In PE the children learnt a dance called Pat a Cake Polka. They were fantastic! Then they taught […]
Spring 1 Week 2
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week has gone very quickly! In Religion we have discussed where we see God in the world around us; answers included creation, our friends, family and our school community. We have started a non fiction unit in English all about sharks! Creating our own what, where, when, how and why questions, that we are […]
Friday, 14th January 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 had a busy first full week. In Writing, the class started a new unit of Roman Myths, where we looked at Roman Gods and Goddesses; acting them out, writing a school report about their often naughty behaviour and composing free form poetry to depict their beauty. In Maths, we looked […]
🌸Spring Term Week 1 wb 11.01.22
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozHappy Friday and welcome to our first full week of the Spring term. This week we have continued reflecting on the feast of Epiphany and added the Wise men into our own version of the Christmas story. In our new R.E. topic ‘Being a Sacramental People’ we discussed our knowledge of Jesus and the things […]
Friday 7th January 2022
/0 Comments/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceHappy New Year to you all, I hope you all enjoyed a good Christmas and New Year break. Thank you once again for all the kind gifts. Yesterday afternoon the children attended Mass with Father Shaun in the Hall to celebrate the Feast of Epiphany. The children have also been learning more about the three […]
Happy New Year!
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozSpring 1 Week 1
/1 Comment/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceHappy New Year and welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. It has been lovely hearing the children’s news. On Thursday, we celebrated the Feast of Epiphany by thinking of gifts we can share with others, many of the children chose the gift of friendship, peace and kindness. We also learnt about the […]
Year 6 – 07/01/22 – Happy New Year!
/1 Comment/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceHappy New Year and Happy Epiphany for yesterday! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Here the children are in their crowns, and here is our Epiphany display. Today, we had a Science Day where we investigated the question: How does the distance between an object and the light source affect the size of […]
Friday, 7th January 2022
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceHappy New Year and Happy Epiphany to all! It has been lovely welcoming back the children after their Christmas holidays and seeing how well rested and content they are. They all told me lovely things about their break and showed gratitude towards every present or experience they have received. We focused on the Feast of […]
Happy New Year!
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWelcome Back! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. The children have enjoyed telling me about their holidays. On Thursday, we celebrated the Epiphany by learning about the meanings of the gifts that the wise men took to Jesus. The children thought of gifts that they will bring to 2022. They thought of the gifts […]
Friday 17th December 2021
/0 Comments/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week in year 5 has been eventful. The children greatly enjoyed their Christmas lunch in the main hall on Wednesday. The year 5 classroom has been a hive of activity this week, with multi-coloured paper chains, Christmas Angels and other decorations adorning the room. The children have all worked really hard and been very […]
Year 6 – 17/12/21 – Merry Christmas!
/1 Comment/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceIt’s been an incredibly busy week, in which we’ve had lots of Christmas fun and creativity combined with lots of hard work writing too! See the photos below for a snapshot of the week. Well done Year 6 – you’ve had a fantastic first term, and you all deserve a well-earned rest with your families. […]
Merry Christmas
/1 Comment/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have had a great last week in Year 2, filled with joy! The children have been busy making Christmas cards and calendars. They also enjoyed Christmas lunch and performing their Nativity play for the parents. Thank you for the generous gifts for the adults in class. Have a restful and happy Christmas Miss Pringle […]
Merry Christmas!
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceA great last week filled with joy in Year 3! The children have been making Christmas cards and calendars. In Science, we have been learning about magnets and investigating what objects are magnetic and what materials magnets can still attract magnetic objects through. The children planned, recorded their results and wrote a conclusion for each […]
Friday, 17th December 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe had a fantastic last few days in Year 4 this week, with practical activities such as finishing our design and technology mechanism cards or turning ourselves into Elves using collage technique. They had a lovely Christmas lunch on Wednesday and a Christmassy Karate lesson Thursday afternoon. In Maths, the children applied their formal addition […]
❄️Week 14 wb 13.12.21🎄
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 14 wb 13.12.21🎄❄️ Year 1 were fantastic in their Nativity shows this week. We do hope you all enjoyed it. We all had a very festive lunch on Wednesday and looked fab in our outfits. 🎄❄️The Year One teaching team wish you all a very Merry Christmas and look forward to welcoming you back […]
Friday 10th December 2021
/1 Comment/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week has been an exceptionally busy week in year 5. The children worked really hard in their preparations for the beautiful Advent Service on Wednesday evening. Everyone tried really hard and this was evident in their wonderful performance. In Maths this week the children have been looking at Divisibility Rules and working on their […]
Year 6 – 10/12/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceIf we weren’t feeling festive before today, we definitely are now! This morning, we all had lots of fun decorating the classroom with paper chains and snowflakes, meeting Santa, and having a dance to Christmas music and cake this afternoon! This afternoon, the choir went down to the church to sing to the Over-50s club […]
Autumn 2 Week 6
/1 Comment/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week we enjoyed watching the reception children’s play and also performing our Nativity play for the rest of the school, we can’t wait to perform to you all next week. In Maths, we have used doubles and near doubles to add two numbers. 6 + 6 = 12 6 + 7 is 1 more […]
Autumn 2 Week 7
/1 Comment/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week we enjoyed watching the KS1 nativities. I was proud of all of the children who took part in the Advent service on Wednesday night. They read, sang and danced beautifully. In Maths, we have continued to work on mental calculations using think 10 and think 100. In Religion, the children have been comparing […]
Friday, 10th December 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 this week, lit the second candle on their Advent Wreath and carried on reflecting on their Advent Promises and their journey, bettering themselves, until Christmas arrives. After several practices and walks to the church, they performed beautifully during Wednesday’s Advent Service. I am very proud of them; I though every […]
Week 13- w.b. 6th December ❄️
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 13 wb 06.12.21 ❄️ 🕯️In the second week of Advent Year 1’s Advent promises were to say please and thank you, tell someone they loved them and to let someone go in front of them. 🕯️ In Science the children were learning to identify and name common birds. The home learning for this week […]
Year 6 – 03/12/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceOn Monday, we placed the first flame on our Advent wreath, as the time for preparation for Christmas began! We have also spent the week in full swing practising for next Wednesday’s Advent Service. Please continue to practise the songs here, so that you know them off by heart. In RE, we have looked at […]
Friday 3rd December, 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt has been a week of preparation for our Advent Service and the children have been working hard to learn their parts and learn the songs for this special service. The class have been to the church to practice and did this with great reverence. Well done! In RE this week, the children have developed […]
Autumn Term Week 6
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 3 have been busy learning the songs, readings and dances for the Advent Service. The children drew beautiful pictures to show God’s creation. In Maths we have been adding by using our number bonds to ten to help. We been using the Think 10 strategy to add 1, 2 and 3 digit numbers. In […]
Friday, 3rd December 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in year 4 were busy practicing for their Advent Service this week. We walked down to the church to practice our readings and acting, whilst in class, we sang our songs ready for next week Wednesday. In RE, we looked at St Luke’s Nativity and came up with definitions for the different titles […]
Week 12 wb 29.11.21
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 12 wb 29.11.21 This week was the first week of Advent and Year 1 were able to open the Advent calendar each day to see what their mission was. Their promises this week were to pray more, smile, say hello, pick up litter and to be kind. In art the children continued their clay […]
Autumn 2, Week 5
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAutumn 2, Week 4
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have been very busy in R.E. this week, preparing for Advent. Our prayer table has changed to purple and we have made Advent wreath pictures, Advent promises and a class Advent calendar, where behind each window is a prayer written by the children. We have also been practising our reading, acting and songs […]
Year 6 – 26/11/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceYear 6 were lucky enough to welcome a scientist into the classroom this week to help us in our learning about refraction of light. Dr Alan from University College London showed us what happens when a prism refracts light; we were all amazed to see rainbows projected onto the ceiling and around the room! This […]
Autumn 2 Week 4
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAnother busy week in Year 3. In Religion, we made a class Advent calendar. Behind each door is a prayer written by the children. The children painted pictures after reading the story of Mary visiting Elizabeth and they wrote their own litany. We have been practising our songs for the Advent service. Children’s readings have […]
Week 11 w.b 22.11.21
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozThis week Year 1 continued their learning on the season on Advent and on Friday they worked well to prepare the prayer space to mark the change in Liturgical season. In Religion they learnt about the Advent Wreath and how the candles help us countdown to Jesus’ birth. Year 1 drew and collaged their […]
Friday, 26th November 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 had a really busy week. In Maths, they have moved on to formal written methods for addition and subtraction, whilst in English, they further consolidated their understanding of speech punctuation and learnt about the use of prepositions. Next week, they are going to plan and later write their first big […]
Friday 26th November, 2021
/0 Comments/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAnother busy week this week in Year 5 ! The children have been busy writing up their World Explorer leaflets either on the Polar Region or The Jungle! They have planned the content for their text and have worked hard to engage the reader using hooks. Today, the class looked at each other’s leaflets and […]
Advent Service 2021 – songs to learn
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 /by Margaret JoycePlease find full lyrics to songs that we are singing in our Advent Service here . Use the videos below to practise them, trying your best to learn the words off by heart. Wait for the Lord (Until 0:52) Like a Candle Flame Growing in Jesus (Until 1:20) Think of a World Without any Flowers […]
Year 6 – 19/11/21
/1 Comment/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThis week has been Anti-Bullying Week, in which Year 6 have thought not just about what constitutes bullying and how it feels to be on the receiving end of bullying, but also the potential factors that play into someone choosing to bully in the first place. Additionally, it was interesting to learn that there are […]
Friday 19th November, 2021
/1 Comment/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week in year 5, the children have worked really hard, and a real focus for that hard work has been the fact that it has been Anti-Bullying week. Following two very engaging lessons this week, they put together short role-play scenarios using sock puppets and props that they made themselves. They also produced well-considered […]
Autumn 2 Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAnother busy week of learning in Year 3. Thank you to the parents who came to look at the children’s learning. This week was Anti-bullying week. Following on from the workshop last week, the children have been listening to different scenarios and explaining how they could show courage and kindness. The theme this year is […]
Friday, 19th November 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week in Year 4, the children spent time revising their knowledge of the use of speech punctuation in English, whilst in Maths, they have learnt a new mental strategy for addition called the equal sum or rebalancing. In Science, they have used their understanding of how far sound spreads and thought about volume in […]
Week 10 wb 15.11.21
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 10 wb 15.11.21 This week Year 1 worked well to understand what is meant by bullying, how to stop it from happening and how to be a good friend. Anti-bullying week had the theme of ‘One kind word’ so we worked hard to ensure we all said at least one kind word to our […]
Friday 12th November 2021
/1 Comment/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children have had an exciting week in year 5. They have been working very hard towards their class assembly, that took place today. It was lovely to see so many parents this morning. The children were delighted to see you all, if a little nervous, but they performed magnificently. The theme of the assembly […]
Year 6 – 12/11/21
/1 Comment/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceIt has been extremely busy and varied in Year 6 this week! We began Monday with a workshop on waste awareness and recycling, which continued our mission to become better stewards of creation. We were reminded of the importance of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, learnt about what happens at recycling plants and had a go at […]
Week 9 w/b 8th November
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 9 w/b 08.11.2021 Thank you to Year 5 who led the school in an assembly all about kindness today. It has prepared us well for anti-bullying week next week. We continued our learning on Remembrance to understand the significance of marking Remembrance Day. We learnt about the signs and symbols we might see, what […]
Autumn 2, Week 2
/2 Comments/in Archives, Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceOn Monday, we took part in an anti-bullying workshop as a lead up to next week’s Anti-bullying week. During this workshop, the children learnt about using kind words and their power. As part of ‘Maths Week England’, we completed various interactive and practical tasks involving money. In English we have been applying our phonic knowledge […]
Autumn 2 Week 2
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn preparation for Anti Bullying Week, the children took part in a workshop to understand how to recognise bullying and how to show kindness to people who are being bullied. The children acted out lots of scenarios to show their understanding. Next week we will complete different activities about bullying and being kind. In Maths, […]
Friday, 12th November 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 had a really busy week, with lots of practical activities. On Monday, the class participated in an anti-bullying workshop as a lead up to next week’s Anti-bullying week. During their workshop, the children learnt about bullying and understood the difference between 1 isolated, unkind incident and something that would happen […]
5th November 2021
/1 Comment/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceI hope you all had an enjoyable half-term break. It was lovely to ‘meet’ many of you this week through the online parent consultations. For those of you who were unable to book an appointment please contact me through the school office email. The highlight of this week for year 5 was undoubtedly […]
Year 6 – 05/11/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThank you for attending this week’s parent consultations; it was wonderful to discuss and celebrate your children’s start to Year 6 with you. Today we began our new RE unit – From Advent to Christmas – by thinking about the symbolism of Advent traditions, in particular the Advent wreath. They made their own wreath and […]
Autumn 2nd Week 1
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt was lovely to meet most of you for parent’s consultations this week. In Maths we have been learning about the magnitude of number. The children have to add different numbers to an empty number line using their halving and estimating skills. Please practising halving numbers. In English we have been listening and reading newspaper […]
Autumn 2, week 1
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWelcome back! It has lovely to see the children return from the half term refreshed and ready for learning. Today the children were very excited to lead their first assembly, all about Remembrance Sunday. They produced some beautiful artwork to share with the other classes and read very well in the assembly. It was lovely […]
Friday, 5th November 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week in Year 4, the children published their persuasive travel brochures which went on display in the classroom and started their next English unit, a narrative, based on Angela McAllister’s book, ‘Leon and the Place Between’. They liked the story, which is set in a circus and includes all sorts of dark and mysterious […]
Week 8- w.b 1st November 2021
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 8 w/b 01.10.2021 Welcome back! It was so lovely to see the children return from the half term refreshed and ready for their autumn 2 learning. Today the children were very enthusiastic as we welcomed a new child into our Year 1 family. They were able to share their knowledge of our routines and […]
Year 6 – 22/10/21 – One World Week
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceFor One World Week, the school has been learning about the upcoming COP26 summit and recognising that our world was entrusted to us by God, but we are now damaging our common home. In Year 6, we learned about the 4 main goals that Sir David Attenborough deems as being imperative to meet if we […]
22nd October 2021
/1 Comment/in Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have reached half-term; the weeks have flown by! In English, the children have continued to work really hard on their research and planning for their biography about Mary Anning, a 19th century self-taught pioneering palaeontologist. The children have spent the last few days composing their biographies based on all their hard work. We’ve looked […]
Year 2, Week 6
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week was One World Week. We have been learning about COP26 and what we can to do to protect our world. The children made promises to protect our world, grew cress seeds to encourage people to grow their own food, read books about climate change and made their own posters. In art the children […]
Week 7
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceOn Monday, we had a tour of the church. The children learnt about the signs and symbols in the church. The children shared their wonderful knowledge of stories in the Bible. The children were extremely respectful while walking around the church. In Maths, we have been ordering 3 digit numbers. The children played a game […]
Friday, 22nd October 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 had yet another very busy week with One World Week activities, a Class Mass and a big writing to complete! In English, they finished their brochures explaining the benefits of their chosen attractions and using persuasive techniques such as rhetorical questions, over-eggaretation and persuasive openers. The pieces all read very […]
Week 7 w/b 18.10.2021
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWhat a busy half term! Year 1 have settled into their new classroom and routines well and are showing amazing efforts in their learning. Year 1 joined the whole school this week in exploring the big question: Who does the world belong to? The children worked well to come up with lots of ideas and […]
15th October 2021
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5, Year 5 Archive /by Liz HeymozAs I sit here in the Year 5 classroom, smelling the recently cooked Oat biscuits, I reflect on another productive week. Our biographical work has continued this week with the introduction of relative clauses and relative pronouns. Through the children’s written work and presentations to the class over the last week, we now know more […]
Year 3 were fantastic today at their class assembly! They read their lines clearly, acted well and their singing was beautiful. In Maths, we have been adding and subtracting 1, 10 and 100 to and from a 3-digit number. We have been using equipment and drawing pictures to regroup when we cross a hundred. We […]
Friday, 15th October 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week in Year 4, the children finished off a great piece of persuasive writing, arguing that Purple Beard and his trusted crew mates should not embark on a treacherous journey across the sea. We displayed their fantastic ‘Pirate Postcards’ just outside their classroom. In Maths, the class started a new timed multiplication activity, that […]
Year 1 Week 6 w/b 11.10.2021
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 6 w/b 11.10.2021 Year 1 would like to thank Year 3 for leading assembly this morning. In Religion this week we were learning about God the Trinity and how he is just one God but we can represent him in different ways. We have been learning the Hail Mary prayer this week and the […]
Year 2, Week 6
/1 Comment/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe class have used adjectives, nouns and commas to write some wonderful list poems about Autumn this week. After writing them out onto a leaf template, in their best handwriting, they used watercolour ink to decorate them in Autumnal colours. During Maths the class have solved and learnt to understand < and > inequality. […]
Year 6 – 15/10/21
/1 Comment/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceIn English this week, Year 6 have been editing and completing their WW2 persuasive speeches. Some have delivered theirs to the rest of the class and it’s safe to say that we have some future world leaders in our midst! In RE, the children looked at metaphors for God in the Old Testament and even […]
October 8th, 2021
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceI’ve been really pleased to read so many biographies of famous people that the children have clearly spent a lot of time and effort researching and writing. We look forward as a class to hearing more about the person each child has chosen and for some of the children who shared their research today, learning […]
Year 2, Week 5
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn maths this week we have been finding equivalent calculations and comparing numbers using the symbols > < and =. While in English, we have read and compared various poems. We have studied micro habitats and made careful observations of worms. Our focus in art is observational sketching. We have sketched detailed pictures of ladybirds […]
Week 6
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAnother busy week of learning in Year 3. In English we started reading and identifying features of playscripts. The children compared a play script with a story of Alice and Wonderland. We have been looking a verbs and adverbs and acting out words so I partner could guess. In Maths we have been adding 10 […]
Friday, 8th October 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceA huge well done to all the children in Year 4 for their beautiful assembly this morning. Great reading and acting! They took on the responsibility with maturity and motivation. Very proud of them all! This week, beyond practising for their assembly, the children completed learning on number magnitude (the size of a number […]
Year 1 Week 5 w.b. 4th October
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 5 w/b 04.10.2021 Thank you to Year 4 who led assembly this morning on St. Francis. Year 1 really enjoyed it and learned a lot. The children have been challenging themselves in P.E. with their balance and movement skills. They decided to try to balance with their hands out, on their heads, on their […]
Year 6 – 08/10/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThis week in English, Year 6 have started writing their final piece for our unit on persuasion. They are writing a speech to warn people of the horrors of the bombings in the Blitz and persuade parents to leave their children in the countryside. What they have all written so far is fantastic and I […]
1st October, 2021
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5 /by Margaret Joyce1st October 2021 In year five we have had another busy week! Everyone went swimming for the second time, which they greatly enjoyed. If the girls or boys wish to change into their costume before the swimming session at school, we are more than happy to set time aside for them to do this. In […]
Week 5
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week the children have written a speech to persuade a king to share his food and performed the speech to the class. Then the children planned and wrote their own fables. I was impressed with their adjectives, conjunctions and prepositions that they used in their writing. They were very proud to write them neatly […]
Friday, 1st October 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week, the children in Year 4 carried on with their Place Value learning by comparing, ordering and flexibly regrouping whole numbers. In English, they copied up their first final pieces in their neatest handwriting. These are now displayed in class. We therefore started a new unit of work, still based on persuasion inspired by […]
Year 2, Week 4
/1 Comment/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceI have been very impressed with the children’s attitude to learning this week. They have edited and published their space adventure stories, which are now proudly on display in our classroom. Next week we will start a poetry unit in English. In Maths next week we will be finding equivalent calculations and using our number […]
Year 1 Week 4 w/b 27.09.2021
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozThis week Year 1 joined in the whole school celebrations and learning on St. Vincent de Paul. The feast day was on Monday so the children attended an assembly before the St. Vincent team enjoyed an extra treat. During the week we learnt about St. Vincent, his life and his work. The children knew that […]
Year 6 – 01/10/21
/1 Comment/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceWell done on your assembly this morning, Year 6, which kicked off October, the month of the Holy Rosary. Thank you, parents, for coming to support them. Here is this week’s home learning: Maths Mathletics assignments: · Nearest Whole Number · Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 Reading Completion of 5 passages on ReadTheory Spelling To […]
Year 6 – 24/09/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceSince Day 1 of Year 6, the children have been asking me, “When are we getting our reading partners?!” Well, today was the day. The children spent the afternoon getting to know their Reception partners and reading to them in the dappled sunlight of the Reception outdoor learning area. They were absolutely fantastic with them […]
24th September, 2021
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceWe have had a very busy week in Year 5. The children greatly enjoyed going swimming for the first time with the school on Wednesday. They swam with confidence and the instructors were very complimentary about them. Today, we joined the rest of the school in the main hall for […]
Friday, 24th September 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week in Year 4, the children consolidated their understanding of Place Value in Maths and played a very competitive strategic game using nine sided dice as a finish off to their first unit. In English, they carried on using their inference skills when telling the story of Flotsam, discussing the pictures in the book […]
Week 4
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis morning we had our first whole school mass. Year 3 sang and responded beautifully. In Maths, we have been representing 3 digit numbers using equipment, drawing pictures and written representations. In English, we have continued learning about fables. The children have been acting out the fable War and Peas and writing what thoughts the […]
Year 2, Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have been very busy creating story maps and starting our space stories this week. The children have used adjectives and conjunctions in their writing and next week, they will be editing and publishing their stories. In Maths, we have been regrouping numbers to 20, using whole part models and tens frames. We have identified […]
Year 1 week 3 w.b. 18.09.2021
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 3 w/b 20.09.2021 Today and this weekend is very special for all at Pope Paul and the Parish as we share in celebrations for the Feast of St. Vincent de Paul. Fr Shaun celebrated our Welcome mass today and the children joined in and sang beautifully- well done. We have had a fantastic week […]
17th September, 2021
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 5 /by Liz HeymozThis week has been another busy one! Everyone in the class has clearly worked hard on learning and reciting a short poem which was set as part of their home learning last weekend. Well done to all those children who wrote their own poems as well. The children enjoyed listening to one another and for […]
Year 1 Week 2 w/b 13.09.2021
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 2 w/b 13.09.2021 Welcome to our learning round up of week two! Our class worship sessions this week have centred around ‘The Year of Growth’ where we wrote our own message on how we will grow closer to God in faith and added them to our new tree display. In Science we enjoyed […]
Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAnother fun, busy week in Year 3! In Maths, we have continued using equipment and pictures to make numbers to 100. We have been using mathematical vocabulary to compare numbers and have been investigating different ways of making 3-digit numbers. In English, we read War and Peas by Michael Foreman. We imagined we met the […]
Friday, 17th September 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 had yet another busy week. In English, they spent a few days planning and writing their own ‘Dirty Beast’ poems inspired by Roald Dahl before starting their new unit of work based on David Wiesner’s Flotsam. They became beach detectives on Thursday, opening bags of flotsam left behind, trying to […]
Year 2, Week 2
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceGardening Thank you for the donations to our class gardens, as you can see we have been busy preparing the soil and planning where to put the plants. The children have loved taking ownership of these gardens and are looking forward to watching them bloom. I was also very pleased with the care they took, […]
Year 6 – 17/09/21
/1 Comment/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceIn RE this week, we begun learning about the four sources of revelation. We went outside and looked for where God reveals himself to us in nature, and we thought about traditions in our faith which come from our beliefs in God. In English, we continued our with our unit linked to evacuation. The children […]
Y2 Week 1
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have had a lot of fun with our learning this week. During RE we have looked at how our mums ae like Mary, when she protects, cares and comforts us. We really enjoyed celebrating Marys birthday. In Maths, we have been using our number bonds and ordering skills to place missing numbers along blank […]
Year 6 – 10/09/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceIt’s been an exciting and very busy first full week back! This morning, Year 6 attended Mass then had a leadership morning at the church, during which they found out about inspirational female leaders in the modern world, and discussed how they displayed different qualities of Mary. This then led them to think about the […]
Friday, 10th September 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceHappy Birthday Mary! During a busy week in Year 4, the children revised their key writing tools such as adverbs, conjunctions and noun phrases in English. We put emphasis on handwriting and introduced the first set of spelling words. In Maths, we introduced Roman numerals and looked at the history of this ancient number system. […]
Week 2
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWe have had a busy week in Year 3! In Maths, we have been using equipment to make different numbers in different ways to show the value of each digit. Then the children explained the similarities and difference between two numbers. In English, we have been reading different fables and identifying their morals. Then we […]
10th September, 2021
/2 Comments/in Archives, Year 5 /by Liz HeymozIt has been a busy week in Year 5! The children have settled back into the classroom routines well and have been very eager to start their new topics in many areas of the curriculum. We have also welcomed two new members to the class – VJ and Nicholas who I am sure will see […]
Year 1 first week of term
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWeek 1 w/b 06.09.2021 First day Year 1 have had a lovely start to the new school year and have been so excited to share all our news with our friends again. We went to our first ever school assembly where we were presented with our prayer cloth and candle which we used to dress […]
Year 6 – 03/09/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceWelcome back! We have had a fantastic first day in Year 6, and I am delighted with the focus, kindness and beautiful manners that the children have displayed today. We spent much of the day exploring our Mission Prayer; we identified where in scripture the mission values come from, and we thought about how we […]
Welcome to Y2
/0 Comments/in Year 2, Year 2 Archive /by Margaret JoyceWelcome to Year 2 and our special Year of Growth! It has been wonderful getting to know the children today and seeing how happy they were to see each other again. I have also been very impressed with their learning and behaviour. Well done Year 2, you are proving to be very good role models […]
Welcome Back
/0 Comments/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt was wonderful to welcome the children back to school for their first day as Year 4 pupils. I hope they enjoyed their day and I look forward to seeing their smiling faces on Monday. Mondays and Wednesdays are going to be our PE days this term, so please make sure you […]
Welcome Back!
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt was lovely to see the children this morning. They settled into the class and their new key stage well. We started the day with an Act of Worship where the children shared their feelings about the year ahead. In the afternoon, we had great excitement using the KS2 playground equipment. PE Days are Tuesdays […]
Year 2 Blog 16-07-2021
/3 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret JoyceSometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. – Dr. Seuss We have been reflecting on our memories of our time together in Year 2. Today we came together for our Act of Worship – A Moment in Time. We remembered with joy all of our achievements however […]
Summer 2 Week 6
/0 Comments/in Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceOur final full week in Year 5 was filled with creativity. After learning that the Ancient Greeks used their pottery to depict aspects of their life, Year 5 created their own. We used Modroc around a balloon and card base which we will paint on Monday. We have designed what we will put on them […]
Week 12
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceOur last full week in Year 1! We have had a busy week, making clay sea animals and a paper mache fish. In Maths, we have been finding a quarter of a number or an amount. We used resources to share between four and we drew bar models to show our learning in pictures. In […]
Friday, 16th July 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis (final full) week in Year 4, we have finished planning and writing our extended narrative pieces based on Stitch Head by Guy Bass. The children have truly enjoyed telling their ending to this lovely story. After they finished, we read the last chapters together comparing their versions to the original ending. We also painted […]
Year 6 – 09/07/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceOur penultimate full week in Year 6 has been fun-filled to say the least. Sports Day, bouncy castle, go-karts, HSM rehearsing and of course plenty of football fever have been highlights of the last 5 days. Congratulations to St Vincent House for winning Sports Day! Please continue to practise over the weekend all lines/songs/dances for, […]
Friday, 9th July 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn Year 4 this week, we have carried on with our narrative unit based on our class book, Stich Head by Guy Bass. It has been wonderful to see how many of you kind parents purchased the book series for your children. They absolutely love the story and it’s greatly impacting their outcomes too! In […]
Week 12
/1 Comment/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 1 have had a fun busy week. In Literacy the children have been reading and solving riddles and then they wrote their own. In Maths we have been finding quarters of shapes. On Wednesday, we had a party day! The children loved dancing, going on the bouncy castle, go-karts and making and decorating cakes. […]
Summer 2 Week 5
/1 Comment/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceSports Day 2021! Year 3 used all of their sporting talents on Wednesday, when competing in our whole school Sports Day. We have some very talented shot putters, long jumpers , footballers and sprinters in our class. I was also very impressed with their dodging and balancing skills, when zooming through the obstacle course.! Well […]
Sports and Fun Day!
/1 Comment/in Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceWhat 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 […]
Year 2 Blog 09-07-2021
/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret JoyceSports 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 […]
Summer 2 Week 4
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceIn 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 […]
Year 2 Blog 02-07-2021
/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret JoyceWe 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. […]
Year 6 – 02/07/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceThis 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, […]
Friday, 2nd July 2021
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceChildren 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 […]
Week 11
/1 Comment/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn 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 […]
Summer 2 Week 4
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis 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 […]
Friday, 24th June 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 4 has had a great week filled with opportunities to design, investigate and actively participate! In Science, they have planned and carried out an investigation, building on their existing skills of fair testing to find out how fast different liquids move. They thoroughly enjoyed getting their hands ‘dirty’ and completed learning of great […]
Year 2 Blog 25-06-2021
/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret JoyceWe have launched into our new unit in Science – Living Things and their Habitats. The children had great fun exploring the different micro-habitats in our outdoor areas. The children learnt the difference between things that are alive, things that are dead and things that have never been alive. They recorded their answers with beautiful […]
Week 10
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAnother busy week in Year 1. In Maths we have been sharing equally using manipulatives and drawing pictures. Then the children solved problems involving division. In RE we have been learning about how we can be a follower of Jesus in class, in school, at home and in the community. Some different looking fruits were […]
Summer 2 Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceAnother week in Year 5 has flown by. In science, we have been exploring thermal insulators and conductors. We ran an investigation into which material would keep water the warmest and discovered tin foil was the best. In English, we have been busy writing our own adventure for Greek King, Odysseus. We fill finish these […]
Summer 2 Week 3
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children had great fun in Science this week, exploring the different magnetic forces and performing magnetic playscripts that they had written. We have played continuous cricket in P.E. – developing our batting and fielding skills. I have been very impressed by the Egyptian projects the children have completed – thank you for your continued […]
Year 2 Blog 18-06-2021
/0 Comments/in Year 2 /by Margaret JoyceWhat a lovely week of learning it has been! We enjoyed our tennis and cricket sessions in the glorious sunshine. In Science, the children investigated different habitats in our school gardens and observed the humble earthworm. It was a wriggly good time! In Religion, , we have been learning about the story ‘Jesus calls the […]
Summer 2 Week 2
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week has once again been very busy. We have used secondary sources in History to research the Ancient Egyptians and created a timeline of key events. We have also begun to paint our canopic jars – next week we will add hieroglyphics. In PE we have learnt the difference between bowling and throwing in […]
Week 9
/0 Comments/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIn Maths, we have continued to read the time and solve problems with time. We have been learning about seconds, minutes and hours and choosing activities that take different amounts of time. In English we have continued to write instructions and look at the features of good instructions. In Science we observed how cress has […]
Summer 2 Week 2
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceWe have come to the end of another busy week and we have been fully emerged in Greek mythology. We have followed Odysseus on his agonising journey and we have now created our own beasts for him to battle next. I was so impressed with Year 5’s creative ideas. In maths we have been using […]
Friday, 18th June 2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 4 has had, yet another lovely week in the (mostly) sunshine. On Monday, we painted silhouette pictures of Castle Groteskew from our class book Stich Head to support our descriptive writing. On Tuesday, we used the iPads to create Popplets in Science. First, we came up with really interesting questions to start our new […]
Year 2 Blog 11/06/2021
/0 Comments/in Archives, Year 2 /by Margaret JoyceIt has been a busy first week back filled with arrays, collages, cricket, tennis and cheese puffs to name but a few things. Say CHEESE!!! In Geography, we have been learning about why it matters where our food comes from. Why are there so many dairy farms in Devon? The children learnt about the main […]
Year 6 – 11/06/21
/0 Comments/in Year 6 /by Margaret JoyceIt’s been a very busy first week back for our final half term. In RE, we began learning about discipleship; in Maths, we looked at how we could manipulate equations to work out derived calculations; in Science, we planned an investigation that will help us understand how Darwin came up with his theory of evolution […]
Week 8
/1 Comment/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceI hope you had a wonderful half term! Year 1 have taken advantage of the beautiful weather with tennis and cricket this week. The children enjoyed learning the two games and had fun taking part. In Maths, we have been learning to turn quarter turns, half turns, three quarter turns clockwise and anti-clockwise. Then we […]
Friday, 11th June 2021
/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 4 has had a lovely first week back, helped greatly by the hot and sunny weather! We completed learning based on our new class book, Stich Head by Guy Bass. The children loved listening to the adventures of this little creature and can’t wait to start writing their own (child friendly) horror stories. In […]
Summer 2 Week 1
/0 Comments/in Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceOur first week back was certainly a scorcher! I hope you all enjoyed the lovely weather over the half term. In maths this week, we have been learning about angles. We have been identifying, acute, obtuse, reflex, right and straight angles and ordering them. Year 5 used this knowledge to make some wonderful angle pictures. […]
Summer 2 Week 1
/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week Year 3 have found themselves immersed in their new History topic, Ancient Egypt. They have created some fantastic pharaoh portraits and scarabs in Art using their collage skills. While in History they have used secondary sources to research some of their own questions. In English they have used their inference skills to ask […]
Summer 1 Week 7
/0 Comments/in Year 5 /by Margaret JoyceOur final week of the half term saw us taking part in Spirituality Week. It was wonderful to spend time in the presence of God and reflect on the message of hope. One of the main highlights was sharing prayers with Year 1. I was incredibly proud of how Year 5 interacted with the younger […]
Year 6 – 28/05/21
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