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Headteacher: Liz Heymoz
Baker Street,
Potters Bar,
Hertfordshire
EN6 2ES
Tel: 01707 659755
Fax: 01707 665431
Email: admin@popepaul.herts.sch.uk
Baker Street,
Potters Bar,
Hertfordshire
EN6 2ES
Tel: 01707 659755
Fax: 01707 665431
Email: admin@popepaul.herts.sch.uk




Year 1 Week Beginning 19.5.25
/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 1 have been using photographs as inspiration for independent story writing in English this week and have absolutely loved it! It’s wonderful to see them so excited about writing and creating such fantastic stories! In Maths, the class have continued their learning on multiplication and division and have been learning how to make arrays. […]
Year 1 Week Beginning 16.5.25
/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week in English, the children have learning how how to change verbs into the past tense by adding ‘was’ before the word and ‘ing’ to the end. For example, cry becomes ……was crying, dance becomes ….was dancing. The class have also been learning how to use alliteration and adjectives to make their description more exciting […]
Year 1 Week Beginning 5.5.25
/in Archives, Year 1 /by Margaret JoyceThis week seems to have flown by, due to the bank holiday weekend, yet Year 1 have managed to pack lots of learning into it! In RE, the children have been listening, reflecting and responding to the story of The Road to Emmaus. During their lessons, they thought about and wrote responses to the questions: […]
Year 1 had a lovely end to the week this afternoon, when they joined Year 2 on a walk to the pond on the farmland adjacent to the school. This was part of their current science learning on animals; today they were looking specifically for different birds and amphibians. The children were treated with a […]
Year 1 Week Beginning 21.4.25
/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz HeymozWelcome back! We hope you all had a wonderful Easter and a good rest over the holiday. We were so blessed with the beautiful weather; the children have been telling us lots of exciting stories about what they did over the two week break! The class have gradually settled back into the Year 1 routines […]
Year 1 Week Beginning 31.3.25
/in Archives, Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceYear 1 finished the Spring Term with a very busy week. Well done to Olivia who played the piano in the KS1 music concert on Tuesday. This was her first ever time playing in front of an audience and she was brilliant!! Thank you to all the children and their families who supported the soft […]
Year 1 Week Beginning 24.3.25
/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceDue to the lovely weather, Year 1 have spent lots of time learning outdoors this week! In Science, the children learnt about birds, as part of their topic about animals. Part of their lesson was to take part in a bird watch. The class decided that the best spot would be close to the Peace […]
Year 1 Week Beginning 17.3.25
/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week started off with a very exciting science workshop led by Michael’s mum. The fun science activities centered around the British Science Week theme, ‘Change and Adapt’. The children had lots of opportunities to explore and manipulate different materials; creating and then testing a range of things such as flying birds, floating boats and […]
Year 1 Week Beginning 10.3.25
/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week in class, the children celebrated British Science Week, focussing on the theme ‘Change and Adapt’. Year 1 applied their oracy, enquiry and debating skills while doing activities from the science website Explorify and participated in an exciting whole school experiment derived from the big question: Mrs Heymoz likes to dunk biscuits in her […]
Year 1 Week Beginning 3.3.25
/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt has been such a joyful and busy week in Year 1! On Tuesday, the children joined the rest of the school in celebrating Mardi Gras! They started off the day by participating in pancake tossing relay races- it was so much fun! The children then helped each other to make Mardi Gras bead bracelets. […]