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    Year 1 Blog

    Year 1 Week Beginning 19.5.25

    May 23, 2025/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    Year 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. […]

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    Year 1 Week Beginning 16.5.25

    May 16, 2025/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    This 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 […]

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    Year 1 Week Beginning 5.5.25

    May 9, 2025/in Archives, Year 1 /by Margaret Joyce

    This 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: […]

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    May 2, 2025/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    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 […]

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    Year 1 Week Beginning 21.4.25

    April 25, 2025/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Liz Heymoz

    Welcome 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 […]

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    Year 1 Week Beginning 31.3.25

    April 4, 2025/in Archives, Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    Year 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 […]

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    Year 1 Week Beginning 24.3.25

    March 28, 2025/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    Due 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 […]

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    Year 1 Week Beginning 17.3.25

    March 21, 2025/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    This 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 […]

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    Year 1 Week Beginning 10.3.25

    March 14, 2025/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    This 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 […]

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    Year 1 Week Beginning 3.3.25

    March 7, 2025/in Year 1, Year 1 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    It 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. […]

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    Pope Paul News

    • Advent Service 2025 – lyrics and linksNovember 17, 2025 - 7:00 am
    • Thursday 20th NovemberOctober 6, 2025 - 6:29 am
    • Monday 15th SeptemberSeptember 15, 2025 - 12:41 pm
    • Friday 4th JulyJuly 4, 2025 - 6:36 am
    • 27th June Maths and REJune 27, 2025 - 7:17 am
    • Thursday 19th June, 2025June 17, 2025 - 6:20 am
    • Monday 2nd June, 2025June 2, 2025 - 7:00 am
    • Summer 1 Week 5May 23, 2025 - 4:30 pm
    • Year 1 Week Beginning 19.5.25May 23, 2025 - 4:13 pm
    • Year 5 – 23/05/25May 23, 2025 - 4:12 pm
    • Friday, 23rd May 2025May 23, 2025 - 3:30 pm
    • Year 3 Week 5 Friday 23rd MayMay 23, 2025 - 2:31 pm
    • Summer 1 Week 6May 23, 2025 - 2:26 pm
    • Friday 16th May, 2025May 16, 2025 - 5:03 pm
    • Year 1 Week Beginning 16.5.25May 16, 2025 - 4:32 pm
    • Summer 1 Week 4May 16, 2025 - 4:30 pm
    • Year 3 Week 3 Friday 16th MayMay 16, 2025 - 3:40 pm

    Pope Paul News

    • Advent Service 2025 – lyrics and linksNovember 17, 2025 - 7:00 am
    • Thursday 20th NovemberOctober 6, 2025 - 6:29 am
    • Monday 15th SeptemberSeptember 15, 2025 - 12:41 pm
    • Friday 4th JulyJuly 4, 2025 - 6:36 am

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