Judged OUTSTANDING for Early Years, Personal Development and Behaviour and Attitudes (Ofsted May 2024), ......'In the Reception class, children receive an excellent start to their education.'.....'Children are exceptionally well prepared for learning in Year 1.'.....'Pupils develop as mature individuals due to the exemplary provision that they receive to support their personal development.'.....'Pupils’ behaviour during lessons and around school is exemplary.'.....'Pupils are proud of their school mission statement. They aspire ‘not to have more but to be more’ in all that they do. Pupils are happy in school.'.....

St Paul's Catholic Primary School

A Voluntary Academy

Aspire not to have more but to be more – St Oscar Romero

Art

Creating colour circles in the style of Wassily Kadinsky

Colour mixing and creating field paintings in the style of the artist Mark Rothko.

We created great field paintings by mixing the primary colours red, yellow and blue to make new secondary colours.

We have focused on self portraits for the past couple of weeks in our art lessons. About to go on the wall are our soft pastel portraits (coming soon to this page!) This week we were presented with half of our face from a photograph. Our challenge was to use lines of symmetry to draw and finish with watercolour paints the other half. We did a great job. Here are the results...😀🌟🎨

In our literacy lessons we have read some lovely books with important messages about being kind. One of these was 'The Rainbow Fish', who learnt the importance of sharing and giving. Inspired by this story and 'The Fish Who Could Wish' we designed our own 'kind' sea creatures. This week in our art lesson we brought out designs to life by recycling plastic water bottles. We are delighted with the results and next week will be writing a character description of our creature. These will hopefully be swimming onto our classroom walls very soon!