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

Mother's Day Artwork

For Mother's Day, we focused on Happy Memories which we have and portrayed these through art. We had to think about the detail of the picture as well as how we wanted to add colour: paint, pastels or coloured pencils.

Mother's Day Artwork

Portraits

We studied portraits. To begin the first lesson, we drew what we thought we looked like. Then we learned about proportions: the difference in one hour was tremendous! After spending time using our sketchbooks to practise eyes, noses and mouths, we then drew a final portrait for the wall.

Egyptian Portraits

We studied some artwork from Ancient Egypt and found that in portraits the body was facing forwards but the head was looking to the side. We created our own portraits, thinking especially about Egyptian make up and jewellery. We also used a paper staining technique to make our paper look like papyrus, which is what the Egyptians would have painted onto.