RECEPTION OPEN DAYS 2025-2026 will be held on Thursday 14th November 9.30-10.30am and Saturday 23rd November 10.00-11.00am. Please telephone 01625 877688 to reserve your space..............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
Labels for the cheetah and dinosaur home in their play!
Sound hunt! We looked for the sounds hidden round our classroom and ticked them off on our sheet. Great for recall and recognising the sounds!
Oliver Jeffers is our author of the half term. We have been reading his books. Today we voted on whether we preferred Lost and Found or How to catch a star.
Blending using the magnetic letters. We are learning to Fred talk and read.
Practising our word writing in our continuous provision.
Practising our letterformation in the shaving foam!
Lovely discussion about the story and characters whilst sharing a book with a friend!
Our CCSO’s were our mystery reader today! We loved hearing them read us a story!
The library bus came to visit and we chose new books for our class library!
We had Dr Murphy in to be our mystery reader today! She read such a funny story- we loved it!
We have been working hard on our blending in word time
Celebrating our author of the half term! We voted for our favourite Julia Donaldson book!
We read ‘My name is a song’ and ‘Grandmas purse’ as part of our Black History month texts.
Thomas, Matilda’s brother, came to be our mystery reader today. He read us Tiddler. We know this story really well so we could all join in!
Letter formation practise in the sand with a stick.
Mrs Davies was our mystery reader today. She read us one of our favourites!
We are very busy practising our letter formation.
Aila’s grandma was the mystery reader today! We loved listening to the story!
Word time in our RWI sessions. We are working hard on our blending.
Mrs Pilbrow was our mystery reader this week! We loved hearing “ Rumble in the jungle” and then acting it out!
We all enjoyed helping act out the story this week with our mystery reader
We have been practising our ‘Fred talk read the word’ during word time
Independent name writing practise in play 🙂
Today’s mystery reader was Mrs Boothby! The children loved listening to her read a dinosaur story and then we acted it out!
Practising our name writing in the sand.
Enjoying books within our play. Our box of puppets encourage them to act out the story too.
Our first mystery reader was Mrs Armstrong-Boyle. She shared one of her favourite stories.
Designing a super fast broom at Drawing Club
Learning about our author of the half term Julia Donaldson and sharing lots of her stories.
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