ISSUE No. 26/25-26 Follow us on Instagram @stpaulsn21
Miss Longman
As Miss Yiapanis returns from maternity leave, we say goodbye to Miss Longman, who will be leaving us today. I would like to thank Miss Longman for her hard work, dedication, and the care she has shown to the children in Year 2. She has been a valued member of our school team and has made a positive impact on the children during her time with us.
Miss Longman will be moving on to our partner school, St Paul’s N11. I wish her every success in her new role and hope that we will see her again in the future.
Spare Clothing
We seem to be running low on spare items of uniform due to lots of muddy incidents of late. Please can any borrowed items be returned to Miss Hatton as soon as possible once clean.
If anyone has any spare quality uniform items that you do not need or your child has grown out of, this would also be so helpful. Donations of new underwear (mainly for 4–6 years old) would be gratefully received.
Garden Supplies
We are looking for donations of garden pots and soil compost for our school garden so that each class can plant some seeds in the Spring.
Please let a member of staff on the gate know if you are dropping off donations and they can be left in the waiting area to be brought up to the garden.
Arts Week
Next week, the children will be entering the wonderful world of exploring art in all its many forms. They will take part in external workshops, as well as working with specialist artists who will be visiting the school to share their skills and expertise.
This exciting event has been sponsored by our wonderful FOSPS, and we are extremely grateful for their continued support, which allows this inspiring experience to remain a bi-annual event.
Arts Week - 2nd February - 6th February 2026
During Arts Week, children will be set the competition below by their class teachers:
The Fourth Plinth Schools Awards are now open for entries. It’s a chance for St Paul's to get creative and produce a work of art inspired by the contemporary art commissions for Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth.
Here’s how to get involved:
Students should design an artwork inspired by the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square
Parents/ carers should scan or take a photo of your students’ artwork and submit it to the online gallery. Please also send an example to your class teacher.
Entries can be in all art forms, including drawing, painting, sculpture, collage and digital designs. There’s no limit to the number of entries from each school and both group and individual entries are welcome.
The deadline for entries is 22 March 2026 at 11.59pm.
Following our school vision day learning about the conversion of St. Paul, the children coloured and decorated a picture of Saul being blinded by a light using paint, tissue paper, glitter and glue.
Artwork showing St. Paul being blinded by the light
Using tissue paper, paint, glitter and glue to decorate pictures of St. Paul
RKJ Let’s go fly a kite!
The blustery weather brought about a keen interest in making and flying kites in RKJ last week. The children made kites in various different ways including by folding paper or by cutting paper and adding straws to support. RKJ loved adding their own designs and demonstrated excellent team work and communication skills by supporting each other in the making process.
Child holding her colourful kite.
This group cut out the kite shape and added extra support by sticking on straws.
This group supported each other by asking questions and giving clear instructions on how best to make and decorate a kite.
Flying our kites!
Year 1 Vision Day – The Conversion of St Paul
The children learnt about the Conversion of St Paul and how Paul was changed by his experience on the road to Damascus. We discussed choosing how to live. The children came up with some wonderful ideas about what they can choose to do to shine like stars in the world: being kind and helpful, looking after the world, listening to each other, loving each other, and treating others how you want to be treated. They decorated a star to reflect their ideas.
Designing stars to show how to shine like stars in the world.
Designing stars to show how to shine like stars in the world.
Stars created by the children.
Stars created by the children.
Stars created by the children.
Year 3’s Rubbish Homework
Year 3 have been busy getting creative by designing and making models from recycled and reused materials, inspired by their class text, The Tin Forest. The children explored how every day ‘junk’ can be transformed into something imaginative and meaningful, linking their English work with important messages about sustainability and caring for our environment.
A race car
A money box
A bird feeder
A bunch of flowers
A forest
Year 4
Year 4 children make friendship bracelets using old plastic bags.
A year 4 child making a friendship bracelet.
Year 4 boys making their friendship bracelets
Year 5 – What causes day and night?
Year 5 used globes and torches to model how the Earth and Sun create day and night. They shone the torch on different parts of the globe and rotated it to see how one side is lit while the other stays dark. This helped them understand that day and night happen because the Earth spins on its axis.
Children rotating a globe in a small group. Two children are explaining the concept to another.
Children rotate a globe in a small group.
Children rotate a globe in a small group.
Children rotate a globe in a small group.
Children rotating a globe in a small group using a torch and figure to explain day and night.
Year 6
Last week, 6BT visited Winchmore School to take part in two workshops.
In the science workshop, children observed what happened when acids were mixed with different liquids. They also watched an exciting experiment using methane gas!
Year 6 children doing science experiments.
Year 6 children doing science experiments.
Year 6 children doing science experiments.
Year 6 children doing science experiments.
an exciting experiment using methane gas!
an exciting experiment using methane gas!
Year 6 at Winchmore School doing a Science Workshop
In the computing workshop, children learnt how to write their own commands on Python.
