St Paul's Catholic Primary School

On Wednesday 28th September we celebrated our 50th Anniversary here at St Paul's. We were very blessed to have our special Mass led by Bishop Paul and Fr Clement. Bishop Paul also visited each classroom and the children shared with him what they had been learning about and presented him with a gift. At lunchtime we had a picnic lunch with friends, family and community members. We were joined by ex pupils, staff, Governors from the school throughout the day. In the afternoon each child planted a daffodil bulb and then we buried our own time capsule.

Our Year 5 class led our Harvest Festival for us on Friday 7th October. We invited the local food bank to come and talk to us about the work they do. Thank you for all your kind donations. 

Our house captains for St Luke, Kieron and Phoebe led our feast day celebrations for St Luke house on Tuesday 19th October. They prepared a short service for their house which included prayers, a Gospel reading and then reflections. The children then celebrated together as a house and had cake! 

During the month of October, our chaplaincy team led Rosary breakfast for our community every Friday.

We welcomed Fr Clement to celebrate our All Saints Day Mass with us. During our Mass, our House Captains led our reflections about our 4 house saints linked to the Gospel reading from our Mass. We pray that we can be more like the saints with the help of Jesus' love and guidance

We remember all those who gave their lives so we have our freedom. Thank you to all the families that contributed to our whole school poppy display with your reflections and prayers. 

CAFOD School volunteers visit schools to deliver assemblies and workshops. We’re currently recruiting volunteers in your area and would be grateful if you could include the appeal below in your school newsletter.

CAFOD (The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development) reaches out to Catholic schools through volunteers who deliver assemblies and workshops using the excellent resources produced by CAFOD’s Education group. Would you, or someone you know, be interested in joining the team? We provide training and termly refresher sessions, arrange for you to have a DBS check and pay your travel expenses. The role is especially suitable for someone looking to return to work after a career break, thinking about a career in education or recently retired and looking for a volunteering opportunity where they can make a difference. For more information contact Marcela Keech at mkeech@cafod.org.uk or Chris Driscoll at westminsterschools@cafod.org.uk 07776 493162.

Imagining Futures is a new project for primary schools to celebrate Caritas Westminster’s tenth anniversary. This two-part project encourages students to have a positive, hopeful view of the future through collective imaginings, the creative arts, and social action.

Part 1: Imagining a Future gives students a space to exercise their collective imaginations and envision a hopeful view of their local community in ten years’ time. The students will express that vision through the creative arts, whether that be traditional artwork, sculpture, poetry, prose, playwriting, or any other medium that they and their teacher sees fit.

Part 2: Hope for the Here and Now allows students to take small, meaningful, impactful steps towards the vision they created in Part 1 by planning and enacting a social action project in their local community. In seeing the impact they can have, students will learn that the vision they imagined is not only possible but one they can (and should) have a hand in working towards. 

Created to enhance the Catholic life of the schools that take part, expand the students’ understanding of Catholic Social Teaching, and connect schools to their local communities, the Imagining Futures project will start in September 2022. 

Our Chaplaincy Team and Fr Clement led our parent/parish advent reflection service. They then provided refreshments and prayer cards. 

The theme for Racial Justice for this entire year is:

All are included in the mission of Christ and His Church.
Let us walk together, pray together and work together

Each class took part in a difference activity to learn more about this. We have created a whole school display board to share our work with you.

St Paul's Chaplaincy team had a wonderful opportunity to attend St Edmunds College and Prep School along with other local primary schools for a Chaplaincy Retreat Day.

The children learnt more about the 6 principles of Catholic Social Teaching, Peace, Solidarity, Dignity, Creation, The Common Good and Care for the poor and vulnerable, along with having a wonderful experience working with other primary schools and sharing liturgy in the Chapel.

The Chaplaincy Team had a lovely day and the children were a credit to our school.

It was lovely to see so many children and their families make crowns to crown Mary with during our crowning of Mary service.

This year's song theme for the Summer Music Event took place on Monday 10th July 2023 and linked with our Catholic Faith and Virtues.

Each song sung by the children at St Paul's School will link to our learning and celebration of the virtues of Faith, Hope, Love, Wisdom, Justice, Courage, Self-control and Joy.  

This theme has been a whole school RE Virtues project linking with Music and Art .  The work produced by the children and our updated Prayer Garden looks amazing!

Thank you to all children, staff and Fr Clement for his  blessing and everyone's dedication in helping myself - Mrs Costanzo and Mrs Worton-Geer in achieving this.

Year 1 decided to support our in school food bank charity as part of their charity week. The children wore non-uniform in exchange for food bank donations. Here are some pictures to show the huge amount of food we raised for this worthy cause!