In 2022, the Chinese New Year will be celebrated on the 1st of February. 2022 is the Year of the Tiger and more precisely, the Water Tiger.

The Tiger symbolises power in Chinese culture. It’s also seen as brave, cruel and forceful.

Discussion ideas

What year were you born?

Which animal does your birthday year represent?

Think about the strength and the weakness of the animal?

How does that relate to you?

How to make red lanterns?

Coffee with a copper

The ‘coffee with a copper’ initiative aims to encourage pupils to interact with local police officers in order to break down barriers between young people and the police. Youth Engagement Officer, Uzair Makadam will be in school fortnightly, engaging with pupils during lunchtime. Pupils will be encouraged to discuss any concerns they may have regarding their local community.

How do the police benefit?
Improved relationships with young people

• Increased intelligence from pupils and staff
• Increased ability to reach young people ‘at risk’
• Improved relationships with schools and the community

How do pupils’ benefit?
Improved relationships with the police

• Exposure to positive role models
• Feeling safer in and around school
• Provides an opportunity to raise concerns regarding their local community

How St Paul’s benefit
Improved relationships with the police

• Lower levels of criminal acts in and around the school
• Improved behaviour in the school environment
• PHSE and pastoral support

How communities’ benefit
More positive attitudes towards schools

• Improved relationships with schools and police
• Less negative views of young people

 If you would like anymore information regarding the ‘coffee with a copper’ initiative please contact:drobinson@st-pauls.leicester.sch.uk

We are delighted to celebrate our Green Flag status as well as our as well as our Bronze and Silver Eco Schools Awards. Next stop Gold …….

Thank you to Mrs Chapman, Deacon Seamus, Mr Chapman and our school Eco Team.

The Dance, Drama and Music department were delighted to share the work of our talented students from all year groups with our annual ‘Snowcase’ show in December. Although the show was needed to be recorded and live-streamed our students did not disappoint! Students performed beautifully and should be proud of their performances that they had worked so hard on.

A special thank you to Gilroy our technician for recording and editing the show.

We are reading Horror in the library over the next two weeks. Class genre lessons help students understand the author’s way of expression and it improves their own writing skills. Students have completed book reviews as a group and looked at the describing words in the text

Some ideas for parents:
Ask your child what they are reading?
What vocabulary is in the text?
Setting the scene?

Home games:
Thinking of spooky words
Own story scene setting

Congratulations to:

Jayda for her MFL badge – Mrs Pocceschi nominated her for “always being a good student and  has really impressed with her speaking task. There was clearly a lot of preparation into it and she delivered it so well. I see a future A Level student!”

Abin for his RE badge – Mrs Scott said “consistently showing fantastic effort in RE and always showing respect – an outstanding role model!”

Oliwia for her RE badge – Mrs Scott said “for consistently trying her best her RE and showing determination”

Well done everyone!

Congratulations to Eva and Kamila who were awarded PE badges from Mrs Conaghan today for their “outstanding leadership in PE lessons”.

Well done!

Please click on here for the school Carol Service.

Congratulations to our 4 Principal’s Pen nominees this term:

Mercy – Mercy is a very caring students and brought multiple shoeboxes into school for the shoebox appeal
Wiktoria – English is not Wiktoria’s home language yet she has improved her English hugely since she has been at St Paul’s and regularly reads out loud during form time. Mrs Nott and Mrs West (form tutors) are so impressed with her progress and willingness to learn
Milly – Milly was very quiet when she first started at St Pauls but her confidence has improved so that she now puts her hand up to ask and answer questions. Milly also volunteers to help her form tutor regularly
Quinlan -Quin started at St Pauls this year and has settled in excellently. Quin is always polite and respectful to members of staff, has made good friends. We are really impressed with him and the way he has overcome the challenges of starting at a new school.

Well done to you all and thank you to Mrs Grundy for the nominations.