The fun starts here! 

We believe that children learn best when they feel happy, secure and valued.  We carefully plan and structure their learning by extending and developing the children’s own spontaneous play.

These are some comments from a group of Year 2 children who would recommend St Paul’s!

• Lots of people are nice. (Abigail)

• There are lots of people to play with. (Tanith)

• The teachers want you to try your best but if you are struggling you can ask for help. (Danny)

• Reading is fun because you can find out information.  We can earn certificates for reading four times a week.  (Pieter)

• When you are doing maths you can use cubes, teddies, a number grid, partition cards and bead strings to solve the problems.  (Harrison)

“We learn by looking and listening,”  Pieter, Harrison and Danny.

This year day trips have included Painshill Park (Geography) and the Imperial War Museum (History).  We have enjoyed learning from visitors as well:  Chertsey Museum staff have shared their treasure boxes with us to teach us about the past.

We loved learning about fire safety from Taffy the firefighter.

An annual highlight is our Christmas Nativity play when we all get the opportunity to bring tears to our parents’ eyes!

“I loved being me in the play” (Harrison who acted as Ned the donkey who discovered Christmas).

Box modelling is a popular activity.  As we are working hard at being green, the children are encouraged to make something useful, earning a special award when they do.

This year we opened our Vegetable Garden which will come into good use as we learn about being a child during World War 2.

We value the support of our parents, grandparents and community volunteers.  Each class has a ‘Class Mum or Dad’ for additional family support.  Caring for each other in the St Paul’s community is very important to us.