Catholic Life of our school 2023-2024 (please scroll down for 2024-2025 and 2025 - 2026)

At St Paul's we support local, national and international charities throughout the year. Some of the charities that we support include:

• https://www.cathchild.org.uk/
• https://cafod.org.uk/
• https://broxbourne.foodbank.org.uk/
• https://www.nspcc.org.uk/
• https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/
• https://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/

As Catholics, we are committed to contributing positively to our society; being of service to others – particularly those that have less and are more vulnerable.

At St Paul's we have a mission as part of the wider Catholic Church, and to be able to live this out, we aim to serve the common good in our localities and in our wider world. Our School Mission statement states, ‘Our school is a place of learning, a place of love’ Our pupils and staff aim to share their love by going out to do good in our community, by inviting community members into school and by using our God given skills and talents to help and support those in need.

We seek to embrace and contribute to the Mission of Church, to proclaim the Gospel of Christ and to bring each person closer to our loving Father through the power of the Holy Spirit. By recognising the dignity of all, finding opportunities to imitate Christ and striving to love and serve others, we aim to encourage one another to give in service, in as much as we give of our resources through charity fundraising. This means we try to be giving of our time to charities and to others, and as a school community, we organise events throughout the year to raise awareness of charities and contribute to their cause.

Matthew 6: 24 – Jesus says: ‘You cannot serve both God and money’. Here, Jesus was teaching us about the common good; how we should seek what’s best for everyone – beginning with the last, the least, the most forgotten in our society.

We strive to be witnesses to Christ in the world through our words and actions.

"The dignity of each human person and the pursuit of the common good are concerns which ought to shape all economic policies" Pope Francis

 

Fr Clement RE Lesson visits

Fr Clement visits us each term to lead our RE learning for us. We are very grateful for his deep faith and understanding that he shares.

Parish, Parent and Community Lent service

Our Chaplaincy Team alongside Fr Clement led our Lenten reflection service to support our Lent journey alongside serving a soup lunch for our community.

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Our Lenten Overview 

This Lent children at St Paul’s Catholic School have yet again continued to deepen their knowledge, faith and spiritual journey with Jesus Christ. Children, staff and parents have gathered collectively for our Ash Wednesday Service, Mass, Reconciliation and a ‘soup and supper’ prayer service.

Holy Week began with a celebratory ‘Palm Sunday’ assembly were children waved palm leaves, shared prayers and sung ‘Hosanna, gathering to reflect upon how we can truly welcome Jesus this Lent and how far we will walk with Him.

Our ‘Stations of the Crosses’ assemblies and Year 3 and Year 4 Easter production enabled us all to reflect upon the passion of Christ’s love and place ourselves at the Holy Cross and at the feet of Jesus.

Charity Lenten walks and generous donations were all ways of our almsgiving along with prayers for all those in need, near and afar. All of which is a true dedication of our love and commitment this Lent and for this we are very proud to be a part of St Paul’s Catholic School.

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May - Rosary Challenge

During the month of May our Chaplaincy Team have set a challenge for the children to take part in the Rosary Challenge.

The Rosary Challenge is to pray a decade of the Holy Rosary every weekday, at school or home.

A decade of the Holy Rosary is:

1 x Our Father

10 x Hail Mary

1 x Glory Be

During each decade we will pray with a Mystery of the Rosary. Mysteries are moments in the life of Jesus and Mary. Imagine them in your mind. There will be a short piece of scripture at the start of each decade to help you enter in. There are four sets of five Mysteries:

The Joyful Mysteries

The Glorious Mysteries

The Luminous Mysteries

The Sorrowful Mysteries

The children will be using the tracking sheets in class to track their progress. As part of our RJED focus we will also be looking at how the Hail Mary is said in other languages, the videos can be seen here https://missiontogether.org.uk/hail-mary/

Our Lady Mary - Mother of God - 

During the month of May 2024, St Paul's Catholic Nursery and Primary School will honouring Our Lady, Mary Mother of God during an Ascension Mass, praying the Rosary daily and taking part in a whole school pilgrim and holy offerings of devotion and prayers through Mary.

St Paul's have also been carrying out an RE / Mary - RJED whole school art project celebrating diversity and the love for Mary across the world. For this project each class choose a different image of Mary from diverse cultures across the world and wrote the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer in that native language. Children showed cultural appreciation and shared in celebrating religious diversity and diverse representations of Mary from around the world.

Our Lady Mother of God May 24.pdf

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THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD - HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION (9th May, Mass at St Paul's School - 9:15 am) After his Resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples over a period of forty days. St Paul's, children, staff, parents and parishioners celebrated Ascension Day recalling when we celebrate Jesus’ return to his Father in Heaven.

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Laudato Si’ Week – 19 - 26th May 2024

St Paul's Catholic Primary School act in response to Pope Francis’ calling in relation to Laudato Si’. Children will be reflecting upon Pope Francis’ calling and carrying out some thought provoking learning activities on how we can best tackle the global issues we face.

Please see the attached letter for more information.

Letters to parents regarding Pope Francis Laudato Si Week 19th to 26th May 2024.pdf

Crowning of Mary

On Thursday 23rd May our chaplaincy team and choir led us for our crowning of Mary service. It was lovely to see the children's flowers and crowns that they brought in. Thank you for your support with this and for the parents/ families that joined us.

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St Paul's RE School Development Update

Please see our attached RE School Development Update from 2023 & onwards.

We are so proud of everyone's efforts so far! Thank you, pupils, parents, staff, Govenors and Father Clement for supporting and guiding us on our spiritual journey with Christ.

RE School Development 2023 onwards.pdf

Year 1 Class Saint Day - St Anthony 13th June

St Peter and St Paul Mass led by First Holy Communion children

On Monday 1^st July 2024 we had our special Mass to celebrate all the children who have made their First Holy Communion this year.

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Fr Clement Summer Visits - June 2024

Fr Clement came to teach each of our classes for one of their Summer lessons.

St Francis of Assisi - Chaplaincy Retreat Day - July 2024

On Monday 1^st July 2024 St Paul’s Chaplaincy team, Mrs Costanzo and Miss Barton attended the St Francis of Assisi Chaplaincy retreat day at St Mary’s Secondary School. We joined up with other local Primary Catholic Schools who are part of the St Francis of Assisi Trust and took part in various fun activities including learning new hymns, art and sporting team building games. We ended the day by attending Mass celebrating all of our school’s Chaplaincy teams achievements and successes this academic year. It was a lovely day and a pleasure to be part of.

Mrs Worton Geer, myself and all of St Paul’s School pupils and community would like thank the Chaplaincy team for being such a dedicated and inspirational team this year, supporting us all on our spiritual journey with Christ.

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Our School Saint Feast Day 2024

On Monday 1^st July 2024 we celebrated our school saint, St Paul's feast day. Each class spent the afternoon looking at a different point of St Paul's life and what we can learn from our special school saint. We then had a celebration party with ice cream!

Father Clement training St Paul's Catholic School pupils as alter servers for Mass 2024 - 2025

Catholic Life of our school 2024-2025

Autumn Term 1 2024 Catholic Social Teaching Principle - Care of Creation

On Monday 9th September, our new Chaplaincy Team led our introductory assembly about our first CST principle focus of this year, Care of Creation. They made their own prayers and posters as well as using the Caritas resource to support the children's understanding and development of this principle. Throughout this half term, children will be focusing on this principle in class. It will also be part of our weekly celebration awards

Catholic Life and Mission Policy

Catholic-Life-and-Mission policy.pdf

Our Chaplaincy Team Retreat Monday 16th September 2024

We were very blessed that Fr Clement joined us and supported our Chaplaincy retreat morning. He shared with the children about wisdom and leadership and how they could learn from the Bible readings to put this into their Chaplaincy work.

Fr Clement blessed each member and handed out their badges

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Fairtrade Fortnight September 2024

Some of our Chaplaincy Team prepared and led our fairtrade awareness assembly as part of fairtrade fortnight. This year, the theme is in urging everyone to Be the Change, by picking up Fairtrade products and speaking up for fairer trade. The researched about fairtrade and wrote their own prayers to share with the children.

Fairtrade Fortnight - Fairtrade

Start of New School Year Mass - September 2024

During this Start of New School Year Mass we thought about Jesus welcoming us and showing us his never-ending love. We asked God to bless us at the St Paul’s School and help us come closer to God. We prayed that we can follow in the footsteps of our school saint, St Paul, and ask for his guidance during this school year. As part of our Mission, each child has been given a prayer card to complete to write a prayer to St Paul to help them during this school year.

Following our start of year Mass, the children completed a home family learning task in which they reflected on how Saint Paul could help them this year. We created a display around our main prayer table.

St Matthew House Feast Day

On Monday 23rd September our house captains prepared a service for the children in St Matthew house to celebrate his feast day which was on Saturday 21st September. They then celebrated with cake together as a house family.

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Chaplaincy Team retreat and presentation of Trust badges

On Thursday 3rd October out Chaplaincy Team joined with other teams across our local Catholic schools to take part in retreat and a welcome service. As part of this, they recieved their badges.

October Rosary club

During the month of October our Chaplaincy Team run Rosary club for our children on a Monday lunch and a breakfast for our parents on a Friday.

World Food Day and International Poverty Eradication Day

Dear Parents and Carers of St Paul's,

We are raising awareness of World Food day, which is happening on the 16^th of October, and International Poverty Eradication Day on the 17^th October. As part of our Catholic Mission, we would be very grateful if you could donate non-perishable food items, such as rice, pasta or tin food, to the school on the day, for it to be donated to local food banks in our community.

We appreciate your support to our cause.

Chaplaincy Team

1,000,000 children praying the Rosary initation from Aid for the Church in Need

On Friday 18th October we will be taking part in the 1,000,000 children praying the Rosary initation from Aid for the Church in Need

This prayer initiative by AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED aims to rekindle faith in the power of prayer. The worldwide campaign is an invitation to remember the words of Our Lady of Fatima that the childlike and trusting prayer of the rosary can truly change the world, defeat evil and bring peace.

Praying the rosary together with children will strengthen unity in the Church and among peoples. We are all called to form one family across borders, united in prayer.
Out of prayer grows love for God and neighbour. The rosary opens our hearts to concrete help for the persecuted, the needy and the poor in whom Christ himself suffers.

More information can be found at:

One Million Children Praying The Rosary (acninternational.org)

October Rosary Challenge

Here is the link to the Rosary challenge - we will completing this in class each morning

The Mark 10 Mission - The Rosary Challenge

St Luke Feast Day

On Friday 18th October our house captains prepared a service for the children in St Luke house to celebrate his feast day. They then celebrated with cake together as a house family.

November - whole school poppy project

As we get closer to November, we start to think about remembering those who gave their life for us. We will be launching our whole school poppy project in which families are asked to write a prayer or reflection for November and return this to school. We will then offer these up at our service on 11th November and then display them around our school.

poppy letter Nov 24.docx

November a month of prayer intentions and remembrance at St Paul's Primary School

Letter to parents November a month of prayer and remembrance.pdf

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Pope Francis - Dilexit Nos - He loved us - Encyclical Letter written 24th October 2024

Hinduism Week - November 2024

We had our whole school other faith week in which we learnt about Hinduism. This was launched with workshops which helped us to understand the Hinduism faith. Here is some pupil voice about their learning:

Hinduism pupil voice

5.11.24

Reception
I liked the teddy’s /dolls. I know the God called Seeta

I liked the Hinduism Dots, I know Rarma

Year 2

I like the dolls and clothes , I liked dancing with the sticks

Year 1

I liked the clothes. I learned about the Gods, I liked the teddys

Year 2

I like the dolls and clothes, I liked dancing with the sticks

Year 3

I learnt about Krishna (the God) I liked to play with the teddy’s and hold the dolls

Year 4

I learnt that Hinduism is an old religion, I liked talking about all the different Gods

Year 5

I liked to explore different thing’s I like the different gods, We learnt new things about their God

Year 6
It was fun and it taught us a lot about Hinduism, it was good to find out about another religion and what they believe in. This helps us to understand what they believe. The workshop helped us to bring this to life.

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Whole School Saint House Books

At St Paul's Primary School we are improving our Saint House Teams by meeting half termly as a whole school community. We link our Saints team work focusing on our Pastoral Themes. This half term we explored 'Faith', what this means to us and how we can demonstrate and share this at home, in school and within the community.

Our Saint Teams work is displayed in individual class Saint books and displayed centrally in the school hall for all the school to see and share each teams great work. Below are some lovely examples of work that was completed by our pupils.

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Father Clement blessing St Paul's Catholic School's ethos

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The R.E. senior leadership team at St Pauls Catholic Primary School have been working hard to ensure and demonstrate to pupils, parents, staff and visitors that Jesus Christ remains at the centre of all we do. We invited Father Clement and the Chaplaincy Team to bless our St Paul's School Mission Statements, our Catholic Social Teaching Virtues and the icon of St Paul which remain proudly on display as you enter our Catholic School. This not only improves our school grounds and Catholic ethos but enables us to remember Christ's love for us and the heart of our religious journey.

Chaplaincy Team Advent Caritas Giving Project and Catholic Children Society Appeal

Advent Stars - whole school R.E. project at St Paul's Catholic Primary School 2024

Whole School Advent Preparation - Stars Letter 22.11.24.pdf

St Paul's Catholic Primary School preparing for Advent 2024

Advent is the period leading up to Christmas, Christ's coming. It is a special time of anticipation and preparation in many Christian traditions. At St Paul's Catholic School we have been busy preparing for Advent to make the most of this joyful and sacred season. We have set up Advent Wreaths around the school, lighting one candle each week, starting with the first Sunday of Advent, and reflect on themes like hope, peace, joy, and love. We are using a daily Advent Calendar of 'giving' for those less fortunate supporting The Catholic Children's Carirty Gift Appeal. Engaging in such charitable activities, such as donating to a food bank, volunteering, or helping a neighbour in need ebables us to grow closer to Christ this Christmas.

We are spending more time on Parayer and Refection this Advent, each day reading Bible passages related to the birth of Christ and using our daily Jesse Tree for a devotional guide focused on Bible stories leading to Jesus' birth.

Whilst we celebrate such a speacial time of year, we wish to resist the busy holiday rush by focusing on meaningful activities in school and at home, our Travelling Crib is the perfect oppotunity for you to make space for stillness and reflection to center ourselves more spiritually.

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Advent Travelling Crib - Advent 2024

Please sign up to recieve our travelling crib which is our lovely Advent tradition used in our Catholic School to bring the story of Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem to life and a chance to deepen our spiritual journey this Advent, through prayers and refelctions at home.

Advent travelling crib 2024.pdf

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St Paul's Catholic Primary School - Advent Mass - 2nd December 2024

Advent Mass helps us all at St Paul's Catholic School spiritually prepare for the celebration of Christ’s birth, fostering a sense of renewal, anticipation and reflection during this sacred season.

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Catholic Children Society Advent Service 2024

We were delighted to join with other schools at the Catholic Children Society Advent Service at Westminster Cathedral. Members of our choir took the lead in the singing at the front of the Cathedral. During the service, the actors told the nativity story with a real donkey and goat! It was such a special experience for our children and they did our school so proud with their singing and leading the congregation!

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St John House Feast Day

Our St John's house captains prepared a lovely service to celebrate St John's Feast Day with their house group. They then celebrated with cake after!

Religious Education across St Paul's Catholic Primary School - Autumn Term 2024

Our primary goal of at St Paul's Catholic Primary School is to provide high quality teaching and moral development, grounded in the Catholic faith, social teaching and Catholic doctrine. Through our creative, inclusive and enriched RE curriculum pupils are taught Catholic teachings, including scipture from the Bible, Church doctrine and values such as charity, respect, and the dignity of the person.

Through our work in Catholic education we emphasise the importance of service and helping those in need, following the example of Jesus Christ. This enables our pupils here at St Paul's Catholic School access a strong academic curriculum, focusing on both the intellectual development of pupils and deepen their spiritual growth.

Here are some lovely and proud examples of this terms RE teaching, learning and development across the school.

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St Francis of Assisi Catholic Academy Christmas Carol Service - 12th December 2024

On Thursday 12th December 2024 we worked closely with St Francis of Assissi's Catholic Academy Trust Primary School, holding a prayerful and refelective Christmas Carol Service for staff and parents at St Augustines School, Hoddesdon.

Our school and the other participating local Catholic school's in the trust made us all proud on the day and all of their preparations during this special Advent season.

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Our parent Advent Service 2024

On Monday 16th December 2024 Father Clement and our School Chaplaincy Team led our annual Advent Prayer Service for parent and parishioners followed by a hot drink and mince pies. The service was a time to pause and reflect during the season of Advent and to pray for loved ones who are dearly missed and are now in heaven. It was a time to prepare, gather and remember the true meaning of Christmas - Jesus coming!

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Love in Action - Caritas Awards - Entries and Winners for 2024

A Special Visit and Awards for Two past St Paul's Catholic Primary School Pupils now inspiring Year 7 Students at Nicholas Breakspear Catholic Secondary School - St Albans

This week Katie Worton-Geer, Headteacher and Netta Costanzo, Deputy Headteacher were delighted to visit two past pupils at Nichcolas Breakspear Catholic Secondary School in St Albans, welcomed kindly by Headteacher Mr Declan Linnane. Our visit was a wonderful surprise for two of the now Year 7 students, Kayla and Grace, who were presented with special awards for their extraordinary contributions during their time at St Paul’s.

Grace was nominated by St Paul's Catholic Primary School for the award and recognised for her incredible work in Year 6, where she led a whole-school project to promote awareness of people with hearing difficulties. Kayla, equally inspiring, worked to raise awareness about autism, particularly focusing on improving understanding around communication. Their acts of kindness and leadership were acknowledged with the ‘Love in Action’ Caritas Award, a testament to their outstanding commitment to making a difference.

Thank you for your kind food bank donations this advent 2024!

Congratulations to our St Paul's School Choir for another wonderful Carol Concert with parents and our families!

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Christmas Eve Parish Mass

It was lovely to see so many families come to our Christmas Eve Parish Mass here at St Paul's. Some of the children dressed up and retold the story of the nativity.

Catholic Life of the School - 2025

Letters to parents regarding Pope Francis Jubilee Year 2025 Pilgrims of Hope 6th Jan 2025.pdf

Start of 2025 Mass

During our Mass, we reflected on how we can shine the light of Jesus during 2025.

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St Paul's Catholic School preparations for the Jubilee Year 2025 - Pilgrims of Hope - Our Tree of Hope

In preparation for the Holy Jubilee Year 2025 – Pilgrims of Hope, St Paul’s Catholic Primary School both staff and pupils have been reflecting on our special and sacred journey ahead.

Pupils and staff created hand pledges of hope and placed them on our School Tree of Hope. Our Hope Tree represents a source of strength, resilience, growth and optimism even through tough times. This Tree of Hope will remain a strong presence in our school community and a reminder of hope and encouragement for us all and others.

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Jubilee Year 2025 - Pilgrims of Hope - Launch Day - Friday 24th January 2025

Today we celebrated Pope Francis calling and launch of the Jubilee Year 2025. We welcomed Father Clement for prayers and blessing and shared our whole school collective worship together (led by our school Chapliancy Team and Ms Costanzo). The collective worship explained the importance of us making this sacred and holy journey together as Pilgrims of Hope.

Working together, all classes made Hope pledges and discussed how we all as part of our Catholic mission can walk in solidarity building a better world.

We learnt more about the Jubilee Logo in our House Saint Teams and celebrated the start of our holy journey by sharing a House Teams cake all together. We ended our afternoon with a silent individual reflection and our Jubilee Prayer.

It was a lovely promise we all made together for justice, love, peace and hope.

See our gallery below sharing memories of our Jubilee 2025 launch day celebrations.

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Our Pilgrims of Hope Journey - Pledge displays, Our Tree of Hope and Jubilee prayer areas

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Chaplaincy Team Trust Retreat - February 2025

Our Chaplaincy Team joined the other Chaplaincy Team's in the Trust to come together and take part in a retreat. They started with a liturgy together and then had different reflective activities throughout the day and came together at the end again for a final blessing.

Racial Justice Sunday - 16th February 2025 - Pastoral Time - Saint House Team RJED focus

See our RJED page for more details St Paul's Catholic Primary School - RJED

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Ash Wednesday 2025

Today marked the start of Lent with our Ash Wednesday services. Fr Clement reminded us that during Lent we open our hearts with love to pray, fast and help others. Your child will have received a Lent purple pin to wear each day, a Lent booklet to help them reflect during Lent and a Lent collection moneybox to support them during the season of Lent in preparation.

During Lent, we encourage the children to wear their Lent purple pin to remind them to keep Jesus in their mind during Lent as we get ready for Holy Week and Easter Sunday. The children can use the Lent booklets as daily reflections to support them during this Holy time.

This year we are once again taking part in the Catholic Children Society Appeal, and we are asking over the next few weeks to collect small change in the Lent boxes to bring in at the end of Lent. The Catholic Children Society Lent appeal is inspired by Pope Francis’s call to ‘make our voices heard’ and find ways to connect and help others in their time of need. Every penny raised by our school will support our work with local disadvantaged children and families within our community. We will be asking children to bring their Lent boxes back in on this day, Friday 28th March. Any donations, no matter how much, is most appreciated to go towards the work of the Catholic Children Society.

We will also be supporting the CAFOD Lent appeal on their family fast day which is Friday 14^th March. On this day at 9am we will be going on school pilgrimage together as a whole school to walk in the steps of Jesus, pray and raise money for CAFOD just outside the gates over at the Cheshunt Park area. More details to follow about arrangements for this tomorrow.

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The BIG LENT Walk & Lenten Fast Day - Friday 14th March 2025

Lent overview letter 2025.pdf

The BIG LENT Walk March 2025.pdf

Lent at St Paul's Catholic Primary School - 2025

This year St Paul’s Catholic School will be marking our Lenten Journey as Pilgrims of Hope 2025 by;

• Ash Wednesday Service in school - receiving ashes with Father Clement

• Daily Lenten Prayers using Ten – Ten Resources

• Lenten Booklets across the school supporting children on their Lenten Journey for 2025

• Attending to St Paul’s Church for Mass

• RE Creativity - Designing Lenten pebbles that lead the way to Christ this Lent

• BIG LENT Walk – Pilgrims of Hope

• Giving to charity via school acts of charity

• Caring for God’s Creation via our School Prayer Garden and Science week planting seeds

• Father Clement Lenten class lesson visits

• Reconciliation

• Lenten Soup Supper – Parent and Parishioners Prayer Service

Please take a look at the gallery below for some examples of our Lenten journey.

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St Paul's Catholic Primary School - Prayer Garden - Laudato Si - Care for Creation

Our Chaplaincy team at St Paul’s Catholic School have been making an extra intention this Lent to take care of our School Prayer Garden and great care for God’s creation.

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Our BIG LENT Walk - Friday 14th March 2025

Today, St Paul’s Primary School pupils were a credit to our Catholic School on our BIG LENT Walk as we processed in unity as Pilgrims of Hope through Cheshunt Park.

Pupils, teachers and parents enjoyed the beauty of God’s Creation as we gathered together in prayer and solidarity.

Thank you to all those who were able to support guide the pupils in our Catholic School on this active Lenten journey with Christ in our minds and our hearts.

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Prayers for Pope Francis

We have held prayers in our school for Pope Francis as he remains seriously ill in hospital.

As the leader of the Catholic Church, he has dedicated his life to spreading the message of love, compassion, and unity.

We pray through Christ our Lord to grant him strength, healing and peace.

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Trust Charity Week March 2025

It was lovely to see a sea of blue this morning to launch our Catholic Children Society charity week and thank you to the families who supported with donations. We launched Charity Week with an assembly about the Catholic Children Society and the fantastic work they do and a school sing along. This afternoon, some of our parents enjoyed a Lenten soup supper with Fr Clement and the Chaplaincy Team.

As we continue through this week, we have the below activities planned to support us through our Lenten journey and support almsgiving to the Catholic Children’s Society.

All money for the week’s activities will go to our Trust chosen charity, Catholic Children Society

Our Lenten Soup Supper 2025 a time to pause for prayer and reflection

Our Chaplaincy Team alongside Fr Clement led our Lenten reflection service to support our Lent journey alongside serving a soup lunch for our community.

Father Clement's class lesson visits - Lent 2025

Father Clement visited all classes this Lent creating a meaningful and spiritually enriching experience for our pupils. Father Clement provided a teaching opportunity for all our pupils to reflect on this sacred season of penance, prayer, fasting.

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St Paul's Catholic Primary School working with St Francis of Assisi Trust Charity Week

Our chaplaincy team organised guess the bunny game, a cake sale as well as purchasing Mother's Day Pamper Bags for St Paul's children to take part in as part of the fund raising activities for the Trust charity week! They wore a blue item of clothing representing St Francis of Assisi Trust and made posters of supporting Charities we use in the Catholic Academy.

Thank you for your kind donations and your contnued support.

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Stations of the Cross

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St Mark feast day - 25th April 2025

Our St Mark house captains lead their house group in a special celebration to mark their house feast day.

Mary Mother of God - May 2025

Our Lady Mother of God May 2025.pdf

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The blessing of our new Pope Leo XIV

At St Paul's we have been keeping informed and closely watching the Vatican updates of Pope Leo XIV and his election.

Please see the official photograph of Pope Leo XIV

For more details visit Foto Ufficiale di Papa Leone XIV

Picture News Special - A New Pope.pptx

The inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV - Copy - Copy.pptx

Care for creation

Our eco club have been caring for our creation by litter picking around the school

First Holy Communion's -2025

First Holy Communion Mass with St Francis Of Assisi Catholic Primary School's at St Augustine's Church - Hoddesdon

Laudato Si

As part of their RE, Year 3 have been making posters to display around our school with messages from Laudato Si which is about caring for common home.

 Harvest Festival and St Francis of Assisi Saints Day - Oct 2025

On Friday 3rd October, we celebrated Harvest and Fast Day with a wonderful assembly led by Year Five, where we shared Biblical readings, hymns, drama, poetry, songs and prayers as part of the whole school and parent community.

We also celebrated St Francis of Assisi Feast Day with an information assembly led by our school chaplaincy team who later led activities with the younger children in their  classes. 

Thank you children, parents and carers for your kind donations. 

All  food will go to the Broxbourne Food Bank.