s e n Behind The Sce T
he St Peter’s School family includes around 400 full-time and part-time staff in both teaching and support roles. We are immensely grateful for everything our teaching and support staff do to ensure the smooth running of St Peter’s School. Our support staff often work behind the scenes, so this edition of The Peterite celebrates their invaluable work over the last year which has helped us to navigate the unchartered waters of the coronavirus pandemic. Our Catering Team Covid-19 restrictions and social distancing created new challenges for our Catering team, affecting the way they prepared and served meals. Our Memorial Hall was transformed into a bespoke dining room, serving breakfast and lunch six days a week, and the menus were adapted to ensure that food could be served as quickly and safely as possible. Delicious and nutritious ‘one pot’ meals helped to speed up service and reduce queueing at meal times. Craig Robinson, Head of Catering and Hospitality, said: “We truly hope that all pupils and colleagues have enjoyed our new menus this year and I would like to thank everyone for adapting so quickly and positively to our new lunchtime routine.” Our Housekeepers The full reopening of the school campus and Boarding Houses in September 2020 saw various changes to routines and expectations for our Housekeeping team. Some staff took on additional hours to carry out extra tasks such as refilling sanitiser stations, wiping down surfaces in high traffic, high contact areas and generally responding to requests and expectations with good humour and a desire to help. Boarding House matrons and housekeepers have also responded with characteristic professionalism when faced with the uncertainty of new protocols and challenges of adapting to situations of pupils in self-isolation. Their desire to ensure that our boarders continue to have a full and settled boarding experience has been evident throughout.
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