No.10 28 January 2022
Easter Term
ST PETER’S 8-13 NEWSLETTER It has been a busy week with entrance assessment days on Monday and Thursday for September 2022 places, 13+ music scholarship exams for St Peter’s 13-18, final rehearsals for the J5 Shakespeare Schools Festival, J3 parents’ meetings and fixtures a plenty. Mrs Sayles took assembly this morning and talked to us about yesterday’s Holocaust Memorial Day. She has run educational visits for school pupils from across the UK to some of the former concentration camps, and was able to draw on her experience of having spoken with survivors. She also reminded us of the fact that acts of genocide did not stop with the end of World War 2. Congratulations to our team of J5 scientists who took part in the Institute of Engineering and Technology’s Faraday Challenge. This was kindly hosted by Ampleforth College and our team came away as eventual winners. We had 34 pupils from J3, J4 and J5 take part in the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust special 25th Anniversary Challenge. This national competition was an online, 45-minute, multiple -choice challenge. It encouraged mathematical reasoning, precision of thought, and fluency in using basic mathematical techniques to solve interesting problems. The problems on the 25th Anniversary Challenge are designed to make pupils think. The idea as always with these national maths competitions is to promote a love of problem solving, and this special challenge celebrates 25 years of the UKMT. Our children had the opportunity to try a modern take on haggis, neeps and tatties on Burn’s Night this week. The catering team produced mini layers of potato and haggis, served with a swede puree and scream sauce, so that everyone could try it out if they wished to. There was also vegetable Scotch broth available as well. One Scotsman was definitely a happy man! St Peter’s 8-13, York, YO30 7WA www.stpetersyork.org.uk Registered Charity Number: 1141329
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Our Seven Key Values are Friendship, Trust, Wisdom, Compassion, Endurance, Humility, Hope Collaboration and Empathy... You can now view a new virtual tour of our campus on the school website (https://www.stpetersyork.org.uk/admissions/virtual-tour). I can’t guarantee that the spaces that are showcased look quite as tidy today as they did in the holidays when the photographs were taken, but it does remind us all how fortunate we are with many of our spaces.
Our J5 cast will be performing an abridged version of The Tempest on Tuesday evening at Leeds Playhouse, as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival. This is an incredible opportunity for them and they have been working so hard with Ms Veasey to ensure that they’re ready for the curtain to go up next week. Due to the current rate of COVID-19 cases amongst pupils and staff we ask that all pupils from J4 upwards and all adults continue to wear face coverings in communal areas. We hope that this will prevent any further spread of the virus and the disruption this causes. We will continue to monitor infection rates and will let you know when the situation changes. If your child has symptoms of COVID-19 and/or a positive test result, please follow the self-isolation guidelines in the table below. Please could children in J4 and above continue to test twice-weekly. Andy Falconer Head Twitter: @andyfalconer Instagram: @andyfalconer_
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St Peter’s 8-13 Learning Habits Collaboration, Creativity, Curiosity, Embracing Challenge, Empathy, Flexible Thinking, Initiative, Perseverance