St Peters 2-8 | Newsletter 11

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You can follow us singing in school preparing to perform to their parents and grandparents. Today the starlight backdrop arrived in the Rayson Room

DIARY FOR WEEK COMMENCING 6th DECEMBER 2021 1pm Years 1, 2 and 3 Christmas Performances

TUESDAY

3.30pm Years 1, 2 and 3 Christmas Performances

WEDS

9.30am Nursery Christmas Songs

No Clubs owing to the Christmas Performances; After School Care available.

No Clubs owing to the Christmas Performances; After School Care available.

2pm Reception Christmas Performance Y1 Get Creative Y1 Cricket* Y2&3 Choir

THURSDAY

9.30am Reception Christmas Performance Y1 Sign Language Y1 Tennis* Y2 Art Second Group

Y2 Multisports Y3 Sewing and Craft Y3 Hockey Cancelled

FRIDAY

End of term arrangements that have been sent and are included in this newsletter.

This week on behalf of the school I attended a Reception in the House of Lords to celebrate partnerships. This was the launch of an annual report of cross-sector partnership work between Independent and State Schools. On Thursday evening I attended for the Nursery and a Reception by the Lord Reception performance Mayor in the Mansion next week. It has been House in York. Both of lovely to see Christmas these events highlighted the trees in school being importance of St Peter’s decorated and in Year Two School playing our part in they have celebrated a the local community and Victorian Christmas at the national arena. end of their theme which Finally, Mrs Becky Morrison has been lovely. Year 3 on in Reception is expecting Wednesday afternoon went her second child in 2022. I to Sunderland Empire am sure you will join me in Theatre to watch a congratulating Becky, Craig wonderful performance of and Chloe on this The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The performance was magical with such a breath-taking set. It was wonderful to hear how well behaved our Year 3 children were at the performance, receiving wonderful news. Ilona praise from members of the Podlejski, who worked in local community and Reception last year, has theatregoers. Well done, agreed and is thoroughly Year 3 and my thanks to looking forward to provide you Miss Collins for maternity cover in organising the trip and to all Reception for Mrs the other members of staff Morrison. who accompanied the Year Tonight, I am off to watch 3 children on this Les Misérables at St Peter’s adventure. school, my favourite musical The next two weeks are and I cannot wait. I hope going to be extremely busy you have a wonderful in school- please read all weekend. the details regarding Christmas Performances, Christmas Activity Day and

MONDAY

undergo 25 operations and resulted in a leg amputation.

Since then, Sean has also battled cancer twice but through grit and resilience has competed in both the Invictus Games and Commonwealth Games. In assembly he spoke about Today is the International disability and as his leg was Day of Persons with covered explained that Disabilities 2021. The world many disabilities are population is over 7 billion invisible and it was so people and more than one important to be kind and to billion people live with include everyone as you some form of disability. The don’t know how that annual observance of the person is feeling.

International Day of After the assembly Sean led Disabled Persons was a sports session for each proclaimed in 1992 by the year group and showed the children his prosthetic leg and how he can still participate in all of the sport activities that the children were doing despite his disability. Thank you to Sean for such a brilliant United Nations. It aims to morning and my thanks to promote the rights and well Helen Hopwood for -being of persons with organising the day. disabilities in all spheres of On Monday, Reception, society and development, Nursery and Year 1 and to increase awareness watched a theatre company of the situation of persons perform Little Red Riding with disabilities in every Hood in the Rayson Room. aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.

The goal for this year's International Day of Persons with Disabilities is to spread awareness of invisible disabilities as well as the impact that COVID- It was a lovely performance 19 has had on mental enjoyed by all. health. On Monday our It has been such a busy assembly was led by Sean week at school this week as Gaffney. Sean was involved the children continue to in a freak accident in 1999 work hard practising for while preparing for the their Christmas plays and Royal Tournament which performances. It has been involved him having to lovely hearing the children

Newsletter No: 11 Friday, December 3rd 2021

Y1 Film Club Y1 Street Dance Y2 Coding Second Group Y2 Football* Y2 Tennis* Y3 STEM

Y3 Cricket*

house points trophy

Notice Board Music award

WALMGATE

• Noah (3C) • Sadie (3M) • Sophia (3C) • Mairi (3S)

PE award • Max (RJ) • Oliver (2H) • India M (2H)

value champions • Aria (RC)

• Alfie (1A)

• Grace (2H)

• Elizabeth (RJ)

• Emilia (1C)

• Eva (2J)

• Isabelle (RM)

• Zachariah (1E) • Drishya (2P)

• Hugh (1A)

• All of Year 3

learning superheroes • Ellen (RC)

• Arjun (1C)

• Dylan (2P)

• Acer (RJ)

• Alfie (1E)

• Lizzie (3C)

• Emmy (RM)

• Savannah (2H) • Matilda (3M)

• Matilda (1A)

• Kate (2H)

• Eddie (2J)

• Adriana (3S)

CHRISTMAS DIARY 1pm Years 1, 2 and 3 Christmas Performances in the Memorial Hall. Refreshments in the Memorial Hall foyer 12.15pm

Monday 6th December

No Co-curricular Clubs; After School Care as usual.

Approximate finish time 3.30pm. Children can be collected from classrooms or they will be signed into After School Care

Tuesday 7th December

3.30pm Years 1, 2 and 3 Christmas Performances in the Memorial Hall. Refreshments in the Memorial Hall foyer 2.45pm No Co-curricular Clubs. Children to be collected from classrooms at approximately 6pm when they return from the Memorial Hall

Wednesday 8th December

9.30am Nursery Christmas Songs– Rayson Room.

Refreshments in Dining Hall from 8.45am

Wednesday 8th December

2pm Reception Christmas Performance—Rayson Room

Thursday 9th December

9.30am Reception Christmas Performance– Rayson Room. Refreshments in Dining Hall from 8.45am

Thursday 9th December

House Captain visit to St Joseph's Well, Leeds to drop donations for children staying in the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit over Christmas.

Wednesday 15th December

Christingle– Children only, Reception to Year 3. No Co-curricular Clubs, After School Care as usual. Pick up 4.30pm from classrooms or children will be signed into After School Care

Thursday 16th December

Christmas Fun Day and Christmas lunch; wear Christmas jumpers No Co Curricular Clubs, After School Care as usual

Friday 17th December

Noon—End of Term. All children to be collected at noon: No After School Care

Acorns and Conkers have had a colourful week in PE this week, exploring different ways to move their scarfs. The children soon realised that they could be transformed into either a superhero or a helicopter. We then looked at slow and fast movements with their scarves. Playing music in the background, to identify which speed they needed to move their scarf to match the tempo of the music.

Miss Flockhart then challenged the children to throw their scarf into the air and catch it on the heads. This caused a lot of laughter and determination to move their bodies underneath the scarf. With Christmas around the corner, Miss Flockhart thought the children could practice their wrapping skills, by adding a beanbag and wrapping their scarf up to then throw in the air and catch it. The children

PE

found this trickier as the scarf and beanbag fell a lot quicker this time.

Although Miss Flockhart and Miss Hopper were very impressed with the Rita Resilience that all the children demonstrated.

Take a look at our superstars in action with their colourful scarfs and beanbags.

ACORNS

CONKERS

This week has been full of mischief thanks to our old friend Ernie the elf! He returned to Nursery on Monday leaving cheeky clues all around! On Wednesday down at forest school, he finally made an appearance… Let the fun begin!

This week in Reception... it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Christmas play rehearsals are now in full swing; props, pianos, chime bars, singing and dancing are all part of our Christmas extravaganza. We have been very impressed by the children's dance moves and enthusiastic singing, and we hope you are looking forward to seeing them all perform next week.

RECEPTION

On Wednesday morning the children arrived in the classrooms to find the Christmas elves had been in overnight and left some Christmas decorations and trees for them. We have enjoyed hanging baubles on the trees, creating crackers to decorate On Tuesday we had a visiting theatre the table in our home corner and making giant paper chains to string production who retold the story of Red Riding Hood. The children really across the ceilings. Each day there is also a new surprise challenge enjoyed it and we hope it has left them feeling excited and inspired for inside our Advent calendar for the children to create. I wonder whose their own performance too. turn it will be next...?

RECEPTION

Christmas is coming!

1 children watched a theatre performance This week has been a very exciting week in of Little Red Riding Hood in the Rayson Room. We had lots of laughs and giggles Year 1 as we are now in the month of watching this but we also learnt how December which means those little Christmas Elves appear! The children have important it is for us to use a big voice on the stage. been so excited to share their stories about the Elves in their houses and open their advent calendars! In preparation for Christmas, the Year 1 children have been polishing off their incredible Christmas Play all week! We must just say a big big well done to all of the children for this!

You are truly incredible performers and we are very proud of you all! We hope you all love the play next week and all of the hard work the children have put into it.

We are all excited to decorate our classrooms with our friends this week!

As a special treat and to help us see how real actors perform on the stage, the Year

Also on the Christmas theme and in the forest, the children have been creating their own Christmas trees. We explored the skill of tying to fasten the sticks together and thought creatively for ways to produce something to go on the top of them! This was quite a fiddly job but the children demonstrated great resilience with this and produce some living roomworthy Christmas trees!

The children have been exploring 3D

YEAR 1

YEAR 1

YEAR 2

Christmas has certainly arrived in Year 2 this week! On Monday afternoon we had a special delivery of beautiful Christmas trees and with them, Croakbag left us a message asking us to find out about Christmas traditions! We discovered that many of the traditions we love today were started in the Victorian era! Did you know that Prince Albert brought the idea of the Christmas tree over from Germany and decorated a tree for Queen Victoria and so the tradition we all love today, began!

Many Christmas traditions were started by the Victorians from crackers and Christmas cards to mince pies! This week the children have been researching information about Queen Victoria and

drew a portrait of her on her coronation day. Did you know she had nine children and forty grandchildren!

Speaking of children, ours have been very eager to decorate our Christmas trees and made very cute little paper candles!

In art, the children were inspired to paint their own Victorian Christmas scenes using watercolours and then wrote a detailed description describing their Christmas pictures using adjectives.

On top of all of this, we have been very busy rehearsing for our Christmas production of ‘BahHumbug!’ and we are so proud of how well the children have remembered their lines; we know it’s going to be a fantastic performance!

Have a lovely weekend!

Year Three have had an incredibly busy week rehearsing for our Christmas Play, Cinderella and Rockerfella. We have been working on using expression and actions to bring characters to life and cannot wait to get into costume and perform in front of our audience next week! As we approach the end of The

Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Thank you to Chef Stuart for our tasty half time snacks – they went down a treat! We wrote a review of our trip the next day and it is clear from the feedback that we would highly recommend the show to anyone!

themed learning, we thought it would be a wonderful experience for the children to go and watch it being performed live at the theatre. We took the coach up to Sunderland after lunch and settled in our prime seats to watch the live show.

We’re continuing to work on alternative multiplication methods in maths and are looking forward to bringing some festive cheer to our learning over the remaining couple of weeks. Well done Year 3, a busy but super week!

YEAR 3

Christmas Cards and Gifts Thank you to everyone who ordered Christmas cards and gifts.

Items have now been delivered to school and will be distributed to bookbags next week.

Piggy Race Night Thank you to everybody who came to the Piggy Racing night a few weeks ago. It was a really good fun evening and it was so nice to finally be able to meet socially. We raised in the region of £350 which will be split between Friends and the school charity.

Easyfundraising Now is an excellent time to sign up to the easyfundraising money raising scheme. All monies raised go to the school charity and it is such an easy way to earn pennies as you do your regular online shopping. Please see poster below.

Christmas Fun Day Pop-up Café – Thursday 16th December We will be hosting a pop-up café in the school dining room on the afternoon of Thursday 16th December. Tea, coffee, cake and biscuits will be for sale from 3:20pm until approximately 4.30/5pm. Please bring cash so you can grab a cuppa and a piece of cake after pick up.

If you would like to bake a cake or some biscuits to donate to the café that would be very much appreciated. NUT FREE PLEASE!

Christmas H O L I D AY C L U B Four full days of sports, games, swimming, baking, arts & crafts with some added extra Christmas sparkle and surprises!

Monday 20 to Thursday 23 December 2021 For School years Nursery to J5 To make a booking please click here