St Peter's 2-8 Newsletter I 12 by StPetersYork

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What a wonderful term this has been.

of festive Christmas figures. We even managed time for some Christmas themed games in the This week the children in Year 1, Sports Hall to work off the Year 2 and Year 3 all performed their wonderful Christmas lunch provided Christmas performances to the by our incredible chef Stuart and his world, live streaming their dazzling catering team. What a fabulous day! productions via Planet eStream. I am Thanks to all the staff for organising sure you would agree that all of the the activities and to Mrs Bateson for Christmas Performances were planning and organising the day. outstanding over the past few weeks. I had the pleasure of watching all Today we had our end of term performances from Nursery to Year assembly, a chance for us to 3. I thought the acting, singing, celebrate the achievements of all of costumes, set, scripts, dancing and the children throughout the term. I confidence of them all were awarded the House point trophy for absolutely sensational. The children the term that was awarded to clearly had so much fun and Micklegate and Miss Flockhart enjoyment performing to their awarded the House Hockey Trophy audiences, albeit virtually. Many to the House of Walmgate. This term thanks to you as parents for coming we normally have a visit from the to watch (setting up the Zoom and Barbershop and Barbieshop from St Planet eStream, supporting learning Peter’s, led by Paul Miles-Kingston, lines, dance routines and creating Director of Music, and David costumes- your help is invaluable.) A Spencer. Unfortunately, due to our huge thank you and congratulations Covid–19 rules we were unable to to the staff for preparing the children welcome them at school. However, for these performances in addition to they sent us a recording that we their ‘normal’ teaching duties. A played to all classes during our particular thank you to Mrs Hayden assembly. They certainly entertained for the Christmas Performances and us all with their amazing all the work she had done in performances, thank you to all of the preparing the children for the Whole St Peter’s students and to Mr MilesSchool Carol Service. The staff are Kingston and Mr Spencer. To end truly a special team and I can’t thank our assembly, we had a hilarious them enough. Thank you also to performance of the Twelve Days of Michael Richards for turning the Christmas, which involved all the staff Rayson Room into a space that we and children and a lot of very noisy could perform in and to Mr Barry singing! Nacey, our IT Systems Manager, for Thank you for your contributions to setting up our virtual recording and our York Foodbank appeal. Miss filming all of the performances. Mounter is taking the school’s Finally, huge thanks and congratulations to the children—they donations to the distribution centre this afternoon and we need two are quite simply amazing! They performed with huge smiles on their minibuses to transport it all, so a huge thank you for your kind faces and were obviously enjoying generosity. We would also like to performing their plays to you all. thank parents throughout the whole On Thursday we had our Christmas school who came up with an initiative Celebration Day. The children to ensure that every member of staff arrived in school wearing their receives a Christmas card to show Christmas jumpers, reindeer antlers your appreciation. What a wonderful and Christmas hats to enjoy a day of idea which has meant so much to all fun and crafting in their year group the staff. bubbles. We have made 3D The St Peter’s 2-8 choir have Rudolphs, Christmas Wreaths, Snowmen biscuits and an assortment recorded a section for the Whole

Newsletter No: 12 Friday, 11th December 2020 School Carol Concert, which will premiere tonight at 6.30 on our school website: https:// www.stpetersyork.org.uk/ st_peters_13_18/news_calendar/ christmas-2020/carol-service, where you can also download an order of service. What a term it has been. I cannot thank the staff enough for all the work they do to ensure your children have the best possible learning experiences. They have all had to adapt to a different way of working in our bubbles and follow our guidance on Covid-19. The teachers and teaching assistants have been sensational, the children have been at the heart of everything they have done and wherever possible they have shielded the children from the anxieties and anguish that society is experiencing due to the pandemic. The children have had a stunning term, throwing themselves into new challenges always with an ‘I can’ attitude. Several of the children arrived at school having spent up to six months away and all of them have displayed a considerable amount of resilience and have re-established relationships and re-connected with the learning process so seamlessly due to the work around our resilience and recovery curriculum. Well done children. Thank you to all of our brilliant support staff; medical team led by Ashley Mason, Facilities Assistants led by Steve Howarth, cleaners led by Chris Alder, Catering team led by Stuart Norwood and Craig Robinson and also Georgina and Caroline in the office. Thanks finally to you, the parents, for your continued support, working in partnership with the school. We will be in touch early in the new year with details regarding next term. I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous new year in 2021. Love and best wishes.

NURSERY THANK YOU A huge thank you for all our wonderful and generous gifts! We hope you have a fabulous Christmas and a Happy New Year! Sending lots of love, The whole of the Nursery team xx

Lost property Thomas P has lost his coat, labelled ‘Parkin’.

Term house points trophy

Micklegate

Notice Board Today we say a very fond farewell to Thomas, who leaves us for Sydney. Thomas has been such a valued member of our school community and we will all miss him very much. Good luck at your new school, Thomas, and please make sure you keep in touch!

House Hockey Cup

Walmgate

The Christmas spirit filled us all in PE this week! To celebrate the end of the first term, all the children participated in games of Christmas dodgeball! All the children worked very well together in their teams and listened well to the instructions, despite the Christmas excitement!

Everyone has worked very hard in PE this

term and we are very proud of how all the children have developed their PE skills! Have a wonderful Christmas break everyone and we are looking forward to seeing you all in the new year! All the best, Miss Flockhart and Miss Beaumont

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St Peter’s 2-8 Facebook and Twitter page as much as we enjoyed making them! Make sure to keep your eyes peeled for a very special video that will be popping up on Christmas day! Well done Reception on an absolutely super first term at school, we are all so proud of you! We hope you and your families have a fantastic Christmas and we will see you in the New Year!

RECEPTION

We have had so much fun for our last week in school before Christmas! The Reception elves have been busy wrapping presents ready for Santa to deliver and lots of Christmas music can be heard being sung whilst they work! We have had a super Christmas activity day, full of Christmas arts and crafts and biscuit decorating! We hope you are enjoying watching our Reception advent videos on the

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Of course, we must start by emphasising how proud we are of all of Year 2 for their fantastic performance on Tuesday! You have all worked so hard in rehearsals and it definitely paid off. It was such a treat, even for us as your teachers, to see you confidently playing Trepak on the chime bars, playing music you had written yourselves and singing your hearts out. A huge well done! We hope all of the grown ups at home enjoyed it too - we even watched the recording back a couple of times as we enjoyed it so much!

who read us a Christmas story about stinky sprouts and told us some of his favourite Christmas jokes. At Forest School, we made s'mores around the cosy campfire and said goodbye to the Firebird egg. We concluded that the only way it would hatch would be to put it on the fire and it turns out we were right as when we returned from the forest we had been delivered a final letter from the Firebird We have been tying up loose ends and having explaining that they are reborn when put in tons of fun with Christmas activities this week. fire! The children completed their Firebird sewing It has been a very busy term, but we are so decorations to hang on their Christmas trees proud of all of your efforts Year 2 and we hope at home and we hope that this will be a you are proud of yourselves for all that you decoration that will bring back fond memories have achieved! With all of the changes to not every Christmas of their first term in Year 2. only school but your everyday lives, we are We made Christmas cards of robins using our blown away by how you have settled into this watercolour paints whilst singing along to very different school year and for all that you some Christmas classics. We had a special have accomplished. Have a fantastic Christmas visit from Mr Carr from St Peter's, Christmas break!

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What a fantastic first term it has been in Year Three! Our Resilient Roman themed learning has captured the imagination of the children and we have had an incredible time learning lots of new information. We had a marvellous time visiting Rome, held real Roman artefacts, learned about the story of Romulus and Remus, familiarised ourselves with the Seven Hills of Rome, found out more about the Roman gods, crafted our own Roman inspired pottery, made and ate our own homemade pizzas and much, much more! The resilience, effort and sheer hard work the children have displayed has

YEAR 3 impressed us immensely and we are very proud of all of the children! We finished this term on a high with a dazzling performance of Lights, Camel, Action! A huge well done and thank you to everyone involved. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year. We already can’t wait to get back in January to begin our new topic! With our very best wishes, Year Three x

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CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY DAY

York Christmas Charity Donation Ideas Yorwaste Reuse Santa Appeal

The Salvation Army, York Christmas Appeal The Salvation Army has launched their ‘Christmas is not cancelled’ appeal. They are asking, if you are able to support them, that you donate a toy or make a financial gift. You can donate new and unwrapped gifts suitable for children and teenagers. They can be dropped off any time from now until Sunday 13 December 2020 at the following locations:

Yorwaste is a council led initiative that needs all your unwanted toys, games and books. They are working with “No Wrong Door” which provides support to young people who are within or on the edge of the care system. It replaces traditional council-run young peoples' homes which combine residential care with fostering. They will distribute to York and North Yorkshire’s young people who are most in need – given as part of a Christmas family bag. This will include gift wrap, tape and other items and information to help make Christmas a little easier. Drop off points in York are: Hazel Court Household Waste Recycling Centre, YO10 3DS Towthorpe / Strensall Household Waste Recycling Centre, YO32 9ST

Tesco Tadcaster Road, Askham Bar Tesco Clifton Moor, Stirling Road Barclays Bank, Haxby Barclays Bank, Easingwold Herbert Todd & Son, Monks Cross Drive Herbert Todd & Son, York Road, Acomb

If you would like to fundraise for this year’s designated school charity from the comfort of your own armchair, then please read on!

I do NOT have the Easyfundraising App:Download the Easyfundraising App from your usual App Store (it’s free) Open the App You will be asked to Create an Account or Login. Please click Create an Account In the Cause window, type Friends of St Peter’s 2-8 - York and click Support This Cause Now click Create Account (use email address – pink box) Type in your details and a memorable password Click Create my Account You should now have been transferred to the Easyfundraising Home Page Choose the icon you wish to use (you will be transferred to that website/app) Shop and Check Out as normal Donations will be automatically subtracted and linked to your Account at Easyfundraising Refer & Earn Once you have set up your account, you will notice a Refer & Earn button at the bottom of the page. If you click this, you can forward the link to a friend/relative to raise money for Friends of St Peter’s 2-8 – York and we will receive an extra “raise £5 and receive £5 on us” Easyfundraising incentive! I ALREADY have the App, but want to change the Cause Enter the App Click My Account My Account Settings Click Change My Cause Type “Friends of St Peters 2-8 - York” into the Search bar Change to this cause Login again to refresh the settings Shop as before EVERYONE ALWAYS REMEMBER TO DO YOUR ONLINE SHOPPING VIA THE EASYFUNDRAISING APP Enjoy Shopping!

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Return form to: Nick Kay. Email: kaybo79@hotmail.com Or post: Westfield Farm, Lower Dunsforth, York. YO26 9SA Bricks are a minimum of £50 each: Please make cheques payable to York Cricket Club, or BACS to York Cricket Club, Sort Code 20-99-56, Account number 90985244 SECTION 3 GIFT AID DECLARATION I declare that I wish York Cricket Club to treat all donations that I have made since the start date of our CASC status - together with all other donations that I may make from the date of this declaration until I notify you otherwise, as Gift Aid donations. I further confirm that I pay sufficient income or capital gains tax to cover the tax reclaimable by the charity in respect of these donations. Title

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Notes re. Gift Aid: 1. You can cancel this Declaration at any time by notifying us. 2. If in the future your circumstances change and you no longer pay tax on your income and capital gains equal to the tax that the York Sports Club reclaims, you can cancel your declaration. 3. If you pay tax at the higher rate you can claim further tax relief in your Self Assessment tax return. 4. If you are unsure whether your donations qualify for Gift Aid tax relief, ask Nick Kay or Nigel Durham ; or refer to help sheet IR65 on the HMRC web site. (www.hmrc.gov.uk) 5. Please notify us if you change your name or address.

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