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On behalf of the school community, I would like to extend a huge thank you for your continued support of our planned new development at school. As we have mentioned this development will provide new sports facilities for both the local community of York and the school community. There is still time to show your support for this exciting development by clicking on the link to the planning portal here.

Earlier this week I communicated to the families of children attending the nursery exciting news regarding the extended nursery provision that the school will be offering. We will now be opening our nursery for 50 weeks of the year. This will start from February half term and include the Easter holidays, May half term and the summer holidays. I know this has been welcomed by the parents of children attending nursery. Mrs Walters will be leading the nursery for the extended provision and Mrs Veronica Rawkins has been appointed to ensure continuity of care for the children.

On Tuesday the children from Year one visited Eureka, the national children’s museum in Halifax. They had a wonderful time exploring the interactive sound workshop, where they learned how sounds are made and travel and how they affect the senses. This gave the children a greater understanding of how our ears process sound. Thank you to all the staff who accompanied the children

York Mix Radio Breakfast Show host Laura Castle and her team visited school on Wednesday morning to test the general knowledge of Miss Evans who had bravely volunteered to take part in the Test the Teacher competition the station is currently running.

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Following a challenging ‘Stack a Cup Challenge’, in which Miss Evans managed to complete this challenge in an astonishing 2 minutes and 11 seconds, Miss Evans then had to answer as many questions correctly as she could in 60 seconds, much to the excitement of the children and staff in Year 1 who were cheering her on. Miss Evans was a fantastic sport and both football and netball. The children in Year 3 were brilliant hosts and the Yarm children were super ambassadors for their school. My thanks to all the staff who helped to run this event and to Miss Flockhart for organising such a fabulous afternoon of sport.

Newsletter No: 16

Friday 27th January 2023

DIARY FOR WEEK COMMENCING 30th

January 2023

School Council

Year 1 Lexia

Year 1 Ball Skills

Year 2 & 3 European Culture

Year 2 Cricket* represented the school and her profession admirably by answering 12 of the 14 questions correctly. This has placed her in fourth position on the Test the Teacher Leaderboard. York Mix Radio and their Mascott, Mixie Monster, provided so much fun for the children in Year 1. Thank you to Laura and the team from York Mix, Mrs Obi, Marketing Manager at St Peter’s for organising this event, Miss Evans for taking part and Year 1 for showing their support and cheering Miss Evans along. Miss Evans and Year 1 could be heard on the Breakfast Show this Thursday morning. If you missed it, please click here (you will find the competition at 01:40:32 into the show).

The Year 3 children hosted Yarm Preparatory School on Tuesday afternoon. Children from both schools were placed into small teams and rotated around skills stations and small sided games in

On Monday in assembly, I spoke about the Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year) and the significance of the animals and how they originated. We then watched a short animation describing this story which you can view here. My thanks to Mr Fu and Mrs Su for providing us with the beautiful decorations and poems that have adored the school this week. They have helped to give the children a better understanding of how the Lunar New Year is celebrated. 新年快乐 to all the school community.

On Wednesday morning we held a St Peter’s 2-8 Friends meeting in the dining hall. Many topics and future events were discussed, further details of which can be found in the newsletter.

This weekend I will be preparing the quiz questions for the annual Curry and Quiz evening next Friday. The tickets sales sold out extremely quickly and the St Peter’s 2-8 Friends managed to release a few extra tickets this week. Further details can be found further in the newsletter should you wish to purchase a ticket.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, please remember as it is exeat weekend there is no Reception swimming on Saturday.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Year 2IT

Year 3 & 3 Football*

Year 3 Cookery

Year 1 Football*

Year 2 STEM (cancelled)

Year 2 Tag Rugby

Year 3 Swimming

Year 3 Tennis*

Year 2 & 3 Dance Club*

1 Construction

Year 1 Football*

Year 1 Cricket

Year 2 & 3 Choir

Year 1 Board Games

Year 1 Tag Rugby

Year 2 Tennis*

Year 2 Art

Year 3 Netball

Year 3 Environment

Year 1 Wellbeing

Year 1 Street Dance*

Year 2 & 3 Football*

Year 3 Board Games

Year 2 & 3 Film