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National Storytelling week has truly inspired the learning at school this week. Learning to read is important, we all know that. Research shows that people without good literacy skills do worse in education and are more likely to be unemployed or even suffer from health and
relationship problems. However, there’s evidence to suggest that the benefits of being read to frequently as a child go way beyond just literacy skills. The stories we hear as children shape our view of the world. Most small children live their lives in quite a narrow environment. Reading stories to children can show them far-flung places, extraordinary people and eye-opening situations to expand and enrich their world. It can also be a great way of helping them deal with real life situations. Researchers have found that the brain activity that occurs when we read fiction is very similar to experiencing that situation in real life, so reading about a situation helps
children work out how to solve it in reality. Scientists have discovered that children who have fiction read to them regularly find it easier to understand other people; they show more empathy and have a greater ability to understand that other people have different thoughts and feelings to us, which is essential for understanding and predicting other people’s thoughts and behaviour. One of my favourite story tellers for children is Michael Rosen. The Year 3 children have listened to him read Chocolate
Box this week and I heard the Reception children very excitedly listen to ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ read by Michael Rosen himself, who wrote it 32 years ago, years before he became Children’s Laureate. You may not be aware that Michael has been incredibly poorly in the past year with Covid-19, having been hospitalised and admitted to Intensive Care for 48 days. He is now recovering, learning to walk again and, undeterred by his experience, is championing the NHS and has now finished the book he started before he fell ill last March. His publisher has spoken about how amazed they were to receive his manuscript after he had been so unwell and Michael himself has said, “When I’m writing, I feel very contented in myself. So even when it’s difficult and a bit of a struggle, it feels like a good place to be.” Children’s Mental Health has been the focus this week at school with many activities and challenges set for the children. On Wednesday the whole school community came dressed ‘Inside Out’ to encourage us all to understand that no matter what people look like on the outside, you never know what is going on in the inside for someone. The most important thing one can do is to be kind to one another. Mrs Clarke challenged everyone in our Monday assembly to say ‘Good Morning/Afternoon’ and to ask one another how they are doing and the importance to listen to their reply. It will be great to continue this approach for the rest of the term. I have had great fun receiving parcels this week from Year 1 children, I received so many I thought it was my birthday. I was tricked by the children who sent eggs to me as part of a science experiment. I enjoyed opening each parcel to investigate whether each child’s packaging enabled a raw egg to reach me at school intact. I loved the children’s creativity and ingenuity in designing their packaging and most of the eggs have made it safely to school. There will be a second opening of boxes on Monday and I can’t wait. Well done to all of the children for their efforts. Following our Monday assembly, we asked children to perform their funniest jokes. Well done to so many of you for taking part. The film that has been created is extremely funny and even has a few guest appearances. We will announce the winners of the joke competition next Friday in our Celebration assembly. On Tuesday, 9 February, we will celebrate the 18th edition of Safer Internet Day with actions taking place right across the globe. Please see below for further details
Newsletter No: 17 Friday, 5th February 2021 Once again, the children have excelled themselves this week and I am so proud of all they are achieving in these difficult times. As you can see throughout this newsletter the teachers are delivering inspiring and creative lessons for the children that are engaging them in their learning – I cannot thank them enough for their extraordinary work. The teaching assistants, support staff, teachers from the wider school and Graduate Sports Assistants are doing an amazing role supporting the Critical Key Workers who are in school facilitating their online learning. The parents
and grandparents at home are doing such a tremendous role in supporting the children’s online learning at home. Finally Mrs Hallgate and Mrs Farrotini for all they do for staff, children and parents – a huge thank you to you all; such a remarkable team effort from the STP school community. Parents’ Evening will take place online towards the end of term. A link to the bookings form will be sent closer to the time, but the dates are below for your diary. Have a lovely weekend,
PARENTS’ CONSULTATION MEETING Parents’ Evening will take place online after half term. A link to the bookings form will be sent closer to the time, but the dates are below for your diary. Reception to Year 3 23rd March 2.45 – 6.15 24th March 2.45 – 6.15 Nursery 16th March 3.15 – 6.15 17th March 9.00 – 5.30 23rd March 3.15 – 5.30
NURSERY A gentle reminder that if your child is attending Nursery, please could they have a fresh outfit on each day. This is just whilst we are going through this uncertain time with COVID.
Notice Board MUSICAL NOTES It's been another busy week in our Music lessons! Reception have enjoyed learning a new song about Mini-Beasts; it was funny to watch all the children pretending to be different creepy -crawlies whilst they were singing! Year 1 enjoyed keeping me on my toes suggesting different songs for me to play, I think I may need to start listening to music which is a bit more up-to-date, unless they were trying to trick me with their ideas?! Year 2 went on a scary roller-coaster ride and Year 3 began working their way through The Beatles Medley. Today we held the Chorister auditions ready for September. I am so proud of all the Year 3 children who auditioned, they have been working really hard over the last few weeks preparing their songs and practicing the different voice tests. You were all amazing today and made the decision for Mr Sharpe incredibly tricky. A big thank you to Henrietta Hugill (Jonah's big sister) who popped into our final Chorister Zoom this week to tell us all about what it's like to be a Chorister at 8-13. She gave the children some top tips ahead of their auditions and shared what she loves about being a chorister.
Safer Internet Day – Tuesday 9th February
Clifton 2-8 Safer Internet Day On Tuesday, 9 February 2021, we will celebrate the 18th edition of Safer Internet Day with actions taking place right across the globe. With a theme once again of "Together for a better internet", the day calls upon us to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially for children and young people. On Monday 8th February we will be holding an assembly for the children to introduce Safer Internet Day and we will task them with some things they can do during the week to try to make the internet a happier place to be. For our Parents and Carers With more people working from home and children now having their school lessons online, the need to use the internet more safely and securely has never been greater. Below are links to 3 useful areas providing top tips and videos explaining how to help keep your children safe online. Safer Internet Day – Top Tips for Parents and Carers Safer Internet Day – Films for Parents and Carers NSPCC Net Aware – top tips, blogs and information on the newest apps There are also two free webinars being held by the North Yorkshire Police and Apple which you can sign up to. We’ve included more information and the links below. Ask the Experts - Tuesday 9th February 2021 7pm-9pm
North Yorkshire Police are hosting another of the popular ’Ask the Experts’ evening to support Safer Internet Day. This online event will consist of a number of presentations from officers from the Cyber Crime Unit and Online Abuse & Safeguarding Unit at North Yorkshire Police. Richard De Vere from the Anti-Social Engineer will also give an insight into the tricks scammers use to manipulate their victims. As usual there will be the opportunity to ask questions of our panel of experts. Sign up for the event here Safer Internet Day 2021 Community Briefing Learn about features on iPad and Mac designed to keep students safe online while learning, exploring and connecting. In this virtual session we'll demonstrate Screen Time, a set of controls designed to help educators, schools, parents and students manage their relationship with technology. Sign up for the event here
PE
The children at St Peter’s 2-8 were absolute superstars in their PE lessons this week. In Acorns, we really enjoyed playing the bean game. The children showed fantastic knowledge of the rules of the game and were excellent at performing the actions on the different bean cards. The Acorns particularly enjoyed wobbling like jelly beans! The wintery weather also allowed us to use a new object to explore our throwing and balancing skills… Wellies! The children had lots of fun practicing their welly wanging and also explored how they could move around our sports hall in creative ways balancing the wellies on their heads and wearing them on their hands to move like bears! Very impressive Acorns! In Conkers, the children continued to develop their knowledge of their gymnastics shapes. The children showed excellent balancing skills to hold their shapes still. We then challenged the children to put their knowledge of the gymnastics shapes to the test in our ‘Superhero Tag’ game this week. If one of the children got tagged by a superhero then they had to perform one of their gymnastics shapes which another child would then mirror to set them free again. Well done Conkers! In their Netball lessons this week, Years 1-3 created an obstacle course using different objects in their houses. Using this obstacle course, the children were challenged to play a
game of ‘The Court is Lava’ challenging themselves to jump from object to object using their ‘jump, 1,2’ as well as their pivoting skills, before taking a shot at their circle target at the end of their obstacle course– all without touching the floor! The children demonstrated outstanding memory of all the skills they have covered so far in their netball lessons and were able to perform shots with brilliant accuracy in order to hit their circle target, which was very impressive to see! Reception continued to improve their dribbling skills in their football lessons this week. After recapping their skills from last lesson, the children attempted to dribble their ball around an object they had placed on the floor. All the children demonstrated excellent control over their ball when going around their objects. We then tested the children to dribble their ball whilst balancing an object on their head, to encourage them to keep their head up when dribbling. The children showed excellent resilience and determination during this tricky task, which made us extremely proud! Finally, in our Fitness lessons this week, we introduced a different workout, which included some tough new exercises such as crunches and ski jumps. The children once again impressed us with their continuous endurance and determination throughout the entire workout, confirming that they are all PE stars! Well done everyone!
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It’s been such a lovely week in Acorns, full of walking, building, measuring, splashing, pouring and most importantly playing!
CONKERS
Our little learners in Conkers have had an extremely productive week. Just look at how busy we have been exploring pizzas, puddles, porridge play, pictures, and planning (our new dinosaur land area!)
This week in phonics once again cheeky Inky has been teaching us some new sounds. He was a little bit poorly one day but don't worry, we gave him a magic c'ure' and he felt much better again. Inky has also had a glamorous new h'air'cut and has been wearing his jump'er' on inside out! We have also had lots of fun with our tricky word bingo and we've been busy reading lots of sentences to keep us active! We've been spinning on the spot, doing star jumps, running to the bathroom and back and lots more… phew! In maths this week we explored the number 13! There are so many different ways of making numbers. The children were great at counting and we loved seeing you exploring outside counting with tally charts! The children have also been busy with their doubling. We've sung lots of doubling
songs together and used our doubling brain machines to solve some doubling problems. The children have also been creating some doubling butterflies which was great fun, and going around their house with their doubling glasses on to find some numbers to double. We finished the week with a very yummy smoothie with Mrs Coyle. We doubled the ingredients so we could share the smoothie with our families. Great job little mathematicians! In our Explore, Create and Investigate lessons, this week the children were challenged to create a den. We saw all sorts of dens from cosy dens where they could read books, to giant structures outside to hide in. They looked so much better than Mrs Morrison and Mr Allen's den! We will have to build some fun dens together when you are back in school! The children were also tasked with a science experiment from Miss Bromley. She magically whizzed herself into a scientist and taught us all how to make a special mixture with skittles! We hope you all have a lovely weekend with your families and we will see you on Monday morning for some more fun! We miss you all.
RECEPTION
It's been another very busy week this week in Reception. We've been up to all sorts of fun. Once again a big thank you to all our parents for sharing lots of wonderful photos with us so we can see what the children are up to. We love seeing all the fun things you are doing at home! We've seen lots of baking, reading, building snowmen and lots more! You are all so busy.
Wow, what a busy week we have had in Year 1. This week has been all about robots! In addition to our text 'The Wild Robot' we have been reading the story 'The Tin Forest' this week. We have been creating beautiful tin foil forests using leaves and drawing forest creatures. We also have some little engineers among us in Year 1. The children had to design tin foil boats and see how many pennies it would hold and they also designed a bridge that would hold the weight of a car, a toy car, made only out of tin foil. We have also been learning about the centre of
gravity - and have been making robots balance on our noses! I wonder how they did it?
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Mr Hardy has also been receiving a few mysterious packages in the post this week - we enjoyed our zoom call with Mr Hardy, who revealed the eggs that made it in one piece! We are so proud of how resilient our little learners have been and they bring a smile to our faces every day.
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Year 2 bounced back after the weekend to another busy week of work! It was lovely to have Mrs Franey and the Key Worker team back on site as well. We have continued to work on the theme of habitats and started the week looking at the names of homes for animals. Our story during this week of storytelling was ‘Fox Beware’, which looks at the problem of a fox having to move habitat due to houses being built. We used Art Wednesday to try making our own illustrations for the story, using as many different art materials as we wanted. Mrs Hall’s example used paint, pencil crayon, pastel and even felt tip! It is always one of the highlights of our week to see all of the children’s lovely art work and they all are on our zoom link, showing that they are ready for Art Wednesday with all of their art materials
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ready. On Thursday we had some worrying news about Forest School and we had a whole year group meeting to discuss what we could do to help. We have discussed the importance of looking at both sides in a debate and understanding other people’s points of view. We know that Year 2 are a passionate bunch who care a great deal about the natural world and we look forward to seeing how their letter writing on the subject progresses next week! On top of all that we have been using different methods of subtraction in maths, including column subtraction (quite hard for Mrs Hall…) and Miss Jeffrey has done another of her famous science experiments, this time on optical illusions- which everybody was excited about and rushed off to do. All of the Year 2 team continue to feel very proud of the children’s commitment to learning. Well done all of you and have a lovely weekend!
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YEAR 3
It has been another busy week in Year Three! We have been engrossed in our Jungle Book text and to kick start National Storytelling Week, we excitedly watched the Disney film on Monday! We then mapped out the story, wrote character descriptions and made collages of our favourite characters. Once we had gained understanding, we gathered and created props and set our backdrops for our big re-telling of the story! The children did a super job of verbally retelling the story – just like Rudyard Kipling! We have been looking at other authors in registrations and have enjoyed listening to different books. In maths we have been developing our
measuring skills. We have delved into measuring length; drawing accurate measurements and converting between mm and cm, cm, and m and m and km! The snow brought much excitement this week and it was wonderful to see pictures of the children having fun and playing! They have all been working extremely hard and definitely deserved it! It is hard to believe that this is the penultimate week before half term; to say we are proud of the children would be an understatement. We have got an exciting week next week and to give you a clue, there is going to be lots of Monkeying around! Have wonderful weekend one and all!
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