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The sound of laughter and extremely happy children (and cheeping!) has been so evident this week as all of the children returned to face to face teaching. Despite this being the sixth iteration to our education provision over the past twelve months, the children, staff and whole school community have displayed incredible resilience, kindness and adaptability, skilfully navigating the government guidance to provide the very best experiences for the children. I am incredible proud of how the children have adapted once again to the change representing all of our learning superpowers. Watching parents and children meet at the school gates this week, they all seemed euphoric connecting with one another. According to Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Oxford University, in an article in The Times this week, ‘friends give us endorphin highs, and are necessary not just for our happiness but for our health too.’ Loneliness is turning out to be a major
underlying factor that compromises physical health. The future that the computer scientist Tim Berners -Lee predicted back in the 20th century after he created the world wide web has finally arrived. What aspects of this should we keep after the pandemic is completely over? We need to ensure that communities can meet up and share interests and hobbies for all ages, not just our children who do this so well with sport, music and activity clubs. Workplaces including schools need to see the return of staffrooms for staff to relax and unwind during a difficult day. Screens and smartphones have proved that they are useful but it’s friendship we are now realising is so crucial to wellbeing. Connectivity was at the heart of our remote learning programme, attempting not only to keep children interacting with one another but also with their teachers. In our Monday morning assembly, we awarded prizes for the extreme reading competition during book week. The winners were Tilly, who was reading in a canoe, Sasha, reading at great height (how did she get up there?!), Pirate Annaliese at the top of a tree and Alice reading quietly in her bedroom… on top of her wardrobe. Well done to all of our entries– the photographs follow later in the newsletter.
Newsletter No: 21 Friday, 12th March 2021 skated and sent in their distances to school. Mrs Hallgate then calculated the total distances. It was great to hear all of the Houses travelled the distances required and completed this challenge. The winning House with the most kilometres was Micklegate who finished with a stunning total of 1251.7km. Special mention to Mrs Johnson, James and Teddy M, India M, Bertie R, Edwin G, Joseph B and Joy-Elise and Hugo for their extremely impressive totals.
Next week we will be celebrating Comic Relief with another challenge that will be announced in Monday’s assembly that was an idea from one of our House Captains. On Friday children can wear red noses and accessorise their school uniform for Comic Relief.
On Sunday it is Mother’s Day and in the week of International Women’s Day, we want to celebrate all the Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Aunts and Grandmothers in our school community and beyond. Have a lovely weekend, Following a meeting with our House Captains Zac, Joy-Elise and Immy, we set each House a challenge to see if they could make it back to school from remote parts of the UK. Monk had to get back to York from Lands End, Micklegate had to get back from John O’Groats and Walmgate had to get back to school from Dover. The children had walked, run, cycled and roller-
PARENTS’ CONSULTATION MEETINGS The booking for Parents’ Evening appointments are live now and close at 9pm on 14th March. Please note that to book you need to enter your details exactly as we hold them on file in school.
OPS ONLINE - '1976: HERE COME THE GIRLS!' We had such a great turn out on Monday evening with OPs joining us from around the world for our latest ‘In Conversation With’ event online. We celebrated International Women’s Day with the first five girls to be educated at St Peter’s School.
Don’t worry if you missed out, follow the link below to view on the St Peter’s School YouTube channel. https://www.stpetersyork.org.uk/ foundation_alumni/alumni_news/1889here-come-the-girls
Notice Board MUSICAL NOTES 2-8 has been well and truly alive with the sound of music this week! It has been so lovely to see all the children again, and especially to hear their voices! We have enjoyed singing a few of our lockdown favourites together but have also had all the instruments out so we could fill the school with music once again. Year 3 have been getting to grips with their new orchestral instruments; Year 2 have been remembering their notes on the recorder; Year 1 have revisited the chimes bars and Reception have turned into song writers using the chime bars! Our Nursery children have enjoyed shaking, tapping and even rolling their percussion instruments, working out how to make everybody play loudly, quietly and how to stop, all without using their voices!
learning superheroes
Notice Board value champions
•Arjun J (RA) •Henry G (RA)
•Mimi F (RA)
•Georgia V (RA)
•David L (RA)
•Hannah P (RC)
•William F (RA)
•Drishya D (1C)
•India M (1C)
•Sasha N (1E)
•Annabel H (1E)
•Hugo McA (1J)
•All of 1J
•Olivia M (2H) •Daisy C-S (2J) •Miles H (3C) •Hector C (3M) •Guy B (3S)
PE award
•Harry S (2H) •All of 2J •George L(3C) •Martha T-P (3M) •James M (3M) •Aurora M (3S)
Music award
•Noah A (3M)
•Harriet F (1E)
•James M (3M)
•Noah A (3M)
EXTREME READING CHALLENGE THE WINNERS!
ALICE R 3M
ANNALIESE H 2J
SASHA N 1E
TILLY T RC
PE We have thoroughly enjoyed seeing everyone back in school for their PE lessons this week and it was amazing to see how much their skills have developed over the lockdown.
before challenging themselves to stop their ball with various body parts. Their spatial awareness skills were further challenged during their game of stuck in the mud, during which the children freed each other by passing their balls through each other’s legs. Excellent work Year 1!
The children in Year 2 have been working hard to incorporate attacking and defending skills into their shooting practice. During In their Football sessions, their numbers game, all all the children have the children showed impressed us with their impressive grit and ball control. Reception determination to race their focused on their dribbling partner to the ball, before skills, working hard to taking a shot at goal in keep their head up and order to score a point for avoid bumping into each their team, which was other. The children did awesome to see! Finally, very well to control their Year 3 have demonstrated ball in rather tricky excellent teamwork skills weather conditions. along with a brilliant Afterwards we challenged memory during their them further, seeing if they football session this week, could balance different working in pairs to dribble body parts on their balls. through a sequence of All the children different coloured coned demonstrated excellent goals, before challenging balance and control and it themselves to pass the ball is clear we have lots of to their partner. Excellent superstar footballers in the work Year 3! making in Reception! Well In their Core PE lessons, done! The football session the children have moved on for Year 1 also centred to their topic of dance. around their dribbling Reception showed an skills. They challenged excellent knowledge of the their spatial awareness by differences between open keeping their head up and closed movements, whilst they dribbled around
before using this knowledge to create a short routine to perform to their peers, incorporating their own creative open and closed movements. Excellent work Reception! In Year 1, the children learnt about rhythm, performing their own clapping sequences, before choreographing their own robot movements to follow a given rhythm. All the children demonstrated excellent creativity which was wonderful to see! Year 2 started their dance theme of ‘Where the wild things are’ by investigating how they would move as an explorer in the jungle along with creating their own tree movements. The children played with the concept of levels, varying their height to make their tree moves more interesting. The children took turns performing the roles of the trees and explorers, interacting with one another as they moved around the space. There were some brilliantly imaginative tree movements which were really impressive! Well done Year 2! Finally, Year 3, whose concept is centred around the rainforest, discussed what they understood by deforestation and its impact on the health of the rainforests and the wildlife
which they provide a habitat for. The children showed an excellent knowledge of the impact of deforestation on the health of our planet. The children then used this as inspiration to act out the concept of deforestation. Half the children performed the role of the trees, whilst the other half worked in pairs to create their own machine movements, before pretending to chop the ‘trees’ down. The children demonstrated excellent teamwork, working in synchronisation with their partner to create some very effective machine movements. Great job Year 3! Acorns had a brilliant time learning the new beans for their bean game in their lesson this week. They then went outside to explore different skills such as rolling and kicking using balls. They had a lot of fun rolling the balls down the hill, before chasing them and stopping them at the bottom. Excellent work Acorns! The Conkers also performed the new actions in their bean game extremely well and demonstrated some creative ideas, in how their new animal, a parrot, may move. Brilliant work Conkers!
PE Cont.
ACORNS
It’s been such a lovely week, welcoming a few friends back into the Acorns room. We've been busy chatting about our mummies, making dens and doing lots of messy play!
CONKERS
Shape hunts, making cards, building frog traps, making shapes (using ourselves!), performing puppet shows and listen out for rhyming words! Just a few of the busy things we have been up to this week in Conkers!
RECEPTION
Welcome back Reception!
We are so happy to have everyone back with us! After eight long weeks of Remote Learning – it feels like the children have never been away! To mark our special return to our Reception bubble, the Reception children were all invited to a BUBBLE PARTY! The children danced away to many songs whilst the bubble machines did not stop! The excitement and happiness on the children’s faces was nothing short of magic and it truly made our return to school so special. The bubble machine even took us and the party through school!
being made! Mud, water, sand and much more make the most beautiful potions that have been painted all over the playground and the trees! Lots of collaboration and perseverance was required but nobody gave up on painting magic all over our outdoor area! The transient art area has been oozing with creativity! The children have been exploring making artwork on the over-head projector which enlarged the art onto the wall! The light, the colours and the designs themselves just looked beautiful! Lots of thought process and imagination were used, not to mention the team work!
A special celebration day is happening this Sunday (but shhh we can’t say what!). Our busy little hands The children have been very busy this week! They have and hearts have been working on marking this day. well and truly embraced being back in school. We have Lots of conversations have been had about why this spent a great amount of time playing with all of our person is so special in our lives. friends and learning all about the new provision areas (both inside and outside!). We are just so pleased to have all our superstars back! The mud kitchen has had the most incredible potions
RECEPTION
YEAR 1
WOW WOW WOW! What a week we have had in Year One. It has been so amazing to have our classrooms full of noise and laughter again. All the children have loved seeing their friends and have had the best time playing and exploring all the wonderful new challenges, games, resources, and activities. We have been super busy bees, making a little surprise for this weekend; we are so excited to share this on Sunday. The children also had the most exciting surprise arrive in our classrooms on Tuesday afternoon… ducklings! Just like the gosling in our story 'The Wild Robot' we now
have our very own ducklings to look after for the rest of this term. The eggs have been delivered and, as we write this week's news, it is a waiting game for them to hatch. We are just fizzing with excitement! I am sure that the children will keep you updated each day on their progress. This week we have taken lots of time to hear the children read and we have been so impressed by many of the children, it has been a pleasure to listen to them reading with enthusiasm, excitement and even some expression. You are all shining stars Year One and we are beyond happy to have you back in the classroom. Let's see what surprises we have in store next week.
YEAR 1
EVERYONE was so excited to be back! The Year 2 team had forgotten just how lovely it is to teach real children in a real classroom! We have been so impressed with the way the children have thrown themselves back in to all aspects of school life and are clearly loving the challenges and, most importantly, being back with their friends.
YEAR 2
more close behind. This is such a wonderful experience for the children and, as Mrs Franey wisely said ‘I had to be 50 before I saw an egg hatch, so you’re very lucky’! Amongst all this we have been writing in our duckling journals, painting secret pictures for Mothers’ We have had a very busy and exciting week, discovering Day and investigating our new maths topic of length. 2H on Monday morning that we were about to have two went out on a blustery morning to estimate the height of hatching kits for ducklings, delivered on the next day. We the tall pine tree we can see from our window- we threw ourselves into learning about life cycles and eggs thought that 15 metres was a clever guess! Who knows?! and then watched Mrs Hall and Miss Jeffrey put together In 2J, Mrs Jones was welcomed back very happily. We will the incubator and the pen when it arrived. Mrs Hall was miss Mrs Moss, but it is lovely to have Mrs Jones with us, particularly eggcited (sorry…) as the eggbox that she who slots straight in to our team. We think the children carried in was actually cheeping! (and staff) will be tired but happy this weekend. Well As I write this, Buster is hatched, a friend has just done Year 2 for being so positive this week and making popped out and is resting- but there look to be three us all smile!
YEAR 3
What a wonderful first week back it has been in Year Three. This week has been all about chocolate! We have been learning about where chocolate comes from, the many processes it goes through to get from bean to bar and of course we had to do a taste test too! As part of Nation Science week, we decided to learn a bit more about our senses and used this knowledge to carry out an experiment on varying strengths of chocolate. The children sampled some 100% cocoa powder, hot chocolate and solid 85%, 40% and milk chocolate. They had to use their touch, smell, sight and taste senses to work out which chocolate was which. As you can imagine, some were more favourable and palatable than others! We have been learning lots of new information about chocolate, such as how it came to be so popular across the world and how it has evolved. Did you know that the Aztecs used to pay for things using chocolate? Three cocoa beans would get you an avocado! Alongside our chocolate
learning we have also been working on developing our writing and understanding of grammar, focussing specifically on the use of coordinate conjunctions and subordinate clauses to help develop our sentences. In Maths we have been working on the tricky concept of telling the time! We have had lots of fun using mini clocks and resources to depict different times and support our work. On Tuesday we went to Forest School and worked in small groups to create our own clocks using natural materials. As you can see, the children had a wonderful time! Drawing hands to represents the hours and minutes of various times has been challenging but we are making good progress. We are going to continue to develop this skill next week so watch this space! It has been truly wonderful to have everyone back together again; our classrooms have been filled with the laughter and excitement of children once more and we have relished every moment! Wishing you all a restful and relaxing weekend.
St Peter’s 2-8 Week Commencing 15/03 Easter Term 2021
Chicken and sweetcorn carbonara with pasta bows
Pizza baguettes with various weekly changing toppings
Savoury mince in a Yorkshire pudding
Tomato and basil sauce with pasta bows
Lightly spiced potato wedges
Quorn vegetable stew
Apple coleslaw, tomatoes, cucumbers and carrot sticks
Swede and potato mash, carrots
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Dairy free chocolate cake and sauce / fresh fruit
Dairy free rice pudding and jam / fresh fruit
Chicken tikka pieces on a mini naan
Deep fried fish haddock goujons or halloumi cheese
Minerals make healthy skin, strong bones and teeth
Mild vegetable curry with rice and mixed peppers
Chip shop style
Fibre helps the body digest food, it is found in vegetables, whole grains and fruit
Homemade focaccia, roast med vegetables
Mini vegetable samosas Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Dairy free apple crumble and cream / fresh fruit
Chicken and vegetable pie with shortcrust pastry lid Lentil and vegetable bake
St Peter’s 2-8 Week Commencing 22/03 Easter Term 2021
mild curry sauce, oven chips, mushy peas or beans Bread and butter Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Cornflake cakes / fresh fruit
Pork sausages Vegetarian sausages
Roast new potatoes, carrots and garden peas
Mashed potato, swede, carrots, spring greens and onion gravy
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Dairy free apricot, sultana and coconut flapjack / fresh fruit
Dairy free rice pudding and jam / fresh fruit
Ham carbonara sauce and chopped spaghetti
Fried scampi pieces or halloumi cheese
Pasta with a tomato basil sauce Cheesy homemade focaccia, roast Med vegetables Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Dairy free lemon drizzle cake / Fresh fruit
Oven chips, peas and beans Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Fresh fruit pieces in a jelly / fresh fruit
Dairy free lemon and blueberry cake / fresh fruit
Protein is found in meat, milk, fish and beans. It helps build our muscles A banana is 75% water and will float if you put it in a bowl of water!
Chilli con carne with rice and nachos Quorn and vegetable chilli with rice and nachos Tomato, carrot and cucumber sticks Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Jam and coconut sponge / fresh fruit
Not all oranges are orange! A banana is not a fruit but a herb! There are 7000 different types of apples Strawberries have around 200 seeds on the outside of their skin A banana is 75% water and will float if you put it in a bowl of water!
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
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