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You can follow us A warm welcome to the start of the summer term at St Peter’s 2-8 and a particular welcome to our new nursery starters who joined us this week.
I trust that you have had a relaxing Easter break, it certainly has been lovely to hear about the adventures the children have had over the past three weeks. Over the holiday the school ran another popular activity week attended by over 100 children each day. Staff led the children in a range of activities, and I know they thoroughly enjoyed the week. Huge thanks to all the staff who led the activities in school and to Miss Flockhart who organised this fabulous week of fun and activities.
It has been an incredibly busy first week back, the children throughout the school have experienced so much and this is evident in the write ups by the teachers and photographs throughout this newsletter.
On Monday as part of their big reveal the Year 2 children were put through their paces in several diving and swimming activities. This was to complete their explorer training inspired by their story, ‘The Secret Explorers and the Lost Whales’. I am told they all
Year 1 Story Club (Group 1) Year 2 Engineers (Group 1) Year 2 Multisports Year 2 Cricket* Year 3 Film Year 3 Football*
You will have received an email this week, to let you know that the Class Photographs are now available to purchase via Tempest Photographers. Please note that orders must be placed by Wednesday 11th May to take advantage of the free delivery to school option. You can still purchase a print after this date however this will be for home delivery only and does incur a delivery charge. What an incredibly busy first week of term! I hope you all have a wonderful bank holiday weekend. Please do remember that school is open as normal on Monday. Best wishes,
Year 1 Football* Year 2 Multisports
Year 3 Language
This week we were joined by Ms Hardy, who is a PGCE student from Bangor University. Ms Hardy spent time in Nursery, Reception and Year 1 and has thoroughly enjoyed her placement in the school. My thanks to the staff and children for making Ms Hardy so welcome, I know she has left us this afternoon with lots of ideas to further develop her teaching practice. We have so much to pack into the next nine weeks, and I hope you have noted the dates in the online calendar, that can be found on our website. The Friends of St Peter’s 2-8 have organised two large events this term. Clif Fest which is a summer fair for children and families across school, this will be held on Sunday 26th June and it would be great if the school community could pen this date into their diaries. They have also organised a Charity Ball on the evening of Saturday 11th June. All proceeds for this will be for Children’s Heart Surgery Fund so please do reserve this date too.
Reception Film Club
Year 2 STEM (Group 1)
Year 3 Swimming Year 3 Tennis* Reception Story Time (Group 1) Year 1 Creative (Group 2) Year 1 Cricket* Years 2 & 3 Choir Year 1 Coding (Group 1) Year 1 Multisports Year 2 Tennis* Year 2 Art (Group 1) Year 3 Netball Year 3 STEM
FRIDAY
One of our parents has kindly volunteered to deliver a series of Forest School sessions for each of the Year 1 classes over the next few weeks. Mr Tickle, who has a passion for bushcraft, led a fabulous session with the children from 1A during which the children learned how to create shelters by following the instructions given, make a campfire and use their knot tying skills to make stick men, stars, etc. As you can imagine the children were utterly enthralled with the session and had a wonderful afternoon. The staff were equally thrilled not only to learn new bushcraft skills but also for the mug of freshly brewed ground coffee that Mr Tickle made them all on the campfire. I gather it far surpassed the coffee they have access to in school! Next week it will be the turn of 1C and 1E who are already excited having now heard how much fun 1A had at Forest School. My huge thanks to Mr Tickle for all the preparation he put into the session, and we look forward to more excitement next week.
Reception Yoga (Group 1)
THURSDAY
In Monday’s assembly it was lovely to congratulate last term's House Captains; Lottie Wass, Norman Norza and Tom Blomfield and present new badges to Tilly Smith (Monk), Annabel Wong (Micklegate) and Noah Lofthouse (Walmgate). I know they will be wonderful House Captains this term.
School Council
WEDS
On Monday the children were very excited for the grand reveal of their learning theme this term and they had good reason to be. The theme this term is Amazing Adventures, Incredible Explorers and I know the staff have lots of things planned over the coming weeks to support this theme. Once again, the classrooms are looking wonderful, and I hope you were able to take the opportunity to visit them this morning before the start of the school day. My huge thanks to the staff who create these exciting learning spaces during the holidays to inspire and motivate the children.
Our highlight of the week, particularly for the children in Year 2 and Year 3 was taking part in the Young Voices Concert on Thursday evening at Sheffield Arena. The children joined over 5000 other children from the local area to form the most fabulous choir who sang their hearts out all night. There were performances from Twinnie, a singer songwriter from York and Ruti who won The Voice on ITV. Both performers were inspired to become singers after participating in a Young Voice Concert when they were only 7 and 8 years old. The breath-taking Urban Strides a street dance group performed a number of acts and arranged all the dance moves for the children to practice prior to the concert and Beatbox Collective who are the World Champions in their art of beatboxing entertained us all with their unbelievable talents. The performance was all pulled together by Craig McLeish who was the Musical Director and David Lawrence, world renowned conductor. All the children loved taking part in this stunning spectacle, singing with boundless enthusiasm and demonstrating some incredible dance moves throughout the evening. All the staff that attended the concert were immensely proud of them, they represented the school quite brilliantly. Huge thanks to the staff who attended the concert and a massive congratulations to Mrs Hayden who had prepared the children so well. Thank you also to the many parents who made the trip to Sheffield Arena, supporting the children and throwing yourselves into the singing and dancing along with the rest of us. I hope you all had as much fun as we did? I know there have been many tired faces in school this morning but everyone has told me it was definitely worth the late night!
DIARY FOR WEEK COMMENCING 2nd May 2022
TUESDAY
This week we are delighted to welcome Mrs Podeleski back to St Peter’s 2-8. Mrs Podeleski will be covering Mrs Morrison’s maternity leave and has asked me to express her thanks to all parents who popped in to meet and welcome her on Wednesday evening after school.
had lots of fun and we definitely have a number of intrepid explorers in Year 2!
Newsletter No: 25 Friday, 29th April 2022
Year 1 Film Year 1 Street Dance* Year 2 Football* Year 2 History (Group 1) Year 3 Creative CANCELLED Year 3 Cricket*