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number of children who have had the confidence to volunteer to participate in these concerts, which parents and grandparents will be able to watch via our live streaming platform, Planet eStream. Further details will be circulated closer to the time. I also had the pleasure of hearing the Year 3 Ukulele group too; what talented children! The Year 3 children have been reading ‘The Boy who Biked the World’ about Even in childhood Chloe Zhao was Alistair Humphreys’ adventure cycling endlessly curious and determined, from the UK to Africa. This week Year 3 according to staff at her school. The have reached France and have been Chinese born director whose victory at learning and experiencing all there is to the Academy Awards on Sunday made know about France. They have baked the her only the second woman to win a Best most delicious baguettes, created Director Oscar for and the first who was amazing artwork inspired by Paul non-white. Chloe learnt to speak English Cezanne, learned how to speak to each whilst at Brighton College. The quality other in French and explored famous that the staff at her school remember landmarks in France using their brilliant about her was that she was incessantly iPads skills. curious. She always wanted to know why things were done in a certain way. I was delighted to read of her achievement and her natural instinct to be endlessly curious and have a creative, enquiring mind. This philosophy is what we are trying to instil and foster in our children at St Peter’s 2-8. Having an enquiring mind and creativity is at the core of our learning as we actively encourage the children to continually ask questions, questioning their learning using the qualities and super powers of our Learning Superheroes. This week at St Peter’s 2-8 has been full of adventure and excitement. The children have developed their curiosity When visiting Year 1 classrooms this experiencing a tremendous amount of week, I thoroughly enjoyed the children learning opportunities in and outside the showing me how to make a Red Thai classroom. chilli paste from scratch. It was delicious It has been wonderful listening to the (look out Jamie Oliver). They have also Year 2 and Year 3 choirs practising for been experts in learning how to use IT to informal music concerts just before half further their learning. They were term. I know Mrs Hayden has a record accessing films through QR codes around
Newsletter No: 25 Friday, 30th April 2021 the classroom. Year 1 have also written letters to children in Bali to ask questions and find out more about their lives in Indonesia. We have been put in touch with the children by the Bali Children’s Foundation, an educational charity that Year 1 hope to raise money for later in the term. Year 2 have been exploring their senses this week, tasting exotic fruit and comparing what they saw, heard and felt when transported into a rainforest and our own forest school. They started reading ‘Into the Jungle’ by Katherine Rundell and explored paintings by Henri Rousseau. It has been lovely to see how the Reception children have been transported around the world with their backpack adventures. They visited their special places from Indonesia to Saffron Walden and everywhere in between. It has been a brilliant week and it’s all the hard work of the whole school focusing on these kind of learning experiences that has led to the school being shortlisted for the TES School of the Year Award, and whatever happens at the award ceremony this evening I would like to take the opportunity to thank the wonderful children, outstanding staff and supportive parents for all they do to make our school such a special place for everyone. I hope you have a relaxing weekend and look forward to another exciting week on Monday. With my best wishes,