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DIARY FOR WEEK COMMENCING 27th SEPTEMBER 2021

MONDAY

Y1 Story Club Y2 Multisports Y2 Engineers & Construction

Y2 Cricket* Y3 Football* Y3 IT left over didn’t go to waste- they were shared with the whole school communitywith our Estates teams and facilities assistants who thoroughly enjoyed the cakes.

My thanks to the Friends of St Peter’s 2-8 for their organisation of all their fundraising and social events. We are delighted to have our annual Clifton Bake-Off Event on Monday 18th October- please see the information later in the newsletter.

Since we started our first holiday camp last October they have proven to be popular with the children and parents. This week we have published the dates for the holiday weeks for the academic year. Further information will be circulated shortly, but the dates for your diary are:.

• Autumn Holiday Club – Monday 25 October to Friday 29 October 2021

• Christmas Holiday Club – Monday 20 to

Y1 Multisports Y1 Sports* Y2 STEM Y2 Sports* Y3 Language Y3 Swimming

Y3 Tennis* WEDS

Y1 Get Creative Y1 Cricket* Y2&3 Choir

Thursday 23 December 2021

• Easter Holiday Club – Monday 4 to Friday Y1 Sign Language Y1 Tennis* Y2 Art Y2 Multisports Y3 Sewing and Craft

Y3 Hockey FRIDAY

8 April 2022 I was disappointed that I couldn’t attend our first in person assembly since March 2019, held this morning in the Dining Hall. My thanks to Mrs Clarke for taking the assembly. I hear the children loved celebrating each other and their achievements, and being back together.

I hope you enjoy the newsletter each week.

It is such a wonderful celebration of the learning and the joy and happiness of the experiences your children have each day at school. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Best wishes,

THURSDAY

On Monday evening we had our Year 3 information evening for parents and on Wednesday evening (which I was unable to attend) we had the Year 2 Information evening which were both well attended. Mrs Clarke and I shared an overview of our ethos, aims and curriculum and the class teachers shared some insights into the learning that your children will experience this year. The presentations explained the importance of Metacognition and Self Regulated Learning based on the research from the Education Endowment Foundation which will enable us to support your children on their journey to becoming lifelong learners.

On Wednesday the Friends of St Peter’s 28 hosted a Macmillan coffee morning. The Dining Room turned into a professional café with wonderful cakes created by the parents at school. They raised over £250 for this amazing charity. Huge thanks to all of the parents and the Friends of St Peter’s 2-8 and in particular Mrs Victoria Woolf who ran the coffee morning. All the cakes that were

TUESDAY

On Wednesday I travelled to the IAPS Heads’ Conference in Bournemouth. It has been inspiring listening to speakers on a range of themes; Mental Health and Wellbeing, Augmented Reality, Diversity and Inclusion, Inspections, the Future of Learning and the Future of Assessment and Leadership and the Education landscape in the UK to name a few. It was also a rewarding opportunity to meet other Head Teachers and to share good practice and ideas in a post Covid world. I have missed being at school and look forward to seeing the Reception children swimming on Saturday and the rest of the school community on Monday.

It has been another action-packed week at St Peter’s 2-8. On Tuesday the Year 3 children visited my previous school, Yarm Preparatory School to take part in sport workshops with the children from Yarm.

The staff and the children hosted us extremely well and our children thoroughly enjoyed playing rugby and hockey. The children had a fantastic time and threw themselves into the drills and games. It was great to start fixtures again and also to hear that the Year 3 children were super ambassadors for our school. Well done all. My thanks to all of the staff who accompanied the children and to Miss Flockhart who organised the event.

On Wednesday RM travelled for their first ‘pop up’ classroom of the school year.

They travelled on the school minibus to Dobbies Garden Centre on a mission to find bulbs to plant in their outdoor area. RM want to create a rainbow garden of flowers for the spring and I can't wait to see the results. Next week RA will be heading off on an adventure; all will be revealed next week.

Newsletter No: 3 Friday, September 24th 2021

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Reception swimming

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house points trophy

PE award Music award • Jojo (1E)

• Year 3

• Eddie (2J)

WALMGATE learning superheroes • Aria (RC)

• Zachary (1C)

• Oliver M (2J)

• Sam T (RC)

• Tiaa (1E)

• Izzy W (2P)

• George (RJ)

• Jemima (1E)

• Nina (3C)

• Isabelle F (RM)

• India W (1E)

• Lizzie K-L (3M)

• William (1A)

• Charlotte (1E)

• Harry (3S)

• Kalina (2H)

value champions

• Raffy (RC)

• Hugo (2H)

• Oliver D (RJ)

• Molly (2J)

• Eliza (RM)

• Izzy J (2P)

• Mimi (1A)

• Noah (3C)

• Freddie (1C)

• James (3M)

• Joseph (1E)

• Olivia A (3S)

• Bertie (1E)

Notice Board PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS We are delighted to share with you the final edits of our promotional videos which were filmed towards the end of the summer term.

There is one film for each section of the school and a whole school film which showcases life at St Peter's for all pupils ages 2-18. You can watch the films by following the links below: •

St Peter's 2-8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0qk1yXtgaw

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St Peter's 8-13 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOIGtIi__Tw

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St Peter's 13-18 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XluvQyx6jvc

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St Peter's School, York (whole school) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8O4QeXkZ90 We hope you enjoy watching the films as much as we enjoyed making them!

MUSICAL NOTES A huge well done to all our pupils who have now had their first instrumental lesson! I hope that you are enjoying hearing your children show you what they have been learning in their lessons at home?!

It’s really useful to get into a practice routine straight away but little and often is definitely the best way for our youngest pupils. A quick 5-10mins every couple of days will keep them on track ready for their next music lesson.

lessons, there has been lots of singing and our Reception children have been exploring how the flute works. There were lots of children who look like they will be promising flautists when they grow up! Year 1 wowed me with their note reading using the chime bars and Year 2 showed off their listening skills copying back simple tunes by ear on the recorder. The children in Years 2 and 3 have been working their way through the Young Voices songs which we are hoping to perform at our The children are getting into a good routine leaving concert in February! The school choir is sounding their larger instruments in the Rayson Room. fantastic, we very much hope to invite you to our Please can you help to remind them to take them first concert at the end of this half term, more home so they are able to practice each week. details to follow.

We have all been very busy in our class music Mrs Hayden.

THE PETERITE 2019-2020 We are delighted to introduce the first whole school edition of The Peterite, which celebrates the Please follow the link to read the digital version of achievements of pupils at St Peter’s School from the magazine: https://www.stpetersyork.org.uk/ ages 2-18. This edition of The Peterite covers the archives/the_peterite academic year 2019-2020, and printed copies will be available for pupils to bring home in the next couple of weeks. We hope you enjoy reading The Peterite 2019-2020.

Notice Board STREET DANCE FRIDAY 8TH OCTOBER Please note that Miss West is away from school on October 8th and therefore unable to take her Street Dance class that afternoon. No charge will be made and After School Care is available if needed.

Apologies Next week’s class (Friday 1st October) will run as usual.

YEAR 2 STEM CLUB On Tuesday, the Year 2 STEM Club made electricity using only lemons, coins and nails! First the lemons were rolled and massaged to get the juice flowing inside, next we made a little slit in each lemon and put into it a copper penny (we washed them first), followed by a galvanised nail. The children connected the lemons using alligator clips and then attached a little light bulb. As the last connection was made, the bulb started to light up… it was a very exciting moment… we had made electricity using only the power of lemons! We then wondered which other fruits would work..?

HEADLICE Please be aware that we have had headlice in Year 2 and Year 3. Please check your child’s head and treat accordingly. Please see the NHS guidance on treatment here.

LOST PROPERTY Edward in 3C has lost a pair of Geox size 31 school shoes.

Please keep an eye out as the name labels have come off.

Thomas in 1A has lost his brand new named school coat.

Sofia B is missing her pink/purple Fitbit, possibly lost at swimming– please could you check swimming bags in case it has been swept up with someone else’s kit?

Adele L has lost her swimming bag today– please could Year 1 parents please check it hasn’t come home this evening by accident.

The excitement was obvious from the moment the children walked through St Peter’s 2-8 front doors that morning, along with the gleaming sunshine. After an early lunch the children boarded the coach to Yarm Prep School with some wild imagining of what was waiting for them upon arrival.

First stop was for our tag rugby players, who soon immersed themselves in the afternoon activities with drive and enthusiasm. After some basic passing,

attacking and defensive drills, the boys were keen to demonstrate what they had learned in a mini structured game. Meanwhile on the hockey pitch, the girls were quickly ‘buddied’ up with a child from Yarm Prep.

The enthusiastic approach continued as they showed great concentration to progress through the dribbling, passing and tackling drills. I was delighted with the progress they had made in such a short period of time and perhaps more importantly the relationships

they built with the other children. After having some well-earned juice and biscuits, the St Peter’s children said their goodbyes and jumped back on the coach. I was extremely proud of the way in which the students behaved throughout the day and they were a credit to the school.

PE

I loved shark attack it was amazing and tag rugby. (Jonathan 3M)

I liked going around the cone with the ball. (Sadie 3M)

I liked the hockey match the most!

(Georgia 3C)

I loved the biscuit and drink (Adriana 3S)

I really enjoyed shark attack with the islands. (Caspar 3C)

I really enjoyed the tag rugby games and the punch and cookies.

(Andrey 3M)

I liked playing shark attack (Ben and Harry 3S)

I enjoyed making new friends, playing all of the hockey activities and the juice and biscuits. (Annabel 3M)

PE I liked having the biscuits and drink and playing rugby (Charles 3S)

I enjoyed making new friends. My favourite activity was the little hockey game. (Nina 3C)

The rugby was good especially the shark attack game (Alexander 3C)

I loved meeting new people (Tamsin 3S)

ACORNS

This week has been all about creating, designing, measuring, baking, sunflowers, granola squares, reading, adventures into

York and lots of PLAY! Our great Acorn Bake Off has been fantastic and we have all enjoyed a very happy week indeed.

CONKERS

We’re going on an Autumn walk,

We’re going to search for all the changes outside, we’re so excited!

We’ve seen different coloured leaves on the floor, We’ve just found lots of conkers, We’ve even found some apples!

So decided to make some apple prints!

We have had another wonderful week; every day the children become more confident, secure and happy in the wonderful world of Reception! The children have been learning how to make playdough with a view to them being able to make this all by themselves whenever they like and woodwork and sewing skills are really blossoming too. Den building has been very popular this week both in Forest School and in our outdoor area with the children using lots of critical thinking and collaboration to create their amazing structures. Pulley systems for collecting sand and giant water runs have been created outside too - it has been a joy to see such teamwork in play! This week it was RM's turn to go on a pop-up adventure and they chose to go to Dobbies garden centre in the minibus to buy an amazing rainbow array

RECEPTION

of spring bulbs for us to plant in our outdoor area ready for Spring. Fascinations with 'cave people' led to some exciting research about creatures that lived in this era, with a group of children measuring the length of the 7 metre Quinkana! We have also loved visiting our library for our first library session and choosing a special book to take home. What a busy week, we can't wait to see what next week brings! : )

RECEPTION

We have had a magical and wonderful week in Year 1 and it has been lovely to have a full week in school, exploring our classrooms. We have loved making sticky, gooey and squishy dinosaur poo! I hope you have enjoyed this at home too. The children have been learning all about their favourite dinosaurs and what they eat. Are they omnivores, carnivores or herbivores? I wonder if you spotted any bones or leaves in yours? We also have some very talented young artists in Year 1 with super sketching skills. We have been

sketching dinosaurs and mermaids and mixing colours using watercolour to bring our gorgeous drawings to life. The children have also been designing fabulous dinosaur habitats, scanning the QR codes to find out all about these amazing creatures and what they need to survive. We are now nearly half way through our key text, Fortunately the Milk, and we just can’t stop reading! We have now met the pirates, aliens, ponies, Professor Steg and the eye of splod! I vonder vho ve will meet next… any ideas?

YEAR 1

YEAR 1

Yesterday we were very excited to have a new lesson added to our timetable, Latin! Miss Grindley visited us from STP 13-18 to teach us all a few words! You will be pleased to know the children This week we decided it have immediately put their new found knowledge was about time we all had into practice by asking for their 'aqua' bottles! a bath! Well, a Roman bath! Did you know that York had its very own At forest school we have been busy collecting all Roman bathhouse in Sampson Square? We things autumnal! With the last of the blackberries discovered that the Romans loved bathing and now picked, the children have been busy making would visit the bathhouse every day! Yes… you read their own natural dye! Did you know that only the correctly!

Emperors were allowed to wear purple in Roman times! Well, this got us thinking and inspired our We decided to create our very own Year 2 Roman writing this week 'If you were an Emperor for the Spa! The children made scented olive oil by grinding day'... The children certainly came up with some dried flowers and herbs in a pestle and mortar and fabulous ideas for their writing! then their slave applied the oil and removed it with a strigil! They also visited the hot and cold plunge In maths this week we have been applying our place pools and a fantastic aroma of lavender filled the value knowledge to some addition challenges.

Year 2 classrooms!

YEAR 2

What a busy week our little Emperors and Empresses have had!

YEAR 2

NOTICE

Next week we are hoping to celebrate all things Roman by hosting a Roman banquet! To help the children get into character for this please could you send in a small bedsheet

next Friday so the children can dress up for the occasion! The children will use the brooches they have made in school to pin and secure them.

Have a lovely weekend!

Now we have entered the world of Narnia we have met Mr Tumnus, a faun! He is half man, half goat!

We explored the extract when Lucy met the mysterious creature for the first time and thought carefully about what information we could gather from the text. We picked out the adjectives used to describe him and made some notes.

We then went on to writing our own descriptions of the interesting character before designing our very own mythical creatures. The children have very wild imaginations! After we had finished, we wrote descriptions

of the characters we had created!

After working so hard we enjoyed our own Mr Tumnus style snack of toast with honey!

YEAR 3

As we have entered winter through the wardrobe at forest school, we investigated how we could preserve ice cubes. We used shelters and natural materials to try and keep the ice cubes whole for as long as we could!

In maths we have been busy recapping our multiplication facts and using a number line to 1000 to order numbers.

Macmillan Coffee Morning Thank you to everyone who contributed bakes and attended the coffee morning yesterday. It was great to see so many people there and we raised a fantastic £270 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

All non-disposable plates, cake boxes, Tupperware etc has been left for collection in the school entrance opposite the reception desk.

Many thanks again!

The Great St Peter’s Bake Off - Monday 18th October Bake Off is back! And not just on Channel 4!

FoSP are so pleased to be able to run our very wonderful Bake Off event again this year. The children are invited to bake cakes, muffins, biscuits, traybakes etc based on a theme. They then bring them in on the morning of Monday 18th October to our Bake Off Tent where all bakes will be tasted, judged and prizes awarded (in year groups). 2019 was, obviously, the last time we were able to run this event, and it was truly amazing with so many of our children taking part across all of the year groups, from Acorns to Year 3. Lets make this year even bigger! As we did last time, we have decided that Bake Off themes will predominantly follow the year groups’ learning themes, as follows:Acorns - Halloween

Conkers - Halloween Reception: Halloween Year 1: Fortunately the Milk Year 2: York Year 3: Narnia Each year group will be judged separately. Rules to follow in forthcoming Newsletters but all bakes MUST BE NUT FREE. Bake Off Cake Sale - Monday 18th October As has become customary after our Bake Off Competition we will be selling all of the wonderful creations that our children have made after school on 18th October. So please pop the date in your diary to come along for a cup of tea and a slice of Mr Tumnus's Teacake, or a Homemade Halloween Hobnob! (NB - if you would like to keep some or all of your creation, that is absolutely fine and we will let you know how to do this nearer the time).

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Cottage pie with mashed potato topping

Week Three Christmas Term 2021

Vegetable & lentil lasagne with melted cheese

Vegetable cottage pie with mashed potato topping

homemade focaccia

Carrots, sweetcorn

Tomato, carrot and cucumber

Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings

Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings

Sultana & cranberry flapjack squares Fresh fruit

Fruit yoghurt pots Fresh fruit

Homemade sausage rolls Vegan “sausage roll” Half a cheesy jacket potato baked beans and green beans

Red lentil and vegetable pie Roasted new potatoes, carrots, peas Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Black & green grape pots Fresh fruit

Not all oranges are orange!

Deep fried haddock goujons Oven chips, mushy peas or beans Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings

Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Apple crumble and cream / Fresh fruit

Chicken and vegetable pie

Fruit pieces in jelly Fresh fruit

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!