What a fabulous week this has been. The children have now

settled into their routines and have been so excited about their

learning. In Year 3 the classrooms have been transformed to

scenes under the sea to help with their theme of 'Into the Deep'.

In Year 2 each morning the children walk through 'Bootham Bar'

to enter their classrooms following their theme of 'Let's Conquer

York'. Year 1 have found a caterpillar and built bug dens in their

classrooms as part of their theme of 'Flutter and Crawl’ and

Reception, have been building and washing cars in their ‘car

wash’ for their topic of ’Terrific Transport’! Its going to be a

very exciting term ahead!

It has been wonderful meeting so many parents this week at the

Year Group Information Evenings. They have provided a chance

for you to hear about the learning opportunities that lie ahead

for your child/children. My sincere thanks to all of the staff for

preparing such excellent presentations. There are many more

parent events ahead in this term to enhance the partnership

between home and school. In the calendar we have two

presentations on the theme 'Helping Your child to be Happy at

Home and School' led by Family Matters in York. It is an

aspiration of St Peter’s (3-18) to actively promote positive

mental health, wellbeing and happiness in the school community

this year. Further events are planned for later in the year. Today

the Year 3 parents will have received an email giving details of a

forthcoming presentation at St Olave’s by Family Matters,

‘Letting go – Developing your child’s independence’. This is

aimed at parents of Y3 children at Clifton and J1-J5 at St Olave's.

It would be great to see as many of you at these events. You will

notice that we are trialling our new reply system, we hope it

proves to be more efficient for you and for us! Also, at the end

of the newsletter is the programme of Public Lectures for the

term. All parents and friends of the school are more than

welcome to attend.

Today is Character Day, more details can be found at the

following link - http://www.letitripple.org/character_day_2015. In

our Celebration Assemblies on a Friday, it is always lovely to

award 'Good Conduct Awards' for children who have displayed

a great character in school following our School Values. We try

and promote good character with the children every day at

school.

Many thanks for all your donations for Clothing for Calais. These

will be added to donations made by St Olave's and St Peter's

parents. Also this week we received a wonderful letter from the

Head teacher of Bumboi Primary School in Uganda. Last year,

motivated by Kobe who is in Year 1 (and Huxley now in Y3) we

collected books for a school in Uganda. Over the summer Kobe, Huxley and their family took them to

Uganda (pictures were in last weeks' newsletter). Thank you to everyone for all your support. Thank you

also, to Kobe and Huxley’s Grandma who came into school to give us a wonderful presentation earlier in

the week.

You will have noticed in the Calendar that the Parent Consultation Evenings will be before half term this

year. This will give you an opportunity to discuss how your child has settled into the new school year. A

report will be sent out at the end of term as normal. Lists to sign up for these evenings will be available at

the reception desk from next Wednesday morning (Nursery lists in the Nursery!).

Today is the start of the Rugby World Cup and I am looking forward to watching it - as I am sure you are!

In conjunction with this event, next week we will be taking part in ‘PowerPass’ - a charity event for all IAPS

schools in the country. Details can be found further in the newsletter.

Next Saturday, 26th September, will be the first of our Open Mornings for prospective parents. Please

pass on this information to any of your family and friends who may be interested in coming along. They can

register their details on our website http://www.stpetersyork.org.uk/clifton/admissions/visiting_us/

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Have a lovely weekend,

Best wishes,

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No: 2

18th

September

2015

NEXT WEEK’S DIARY:

Mon Rec Speech & Drama, Y2

Tennis, Y3 Tag Rugby, Y3

Netball, Y1/2 Cookery Club

Tues

Lunchtime—Choir

Y3 Speech & Drama, Ballet,

Y2/3 Basketball, Karate, Chess

Wed 8.30 am CSF Meeting

2S Assembly

IAPS ‘PowerPass’ Charity Event

Lists for Consultation Evenings

available

Y1 Speech & Drama, Y2 Art

Club, Y2/3 Jewellery Making,Y3

Quiz Club, Y2/3 Chess

Thurs

Y2/3 Swimming (3C finish at

4.00 pm)

Y1/2 Ball Skills, Y1/2/3 Green

Team, Y2 Tag Rugby, Y2

Speech & Drama, Y2/3 Animal

Club, Y1 Football, Y2 Netball

Fri Y1 Lego, Y3 Sewing, Y3

Football, Y1/2 iClub

Sat Open Morning for prospective

parents 10.30 am —12.00 pm

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Calendar

Term Dates

Uniform Lists

Registered Charity

No: 1141329

We have had great fun hunting for numbers this week. We talked about why cars have number plates, and noticed that all of the cars number plates were different though the same at the front and back. We noticed that the number 4 and 9 looked a little different to the ones on our numberline. Once we were back in the classroom, we

compared the amounts of each number spotted, and used the vocabulary of most, more, fewer and least to describe them.

Reception started the week off throwing and catching the colourful

scarves in PE. The way the scarves float slowly to the ground make

them a wonderful piece of equipment to aid catching skills with our

youngest pupils. They are also great fun!

RS Baking Blog

Our first time baking in RS, we decided to make some simple biscuits. We

looked at different ways of measuring ingredients using a balancing scales and

cup measures. We spoke about health and safety when baking; we made

suggestions about how to keep safe in the kitchen; washing our hands before

we begin, using equipment safely and being cautious around the oven. When we

had made our sweet pastry, we divided it into

equal sized pieces by rolling small balls in an

anti-clockwise motion. We undercooked one batch of biscuits, over cooked

another and the rest were just right! At circle time we looked closely at the

different biscuits; the overcooked were extra brown, and the under cooked were

still soft, but the rest of the biscuits were nice and golden. We sampled the

biscuits that were just right and they tasted great! What will we bake next?!

In 2H we have been learning about

the Romans in York and preparing for

our exciting trip to York Minster on

Thursday! We have started

researching the Minster and have

looked closely at the stained glass,

carefully copying chosen windows in

watercolour.

This week in 3L our classroom

sunk! We have gone under the

sea for our topic ‘The Deep’.

The children have been

learning how to locate

continents and oceans from

an atlas and

recording these on

their own maps.

Super work!

We have been

continuing to explore

different areas of the

classroom in Nursery

this week. The children

collected some leaves at

Forest School and we used these

to print with onto a canvas.

Later in the week we used other

objects to print with-

including our hands.

Whilst printing we have

also been learning how

to help each other when

we put our overalls on. Lots of

great

messy

fun!

CHARITY NEWS

This year Clifton will be raising money for Walking With The Wounded, a charity that supports our wounded veterans to rebuild their lives and to re-train .The veterans are incredible role models who demonstrate courage, endurance and positivity in the face of adversity. These are all values which are important to us at Clifton.

The charity, which has Prince Harry as its patron, has already completed expeditions to The North Pole in 2011, The South Pole in 2013 and Mount Everest in 2012. This year Walking With The Wounded are taking on The Walk of Britain. The 1000 mile walk being undertaken by six veterans began on 22nd August in

Scotland and will finish at Buckingham Palace on 1st November. Last Thursday the veterans arrived at the Minster and some Year 3 children were there to meet them. They asked them lots of questions about the challenges the walkers have faced and talked about some of the ways that we could raise some money for them this year. The School Council will be busy organising some fun events to raise money. Watch this space!

To follow The Walk of Britain log on to:

http://walkingwiththewounded.org.uk/walkofbritain2015

This week 3C have been using their imaginations!

We received a letter from Dougal, the deep sea diver, inviting us to join him on his deep sea adventure.

We imagined what it would be like under the sea!

Take a look at what we thought. We planned our ideas carefully before creating collages of our underwater worlds!

Silver

Millie

Gold

Lucy

It has been an exciting week for 3R as we have been receiving messages in a bottle from Dougal the Deep-Sea diver and our classroom has gone under the sea! We have been learning about the oceans of the world and about coordinates so that we can find where Dougal is in the world! On Wednesday we decided to write some

messages to send back to Dougal. We are very excited to see what he is going to send us next...

On Thursday afternoon Year One split into two groups – the Caterpillars and the Butterflies! The Caterpillars went mini-beast hunting in Forest Schools and the Butterflies stayed in school and decorated Butterfly cupcakes! A great afternoon had by all and we can't wait to swap activities next week!

Housepoint winners

this week:

MONK

Vihaan, Matilda, Scarlett,

Amelia, Hugh, Harriet, Fred,

Clara, Saffron

Milly, Amelia, Harry, Edward,

Henry, Beatrice, Robert, William

and Eleanor

Its been a busy and exciting week for Friends but we now

have all our core roles in place and the majority of our

Class Representative positions filled. We still need another

Year 1 and 2 representative, if you are interested please

catch me in the playground to have a chat.

Thank you to everyone who has let us know they are keen to be

involved, we welcome all help in whatever capacity. We already have

some exciting events in planning and lots of great suggestions and ideas

coming through.

Join us Wednesday 23rd September at 08.30 am Clifton Dining Hall for

our first meeting or keep an eye on our Notice Board and Facebook

page for the introduction of our Class Reps and upcoming events.

Helen Pentelow-Boyle

2S had a wonderful time on Thursday

morning. They walked down Bootham,

through Bootham Bar (the real one) and

went to St William’s College to visit the

York Minster Learning Centre. They spent

the morning having a guided tour of the

Minster, finding out about its history and

doing some great jig-saw puzzle activities.

The children really impressed the tour

guides with their historical knowledge!

Music Award

Diya and Aleena

Parent Consultation

Evenings

Monday 12th October from 6.00 pm

Tuesday 13th October from 3.45 pm

This is an opportunity for you to meet with the class

teacher to discuss the start of the new academic

year. These are 10 minutes slots, if you require

further time to discuss any issues you are requested

to make another appointment with the teacher.

Lists to sign up will be available at the reception desk

or in Nursery from next WEDNESDAY morning.

A report will be written and sent out at the end of

term.

Welcome to our Christmas Term Lecture Programme! FREE tickets are now available for you to book.

If you would like to book tickets please use our Eventbrite page. Alternatively, for group bookings, hard-of-hearing or disabled

tickets or if you have any other enquiries, please speak to Sue Jenks in the External Relations Office or contact

events@stpetersyork.org.uk.

All Lectures take place in the Memorial Hall at St Peter's School, Clifton, York.

Wine and Canapés will be served after each event. Sir Anthony Seldon will be signing copies of his two new books on Cameron

and the Coalition, which will be available to buy on the evening.

The Grand Challenge of Fusion Energy

Professor Howard Wilson examines fusion energy and addresses the final scientific questions that will enable the construction

of the first demonstration fusion power plant. This lecture is part of YorNight. Thursday 24 September 7pm

Life Saving Chemistry - From Medicine to Nanomedicine

Professor David Smith uncovers the way in which chemical drugs interact with the biological patient and considers how this may

lead to new types of drugs in the future. Wednesday 14 October 7pm

Cameron at 10

Sir Anthony Seldon will explore David Cameron’s Premiership and the story of the Coalition whilst looking ahead to the

challenges he faces today. Tuesday 3 November 7pm

Can Science Make a Cyclist Faster?

Professor Tony Purnell will provide an overview of how science and technology have contributed to the raw speed of all

Olympic cycling disciplines and will examine whether science can make a cyclist faster. Wednesday 11 November 7pm

Gothic & Romantic Literature: A Deeper Understanding

Professor Angela Wright will help us to understand the themes and techniques of gothic literature. Tuesday 1 December

7pm

St Peter’s Science Society Christmas Lecture: Light Fantastic

St Peter’s science staff celebrate the International Year of Light with an exciting Lecture Demonstration. Tuesday 8

December 7pm

We look forward to seeing you at our events over the next few months.