Happy New Year to everyone and I trust you all had a wonderful Christmas
holiday. This term we are delighted to welcome new pupils Maria, Reuben,
Alexander and Norman in Nursery and Manzo in 1M, we hope you have
enjoyed your first week with us.
Over the holidays there have been staff changes due to Miss Seymour resigning
from her position of Year 1 Class Teacher. For the remainder of the academic
year Mrs Johnson will be teaching in Year 1 (1J), Mrs Clarke will be leading
Nursery and Mr Simon Pearce will be teaching the lessons Mrs Clarke was
teaching last term. Mr Pearce was formerly the Director of Studies at my
previous school, Yarm.
The first day of term was fantastic in school, the children were so excited
finding out what their new themes were going to be. Reception visited Energi
on the first day of term as part of their theme ‘Bounce’. Year 1 children had all
received a golden ticket over the Christmas holidays inviting them back to
‘Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Story’ - they found that their classrooms had turned
into a scene from the factory. Year 2 came to school dressed as Victorians for
their theme ‘Hard Times’ based around the story of Oliver Twist. Year 3 came
to school dressed up in home clothes, to find out when they arrived that they
were off to visit Yorkshire Wildlife Park as part of their theme ‘Planet Earth III’.
The school environment looked amazing and my thanks to all of the staff for
their incredible work producing these stunning classroom settings.
On Wednesday the Year 1 children had a very energetic morning taking part in
Street Dance sessions. Stacey Didcock once again was brilliant, teaching the
children new moves and dances. My thanks to Mrs Hicks for organising these
sessions through Sainsbury’s Active Kids.
On Thursday Year 2 and Year 3 travelled to Sheffield Arena to take part in the
Young Voices Concert. I am sure that the parents who were in the crowd would
agree that the children were absolutely amazing! I was so proud of them all for
their singing and dancing. They learned so many fabulous songs and even sang
in Welsh ‘Calon Lan’. A particular favourite of mine was when they sang ‘You’re
The Voice’ and, using the British Sign Language for the deaf, signed throughout
the song. One of the songs made popular by Gareth Malone’s Military Wives
Choir ‘Stronger Together’ was particularly poignant, as the whole evening was
about the Young Voices choir of over 5000 children. When they sang together
it was incredibly powerful. The children were treated to music from Natalie
Williams, Tabby Callaghan, a performance from The Beatbox Collective (please
click here to find out more about these artists) and Street Dancing from the
amazing Urban Strides (please click here). My thanks to all of the staff who
accompanied the children, the parents who came to watch, Mrs Hayden for
organising and teaching the children all the songs and dances and of course, to
our incredible children who were sensational and were a pleasure to
accompany.
What a fantastic first week back! Have a lovely weekend.
CoMPasS You can follow us ...….. Newsletter No: 14
Friday 13th January 2017 Registered Charity No: 1141329
WEEK COMMENCING 16th JAN
DIARY:
Mon Y3 Ukueles Club (lunchtime)
Rec Speech & Drama
Y1 Multi Sports
Y1 Creature Creations
Y2 Maths Club
Y2 Hockey
Y2/3 Yoga
Y3 Tennis
Y3 Tag Rugby
Tues
8.30 am CSF Meeting (Dining Room)
Y2/3 Choir (lunchtime)
Y1 Team Relays
Y2/3 Sports Club
Y1/2/3 Ballet
Y2/3 Karate
Y2/3 Chess
Y3 Speech & Drama
Y3 Swimming Club
Wed Rec/Y1 Yoga Bunnies (lunchtime)
Y1 Speech & Drama
Y1 Coding
Y2 Art Club
Y3 Recorders
Y2/3 Chess
Y3 Animation Club
Thurs
Y3 Ukuleles Club (lunchtime)
Y1 Art
Y1/2/3 Street Dance
Y2 Multi Sports
Y2 Library/Book Club
Y2/3 Speech & Drama
Y2/3 Top Trumps/Cards/etc
7.30pm CSF Meeting (Rayson Room)
Fri Rec Construction Club
Y1 Football
Y2 Ball Skills
Y3 Hockey
Environment Agency Flood Drop-in Session
The Environment Agency will be hosting a drop-in session in the Old School Office at St Peter’s School between 4:30 and 7:30pm on Tuesday 24 January 2017.
The session, which is free to attend for everyone, will cover essential information on what to do before, during and after a flood. There will also be an interactive model of a flood catchment area, and the opportunity to find out more about potential improvements to flood defences in and around York.
Silver
Aidan, Emelia, Rory, Pietro, Sam,
Rohan, Tristan and Emily
Gold
Daisy, Louis, Ben, Tizzy and
Margaux
Class Winners
2H
The Year 3 badminton players ended their extra
curricula club with a singles tournament. This
gave them the opportunity to put all their new
found skills and tactics of the beautiful game
into some exciting and closely fought matches
which they umpired too. They have been an
amazing group to work with and I hope they will
all continue to enjoy playing badminton in the
future. Mrs Hicks
Is this your bowl? It is in the office, please come and claim it!
Year 1 had an
energetic morning on
Wednesday as they
took part in the
Sainsbury’s Street Dance sessions.
Stacey Didcock taught the children
some cool moves showing plenty of
attitude and the children performed a
short dance at the end of their
session. Thank you to everyone who made this possible
by collecting the Active Kids vouchers last year.
WARNING!! The voucher scheme for 2017 is being
launched very soon so please shop until you drop and
bring your vouchers into school!
This week Year 3 kick started this term’s topic at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
Planet Earth III has begun!
We enjoyed our visit to the Wildlife Park where we saw some amazing animals including lions, tigers,
polar bears and a rain shy giraffe! We held a giant snail, a cockroach and stoked a giant lizard!
We learnt lots of interesting facts about animals and have continued this in the classroom researching
and finding out about different animals. We are becoming experts on these different animals and have
created fact files and mini reports which will shortly be displayed in our classrooms, so pop in and take a
look!
2S and 2H all had an exciting start to the term.
Everyone came dressed up in Victorian clothing, ready to
experience ‘Hard Times’! This is the name of the new
theme this term. The children have been working on old
wooden desks, using slates and ink pens. A few inky fingers
have been seen and not being able to rub out ink has been
a challenge for the children. The children have been
suitably segregated into Boys and Girls classes for much of
the week and daily drill has been thoroughly enjoyed by all.
On Monday Year 2 will be dressing up again, ready to enjoy
another wonderful drama workshop with Paul Birch from
the Riding Lights Theatre Company.
We have bounced into 2017 in Reception! We had a fantastic time at Energi Park exploring how our bodies bounce and having fun in foam pits, giant air bags and on trampolines! We continued investigating ‘bounce’ this week by seeing what type of ball bounce the highest and lowest. Visiting St Peter’s Sports Hall we looked at balls of different sizes and textures. We then did our best estimating (see our fab thinking faces!) and ordered the balls by what we thought would happen. The fun followed testing in groups and then even measuring to see how high the balls did bounce! It’s safe to say RL are springing into this term with lots of energy and fascination!
This week in Year 1 we have been immersing ourselves in our new theme: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The children have transformed our role play into the chocolate factory from the story, complete with a boiled sweet pink boat and a bridge across the chocolate river. We made chocolate truffles and flavoured playdough sweets so the classroom smelt like a chocolate factory too. A lot of our work this week has been in pairs or teams to help us settle back in with our friends and encourage the children to think how to plan together, negotiate and problem solve. For example voting for which bridge they liked best or working in groups to make tally charts for sorting sweets and deciding their own criteria.
It was great to see you all back this week, Christmas seems so long ago already! We had a very chilled out playgroup this week, some children made glittery snowmen and each of his buttons had one of our initials on so that we could spell our names. It might snow this week so you can make a REAL SNOWMAN! See you all next week.
I hope you have all had a happy and relaxing Christmas and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy new year.
Forthcoming Events
Quiz Night – Friday 10th February 2017, 7.30pm in the Rayson Room
Sign up sheet is now in reception! Sign up your team of 6 or 8 people by Friday 3rd February.
The cost of this exciting event is £10 per person which includes food, please either give payment to me or hand it into reception. Cheques to be made payable to St Peters School. Once we receive payment you will receive your ticket for the evening.
All proceeds will go towards Clifton School Friends to enable us to continue to support the many in school projects.
Race Night – Date to be confirmed
Following on from last year’s successful race night we will be holding this fun event again, please look out for further announcements!
Parents’ Socials
Year 3 Mum’s & Dad’s Night Out – Friday 27th January 2017
Dates for your diary
CSF Meeting – Tuesday 17th January, 8.30 am in the school dining room – all welcome.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend,
Elizabeth
RS bounced into 2017 with a spring in
their step! Leading on from a successful
trip to ‘Energi’ trampoline park we
continued our topic using Space hoppers!
Over the course of the week we used
different ways to measure distance
and time using the spacehoppers. We
predicted outcomes, recorded results
and reviewed tests. We analaysed
what went well and how tests could
be improved to make them more accurate. An energetic
start to a very exciting new term ahead..!
We have had a great first week
settling back into Nursery talking
about and sharing photographs of our
holidays . We also welcomed some
new children and we enjoyed showing
them around and making new friends.
The cold and wild windy weather
inspired the children to experiment
with making kites at forest school
which was very tricky, but we worked together and
didn’t give up! Some children then chose to
make kites using their kite making skills and
after researching different kite designs. We
are hoping it will snow
so that we can continue
to enjoy the wintery
weather!