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It has been another action packed week at St Peter’s 2-8. The year 3 children as part of the fabulous finish of their theme have made homemade pizzas. The children enjoyed proving and kneading dough and creating their own toppings and styles. Today the school dining hall, tomorrow a pizzeria in the shadow of the Colosseum… Year 2 have embarked on an extremely ambitious design project; The Great Year 2 Sewing Bee is upon us! The children are making their own fabric Christmas decorations! We go from Sewing Bee and Bake-Off to David Attenbourough in Year 1, where their Tribal Classroom theme has taken them to Africa this week, where they are all becoming expert animal conservationists. On the rare occasions Reception have come in from playing outside, either in the forest whittling sticks, making leaf kebabs or building in the outdoor play area, the children have been starring in their own Advent calendar… look out for their performances, coming soon to the school social media channels. Nursery have been joined by a kindness elf, who brought the Acorns some gifts and an elf called Ernie who the Conkers found down at Forest School! Mrs Hayden has been rehearsing all of the Christmas songs for the performances in each year group and they all sound amazing. There is so much joy and happiness when listening to the children sing. All of the teachers and teaching assistants have been creatively managing the production of the plays and with your support creating costumes. The Christmas performances will be wonderful, despite them being performed in the Rayson Room and not on our usual stage in school – I
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY DAY On Thursday 10th December, all children from Nursery to Year 3 will be taking part in our Christmas Celebration Day.
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There will be Christmas crafts to make, Cookies to ice and games to play, we will also be having Christmas Lunch. Children are invited to wear their most fabulous Christmas jumpers on our festive fun day. Mrs Bateson Fa la la la la!
know the children are very excited. The Rayson Room will be transformed into a film set (my thanks to Ms Collins for organising the backdrop) and the performances will be live streamed to the parents and also recorded for those who can’t attend the live performances. Please see below a reminder of the days when the children are performing. Log in details will be shared with you the day before your child’s performance.
Newsletter No: 10 Friday, 27th November 2020
other exciting surprises. There is a booking form at the end of the Newsletter. There is a message later in the newsletter about an appeal from York Sports’ club who are building a pavilion in memory of Dan Woods, a former member of staff at school. This facility will support sport for everyone including junior cricket and rugby of all age groups and genders, senior cricket, women’s rugby and sevens, social areas for squash and tennis as well as facilitating sporting Tuesday 1st December 1.30pm Reception opportunities for local schools and the Christmas Performance disabled. It has been lovely watching the children Thursday 3rd December 10am Nursery Christmas celebrating Christmas early this year by Performance creating a special Christmas Wish Bauble. The Monday 7th December 1.30pm Year 1 Christmas children have been decorating their own baubles this week, and each child has written a Performance Christmas wish inside their bauble. The Tuesday 8th December 1.30pm Year 2 Christmas baubles have been added to the Christmas Performance Trees in the school Entrance and Library. All of these baubles will be returned to the Wednesday 9th December 1.30pm Year 3 children on the last day of term so that they Christmas Performance can hang them on their own Christmas tree at home and share their wish with their families. The Year 2 and Year 3 children have been filming this week for their parts in the Whole My thanks to Caroline Fattorini for organising School Carol Service that will be screened on the event. The children in the choir in Year 3 and all of Friday 11th December (more details to the year 2 have been filmed this week singing follow). Many thanks for all the parents who attended for the Musical Connections care homes project. I know their performance will be the Parents’ Forum on Thursday evening. It thoroughly enjoyed by the residents in the was wonderful to see so many of you care home when they are shown to them later attending. The feedback you provided was invaluable and as I mentioned, you can always this month. Thank you to all of the children and Mrs Hayden for organizing such a brilliant provide feedback by emailing me at school. I initiative. The children would usually visit the hope you also enjoyed the opportunity to care homes in person to sing and share an meet other parents from your year group in afternoon with the people living there and we the break out rooms and my thanks to the are delighted to be able to participate in a parents who facilitated these conversations. My huge thanks for all of your support and the different way when this kind of community initiative is all the more important. overwhelmingly positive feedback you I am really excited about the final two weeks provided about your child’s start to the of term at St Peter’s 2-8. I am sure as always it academic year. The Friends of St Peter’s 2-8 met virtually on is going to be a magical time of the year for the children and whole school community. I Monday evening and it was lovely to see look forward to seeing the Reception everyone on Zoom. My thanks for their swimmers in the morning. support this term; they have facilitated the Christmas Card Design, Bags2School and plan Best wishes, to collect for the York Food Bank during the last week before we break up for Christmas. This group is open to all and if anyone wants to join then please let me or the school know. More the merrier! Following the success of the October Holiday school for the children, we will be running a Christmas Holiday Activity week during the first week of the holidays. There will be art and craft, swimming, forest school, baking, team games, computers, school cinema and