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Newsletter No: 11 Friday, 4th December 2020
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It has been another exciting week at St Peter’s 2-8 with a tremendous amount going on in school. On Tuesday the Reception children performed their Christmas ‘Ho, Ho, Ho, what a show!’ and it certainly was a magical show! It was delightful listening to what the children have been learning in music this half term with Mrs Hayden and seeing the confidence and excitement the children had in performing to their virtual audience from around the world. The children recited poems, played chime bars and sang Christmas songs whilst wearing very festive Christmas jumpers. On Thursday morning it was Nursery’s turn to perform and they were amazing, singing many Christmas songs, playing sleigh bells to accompany the singing and dancing to their Christmas tunes. It was lovely to watch the children perform so confidently on stage thoroughly enjoying performing to their virtual audience. Well done to all of the children in Nursery and Reception. My thanks to all of the staff in Nursery and Reception who have worked tirelessly to support the children preparing to entertain us all. Huge thanks to Mrs Hayden our musical maestro who has taught the children all of the songs and sprinkled her musical festive fairy dust over proceedings. Thanks also to Barry Nacey for all his help and IT support setting up the virtual livestreaming of these events, our first at St Peter’s. My final thanks to the parents and grandparents who joined via Zoom as well as Planet eStream to be part of the virtual audience.
the performances. I can’t wait to watch these performances and I am sure you can’t either! On Thursday we have a Christmas activity day There will be Christmas crafts to make, Cookies to ice and games to play. Children can wear their festive Christmas jumpers on this day. Our chef Stuart Norwood with his team will be preparing a Christmas lunch on Thursday which will be delicious. Stuart has asked us to send you the most recent menus for you to see and Craig Robinson our catering manager has included a brownie recipe for you all to try at home. More details further in the newsletter. Paul Miles-Kingston, the Director of Music at St. Peter’s 2-18, and all of the music staff at St Peter’s 218 are preparing a St Peter’s 2-18 Christmas Service which has been recorded over the past few weeks. The Year 2 and Year 3 children were filmed this week singing three carols in the Chapel. One of our Governors, The Dean of York, Rev Dr Jonathan Frost, came into the Chapel this week to record a piece and the Headmaster, Jeremy Walker has recorded a reading. There will be a link on Friday to enable you to watch this recording at home. Thank you to everyone including Mrs Hayden for all their hard work to create what will be a brilliant service.
there are no school rules at St Peter’s 2-8 as we want our pupils to learn about and develop the school values within themselves, rather than impose a list of rules upon them. Instead, we teach pupils about and live by our seven school values. These values enable our pupils to make choices and consider how to act engendering tolerance, respect and celebrating difference and diversity within our school community and beyond. The values are displayed around school and each half term we focus on a value in assemblies and in PSHE. This half term our focus is on the school value of ‘Hope – We prepare for the future. We relish every opportunity that comes our way and we take time to reflect, dream and aspire’. Our celebration on a Friday allows the teachers to talk about a child or children in their class who have demonstrated the school values throughout the week and award a Value Champion Award to positively reinforce the importance of these values. When the children start at St Peter’s 2-8 they are introduced to the Learning Superheroes with their Learning Superpowers. The aim is to teach the children about the process of learning to encourage them to take ownership for their learning and to be engaged, motivated and confident learners. We believe that it is important that our children understand how to learn effectively and that they can talk about their learning and develop a ‘toolkit’ of specific strategies that support effective learning. We selected the superheroes as characters that the children could identify with to provide a visual reminder. We are now able to listen to children describing which learning super powers they will need and beginning to develop an understanding of how they can learn. Our children know that they can call on their learning superpowers and all be learning superheroes! All of the children at St Peter’s 2-8 use their ‘learning superpowers’ throughout the curriculum. We encourage the children to discuss and evaluate how they have approached a task. The children become unafraid of getting stuck, but rather begin to embrace a level of difficulty. They show imagination and creativity in their thought and are able to recognise and celebrate themselves and others as learners. To this end in our celebration assembly each class celebrates a learning superhero, a child or children who demonstrate the superpowers of one or more of our learning superheroes.
One of the highlights of the week in the Celebration assembly on a Friday. The House Point trophy is I have also loved the Reception Advent calendar each awarded and music and Physical Education Awards are awarded to children by Miss Flockhart and Mrs day on our school Facebook account. Hayden. Also it provides an opportunity to present a Next week it will be the turn of Year 1 on Monday at value champion and learning superhero for each class. 1.30pm, Year 2 on Tuesday at 1.30pm and Year 3 on Best wishes for a restful weekend, At St Peter’s 2-8 we create a positive environment Wednesday at 1.30pm. These will be live streamed for learning by ensuring that our school values are at and the links will be sent to you on the morning of the heart of all we do in school. As you are aware Learning in different ways
In the Learning Zone
Learning from Experience
Rita Resilience
Reflective Rory
We want to learn
We are thoughtful learners
Ricki Resourceful
Reflect on learning
We are bold learners
Consider what to do next time
Try out different solutions
Be absorbed, engrossed and engaged in learning Be curious and ask questions Focus, concentrate and manage distractions Keep going, persevere make mistakes and bounce back
Revisit, refine, improve
Choose ways to do things
Reflect on the learning of others
Make links between learning
Celebrate your learning
Build on previous learning
Celebrate the learning of others
Explore, wonder, imagine, reason
Team work Collaborator Twins We are all part of a learning community Work successfully with others Contribute and listen Take on leadership roles Work alone Know when and where to seek help and advice