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What a wonderful term this has been.
of festive Christmas figures. We even managed time for some Christmas themed games in the This week the children in Year 1, Sports Hall to work off the Year 2 and Year 3 all performed their wonderful Christmas lunch provided Christmas performances to the by our incredible chef Stuart and his world, live streaming their dazzling catering team. What a fabulous day! productions via Planet eStream. I am Thanks to all the staff for organising sure you would agree that all of the the activities and to Mrs Bateson for Christmas Performances were planning and organising the day. outstanding over the past few weeks. I had the pleasure of watching all Today we had our end of term performances from Nursery to Year assembly, a chance for us to 3. I thought the acting, singing, celebrate the achievements of all of costumes, set, scripts, dancing and the children throughout the term. I confidence of them all were awarded the House point trophy for absolutely sensational. The children the term that was awarded to clearly had so much fun and Micklegate and Miss Flockhart enjoyment performing to their awarded the House Hockey Trophy audiences, albeit virtually. Many to the House of Walmgate. This term thanks to you as parents for coming we normally have a visit from the to watch (setting up the Zoom and Barbershop and Barbieshop from St Planet eStream, supporting learning Peter’s, led by Paul Miles-Kingston, lines, dance routines and creating Director of Music, and David costumes- your help is invaluable.) A Spencer. Unfortunately, due to our huge thank you and congratulations Covid–19 rules we were unable to to the staff for preparing the children welcome them at school. However, for these performances in addition to they sent us a recording that we their ‘normal’ teaching duties. A played to all classes during our particular thank you to Mrs Hayden assembly. They certainly entertained for the Christmas Performances and us all with their amazing all the work she had done in performances, thank you to all of the preparing the children for the Whole St Peter’s students and to Mr MilesSchool Carol Service. The staff are Kingston and Mr Spencer. To end truly a special team and I can’t thank our assembly, we had a hilarious them enough. Thank you also to performance of the Twelve Days of Michael Richards for turning the Christmas, which involved all the staff Rayson Room into a space that we and children and a lot of very noisy could perform in and to Mr Barry singing! Nacey, our IT Systems Manager, for Thank you for your contributions to setting up our virtual recording and our York Foodbank appeal. Miss filming all of the performances. Mounter is taking the school’s Finally, huge thanks and congratulations to the children—they donations to the distribution centre this afternoon and we need two are quite simply amazing! They performed with huge smiles on their minibuses to transport it all, so a huge thank you for your kind faces and were obviously enjoying generosity. We would also like to performing their plays to you all. thank parents throughout the whole On Thursday we had our Christmas school who came up with an initiative Celebration Day. The children to ensure that every member of staff arrived in school wearing their receives a Christmas card to show Christmas jumpers, reindeer antlers your appreciation. What a wonderful and Christmas hats to enjoy a day of idea which has meant so much to all fun and crafting in their year group the staff. bubbles. We have made 3D The St Peter’s 2-8 choir have Rudolphs, Christmas Wreaths, Snowmen biscuits and an assortment recorded a section for the Whole
Newsletter No: 12 Friday, 11th December 2020 School Carol Concert, which will premiere tonight at 6.30 on our school website: https:// www.stpetersyork.org.uk/ st_peters_13_18/news_calendar/ christmas-2020/carol-service, where you can also download an order of service. What a term it has been. I cannot thank the staff enough for all the work they do to ensure your children have the best possible learning experiences. They have all had to adapt to a different way of working in our bubbles and follow our guidance on Covid-19. The teachers and teaching assistants have been sensational, the children have been at the heart of everything they have done and wherever possible they have shielded the children from the anxieties and anguish that society is experiencing due to the pandemic. The children have had a stunning term, throwing themselves into new challenges always with an ‘I can’ attitude. Several of the children arrived at school having spent up to six months away and all of them have displayed a considerable amount of resilience and have re-established relationships and re-connected with the learning process so seamlessly due to the work around our resilience and recovery curriculum. Well done children. Thank you to all of our brilliant support staff; medical team led by Ashley Mason, Facilities Assistants led by Steve Howarth, cleaners led by Chris Alder, Catering team led by Stuart Norwood and Craig Robinson and also Georgina and Caroline in the office. Thanks finally to you, the parents, for your continued support, working in partnership with the school. We will be in touch early in the new year with details regarding next term. I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous new year in 2021. Love and best wishes.