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It was lovely to welcome the children back to school for the Summer Term and to hear all about their Easter holiday adventures. The children arrived on Monday to find the front hall adorned with an array of flags from all around the world as well as the Olympic rings and they were excited to get stuck into learning about all aspects of the Olympics which is our fabulous whole school theme for the term. Many thanks to Miss Evans for decorating the front hall.
The vision for the Olympics is to build a better world through sport and in assembly. I told the children about the Olympic values of striving for excellence and being the best we can be, respecting ourselves, each other and our environment and celebrating friendship, particularly making new friends from all over the world. These are all great values for the children to think about and to aspire to and will form the basis of our theme which we hope the children will be fascinated by.
Sport and physical activity has so many benefits for our children - not only the physical but also social, psychological and developmental and promoting sport and physical activity is an important part of our curricular and cocurricular offering at St
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Peter’s from age 2 to 18. The Chief Medical Officer for England recommends that children should have at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day and yet of the 7 million children aged 5 to 15 in England it is estimated that over half do not reach this target. This is not the case for our children, who far exceed this by being active at playtimes and in clubs, and during their PE, games and swimming lessons. In PSHE this week the children counted up their active minutes getting to an average of 90 minutes per day!
nurture this whilst recognising the differing interests children have and the barriers they may have to being active and enjoying physical activity. There are so many ways to be physically active and there is always something for everyone.
Physical literacy has been shown in many research studies to be crucial to Childrens' levels of activity and it’s central to our approach to equip children to become physically literate.
Physical literacy has five elements which are: enjoyment, confidence competence, understanding and knowledge and all of these are incorporated as objectives when we plan our curriculum and lessons. Living an active life is important for our children now and beyond, and it’s so important that we
Not all physical activity needs to be in the form of organised sports. Children playing freely outside can be just as valuable for their physical health and wellbeing. This term as the weather improves (fingers crossed), we will get the children outside as much as possible for after school care and of course at playtimes. Along with physical activity, being in nature has multiple benefits for our children too.
In the Tuesday email we shared details of our Great St Peter’s Menu Competition (details here or on a separate page).
I hope that you have a lovely weekend.
Best wishes,
DIARY FOR WEEK COMMENCING
22 April 2024
School Council
M O N D A Y
Year 1 Lexia
Year 2 Art
Year 3 Cricket*
Year 1, 2 & 3 Lioness Football*
Year 1, 2 & 3 ASC
Year 1 Outdoor Games
Year 1 Wellbeing
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Year 2 Cricket*
Year 2 STEM
Year 3 Tennis*
Year 3 Swimming
Year 2 & 3 Dance*
Year 2 & 3 French
Year 1, 2 & 3 ASC
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Year 1 Football*
Year 1 Yoga*
Year 2 & 3 Choir
Year 1, 2 & 3 ASC T H
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Year 1 Clay Craft
Year 1 Board Games
Year 2 Tennis*
Year 2 Cooking
Year 3 Athletics
Year 3 Sewing
Year 3 STEM
Year 2 & 3 European Languages & Cultures
Year 1, 2 & 3 ASC
Year 1 Dance*
F R I D
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Year 1 Cricket*
Year 2 Board Games
Year 3 VR
Year 2 & 3 Football*
Year 1, 2 & 3 ASC
