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The first three weeks of the academic year have been extremely successful here at St Peter’s 2-8. The children have settled into school life so brilliantly and are enjoying their learning and the wealth of experiences on offer. I really appreciate all of your feedback and as you will be aware we are constantly evaluating our approaches and adapting and making changes where necessary. Drop off and collection of your children is going well and I politely request that you remain socially distanced to keep the children, staff and yourselves safe.
their name label is and we will teach them how to check their labels before they put an item of kit on at school. This will help us tremendously and hopefully match children with the correct kit to go home. As the weather gets colder, please make sure your children come to school wrapped up in warm and waterproof clothing; their school coats and gloves and hats if possible.
Our return to school curriculum reflects the already well-established and robust ethos of the nurturing learners who are highly motivated, engaged and develop a strong set of learning behaviours Over the first two weeks our dining (metacognitive skills). As previously, our operation across the school concentrated curriculum does not sit outside of on the processes to enable the school to wellbeing but acknowledges that both feed the children safely. Following a academic achievement and wellbeing review of the menus at the end of last impact on each other and are mutually week our catering manager has beneficial. implemented changes providing food that is varied, nutritious and appealing to We have continued to use our thematic young children. A new menu will be approach to learning with each year circulated in due course. We are offering group adopting a theme to capitalise on more dishes with ‘hidden’ vegetables in children’s interests and through which we addition to additional vegetables on the can weave curriculum subjects. Pupils side. It would be great if you could talk have the opportunity to become experts through the menus at home with your on a particular theme and have the child and encourage them to try opportunity to make links between everything, even things they aren’t sure subject areas and practice and refine skills about! learnt in subject areas. Essentially teaching by stealth! The themes are: Year 2 The Another area where we need your Firebird, Year 3 The Resilient Romans, support is the labelling of school uniform. Year 1 Our Tribal Classroom. These Please can you show your children where themes were chosen to support the following new element to our curriculum, introduced by Mrs Clarke; the Recovery and Resilience Curriculum, based on the work on Prof. Barry Carpenter. We have been pleased that pupils have in the main settled smoothly back into school many pupils as a result of lockdown have regressed in terms of their metacognitive skills and learning behaviours in areas such as; being able to sustain effort, maintain concentration and focus and accept challenge.
Newsletter No: 3 Friday, 25th September 2020 The Recovery and Resilience Curriculum is delivered explicitly through PSHE lessons and is implicit within all other areas of school life. It is built on five principles, which aim to use protective factors to build resilience on an individual and school level. Putting emotional wellbeing first for everyone including staff Reaffirming the school core values and re-establishing a sense of community Placing relationships front and centre teacher – pupil, pupil-pupil, teacher-teacher. Establish new routines and ensure everyone feels safe Acknowledge loss, change and bereavement This curriculum supports the wellbeing of the children and supports the development of metacognitive skills so that pupils become learners who can think about and purposefully plan, direct and reflect on their own learning. So far, we have seen positive change in the majority of pupils within the first two and a half weeks and are identifying areas of specific need that will be targeted over the course of the term. This term our open events will be predominantly virtual. Parents can register online here. Please also watch a number of short videos displaying our school; Sports and PE and an introduction to St Peter’s 2-8. Finally, Mrs Taylor, a part-time Teaching Assistant in Year 3, leaves St Peter’s 2-8 today after fourteen years of loyal service. We wish her well for her move to London to be with her family. Wishing you a fantastic exeat weekend,