International Women’s Day 2022

9th March 2022Mr J Morgan

Yesterday in school, we celebrated International Women’s Day. All the classes had their own focus and Mrs Walker had conducted some interviews with some inspirational women in the local area that the children could be inspired by and find out about.

Each child in Year 6 researched an inspirational woman of their choice – this formed part of a class piece of display work.
They learnt particularly about the three black women (Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson) who were a pivotal to the NASA space project and their engineering, physics and mathematical skills saved the life of John Glenn, the astronaut. They watched Hidden Figures. They then responded to this, extending their class display – their reactions were incredible!
Year 1 did a reactivation reading comprehension on Rosa Parks and Year 5 discussed famous women who have made a different across history.

World Book Day 2022

8th March 2022Mr J Morgan
World Book Day at SSPP was a spectacular event! The reading council have gone above and beyond to plan competitions and activities for the whole school. Each class got involved in our door decorating competition. You can see the photos below.
The winning classes will be announced in assembly on Friday! A huge well done to everyone!
Our second competition involved making a movie trailer to act out the blurb from a book. Pupils worked hard to develop their speaking and listening skills and the entries were very impressive.
What a fun day to celebrate the power of reading and promote our love of books. Remember, the GoReadathon competition is ongoing so continue to read and log your child’s efforts.

PCSO visit Year 6

3rd March 2022Mr J Morgan

To support the children’s learning on E-Safety and bullying, we arranged for our local PCSO to do a session with them addressing these topics. Year 6 found the PCSO visit very informative! They contributed enthusiastically and their learning has supported their E-Safety and Computing lessons.

Children’s Mental Health Week 2022

15th February 2022Mr J Morgan

Last week we celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week in school!

Nursery were learning about feelings, labelling them, thinking about how they recognise them in theirselves and others and demonstrating what they see on a person’s face if they are upset, angry, surprised, excited, worried and happy.
Year 1 children had a lovely week expressing their feelings and strategies they can use to help when they feel overwhelmed or confused.  They ended the week by drawing things that make them happy.  The children drew pictures with chalk in the playground, created their own happiness picture wall in class, and listened to soothing music.
Year 3 had a yoga lesson to help with their mindfulness and Year 4 learned about Diversity and about different types of music from different cultures.
 
Well done to Miss Field, Mrs Garbett and our well-being champions in school, who helped create the ‘Rainbow Room’ to support children’s well-being during lunchtime hours!

Basketball Festival

14th February 2022Mr J Morgan

Children from Year 4 and 5 took part in a Basketball festival last week and demonstrated a range of different skills including shuttle runs, dribbling the ball in a zig-zag direction and shooting. Once the children had warmed up, they took part in three basketball games against three different schools. Well done to all who participated and for representing your school.

School Council Bake Sale

12th February 2022Mr J Morgan

On Monday, the School Council Leaders are raising funds by holding a Valentine Bake Sale.  All funds raised will be used to deliver Random Acts of Kindness Gifts to people within our community during the week.  Cakes and biscuits will be available to buy – please send your child with some money so they support our fundraising efforts.

Silverstone STEM Workshop

11th February 2022Mr J Morgan

Our Year 5 and 6 children had a treat yesterday when they were able to join a STEM workshop provided by Silverstone Museum.

The children found about the history of the race track, for example that it was used as a runway for planes in World War 2. The children reactivated their history skills when comparing images from the past and present.

They were also able to see, feel and discuss different objects from motor racing including a fuel cell, race suit, helmet and different tyres.

The children were also told about all the different jobs that are available in Formula 1! A lot of our children were inspired, one wanting to go on to be an engineer and another, a racing driver! Thanks goes to Silverstone for providing this and Children’s University for making it available to our school.

Year 6 Retreat Day

10th February 2022Mr J Morgan

Year 6 had a wonderful retreat day. They represented the school very well; through their eloquent ideas and contributions and their exemplary behaviour. They are growing closer to the Holy Spirit and demonstrating dedication to their Sacramental preparation. Well done, Confirmandi.

 

Safer Internet Day 2022

9th February 2022Mr J Morgan

Yesterday in school, we celebrated Safer Internet Day! Classes reactivated their learning on being safe online from their computing lessons and completed lots of different fun acticvites. Our children in  Coding Club with Mr Morgan produced quizzes for children to answer and our younger children produced videos to remind us to be safe online!