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Children make sure you are logging your reading every day! Remember it can be anything: newspaper, magazine, one page of your book… make sure you log it on Go Read :-).
This week in our Early Years, we have some ducklings who have come to visit. We have organised family sessions to meet the ducklings this week. It is wonderful to be planning ways to have families back in school for special, memorable events.
Congratulations to our World Book Day competition Winners.
The results of the door jackets competition were:
1st – Year 3 2nd – Year 1 3rd – Year 6
The winning year group for the trailer was Year 5 for their book Megamonster! Here is their trailer below:
Children from Year 5 and 6 took part in a football match against St Andrews this week, demonstrating a high standard of teamwork and sportsmanship. In the first half we went up 1-0 thanks to a brilliantly crafted goal by Boyd. In the second half, St Andrews scored a goal to make it 1-1, with the ball trickling past our goal keeper. In the final moments of the match, it looked as though St Andrews were going to score a winning goal but Kacper denied them the chance of winning with fantastic goal-keeping acrobatics. The game ended as a draw but in a friendly penalty shootout, St Peter and Paul’s won by 10 goals to 5.
Here is Boyd’s goal – including an excellent celebration dedicated to the people of Ukraine.
We are extremely proud of our team and if you see them around school, be sure to congratulate them on their result.
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
