This week, SS Peter and Paul have been enjoying mindfulness week, where the children and staff have been encouraged to take time for themselves to ensure we are of a positive mental well-being.
Each class has created their own well-being area where children can use when needed.
Also, we have hosted a family yoga session and staff also participated in their own yoga session after school. With everything that is going on at the moment, it is important that we take time for ourselves.
Updated advice on coronavirus (COVID-19) – 13/03/2020
Our Academy continues to follow the updated advice issued by Public Health England and GOV. UK
Public Health England guidance continues to promote basic hygiene practices, such as regularly washing hands and always sneezing into a tissue before putting in a bin, to stem the spread of viruses.
The latest advice has changed and moved into the ‘delay’ phase of planning. The purpose of this phase is to delay the burden on public services and help reduce and delay the peak of the virus in our country. In particular, recommendations are in place to protect the vulnerable and elderly.
Government officials have stated that it would be ineffective to close schools at this stage. Therefore, it is important that we continue to manage our school communities, providing calm, safety and education for our young people.
To delay the spread of the virus, the Government has asked people with either ‘a high temperature or a new continuous cough’ to stay at home for 7 days. Please see the latest advice on https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus which has been updated since our last communication.
Stay at home for 7 days if you have either:
a high temperature
a new continuous cough
https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
In the meantime, we wish all well and remain committed to reducing the impact of this situation on our pupils’ educational opportunities, whilst supporting one another to protect the elderly, vulnerable and our community.
Based on latest guidelines, please remind children to wash their hands for 20 seconds with hot, soapy water – these videos will help.
On Friday, SS Peter and Paul celebrated their World Book Day. All children and staff came dressed in some of their favourite book characters from well known stories.
As a school, we joined the nationwide campaign to share a million stories. Children shared some of their class texts with the school, staff also read to the children and during the day different classes joined and read to each other.The website will keep you updated with our schools number. Remember: 1 story share = the number of children who are listening, so if you are reading to a group of 30, that’s 30 story shares!
Here are some of the images from our World Book Day!
Our Reception class have had some chick eggs and we are pleased to say that all 10 have now safely hatched. Soon some videos taken by the children of the chicks hatching will be available.
On Wednesday as part of their history week, Years 4 and 5 went to visit the home of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. As part of their local history focus, both classes visited the stadium’s museum to learn about the club’s history but were also lucky enough to get a tour of the stadium as it is now.
On Tuesday, our Early Years team invited parents and family members in to make pancakes with the children. This resulted in lots of flipping fun and full tummies!
The children were awake and ready for breakfast by 8:15 am. They then had a breakfast of toast, beans, cereal, orange juice and a cup of tea before going back to their rooms and making their beds for the next guests.
We then went for a 2.5 miles farm walk, where we saw some of the sights of Kingswood, while learning about farm machinery. The children returned to a hot lunch of pasta bake before finishing with a blind fold activity, where their peer had to guide them round a course in the forest.
The children had a fantastic time and we would like to thank the Kingswood staff for providing such a wonderful stay.
