During our wider curriculum week before our Christmas break, all year groups had a Geography focus, with each year group focusing on the key skills of the geography curriculum.

This involved learning about famous mountain ranges, volcanoes, rain forests and the continents around the world. The children thoroughly enjoyed their week, which involved a visitor in Year 5 discussing his recent climb up Mount Everest!

Children in most classes produced some Geography projects over the holiday and here are a few that came in. A huge thank you to the continued support from our parents/carers that supported the children in their Geography projects.

Premier Sport, who deliver some of our extra curricular activities, have been into school to reward those children that are trying their best in their sessions. All children were awarded with a certificate and some superstars were awarded with medals for the effort that they have been putting in, like Dominic and Jakub from Year 2!

This morning, SS Peter and Paul welcomed pupils, staff and parents to celebrate, what has been a fantastic term for our children.

Mrs Byrne led an assembly, which firstly focused on Advent and why we celebrate Christmas. As usual at SS Peter and Pauls, there was a lot of child input to the assembly, with Year 5 children performing some readings, Year 1 and 2 singing a song from their Christmas production, our choir performing one of their Christmas songs, Year 6 performing some songs they had written themselves to celebrate Advent, and also a solo from one of our Year 3 children.

Mrs Byrne then moved onto celebrating the achievement of our pupils this term. We had children awarded their golden book certificates, which were linked to their hard work in our wider curriculum week. This half term the children have been learning about the values of being Learned and Wise. A child, who had demonstrated these values in school, was awarded with a virtues and values certificate.

Mrs Byrne also took the time to thank two members of our community who have helped the school a lot over this term. Shariah’s nan has helped support in Key Stage One, especially in helping for the Christmas production. Mr Swanwick was also thanked for his continued support in preparing and organising our masses in school.

As if that wasn’t enough…. We had a record-breaking number of children with 100% attendance over the Autumn Term. Our attendance has never been higher, and we thank our children and parents for their hard work in supporting the school to meet (and exceed) our school target! Congratulations to Raphael in Year 1, who was one of our 100% attendees, his name was picked out at random and he won a Tesco voucher!

Olivier, in Year 6, was awarded our Citizen of the Term, and he was proudly watched by his mum as he received his award.

A huge thank you to all the parents this term for your continued support. All the staff at SS Peter and Paul wish you a happy and safe Christmas and look forward to seeing you back at school on the 3rd January in the new year.

Last Thursday, our Christmas dinner was served in school. The children enjoyed eating their dinner in the festive setting, with the Christmas tree (decorated by the children) and carol singers, well prepared by Mrs Sandhu. Thank you to all of our wonderful lunchtime staff who prepared the meal for the children.

On Friday morning, our Nursery and Reception children performed their Christmas nativity to all of their proud families. The children were fantastic and performed really well. A huge thank you to the hard work put in by our Early Years team.

Thank you to all the parents that came to support their children.

Due to governor concerns that not enough staff will be able to attend tomorrow to safely open the site to classes, school will be closed to the children tomorrow. This is due to the extreme weather conditions over the last few days and the freezing temperatures today and tonight causing hazardous travelling conditions on the roads. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Due to health and safety concerns on the school site as a result of the hazardous weather, school will be closed for all staff and pupils on Monday 11th December.

Today, we launch our Punctuality Focus Week. During this week, we will be monitoring attendance and punctuality daily and talking to your children about the importance of regular attendance and punctuality.

It has been proven that poor attendance directly effects attainment. Your children can only learn if they come to school every day on time.

There will be a reward for all those children who have attended school every day and on time.

Punctuality Focus Week will take place each half term, look out for your text reminders!

Yesterday, SS Peter and Paul welcomed Palmers Cross Primary for our first netball match of this academic year. Despite the weather (which was freezing), both teams were up for a competitive match. In the first quarter, we were a bit nervous and it took us some time to settle into the game. We did have a few chances of scoring but unfortunately they just wouldn’t go in and after 6 minutes we were down by four goals.

In the second quarter (and a change around of the team), we scored two goals – both scored by Kaloyan in year 6! Our defenders were a lot more active too. The score was now 4-2. Moving into the third quarter, with the weather getting increasingly colder, the score was increased by four goals to Palmers Cross despite us trying our best.

Now we were into the final quarter and yet another change around of positions. The light by this time was fading fast and in this quarter we held off our opponents and increased our score by one, scored by Kaloyan.

The final score was SS Peter and Paul: 3 Palmers Cross: 8. It was a very enjoyable match and considering our opponents had been playing together as a team for two years, we did exceptionally well. Well done to all the team and our supporters – our man of the match was Bartosz in year 6, who never stopped defending. Our team included: Jessica, Kiera, Kaloyan, Karo and Bartosz (yr. 6), Autumn, Blessing, (yr5) and Lyra (yr. 4).