On Friday 16th June, our children participated in the annual Wolverhampton Great School Run at Aldersley Leisure Village.

Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 participated in lots of physical activities throughout the day including a grueling run in the summer heat. Years 1 and 2 also came up for the run and it was great to see them running along side our older children.

A pleasant day had by all.

On Friday 26th May, the children across the school celebrated International Children’s Day. The children got to plan what they wanted to do throughout the day.

In Early Years, the children requested to wear their own clothes, participate in free flow activities inside and outside Nursery and Reception and have music playing with lots of dancing. They also wanted to have special food, some of which was donated by our families.  We would like to thank our parents for their generous donations of food from a range of cultures. This included; Lithuanian biscuits, Latvian pie with meat, Italian cannelloni, Chinese food, rice, samosas, Polish jelly dessert and Romanian cake!

This morning was our May Procession service for the crowning of our lady. In a change to recent years and to celebrate the wonderful weather God has sent us, we chose to have the service outside.

Martyna, who is from Year 6, crowned our lady in front of our whole school and several parents in the glorious sunshine. There were opportunities to celebrate the talented artists in our school, who produced pictures depicting the different incidents in the life of Mary. Our year 6 pupils led the service tremendously with some excellent singing from the rest of the school.

Thank you to Mrs Byrne, Mr Swanwick and Miss Higgins for organising this morning’s ceremony.

Congratulations to the six children who received the Sacrament of the Eucharist at SS Peter and Paul Church on Saturday 20th May.

Last week the children in Reception had a special delivery of 7 mysterious eggs. The children then had to guess what type of eggs they were. There were guesses ranging from chicks, penguins, snakes and crocodiles! Fortunately, no crocodiles or snakes hatched out of the eggs and instead we were lucky to have 7 little ducks hatch last Thursday and Friday. Children (and teachers) from all over school have been fascinated by the little ducklings and have been visiting them daily to check on how they are doing.

The ducks in reception have prompted some excellent opportunities for writing in the class. The children have written instructions on how to look after ducks and also they have written letters to mother duck so that she knows how her children are getting on at SS Peter and Paul, which I am pleased to say is swimmingly!

Earlier today, eight children from years 4, 5 and 6 represented the school in a Kwik Cricket festival at Fordhouse’s Cricket Club.

There were four schools who attended and these played each other in matches, with the winning team going onto play in the city finals competition. Each school had eight overs to field and eight overs to bat, with the team with the most runs winning.

Our first game was again St Bart’s who had all year 6 boys in their team, with some very talented cricketers. They scored 289 runs, with our children scoring 214. This was a tough start for our children but they didn’t let their heads drop.

Our second game was against The Royal school. They batted first and set another huge total of 284. Our children came out very determined and there were some fantastic shots from Autumn,  Ariyan and Jorawer. After our eight overs, we had scored 262 runs. Just short of the Royal’s total but a massive improvement on the first game, our children were buzzing!

Our final game was against Stowheath Primary School. Our captain, Ariyan, chose to field first so that we had a total to try and beat. Stowheath batted very well and scored 244 runs. We started off very well with Reuben scoring some sixes and our other pairs also batting well. Then in the final over, Stowheath got their best bowler in and he got three wickets in a row. This meant we had lost 15 runs! Fortunately, we had built up enough runs in the previous overs and we finished on 251 runs! A great result for the team and a great way to finish an excellent morning of cricket.

Well done to all the children involved!

On Wednesday 3rd May, our year five class took part in a workshop where they were taught how to play the polyphones by Mr Clark. This included a performance to the entire school and parents in the afternoon. Year 5 then did some follow up writing on the workshop in their English class, writing a newspaper report on the event. Here is an example of one child’s report:

SS Peter and Paul Sing the Blues

On Wednesday 3rd May, a year five class from SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy learnt to play the polyphones.

Mr Clark, who is a musician, taught year five how to play the polyphones. The class learnt a tune called the ‘Twelve Bar Blues’ and apparently they performed it amazingly. Mr Clark helped year five remember the four notes by showing one, two, three or four on his fingers. All children in year five enjoyed learning to play. Sophie, a year five pupil, stated, “I enjoyed it, it was very fun!” When the children were ready and set to go, they performed to the entire school. Every child in year five had a go at doing a solo but these people did during the performance: Kiera, Kaloyan, Khola, Karo, Kamila, Reece, Tanaka, Mr Morgan and Mr Clark’s wife and daughter. About twenty parents attended the performance and all of them being very proud. Mr Morgan stated, “I was very proud of year five”.

At the end of the performance, everyone gave year five a gigantic clap for all the hard work. Next year Mr Clark will hopefully return to teach the current year four to play the polyphones just like year five did.

Congratulations to our citizen of the term winner – Ariyan Pallan in Year 6. Ariyan is an excellent role model for the younger children in school. He demonstrates a positive attitude to learning who is always wanting to improve. Over the past term, Ariyan has shown how he is willing to support others around school; stepping in for other children to read in mass and supporting Key Stage 1 children in their lunch time by playing games and activities with them. He is held in high regard by his classmates, with some personally nominating him for the award. Well done Ariyan!