On Thursday 15th September, we celebrated democracy day by holding our school votes for our School Council representatives and for our house captains! The children wanting to take on these roles had to do a speech and then their fellow peers voted as to who they would want in the role! The winners were announced in Praise Assembly today!

Today, the children celebrated Roald Dahl’s birthday by dressing up as their favourite characters from Roald Dahl books! Mrs Griffiths led an assembly, where we learned about the amount of books he had written and when he first wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! This came as quite a shock to some of the children!

The children also spent time in their English lessons learning about their new class texts, which are all Roald Dahl classics!

Today, we were very luckly to welcome local celebrity Eva Abley, who was a finalist on Britain’s got Talent! Eva shot to fame as a comedian on the televised talent show finishing 5th, while also promoting awaress around her disability Cerebral Palsy.

This morning, she spoke to the children about disability and about showing kindness and respect, which fitted in brilliantly to our school rules and ethos! Eva also didn’t disappoint the children as she told them a joke about the difference between teachers and a book….. you can shut a book up!!!

All of our fantastic summer learners were awarded the chance to share a picture with Eva!

How wonderful to welcome our school community back after their holidays! You will all have received a letter yesterday stating some of our staffing changes, PE Timetables, and expectations moving forward for the new year, if you have not, please let us know at the school office.

Our new children to Reception are settling in really well, and all the children have settled well into their new classes as they have been getting to know their teachers and completing activities to reactivate their learning from last year!

We look forward to a wonderful new term ahead with lots of exciting experiences for our children!

We are delighted to announce that we, SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy, have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year. This is our 3rd Gold mark in a row!

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in
2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise school’s engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our events possible. We are committed to using the School Games to try and engage those young people who haven’t previously been active or represented our school and to try and ensure that all our students have a positive experience and want to try out new activities beyond school too in our community. We believe in the power of physical activity and school sport as a school and give opportunities to those young people that need it most either as a participant, leader, official or volunteer.

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas linked to the five School Games outcomes and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

On Friday, we celebrated our youngest children graduating from Nursery – here are some of their pictures!

Congratulations to Zuza and Layla who were runners up in the Severn Trent Upcycling competition. They will be receiving tickets to the Commonwealth Games. A massive well done to everyone who took part in the competition – it’s fantastic to keep the importance of re-using and recyling at the forefront of our minds.