Today we welcomed many parents and carers into early years to make pancakes with their children. They were able to choose a healthy fruit topping, and the pancakes were then devoured by the children with great enthusiasm. Parents commented “thank you so much for inviting us to join in with this today, we have really enjoyed it.”

A wonderful community event !  Thank you to our Early Years leader – Mrs Murphy – for organising.

Last Thursday, some of our year 1 and 2 children were selected to represent the school in a Multi-skills event. They were split into teams of boys and girls and had to complete a number of different activities that would test their balance, coordination, speed and agility.

The children did extremely well and finished with a combined score of 1023 points! Each child received a certificate, which was presented during praise assembly.

Congratulations to our Confirmandi, who on Tuesday last week, were confirmed at St Michael’s Church by Bishop McGough. The children looked very smart and were supported by their families and staff from the school.

Many thanks to Miss Higgins, who helped prepare the children for their confirmation.

The children had a great nights sleep and were up early this morning to pack their bags and strip their beds before breakfast.

After breakfast, the children made the beds ready for the new school and are currently on a farm walk. Once back, the children will have lunch and then get ready to return to school.

The children have had a fully packed day and are now settling into their beds ready to go to sleep.

After having lunch earlier, the children then went and experienced what it was like to be in an Anderson Shelter during the war. They found this very interesting and were able to show off their knowledge of World War 2. Following that, the children then went on a material trail around the local environment – demonstrating their knowledge of different materials and their properties.

The children were then very excited to get the opportunity to feed the sheep (very hungry sheep).

We then all came back inside after a play and the children had their lunches, that their parents had kindly packed for them. Then, after tidying up and setting up for Breakfast tomorrow, the children went into the playroom and played in the soft play area, dressed up, drew pictures, played instruments and read books.

We were then joined by the staff joining us overnight. Mr Morgan opened up the shop and the children were able to spend their money buying gifts.

Finally, the children enjoyed a hot chocolate and a biscuit, had a wash and brushed their teeth ready for a bed time story, excited for their day tomorrow.

The children have arrived safe and sound and fortunately the weather has also improved. They have unpacked and played on the ropes and the zipwire whilst also completing a nature trail this morning.

We have just had our lunch and the staff here were impressed with the children’s manners. They are now enjoying some play outside.

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.