Manny came to visit us today to join in the countdown to our very own London Marathon Challenge here at SS Peter & Paul. He cut the ribbon on our gate to open up the course today the day before he sets off for his own London Marathon Challenge! This April we are showing our personal best to try and take on the challenge of travelling a distance of wither 2.6 km or 2.6 miles. Year 3-6 started today, cheered on by their peers across the school, all the staff and our VIP guest! 
Yesterday, the first ever World Daily Mile Day is took place on Thursday 27th April 2023. The Daily Mile is a simple, yet effective initiative where children run, jog, wheel, or toddle for just 15 minutes a day.
Hundreds of early years settings from around the world too part – including our own! Nursery completed 5 laps of the school field!
Here is Reception after they completed the Daily Mile 10th Anniversary challenge.
Last week we celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week in school!
Nursery were learning about feelings, labelling them, thinking about how they recognise them in theirselves and others and demonstrating what they see on a person’s face if they are upset, angry, surprised, excited, worried and happy.
Year 1 children had a lovely week expressing their feelings and strategies they can use to help when they feel overwhelmed or confused. They ended the week by drawing things that make them happy. The children drew pictures with chalk in the playground, created their own happiness picture wall in class, and listened to soothing music.
Year 3 had a yoga lesson to help with their mindfulness and Year 4 learned about Diversity and about different types of music from different cultures.
Well done to Miss Field, Mrs Garbett and our well-being champions in school, who helped create the ‘Rainbow Room’ to support children’s well-being during lunchtime hours!
The Times Table Rockstars competition – England Rocks – ended last night at 7:30 pm!
The winning class in our school was Year 4 – congratulations to them!
They finished in the top 3% of the country out of all the schools that entered.
Our top performer was Mohamad in Year 3 – Well done!
It was lovely to see some of our Year 6 children today who came to receive their Dictionary, Leaver’s Book and some collected their Extra Mile certificates and medals!
We wish them all the best at their new school in September!
We are very proud to share the link to our full Ofsted report from our recent inspection, which shows us as a GOOD school. A few highlights we would like to share are:
SS Peter and Paul are OUTSTANDING for Leadership and Management and OUTSTANDING for Personal development, behaviour and welfare.
‘Senior leaders are uncompromising in their work to improve the quality of education.’
‘The quality of teaching is good.’
‘Teachers have high expectations of pupils.’
‘Pupils have exemplary attitudes to learning. Their behaviour is impeccable. They are confident and work hard to achieve their best. Their love of learning leaves no room for distraction or disruption in lessons.’
Our Principal for the day, Miss Jarosz-Green personally likes this comment as this is what makes her excited to come to school!
‘The well-being of pupils is at the heart of the school’s work.’
‘Pupils consistently show respect, kindness and understanding of difference.’
Parents view: ‘This is not a school, it’s more like a family.’
Please click on the link below to view the full report.
SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy Nursery Full Report
Parking Patrol would like to encourage you to walk to school on Tuesday for ‘Happy Shoesday’! Please watch the video and let Kian explain…
Thank you to all the parents and family members that attended the Year 1 Parents Meeting for Phonics. This would have been really useful to enable you to support your children at home. Thanks to Mrs Tiwana for hosting the workshop.
Year 5 had the privilege of meeting author Alan Gibbons this week, as part of our celebrations around World Book Day. Alan has written over 60 books and won many prestigious awards such as the Blue Peter Award for ‘The Book I Couldn’t Put Down’, the Angus Book Award and the Stockport Book Award. He has also been shortlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal and his books have been published into dozens of languages.
The children were captivated by Alan’s telling of stories and by the advice he gave them about writing. Each child received a signed copy of one of Alan’s books.
The children arrived safely at around 12:25 this afternoon. They were then tasked with making their own beds and unpacking. The children then had lunch and we went for a walk, where we braved the torrential rain and gale force winds. The children are currently enjoying some free time before dinner.
