Posts From October 2025

Oct

🎃 Pumpkin Perfection: A Spooktacular Show of Creativity.🎃

Posted In Community, Events

Today our playground is bursting with Halloween spirit as we hold our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition tomorrow—and what a spectacular event it looks set to be! From spooky faces to imaginative designs, the entries are nothing short of amazing. Every pumpkin showcases the creativity, effort, and imagination of our children (and their families!). The standard […]

Oct

Soluble or Not? Year 5&6 Dive into Dissolving Discoveries!

Posted In Curriculum

Discovering dissolving  Year 5/6 conducted and experiment to explore dissolving. The aim of the experiment was to discover which materials were soluble or insoluble in water. Some children were surprised by their findings! We extended our learning further by discussing what happens when the solution becomes saturated and reaches its maximum solute amount.

Oct

Meet the Pet Plants: Climate Crew Brings Green Companions to Every Classroom

Posted In Curriculum, Events

Pet Plants arrive at St Peter’s  During their first meeting of the year, the Climate Crew planted and delivered a spider ‘pet’ plant for every class in school. There are many benefits to having plants in the classroom including: fresher air, improved wellbeing, connecting children to the environment, use as a lesson subject and they encourage responsibility. The spider plants will […]

Oct

🏰 Year 3 Castle Creations: Building Brilliance in D&T

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In their recent Design and Technology (DT) lessons, our Year Three young architects have been diving into the fascinating world of structures, with a special focus on castles. It’s been a hands-on, creative, and educational journey where imagination meets engineering! Throughout this exciting unit, children have: 🖍️ Drawn and labelled their own castles, identifying key […]

Oct

Little Pumpkins, Big Smiles: at our Autumn Stay and Play

Posted In Community, Curriculum, Events

This afternoon our Early Years team welcomed families to a magical Autumn Stay and Play session filled with spooky fun, seasonal creativity, and joyful learning. The classroom was transformed into a cosy autumn wonderland, complete with pumpkins, cobwebs, and just the right amount of friendly frights! Children explored themed activity stations designed to spark curiosity […]

Oct

Piecing Together Our Vision: Love, Learn, Shine in Mosaic Magic!

Posted In Community, Curriculum

Back in June and July of last year children in Year Six designed three mosaics to showcase our school vision and then worked with the Artizan group from Harrogate to bring their designs to life.  Artizan International enables, empowers and supports people with disabilities to meet their full potential through therapeutic craft activities and social […]

Oct

Unearthing Creativity: Starlings Class Reimagines Cave Art with a Harrogate Twist

Posted In Curriculum

Starlings Class – Exploring Cave Art This week, Starlings class have been delving into the fascinating world of Cave Art. Through a combination of sketching, stencilling, rubbing, and printing, the children have developed their artistic skills to create their own modern cave-inspired masterpieces. Their artwork features animals that might be spotted around Harrogate—can you guess […]

Oct

Play, Lead, Inspire: Welcoming Our Amazing PlaySquad Team!

Posted In Events

PlaySquad Spotlight. Playtimes & Lunchtimes Are Great – Thanks to Our New PlaySquad Leaders! We would like to say a big well done and thank you to our new PlaySquad members from Ravens and Eagles who have begun their roles over playtimes and lunchtimes this half term. All the members volunteer to use some of […]

Oct

Striding from The Stray: Celebrating our first Walk to School Day of the Year.

Posted In Community, Events

Feet First! Celebrating Walk to School Day from The Stray to St Peter’s School. We were delighted to host our first walking bus of the year from West Park stray this morning to support and celebrate the first of six walk to school days this year. It was lovely to see so many children and […]

Oct

Key Stage Two Girls Share their Sporting Shine

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We were delighted to take a team of Key Stage Two girls to represent St Peter’s at the Sporting Influence competition series this week. Led superbly by our two year 6 members the team played superbly well showing great commutation and team work skills. they played three matches in all narrowly loosing their first two […]