News

Oct

📚 Stories, Coding and Creativity at Harrogate Library

Posted In Curriculum, Events

🐛 Coding Caterpillars and Book Adventures for Owls Class As part of our ongoing strong partnership with Harrogate Library, our classes enjoy regular visits throughout the year, helping children develop a lifelong love of reading and learning. This week, it was the turn of our Year 3 Owls Class to visit the library. The children […]

Oct

🎉 Going the Extra Mile: Celebrating Our Merit Milestone Achievers 🎉

Posted In General News, Lets Celebrate

 Shine Bright! First Groups of Children Reach 50 Merits This Year At St Peter’s, we love celebrating the achievements of every child, and this week we are delighted to recognise the first children who have reached the fantastic milestone of 50 merits this academic year. This is a significant achievement. Across the school, children have […]

Oct

Love, Learn, Shine Through Storytelling

Posted In Curriculum

🎨📖  Bringing Troll Swap to Life Over the past few weeks, our children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the wonderful story Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson. Through reading, discussion, art and writing, the children have immersed themselves in the adventures of Timothy and Tabitha, developing their creativity, imagination and communication skills along the way. The children […]

Oct

Love, Learn, Shine: A Week to Remember at Bewerley Park

Posted In Curriculum, Events, Lets Celebrate

When our Year 6 children returned from their residential visit to Bewerley Park last week, they came back with far more than muddy boots and tired smiles. They returned with increased confidence, stronger friendships, new skills and unforgettable memories that will stay with them long after their primary school journey ends. Over the course of […]

Oct

✍️ The Magic of Books Inspires Wonderful Poetry ✍️

Posted In Curriculum

🌟 From Flying Books to Fantastic Poems This week, the children have been inspired by the beautiful story The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore. Through their writing journey, they explored the magic and power of books, using their wonderful imaginations to create vivid imagery and experiment with figurative language. The children thought carefully […]

Oct

🐚 Spirals in Nature: Kingfishers’ Artistic Discoveries

Posted In Curriculum

✏️ Creativity Unfolds in Kingfishers’ Spiral Art Project Kingfishers Class have been exploring how spirals can be found throughout the natural world in their art lessons this week. Using shells as their inspiration, the children developed their observational drawing skills while discovering a range of exciting techniques with soft pencils. First, the children experimented with […]

Oct

🍂 Striding Into Autumn: Our First Walk to School Day of 2026-2027 🚶‍♀️

Posted In Lets Celebrate

🚶‍♀️🌳 Walking Together Across the Stray There was a wonderful atmosphere at St Peter’s CE Primary School as we celebrated our first Walk to School Day of the 2026-27 academic year. We know how fortunate we are that so many of our families can enjoy a walk across the beautiful Stray on their journey to […]

Oct

🐻 Story Sacks Return for Another Year of Reading Adventures

Posted In Community, General News, Lets Celebrate

📚 From Story Sacks to School Library Shelves ✨ Love, Learn, Shine Through Reading Together Reading is at the heart of life at St Peter’s, and we are delighted to see another group of families beginning their Story Sack adventures as we share them with our new Reception children. Our Story Sacks have been a […]

Oct

🌟 Following in the Footsteps of Greatness How Simone Biles and Jesse Owens Inspired Exceptional Writing

Posted In Curriculum

From Talk to Text: Year 5 and 6 Writers Shine There has been a real buzz about writing across Year 5 and 6 this term as children have immersed themselves in a range of exciting literacy opportunities. Drawing inspiration from remarkable athletes such as Simone Biles and Jesse Owens, children have explored biographical writing, diary […]

Oct

🌳 Step Into Success: Walk to School Days Are Here! 👟

Posted In Events

🚲Two Feet, Two Wheels, Four Paws… Let’s Go!  👟 This week we are excited to launch our Walk to School Days for 2026-27, with the first event taking place on Friday 16th October 2026. We would love to see as many families as possible joining us as we begin our six special days of active […]