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Dec

Sharing Our Christmas Shine

Posted In Community, Music

We were delighted to be invited to take both our school choirs to the Harrogate Christmas market this week. Despite the cold the children sang beautifully entertaining families and many visitors to the market with a range of traditional and more modern Christmas songs. Very well done to all the children who represented the school […]

Dec

Advent Tradition

Posted In Community

We were delighted to welcome the newest members of our St Peter’s family to continue our Christmas tree decorating tradition this week. Children from Wrens class popped in before the start of school on Monday to help place a decoration on our entrance hall tree. Thank you to everyone who took the time to help […]

Nov

A Musical Treat

Posted In Community, Music

Children in Year 6 were treated to a musical performance this week with an invitation to attend the dress rehearsal of Annie performed by students at St Aidan’s was a pleasure to see many former St Peter’s children performing and continuing to share their shine. The children thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon. A huge thank you […]

Nov

Virtual Lesson with Jeffrey Boakye

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Children in Herons Ravens and Eagles enjoyed the opportunity to meet author and broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye today. Jeffrey is an award winning author with eight books published to date including Kofi and the secret radio station. Jeffrey spoke about his Kofi series of fiction books, including Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer and Kofi and […]

Nov

We Will Remember Them

Posted In Community, Curriculum

On Monday this week across St Peter’s we paused to mark Remembrance Day. Children respectfully observed a period of silence to remember and give thanks for all those who serve to keep us safe.  Different classes remembered in different ways through discussion and different pieces of work. Here are some remembrance day pieces of art […]

Nov

Falconer Visit

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Every half term, children in Key Stage One start reading a new book in their English lessons. This half term, the children in Sparrows and Finches class will be using ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ as their focus book and will ultimately be writing an owl fact file at the end of […]

Oct

Half Term Writing

Posted In Curriculum

As we begin the half term break it is a great time to put our writing knowledge and skills into action in an entry to the 500 Words Competition. The competition aims to encourage children to write a story they would love to read in 500 Words or less and 50 finalists will be invited […]

Oct

Spaces to ‘Just Be’.

Posted In Notices

We were delighted to welcome Michael and John from Playscheme to school this week along with photographer Damien Bramley to help us showcase the fantastic project achievements from the last three years. It has been a pleasure working with the Playscheme team to transform our dedicated Early Years outdoor space, main playground as well as […]

Oct

Young Geographers

Posted In Curriculum

Over the past fortnight, Owls and Starlings have been Young Geographers who have finished their unit of work by carrying out fieldwork in our local area. Fieldwork needs to start with a good enquiry question. We decided to link it to our recent History Unit: ‘Local Victorian Harrogate’ by asking the following: Looking at the […]

Oct

Your Harrogate Awards

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Really privileged to accompany two wonderful colleagues to the Your Harrogate Local Hero Awards last night. Our wonderful and much loved St Peter’s Assistant Headteacher and SENDCO Alice Jones was a finalist in the teacher of the year category and our fantastic highly respected CEO of Yorkshire Causeway Schools Trust (YCST) Jane Goodwin was representing […]