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Jan

📱 Smart, Safe & Confident: This Month’s Online Safety Newsletter 🛡️

Posted In Safeguarding and Wellbeing

🛡️ Online Safety – Helping Our Children Shine Online This month’s Online Safety Newsletter is packed full of practical, parent‑friendly guidance designed to help our children stay safe, confident and happy in their digital world. Inside the newsletter, families will find a brilliant overview of free CBeebies apps that support creativity, early learning and reading—perfect […]

Jan

❄️ Starlings Soar Into Journalism With The Last Bear!

Posted In Curriculum, Lets Celebrate

📚 From Page to Press: Starlings Create Brilliant News Reports! Starlings class have been enjoying diving into the atmospheric and moving story The Last Bear by Hannah Gold. The Last Bear tells the story of April, a compassionate and courageous 12‑year‑old who travels with her scientist father to the Arctic’s Bear Island. Although she’s told […]

Jan

🎭 A Taste of Secondary School: Year 6 at St John Fisher’s Addams Family 🎭

Posted In Community, Events

🎭 Year 6 Inspired by St John Fisher’s Addams Family Production Our Year 6 children enjoyed a truly memorable afternoon at the Harrogate Theatre, where they attended St John Fisher School’s vibrant performance of The Addams Family. This special visit marks the part of their exciting journey towards secondary school, giving them a wonderful opportunity […]

Jan

🔬 Learning That Sparkles: Children Explore Teeth with Local Dentist

Posted In Community, Curriculum

🦷 Smiles All Round! Dentist Visit Brings Science to Life in EY & KS1 Today, children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 enjoyed a fantastic visit from Mr Anderson, a local dentist and parent, who brought their science learning about teeth to life in a memorable and engaging way. As part of their work […]

Jan

🎨 Sparrows Discover the Magic of Mixing Green!

Posted In Curriculum

  Today in Year Two, Sparrows Class stepped into the wonderful world of colour mixing as part of their Art learning journey. Guided by Miss Corrigan, the children explored how secondary colours are created and how artists can adjust shades to bring their work to life. Miss Corrigan shared: “Today in Art, we have been […]

Jan

✨ Beam Brilliant! Year 5/6 Eagles Investigate the Magic of Light

Posted In Curriculum

🔦 Year 5/6 Eagles Explore the Science of Light This week, the Year 5/6 Eagles enjoyed a wonderfully hands-on and active science lesson investigating how light travels and changes direction. Children took their learning outdoors first, using tennis balls to represent beams of light. By rolling the balls in straight lines and bouncing them off […]

Jan

👐 Makaton Lunchtime Club Brings Farmyard Signs to Life

Posted In Clubs & Enrichment

🐄 Signing Together: Year 6 Makaton Leaders Help Our Children Shine🌟 Our popular Makaton lunchtime club has been busy learning new signs this week, led by Mrs Jones, Miss Ward and our wonderful Year 6 Makaton leaders. Together, the children explored signs for some common farmyard animals, including cow, sheep, chicken, pig and horse. Once […]

Jan

🕌 Year 3 Owls Explore Islam: A Special Afternoon of Learning

Posted In Curriculum

Year 3 Owls Explore Islam: A Special Afternoon of Learning This half term in RE, our Owls Year 3 children are learning all about the faith of Islam. This week, they have been finding out about a special place of worship for most Muslims called a Mosque, and what a Muslim typically does to prepare […]

Jan

🎙️ Speaking to Shine: How Stem Sentences Build Confident Voices at St Peter’s

Posted In Curriculum, Notices

💬 From “I Dunno” to “I Think That…” – The Power of Stem Sentences in Every Lesson At St Peter’s we believe that every child has a voice worth hearing. Our oracy strategy is all about helping children talk, think and explain clearly, so they can Love, Learn and Shine in every part of school […]

Jan

🕯️ Courage to Remember: Marking Holocaust Memorial Day at St Peter’s

Posted In Curriculum, Events, Worship

🕊️ Shining a Light in the Darkness: Our Courage Worship and Holocaust Memorial Day This half term, our worship theme at St Peter’s is Courage. In school we have been exploring what courage looks like in everyday life for our children – and how, even when things feel difficult or unfair, we can still choose […]