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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

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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

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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’.

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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

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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 […]

Oct

Wrap Around Care Receives Glowing Ofsted Report

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We are delighted that our wrap around care provision run by local company Funclubs Ltd has had an incredibly positive report following its Ofsted inspection earlier this month. Funclubs Ltd was founded 21 years ago with St Peter’s School being its first provision. Over the last two decades it has grown now providing wrap around […]

Oct

Sharing Our Shine with NCTEM

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We were delighted to welcome Dr Debbie Morgan CBE (Director of Primary at NCTEM) and Helen Jones (Assistant Director of Primary at NCTEM) from the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) to St Peter’s this week. They visited as part of St Peter’s contribution at a national level to the development of resources […]

Oct

Geography Studies

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Key Stage 2 Geography. How has Harrogate changed over time? Children in Herons class have been comparing historical and modern maps of Harrogate – looking at how the town has grown and changed since the Victorian times. We noticed that Bilton and Starbeck were once separate villages but now are joined to Harrogate town. We […]