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Dec

Sharing Our Nativity Shine

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Children from Early Years and Key Stage One have been sharing their nativity shine this week through several performances of their nativity called ‘Simple Nativity’. ‘Simply Nativity’ follows the traditional story of Mary and Joseph from being told they will have a baby by the angel Gabriel all the way to Bethlehem from Nazareth with […]

Dec

Advent Concert

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Both our Early Years / KS1 and KS2 choirs treated us to a wonderful advent concert this week. After the success of this event last year we moved across to St Paul’s Church to ensure there was enough room for all families wishing to attend to sit in comfort. The children sang a range of […]

Dec

Sharing Our Christmas Shine

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]