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Friday, 29th September, 2017

CoMPasS

Registered Charity No: 1141329

In the excitement around the country of the Great British Bake off, we will be hosting our very own Great Clifton Bake off on Monday 16th October. The theme for this years’ bake off is fruit and vegetables, we would like you to bake a cake either using fruit and vegetables or decorate the cake/s to look like a fruit or vegetable – I’m sure this is a challenge you will all relish. There will be prizes for all age groups and it would be great if everyone could enter. At the end of the day there will be a café in the dining room where the cakes, biscuits and other goodies can be purchased. All monies raised will go towards our school charity, Water Aid. Any remaining food will be donated to the homeless. St Peter’s Art Department has organised a competition for all the children in school. Mrs Hall spoke to all of the children in assembly, explaining the theme ‘Blue’. A flyer has been sent home today to all of the children with all the relevant details. Today we had a coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Charity, many thanks for coming along and my sincere thanks to Mrs Rigby for organising this fabulous event. Next week we will be holding parents’ consultation evenings at school. This is an opportunity to meet your child’s class teacher to discuss how your child has settled into school and their progress. Mrs Clarke and I will be available during the evenings if you would like to speak to us. In After School Care we have found many entrepreneurs who have created a stall selling loom band bracelets and bookmarks for our School Charity, Water Aid. Thank you to all parents who have supported this project that has been entirely dreamt up and lead by our children. School Council have been talking about the playground. On Monday they will be leading the assembly on the theme of ‘happy playtimes’. They have also chosen playground equipment including a giant chess board set for all to use at playtime. Thank you School Council. I have been away in Edinburgh this week attending the annual IAPS Heads Conference. This enabled me to attend a number of inspiring presentations by keynote speakers including; Dr Barry Hymer, Kat Schofield, Prof Geraint Jones, Dr Ben Garrod, Mungo Dunnett, Vicky Pryce, Dr Harvey Lewis and Julie Robinson. It also provided an excellent opportunity to discuss educational and leadership ideas with other fellow heads. Just a reminder, as Mr Maycock mentioned last week, as it is exeat weekend

for St Peter’s and St Olave’s, there will be no swimming for Reception children

tomorrow. Swimming lessons for Reception will resume next Saturday 7th

October.

I hope you all have a relaxing weekend. Best wishes

DIARY FOR WEEK COMMENCING

2nd October 2017:

Mon Y3 Ukueles Club (lunchtime)

Y1 Netball Skills

Y2/3 Tennis

Y2/3 Chess

Y3 Tag Rugby

Y3 Netball

Y2 Speech & Drama

6.00pm Parents’ Evening

Tues

Y2/3 Choir (lunchtime)

Y1 Speech & Drama

Y1/2/3 Ballet

Y2/3 Karate

Y1/2 Creative Crafts

Y2/3 Chess

Y2 Netball

Y3 Swim Club

3.30pm Parents’ Evening

7.30pm Public Lecture ‘Thing Explainer’ Randall Munroe

Wed

8.40am 2H Class Assembly

Rec/Y1 Yoga Bunnies (lunchtime)

Rec Speech & Drama

Y1/2 Sign Language

Y2/3 Yoga

Y3 Sewing Club

Y2 Art Club

Y3 Recorders

Thurs

Rec Arts & Crafts

Y1 Street Dance

Y1 iPad Club

Y2 Tag Rugby

Y2/3 Creative Film Club

Y3 Hockey Club

Y2/3 Book Club

Y3 Speech & Drama

Y3 Badminton Club

Fri Y1 Football

Y2 Sport

Y3 IT Club

We now how a lovely new Postbox on the Reception counter. Can you please return any forms etc for the School Office by posting them into this secure box. Many thanks Mrs Fattorini & Mrs Hulmes

Silver Certificates

Jinyi, Elizabeth, Georgina, Alexander, Diya, Emily, Harry, William,

Tizzy, Harriet, Alex, Margherita, Emelia, Henry and Amara

Value Champion Award (Friday 22nd Sept)

Jacob

Gold Certificate

Daisy

St Peter’s Art Department have asked us to join in with their

postcard competition again this year. Children who contributed

to this event, open to all three schools, will be invited to the

private view in the gallery, in the Art Department. This is a very

special opportunity and one which everyone who entered last

year very much enjoyed. The theme this year is ‘Blue’ and I

have introduced the idea of this in Monday’s assembly.

Postcards to work on and a flyer will come home today- please

start thinking about anything, abstract or realistic on the theme

of blue….any materials can be used.

Please bring in NAMED postcards by Monday November 6th.

The private view is Friday 17th November.

Mrs Hall

2H have been going bonkers with

conkers this week! We have been

learning how to make arrays in

multiplication and we went off to Forest

School on Monday afternoon to explore

our learning outside. We used conkers,

conker shells, leaves and twigs to make

arrays with 2M and everyone was very

impressed with how quickly we learnt

and applied the concept. As they say in

Number Crew - ‘Hooray, it’s an array!’

This week was rather exciting and the lolly pop sticks went down a treat, they looked so amazing and pretty! I love BLING! Thank you all for coming and see you next week. I will find a great Halloween craft activity but don't worry, it won't be a scary one!

Fionn has been inspired by our

school charity Water Aid. He made

some loom bands to sell to his

family and he raised £3.66. Well done

Fionn for being so

resourceful and for

showing our

school value of

compassion.

‘K’ is for Kicking!

RS coordinated Literacy and Physical

Development this week during their phonics

lesson! The children kicked footballs around,

between and through cones practicing their

gross motor control. Being a part of ‘Team K’

was really good fun, what a lot of

energy RS have!

This week in 2M we have been continuing our

work on AMAZING adjectives! We went on a

mini adventure around our WONDERFUL campus

and chose one object each to describe. We then

stepped into the role of our item and played

What am I? This involved us describing our

object using lots of JUICY adjectives and asking

our friends to guess who we were! We even got

Mrs Hulmes to play and thankfully, she guessed correctly!

In other news, we have been learning the new concept of arrays in Maths.

We took our knowledge with us down to Forest School and worked in pairs

to create lots of number sentences using the resources around us.

Finally, to end our busy week, we went on a trip to the Yorkshire Museum

today. We had a fantastic time and enjoyed expending our knowledge and

exploring some areas of the Vikings we haven't yet

learnt in school!

Grayson

Core 5 certificates

Robert, Josh, Max, Arthur, Anya, Georgina, Matthew, Magnus, Joseph, Oliver, Arabella, Jack, Belle and Grayson

This week Year 3 went on the Hogwarts Express to re-create the journey that Harry and his friends took to

Hogwarts. This gave us a chance to really feel what Harry and his friends felt on the journey. Back at school

we read Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem ‘From a Railway Car’. Then we used our journey on the train to

inspire us to find adventurous adjectives to use to write cinquain poems for National Poetry Day. Do you

know that a cinquain poem has 5 lines and follows a set pattern? Next week you can come and read our

poems which will be displayed in our classrooms. We also met a Hogwarts student who told us all about life

at Hogwarts and how the station was used in the film. As we are planning to develop our IT skills and make

mini films using our brand new green screens later in the term we were very interested to find out that

green screens had been used in Harry Potter. We have lots of ideas and can’t wait to write scripts and

become film makers.

We have also been busy in Maths this week exploring adding multiples of 10 and making sure that we really

understand and can describe what happens to the digits and why. We especially like working with big

numbers!

Benjamin, Darci, Anya, Belle, Robbie,

Lachlan and Arabella

Matthew, Harriet, Mark, Oliver, Arthur, Esmie, Joseph and Rufus

The children in Year 3 were able to choose to take on a role as

either a Helping Hand or as a Charity Ambassador. As the oldest children at

Clifton this helps them to develop leadership skills and take on responsibilities in our

school community. The Helping Hands will begin their new role on Monday when they

will help at playtimes, make sure everyone has fun, look after the younger pupils and they

also help to look after ‘scrap’ and some new playground equipment which will arrive soon.

The Charity Ambassadors will lead our charity events and take on different roles to help

raise money and awareness of our school charity Water Aid. I am really looking forward

to working with all of our wonderful Year 3 volunteers.

Mrs Clarke

We have been very excited this

week about our temporary new

member of the class… Squidgy! A

little hamster who is helping us to

learn all about how to care for

animals in preparation for our new

class pet. The children have loved

looking after him and enjoy

watching him exercise in his ball

around the classroom.

In Maths this week we have been

focussing on money. We have been

getting familiar with the different

coins and their values. We have used Numicon to help us

understand that £1 is the same as 100 pennies. We are beginning to

pay for items in the role play area and outdoor area.

In English we have been preparing questions for our

upcoming Pets at Home visit. The children

have had some super ideas and are

beginning to use question marks.

Jess Oxley’s shoes are missing,

Sofia Brook has lost her school

coat and Ali Bulut’s jumper is

also missing—please look out

for these items.

Thank you.

This week in the Nursery we have

been talking about our families and our homes.

We enjoyed drawing our families and building homes using blocks.

Learning new songs all about families.

Building homes and houses in the workshop.

Making models of buildings and homes.

We have used Google maps to find out where we live and where we are from.

On Monday, RB read the story of The Tomtes who selflessly help care for their environment and we also learnt about

our school superhero Rita Resilience who never gives up.

Following this, we decided we could work together to make the top playground a better place and a “bit more shiny”. RB swept, scrubbed, washed and rinsed the whole mud kitchen and all its utensils!

We also carried logs and arranged them in a raised flower bed for small world play along with planting

grass seed in another. We sent an email to RS and Nursery explaining our new play areas.

Not one person complained or thought about giving up! Brilliant collaboration and resilience RB.

THE GREAT CLIFTON BAKE OFF

Calling all budding Pru Leith’s and Paul Hollywood’s - The Great Clifton Bake

Off is back!!! This year all funds raised will be for Water Aid, the school’s

chosen charity for this academic year.

WHEN: Monday, 16th October 2017

THEME: Fruit and Vegetables

Following on from the Clifton Glut, the theme will be fruit and vegetables.

Whether it’s a cake made using fruit and veg, e.g. carrot cake, courgette and

lemon cake, blueberry muffins, cherry flapjacks, chocolate and beetroot cake,

or biscuits and cakes decorated to look like a fruit or vegetable, Clifton School

and Nursery needs you.

Entries are to be dropped off in The Great Clifton Bake Off Marquee on the

morning of Monday, 16th October. Please clearly name each entry with:

Your child’s name Your child’s class A description of the bake

e.g.:- lemon drizzle cake.

Cakes and biscuits will be judged according to each year group – Nursery,

Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3. The winners will be announced during

assembly that week and prizes will be awarded. A discretionary charitable

donation is to be made for each entry. A pop up café will be held at the end of

school and the cakes and biscuits will be sold then.

Please be aware to safeguard any children with allergies, we endeavour to be a nut free school — so please NO NUTS!

Tickets are now available for the St Peter’s School Christmas Term

Public Lectures.

Randall Munroe: Thing Explainer

Tuesday 3 October 7pm

Abandoning scientific jargon in favour of simple words and entertaining sketches, Munroe explains how things we use

every day function, from microwaves and bridges to tectonic plates and our own bodies. Book your free tickets here.

Professor Geriant F. Lewis and Dr Luke A. Barnes: A Fortunate Universe

Thursday 12 October 7pm

If the Universe had been forged with even slightly different properties, life as we know it would be impossible. This

lecture explores our understanding of the Universe, from its most basic particles to its grandest planets. Book your free

tickets here.

Professor Keith Ward: The Christian Idea of God Tuesday 17 October 7pm Eminent theologian Professor Keith Ward takes a fresh look at the ancient philosophy of Idealism and shows that a combination of good science, good philosophy, and a passion for truth can underpin religious faith. Book your free tickets here.

Professor Anil Seth: What in the World is Consciousness?

Wednesday 8 November 7pm

Without consciousness there is no world, no self: nothing at all. Understanding its material and biological basis is now one

of modern science’s greatest challenges. Book your free tickets here.

Barbara Taylor Bradford in conversation

Monday 27 November 7pm

Leeds-born Barbara Taylor Bradford is something of a Yorkshire legend. With her books having sold nearly 100 million

copies, she will be talking about her life, her work and her new novel, Secrets of Cavendon. Book your free tickets here.

Terry Waite: Survival in Solitude

Wednesday 6 December 7pm

Terry Waite was taken hostage in Lebanon in 1987 and held in solitary confinement for 1,763 days. Following his release

in 1991, Terry has gone on to write a number of books and take up presidency of two major charities. Book your free

tickets here.

Science Society Christmas Lecture

Tuesday 12 December 7pm The St Peter’s Science staff return for their hugely popular annual lecture, featuring fascinating insights, interactive

challenges and dynamic demonstrations, this year focusing on the periodic table. Book your free tickets here.

If you have any access requirements, are hard of hearing or have any other special requests, please book your tickets using Eventbrite, then

email events@stpetersyork.org.uk or call 01904 527 315, stating which event(s) you are attending and how many tickets you have booked.

Please note that many of our events sell out, and you must bring your ticket with you to guarantee entry. Please either print off your ticket

or display it to us on your smartphone or tablet on the evening. With all best wishes, Ben Fuller, Head of Public Lectures, St Peter’s School,

York, YO30 6AB