CoMPasS - St Peter's School, Yorkdance, ballet, art, animation club, lego, k’nex, chess, choir,...
Transcript of CoMPasS - St Peter's School, Yorkdance, ballet, art, animation club, lego, k’nex, chess, choir,...
NEXT WEEK’S DIARY:
Monday Lunchtime: NETBALL
Staff Curriculum Meeting
TENNIS, BASKETBALL, Y1 SPEECH AND DRAMA
Tuesday
Lunchtime: CHOIR
SWIM SQUAD, CHESS, Y3 MAKING GAMES, STORY CLUB, Y1 FOOTBALL, REC SPEECH AND DRAMA
NO Y2 HOCKEY
Wednesday SCIENCE CLUB, Y2/3 ANIMATION CLUB, Y2/3 SEWING, CHESS,Y2 ART, Y2 FOOTBALL, Y1 KARATE, Y1 K’NEX
Thursday
2S Assembly
Y3 TAG RUGBY, Y3 STREET DANCE. Y2 NATURE CLUB, Y2 ATHLETICS, Y2 SPEECH & DRAMA, Y1/Y2 BALLET, Y1 LEGO
Friday
Y3 FOOTBALL, Y2/3 MATHS CHALLENGE, MUSIC BOX, Y1 SPORTS CLUB
Saturday, 28th September
10.00—12.00 noon
OPEN MORNING
Visitors welcome!
On Monday, Miss Beadle led our school assembly, describing her experiences
teaching in Sri Lanka over the summer. This was an inspiring and emotional
assembly for both the children and staff. Thank you Miss B for sharing these
memories with us. We will post the photos on our website/facebook page soon
for all to share.
On Tuesday, the Year 2 children had a wonderful trip to York Minster as part of
their theme ‘Let’s conquer York’ and Year 3 had an opportunity to visit ‘The
Lowther’, a bar owned by Mr & Mrs Binns. The Y3s told me they were
investigating the flood defences, however, they all ended up having a pub
lunch…..! These types of trips didn’t happen when I was at school. Thank you
to Mr & Mrs Binns for their hospitality and to all the parents and staff who
accompanied each of these trips.
In conjunction with the Music department at St Peter’s and Mr Paul Miles-
Kingston, the Director of Music, our Year 3s have been introduced to classical
musical instruments. Each week the children will be acquainted with trombones,
cornets, flutes, clarinets and violins! These are taught by specialist music
teachers. This initiative is aimed at developing an interest in music which the
children will want to continue after these sessions have ended. Thank you to Mr
Miles-Kingston for providing the wonderful instruments and to Mr Tidswell and
Mrs Robertson for organising the lessons. Look out for some fabulous photos
to follow!
The finishing touches of our re-development are coming together—you will have
noticed new flower beds being filled and each day the school is looking better
and better. I have been assured that by the end of next week our new library
will be complete on the first floor. This is very exciting and we all can’t wait!
The creation of a library area at Clifton is the catalyst for nurturing reading in
school. Obviously, the children are taught how to read through an important
process of teaching phonics and then building on this throughout their time in
school. All children will be able to read by the time they leave Clifton and it is
important that we, as parents and educators don’t regard this as a race! The
children should work at their own pace with a wide variety of reading genres
which generate a love of reading and a love of books. Here is a link to a great
article about how parents play a key role in this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
education-24116088. Ten minutes a day reading with your child, taking turns
reading, asking questions and enjoying the book really do help your child develop
these important skills. We are planning a reading workshop later in the year to
share ideas and best practice.
This term I have been working with the girl’s hockey players at St Peter’s. This
is a super experience and one that I am thoroughly enjoying. It is wonderful to
see over 45 girls from the 5th to Upper Sixth forms thoroughly engaged playing
hockey at this age, displaying wonderful values and qualities—they are a credit to
the school! It has also been great to see our children taking part in hockey,
netball, football, basketball, rugby, athletics, tennis, swimming, karate, street
dance, ballet, art, animation club, lego, k’nex, chess, choir, music box, sewing,
speech and drama, making games, science club, nature club and maths challenge
in our co-curricular programme. This is a small part of all the fabulous
opportunities on offer at St Peter’s (3-18) - our children are very lucky!
This weekend, I am heading to London with Mr Falconer, Master of St Olave’s
for the IAPS Annual Conference. I will be away on Monday and Tuesday but will
return inspired by the seminars and speakers! Have a lovely weekend.
Best wishes,
CoMPasS You can follow us ...….. Newsletter No: 3
Friday, 20th September 2013
Registered Charity No: 1141329
Please do not bring your dogs into
school as some of our children are
allergic to animals and/or scared
of dogs. Dogs are allowed onto
the school campus as long as they
remain under control on a lead.
Thank you.
This week 1G have been finding out about England. We have located
some of the places that we visited in the Summer holidays on a map of the United Kingdom. We have also been learning all about our capital city of London and have been sketching and painting some of its famous landmarks.
To finish off our work on rivers and waterfalls
we have built our very own waterfall on 3M’s
balcony (with help from Mr Gibb!).
Please come and take a look!
Year 3 visited ‘The Lowther’ pub this week to look at the flood defences.
Thank you very much Mr and Mrs Binns for telling us all about it and for our delicious lunch.
Housepoints’
winner
Walmgate
Mathletics Silver Awards
Benedict, Jack, Nitika, Harrison, Narmeen, Alex, Harriet, Elliott, George,
Oliver and Lily
It has been a very wet week in 1B! You can’t learn about Great Britain
without focusing on good old rain! We have measured the rain daily,
marbled raindrops, weaved a river, written descriptive poems and
even been singing about the rain!
It has been
difficult to
choose what
to put in the
newsletter
for RS this
week!!
And we can only
mention just one
thing…! So, on
Wednesday
we went on a
fabulous
number hunt!!
We all
ventured down
to the bottom
of the school
grounds in
search of
some very
‘Sleeping Numbers’. Each child was
armed with a clipboard labelled with
numbers, marking where each number
was. The children had to hunt around the
trees, amongst the hedges and under the
branches searching for the lost numbers!
It was such a popular activity that when
we were finished they asked… ‘CAN WE
DO IT AGAIN!!’
Year 2 had a fantastic time on Tuesday learning about the history of York Minster. The children saw a great picture presentation, took part in activities in the education centre and had a guided tour of The Minster itself. Many thanks to the mums and to our three students from Germany who came along to help.
This Week’s Superstars
Harry, Charlie, Halle, Millie, Harry, Collin, Tristan,
Isabelle and Elvie
2H have been following up from our visit to York Minster on
Tuesday by doing some super art work! We looked at the
Choir Screen and talked about how to paint the stone statues
in stone coloured watercolour paint. Then we added gold
crowns (party hats!), just like the real Choir Screen.
Please come and look at both Year 2 displays - we
are very proud of them!
The children in Nursery found a nest…
but couldn’t decide what was making it!
They could see something grey moving at
the top of the nest,
but it was sooo high
up in the tree that
they decided they
needed binoculars
to get a better view!
After much
watching from
inside the quiet
room and under the
tree, the children
worked out that it was a bird not a
squirrel (or an elephant!!) and then
saw that the bird
was a pigeon.
One child even
thought they
could see some
eggs at the bottom of the nest!
This week in
RJ we have
been talking
about class
pets. The children have been
helping to look after Brownie and
Buttons our guinea pigs and we
have set up a pet
shop in the role
play. We read a
story called
‘Don’t eat the
Teacher!’ about a
shark starting
school who just
can’t help eating
everything when
he gets over
excited, including his teacher!
This got us thinking of wild and
wacky ideas for class pets. The
children had to design a box for
their chosen pet and think about
what it would eat and how to look
after it. Then
they made a price
tag for their box
and counted out
the correct amount
of coins to pay
for their pet. So
far no one’s eaten
Mrs Johnson…yet.
Good Conduct
Callum, Narmeen, Isobel, Tom, Nell, Taras,
Harriet, Sam and Harry
Clifton School Friends
Clifton School friends would like to introduce you to our new committee!
Co-chairs
Lou Harrand—Mum of Harrison in 3C, Raya in RS and Bo who will hopefully join Clifton Nursery next year.
Melanie Young—Mum of Liam in 1G and Aidan who will join Clifton in Nursery next year.
Secretary
Shelley Morton—Mum of Ruby in 3C, Finlay in 3M and Joseph in St Olave’s.
Treasurer
Lucy Fernandes—Mum of David in RJ
Our doors are always welcome to new committee members and/or willing helpers!
We will keep you all well informed of upcoming meetings through the newsletter so please come along if you can! Alternatively please feel free to email us on:
[email protected] or [email protected]
Events we are planning for this coming year!
Parents night out! Friday 11th October - Tickets will be on sale shortly in the school main entrance.
Christmas Activity Day
Fat Chilli - Christmas cards and great gift ideas.
Bags 2 School - get your cupboards cleared out for the week of the 11th of November.
Grow a £ - let’s find the entrepreneurs amongst our children!
January Breakfast Brunch
Race/Quiz Night
Mother’s Day Breakfast
Book & Bake Sale
Kid’s Cook Book
Summer Fayre
Any ideas are more than welcome!
We hope to see some new and old faces at our next meeting on Wednesday 9th October at 2.15pm in the dining room!
Feather Ball
Saturday 30th November 2013
York Racecourse
This event is being organised by the St Olaves PTA on behalf of both St Olaves AND
Clifton School & Nursery and the Committee very much hope that the Ball will be well
supported by both schools. Proceeds from the evening are divided between the schools
in support of their chosen charities with any remaining funds allocated to their
respective PTAs.
All parents will be receiving an email from St Olaves regarding table/ticket booking forms
and on Wednesday 18th September committee members from Clifton School Friends will
be manning a table in the reception area at morning drop off to answer any queries and
hopefully take some table bookings! Parents are invited to organise their own tables of 10
or alternatively please feel free to order individual tickets clearly stating which school year
your children are in and the Ball Committee will be happy to organise tables based on year
groups. In this way it is hoped that the event will appeal to both new and existing parents
of the Schools alike. Tickets are £60 each to include a 3 course meal, live band and DJ.
Cheques should be made payable to St Olaves PTA.
Entries have opened for the 2014 Great North Swim to be held at Lake
Windermere on Sunday 15th June 2014.
This will be our 3rd year taking part and following this years success with
26 pupils, staff and parents completing the 1 mile swim we hope to take a
larger party next year. If you are looking for a challenge, this could be the one for you.
Once again we are limited on wave times as we can only enter the Sunday events. The selected wave is
10.30am on Sunday 15th. This is likely to be a very popular wave therefore it is most important that you get your
entries in as quickly as possible.
Entrants must be 16 years of age on the day.
To enter visit; greatswim.org and select ‘enter now’. Select ‘1 mile’ and complete registration or log in. Fill in
questionnaire and select SUNDAY 10.30am WAVE (It is important that we all swim in the same wave) The event
must be swum in a wetsuit.