Peterborough Water City Festival May 2012 

We have had a wonderful afternoon taking part in the Peterborough Water City Music Festival. Fifteen of our talented children joined Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, the Water City Festival Orchestra and several primary schools within Peterborough to perform in Cathedral Square. Our pupils performed two pieces in the violin and cello section of the Orchestra. They sounded AMAZING and were brilliant ambassadors for our school!!! Thanks to Miss Chattell for coordinating the project and to parents and families who came along to support us.  

A big thank you to Arthur Corr from Peterborough Roller Hockey Club for coming in today to promote this club. The children really enjoyed hearing about this sport and in particular watching three of our boys who attend the club demonstrate various skating skills. Beginner sessions takes place at Bushfield Sports Centre every Friday at 5pm. The first 3 sessions are absolutely free and skates are provided!

Wednesday 18th April 2012

KS1 had an action packed day at Warwick Castle where we learned lots of interesting facts about Castle life through the ages. We saw some wonderful things including a life size trebuchet, birds of prey, weaponry and suits of armour. We visted the Princess Tower where we helped a princess with her wedding arrangements. We also looked around the Kingmaker section which was all about medieval life in the castle, we thought it was quite smelly and gloomy! Some of us were really brave and climbed over 500 steps to the tallest towers where we saw stunning views across the castle. The dragon tower was amazing with brilliant special effects, the dragon told our teacher off for taking a photograph! We got to have a go in the stocks and finished our trip with a run around in the castle adventure play park. What fun we had!

A big thank you to all the staff and parent helpers who came along.

What an eventful week we have had! The children have taken part in a range of activities to promote and foster a love of reading. Each day in assembly our pupils have listened to a Roald Dahl 'revolting rhyme' read by different members of staff. Each Key Stage has studied a different author for the week and listened to a range of stories written by their author focus. Teachers swapped classes to read to pupils and our children took part in a whole school reading buddy scheme where they supported younger pupils with their reading. We ended the week by dressing as our favourite book characters and held a 'story hat' competition.

A huge thank you to all parents and pupils who purchased books from the Book Fair. You have helped to raise over £600 towards new books for our school library.

KS1 Two Can Learn

Thank you to all the parents who came along to our KS1 Two Can Learn sessions this week to take part in a Science investigation. The children and their parents carried out an experiment to find out which materials were waterproof in order to make the best shelter for a knight to camp out in a storm. The children thought really carefully about how to make the experiment a fair test and made lots of predictions before carrying out their investigation. We were really surprised with some of the results!

The children have enjoyed listening to a range of wonderful and captivating stories this week as we have celebrated National Storytelling week. Mr Eardley began the week by sharing a stunning animated iPad story called 'The Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross', the story of a poor old peddler woman who discovers good fortune by following her dreams.

Miss Hinchliffe told the children in KS1 the Māori Creation Myth called Papa and Rangi.

Mr Marks shared a gripping tale called 'The Midnight Parade' about monsters under Jame's bed!

Mrs Bolton had the children in KS2 on tender hooks as she told a range of 'spooky' short stories.

Years Three and Four 2CanLearn!!

This morning (31.1.12) the children in years 3 and 4 were joined by their parents for a maths lesson! All the children and adults were taught a new method for solving division problems. Parents, children and teachers all spoke positively about the technique and we hope to see them using it independently during future lessons. A big thanks to all those mums and dads that were able to join us!