All staff at St Peter’s would like to wish everyone within our community of learners a happy and safe summer holiday! This has been a tremendous year of achievement around St Peter’s. Our hard working Year 6 class has achieved the highest level of SATS results ever in the history of the school. Other year groups have worked in partnership with many local and valued organisations, including Shakespeare’s Globe, Kid’s Company and iGospel. Meanwhile our school received an incredibly favourable interim Ofsted report at the start of the year.

Now is the time for everyone to have a peaceful and rewarding summer break. We are already excited about the new school year ahead, and look forward greatly to welcoming the children back into the school for teaching on Monday 6th September – 9am prompt!

We staged a special end of term assembly at St Peter’s this week. This was an opportunity for the whole school community to celebrate the many achievements and awards that we have strived towards during the past academic year.

We congratulated Green Team on scoring the highest number of points during our recent St Peter’s Sports Day. Certificates were awarded to the keen members of our early morning St Peter’s Running Club. Our fine footballers from Mr McInroy’s school club voted on the Player’s Player of the Year. Mr McInroy also awarded a trophy for the best overall team player.

Academic achievement throughout the school year was also praised. Children were awarded certificates in recognition of exceptional academic work, 100% attendance record and participation in the recent Southwark Poet in Residence writing activity. A special framed photograph was also handed over to a fine Year 5 soloist during the incredibly successful iGospel concert.

Our assembly then became rather emotional – both for children and for staff! We said a very fond farewell to the staff that will be leaving us at the end of the school year. Mrs Morsay, Miss Maier and Miss James were all thanked for their work as class teachers. We are very sorry to be losing Alex in the Nursery, and Miss Ross from Reception. Thankfully the highly emotional atmosphere was broken up with a celebratory standing ovation for our fine staff! A selection of our Year 6 children reflect upon the assembly in the video below.

And here’s the final word on a wonderful St Peter’s school year from Mrs Morsay!

The summer holidays may be underway, but planning is already underway for the new school year at St Peter’s! We have some new teaching staff that will be sharing their skills and expertise around our school in September. The children have already been introduced to their new teachers, and our new staff have spent the past couple of weeks within the school to help with the transition.

Teaching in the Nursery will be Miss Pettengell, working closely with Miss Morris in Reception. We wanted to catch up with our two new teachers, and were surprised to find them already hard at work carrying out some planning for September! We managed to break up the concentration, to find out what life will be like in the St Peter’s Nursery and Reception come the new term.

We will be welcoming Miss Dennes to Year 1 at St Peter’s in September. Our new member of staff has been spending the past couple of weeks with another new recruit, Miss Bruna, our wonderful new Year 3 teacher. These are exciting ahead at St Peter’s, as our two new teachers explain in the podcast below.

Finally we would like to give a very warm St Peter’s welcome to Miss Bodger in Year 5. We are thrilled to announce that Miss Bodger will also become the St Peter’s Assistant Head Teacher in September, as well as using her valuable skills as the Literacy Co-ordinator. Miss Bodger explains in the podcast below why she is so excited about joining our community of learners.

The full teaching arrangements for the new school year ahead are as follows:

Nursery – Miss Pettengell

Reception – Miss Morris

Year 1 – Miss Dennes

Year 2 – Miss Lewis

Year 3 – Miss Bruna

Year 4 – Miss Lydon

Year 5 – Miss Bodger

Year 6 – Mr McDonald

PPA teacher – Miss Bagnall

Deputy Head – Mrs Bahlol

Head Teacher – Mrs Copeland

Here’s to another successful academic year at St Peter’s!

The Nursery children staged their final St Peter’s assembly for the school year this week. We proudly presented to the rest of the school all of our wonderful work themed around our current class topic of Under the Sea. This has been a fun theme to work on as it has allowed the Nursery children to use all elements of the curriculum whilst learning about ocean life. Our assembly included music, D & T, literacy and even maths.

We were able to showcase the starfish, jellyfish and fish tank models that we have made. The children also described what they saw and how they felt at their recent trip to the London Aquarium. We concluded our assembly with a pirate song, and then a special prayer written by some of the Nursery children, thanking God for giving us such a wonderful resource as the sea.

This was the final Nursery assembly. We believe that all of the children are now ready for Reception in September, and the next stage of their learning at St Peter’s. Many thanks to all the parents who were able to support the assembly. You can watch a video of the Nursery children performing above.

We have been exploring the wonderful world of Barnaby Bear in Year 1 this week. The children have been reading the book, and then asking the question: where in the world is Barnaby Bear? We have been looking at maps of the world, and then deciding where we think Barnaby Bear might be. Year 1 have used this exercise to then research some different countries, and try and find out information such as the weather conditions, or what type of food the locals might eat. Our literacy work has also been based on Barnaby Bear. Year 1 have all written a letter to Barnaby, telling the teddy bear all about our own lives, and trying to find out more information about his own life.

We have been drawing some of the natural world environments during our art sessions. The children have focussed on observation drawing. In preparation for the new school year, Year 1 have also written to their new schoolteacher, explaining what subject that we really enjoy. You can catch up with our Barnaby Bear work in the podcast below.

Year 2 are heavily involved in their rehearsals ahead of the St Peter’s annual Music Concert. We will be performing three songs in front of the rest of the school. These require the use of harmony, as well as plenty of actions to help put across the message in our songs. We have been learning about the importance of warming up our voices ahead of a singing session, and trying to peak to perfection ahead of the Music Concert performance. You can listen to a sneak preview of the wonderful Year 2 singers in the podcast below.

Year 3 have been highly creative this week, coming up with some imaginative ideas for an alien planet. We wanted to try and describe a different world to ours, using as many new words in our vocabulary as possible. The children have been thinking about the name of the planet, the flag, the language and even the animals that might live there. This has been a great exercise in helping the children to think differently about our own world around us. A selection of our Year 3 pupils explain more about their work in the podcast below.

Year 6 performed this week what is always one of the highlights in the St Peter’s school calendar – the prestigious end of year play! We have been planning and rehearsing our production of Beauty and the Beast ever since the end of SATS at the start of June. Our pupils have been putting together the script, auditioning, learning their lines and helping to design and build the stage set. Two performances were staged at St Peter’s Church – one in the afternoon for the school children, and then a standing room only production in the evening for family and friends.

Behind the scenes and many of our young actors admitted to feeling slight nerves. These were obviously very positive, as the end production was amazing! We received a standing ovation at the close, with parents commenting on the how well the combination of suspense and comedy worked well on the stage. We are so proud of the Year 6 Beauty and the Beast production that we have posted some video excerpts to watch online above.