Dear Parents,
Mrs Hutchinson Year 5 Teacher
Mrs Hutchinson will sadly be leaving us at Christmas to go to live in Devon. Mrs Hutchinson has worked at St Peter's for 10 years and I would like to take this opportunity to thank her for all her hard work and wish her good luck for the future! I am sure she will keep in touch and send us updates from the South!
Chocolate & Bottles
We still need lots of donations of Chocolate and Bottles for the respective Tombola stalls to work - please send any donations into school. Many thanks for your help!
Global Links
I am delighted to inform you that our school is one of 100 schools in the country selected by the British Council to form a global link with a school in China. We will be linked with the district of Luwan in Shanghai. I have been invited along with eight other head teachers from Gateshead, including three other Catholic schools, to visit and begin to forge these links in person. We set off for Beijing this Saturday and transfer to Shanghai a few days later! We will be completing a daily Blog, which can be accessed by the children and staff at school allowing them to follow our very full days and journey around China!
This is a superb chance to extend the learning opportunities for both the staff and children in our school and we are all excited about the close links we are hoping to establish. This also enables us to fulfil the Government's Global Links Initiative where they require all schools to be linked internationally to at least one other by 2010.
We are hoping to exchange and share projects and information on a variety of topics such as cultural heritage, traditional tales, Arts, ICT and photography. We will begin to link using "Chinese New Year" as an exciting but familiar introduction to Chinese cultures and traditions. We are honoured to have been chosen and know that you will support us in this exciting venture.
再见 谢谢
Zàijiàn Xièxie
Goodbye Thank you