Last year, our previous Y6 pupils took part in a fantastic project with Q20 Theatre Group. Working with professional photographer Roger Moody, the class created huge portraits that reflected an aspect of their personality. They were then photographed throughout Saltwell Park during the summer term.
These fantastic portraits will be on display in Saltwell Towers from the 4th to 31st January. We hope you will all take the time to visit this wonderful exhibition!
To help raise money for Children In Need St Peter's definetely showed our spots on Friday. We had a non-uniform day with a spotty theme and then had a very special visit from Pudsey and some of the children from Cardinal Hume school who did some aerobics with us. We all had a great time!
What can it hold? Let's find out and see with Year 6
On Friday 23rd, Year 6 went to Cardinal Hume to take part in their annual 'Play In A Day'. Working with a drama specialist, the class worked together to produce a short play entitled 'Arabian Nights' (linked to the Creative Curriculum topic). They then performed the show in front of family members and friends. The whole class displayed some fine acting skills and all thoroughly enjoyed the experience!
Our new Reception class managed their first full week in school last week and proved themselves to be another fantastic class that we have here in St. Peter's. Already relationships have been established and the seeds of friendships sown that will hopefully last for a very long time.
Excellent partnerships have been established with Year 6 buddies who are doing such an excellent job at helping the little ones settle in.
Hope you enjoy the photos of a lovely week!
On Friday 24th June members of year 4 and 6 represented the school at the Gateshead Schools Athletics Festival held at Gateshead Stadium. All the children behaved impeccably and were fantastic ambassadors for St Peter's. We got into the semi finals and finals for several events and were hoarse shouting for our team members.
Well done to everyone for all their efforts and congratulations to Archie and Thierry for winning a medal!
Thanks also to all the parents who came along to support our team. It was much appreciated by us all!
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On Friday Year 6 took their portraits to the Living Gallery in Saltwell Park, it was a great opportunity for us to show off our personalised portraits and we really enjoyed the process of making them! They look fantastic!
Key Stage
2 had a fantastic time competing in the Tesco School Run at Saltwell Park. We had fantastic weather for it and enjoyed a energetic warm up before the race began. We were all thrilled to be running along side Olympic bronze medalist,Tasha Danvers . All of the children were fantastic and put in some truly brilliant performances, staff also joined in and tried to keep 
up! Well done to all the children for their 
amazing effort and a big thank you to all parents who accompanied us on our walk to the park 
and cheered us on!
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The childre
n in dance club performed their fantastic routine, 'I Believe' at the Gateshead Schools Dance Festival yesterday. We were all very excited (and a little nervous) to perform on stage at The Sage and put on a truly amazing performance! We looked fantastic in our costumes, complete with face paint and glamorous hair dos!
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Make sure you pick up a copy of this evening's Chronicle to see our picture in the paper! A massive congratulations to the children in Dance Club for bringing the house down yesterday, and a big thank you to parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and friends who came to support us.
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Happy Chinese New Year to you all! In order to complete our 'Fabulous Festivals' topic from Autumn, in Reception we have been learning about Chinese New Year which will be celebrated by Chinese people everywhere on February 3rd. We have made various crafts, completed some writing and have made Rabbits with our buddies to celebrate the year of the Rabbit. To finish off in style, we had a Chinese banquet on Friday afternoon where we sampled Chinese rice, noodles, chow mein, sping rolls, egg rolls, prawn crackers and Chinese tea. Whilst we ate, we listened to Chinese music, sent in by Harry's mammy and found it very different to the music that we have in our country. To make the experience authentic we used chopsticks to eat, (with varying degress of success!) and have a very enjoyable afternoon!
On Monday, Year 6 enjoyed a morning at the Dryden Centre taking part in the Eco Village challenge with a number of other schools. Split into groups, the class had to design and make a village that was 'Green', meaning it had to utilize renewable energies such as solar, wind and wave. The teams also had to keep track of the cost, which meant that maths skills were also tested. The class really enjoyed the morning, with one of our teams winning second place. Well done everybody!
Year 6 have been spending some time with their young buddies in Reception Class. They have been playing games and helping the little ones with producing their Christmas cards.
Mrs Toward has said "Year 6 has really helped Reception settle into the life of St Peters School and they love their grown up buddies!"
Year 6 are looking forward to having more fun with their little friends in the lead up to Christmas.
Today in Eco Club we sold the vegetables that we planted in April. We sold lettuce, onions and potatoes and made £23.40 and we are going to put it to good use next year. Our carrots and cabbages are looking very healthy but will not be ready until the autumn. We look forward to seeing you early next term for another vegetable sale. Ella Crawley Year 4
Year 6 went to Whithaugh Park on Monday to enjoy a day of fantastic outdoor activities. They took part in raft-building, abseiling, grass sledging and flying down a zip-wire! They were also joined be Mr Kell and Mr Mulholland, who both also thoroughly enjoyed the day. By the time the class returned to school at 6:30pm, everyone was absolutely exhausted.... but very happy!
All of our super fit juniors completed the Tesco Great School run today in the glorious sunshine at Saltwell Park!
We had a massive warm up with all of the other schools, then the race began. We set off in groups, boys then girls in each year group! It was exhausting but lots of fun!
Special Congratulations to Cameron, Connor and Ryan who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the boys race and to Bridget who came first for the girls! Well done!!
Some of our children were interviewed for the news so make sure you look out for them!
On Tuesday 15th June we celebrated our whole school Green Day. Each child came to school dressed in something green and participated in a wide range of eco activities. We were so lucky to have two outside agencies in school. 'Twottodo' worked with the children making table top scarecrows, bugs and puppets. 'Zoo Lab' ran workshops for each class. The infants looked at how nature naturally recyles and the juniors learnt all about biodiversity. All the children took part in treasure hunts across both school yards. Everyone had so much fun! Please join us in the school hall
on Wednesday 16th June at 3.15pm to look at what your child made and to view photographs of the day.
The Year 6 children have been working very hard for their Key Stage 2 tests .... and the wait is almost over!
The tests will take place the week commencing May 10th and finish on Thurs 13th.
The class are keen and ready to do them and are even more eager to enjoy the fun activities planned afterwards.
Please keep the class and all the children of St Peter's in your prayers during this week as they take their tests.
We are all very proud of their efforts and wish them the best of luck during this final stage.
Stars of the Week
Well done - Isla, Daniel, Alexandre, Jessica, Benjamin, Andrew, Sean and Francesca.
Mega Maths Stars
Good Calculating - Ruth, Aaron, Angela, Georgia, Abbey, Anna and Matthew!
Outside School Awards
This week ...
Swimming, Football and Show jumping! well done - Anna, Ellie and James!
Dance Festival at the Sage!
Our dance troupe performed flawlessly on Monday morning at the Sage. No mean feat when faced with a huge stage and audience for the first time, but as always the children rose to the challenge and were spectacular! Thanks also to Miss Bingham and Miss Watson for their time spent on rehearslas and costumes ensuring that the children were so fully prepared!
Swimming Gala
Year 6 swimmers represented the school in style - we were 2nd School Team overall, 2nd for Boys Team overall and won a medal in almost every race! Some children even won 2 or 3 medals and we even won the reserves race! Everyone showed great team spirit and cheered for each other the whole night - well done! Thanks also to Mrs Lawson, Mrs Stokoe and Mr Campbell for supporting the children from the side - they all have very sore throats today!!! and not forgetting all our brilliant parents and grandparents who cheered us on all night!
Yesterday afternoon Year 6 was visited my two local Magistrates. Mr Hutchison and Mr Ashley talked to the children about their roles in the community and some of the interesting times they've had in court.
Next, the children took part in a drama role play about a young boy who had stolen some CDs. The class had to decide if he was guilty or not guilty.
Finally pupils and family visitors asked some further questions about the job of a magistrate.
it was a very interesting afternoon. Thanks again to Mr Ashley and Mr Hutchison for coming along to our school.
Year 6 enjoyed a fabulous day at Beamish Museum on Wednesday as part of their Creative Curriculum topic 'The Box Of Delights'. The class took part in a wonderful evacuee experience and then spent the rest of the day exploring the many sights of Beamish.
Mrs Margaret Minns and her two friends fromthe 'That Was then' project visited Year 6 to talk about their experiences during World War 2. They spoke about being evacuated, school life, black-outs, even their favourite sweets at that time.
It was a wonderful afternoon. We all learned a great deal about that time and it really helped bring our creative curriculum topic to life. Our visiting parents and grandparents also enjoyed the session!
We were very lucky today. Sally Prue, author of James and the Alien Experiment, The Truth Slayer and Cold Tom and many more other exciting books, visited Years 4, 5 and 6.
She told us lots of funny and exciting stories about how she became a childrens author and we even had the opportunity to have our books signed by her.
Sally was very impressed by all of the children at St Peter's and has even asked if Year 4 could send her copies of the writing they have done during their literacy lesson. The missing chapter of 'James and the Alien Experiment'. We are so excited !
Year 6 enjoyed an afternoon of cross-stitch, producing emblems for their superheroes (creative curriculum topic). They were ably assisted by Mrs Lawson, Mrs Toward and Mrs Moreland and thoroughly enjoyed the activity. Check out the Year 6 classroom to see their handiwork!
This week Year 6 took part in the annual 'Park Life' enterprise initiative. Once again a team from our school won the competition. 
The class were split into groups and had to form a small business tasked with the job of designing a new community park. They had to use their creative and maths skills to design and cost their park.
All the teams worked very well together and enjoyed the morning. Congratulations to our winning team!
We hope you can all join us to celebrate our Beginner's mass this morning 10am at St Peter's church. It will hopefully herald the start of another great year at our school.
Year 5 were treated to a poetry workshop at Cardinal Hume Catholic School on Monday 8th June.
Led by the well-known children's poet, Christine Michaels, it gave the children the opportunity to explore the joys of different types of poetry. Following on from this workshop, the children are now working hard to create their own individual poems, as well as a joint effort poem by the whole class. Once the class poem is perfected, it will be performed at CHCS on June 25th in front of other schools from the cluster and parents. Details of this will follow.
We know we can rely on our Year 5 children to give it their best shot!
On Monday 8th June, Year 5 were lucky to be able to take part in a Mandarin Workshop, led by 4 Chinese students from Durham University. We crammed so much into the session, learning:
One of the students treated us to a recital on the flute of some Chinese music. Thanks again to the students for giving us this wonderful opportunity to discover and experience their culture.
Brain Training is coming soon to our school.
Find out more from Mr campbell in next week's assembly!!
Year 5 have been working hard in literacy, creating poems about the environment. They are taking part in the Big Green Poetry Machine which is a competition by the Young Writer's publishing company.
Congratualtions to the French club for hosting a brilliant French Breakfast morning on Friday 28th March! The event was enjoyed by everyone and over 70 chocolate croissants were sold as well as other delicious foods such as toast, cheese and crackers and baguettes. Everyone who attended the event commented on the excellent French spoken by our Year Five French club and the French club themselves were very impressed by how many children tried to order their breakfast in French! The morning was a huge success and we hope to follow it up with another morning for the whole school to enjoy! Once again a big thankyou to everyone who attended and supported the morning. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves. Check out the pictures from the morning and see if you can spot yourself enjoying some of our excellent french food!
Miss Alberts.
Years 3, 4 and 5 enjoyed a lively morning of music led by the Gateshead LEA Specialists Team. The theme was Food. The children throughly enjoyed singing a selection of songs from the Caribbean and traditional Britsih songs and rhymes. The children were invited to join the band and had the opportunity to play a variety of percussion instruments.
Rhythm and melody were the teaching focus of this very enjoyable session.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved for their expertise and guidance.
Bonjour!
Comment ca va?
The Year Five French club have had their heads down working very hard to prepare for the French Breakfast morning. The morning will be held at 8:30 till 9am in the school hall on Friday the 28th of March for all of Key Stage Two (sorry Key Stage One, we hope to hold a one for you later in the school year!) so come along and ask for your breakfast in French! Check out the menus in your class for prices and don't forget to look at the posters that tell you how to ask for food in French!
We hope to see you there!
Well done to all of year Five for their excellent liturgical dance to 'My Jesus, My Saviour' which formed part of our Easter reconcilliation service. The children worked very hard to learn the dance and put their own ideas into it. I think that it really helped us to reflect upon what Jesus did in sacrificing his life, so an extra well done to Year Five for helping the school do that. Lets hope that our next dance will be as successful! I'm really looking forward to doing more of this work with you Year Five!
Miss Alberts
Year Five have been up to so much recently! We had a fantastic day and evening performance at Cardinal Hume where we got to know lots of other children from the local Catholic schools. We thoroughly enjoyed singing in the choir and entertaining our parents. Thankyou to all of the parents who came and showed their support. The children worked incredibly hard and sang beautifully.
This file may take a little while to download but hopefully it's worth the wait!
Thank you to Year 5 for their wonderful pictures - these will really help the children to reflect on each station.
I Jesus is Condemned to Death
II Jesus takes up His Cross
To view the rest of the stations continue to read on.
Continue reading "Stations of the Cross - Reflection for KS1" »
Our Year 5 children were chosen to make the candles for the 'Angel of the North's' celebration of its tenth anniversary. Artists came in to work with the children for a full day and I'm sure you'll agree some beautiful artwork was created.
Continue reading "10th Birthday Celebrations for Angel of the North" »
Bonjour everyone, we are the members of the fantastic Year Five French club! We meet every Thursday night after school and we are currently learning an exciting poem about the local town. We have learnt some useful phrases such as, "la patinoire," "le cafe," "la discotheque" and "la gare" which are all words in our poem. As soon as we know our poem off by heart we will record it and let you have a listen so keep a look out to see how we are doing! We have even tried some delicious French food such as chocolate filled crepes.
au revoir from Jessica, Alice, Jon, Preet and Miss Alberts
Year Five led today's Ash Wednesday service at St Peter's Church which was dedicated to the memory of Mr Jim Murray, who was deputy head at St Peter's for many years. The mass was a brilliant success and was enjoyed by the whole school, Mr Murray's family and the parish. The children organised the whole mass themselves by choosing hymns and readings. The service was well attended and the whole school sang beautifully. Year Five read confidently and made their teacher, Miss Alberts, incredibly proud. Mr Murray's family who attended the mass commented on how fantastic the children were and how Mr Murray would have really enjoyed it.
The school will be visited by the 'Konflux Theatre Group' tomorrow. Four classes will be taking part in various drama based activities throughout the day. Reception Class, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 5 will each have a one hour session with the group. Make sure to find out how it went by visiting our brand new website in the next couple of days.
