On Tuesday this week 350 pupils from Years 1 to 6 trooped to Sacred Heart and St Peter the Apostle church in the crisp November air to celebrate St Peter’s annual Advent Service.  Beautiful singing, wonderful reading and emotive acting brought the service, and the season of Advent, to life for the school community.

Fr Jeremy and Fr James provided a wonderful dialogue which took the pupils from car repair manuals to the Bible message of Christmas.

Thanks go especially to the many family adults who volunteered to walk with the pupils to and from the church, and to the school staff who bring so much to the children at St Peter’s to nurture their faith.

Mr R Cunningham
Headteacher

Mrs Pearson, Art Lead at St Peter’s, led a group of pupils in a specialist workshop focused on print designs with the help of a specialist local company.

The pupils were able to take the whole process through from initial ideas to draft designs to finished products, shown here on display in school.

Mr R Cunningham
Headteacher

My Wow Work Wall is filling up with brilliant pieces of learning from children in all year groups throughout the school from this first term.

There is still space for more to come from the children … which I expect will have an Advent and Christmas theme from here on in!

Mr R Cunningham
Headteacher

Thank you to our librarian Mrs Porter who has produced our remembrance display for this year.

Mr R Cunningham
Headteacher

Pupils in Years 3 to 6 gathered on 1^st November for a liturgy in celebration of the Feast of All Saints.  The Sermon on the Mount was read out by pupils who then went on to explain how these saintly virtues may look in our everyday lives.  We have worked hard this year to bring the lives and examples of the Saints into a real-world context for our pupils.

A key feature of this has been the introduction of a House System at St Peter’s, with each House named after a Saint; St Teresa of Calcutta, St John Paul II, St Oscar Romero and St Elizabeth Hesselblad.  Each of these Saints from the twentieth century lived lives of service and devotion from which we at school can draw teaching and examples as we work with the saints of tomorrow – our pupil learners.