It was a great pleasure this week to welcome Fr Andrew Wagstaff to St Peter’s to celebrate our first Mass of the year with pupils from Years 1 to 6.

Fr Andrew is the parish priest at St Colman’s and St Paul’s Church in Cosham, and through his homily set the pupils up for the coming year by reminder us of Jesus’ two greatest commandments; “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and love your neighbour as yourself”.

As part of the offertory, children from each year group brought up items to reflect and represent what they have been working on in class so far this term.

Mr R Cunningham
Headteacher

It’s now all systems go at St Peter’s as we round off the second week of the autumn term.  The pupils in Year R have moved from stay and play and half-day sessions to completing whole days in ‘big school’.  They have all done very well, and I look forward to meeting them as they rapidly become valued members of the St Peter’s community.  Extra-curricular activities are well underway, with football on a Wednesday afternoon, Performance on a Thursday afternoon and Bounce Fit on a Tuesday afternoon to name but three activities.  Over the coming week more staff-led extra-curricular clubs will become available as colleagues complete welcome meetings and offer children lunchtime or after schools enrichment opportunities.  Small group music lessons have begun again, with recorder, keyboard, flute and guitar being ever popular, and Hampshire’s ‘Rock to the Beat’ club running on a Monday after school.  Any families interested in their child taking up instrument tuition should contact the school office for details.

And all of these activities take place around a busy school day with a packed curriculum and vibrant break and lunch times – is it any wonder our children come home exhausted and hungry at the end of each day!

Mr R Cunningham
Headteacher

Welcome back to all the pupils and families of St Peter’s for the start of the school year 2023-2024.

A special welcome goes to those who are joining us from other schools, and to our new intake of Early Years children who are starting in Reception.

In this coming year, we will be having a special focus on our school vision, “Walking hand in hand with God to make our world a better place”, and how that is central to the behaviours that we see in our Learning Circle.  Special assemblies each fortnight will focus on each of the Learning Circle behaviours across the school year, with a chance to celebrate how well the children are able to live out our school vision through demonstrating these behaviours.

Our school vision extends to a full mission statement,

“Walking hand in hand with God, loving Him, loving ourselves and loving each other, doing our best with the gifts he gave us to make our world a better place”.

I look forward to the children developing their God-given gifts in this coming school year, and working together as a community to take St Peter’s from strength to strength.

Mr R Cunningham
Headteacher