{"id":99,"date":"2017-02-03T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/?p=99"},"modified":"2017-02-11T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T16:05:56","slug":"science-space-and-super-spuds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/2017\/02\/03\/science-space-and-super-spuds\/","title":{"rendered":"Science, space and super spuds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">Well done to Year 5 for boldly going where no pupils have gone before, this school year from St Peter&#8217;s at least, and making the trip through the wind and the rain to the Intech Science Centre just outside Winchester.\u00a0 Thanks you to the staff and volunteers who made this trip possible.\u00a0 The Year 5 pupils have been astounding me in recent weeks with incredible home learning work on the planets and life in space.\u00a0 The space topic has inspired the children really well, and who wouldn&#8217;t be hooked into doing maths based upon planet temperatures in Star Wars!\u00a0 Some great models and information posters have been made about our solar system by Year 5, some of which are on display in the school foyer, but you will need to be quick to see them as Year 2 Titanic models are ready to set sail for centre stage during next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">The talent in school is not just limited to classroom lessons and home learning though.\u00a0 Pupils in Mrs D&#8217;s after school Story Time Club have put together an hilarious story of their own based upon a well-known series, writing &#8216;Supertato &#8211; Classroom Chaos&#8217; in the autumn term.\u00a0 This amazing publication has been granted the honour of sole residence on Mr Cunningham&#8217;s Wow Work! wall outside my office (see below).\u00a0 In addition, the publication was well received (and reviewed) by the Supertato authors themselves who wrote a wonderful letter to the Story Time Club pupils at the start of the term.\u00a0 To top of this triumph, &#8216;Supertato &#8211; Classroom Chaos&#8217;\u00a0was the most borrowed book in our school library in January, so well done to all the pupils involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/Supertato-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Supertato\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/Supertato-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/Supertato-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/Supertato-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/Supertato.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">And finally, in the sporting spirit of fair play and neutrality, I hope that any of you who are interested in rugby enjoy all that the Six Nations has to offer, and may the best team (as <em><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">long as they play in white and have a red rose emblem<\/span><\/em>) win!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">Mr R Cunningham<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\">Headteacher<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done to Year 5 for boldly going where no pupils have gone before, this school year from St Peter&#8217;s at least, and making the trip through the wind and the rain to the Intech Science Centre just outside Winchester.\u00a0 Thanks you to the staff and volunteers who made this trip possible.\u00a0 The Year 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}