The Northern Learning Conference was a huge success at the weekend and everyone

who visited the school was impressed with the amazing environments that have been

created by the teachers and children in school. The logistics for the day were organised

by Mrs Fattorini and Mrs Hulmes and my thanks to the catering, estates, IT and drama

departments and all other support staff in school for making the day so successful – it

was a wonderful team effort.

It has been a privilege to observe the children enjoying their themes so far this term. In

Year 3 I watched the children classifying animals; in Year 2 they have been creating

props for their ‘Oliver’ assembly next week and have been exploring toys that were

played with by children in Victorian times and Year 1 have been producing

advertisements for their chocolate bars. Reception and Nursery have been celebrating

Chinese New Year with a visit to the Chinese supermarket and a visit from Esmie’s

mother to talk about China. Another busy and exciting week at Clifton!

In my assembly on Monday I asked the children, if they were asked in a dream, “you can

have anything you wish for”, what would their answers be? The children replied with

ideas such as a horse, Lamborghini, £1000, a dragon, a family dog, an endless supply of

sweets, a new bike and many more. I then told the children the story of Solomon and

what he wished for when he was posed the same question. Solomon was the son of

David, he had a dream and he asked God for wisdom, which he was granted. Soon

after his wish was granted, two women came to him, claiming to be the mother of his

child. Solomon said he would kill the baby and divide it into two, so that each woman

could have half a baby each. One of the women cried and said that in order to save the

child’s life, it should be given to the other woman. Solomon knew then that this

woman was the baby’s real mother as she had wanted to save her baby. Solomon went

on to be known as the wisest person who had ever lived. What we learn from Solomon

is that, although we need to have money and it feels good to have nice things, or be

famous, what is really important is to have knowledge and good judgement, as this will

help throughout our lifetime.

On Wednesday 1J presented a fabulous assembly based on their incredible work on

‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They acted out scenes from the story,

demonstrated how they made advertisements and showed, via iMovie, their finished

product. They sang two songs, one in which they wrote a verse together as a class and

choreographed a dance for the Oompa Loompas. The children have clearly enjoyed

their learning so far and performed the assembly superbly. Well done children and

thank you Mrs Johnson, Mrs Greenall and Mrs Hayden for the singing.

Mrs Hall is recovering well and is steadily improving. She sends her best wishes to all

and hopes to pop into school during the week before the half term break.

I am thoroughly looking forward to the Whole School Foundation Concert, when our

choir will join the St Olave’s and St Peter’s choirs to perform together on Thursday 16th

February at 6.00 pm in the Memorial Hall at St Peter’s School. I know that our choir

are rehearsing hard and are very excited about their forthcoming joint concert.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Best wishes

CoMPasS You can follow us ...….. Newsletter No: 17

Friday 3rd February 2017 Registered Charity No: 1141329

WEEK COMMENCING 6TH

FEBRUARY DIARY:

Mon Y3 Ukueles Club (lunchtime)

Rec Speech & Drama

Y1 Multi Sports

Y1 Creature Creations

Y2 Maths Club

Y2 Hockey

Y2/3 Yoga

Y3 Tennis

Y3 Tag Rugby

Tues

Y2/3 Choir (lunchtime)

Y1 Team Relays

Y2/3 Sports Club

Y1/2/3 Ballet

Y2/3 Karate

Y2/3 Chess

Y3 Speech & Drama

Y3 Swimming Club

Wed 8.40 am 2S Assembly

Rec/Y1 Yoga Bunnies (lunchtime)

Y1 Speech & Drama

Y1 Coding

Y2 Art Club

Y3 Recorders

Y2/3 Chess

Y3 Animation Club

Thurs

9.00am—3.00pm Y1 Trip West Yorkshire Playhouse

Y1 Art

Y1/2/3 Street Dance

Y2 Multi Sports

Y2 Library/Book Club

Y2/3 Speech & Drama

Y2/3 Top Trumps/Cards/etc

Fri Nursery Clay Workshop

(all day)

Rec Construction Club

Y1 Football

Y2 Ball Skills

Alex Al-Asadi has lost his tracksuit

bottoms and Annabel Searby has

lost her coat, please look

out for them at home.

Silver

Rory, Charlie, Amelia, Henry, Aleena,

Scarlett, Helena, Thomas, Rohan and Emily

Gold

Elizabeth

Class Winners

2H

This week has been all about

advertising in 1M! Firstly, we

looked at advertising through

posters-obviously we had to taste

test our chocolate products before

writing about them (which we all

thoroughly enjoyed doing!). Then

we worked in our teams to create

posters using pictures, bright

colours and our very own slogans…

SMART CHILDREN EAT

SMARTIES! The next stage of

advertising came in the form of

filming. We dressed up and got into

role before putting on some highly

impressive and amusing acting

performances. We used the iMovie

app to cut, paste, add writing and

effects to create the perfect

advert! Now it is over to you! We

are having a friendly class

competition (Battle of the Ads),

to see whose chocolate is

advertised most effectively! The

films and posters can be seen

outside our classroom and we

would love you to have a look, a

giggle and then vote! The winning

team will be announced in next

week’s newsletter !

Ask Tigger Anything!

Did you know Tigger lives in a number

house where all the walls are made of

numbers?! Did you know Tigger goes on

holiday to the trampoline park in York? Did

you know Tigger climbs stairs by bouncing

on his bottom?!

RL found all of this information out this

week when they imagined meeting Tigger!

They did some work on who, what, where,

why, when and how question starters and

made a BIG list of all the questions they

would love to ask Tigger! Then some

children in our class disappeared and the

real life Tigger came into our classroom!

They were fab acting in role and making us

all laugh with their humorous answers!

2H have been looking carefully at Victorian toys this

week, comparing them with modern toys. They have

come across a lot of similarities, but are still full of

wonderment at the thought of life without the internet!

Year 2 have also been finding out about the

expanding British Empire of the past, weighing up

whether this was a good thing or not.

Groups of children have been working

together to discuss this issue, listening to

each others’ views as well as contributing

ideas, which is quite a

challenge. As part of

our ‘Wisdom’ focus this term we will be analysing

the difficulties of such a task and thinking of ways

to improve our collaborative work.

Everyone has been very busy in Nursery this week. On Monday Zoo Lab came to visit and we met a millipede, a giant snail, a rat, a spider and a bearded dragon.

The children asked lots of really interesting questions about the different animals and everyone looked carefully at each creature. The children were able to touch some of the animals and they were surprised by how they felt. Some very brave children even held the snail and the millipede. We kept thinking about animals for Chinese New Year, where the children found out about the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac. We discovered that most children in Nursery are snakes with some dragons and horses too! On Tuesday Mrs Tsang, Esmie’s mummy, came to Nursery to tell us all about the Chinese New Year celebrations. The children really enjoyed making lanterns with her too. Thank you Mrs Tsang and Esmie. The Nursery children also ventured out of Nursery this week and went to the Chinese supermarket to go shopping for our sensory table. Everyone had a great time looking at all of the different types of food and trying to work out what they were before choosing what to buy. We then brought our purchases back to Nursery to share with their friends. The children showed great teamwork and enthusiasm. Well done!

Housepoints

Monk

Good Conduct

Bo, Georgina, Molly,

Thomas, Diya, Rebecca-

Daisy, Edward, Juliette,

Joshua, Raphie and

Harry

Music Awards

Sebastian and

Oliver

We have had a busy time in 3C this week!

We have been looking at animal adaptation, food chains and animal classification!

We created our own paper chains that represent an animal food chain.

We sorted animals into the 5 groups, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians and discovered the features of the animals in each group.

We have continued learning about time and ventured outside to time each other completing tasks.

We created a group poem about walking through the jungle and enjoyed our drama piece based on our poems.

Pull it apart! RS have been dismantling

all sorts of electrical appliances! The

week began compiling a list of safety

guidelines about how to handle tools

safely. The children worked on

televisions, laptops, toasters, kettles,

radios and telephones. We grouped

and categorised materials, labelled

parts, estimated how many screws

were in different equipment as well as

creating log books of information about

what we discovered. It

was fascinating to

learn how intricate and

fragile some

equipment and

materials were whilst

others where more robust and

hardwearing. An interesting week with

lots to keep everyone busy!

This week 3M have been the teachers! They have been preparing their resources and learning for teaching RL all about pouncing and bouncing animals and how animals camouflage! We prepared videos, notes and found books about our bouncing animals including springboks, lemurs and even jumping spiders! We got out metre sticks and multilink to show Reception how far some of the animals could jump. Some of us had a go at jumping the same distance as a wallaby, trying to jump 4 metres was hard! We then worked with Reception to create a piece of camouflage art. We painted the backgrounds based on the colours Reception chose to paint their animal. We then delivered them to RL cut out and camouflaged. Thank you Reception for being such fantastic learners and well done 3M for being amazing teachers!

This week in

IJ we have

had a

really busy

time. In

addition to

the

excitement

of

performing

our

assembly

(which the

children were fabulous in!) we

have been finding out about life

for the

Oompa

Loompas.

We are in

the midst of

creating our

own

Oompa

Loompa

fact files,

complete

with maps

of Loompa

Land. Our favourite map is going

to be made into a large scale

model and we have been

debating how to choose this fairly

in class. We have also been

working out how the chocolate is

transported down the pipes in

Willy Wonka's factory. The children

have been collaborating to make

their own pipes both inside and

outside of the classroom. This has

involved problem solving, trial and

error and

learning how

to express

our ideas to

each other.

Well done1J!

Friday 3rd March is Book Day at Clifton!! After the success of last year, Mrs Hall and Mrs Headlam-Morley have decided that we will all be dressing up again. Start planning your outfits and get thinking about your favourite book characters! There will be prizes in all year groups!!

It was Chinese New Year this week so we made 'Chinese Dragons' and 'Lucky Red Envelopes'. Well done.

It’s Valentines Day soon so next week we will decorate some love hearts.

This week 3P have been busy investigating animal groups! Mammals,

Reptiles, Birds, Fish and Amphibians.

This is a Pangolin…do you

know which animal group it

belongs to?

On Thursday we went outside for a strange investigation…Miss Platts asked us to

close our eyes. She then threw a packet of midget gems onto the school field. We

were only aloud to pick 1 sweet as fast as we could! We found out that most

children picked up the bright yellow or orange sweets and only 2 children picked up

a green sweet. We realised that most of us didn’t even see the green sweets on the

grass as they blended in. When we went back inside we found out why some

animals camouflage themselves and why others can be brightly coloured!

Superstars

Alexander, Charlie, Torben, Rory,

Oliver, Xanthe, Arjan, Aleena, Clara,

Robert and all of 1J

Core 5 Lexia

Isobel, Clara, Jacob, Chloe, Rory, Robert,

Harriet, William, Alexander, Tizzy, Alex,

Collin, Theodore, Edward and Isabel

Clifton School Friends – Core Member Vacancy

The role of CSF Secretary is vacant, if you are interested in this position then please contact me.

Forthcoming Events

Due to lack of numbers Quiz Night has been postponed, date to be announced!!

Race Night – Saturday 13th May 2017, in School (exact venue to be confirmed)

Sign up sheets and tickets will be available in due course but please put this date in your diary as you will not want to miss this fun evening!

There will also be an opportunity to sponsor a race, which will contain advertising in the race booklet with 2 tickets for the evening, more details to follow!

As this is a charity fundraising event for the schools chosen charity we are looking for outstanding Tombola prizes!

Can you help?

If you or someone you know has a business, skill or craft that could kindly donate a fantastic prize for our Tombola please drop me a line or catch me in the playground. We are hoping to smash our fundraising total from last year so please get involved and help us to help children in the wider world!

Parents’ Socials

Reception Mum’s Lunch – Friday 17th February 2017

Year 2 Mum’s & Dad’s Night Out – Saturday 1st April 2017

Year 2 Mum’s & Dad’s Trip to York Races – Saturday 17th June 2017

Dates for your diary

CSF Meeting – Tuesday 7th March 2017, 8.30 am in the school dining room – all welcome.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend,

Elizabeth

Dear Parents,

I am writing to let you know that tickets are now available for the next event in the Public Lecture series at

St Peter’s School.

Tickets are free and can be booked through by clicking here.

‘What are the Boffins doing about Infectious Diseases?’

Professor Mike Ferguson CBE FRS Regius Professor of Life Sciences, University of Dundee

Wednesday 15 February, 7pm in the Memorial Hall

Mike Ferguson is a researcher who specialises in parasitic diseases, like human African sleeping sickness and

malaria, and who helps to run a Drug Discovery Unit. In this lecture, Mike will explain what he and his

colleagues are doing to 'translate' fundamental discovery science into new, better and safer medicines for

infectious diseases and to tackle the spread of drug-resistant infections, which is a global challenge.

Mike Ferguson left St Peter's School in 1975 and studied Biochemistry in Manchester (BSc) and London (PhD).

He worked as a post-doctoral researcher in New York and Oxford before being appointed a lecturer at The

University of Dundee in 1988. Mike was fortunate enough to make a significant biological discovery relatively early

in his career and to have subsequently lead a sizeable research team performing both fundamental discovery science

and 'translational' applied science - making new drugs and diagnostic devices for infectious diseases. He now

also helps shape National and International biomedical research by serving on the boards of the Wellcome Trust and

the Medicines for Malaria Venture.

Wine and canapés will be served after the lecture.

Our Public Lectures have proved very popular with schools and the public and places will be reserved on a first

come, first served basis. If you have any access requirements, are hard of hearing or have any other special requests,

please book your tickets using Eventbrite, then email Mrs Sue Jenks at events@stpetersyork.org.uk, stating which

event(s) you are attending and how many tickets you have booked.

Many of our events sell out, and you must bring your ticket with you to guarantee entry. Please either print off your ticket

or display it to us on your smartphone or tablet on the evening.

Further details of this and our other lectures can be found here.

This programme is run in association with the Institute of Physics and with the support of the Rotary Club of York

Vikings, the St Peter’s School Foundation and the Ogden Trust.

I do hope that you will be able to support this lecture and please do contact us if we can be of any more assistance.

Yours sincerely,

David

David Morris

Head of Science

St Peter's School

Clifton

York

YO30 6AB

Tel: 01904 527422

d.morris@stpetersyork.org.uk

Super Camps in 2017 A range of courses and activities are available to children during the Easter, May half term and summer holidays on Super Camps at St Peter’s School. All courses and activities are specifically designed for the ages of the children taking part to maximise fun and develop skills.

The Early Years programme just for 4 to 5 year olds ensures learning and development within a fun environment. The 6 to 9-year-old crews can explore new activities and take on new challenges. Our 10 to 12 year olds can come together in their very own common room as well as spend more time tackling activities in depth.

Parents at the school get 10% off throughout the year using code PARENT17.

Find out more at www.supercamps.co.uk or 01235 467300

Admission is FREE, but parents will still need tickets. At the moment, tickets are limited to a maximum of two tickets per family.