Yesterday, we welcomed the community into school for our Eid Celebrations. Parents kindly brought food donations for the community to taste and share, games were played, some people had henna tattoos and a lot of fun had by all. Thanks to Mrs Murphy for organising this wonderful event and for all the parents who came into school.
Yesterday, the majority of our year 4 pupils took part in their first session of Rackets Cubed at Newbridge Lawn Tennis and Squash Club. Rackets Cubed is a UK charity that delivers integrated STEM education, racket sports and nutrition programmes to improve the lives of children from underserved areas. We are currently taking part in a 5 week pilot scheme, where the children are given a maths lesson, a squash lesson and provided a hot meal!
Today, Jane Coleman from Wolverhampton Library Services officially opened our SSPP Reading Shed. The children were excited, and will start using our outdoor resource so they can ‘read for pleasure’ during their playtimes and lunchtimes.
Yesterday, Mrs Murphy, accompanied by two of our children from Year 6, visited The Elms Resource Centre with the kind donations that our school community had given for Ramadan and Eid. The Elms Resource Centre are a Muslim charity and help the entire community. They have since let us know that they have supported more people than ever due our community’s kind donations.
This week, children across all years have been learning about Ramadan. As part of their learning about Ramadan, Year 1 made dried fruit balls. Dried fruit and seeds are often eaten during Ramadan as a way of boosting energy without eating a large meal.
Some of our Year 6 children led an assembly this morning to the rest of the school and parents on Ramadan and their faith. They did a wonderful job and answered questions very informatively. Here is the presentation that they created:
Over the next few weeks, our local PCSO, Trudi Brittle, will be visiting all our classes. Today, she visited Year 6 to discuss anti-social behaviour.
Today, our Year 4 class had an educational visit from Tettenhall Fire Service. They were given tips on how to be safe at home in case of the fire. This included Stop, Drop and Roll incase they were on fire!
Today, we continued to take part in the St. Peter’s Activity Project, trying to create more opportunities for our children to be active in the local area. From the previous workshop, the top activities our children wanted to look into were: Football, playing with friends, Gymnastics, Ice-Skating and Dance!
Today, our children came to school dressed as what they would like to be in the future as a link to our vocations work in school and discussing God’s calling to us! The word vocation comes from the Latin word ‘Vocare’ meaning ‘to call’. We had a mixture of professions including nurses, police officers, fire officers, footballers, dancers, singers, lawyers, chefs and many more! The most pleasing message that came from the children as to why they wanted to do their profession was all focussed around ‘helping others’
We have also had some wonderful parents in Year 6 come into school to explain their vocations to the children – thank you!
Yesterday, in partnership with Wolves Foundation, SS Peter and Paul were asked to host a ‘No Room for Racism’ Workshop which was being filmed by the Premier League. Not only that, but our children were shocked to discover that a special guest – Wolves superstar Adama Traore – came to talk to them about racism in football and what can be done!
