Year 1KW: Gallery
Easter Bonnet Parade, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 11:15am
Our Early Years and KS1 Easter Bonnet Parade was truly special and very cute, thanks to the creativity and effort of both the children and the parents. The bonnets were fantastic, and we’re grateful to all the parents who attended and supported the parade. The children had a wonderful time and sang beautifully, making it a morning to remember!
1KW - Emergency Services Museum, by Miss Weller
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 12:03pm
We had a fantastic trip to the National Emergency Services Museum. Our topic in History is The Great Fire of London and we took part in an exciting workshop where we learnt how the fire spread so quickly and how the soldiers put the fire out. We explored the museum and saw a variety of emergency services vehicles and tried on uniforms for past and present firefighters. It was a wonderful day and we had lots of fun.
World Book Day 2025 - Everyone's Costumes!, by Mr Wood
Date: 8th Mar 2025 @ 4:37pm
Our school was filled with colour and creativity as staff and pupils dressed up as their favourite book characters for World Book Day! From classic literary heroes to modern favourites, the variety of costumes was truly impressive. Everyone put in a fantastic effort, bringing beloved stories to life with enthusiasm and imagination.
Click below to take a look at the wonderful photos capturing the magic of the day – a testament to our love of reading and storytelling! 📚✨
World Book Day 2025, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 3:38pm
The children had a fantastic World Book Day, inspired by the works of author Oliver Jeffers. They created some outstanding pieces of work based on Jeffers' book Stuck, and we couldn't help but wonder if Floyd, the character from the story, had visited our school after seeing what happened to our tree outside. Additionally, all the children arrived in school dressed in fantastic outfits, celebrating their love for books and creativity.
Recycling session with Rochdale Council, by Miss Healey
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 11:25am
Today we had a fantastic visitor! Nigel Goulding from Rochdale Borough Council came in to speak to Year 5 all about recycling and what we can do for the planet! We had so much fun and learnt many things about our waste and what happens to it after we're done with it. We learnt all about the small steps we can take to make our Earth happy and healthy again :)
Wellbeing Ambassadors, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 2:31pm
Today, our new Wellbeing Ambassadors went to their initial training session at Littleborough Sports Centre to find out all about what it takes to be a Wellbeing Ambassador. We tried lots of different activities to support our Wellbeing and Mental Health with various teams from Rochdale such as Your Trust and The School Nursing Team. We also learnt about the 5 ways to wellbeing which are: 'BE ACTIVE', 'GIVE', 'CONNECT', 'TAKE NOTICE' and 'KEEP LEARNING'. The children represented our school brilliantly and are looking forward to starting their new roles in school after Christmas!
WOW Church Summer Presentation to the Diocese, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 4:00pm
Our 2 WOW Church members visited St Chad's Church in Middleton to delivered a presentation, alongside our group members from St John's Thornham and Milnrow Parish Primary School, to over 40 diocese representatives. The children explained and showed the diocese the various projects we have worked on this year, set up an environmental challenge for the parishioners to complete and then sung our song, 'Rich Diversity'. Each child represented their school brilliantly and the Dean of Rochdale was so impressed with the way the children conducted themselves during the presentation. The diocese is taking on board the children’s suggestions of a Plastic Policy in every church and we look forward to next year's group where we hope to again make a difference to the environment of our churches in Rochdale.
WOW Church Meeting 17.4.24, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 9:18am
Our two WOW (Watch Our World) church representives visited St John's Thornham Church of England Primary School this afternoon for our next WOW meeting. This meeting focused on the local environment and we had a fantastic opportunity to have a visit from a Hedgehog Hospital. Here, the children learnt about the impact humas are having on hedgehogs and how we can better look after our environment for our local wildlife. The children found out a range of facts about hedgehogs and created a 'hedgehog house' (a hibernacula) to support hedgehogs in the area.
Author visit, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 12:21pm
Following on from our wonderful world book day celebrations, we had a real author visit our school. Sean performed an assembly to all the children in which he read one of his own books and then he carried out a workshop with each class to help them become authors themselves. We are so impressed with the writing and illustrations produced by the children.
100% Attendance Certificates, by Miss Hulse
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 9:38am
Well done to all the children to achieved 100% attendance today, for the Spring Term.
National Emergency Services Museum - March 2024, by Mrs Anderson
Date: 25th Mar 2024 @ 2:35pm
We had a fantastic trip to the National Emergency Services Museum. Our topic in History is The Great Fire of London and we took part in an exciting workshop where we learnt how the fire spread so quickly and how the soldiers put the fire out. We explored the museum and saw a variety of emergency services vehicles and tried on uniforms for past and present firefighters. It was a wonderful day and we had lots of fun.
1A Class Assembly - March 2024, by Mrs Anderson
Date: 25th Mar 2024 @ 2:19pm
On Thursday 21st March we performed our class assembly to the school and our parents. Our assembly was all about the Easter story which we have been learning about in our RE lessons. We shared examples of prayers we have written and sang hymns relating to Easter. It was lots of fun to perform our class assembly for the school and we hope you all enjoyed it! :)
World Book Day, by Mr Wood
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 2:18pm
We all had great fun dressing up as book characters on Thursday 7th March. The day got off to a great start with an assembly where everybody showed their costumes off! We were delighted to find that, thanks to the children’s kind donations, we raised over £247 for Book Aid International. This money will help to pay for books in less economically developed countries. Click the link below to have a look at the pictures of all the children in their fantastic costumes - as well as the staff!
St Peter's Pebbles Playground Assembly, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:56pm
St Peter's Playground Pebbles lead a fantastic whole school assembly on Tuesday.
The Pebbles explained how they could support children at playtime and lunchtime who are feeling lonely or who are finding it difficult to join in a game. They explained how they will model and use our Christian Values to help everyone have fun when playing outside on our playground.
In front of the whole school, the Pebbles made their special promise:
A friend to all who need it - for we believe that,
"...if one falls down, his friend can help him up..."
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
The group then went onto explain the exciting new games they will be leading each lunchtime and introduce some of our new playground equipment.
Well done to our Pebbles! You showed great leadership, teamwork, bravery and friendship as you delivered your assembly. Everyone at St Peter's is very excitied to get outside and play at break and lunchtime!
St Peter's WOW Church Welcomes 'Praise Along' to record a fantastic collective worship song!, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:42pm
On Tuesday, St Peter's enjoyed hosting our Spring Term WOW Church Synod Group meeting. This meeting was special as we were delighted to welcome Kelly and her team from ‘Praise Along’ to produce an environmentally based collective worship song. 10 children from St Peter’s were joined by children from St John’s Thornham and Milnrow Parish to sing a beautiful song called, ‘Rich Diversity’. This was a wonderful opportunity for our children and they had a fantastic time singing, performing and recording the song. It was amazing to hear the collective voices of our group sing out about such an important topic with great enthusiasm!
Thanks again to Kelly and her Team from ‘Praise Along’ for this opportunity and for members of our diocese for attending and showing their support. We are looking forward to hearing our song when it is published later this year – watch this space!
Our WOW Church members would also like to share the prayer we said at the beginning of our meeting to show our gratitude for our wonderful world:
Dear God,
We praise you for the beauty of creation, its richness and variety.
The earth is yours, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
Grant us your grace that we may exercise wise stewardship of this Earth; tread lightly upon it and cherish its resources so that in years to come everyone may enjoy its riches.
Please be with us today as we create this song to help spread the word of how wonderful and diverse your creation is.
Help us to restore and care for this beautiful earth you blessed us with.
Amen
WOW Church Synod, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 9th Jan 2024 @ 3:44pm
Today, Elisia and Hassan represented our school at our half-termly WOW Church meeting held at Milnrow Parish CE School. Here, we discussed the results from our plastic survey sent out to the churches and parishes in Rochdale and came up with an action plan of how we plan to support our churches to become more environmentally friendly places. We also discussed an exciting opportunity to create our own environmentally friendly collective worship song which we are all looking forward to recording at our next meeting!
Legoland Trip - November 2023, by Mrs Anderson
Date: 27th Nov 2023 @ 2:00pm
We had a wonderful day at Legoland for our Autumn trip. We took part in a Spinning Top workshop where we created spinning tops and launchers to make our spinners spin for as long as possible! We went on the rides at Legoland before exploring the different activities that we could do there. We all had such a fun day!
The Poppy Appeal, by Miss Mulkeen
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 1:12pm
1A Class Assembly - October 2023, by Mrs Anderson
Date: 31st Oct 2023 @ 5:05pm
On Thursday 19th October we performed our class assembly to the school and our parents. Our assembly was all about the Christian festival Harvest. We learnt Harvest songs and added actions to our performance. We shared examples of work we have done in our RE lessons. It was lots of fun to perform our class assembly for the school and we hope you all enjoyed it! :)
Blackpool Zoo Trip - July 2023, by Mrs Anderson
Date: 13th Jul 2023 @ 4:38pm
We had a fantastic day out at Blackpool zoo. We saw so many interesting and amazing animals and learnt lots of new facts. We were lucky enough to watch a sea lion show and we were very impressed with their super tricks.
It was a brilliant day out!
Emergency Services Museum - May 2023, by Mrs Anderson
Date: 7th Jun 2023 @ 4:34pm
We visited the National Emergency Services Museum and had a fabulous day. We were able to look at a vairety of extreme vehicles and discover how a regular car can be tranformed into a police car. During the day we took part in a workshop where we travelled back in time to 1666 and a huge fire ravaged London. We discussed how the Great Fire spread and the timeline of events before understanding how it was extinguised. We were able to dress up as a soldier and act out how to fight the fire.
The trip was super exciting and we had a wonderful day!
Church Visit - May 2023, by Mrs Anderson
Date: 7th Jun 2023 @ 1:58pm
We had a wonderful visit to church learning all about Pentecost. We sang our favourite hymns and shared prayers and readings. It was great to have a very special reflection time in a beautiful church.
1A Baptism Class Assembly - May 2023, by Mrs Anderson
Date: 5th Jun 2023 @ 4:02pm
We really enjoyed performing our class assembly for our parents and our friends. In our first half term of summer our RE topic was Baptism and the meaning of belonging. During our assembly we performed hymns relating to belonging and shared our RE work. We learnt lots of new facts about the birth rites of different religions. We hope you enjoyed it! :)
World Book Day 2023, by Mr Wood
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 12:04pm
Carol Concert, by Miss Hulse
Date: 12th Dec 2022 @ 3:40pm
We had a beautiful carol concert this morning, with all the children singing a mixture of traditional carols. This reminded us of the true meaning of Christmas.
