Year 2W: Gallery
Being the Good Soil, by Mrs Perry
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 11:28am
The children have been learning about the Parable of the Sower and exploring the story of The Good Soil. Through thoughtful discussions, we considered how we can be like the good soil in our St Peter’s school community by being kind, caring, helpful and listening to others. The children shared their ideas about how we can help ourselves and others to grow and flourish through our everyday actions. We also enjoyed exploring the tuff tray with our friends, developing our communication, cooperation and sharing skills through play.
Orla Kiely Inspired African Prints, by Mrs Perry
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 11:25am
The children have been creating vibrant, Orla Kiely-inspired artwork using bright, bold colours and repeating shapes. Taking inspiration from African prints and patterns, they explored how different shapes and colours can be combined to create eye-catching designs. The children experimented with pattern, colour and repetition to produce their own unique pieces of artwork, developing their creativity and artistic skills along the way.
History: Human Timeline, by Mrs Perry
Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 11:22am
The children have been learning about the human timeline, exploring how people change and grow throughout their lives. They enjoyed ordering pictures to show the different stages of human development, from babies to older adults. Through lots of discussion, they developed their understanding of the timeline and learned new vocabulary to describe each stage. The children shared their ideas, made observations and used their growing vocabulary to explain their thinking.
Eureka, by Miss Wilkinson
Date: 15th Oct 2026 @ 2:35pm
Year 2 had a fantastic trip to Eureka! Take a look at some of our photographs of the day.
Magnet Investigation, by Mrs Perry
Date: 9th Oct 2026 @ 3:08pm
The magnetic investigation was carried out to explore how magnets attract or repel certain objects. The children were given a selection of everyday objects and magnets and were encouraged to predict which objects would be attracted to the magnet. They tested each object practically, observed what happened, and recorded their results by sorting the objects into two groups: magnetic and non-magnetic. The children discussed their findings and compared their predictions with the actual results, developing their observation, prediction and recording skills through hands-on exploration.
Star of the Year Assembly, by Miss O'Regan
Date: 15th Jul 2026 @ 2:11pm
Everyone in school gathered together to celebrate the Star of the Year Assembly. The teachers had the difficult decision of choosing one pupil who had really stood out this year. It was fantastic to hear all of the wonderful reasons the children had been chosen.
Growing Garden, by Mrs Williams
Date: 14th Jul 2026 @ 4:38pm
This term, the whole school has been ivolved in planting a wondeful variety of vegetables that will be ready to harvest in the autumn term. Our Earth Stewards and Gardening Club have worked hard to prepare the growing beds by weeding and waterin gthem, ensuring they were ready for the arrival of different vegetable plugs. together the children planted carrots, leeks, cauliflowers, broad beans, French beans, radishes, beetroot, onions and spinach. Each year group is responsible for mainting both their vegetablebed and their allocated fruit bed, which was planted in previous years, making sure they are kept well watered during this glorious sunshine.
It has been fantatsic to hear so many children sharing that they grow their own fruit and vegetables at home and enjoying producing their own healthy food. Activities like these help develop an understanding of where food comes from, encouraging healthy eating, and inspiring them to care for the environment.
The children throuroughly enjoyed taking part in this project and are excited toobserve their plants grow over the summer and see the results hen they retun in September. We can't wait to harvest the vegetables in the sutumn and celebrate everyone's hard. well done to all the children, our Earth Stewards and the Gardening Club for their entusiasm, teamwork and dedication to caring for our school garden. Well done St Peter's!
2B trip to Springfield Park Bees, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 6th Jul 2026 @ 1:45pm
Year 2 had an amazing day at Springfield Park, where they became beekeepers for the day! The children were incredibly brave as they handled bees from the hive, tasted delicious fresh honey, and even took home their own pot of honey. They also explored the important role of flowers and pollination through hands-on investigations before putting their teamwork and navigation skills to the test in a fun scavenger hunt and orienteering activity. It was a fantastic day of learning outdoors, and everyone had a wonderful time!
Church Visit, by Miss O'Regan
Date: 1st Jul 2026 @ 8:27am
All children enjoyed their last visit to St Chad's Church for this academic year. The brilliant service, which was led by the Year 5 Worship Leaders, was all about the Holy Trinity. The children were great representatives of St Peter's.
STEM challenge, by Miss Hulse
Date: 11th Jun 2026 @ 11:03am
It has been so fantastic to see so many children complete their STEM challenge, of making a marble run at home! Here are a few examples from across the year groups.
Sir David Attenborough Day - May 26, by Mr Jolly
Date: 20th May 2026 @ 5:01pm
On Friday 8th May, we celebrated the 100th Birthday of Sir David Attenborough. The children had a fantastic day learning about his life and how his work has impacted our lives.
The day started with an assembly explaining who he was, what we can learn from him and what we can do as individuals to be more like him. Each year group got a different book which explored the theme of a particular animal being engdangered due to our actions and exploring what we can do to recitify this and turn it around.
Nursery and Reception - Hunter's Icy Adventure (Polar Bears
Year1 - Duffy's Lucky Escape (Turtles)
Year 2 - Ziggy's Frightening Flight (Bees)
Year3 - Buddy's Rainforest Rescue (Orangutans)
Year 4 - Nelson's Dangerous Dive (Whales)
Year5 - Sunny's Blazing Battle (Koalas)
Year 6 - Marl's Mangled Tale (Puffins)
The children had a Science and an Art/creative task to complete being using iMovie to voice over videos in the style of David Attenborough.
Reverend Pam Whole School Collective Worship, by Miss O'Regan
Date: 20th May 2026 @ 11:28am
This morning, Reverend Pam led our collective worship all about our Christian Value for this half term, service. We learnt about different types of service and agape. Reverend Pam told us the story of Ruth and we explored how this showed service to others. We also looked at the modern day example of Mother Teresa and how she showed service to so many different people.
Computing- digital music, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 18th May 2026 @ 3:10pm
This half term, Year 2 have been learning about digital music in Computing. The children began by listening to different pieces of music designed to represent planets and their characteristics, such as calm, mysterious, or turbulent. They discussed how the music made them feel and thought of descriptive words to match the different sounds and moods.
The children then used Chrome Music Lab to explore how music can be created digitally. Using shapes and patterns, they experimented with creating their own musical sounds and enjoyed discovering how different choices could change the rhythm, pitch, and mood of the music.
Lucy visits from Nelson street church, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 18th May 2026 @ 3:03pm
Year 2 had a lovely visit from Lucy at Nelson Street Church. The children learnt about the story of Book of Jonah and the big fish, exploring the important message behind the story — that we should listen to God, make good choices, and understand that forgiveness and second chances are important.
After hearing the story, the children took part in some fun activities. First, they drew pictures to match different parts of the story, and then they designed their own wristbands to take home as a reminder of what they had learnt.
Year 2 Art, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 1st May 2026 @ 9:49am
This half term, Year 2 have been learning about the artist Nick Gustafson and have been practising sketching and shading techniques through drawings of minibeasts. Well done year 2!
Year 2 Maths, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 1st May 2026 @ 9:35am
Year 2 have been learning about fractions this week and took part in practical activities using cubes and playdough to find equal amounts. They also produced some wonderful work in their books on one half, one quarter and one third.
Year 2 Maths, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 31st Mar 2026 @ 11:15am
Year 2 have been learning about measuring this half term and this week we looked at volume and capacity. The children enjoyed measuring amounts of liquids and comparing them.
Year 2 DT puppet making, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 31st Mar 2026 @ 11:07am
Year 2 have had a very busy half term in Design and Technology, learning all about puppets and developing their sewing skills. They carefully designed and created their own animal-themed hand puppets, showing great creativity and enthusiasm throughout the project.
Year 1's trip NESM, by Miss Weller
Date: 27th Mar 2026 @ 11:51am
Year 1 had a fantastic time at the National Emergency Services Museum! We were able to learn lots of new and interesting information about the Great Fire of London. The children asked some excellent questions and had a super fun time.
Lucy from Nelson Street craft workshop Year 2, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 18th Mar 2026 @ 3:42pm
Today, we were delighted to welcome Lucy from Nelson Street Church. The children took part in a fun and engaging craft workshop, where they revisited the Easter story together.
After discussing the key events, the children created their own Easter symbols using playdough, showing great creativity and understanding. They then made paper Easter eggs, decorating them with images to represent different parts of the story.
It was a lovely, hands-on way for the children to explore the meaning of Easter while enjoying a variety of creative activities.
World Book Day Celebrations, by Miss Healey
Date: 9th Mar 2026 @ 5:05pm
We have had the best time celebrating World Book Day the past couple of weeks! We looked amazing in our costumes and also had a super time with our guest author Ian Bland. He was extremely funny and helped us write some amazing poetry of our own!
Ian bland- Poet visit, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 9th Mar 2026 @ 5:01pm
Today we were delighted to welcome the wonderful poet Ian Bland to our school. He performed and shared some of his fantastic poetry with the children before working with each year group to help them create their own poems.
The day was filled with creativity and laughter, and the children thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to explore poetry in such an engaging way. To finish the day, many pupils proudly showcased their poems during a special assembly. It was a fantastic experience for everyone involved.
Year 1's World Book Day, by Miss Weller
Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 8:37am
Year 1 had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day! They all made a fantastic effort with their costumes and really enjoyed working out who all the teachers were in the Masked Reader.
They also practiced their drawing skills and joined in a draw-along to create a very hungry caterpillar!
