Happy New Year and best wishes for 2016! I hope you

all had a fabulous Christmas and festive period and, I am

sure, like me, you found it a shock to the system waking

up so early on Monday morning. May I take this

opportunity to thank you all for your kind wishes, cards

and gifts at Christmas, they were very much

appreciated.

A warm welcome to the new pupils and families who

started Clifton this term. I know all the children have

settled in well and have enjoyed their first week at

school. As always, I have enjoyed talking to the children

and listened to their experiences of their holidays—it

would certainly seem that they have all had a wonderful

time! The children were very excited on Monday

morning as they arrived at school to find out what their

themes were for their learning this term. The themes

are ‘Adventure’ in Reception, ‘Eat, Sleep, Learn, Repeat’

in Year 1, ‘What, Where, Why and When?’ in Year 2

and ‘How will you make your mark?’ in Year 3. I know

the children are going to have a fascinating term.

The Clifton School Friends have arranged for an

exciting programme of events this term starting with a

Race Night next Saturday—this promises to be great

fun. There is also a meeting arranged at 7.30pm in the

Rayson Room next Thursday to discuss other events

throughout the term— all parents are welcome to

attend and, I know, that you contribution would be

most appreciated.

The Yorkshire Rowers (four fearless parents from

school) set off from the Canary Islands over the

holidays on their epic row across the Atlantic. We all

wish them the very best of luck as they approach the

half way point on their way to Antigua. You can follow

their progress on Twitter @Yorkshire or on the

Talisker website:

https://www.taliskerwhiskyatlanticchallenge.com.

It is not long now until the Year 2 and 3 children sing in

the Young Voices concert at the Sheffield Motorpoint

Arena. The children have been learning the songs and

are looking forward to this amazing opportunity to

perform in a packed arena. Parents should have received

a letter in the Tuesday mailing with specific instructions

and, on the day, up-to-date information will be

communicated via twitter @PhilHardyCPS.

I hope you all have a good weekend.

Best wishes,

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Newsletter

No: 13

Friday, 8th

January 2016

NEXT WEEK’S DIARY:

Mon Zoo Lab visit Nursery

Rec Speech & Drama, Y3

Badminton, Y3 Tag Rugby,

Y1/2/3 Animation Club, Y1

Tennis, Y2 Hockey

Tues

Lunchtime—Choir

Y3 Speech & Drama, Ballet, Y1

Ball Skills, Karate, Y2/3 Chess,

Swim Squad

Wed Y1 Speech & Drama, Y2 Art Club, Y2/3 Fashion Design, Y2/3 Chess, Green Team

Thurs

Lunchtime—Y3 Ukulele Club

& Y3 Hockey

Y2/3 Swimming (3L finish at

4.00 pm)

Chess Club cancelled

Y1/2 Round the World, Rec Sticky Fingers, Y2 Tag Rugby, Y2 Speech & Drama, Y2/3 Animal Club, Y1 Netball

7.30 Clifton School Friends Meeting (Rayson Room)

Fri Lunchtime—Y3 Netball

Rec/Y1 Construction Club,

Y1 Art, Y3 Sewing, Y3

Football, Y2/3 Top Trumps Sat 7.30 pm CSF ‘Race Night’

Memorial Hall, St Peter’s

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Calendar

Term Dates

Uniform Lists

Registered Charity

No: 1141329

HOUSE CAPTAINS:

Walmgate – Charlie

Micklegate – Francesca

Monk – Florence

Term Dates

Please note the start of the Summer Term 2016

WEDNESDAY, 13TH APRIL 2016

After the Christmas holidays, the children in RS found a ‘Forgotten Present’ in their

classroom, wrapped with red paper and a blue bow. Under the box with it was a

large padlocked chest! After a number of suggestions and discussed possibilities

about where this mystery present had come from, and of course, what to do with the

present, it was finally agreed to open it! Some of contents of the present included

binoculars, a rope and cargo net… all things it seemed to go on a mission…! The

present also included a secret message explaining how to unlock the chest! And so

our mystery adventure had begun…!

This week in Nursery we have been using our inventive

imaginations. We have been

making use of some very large boxes that the Year 3

furniture was delivered in. They have become army

camouflage dens with opening and closing drawbridges, a

giant Gruffalo painted with

berry juice for paint, imitation cave art, a crocodile lying on

his back, a pirate ship and a horse which the children

even had a ride around

Nursery on. Over in the construction area some of

the children created a crane with a bucket and pulley

inspired by one of their Christmas

presents. Wow,

what a creative lot you are!

On Monday, Year 1 had a surprise visitor. Jenny, a first aider, came to talk to us about looking after our bodies. She explained how and why we should keep healthy, especially after an indulgent Christmas! This has kick started our new topic “Eat, Sleep, Learn, Repeat” brilliantly. We look forward to updating Jenny on what have learnt throughout this term and hope we make

her proud.

Exiting the School

During the dark mornings and evenings, we wish to remind all

drivers exiting the campus and turning on to the A19 to drive

with care and consideration, and to be aware of pedestrians

crossing.

Silver

Karim, Isabelle, Diya,

Felicity, Jacob, Mattie,

Will, Joshua, William,

Louis, Sophie, Joshua,

Henry, Emily,

Mimi, Rory, Fred

& Liam

Gold

Sam, Clara & Sephie

Class Winners

1M

Noah Nutbrown has lost his PE

hoodie —please look out for it!

Quatermain Smith’s hoodie has

been missing for some weeks—

please check at home!

2S have had a very exciting start to the

term. They have been delighted to

welcome Emily, who has just moved to

York and joined the class. She has

fitted in so well and everyone has been

very keen to help her and answer

questions for her. The new class

furniture has begun to arrive, looking

very bright and cheerful. Last, but not least, the topic

of ‘What, Where, Why and When?’ was literally

launched, with the first week’s work being based on

Tim Peake’s exciting space mission, Principia.

We had a

great time starting our new topic -

Make Your Mark – by making our

mark on 3L’s classroom! We even

used dry chalk pens to paint the

windows!

have thrown themselves into their

new theme, called ‘What, Where, Why

and When…?’ We have been finding out

all about Tim Peake and his mission on

the International Space Station. We have

measured each other for spacesuits and

we are now busy turning ourselves into

full sized astronauts, complete with gold

have been interviewing each other this week to write mini biographies.

Happy New Year!

Hopefully you have had a smooth if slightly soggy return to school this week.

Next Saturday is our first parent social of the term Clifton School Friends Race Night which promises to be an exciting fun night and a great fundraiser for the schools chosen charity Walking with the wounded. We have sold over 65 tickets so have changed the venue to the Memorial Hall at St Peters, the dress code is “Going to the Races” to add a bit of creative challenge to the night anything goes as long as its race/horse related. There will be lots of opportunity to win some fantastic prizes with our Tombola as well as a Highest winnings and Best Dressed prize.

Thursday 14th January 7.30pm is our Clifton School Friends meeting in the Rayson room. Everyone is welcome please come along to hear about all the exciting activities and events we are planning for this term, how you can get involved and share any thoughts, feedback and ideas with us. We are trialling this evening slot to allow different parents/carers the opportunity to attend.

If the Christmas holidays provided an opportunity for a sort out there is a “Bags to School” collection on Wednesday 20th January. The bags will be sent home in the book bags next week with further details of what you can and can’t put in.

Finally with a New Year started we would welcome any new ideas and members—just grab myself or Elizabeth to have a chat.

Helen Pentelow-Boyle

Minster FM Christmas Carols

If you missed the Minster FM recording of local

schools singing Christmas songs, you can hear it again through this link:

www.minsterfm.com/blogs/minster-fms-best-bits/christmas-carol-show-2015/

We have begun our first adventure after opening the mystery parcel that appeared in our classroom. After finding a large bunch of keys inside, the children thought they may belong to a policeman.... so we now have a police station with an office, a jail, and a police car. The children have worked together to create the props they need, cleverly using the tools to cut up a long tube to make handcuffs. As the week has progressed, the police-children have followed footprints to catch a burglar, looked closely at fingerprints and written crime

reports!

Housepoints

Monk

We have had such an exciting start to the term for our new topic ‘Make your Mark’! On Monday morning, 3R came into the classroom to the surprise of being able to draw on the walls, we all got

very excited about this! There was also a mystery box at the front of the classroom encased in a lock. We spent some time thinking about what could be inside and why it had ‘VIP’ written on the front. Eventually we solved the code and opened the box, only to find pictures of people inside, including Mr Hardy, Mr Falconer and Mr Winkley! We realised that all the people in the box were leaders, people who have all made their mark in some way. We have started to learn about these people and have been reading their biographies to understand what it takes to make a good leader and how we can make our mark. We have also been making some marks in rt! We have read the book ‘The Dot’ to inspire us and created some fantastic pieces already. We can’t wait to carry on the rest of the topic!

It was great to see everyone back at Playgroup this week and we were delighted to see some new faces. As we don’t have any snow, so this week in Playgroup we decided to make snowmen! They look FAB!

With Mrs Hayden our music teacher we sang “Shake, shake, shake your eggs” which went down a treat and everyone was amazing at keeping with the beat to the music. Well done and see you all next week.

Good Conduct Henry, Beatrice, Beth, Sophie,

Anton, Dylan, Noah, Christopher,

Emily and Tizzy

Superstars Teerda, Clara, Alice, Jack,

Elizabeth,

Hugh, Bryn,

Barnaby,

Rory,

Robbie, Bo

and

Alexander

Music Awards

Isla and Bo

St Peter’s School Public Lectures

Mr Darwin’s Tree

At 7.00 pm on Thursday 28 January we will welcome Andrew Harrison who will perform Mr Darwin's Tree.

The one man show was commissioned in 2009 for the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth and premiered in Westminster Abbey.

This compelling 75 minute performance focuses on the relationship between Darwin (an agnostic) and his wife Emma (a Christian) and touches on issues around science, faith, love and human destiny.

All of the Third Form pupils at St Peter’s will see a matinee production of the

performance on Thursday afternoon with tickets for the evening

performance being available here:

http://www.stpetersyork.org.uk/st_peters/news_calendar/public_lectures/

mr_darwin_s_tree

The production comes highly recommended with Murray Watts (the play’s

author) being a founding member of both Upstream Theatre and Riding

Lights Theatre Co.