Dear Parents and Children,

We hope you’ve had a lovely week and please know that we understand the struggles of home working and

learning – well done for all that you’re doing! We hope the children have enjoyed using DB Primary this week

with the opportunity to communicate with their friends, class teacher and access other resources. Our staff are

continuing to work very hard to keep school alive and as ever, we continue to be inspired by the words of John

10:10 ‘Life in all its Fullness’.

This week, as the nation marked the 100th birthday of

Captain Tom, I have been exploring the history of our

beautiful school, first opened in 1864 as Farnborough

National School, first located in Farnborough Street.

In 1939, the school became known as North

Farnborough Church of England Junior School -

becoming St. Peter’s in 1952 and moving to our

current location in 1962. It was quite moving to

discover that ‘Learn to Live’ has been the school

motto since then. I hope we can all take great

comfort from this history and our on-going vision of

‘Learning to Live Life in all its Fullness’, particularly as

we all grapple with a new way of ‘living and learning’ right now. In time, we look forward to updating the ‘About

Us’ page of our website with more photos and information.

As we think about the history of our school, it’s

also timely that next week marks the 75th

anniversary of VE Day. Sadly, all community

celebrations have been cancelled – but we can still

mark this special occasion from the safety of our

homes! Our Learning Support Assistants have put

together some afternoon activities for the children

in school to work on next week and we also invite

you to join in these celebrations! In our newsletter

this week, you will find a page dedicated to VE Day

and keep an eye out on DB Primary and/or our

website and Twitter page for ways to get involved

at home. If we can all send in photos of our VE Day

home learning, we can still celebrate together and almost have our own virtual street party! The staff in school

continue to engage in staff training and meetings via Zoom – it’s a great way of keeping in touch and could prove

a nice way for families to join together for VE Day celebrations.

Newsletter Friday 1st May 2020

As we continue to think about the history of St.

Peter’s School and the inspiration we can take

from Peter, we are continuing to share

collective worship resources for the children to

engage in. Earlier this week, we shared an

assembly delivered by the Youth Minster at St.

Peter’s Church, themed around the story ‘Jesus

calms the storm’ – offering comfort that ‘we’re

all in the same boat’ and a reminder that this

storm will pass. The video is still available to

access via DB Primary and could be a nice

opportunity for the children to express how

they’re feeling with a reminder that while we’re

apart from one another, there are lots of ways

we can feel together. As part of their thinking,

the children might like to make an origami paper boat and then add the names of the people they particularly

miss right now – praying for them, one by one, as they add the names to their boat.

This week, we also shared the story ‘Jesus and Peter walk on water’ via DB Primary and the ‘Latest News’ page of

our website. This includes a video link and a reflective task with links to our Value of Celebration. As part of this

activity, we’re encouraging the children to consider the advice Peter might have given us as we think about our

own goals and how we might achieve and celebrate them. All these suggestions are additional extras and we

don’t want any of our families to feel overwhelmed by the activities on offer – please do what is right and best for

you.

Thank you for the photos and work you have been able to share via DB Primary – it’s been a lovely way of keeping

in touch. Our staff team will continue to update DB Primary on a regular basis and we hope it will be a source of

inspiration, in addition to the weekly home learning activities. Next week, we hope to get some of our Student

Leadership groups up and running via DB Primary. We have also published the next four Gambia challenges – if

you’re looking for some additional tasks to keep the children entertained.

As ever, please phone or email us if we can be of any support – our office is open every day.

Wishing you a lovely weekend and keep in touch,

Miss Carmella Reece

Acting Headteacher

VE Day Celebration Resources for Children

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/remembrance/teaching-remembrance

Mark the 75th Anniversary of VE Day from home

On Friday 8 May as we pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of the entire Second World War genera-tion, from British, Commonwealth and Allied Forces to evacuees and those who served on the home

front. As we face some of the most challenging times since the end of the Second World War, now more than ever it is important to unite in recognition of service to the nation, just as communities did 75 years

ago. There are many parallels between the struggles of the Second World War and what we are going through today. We look to our Second World War generation to learn from their experiences, and we

continue our work to protect them from the threat we currently face.

Make your own

bunting:

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Challenge Five: Hosting our very own ‘Gambia

Garden Show’! Join us on a tour of the Kaira

Konko Garden and learn about the impact of com-

munity garden projects in The Gambia. Inspired by

these, we challenge you to design your own gar-

den or create a tree decoration.

Challenge Six: Join us in the rice fields for

some mindfulness - create a Reflection Jar

and fill it with happy thoughts! Meet Soma

teacher Mr Bakary Baldeh for a tour of his

local rice field and for more information

about rice farming.

Challenge Seven: Join us for some block making

and learn about our community building projects!

Inspired by these, we challenge you to design and

build a small-scale structure that could benefit or

represent your chosen community?

Challenge Eight: Learn about schools in The

Gambia and meet two of our teachers for

some counting in the local language! Taking

inspiration from the teachers and classroom

environments in The Gambia, we challenge

you to learn and teach someone else how to

count to ten in Mandinka or Fula.

Cooking with Miss Taylor

This week Miss Taylor and George have made Flapjack.

If you have any recipes that you would like to share, please get in touch.

Method

Grease and Line a 18x27cm tin

Put Margarine/Sugar/Syrup in a saucepan

Melt—Do not boil

Take off heat and add Oats

Spoon into tin and press down

Cook for 25 minutes on Gas 3, 160C

Take out of oven and cool for 10 minutes

Cut into squares

Ingredient

175g Margarine

175g Demerara Sugar

2 Tbsps. of Golden Syrup

225g Rolled Oats