Welcome to another edition of the St Peter’s Post – our online weekly newsletter, where you can catch up on all of the week’s events! This week was filled with the #antearrach Twitter project, pancakes and lots of Polly adventures. Let’s get started! The headlines from this week: First, we want to congratulate Ian from 6th class who came fourth in the county final of the Easons Spelling Bee. Read all about his great achievement here. The #antearrach Twitter project was in full swing this week. Check out the round up post, including a great podcast from 2nd class, here. Also...
8 Mar
There were lots of puzzled faces during our lesson about working as a scientist today, following on from our lesson on observation and inference earlier in the week. Scientists have to think creatively and also have to work with the evidence, even when they don’t have all the information that they’d like to have. Today, we adapted this lesson to encourage creative thinking, working together and changing theories when new evidence emerges! Again, we have the STEM course that Ms Sexton is attending to thank for the idea! We used Vine as it’s a great way to record short video...
14 Feb
Welcome to Engineers Week in St Peter’s! This morning in 5th class, we started thinking about what we know about engineers. We started by thinking individually about words that come to mind when we hear the word ‘engineer’. We also drew pictures of what we think an engineer looks like. Next, we worked in pairs to discuss what we know about engineers. Then we shared our work with the rest of the class. We made a Wordle to show what we think an engineer does, at the start of Engineers Week. We’re going to make another one on Friday to assess what we’ve learned in the...
21 May
24 Apr
