“We seek the best, hope for the best, expect the best, work for the best.” We warmly welcome you and your children into our school community. It is our great privilege to share your children’s learning journey – a journey that will never end. We share this wonderful task with every parent – keenly aware that you were and always will be your children’s first teacher.
Childhood is a sacred ‘moment’ in every person’s life – and our adult lives are shaped by and profoundly affected by the events and experiences of early years. So we commit ourselves to walk closely beside our children, listening to their voices, guiding them, opening the doors and windows of their minds, inviting them to gaze beyond, to develop an attitude of curiosity and wonder.
Working together we can create the very best possible environment and opportunities for your children to grow and learn. We follow Jesus every day in all we do and all we say.
Following the example of Jesus and inspired by the ‘message of the Gospel’, we celebrate the unique gift that every child is and we work hard to enable each child to become all that they are capable of being. We endeavor to create and live in a community where Christian values are at the heart of all we do.
At St. Peters, we follow the National Curriculum for KS1 and the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum for Reception. We aim to provide a broad, balanced, exciting, and effective curriculum, designed to meet the needs of all learners.
In Reception children follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum which provides an inviting and stimulating environment where play, exploration, and practical activities form a foundation for all learning.
The children are helped to learn, play together, relate to each other, share, listen, and cooperate. They are given opportunities to learn through access to sand and water play, books, paint and craft materials, computers, puzzle, construction kits, small world play, and outdoor equipment.
Structured activities are planned to develop early reading, writing, and numeracy skills. By the end of Reception, most children are beginning to read and write independently and to use the number to solve written and practical problems.
From year 1 onwards the curriculum includes all the subjects of the National Curriculum: English, Mathematics, Religious Education, Science, History, Geography, Design and Technology, Music, Art, Physical Education, ICT, and PSHCE.
The curriculum is planned so that the children are given opportunities to develop skills and acquire knowledge in each curriculum area, with subjects combined in a topic approach wherever possible and at other times taught as separate subjects.
We try to involve children in educational day trips to provide them with first-hand experiences to extend and enrich what they are learning about in the classroom. As well as trips out of school, we also invite various groups into school to support the children’s learning, such as drama groups, storytellers, artists, and musicians.
In St. Peters, we work hard to support all the children in our school to achieve all they are capable of and this includes children with special educational needs or disabilities.
We want all our children to enjoy school including those who can find learning more challenging and believe that this can be achieved when we work together. With your support, we can identify and break down any possible barriers to learning.
