St Peter’s Smithills Dean CE Primary School

Newsletter 2018

Reception Well what a busy and fun year we have had in Reception!

It’s hard to believe that we have now completed our first year at St

Peter’s. We have been thinking of our special memories and there

are far too many to list.

We have enjoyed some wonderful weather

this term and have had some great learning

outside.

We had fun using mud to create paintings

of the Stick Man and animals.

The firefighters, who are working hard to put the fire out on

Winter Hill, have been regularly coming to use the water hydrant

opposite our playground. We have been very interested in what they

have been doing. We created a special banner for our school fence

to say thank you to them for all their hard work!

Year 1 Year One have had a great Summer term. Magic Grandad has taken

us back in time to the early 1900’s, where we’ve been learning about

home- life, school and toys. It was lots of fun finding out about

some items, such as, a chamber pot and a zoetrope! We really

enjoyed Sports Day, where we showed off our sporting talents! This

half term has been all about birds and plants. We have loved finding

out about birds and drawing our own versions in the style of the

artist Matt Sewell. What a fantastic time we’ve had in Year 1!

St Peter’s in Bloom

A big thank you to all who bought plants this year.

A special thank you once again to Mrs Bowman for

organising this event, which she does willingly

every year. £741.43 was raised this year, which is

amazing. Thank you!!

Year 2 Our time in Key Stage 1 is rapidly coming to an end

but what a lovely Summer Term we have had !

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to The Macron Stadium where

we learned more about materials in Science, practised athlet-

ics skills and competed at Sports Day. We really enjoyed per-

forming to our supporters at our RE Celebration Assembly all

about celebrating difference and uniqueness and being thank-

ful and proud of who we are. Mrs Lindley thinks we have made

lots of progress and grown up so much during Year 2, that we

are now more than ready for the challenges of Key Stage 2!

Year 3

Year 3 have had a very busy Summer Term. In English and Compu-

ting lessons, we have filmed ourselves reading the news in our own

news teams. The picture shows just some of the fantastic character

models that were made at home so that we could write our own sto-

ries. We also visited the Manchester Science and Industry Museum

and learned lots more about Science. In teams, we designed and

made our own magnetic games which everyone enjoyed playing. We

also visited our friends in Y3 at St Paul’s CE Primary School and had

a wonderful time! We hope everyone has a great Summer!

We have had a great Summer Term with a wonderful trip linked to

our Learning Challenge about the city of Manchester! We went to

The Lowry to learn more about the artist L.S. Lowry. We had two

exciting workshops sketching and 3D modelling led by our artist

for the day. We were all very proud of the Lowry style figures we

created. We have also really enjoyed swimming every Friday at

Smithills High School this last half term. We hope that everyone

has a fabulous summer holiday and see you in September! Well

done Year 4 for a super year!

Year 4

Year 5

As a fitting end to the Start Project, which commenced in

the Autumn Term, Year 5 attended a a celebration event at

the Light Cinema in Bolton along with pupils from the other

schools involved in the project. During this event, the chil-

dren took part in a mass body percussion exercise led by The

Beat Goes On, made a presentation about their involvement in

the project and listened to the presentations from the other

schools. They were also presented with their Arts Award Dis-

covery Level certificate. The finale of the event was a show-

case film of the whole project and children were both amazed

and thrilled to see themselves on the big screen! The project

demonstrated how the arts can enhance and enrich their

learning and it was fantastic to be a part of. Well done Y5!

Year 6

We cannot believe it; we have reached the end of our primary

school life, but what a way to end. We had a fantastic time at the

Anderton Centre. We spent the morning completing a number of

climbing activities including crate stacking, low ropes and abseiling.

In the afternoon, we built rafts and then tested them out on the

water and then we were allowed some time jumping from the jetty

into the cool reservoir. Thank you so much St Peter’s, it has been

brilliant!

Well done to all Year 6 for their hard work, determination

and the superb results they have achieved this year! We

wish you all much success at high school and send our

thoughts and prayers with you as you move on.

A big

thankyou

to our

PARENTS ASSOCIATION

Many thanks to the PA for all their hard work and for supporting

school in such a magnificent way this year, without the PA support

many activities would not be possible in school.

The whole school would like to say “thank you” to the PA for or-

ganising the colour run ,everyone had an such a fun time and a

huge thankyou for all the sponsorship money returned; an amaz-

ing £1371.70 has been raised so far !

CHOIR

Congratulations to the SPSD

Choir, who performed beautifully

at the Bolton Schools Music

Festival and Party in the Park in

June.

Parents’ Association Summer Fair

Thank you to the Parents’ Association for holding this annual

event. This year just over £830..00 was raised, which is

fantastic! Also, a big thank you to all of you for your support, in

donating, organising and attending on the day.

Uniform—New Suppliers

We are currently in the process of changing uniform suppli-

ers. We have approached two local School wear outlets to

stock all of our uniform items.

We will, however, for a limited time, have a very small num-

ber of remaining garments in school for purchase, although

these are mainly the smaller sizes.

Uniform can now be purchased from :

Harrisons School Wear

467a Blackburn Road

Astley Bridge

Bolton BL1 8NN Tel : 01204 307382

(stockist from 24th July 2018)

Whittakers Schoolwear

106 Deansgate

Bolton BL1 1BD Tel 01204 389485

Mr Heywood (Caretaker)

Sadly, left us in July to take up a new position.

We will miss him but wish him well.

Mr Taylor (Site Manager)

Mr Bennett (Sports Coach)

We are all very sad to see you go but what an oppor-

tunity ! From September, Mr Bennett will teaching

football in Dubai. We wish you all the very best and

hope you will come back and see us when you are

back in the UK.

We welcome Mr Taylor to our Family at St Peter’s,

currently working for the Forward as One Academy

Trust— he will become a familiar face around school.

Water Bottles

New water bottles will be provided

to all pupils in September but if you

do need a replacement during the

year, then they are available from the

school office at a price of £1.30.

We also have replacement lids for sale

and these are priced at 50p each.

School Dinners 2018/2019

The price of school meals is to £1.40 per day, per child, that’s £7.00

per week. This is still heavily subsidised by Bolton Council. The cost

for the first half term is £47.60 or for the full term is

£102.20. Cheques are payable to: St Peter’s Smithills Dean CE

Primary School. All EYFS and KS1 children remain entitled to

Universal Free School Meals. It is very important that if you are

eligible to claim for free school meals, you still do so. If your child is

currently in Y2, they will need to start paying for school meals in

September. Please let us know ASAP if you would like to change

your meal choice.

School re-opens on

Tuesday 4th September 2018

at 8:55 am.

Thank you for all your support over the

past year with home learning, costumes,

baking, gift contributions and much

more!

Best wishes from

all the children, staff and Governors for

a very restful

and

enjoyable holiday.

Many thanks for all your continuing

support over the past year.