There is always something happening at Peterbrook and all of it is reported on our website, in our Newsletters for parents and in our school newspaper ' The Peterbrook Times' for our children. Our Newsletters and newspapers have now gone audio!! Enjoy the podcasts!!
Year 3 have been working hard on their latest Quest- to design a sensory garden, which is accessible for disabled people and their friends. Listen to their ideas.
Our PTFA is a very busy group of parents who always try to provide our pupils with exciting fund-raising events - our annual Mother's Day Gift Sale is their latest offering!! Always massively popular with our pupils, it gives them the chance to purchase quality gifts at knock-down prices!! Thank you to our PTFA mums who ran the day and good luck with your super gifts on Sunday children!!
Coming to school each day is important whatever your age - we come to learn but we also come to enjoy ourselves and make happy memories!! Our FKS Christmas show this year was 'Tinsel' and Radio Peterbrook has contributed towards that 'making happy memories' process. ENJOY!!
A few weeks ago our pupils in Year 5 baked bread in Food Technology. They enjoyed it so much that they decided to write, for homework, funny stories involving bread, dough, breadcrumbs, crusts, etc. The outcome was amazing, with the result that several funny stories were linked together to create a crazy bread radio news bulletin!! The character of Dr. Dark became the central figure for the whole piece, and after scripting, rehearsing, recording and editing, the children decided that they would like to broadcast their 'newsflash' on Wednesday 1st April, to the whole school - 'April Fool's Day' - TODAY!! Mr. McGaw set the scene and created the 'serious' backdrop for a series of 'bread incidents' to take place!! Our audience of 400+ children sighed with relief when they realised it was just a funny game by Year 5. The broadcast is really well performed by our 10 pupil radio actors and Miss Hills!! Enjoy!!
Today saw our second School Improvement Pupil Conference for all of those pupils in our school who hold positions of responsibility ie. School Councillors, Peer Mediators and Housecaptains. After a busy day of keynote speeches, workshops, and discussion groups a 'long' list of school improvement suggestions was created. Our pupils then engaged in a 'short' listing exercise where negotiation and compromise were the main criteria for working. Our long list of over 60 suggestions was short-listed to just 10 suggestions, and after a period of presentation and delegate voting this short list became a final list of just 6 main recommendations for school improvement which will now go forward into the adult School Improvement Conference and finally onto our Full Governing Body. Listen to the views of our confident young people.
Miss Hills is our curriculum subject leader for Personal & Social Development and our SEAL Programmes (Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning). Every week in our school year we are following special SEAL units which help us to be happy, enjoy our learning and develop as caring young people. We finish each half-termly unit with a special SEAL Celebration Assembly where we celebrate our SEAL achievements, receive special SEAL Awards and have fun!! This podcast lets us listen into the start of our special SEAL Assembly which completed our unit: 'Going for Goals'. ENJOY!!
Our PTFA work very hard to provide our pupils with fun-packed, exciting activities to do which also raise money for school funds in the process!! This was our first 'Ice Skating' event and our Junior Hall was transformed into a superb 'ice' skating arena for our pupils, families and friends to enjoy!! Why not visit BREAKING NEWS on our main website to view the superb photographs and video clips as our fantastic skaters cut their curves on their blades. ENJOY!!
Rahul is excellent at interviewing people - he is a member of our 'Peterbrook Times' Newspaper Club. Listen as he asks for feedback on our busy evening event.
We're back for a new school year and have decided to get our year rolling by singing our favourite song for you!! Let's enjoy singing together our 'Peterbrook School Song'!!
Today a group of our most talented and enthusiastic singers visited the Alzheimers Society Day Care Centre. An appreciative audience thoroughly enjoyed the following three songs from their programme: 'Away in a Manger', 'Silent Night' and 'I wish it could be Christmas everyday!'
In Year 4, we are very lucky to have special music lessons, taught to us by the Solihull Music Service. During this term our children have been taught how to play the African drums by a very talented teacher, Mr. Blick. Both Year 4 classes, have learnt a series of songs and rhythms. Our four pieces were presented to Years 1,2 and 5 as well as the parents of the children involved in drumming.
What an atmosphere there was at the NIA for the amazing 'Young Voices' Concert. Listen as our children get carried away by the atmosphere and enjoy their singing. Reporter Emma also finds time to interview some friends!!
As a 'Healthy School' we like to take every opportunity, both within and beyond the curriculum to reinforce our message of 'Healthy Eating - Healthy Living'. Today is the turn of our Year 5 Food Technologists as they 'design and bake' their own individual breads!!Hummm!! Smell those loaves!!
Sandwiches have never been so interesting and ..... tasty!! In Year 3 we have been studying the food industry and healthy sandwiches. Our research led us to buying lots of different sandwiches with different fillings and in different types of packaging. We tasted everything - even those sandwiches with fillings which looked revolting!!! They were all really tasty!! Having completed our Design Technology booklet on 'Designing and Making a Sandwich' it was time to make our own production line and produce our own sandwiches for eating. Our ingredients were tasty - different types of bread, spreads and fillings!! Listen to our pupil�s comments � they really enjoyed their sandwich unit!!
