Newsletter
17th December 2021
Attendance
Beatrix Potter - 87.5 %
Allan Ahlberg - 92%
Greta Thunberg -97.5%
Roald Dahl -91.55%
Alan Turing - 97.48%
JK Rowling - 90.4%
Marcus Rashford - 88.24%
Captain Sir Tom Moore - 89.6%
Peninsula East Primary Academy - 91.57%
Well done to Greta Thunberg class, who has won attendance Ted this week. In KS2, Alan Turing class are the winning class for attendance so a huge well done to them too! Unfortunately, we have started to head into more challenging times as we have had more cases of Covid within the community that has started to affect our attendance at this point. However, I am pleased to announce that the winning classes for overall attendance this term are; Greta Thunberg again for the 2nd term so far and JK Rowling. Both classes will receive a treat with the Principal next term.
Special Awards
Congratulations to all the children below
Reading Awards
Beatrix Potter Class - LaRosa
Allan Ahlberg Class - Edward
Greta Thunberg Class - Richard
Roald Dahl Class - Ibrahim
Marcus Rashford Class - Lily
J K Rowling Class - Gracie
Captain Sir Tom Moore Class - Harry
Alan Turing Class - Eva
Phonics Awards
Beatrix Potter Class - George
Allan Ahlberg Class - Jason
Greta Thunberg Class - Darcie
Roald Dahl Class - Mya
Spelling Awards
Marcus Rashford Class - Harmony
J K Rowling Class - Aylah
Captain Sir Tom Moore Class - Charlotte
Alan Turing Class - Bella-Rose
Maths Counting Whizz & Times Tables Rockstars Awards
Beatrix Potter Class - Finnley
Allan Ahlberg Class - Kyler
Greta Thunberg Class - Ellcie
Roald Dahl Class - Ellis
Marcus Rashford Class - Lexi
J K Rowling Class - Charlie
Captain Sir Tom Moore Class - Beau
Alan Turing Class - Mason
PE Award
Allan Ahlberg Class - Charlie
Greta Thunberg Class - Bluebell
Roald Dahl Class - Joseph
Marcus Rashford Class - Sonni
J K Rowling Class - Harrison
Captain Sir Thomas Moore Class - Sophie
Alan Turing Class - Owen
Artist of the Term
Beatrix Potter Class - Luna
Allan Ahlberg Class - Mia
Greta Thunberg Class - Sienna
Roald Dahl Class - Daisy
Marcus Rashford Class - Cooper
J K Rowling Class - Phoebe
Captain Sir Thomas Moore Class - Madison
Alan Turing Class - Xavier
Principals Awards
Beatrix Potter Class - Cleo
Allan Ahlberg Class - Freya
Greta Thunberg Class - Ellcie
Roald Dahl Class - Ellis
Marcus Rashford Class - Lexi
J K Rowling Class - Ryley
Captain Sir Thomas Moore Class - Darcie
Alan Turing Class - Mason
Merry Christmas!
Christmas Activity Day
Our Christmas Activity Fun day began with a science experiment, making crystal angels. We thought about Mary and her arduous journey, then, being ‘homeless.’ The whole school have decorated messages to be sown into blankets for ‘Time for the Homeless.’ The shepherds gave a precious lamb, as the children decorated their homemade biscuits they also thought of someone special to gift their shortbread to. A plethora of different stars adorned the classrooms, some very shiny to others made by origami, they all looked brilliant. Great collaboration was shown during the Nativity Challenge, our children are super creative and imaginative, we loved how inventive they were. Do you know how to say Happy Christmas in 12 languages? We looked at different greetings today from around the world. A snowflake is a 6 pointed crystal that are formed from around 200 smaller crystals and each one is uniquely made from a variety of 3D shapes. All that from just a drop of water! We had lots of fun creating ours during such a busy day. All our IB learner attributes have been shown by the children and much much more.
KS1 Nativity
Our KS1 children were absolutely amazing in their Nativity performance. They sang loud and proud and the acting and narration skills were also fantastic. A huge well done!
KS2 Carol concert
Our KS2 children sang a range of beautiful Christmas songs for our parents. They performed fantastically well and even managed to get some of the parents to join in. Well done to all!
Community Christmas Tree at Peninsula East
We were so excited to have our local community both in and outside of the school contributing to the bauble decorations for our Christmas tree this year. It was great to see our families take part, we received some from Chimnies, the local residential home for the elderly, and other places within the village and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that took part.
I think you'll agree that the tree looks amazing and there is such a variety in designs and messages on the baubles.
From everyone here at Peninsula East Primary Academy, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Stay safe all.
INFORMATION
A huge thank you to our PTA.....
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our PTA team who organised the Christmas gift shop for our children this term. It was great to see so many parent helpers involved in this and our children were pleased with all of the gifts that they had purchased. They also organised for every child in the school to receive a Christmas gift which was extremely kind of them. Santa and his elves were going to visit to give these out but unfortunately, they were unable to attend due to Covid but the children were still really pleased with their presents.
We would also like to thank them for organising the discos for the children at the beginning of term and moving forward, we would be happy to support holding these at the school rather than at the youth club. In order for the PTA to successfully run any future discos, they will need further support from parents in order to do so safely. At the Key stage 2 discos, they only had three parents from the PTA to support and so the senior leadership team had to step in to support too so that there were enough adults. Moving forward, we hope that parents will further support all of the hard-work that the PTA team put into organising such events as these will not be able to happen without them. We are sure that you would not want the children to miss out on having such opportunities.
A huge thank you and well done again to our PTA team.