Sunday 29 April 2012

Great Yarmouth Mercury article - Friday 27th April 2012

Horrible Science author Nick Arnold visits children at Gorleston school

CHILDREN at a Gorleston primary school were treated to grizzly and gruesome tales last week when a top author delivered a workshop. Nick Arnold, author of the Horrible Science series spent the day at Peterhouse Primary school for messy experiments. Pupils wore props including a bald head and glasses with eyeballs on a spring to add to the quirky chemistry fun.

Mr Arnold said: “The children were very appreciative. The school was fantastic – I was there to bring the books to life. It was a real pleasure to meet the fans of the books. There’s a perception that science books are less important than fiction books but both are equally as important – fiction for vocabulary and science to help us understand the world. I aim to make it interesting for the children. I love meeting my readers – it’s a real holiday from writing.”

Youngsters also had the chance to speak to Mr Arnold and get their books signed.

Tracy Doerr, parent support advisor, said: “The books are fantastic because they help the children with science. I hope that the children will go home with their books and their parents will sit down and interact with them. I hope it’s going to strengthen the bond between the parents and their children. They thoroughly enjoyed his visit.”

He also visited Moorlands School to interact with mini-boffins in Belton.

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Blogging Guidelines


Welcome to our school blog. We use it to share things that are happening at school with our families and with others around the world. It’s very important that we understand how to use the blog, and the internet, in a safe way.

We’ve come up with a set of guidelines for safe blogging:
  • Students will only be identified by their first name. Posts written by students are checked by an adult before they are published on the blog.
  • Posts will not include personal details about students such as addresses and family information.
  • All comments submitted have to be approved by a moderator before they are included on the blog.
  • Parents who leave comments are asked not to use last names either. Please post comments as ‘John’s Mum’ or ‘Sue’s Nanny’, etc.
  • All students must abide by the blogging rules we have established.
  • Any photos of students on the blog will be anonymous without any names connected to them. 

These guidelines were adapted from Mrs Batham at http://yearinyear2.blogspot.com.au/

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Attendance!

Just-in Time met us in the playground this morning to congratulate us for being on time.






Oops! Some of us lost our stickers!!

Tuesday 17 April 2012

KS2 Questionnaire                           Daniel and Abigail will help you with this at school. Please click on the link below. It takes you to a questionnaire that we'd like you to fill out.

Welcome to the Summer Term

Peterhouse welcomes you to the Summer Term. Our first half term is seven weeks long and runs from Monday 16th April to Friday 1st June. There's a bank holiday on Monday 7th May.

The Year 6s will sit their SATs this half term, as will the Year 2s and we wish them the all the best.