Pupils’ social development is shown by their:

Use of a range of social skills in different contexts, including working and socialising with pupils from different religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds

Willingness to participate in a variety of social settings, cooperating well with others and being able to resolve conflicts effectively

Interest in and understanding of, the way communities and societies function at a variety of levels.

Behaviour

Strong personal, spiritual, moral and cultural development is at the heart of the

school’s success and underpins pupils’ good behaviour. Pupils feel safe at school.

The behaviour of pupils is good. Pupils, parents and staff agree. Pupils are polite,

courteous and respectful of each other and adults. They have good attitudes to

learning, follow teachers’ instructions well and waste very little time when settling

down to their learning.

Pupils treat their environment with respect and inspectors saw no evidence of litter.

Playtimes are harmonious and pupils from all backgrounds get on really well with

each other. (Ofsted 2014)

Nursery

We have 24 full time places in our nursery. The children coming in are often ‘low’ in key areas of

learning. However, we provide stimulating resources and activities and engage the children in

variety of learning tasks so by the time they leave the Foundation stage, which is at the age of 5,

most of them are in line with national expectations.

I can’t believe the things my

child’s learning in Nursery, she’s

spotting letters anywhere we go

and she says all their sounds!

(parent)

I like playing with water because it’s fun

and it does ‘splashy, splashy’!

In Nursery I learnt ABC. A a - apple!

Before I was here, I was somewhere else. But my mum

and parents brought me here from Canada. I learnt here

playing and writing. I can write A, B, C, D, E, F…and I can

also write Canada: C – A – N – A – D – A.

Class assemblies

To develop the ‘whole child’ and children’s confidence, every class prepares a ‘performance’ for the

rest of the school and we also invite parents in. The themes are usually based on the current

learning, so for example Y1 acted out Rumpelstiltskin (and composed music for it!) while Y3 summed

up their amazing knowledge of Egyptians.

The class assemblies are becoming increasingly popular with the families and we often struggle to

find enough room for all of them!

My daughter used to be so shy and wouldn’t even

talk to my friends, but now she’s talking loudly

and confidently in front of the whole school.

I can’t believe the change!

(Parent)

The best part was when we sang the song

and the children went ‘whirr, whirr, whirr

went the spinning wheel all night long.’

I liked being a guard because we

were holding a sheet. I was a bit

nervous, so I just looked another

way at my friends.

I liked saying my line. It was really good!

Reach Out

St Peter’s has partnered with ‘Reach Out’, a charity that helps young people with their academic

work and social skills through 1:1 mentoring. Every Monday we had lots of university students –

volunteers coming in to work with some of Y5 & Y6 children. Not only that they had learnt a lot

(from each other!), they also had fun together and developed some strategies in friendships or

conflict resolutions.

I enjoyed it because it helped me with maths,

English and progress and they also had fun

games and I really enjoyed myself.

We do some educational activities like revise of

maths and then we do some fun activities, like once

we got some salt dough, we shaped it into animals

and we had to paint it. We used to play bench ball,

charades and lots of other fun games.

Opportunities to participate in a variety of social settings

After school Clubs

Our school provides a wide range of extra-curricular activities after school – sports, singing,

instruments, art, art history, science, and reading. The cost is highly subsidised by the school and

therefore available to anyone. Many parents who have friends in other schools said that they have

never seen such a huge choice of clubs!

Mindfulness & Yoga

Francescca, our French teacher, develops not only our pupils’ linguistic skills, but also teaches yoga

and mindfulness club after school as well as one to one to the children who need extra support with

their behaviour or social skills in class. Many parents and teachers commented on the positive

impact it had on the children.

Tower Hamlets Paralympics

We regularly send representatives from our school to Tower Hamlets Paralympic Event. They are

engaged in a variety of sports and get to know children from other schools. The event is VERY

competitive but there’s also an incredibly friendly and supportive atmosphere!

Minder the Dog

Minder the Dog from ‘Pets At Therapy’ comes to our school every Monday and he loves listening to

stories! The children take turns to read to him and of course the best part is having a big fluffy

cuddle!

Working in partnerships…with parents

The parents often ask for help or explanation how we teach the children maths and reading at

school, especially in Early Years and Y1. We therefore organised some workshops to support our

parents; they were well attended with 100 % positive feedback.

Walking Club

Miss Sands, our PE & Healthy Schools Coordinator, started a Walking Club for the parents. They

meet every Friday after they dropped the children off and then they walk around Wapping and

further up. Many parents said that it really increased their fitness and that it was fun being together.

As a result of this workshop I will spend

better quality time doing the reading, lead

by example by doing more reading myself.

The explanation of how to blend and sound

out the words was helpful! Great

presentation.

(Elina) I speak English as a second language and

it was a great help to attend the

workshop.

I found the information about bedtime reading

interesting. When reading, I will add more

sounding when using phonics, include more key

words when talking about the story.

I find number work extremely difficult to help

the girls. I would like to attend a workshop for

number skills.

Working in partnerships…with our business partners

Our business partners from Society Generale come to our school on weekly basis to work with the

individual children or groups.

In December the Art club made Christmas decorations for our business partners and a group of our

children were invited to go and decorate a Christmas tree in Society Generale in the City. They also

enjoyed a meal there with the partners.

St Peter’s General Election

Before the 2017 general election Maria from Y4 approached Mrs Dickson with an idea to have St

Peter’s election. She then prepared a power point presentation on the main candidates and their

manifestos. In the afternoon, the children were taken to the ‘boots’ and voted for their chosen

candidates.

I voted for Green because they said they

wanted to keep little children safe.

Y1 child

Bike club

Our school has been given bikes and so Miss Sands and Mr Jabbar started a lunchtime bike club for

KS2 children in the playground. For some of the pupils it was the first time they had a chance to ride

a bike or practice their skills. Towards the end of the year Natalia from Y3 got a Special Mention

certificate because she kept persevering and has learnt to ride a bike without the stabilisers!