We have been incredibly lucky to welcome Maggie the Seaside Baker to St Peter’s. Maggie spent the day answering questions from students and staff. She worked with Year 9 making quiches, giving advice and making Jambalaya with Year 8. The kids were thrilled to have her in school.
Congratulations to Mariah, Year 10 (Intermediate girls hammer)and Abi, Year 12 (Senior girls 400m) who, following this weekend's Dorset Schools Athletics Championships, have qualified to represent Dorset Schools in the South West Schools’ Athletics Championships to be held in Exeter on Saturday 18 June.
On Thursday 26 May the Year 7 and 8 athletics teams took on Twynham school in what is always affectionately known as ‘The Battle of the Bridge’.
The Royal Navy chefs joined us last half-term for an incredibly exciting day of cooking. Emmanuel, Nasser and Matt wowed us with tales of their travels.
Throughout the month of May, the library ran a competition to see which tutor group could collect the most ‘Caught You Reading’ achievement points.
Do you have a child in Years 7, 8 or 9? If yes, we would like to invite you to an Open House event at 4pm, Thursday 9 June.
St Peter's came third overall for girls and fourth overall for boys at Town Sports last week. Well done to all who participated, and represented the school.
Our Level 1 Sports Leaders have been teaching a variety of Sports at St Peter's Primary this academic year. It's great to see our primary children learning from our secondary students.
St Peter's Level 1 Leaders took part in the Primary Leadership Academy organised by the School Games Organisers.
Well done to our Level 1 Sports Leaders, who ran a Multi Skills Festival in April for over 70 students from seven local Primary Schools.
Preparation for the Year 10's Food Preparation and Nutrition NEA 1 is going well. We are introducing them to the science element of the coursework by doing a dry run in Year 10...or should we say an oily run!
On Monday the first ever St Peter’s girls rugby team played a series of matches at Dorchester RFC in an event run by Bath RFC.