Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff, visitors, and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you have concerns regarding the safeguarding or welfare of any of our pupils, please contact Miss R Brown (Designated Safeguarding Lead), Mrs M Eastham (Designated Safeguarding Lead), Mrs T Bolton (Designated Safeguarding Lead) or Miss Blackburn (Designated Safeguarding Lead)
St Peter's participates in Operation Encompass. Following the report of an incident of domestic abuse, school will be advised that the child has been involved. Please see school website for further details.
The Safeguarding and Child Protection policy can be found here. SAFEGUARDING POLICY
Science
The Big Question
‘Is there a pattern between the size of a planet and the time it takes to travel around the Sun?’
We explored the planet fact cards to look for patterns and relationships.
Creating our solar systems in our pockets helped us to understand the distance between the planets and the Sun.
In Science, we have been dissecting flowers to discover more about the female and male parts of the flower.
Comparing the life cycles of different groups of animals.
We have been developing our understanding of scientific vocabulary using our new science dictionaries.
We have been carrying out fair tests in Science to investigate the question- Does age affect your reaction times? We collected our results today and will analyse them next week.
Gestation Gurus- Pattern Seeking
We played a game to see if we could work out the different gestation periods for different mammals. We learned that gestation is the process by which a mammal grows a baby and is the time between conception and birth. Once we had worked out the correct gestation periods for different mammals, we were challenged to spot any patterns in the results. We realised that there was a link between the size of the animal and how long it carried a baby for before giving birth.
In most cases, the larger the animal the longer period of gestation. Therefore, the smaller the animal, the shorter gestation time.
We then carried out our own research to investigate if other animals followed this pattern and relationship.
