In the extensive grounds of the school, there are two adventure playgrounds, an outdoor swimming pool, an astro for hockey, tennis and netball, four rugby pitches, two cricket pitches and our own woodland, pond and Forest School. Inside the school buildings, you will find two science laboratories, one of which also includes equipment for the delivery of food technology lessons, a squash court, a sports hall, an art studio, a performing arts room, a music technology classroom, various peripatetic music teaching rooms, a library, a health and wellbeing hub staffed by matron, a dining hall with an in-house catering team as well as learning success room for 1:1 teaching and small intervention groups.
Supplied with multiple electric plug sockets, sinks and gas taps for conducting experiments in science lessons, one of the science laboratories is also fitted with ovens and plug-in hobs so that, additionally, food technology can be taught.
The PE department is lifeguard trained and includes swimming instructors who deliver swimming lessons as part of the curriculum in the summer term in the outdoor heated swimming pool. The pool area includes a summer house changing room.
(75½ft by 33ft / 23m by 10m)
(103ft by 118ft / 31½m by 36m)
In addition to squash lessons, this court can be used for dance classes, yoga and other fitness lessons.
The Hallett Field can be configured as two rugby pitches or two football pitches or, in the summer, as a 400m athletics track with long jump and high jump.
We have two cricket pitches at St Peter's: the Pearson and Abram Fields. The Pearson Field has a cricket pavilion.
As well as a Forest School trained HLTA, St Peter’s has a pond and forest school area where the younger children benefit from weekly Forest School and the older children take part in survival training days in the school’s woodland and grounds. All pupils have a yearly trip to the beach but Reception pupils attend Beach School weekly at Exmouth Beach. The pupils from Year 3 upwards have the opportunity to take part in weekly activities such as horse riding, golf, sailing, wakeboarding, running club etc.
In the summer term, it is not unusual to see, for example, a drama or music lesson taking place on one of our many lawns as the children and staff alike enjoy the space, sunny weather and the view over the Estuary from their outside classroom
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