Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
Price Change
From the 2nd September 2020 parents that pay for a school meal will have to pay £2.20 a meal. This is an increase in price of 10p a day.
Half termly charge
For parents that pay for the half term school dinners for the first autumn term will cost £79.20 for a child that has a school meal every day.
Children joining year 3
Families with children joining year 3 in September 2020 need to be aware that their children no longer qualify for universal free school meals. Parents of children in year three that don't qualify for free school meals will have to pay £2.20 per day for a school meal.
If you are unsure about how this affects you please ring the office and speak to Mrs. Howis.
One of the unfortunate impacts of the partial school closure and COVID-19 has been that our year four pupils did not get to enjoy a full year of music tuition.
Parents do however have an option of allowing their child to continue with music lessons at St. John's at a small cost as they continue into year 5.
At. St. John's we work closely with the music partnership who come and provide private 1:1 and small group music lessons to junior children across a range of instruments throughout the year. Normally many of our year 4 pupils opt to continue their music tuition into year 5 and beyond through these private lessons. There is a cost to parents for these lessons starting at £1.50 a week. Children can continue with the instrument they were learning in year 4 or can learn one of many other instruments.
More information is available on the Year 4 class page. CLICK HERE.
Nursery will be closed all day on Friday 19th June due to staff illness. This is not a COVID-19 illness. Mrs. Howis has rung all parents and carers to let them know.
We are very sorry that we have had to do this today and would like to thank parents for their understanding in this difficult position.
As parents are aware under the current guidelines to ensure the safety of children we are not using supply teachers to cover staff illness. Doing so would greatly increase the risk of transmission between schools and would 'burst the bubble'.
We will share information about nursery opening on Monday (22nd June) and next week as soon as we are able to.
Message from Mr. Averis - 4.45pm - Monday 8th June.
Good afternoon
Many thanks to all parents who helped prepare their children for school today by talking about social distancing and showing pictures of how school looks. The children were excellent, well prepared and ready to work and play in their new bubbles.
It was a pleasure to be at St. John's today with more children back at school. Your children really are the 'beating heart' of St. John's. After 8 weeks of partial opening with only 10 to 50 children attending every day it was fantastic to have 150 children back, bringing life to our building.
As always, we will continue to follow government advice and look forward to when we are able to safely open to more children. We do not know when this will be, or how we will be asked to do it, but as soon as we do, we will share it with parents on our website.
R. Averis
We are pleased that we are now able to safely open to more children in certain year groups. We will be following local and national government guidelines. Please follow the link below to the appropriate letter for your child. The letter will let you know if your child is on the attendance list for June 8th.
Letter for nursery parents – CLICK HERE
Letter for reception parents – CLICK HERE
Letter for year 1 parents – CLICK HERE
Letter for year 6 parents – CLICK HERE
Letter for key worker parents with children in year two – CLICK HERE
Letter for key worker parents with children in year three – CLICK HERE
Letter for key worker parents with children in year four – CLICK HERE
Letter for key worker parents with children in year five – CLICK HERE
Letter for parents that aren’t key workers in years two, three, four or five – CLICK HERE
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