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Covid-19 Pandemic
Track and Trace Scheme
Schools may be required to share personal data of individuals under the Track and Trace scheme.
Personal data of those that attend/work at/visit the school may be shared under this scheme.
The scheme has a privacy notice which can be viewed on
For the attention of parents of children in year 6.
You are now able to apply for your child's secondary school place. Applications opened on Monday 14th September.
Applications can be made through the Derbyshire admissions web site.
www.derbyshire.gov.uk/admissions
Please ring the admissions team with any questions about applying online, or to request a paper application form - 01629 533190
The Derbyshire safeguarding team have asked us to share information with parents about a particularly nasty viral post on Tik Tok.
With this in mind parents may want to
are all perfectly reasonable questions for you to start conversations with.
All children in reception to year 6 are bringing home a letter this week regarding this winter's flu immunisation programme.
All St. John's children in reception to year 6, are invited by the NHS and our local Community Health Service to have their immunisation at school on Wednesday 7th October when NHS staff will be in school to immunise the children.
Parents need to opt in for their child to be immunised. No child will be immunised without parental consent. Parents need to give consent online by following the instructions on the letter. Parents do not send consent forms back to school.
St. John's does not manage or administer the flu immunisation programme, it is all managed and led by the NHS Community Health Service. If you have any questions about the programme please contact the immunisation team on the contact details on the letter.
To read an online copy of the letter on our website and find out how to give permission for your child to be immunised - CLICK HERE.
Thank you
It was lovely to see all the children back in school today. Please let them know how proud the teachers are of them for coming back to school safely and helping us all enjoy ourselves. It was fantastic to speak to so many of them and see how happy they were to be back with friends.
We are aware that the queue to get into school today was longer than anyone would want. We are sorry that this happened. Please look at the FAQ's with information about how we hope to prevent this. We won't change any start or finish times yet, but ask parents to ensure that they come to school at the start time for their children and not earlier.
All children got into school today within the 20 minutes that we had allowed. Therefore we really hope that after the first day excitement and teething problems settle that we don't have to reduce entry to single year groups at a time or further widen the opening window.
To read the FAQ's CLICK HERE.