Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
On Monday 16th November we begin our anti-bullying week at St. John's. During the week we will be promoting our anti-bullying programme and strategies, helping children recognise how harmful bullying can be and promoting what children need to do if they are getting bullied.
We start the week with our annual odd socks day. Everyone will be encouraged to wear odd socks for the day to help us show how we can all be different but still work and play together happily and successfully.
Our daily before school sports club, run by Premier Education (formally Premier Sports) runs every day from 7.45am to 8.45am in our school hall.
At present a handful of children attend every day. The children that arrive are in their year group bubbles for the session.
Premier Education have let us know that due to the low number of pupils attending every day that they may unfortunately have to cancel the club. Can parents that want to use this before school club please make their booking for the next few weeks now, so that Premier Education can assess demand to help them make a decision. If more children attend then they will be able to continue running the club.
To make a booking CLICK HERE.
To read the Premier Education COVID19 risk assessment. CLICK HERE.
To help bring some sunshine and smiles when times may be difficult it is great to be able to share this poster sent to us by a local resident.
Please feel free to print, colour, display and share.
Updated on 22.10.20 at 7.10pm
We have been informed today of a positive case of COVID-19 in our school community. Our thoughts and best wishes are with the family and we wish them a healthy recovery.
We have contacted the Department for Education and Public Health England this morning who have told us to do the following in order to keep all children, staff and our community as safe as possible. The Department for Education have recognised that this positive case is not linked to the positive case in our year 4 bubble.
All parents and carers are invited to read this letter. CLICK HERE.
Updated on 19.10.20 at 11.30am
We have been informed today of a positive case of COVID-19 in our school community. Our thoughts and best wishes are with the family and we wish them a healthy recovery.
We have contacted the Department for Education and Public Health England this morning who have told us to do the following in order to keep all children, staff and our community as safe as possible.
1) All year 4 children need to isolate for 14 days from the 14th October.
2) The rest of the school remains open as normal with us continuing with our COVID-19 safety measures in place.
YEAR 4 PARENTS AND CARERS
PARENTS AND CARERS OF CHILDREN IN ALL OTHER YEAR GROUPS
Many thanks to all of the parents and carers who took part in our virtual parent evenings this week. In the last three evenings over 400 parents have had the opportunity to speak to their child's class teacher over the phone or face to face via an online video link. We are very pleased that, despite COVID-19 we have been able to spend time celebrating your children's work with you and sharing ideas as to how we can continue to help them throughout the year.
It was the first time that we have had to run parents evening in this manner. Thank you for your patience if any technical glitches disrupted your appointment. We have learned several lessons ourselves this week and will use this to help us next time.
Parents that missed the deadline of 9am on Tuesday 6th October to book an appointment at next week's parent/carer meetings have a second opportunity to book.
Information about the second opportunity and a link to the second form are on our website. CLICK HERE.
This second opportunity closes at 9am on Friday 9th October.
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
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