Unfortunately it has been confirmed that year 5 children will not be swimming this year. We understand that this will be disappointing for some families and children and apologise for any upset caused.
We will inform parents of these children about any possibilities of swimming lessons for some or all the children in this year group whilst their children are in year six.
We are supporting comic relief again this year. We have a special comic relief section on our website. CLICK HERE.
To raise money for this cause we are encouraging children to do some pocket money jobs around the home to earn a bit of money to donate and come in non uniform.
Please do not send any money into school. Parents are invited to donate the pocket money that their children earn through our "St. John's Comic Relief Just Giving Page". To donate any money tomorrow follow the links from our Comic Relief page.
When we used a just giving page for our Children in Need fundraising it was lovely to read what jobs children had done around the home.
Families of children that receive pupil premium funded free school meals will again be getting vouchers during the Easter holiday. These families also received vouchers during the Christmas and February half term holiday.
New vouchers will automatically be issued to families, unless any contact details have changed. If you have changed your emails address or mobile phone number you need to let us know by 2pm on Monday 15th March. Please ring the school office if this is the case.
All of us are hoping that the residentials we are planning for this summer are able to take place. We are still making plans for the trips to go ahead and will continue to do so up until it is confirmed that they can't take place. With this in mind we have sent home letters today for year 5 and year 6 families about future payment dates.
It is very important that families support us by keeping to these deadline days to help us ensure that we keep places for your children.
Year 6 letter - CLICK HERE
Year 5 letter - CLICK HERE
We have published a letter today about our parent carer evenings later this month.
As in October 2020 we'll be having our meetings virtually again. Parents can choose to meet either using Google Classrooms or speak over the phone.
Parent carer evening letter - CLICK HERE
Mrs. Astell has shared information reminding parents about our world book day plans for Thursday of this week.
Even though some children will be at home on this day, we will still be celebrating books and reading at home and at school with some fun events.
Before and after School clubs availability information.
Updated 9.30am on Friday 26th February
We will share more information about more clubs as it becomes available or alters.
Before School
After School
I am very pleased to be writing about the return to school for all pupils. I am looking forward to Monday March 8th when all of our children can return to school and join the 50% of our children that are attending every day at present.
After the announcement from the Prime Minister last night the Department for Education published guidelines for schools to read to help us plan for the safe return of all pupils. These guidelines are available for everyone to read. CLICK HERE.
Having looked at them this morning it is clear that St. John’s will look and operate in a very similar way to how we worked during the autumn term in 2020. For example, we’ll still have staggered start and end times and children will spend the day in their year group bubbles. It will also be important for us to continue with our hand hygiene procedures and that we follow guidelines on isolating and testing when displaying symptoms.
There are a few minor differences that I will clear up in the next week, but I am pleased to share that home schooling parents at home can begin to prepare to return children to school on March 8th. I’ll see you all then.
Mr. Averis
Published - Tuesday 23rd February at 10.45am
We published our final two INSET days of year. CLICK HERE.
They are on
Friday 28th May 2021
Monday 7th June 2021
We are looking to recruit a parent governor to come and join our team of governor volunteers.
Extra information in available on our website or you are welcome to contact school to speak to Mr. Averis or our chair of governors, Mrs. Mather.
Letter to parents published 11.02.21 - CLICK HERE
Nominations need to be received by Thursday 11th March 2021.
Further governor information - CLICK HERE