Children are bringing home a letter this week with information about our open evening on Tuesday 10th December. 

All parents are invited into school to have a look at resources and information that we will be using in school to help teach children the new Relationship and Sex Education scheme of work. CLICK HERE.  

The new legislation that schools are required to act on can be viewed on the .gov website. CLICK HERE. 

We look forward to seeing you on the 10th and answering any questions that you may have. Please be aware that some of the resources that we have in school to use with older children in year 6 may not be suitable for younger children and therefore you may want to consider bringing your children to the drop in work shop.

Children are bringing home information about Christmas services at St.Peter's and other local churches today. 

Unfortunately there is an error on them. The Christingle service at St. Mark's church is on Sunday 15th December and not Sunday 8th December.

Our friends at Vaillant in Belper have sent us advent calendars for every child again this December. Vaillant also gifted the school gazebos last summer to help us run a successful sport day in the hot weather.

Children are bringing these advent calendars home this week. They have been told not to eat any of the chocolates until parents have checked for any potential allergies as we did in 2018.

Before the half term holiday children brought home a letter about an exciting time capsule competition. The competition is only open to children from St. John's school. 

The winners, one from each year group, will have their letter sealed in the time capsule in Belper's new library that is been built on Derwent Street. The time capsule will be 'buried' into a wall of the library and will have a display window so that visitors to the library are able to see it.

The time capsule will be sealed and buried in 2020 and we expect that the winning children will be at the library for the burying as guests of honour along with other local dignitaries.

The letter will be opened in many years time - when the children will be adults. I hope that they take the opportunity to get involved in this once in a lifetime opportunity to shape and record our local history. 

Entries need to be returned to Mrs. Wojcik at school by Friday 15th November. 

Letter with extra information - CLICK HERE

Infant letter template - CLICK HERE

Junior letter template - CLICK HERE

Due to flooding in and around the Belper area this afternoon parents are invited to come and collect children from school from 2.30pm this afternoon. 

Please come to the front gate as normal and staff will go and collect your child from the classroom for you. 

All children are safe in school and can stay here until 3.30pm this afternoon when school will close as normal. Any parents that are delayed in collecting their children at 3.30pm can be assured that we will look after all children at the end of the day until they are able to arrive. 

We will be selling poppies at school from Wednesday 6th November. 

Children need to bring their donations to school and will get an opportunity to purchase a poppy from our year six pupils at lunchtimes. We suggest a donation of at least 20p for a poppy. 

Other items will also be for sale and pictures are enclosed with their suggested price. 

On Monday 11th we will be having a two minute silence at 11am.

Many thanks for your support and two recent PTFA events. 

The Back to Cool disco raised £620

The uniform sale at the recent parent evenings raised £147

At the PTFA meeting on 22.10.19 at the Greyhound the team considered ways that they wanted to spend this and look forward to sharing their ideas soon. 

Many thanks to CDM Artificial Grass who have helped us today by coming to fit some artificial grass, free of charge, to the entrance of our scooter park. 

As you can see below, children were very excited this afternoon when they were able to pick their scooters up without getting muddy. 

All children from year one to year six will be walking to St. Peter's church on Thursday 24th October for our harvest service. 

If you are able to help walk the children safely please let your child's class teacher know as soon as possible. We will be leaving school at about 9.30am and arrive back at school just before 11am. 

The service will be led by year 6 children and will start at about 10am once all the children have arrived.