We look forward to welcoming David Wood to school on Wednesday 26th June from the Diocese of Derbyshire. David is in school to lead our church inspection. Every five years we are inspected by the Diocese who help ensure that we are recognising and celebrating our Christian foundations and values. 

We will share the inspection report as soon as possible. 

Mrs. Higgs and Miss Cooper have both sent messages to school letting us know that everyone is having lots of fun at Whitehall and that they are enjoying the warm dry weather that we have got in Belper. 

Miss. Cooper has let us know that the children have arrived safely at Whitehall at the start of their 2 night residential. 

Let's hope the weather is better than last week for them. 

Earlier this month the Government announced that in 2020 the spring bank holiday will be on Friday 8th May 2020 and not Monday 4th May 2020. We have updated our calendar page and the easy to print calendar to show this change. 

Children will be in school as normal on Monday 4th May 2020. School will be closed on Friday 8th May 2020. 

The cricket competition at Eyes Meadow in Duffield has been cancelled tonight. All parents should have had a text on Tuesday letting them know of this.

Mr. White's cricket club at school for the infants is taking place. We will use the school hall if it is wet. 

Children are bringing home class photograph proofs today - Friday 7th June. 

Any orders need returned to Mrs. Hows in the office by Friday 14th June at the latest. 

Next week is our walk to school week and we want to encourage as many children as possible to walk some or all of the way to school. It would be great if we could get your support in helping reduce our school’s carbon footprint and reduce congestion on local roads by making some effort to walk to school on some days or for all of our walk to school week. CLICK HERE. 

We welcomed Mrs. Simpson into the office on Monday when she began her new job at St. John's. Mrs. Simpson replaces Mrs. Martinez, who left us at Easter. 

Mrs. Simpson begins work at 9.30am every day and finishes at 4.45pm and looks forward to meeting lots of you as soon as possible. 

Our office opening hours remain the same from 8am to 4.45pm every day with Mrs. Howis now beginning work at 8am every day and Mrs. Simpson working to 4.45pm every day.