Latest News and Updates 

During the Summer term we sent out a questionnaire regarding the

residentials that take place each year and to gauge parents’ opinion on reducing these to once every 2 years.

Thank you to the parents who returned the questionnaire.The overwhelming response from parents was to keep residentials each year. We will obviously be looking to keep the cost down as much as possible.

Thank you for the donations for Macmillan and for coming to join us for learning

and the coffee morning.

We raised £399.30.

Thank you to everyone who came to our Macmillan Coffee morning on Thursday 29th September 2022 and for all your kind donations of cakes, buns and biscuits so we can raise as much money as possible for this fantastic charity. 

We can imagine that everyone knows someone in their family or friendship group that has been affected by this disease.

This year we are continuing to focus on improving standards in reading and in particularly building on our love of reading and the enjoyment that it can bring. If you can encourage a child to read for pleasure, they will reap the benefits. Research has clearly shown that reading for pleasure can be directly linked to a child’s success throughout their education and even into adulthood. Reading for pleasure opens up new worlds for children. It gives them the opportunity to use their imagination to explore new ideas, visit new places and meet new characters. Interestingly, reading for please also improves children’s well-being and empathy. It helps them to understand their own identity, and gives them an insight into the world and the

views of others.

This year, we will not be sending home daily reading record books but instead we will focus on recording and monitoring pupils’ current reads, and celebrating the books that children have read. Children will be coming home with a book they have chosen from their class libraries.

Please encourage your children to read their book regularly at home and also remind them to bring this to school with them every day so they can read their book during daily reading time.

They will have already recorded this book into their own Reading Log books which will remain in school so that we can monitor what they are choosing and celebrate the books they have read.

We have invested in Reading Challenge Trees for each class with new high-level texts to expose the children to a greater diversity of books and challenge even the most able of our readers.

Every Friday, we will be holding a ‘Book Club’ in each class to encourage reading for pleasure. We will spend time exploring and discussing the books we have chosen, give recommendations of books to our peers and listen to the class reading book.

We have invested time and money into re-organising and updating each Class Library but we need your help to improve these areas further for our children.

If you have any books at home that your children have read and loved but no longer read, please consider donating them to school so that we can keep our Class Libraries up to date and well-stocked for our children.

Thank you so much to the parents who have already donated books both this year and last.

Thank you for your continued support.

Lost property 

During the summer holidays, please take the time to write your child's name on all school uniform, including their PE kits. Our lost property box is constantly overflowing with items of clothing that we cannot trace who they belong to. 

Thank you. 

Contact Details 

If you have changed your phone number. email or moved house please ensure you have informed the appropriate schools so we can contact you.

Parking

Please do not park in the school car park at St John’s unless you have an arrangement with school. It is extremely dangerous pulling up into the road to drop children off and then reversing back down when children are still making their way onto the school site. If you are dropping your child off do so on St Margaret’s Avenue.

Thank you