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Weekly Celebrations 24th November

Posted on November 24, 2023 by Jen Whittingham

It has been another busy week at St John’s with more sports fixtures, Bikeability training for KS1, Church visits for Owl Class and also a focus on Road Safety Week. Aside from all this, Christmas production practises are well under way and there has been some fantastic class work too!

We just had to share this photo of some of our younger ones at play today too…!

Sports News

This week saw a group of Year 4/5/6 children head off to the Corbet School for the local schools Dodgeball School Competition. Our team played brilliantly and were very proud to come SECOND overall! This means that they have also qualified for the North Shropshire Dodgeball Finals!  Well done team!

Congratulations to all the children who took part in Bikeability this week too!

Weekly Celebrations 

School Value Ambassadors (earning House Points with one pupil chosen each week per year group, awarded by teachers for showing one of our school values):

Year 6 – Amber for ‘Perseverance’ – Amber has been working really hard on recent assessments – keep it up Amber.

Year 5 Charlie for ‘Respect’ and ‘Perseverance’: Charlie’s been working hard all week with his adults in maths – keep it up Charlie!

Year 4 Robyn for ‘Perseverance’, ‘Wisdom’: For taking the initiative to complete extra work this week without being asked to.

Year 3 Blake for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom ‘: Toby has been working really hard in all parts of his learning this year – his attitude to learning is brilliant, keep it up Toby!

Year 2 Aoife for ‘Perseverance’: Aoife has approached all her work and assessments brilliantly this week – keep up the hard work Aoife!

Year 1 Maggie for ‘Love’ and ‘Respect’: Maggie brightens up her classroom with her big smile and positive attitude to everything! Thank you – Maggie you’re a superstar!

Reception Lottie for ‘all the values!’: Lottie always comes to school with a positive attitude towards everything, showing all the values! Well done Lottie!

Bumblebees Star of the Week! Olivia has earned Star of the Week in Bumblebees for making lots of new friends and always showing kindness to everyone!

Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)

Plus an extra winner for TWO classes as they had the most tickets this week, and another for joint-win for being the superstars of Worship this week 👏

Congratulations to all our winners this week!

Other celebrations:

Jasmine has earned a fabulous Children in Need Badge from her Girl Guides for all her hard work – well done Jasmine!

Congratulations to Hallie who has earned her Level 11 and 12 for Gymnastics this week!

 

 

 

 

 

This entry was posted in Nursery Bumblebees News, School News, Weekly School Newsletter, Sports, Class Hedgehogs News, Class Rabbits News, Class Dragonflies News, Class Owls News, Uncategorized by Jen Whittingham.

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