Owl Class had a fantastic visit this morning to Adcote School who hosted Martin Howard, author of Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull.
The children had the opportunity to listen to Martin speak about his journey as an author then read a section from his new book.
Finally they had a Q&A session before being able to buy a signed copy of the book.
The visit was inspirational to our children as young writers: thank you to Adcote School and Martin Howard for a fantastic opportunity.
Congratulations to our new school council representatives for 2025-26. The children learned about democratic voting before putting themselves forwards for representing Owl Class this year.
Wisdom & Creative Curriculum: Scarlett & George
Environmental Warriors: Lucy & Sidney
Courageous Advocacy: Isaac & Oscar
Worship: Magnus & Emelia E
Safeguarding: Robyn & Blake
Welcome back for Autumn term 2025, we look forward to seeing you all back in school this week. You can find more information about our learning for this term plus the timetable and knowledge organisers over on our class information page:
Class Owls Information | St John The Baptist CE Primary School Ruyton XI Towns
See you on Wednesday!
Miss Whit & Miss Reese
We look forward to welcoming back all of our pupils on Wednesday 3rd September 2025.
St John’s School staff are working between our school and Bicton school on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd September. If you wish to contact the school, there may be someone in the office, otherwise, please leave a message and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Keep an eye on class pages on the website for updates for learning Autumn 2025. We look forward to seeing you all Wednesday!
Homework is set on a Wednesday each week and is expected to be handed in the following Tuesday (which is when spelling tests take place). If you need help with homework, then just let staff know. Homework Club is available to Owl Class on Thursday lunchtimes.
Please make sure you record reading in your reading diaries at least 3 times per week; if you achieve 5 quality entries, you may earn Quality Marks.
Learning times tables is a part of homework every week – use Number Gym Table Trainer, TT Rockstars or your own methods to make sure you keep your multiplication knowledge fresh.
Please see below the lists of spellings we will be focusing on for our handwriting / homework tasks during Autumn Term (but these may be carried out in a different order dependent on classwork).
Autumn 1 Spellings for all groups
Autumn 2 Spellings for all groups
Here are the set lists from the National Curriculum to keep learning over the year (but they will also come up through our weekly task lists above):
The Year 6 Have had a brilliant end of the year leavers trip! Bucket-loads of popcorn, slushies and sweets with two hours of dinosaurs to finish us off! It was edge of the seat action with plenty of belly laughs!
A huge thank you to Mrs C and Packwood school for providing the minibus!
A big thank you to everyone who supported our violin concert with Mrs Nowotarski this morning. The Year 4 and 5 children put on a super performance with Magnus supporting on the drums!
A huge thank you to Michelle and Holly in the kitchen for putting on a fab Leavers Lunch for the Year 6s! They chose chicken tikka wraps & meatballs with chips for their special dinner with an apple crumble with extra whipped cream. Tilly’s verdict: delicious! India’s verdict: scrumdiddilyumpitious!
There has been lots to celebrate at St John’s this week and end of term celebrations are ramping up as we head into our School Summer Fayre this evening and transition days for our classes of 2025-26 on Monday and Tuesday!
Firstly, well done to our Area Sports Athletics Team who participated this week and earned lots of certificates and top 3 places along the way…
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 Millie
Year 5 Scarlett
Year 4 Elsie
Year 3 Zander
Year 2 Lily
Year 1 James
Reception Rosie
Bumblebees Christian
Raffle ticket winners – earning prizes for excellent behaviour around school throughout the day…
Other Achievements…
Toby and Grayson earned medals for their football matches at the weekend – well done Toby for joining a new football team!
Cordelia won an award for her cricket All Stars!
A huge well done to James for his swimming award Level 1 in Water Safety!
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