Today we are celebrating our BRILLIANT Year 6’s who have come to the end of their Sats week! They have worked so hard through each of the days and have supported each other fantastically. Year 6 – we are so proud of you and know you have each tried your absolute best.
To add to the excitement, THE HOODIES HAVE ARRIVED! 🙂 Don’t they look so grown up?!
This week we are thinking of our Year 6s as they prepare for next week’s SATs assessments. Good luck Year 6! We know you will all do your best and make us as proud as ever.
We are also looking forward to David Attenborough’s 100th birthday celebrations on Friday and our annual Fun Run organised by the Friends!
A huge congratulations to this week’s Value Ambassadors…
Bean for Friendship & Respect
Henry for Perseverance & Wisdom
Lilly for Perseverance
Felicity for Perseverance & Wisdom
Harrison for Respect & Wisdom 
Caitlyn for Perseverance & Wisdom 
Rupert for Perseverance & Wisdom 
Owl Class participated in the final Experience Church event of the year to start Summer Term with an exploration of “After Easter”. A big thank you to the volunteers from the Church group who, as ever, make the visit very enjoyable and informative!
Welcome back to school for Summer Term 2026 – we hope you all had a fun-filled and refreshing Easter break!
Summer term is always jam-packed and full of some of our favourite activities including Sports Day, St John the Baptist Day, Swimming lessons and all our summer sports events – keep up to date with the school diary and letters for more information. We’ve also got Arts Week, ‘No Pens Day’ and ‘Have Fun for Harry’ day coming up – just some of the things to look forward to!
Of course, it’s an important term for our Year 6. We will be really proud to see our Year 6 sit their SATs on the week commencing May 11th – they have already worked so hard. However, even more exciting will be all of the leavers celebrations that will then begin! Leavers trips, leavers speeches and celebration assemblies will soon be upon us (plus a summer of Year 6 insisting on wearing their leavers hoodies everyday, regardless of the weather!)
We can’t wait to get the term started! As always, information about learning in class this term can be found on the class information page (link Class Owls Information | St John The Baptist CE Primary School Ruyton XI Towns). We will also continue to welcome student teacher Miss Clarke who will continue her placement with us for the first half-term.
You can keep updated with our class shenanigans via the website notice board: Parents’ Area | St John The Baptist CE Primary School Ruyton XI Towns and also class notice board.
Here’s hoping for a sunny summer term ahead! We look forward to seeing you all this week,
Mrs Cook, Miss Whit, Mrs Grogan & Mrs Maund 🙂 x
Today we completed an extended write following a unit on The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.
To teach writing, we focus on specific skills and aim to put them into practise throughout the unit / book. This unit has focused on relative clauses, semi-colons (for Year 6), parenthesis and small details for description.
Some brilliant pieces of writing have been produced. Here is an example below of one of our fantastic Year 6 writers, Lucy. Well done Owl Class!
Our Year 4/5/6 Girls participated in a football tournament at the Corbet School on Friday morning with great success!
Lucy, Scarlett, Althea, Emelia, Evie, Beau, Nancy, Aoife and Bean formed a fantastic team, showing brilliant determination and sportsmanship. Nancy was our superstar goalkeeper making over ten saves on the day!
Overall the girls came third – a brilliant result for our team – especially considering they were facing much bigger schools and our girls included Year 4 pupils. Well done team!
The cakes… the red… and all the fun in between! We LOVE Red Nose Day and had a great day celebrating in aid of Comic Relief.
Our Year 5 enjoyed a brilliant day out at the Corbet School for their annual Languages Taster Day… it looked full of fun and learning with the Corbet Young Leaders!
A huge thank you to our local Church group (led by Reverend Hannah and Reverend Lucinda) for putting on a brilliant workshop around the theme of ‘Experiencing Lent’ this morning.
Along with the Year 5&6 children from Bomere Heath, our class explored different stations to develop their understanding of Lent and its meaning to Christians. They had plenty of opportunity to offer ideas and ask questions of our local community – so a big thank you to everyone involved!
A huge well done to our Y5/6 Sportshall Athletics team for their effort at the Corbet School competition on Wednesday morning. We are yet to hear final results, but the children represented Ruyton brilliantly following a sequence of PE lessons working on each area of the competition. A big thank you to Mr Jones for volunteering his time to support the trip and the children and staff at the Corbet for organising.
Well done team!
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