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4 days ago
Posted on July 4, 2025 by Jen Whittingham

Weekly Celebrations 4th July

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!

Posted in Nursery Bumblebees News, School News, Weekly School Newsletter, Sports, Class Hedgehogs News, Class Rabbits News, Class Dragonflies News, Class Owls News, Communications, Uncategorized

7 days ago
Posted on July 1, 2025 by Mr Arthur

Owls DT – Food tasting

In order to make our Caribbean cocktails, our children from Owl Class tasted fruit this morning, trying potential combinations of flavours.

Posted in Weekly School Newsletter, Class Owls Bulletin, Class Owls News

2 weeks ago
Posted on June 24, 2025 by Mr Arthur

Owls Field Studies at Forest School

Some photos from Owls’ forest school visit on Monday morning where we carried out field studies, as well as having a good explore.

Posted in Weekly School Newsletter, Class Owls Bulletin, Class Owls News

3 weeks ago
Posted on June 18, 2025 by Mrs Farmer

Water Safety!

Please see the attached information sheet from the Child Accident Prevention Trust regarding water safety.

Watch Out In Water Fact Sheet

Posted in Email Bulletin - All, School News, Weekly School Newsletter

4 weeks ago
Posted on June 10, 2025 by Mr Arthur

Owls – Arts Week – Mosaic and Acrylic

For our arts week in Owl Class, Mr Arthur’s days have been spent making mosaic tiles and acrylic layered paints.

With our theme of Italy, the mosaics are linked to the Ancient Romans who believed in the Greek Gods and depicted them in their expensive buildings (rich houses, government buildings, bathhouses). The children researched online for a guide and then spent monday and tuesday tiling with glue and then grouting for the finish. They turned out great!

For the acrylic painting, the children understood that it dries quickly and can be used for detail to be added onto a background. We spoke about brush size, colours that mix well and used Italian landscapes as inspiration for our artwork.

Posted in School News, Weekly School Newsletter, Class Owls Bulletin, Class Owls News

2 months ago
Posted on May 21, 2025 by Mr Arthur

Y5/6 Rounders at the Corbet

Our Owl Class rounders team played excellently today at the corbet. Despite only drawing the first game, we won 2 back to back games, then lost a game to the overall winners in our group stage. We then won our final game after progressing through. We are awaiting final results but I was so impressed by the leadership qualities from some players and the determination to keep going. Our sportsmanship on the whole was great too. Great work Ruyton!

Posted in Email Bulletin - All, School News, Weekly School Newsletter, Class Owls News

2 months ago
Posted on May 15, 2025 by Jen Whittingham

Year 6 SATS DONE! :)

A huge well done to our hard working Year 6s who have completed their SATs this week. And more excitingly, the LEAVERS HOODIES have arrived!

With a big chocolate cake to celebrate, the Year 6s are looking very grown up all of a sudden. We are very proud of you all for your perseverance and determination this week.

Posted in School News, Weekly School Newsletter, Class Owls News

2 months ago
Posted on May 9, 2025 by Kate Gregory

VE Day 80 Celebrations

This week we had a super time commemorating and celebrating VE Day 80 and on the day itself we came to school dressed in red, white and blue or in 1940’s style clothing. Mrs Bradshaw looked particularly fabulous in her suit! At 9am we joined in with the National Proclamation marking the anniversary. This was read for us by John Gittins with Eva playing the part of the village crier with an excellent “oyez, oyez, oyez!” Later in the day we came back out onto the field to listen to the pealing of the church bells. In our classes we carried out activities to help us understand the significance of the day in history and to our lives today.

At lunchtime we enjoyed a fish and chip picnic and we even found time to fit our annual fun run in to the day! We really enjoyed the ice pops and biscuits from the Friends after all the running and were very pleased with our medals to recognise our efforts. Thank you Friends!

Posted in Email Bulletin - All, School News, Weekly School Newsletter | Tagged VE Day

3 months ago
Posted on April 14, 2025 by Mr Arthur

Owls Summer Term Info

Hello everyone,

Hope you’re all having a nice easter so far. Miss Whit and I are looking forward to welcoming you all back on the 28th. Attached below is our basic timetable for the term including who will be teaching which subjects etc.

You’ll also see our curriculum map and a rough idea of our spellings for the term which is then split into groups in class. The final bits of info will be attached as a further post which will be our knowledge organisers for the term.

Have a nice 2 weeks off, from Mr Arthur 🙂

And thank you Owls for a fantastic first couple of days back… I can’t wait to get stuck into our Summer Term learning! Wishing you all a great break and a very happy Easter! Miss Whit 🙂

Summer 2025 Timetable for Children

Year 6 PlanIt Spelling Overview Pack Single

Year 5 PlanIt Spelling Overview Pack Single

Year 4 PlanIt Spelling Overview Pack Single

Year 3 PlanIt Spelling Overview Pack Single

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3 months ago
Posted on April 11, 2025 by Kate Gregory

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