Another great event hosted by The Corbet, as always our children did excellent and represented us fantastically.
School News
Weekly Celebrations – 14.3.25
Here are this week’s awards…
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 Tilly for ‘Tolerance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Tilly is brilliant at remembering or taking notes of key facts in lessons. She always brings retrieved knowledge to the next lesson where we recap. This is a brilliant habit Tilly, keep it up!
Year 5 Thomas for ‘Wisdom’ – Thomas demonstrated brilliant knowledge in our forces lesson this week in Science. He showed a great understanding in our resistance experiment! Well done!
Year 4 Emelia for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Emelia has been working incredibly hard recently! She is working independently in Maths and creating beautiful pieces of writing. Well done Emelia, keep up the hard work!
Year 3 Nancy for ‘Perseverance’ – Nancy has been showing great effort, determination and progress in improving her hand writing. Her dedication is paying off – keep up the hard work Nancy!
Year 2 Laurie for ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Friendship’ – Laurie is a fantastic role model to other in the class, he takes great pride in his working and encourages others to do the same.
Year 1 Jasmine for ‘Trust’ – Jasmine’s confidence is growing everyday! She puts her hand up more often to contribute and she is proud to show her work to others!
Reception Alfie for ‘Perseverance’ – Alfie has been working so hard in his phonics recently and his effort is really starting to show.
Bumblebees Ben for ‘Love’, ‘Hope’, ‘Trust’, ‘Perseverance‘ and ‘Tolerance‘ – Ben has worked so hard this week. He is working hard to master his name writing and has shown wonderful kindness to his friends.
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Golden Book Certificates
Congratulations to Emelia, Layla, Harrison, Harriet, Percy, Charley, Tommy & Rosie
Other Achievements…
Harrison has completed his 25m swimming badge – great work!
Althea received her Bronze Level Swimming Challenge certificate.
Nancy received player of the match award from her football clubs
Beau, Nancy & James were very proud to tell us that their mum (Mrs Hurst) has received an award from Birmingham Children’s hospital for being one of their 100 heroes! This recognises their incredible top fundraisers. Collectively, over the last 12months, everyone who attended helped to raise a phenomenal £2.5million for their hospital, which is an outstanding and transformational amount. Mrs Hurst’s nephew sadly passed away last year and she wanted to raise money for the paediatric unit who cared for him. She raised a fantastic £6,300, an amazing achievement.
Exploring Canals
Last week, in geography as part of our learning about canals we were tasked with plotting a journey from Maesbury along the Shropshire union canal to a destination of our choice. We used maps to follow a route along the canal, we designed an itinerary in our groups, plotting where we were going to stay over night and where we might stop to look at points of interest. Every group did an excellent job and were really excited to find on the map where they lived too! Great job team! 
Weekly Celebrations – 28.2.25
Here are this week’s awards…
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 Charlie for ‘Perseverance’ – for persevering with all the tricky challenges put before him during assessment week with determination and a smile. Well done Charlie!
Year 4 Sid for ‘Perseverance’ – Sid has worked impressively hard on his assessments this week and has demonstrated great progress. Well done Sid!
Year 3 Harry for ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Perseverance’ – Harry has really begun to knuckle down with his work, he is doing his best in everything he does and his determination and perseverance is paying off. Well done Harry!
Year 2 Hallie for ‘Wisdom’ – Hallie has worked so hard on her assessments this week, she has approached everything with a positive attitude. She has taken time and care to make sure she understands the question and knows how to answer it. Great work Hallie!
Year 1 James for ‘Love’ and ‘Friendship’ – James is a very kind and caring member of our school, he is a fantastic friends and enjoys celebrating the achievements of other. Well done James, you’re a star!
Reception Darcy for ‘Friendship’ – Darcy is a wonderful member of Hedgehogs. She always thinks of others and shows all our values everyday.
Bumblebees Ziwa & Utendi for ‘Love’, ‘Hope’, ‘Trust’, ‘Perseverance‘ and ‘Tolerance‘ – for making incredible progress in their learning and development, and for always making us smile!
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Other Achievements…
We have so many fantastic swimmers at St John’s, it’s lovely to see how proud they all are for achieving their goals!
- Laith achieved his 10m badge
- Evie achieved her Stage 1 Learn to Swim badge
- Seren achieved her 200m badge
- Harriet achieved her 100m badge
- Oscar achieved his Stage 4 Duckling & Stage 1 Learn to Swim
- Olly achieved his Stage 1 Learn to Swim badge
- Ruairi achieved his 5m badge
India recently wrote to the Prime Minister Keir Starmer to suggest that as a country we should have eco-days, where people are encouraged to pick up litter and generally be more eco-friendly. She received a response from the office of Number 10 Downing Street and her ideas have been sent to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural affairs, and she is eagerly awaiting further response from them! We are so proud of India and how she is trying to bring about positive change to the environment and those around her. What a star!
She is also currently trying to create the longest piece of finger knitting, Guinness World Records here we come!!
❤️❤️ Weekly Celebrations – 14.2.25 ❤️❤️
Here are this week’s awards…
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 Charlie for ‘Perseverance’ – for persevering with different challenges throughout the week.
Year 5 Emelia for ‘Perseverance’ – for demonstrating a positive attitude to all aspects of school life!
Year 4 Charlie for ‘Perseverance’ – Charlie has worked hard this week on improving his handwriting. He has also produced an impressive menu in RE for Diwali. Well done Charlie!
Year 3 Millie for ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Perseverance’ – Millie has been working hard this week on a persuasive piece of writing. She has worked hard to improve her sentences and has written a lovely piece of writing. Well done Millie!
Year 2 Grayson for ‘Tolerance’ – Grayson is always ready to learn. He is focussed on working hard and is able to manage distractions very well. You’re a star, Grayson!
Year 1 Cody for ‘Perseverance’ – Cody has worked hard this week to work independently. He has listened well and used his phonic knowledge to help him with his writing.
Reception Ellie for ‘Friendship’ – Ellie is a wonderful member of Hedgehogs. She is kind and considerate of others. Ellie always does her best in learning and produces beautiful work.
Bumblebees Tilda for ‘Love’, ‘Hope’, ‘Trust’, ‘Friendship’, ‘Wisdom and ‘Respect‘ – Tilda has a wonderful attitude to learning. She gives 100% in everything she does and ALWAYS shows respect and kindness to everyone in school.
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Other Achievements…
Alfie received the ‘Man of the Match’ trophy during his football match last weekend. He said he got it for his excellent passing! Great work, Alfie!
Hallie has received her Bronze and Silver awards in Rainbows – a fantastic achievement!
Eva has achieved her ‘Gold Level – Rookie Lifeguard’ certificate, a brilliant life skill!
Love at St John’s ❤️
The children have been busy thinking about how they show love and how people have shown love to them. Mrs Bradshaw created a ‘Love’ board where they could share their thoughts. We see the love shine through our school everyday and it’s been lovely to see how the children are expressing love!
Safer Internet Day 2025
This year’s Safer Internet Day is focused on not being scammed online. This morning, our Safeguarding School Council did a wonderful assembly for the whole school to raise awareness of staying safe from scams online. Well done team!
Free half term events!
Please see the poster above to find out about a lot of free half term events happening in Oswestry as part of the Love Oswestry Festival. These include puppet workshops, Drumming sessions, Felt workshops and lots of family activities all leading up to the lantern festival on the Saturday. Scan the QR code to see the full event programme!
Birdwatching in Hedgehogs
We’ve had a lovely week in Hedgehogs this week, learning all about British birds, especially those that we are likely to find in our locality. We have made binoculars, learnt how to identify different species by their appearance, been bird spotting as part of the RSPB Birdwatch, and recreated our favourite garden bird.
Space Makers
We are so pleased to announce that we are using Space Makers at St John the Baptist CE Primary School this year!
We will be using these calming and contemplative techniques to help children build spirituality and mindfulness. We will develop skills of Stilling, Noticing, Dwelling, Mending and Blessings to assist children in navigating the world around them.
Over time we will see children taking the lead in delivering the short sessions with their classmates.
Here is some information about the scheme:
Space Makers is a resource for schools and churches from the Diocese of Oxford. Accessible to pupils of all faiths and worldviews, five contemplative practices help schools to embrace some of the ancient wisdom of the Christian tradition and, in doing so, assist children to navigate the world around them.
Climate anxiety and the vast increase in screen time and exposure to social media seem to be causes of deteriorating mental health in young people.
The ancient contemplative traditions of Christianity, like its secular cousin ‘mindfulness’, have a lot to offer at this time.
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This is a post that we never imagined we would need to write,
but after almost 17 months of Lucas waiting for a liver transplant, time is not on his side, and with his consultant stressing to us at our last clinic appointment that children with Hepatopulmonary Syndrome need a transplant sooner rather than later, with no possible way of increasing his priority on the Paediatric register and unable to be placed on the adult register yet as he doesn’t weigh enough, we find ourselves writing this in the hope 
that there may be a generous person
out there who would be willing to help Lucas and save his life, by donating a lobe of their liver as a live liver donor. This is possible because the liver is able to regenerate itself and grow back, usually by 12 weeks following surgery.
but after almost 17 months of Lucas waiting for a liver transplant, time is not on his side, and with his consultant stressing to us at our last clinic appointment that children with Hepatopulmonary Syndrome need a transplant sooner rather than later, with no possible way of increasing his priority on the Paediatric register and unable to be placed on the adult register yet as he doesn’t weigh enough, we find ourselves writing this in the hope that there may be a generous person out there who would be willing to help Lucas and save his life, by donating a lobe of their liver as a live liver donor. This is possible because the liver is able to regenerate itself and grow back, usually by 12 weeks following surgery.For those who don’t know Lucas 
he was born with a rare liver disease, and although he remained stable for a few years, his health has rapidly declined over the past few years and it was decided almost 17 months ago that he needed a liver transplant. However donors are becoming less, and with Lucas’s size and his blood group being rarer, his chance of receiving a donor offer is smaller (An offer doesn’t always mean the transplant will go ahead as the surgeon needs the check the organ themselves before deciding that it’s suitable for transplant).
he was born with a rare liver disease, and although he remained stable for a few years, his health has rapidly declined over the past few years and it was decided almost 17 months ago that he needed a liver transplant. However donors are becoming less, and with Lucas’s size and his blood group being rarer, his chance of receiving a donor offer is smaller (An offer doesn’t always mean the transplant will go ahead as the surgeon needs the check the organ themselves before deciding that it’s suitable for transplant).At the moment, a live liver donor is Lucas’s best option. We have explored the option of a live donor within the family but unfortunately no-one is a suitable candidate, so we are now putting out this appeal in the hope of finding someone who would be kind and generous enough to be willing to donate some of their liver to save our little boy’s life, as we are really scared that an offer may not come in time and we will lose him.
Please only contact the team if you are serious about being a live liver donor, and meet the following criteria, as going through potential donors is an admin intensive task.
Blood group must be B or O (this MUST be known prior to contacting team, Eldoncard tests can be purchased via Amazon, eBay etc)BMI under 30Under 50 years oldMinimal drinker and no smoking 8 weeks prior to surgeryNo significant medical conditionsIf you meet the above criteria, and are serious about being a live liver donor for Lucas, you can contact the team by email:
leedsth-tr.leedsliverappeal@nhs.net
More information about live liver donation can be found here (you may need to copy and paste):@
