There was a great evening of football on Thursday! Thank you to Myddle for coming and playing such a great game… it was 2-2 by the end of the match with a St JOhn’s 4-2 win on penalties!
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Celebration Assembly 19.05 – SO much to celebrate!
Wow… where do we start this week?! There has been so much brilliance and fun goings-on at St John’s – LET’S CELEBRATE!
Here are some updates from an array of in-school events that have taken place this week…
Coronation Fun Run
Monday was a brilliant morning at school as we all dressed-up and worked-up a sweat for a 25 minute Fun Run which had been organised by our wonderful Friends of the School. We are still awaiting the final total from sponsorship – watch this space!
Rounders
A Year 5/6 team attended the Corbet Area Rounders Tournament – they played brilliantly, put all their PE learning to the test and came 3rd overall out of 8 schools!
Football friendly v Myddle Primary
A group of Year 4/5/6 children enjoyed a super football match on Thursday evening when we hosted Myddle Primary. Evan and Mia played their first match for the school – they played fantastically! Overall, the match finished 2-2 but St John’s went on to win on penalties… A big shout-out to George, our brave Goalkeeper, who did a sterling job to save some shots!
Super Swimmer
Also on Thursday evening, Year 6 Elliot has been elected to attend swimming trials for the North Shropshire West Team at Oswestry School. Elliot competed in four races (back stroke, breast stroke, front crawl and butterfly) and we are delighted to announce that he WON THEM ALL! Elliot – we are all so proud of you.
Next he will represent North Shropshire West in The Primary Schools County Gala at the end of June. Go Elliot, go!
Here are all our usual Weekly Celebrations too:
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
Beau – For working so carefully in all her assessments & giving her best everyday
Evan & Mia – For representing Ruyton in football and playing their first match! A brilliant display of skill and confidence from both.
Nancy – for great listening
Oscar – for lovely manners and a great attitude to learning
Charlie J – for super reading – well done!
Laurie – for doing everything with a smile on his face!
Ariyana – for working so hard on writing
Archie – for excellent effort in assessment week
Robyn – for excellent effort in reading assessments
Bumblebees Star of the Week
Congratulations to Oakley for achieving Star of the Week this week! He earned it for following all the rules in Bumblebees and showing great listening. Well done Oakley, keep it up!
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Rabbit Class as they had the most tickets this week 👏
Swimming Award
We celebrated James’ AMAZING achievement of Level 1 in Learn to Swim – this is incredible for one of our Bumblebees children! We are super proud of you James – keep it up!
Athletics Winner
Year 6, George, shared his recent achievements with us too as he participated in an Athletics Competition in Telford. George had great finishes in sprint races, but also shone in the Long Jump where he won the event! Incredible effort Geroge, keep up the great work with Shrewsbury Athletics Club.
Phew…. That was a big week! Coming up next week:
- Year 6 are out today at an Archery Festival at the Ironworks Centre (Oswestry) – we look forward to hearing all about it.
- Year 6 are out (again!) to Crucial Crew on Monday to learn all about staying safe in the wider world
- Swimming: it’s the final week for Rabbits & Dragonflies next Friday – keep up the great work!
- Year 4 – have a great time next Friday at Lichfield Cathedral for an Inspire Workshop… it sounds intriguing!
Shrewsbury Half Marathon 👏
A huge congratulations to all our amazing children who took part in the Shrewsbury half marathon on Saturday. You ran, you laughed, you smiled: you were an inspiration to us all! We couldn’t be prouder of each and everyone of you. Thank you to all the families too for their support on the day too 🙌
Weekly Celebrations – 21st April 2023
Welcome back to our Summer Term! Here are our celebrations for the first week back:
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
Seren – For always having a positive outlook towards tasks and her day
Ruby – For excellent effort with her learning
Harry – For super independent writing on the Great Fire of London
James-Noah – For great effort and improvement in assessment tasks
Maggie – Beautiful handwriting!
Mav – Super attitude to learning
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Rabbit Class as they had the most tickets this week 👏
Superstar Violinist!
Congratulations to Elliot for achieving his Grade 1 Violin with flying colours! Well done Elliot -we are all very proud of you.
Shrewsbury Half Marathon
Good luck to all our runners (35 of you!) who are attending the Shrewsbury Half Marathon tomorrow morning. Have a great time and we look forward to hearing how you all got on.
Happy birthday!
A big happy birthday to Liz and Nikki today!
Clive Cross-Country 🥳
An amazing effort by our cross country team this morning 👏
Y3/4 Girls – a brilliant turn-out of 8 runners! Charley finished 2nd and overall the team came 2nd! 👏
Y3/4 Boys – a squad of 3 finished together and earned themselves 3rd place overall 👌
Y5/6 Girls – We were SO proud of Brooke for representing Ruyton as our only girl! Not only did she finish smiling, she did it all again in the fun run!
Year 5/6 Boys – Our team of 4 had the biggest field of the day with over 50 competitors: our boys finished brilliantly but just missed out on top 3 places.
I was so proud of each and every one of you – thanks for giving me a fun morning! A huge thank you to all the parents / families for supporting this event and a special shout-out to Deejay for sorting the bibs! Miss Whit 👏
Celebration Assembly 17th February
Spring Half Term complete! A huge well done to all our children for achieving so much over the past 7 weeks. We hope everyone has a great end to the term at the School Disco tonight too!
Here are this week’s celebrations…
In Bumblebees, Phoenix achieved Star of the Week:
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
- Millie– for fantastic writing
- India – for fantastic writing
- George – for always working hard but bringing extra fun to the classroom this week!
- Freddie – for brilliant work all week (Miss Perez)
- Seren – for beautiful poetry
- Oscar – for always being ready to learn
- Lawrie – for always being kind and helpful
- Ariyana – for amazing phonics and reading
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Rabbit Class as they had the most tickets this week.
Headteacher Awards
It has been noted how many Headteacher Awards have been earned this week – well done to all these children for producing award-winning work!
Super swimmer Seren
Seren proudly shared her 15 metre swimming certificate with us this week. She told us how she swam back stroke and front crawl without touching the bottom – well done Seren!
We look forward to seeing what all the children can achieve in Summer Term when every class will receive 5 weeks of swimming lessons – we can’t wait!
Happy half-term birthdays to Cody, Mrs Hurst and Miss Horton!
Finally, we wish you all a safe and happy half-term break and we’ll see you on Monday 27th February (don’t forget: it’s World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March!)
Celebration Assembly 10th February
Another busy week complete at St John’s with a theme of ‘Let’s Connect’ for Mental Health Awareness Week. Here are this week’s awards and updates…
In Bumblebees, Tommy achieved Star of the Week:
Golden Book Awards (awarded for a culmination of class stars / quality marks in work / lessons):
Alice- 3rd award (earning a Green Star badge)
Elsie – 7th Award
Elsie – 8th Award
Harrison – 6th award (earning a Blue Star badge)
Elliot – 8th Award
Luke – 9th award (earning a Red Star badge)
Amelia – 10th Award
Andreas – 10th Award
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
- Otto – always ready and waiting in class!
- Skylar– for amazing helping
- Lexi– for super independent writing
- Charlie J – for a beautiful singing show and tell
- Mwaita– for beautiful handwriting
- Maia- for showing brilliant friendship
- Freddie – for great spellings all round
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Hockey Tournament
Two Y5/6 Hockey teams took part in the local area Hockey Tournament on Tuesday at the Corbet School. Following a series of lessons in PE, the twelve children were able to perform their learned skills at a competitive level and develop their hockey knowledge.
Mrs Dyke and Miss Perez had a great morning with both teams. One of the main strengths noticed was the communication between our players. We are delighted that one of the squads finished 3rd too! Well done everybody.
Rock Climber Lucy!
Lucy proudly shared her rock climbing achievements with us this week. She has recently achieved her Level 1 Award which is a brilliant achievement.
Whilst sharing this, we talked about this week being Mental Health Awareness Week with a theme of ‘Let’s Connect’. This theme is designed to teach us the value of meeting and getting to know people better and reaching out to others. We are really proud of Lucy for sharing her interests and talents with us – lots of children were keen to ‘connect’ and share their rock-climbing experiences in return too! This power of sharing connections was really obvious in our assembly hall today and certainly made Lucy feel good about herself. Thank you Lucy – keep it up, our very own Spider Girl!
Basketball Tournament at the Corbet
A squad of our pupils represented St John’s at the local area basketball tournament this week. As a school, we finished 5th behind two teams from Baschurch and Myddle out of 10 teamsin total.
We are really proud of our squad, particularly our Year 4 pupil Devon who stepped in at the last minute to help out. Well done to George, Arthur, Jamie, Alice, Mia and Devon!
Corbet Area Cross Country
We took our WHOLE KS2 to the Corbet Area Cross-Country competition recently. This was the first time that some of the children had taken part in a competitive event. Every child completed the course and we are really proud of our team and individual results:
Year 3 Girls – 3rd Overall
Year 4 Girls – 1st Overall
Year 5 Girls – 2nd Overall
Year 6 Boys – 2nd Overall
EFL Cup – Montgomery Meadow Football
Our football team had a great session out today where they participated in the STFC EFL Cup. They managed to keep very close score-lines on the day, drawing 1-1 with Apley Wood but losing 1-0 to West Felton and 3-1 to St Giles. The boys showed brilliant team spirit and did us proud. A special congratulations to Jackson for his exemplary sportsmanship, Andreas for his determination in goal and also Jamie for his skilful play and for scoring two goals.
Thank you to Jonny and the team at STFC for hosting such a great event!
