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Weekly Celebrations 24th November
It has been another busy week at St John’s with more sports fixtures, Bikeability training for KS1, Church visits for Owl Class and also a focus on Road Safety Week. Aside from all this, Christmas production practises are well under way and there has been some fantastic class work too!
We just had to share this photo of some of our younger ones at play today too…!
Sports News
This week saw a group of Year 4/5/6 children head off to the Corbet School for the local schools Dodgeball School Competition. Our team played brilliantly and were very proud to come SECOND overall! This means that they have also qualified for the North Shropshire Dodgeball Finals! Well done team!
Congratulations to all the children who took part in Bikeability this week too!
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 – Amber for ‘Perseverance’ – Amber has been working really hard on recent assessments – keep it up Amber.
Year 5 Charlie for ‘Respect’ and ‘Perseverance’: Charlie’s been working hard all week with his adults in maths – keep it up Charlie!
Year 4 Robyn for ‘Perseverance’, ‘Wisdom’: For taking the initiative to complete extra work this week without being asked to.
Year 3 Blake for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom ‘: Toby has been working really hard in all parts of his learning this year – his attitude to learning is brilliant, keep it up Toby!
Year 2 Aoife for ‘Perseverance’: Aoife has approached all her work and assessments brilliantly this week – keep up the hard work Aoife!
Year 1 Maggie for ‘Love’ and ‘Respect’: Maggie brightens up her classroom with her big smile and positive attitude to everything! Thank you – Maggie you’re a superstar!
Reception Lottie for ‘all the values!’: Lottie always comes to school with a positive attitude towards everything, showing all the values! Well done Lottie!
Bumblebees Star of the Week! Olivia has earned Star of the Week in Bumblebees for making lots of new friends and always showing kindness to everyone!
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner for TWO classes as they had the most tickets this week, and another for joint-win for being the superstars of Worship this week 👏
Congratulations to all our winners this week!
Other celebrations:
Jasmine has earned a fabulous Children in Need Badge from her Girl Guides for all her hard work – well done Jasmine!
Congratulations to Hallie who has earned her Level 11 and 12 for Gymnastics this week!
Tennis Festival @ Shrewsbury Club
A group of Year 5/6 children who participated in tennis clubs last year were given the opportunity to attend a tennis festival at The Shrewsbury Club. Not only did they get the chance to play tennis, they were also able to watch some of the women’s tennis championships that were taking place at the venue last week. in fact, last year the Wimbledon women’s winner played at the Shrewsbury event so fingers crossed the same happens this year! A special thank you to Mr Aspinall for giving up his time to support the trip for the day. They had a brilliant time!
Hedgehogs trip to the Blue Planet Aquarium
We had a wonderful day exploring the Blue Planet Aquarium. We saw pelicans, turtles, lion fish, stingray, clownfish, corals, piranhas, poisonous frogs and snakes. Our highlight of the day was the underwater shark tunnel! 
Arts Week – British Art – Howard Hodgkin
This week is Arts week. Our theme this year is ‘All things British’. In Rabbits we are learning all about different British artists. The first artist we have looked at is Howard Hodgkin. He is an abstract artist. He paints shapes in bright colours. His work is called ‘abstract’ because it shows feelings rather than being a painting of exactly how something looks. We thought about how using different colours can convey different meanings.
Our first task was to choose water colours that we thought were warm:
Then we had to chop our warm paintings up into different shapes:
Finally we had to stick our cut up pieces in our art books to make an abstract ‘cut up’ painting. We spend time looking at each other’s artwork to see what we could see, from rainforests to frazzles crisps!
Coronation Celebration Day
Hedgehog class had a great end to the week with our Coronation Celebration Day to celebrate King Charles’ Coronation. It was great to see everybody dressed in all their finery! The children enjoyed taking part in games during the morning and our special picnic lunch.
Well done to everyone who entered the crown competition and the Coronation bake off – all the crowns and cakes were fantastic and it was difficult for the judges to choose a winner!
Celebration Assembly 24th March
It’s just one week until our Easter break and there is LOTS going on in school.
Firstly, thank you to all our parents / carers who joined us for parents meetings this week; it’s great to have everyone back in the school building and celebrating our children.
In our assembly we also took the opportunity to say ‘good luck’ to all the children who have entered the Clive School Cross Country event tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Good luck team!
Furthermore, our Year 6s heading off to Arthog next week – we hope you all have a brilliant time!
Here are this week’s celebrations…
Golden Book Awards
There has clearly been lots of great classwork going on in school this term as the Golden Book awards gave been coming in thick and fast… these are awards for class work: each class has a different target e.g. Rabbits need to collect 20 awards to get in the Golden Book, whilst Owls need to earn 40!
- Eleanor – 1st Award
- Hallie – 2nd Award
- Betsy – 2nd Award
- Caitlyn – 3rd Award (Green Badge)
- Isaac – 4th Award
- Alice – 4th Award
- Thalia – 4th and 5th Awards
- Magnus – 4th and 5th Awards
- Amelie – 5th Award
- Mia- 5th Award
- Archie – 7th Award
- Sebastian – 7th Award
- Robyn – 7th and 8th Awards
- Evie – 8th Award
- Alex – 8th Award
- Thomas – 8th Award
- Harvey – 8th Award
- Amber – 9th Award (Red Badge)
- Bella – 9th Award (Red Badge) and 10th Award
- India – 9th Award (Red Badge) 10th Award and 11th!
- Lucy- 10th Award
- Evan – 10th Award
- Eva – 10th and 11th Awards
- Percy- 10th and 11th Awards
- Devon – 10th and 11th Awards
- Sophia – 11th and 12th Award (Yellow Badge)
- Skyler – 14th Award
- Charley- 14th Award
- Ella – 14th Award
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
- Zander – amazing effort with spellings
- Logan – for super sewing skills!
- Bella – for always being ready to learn
- Eleni – good attitude to learning this week
- Maverick – great perseverance in phonics
- The Clive Cross Country Team for tomorrow morning all earned an acorn for their team!
Star of the Week in Bumblebees:
Congratulations to Nancy for being Star of the Week!
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Hedgehog Class as they had the most tickets this week 👏
Superstar guitarists!
Congratulations to Harry, Alice and Elsie for receiving commendations for their guitar playing from Mr Butler:
Swimming Awards
Congratulations to Caitlyn and Cody for their recent swimming achievements:
Fun on the Adventure Playground!
The children in Rabbit class have been eagerly awaiting the grand opening of the new adventure playground. They were all very excited to have their first go on it today!
Celebration Assembly 17th March
Happy Red Nose Day! Another reason for us all to have fun and get our favourite outfits on today as we celebrate Comic Relief – well done to everyone who has got involved.
It’s also a special day as we have seen the grand opening of the Trim Trail! A huge thank you to the Friends of St John’s for their incredible fundraising effort towards this.
Here are our weekly celebrations:
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
- Otto – for excellent writing
- Ariyana – for being focused and engaged in all her lessons
- Mwaita – for always coming into school with a smile!
- Toby– for super listening and participation on the carpet
- Liz– for a positive attitude to her learning this week
- Luke & Harrison – for having a positive attitude to assessment and working diligently
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
With another bonus win for Rabbits!
Having ‘snow’ much fun! ❄️
Rabbits had a wonderful day filled with fun, friendship and lots of snow!
