Welcome Reception! This week, we have welcomed our reception class and what a pleasure they have been. They have had a fantastic start and are already incredibly settled. We can't wait to see what the year ahead brings for them all. Welcome to the SJSJ community. With that...
Please can we remind parents to drop their children off at the gate at 8.55. No parents should be coming with their child onto the playground or into the school building.
If you need to speak to an adult, please organise a meeting with Miss Nifa in the front office.
Roald Dahl is also our author of the month this half term and an author that we all absolutely adore at St John and St James.
Each class will be reading their Roald Dahl class text and writing a book review about their favourite Roald Dahl book. We will also be learning more about the life of Roald Dahl and the characters that he has created that are known by millions of people across the world.
Today we celebrated the birthday of Roald Dahl, one of our favourite authors at St John and St James!
We started the celebrations with a whole school assembly, where we learnt about the life of the author and the inspiration behind some of his weird and wonderful characters.
Some of our children dressed up as characters from the books and it was so wonderful to try and work out who each pupil was dressed up as. We had Matildas, BFGs and even Fantastic Mr Foxes! Each class has been given a different Roald Dahl book to enjoy together. We can’t wait to hear more about these exciting texts!
To celebrate Second Hand September, SJSJ will be holding a Second Hand Uniform Sale on Friday 27th September.
If you have any uniform you no longer use and would like to donate to the sale, please bring it to the office, with the age clearly labelled.
Thank you!
The bake sales are an exciting part of the children’s weeks. What’s best than finishing a week devouring delicious cakes made or bought with love by parents!
This year, the PTA is slightly changing the approach to bake sales: each class, and mainly their parents, will be responsible for one bake sale a year.
Don’t worry the PTA will be there to help and at least come with the card readers. But the mastery will lies will the class year’s parents.
So lets see which class will make the best cakes and bring the most money! (The proceeds will go towards funding the end of the year’s school trips and support the OPal programme, among others).
The bake sale calendar is:
– 27 September- Year 6
– 25 October – Year 5
– 29 November- Year 4
– 28 February- Year 3
– 28 March – Year 2
– 25 April – Year 1
– 20 June – EYFS
– 11 July – Year 6, an occasion to say goodbye
This half term’s writing competition is to write a poem about why reading is so amazing. Your poem can be in any format you like and you can choose whether it rhymes or not! We are encouraging children to write their poems at home, but if they would like any help with ideas, they are more than welcome to ask their class teacher or Miss Bienias. All poems need to be handed to Miss Bienias by Friday 11th October and some children will be chosen to read out their poems to the school in our half termly Writing Assembly. We cannot wait to see your wonderful creations. Here is Miss Bienias’ example of a poem about the utter joy of reading!
Reading is a World of Imagination
In pages wide, adventures gleam,
A world unfolds in every dream.
With every book, new paths are spun,
A thousand lives, a single run.
From wizards’ spells to daring quests,
In ink and paper, we find rest.
For reading’s magic helps us see
The endless bounds of what can be.
Deadline: Friday 11th October 2024
This admissions process is for children in Year 6 (born between 1 September 2013 and 31 August 2014) who will start secondary school in September 2025. Deadline is 31st October 2024.
Mr Watson is our school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead.
If Mr Watson is not available, you can always speak to one of our school’s Deputy Safeguarding Leads:
| Name | Class | Reason |
| Isabel | Year 1 | For always doing her best to listen and being ready to learn. |
| Milan | Year 1 | For remembering key art vocabulary words. |
| Josiah | Year 2 | For brainstorming fantastic adjectives during writing session. |
| Ire and Ramisa | Year 2 | For such resilience settling in and working to the best of their abilities. |
| Ariella | Year 3 | For coning back to school with a positive attitude to learning. |
| Ishaq and Valentina | Year 3 | For an excellent start to their writing lessons – they both wrote an incredible story retell. |
| Ocean Henry | Year 3 | For showing such focus during maths and being so supportive towards his peers. |
| Tyrese | Year 3 | For showing great understanding of a primary and secondary source. |
| Ariana and Keila | Year 4 | For beautiful behaviour and settling in so well. |
| Malikah | Year 5 | For great resilience in her art lesson. |
| Alicia | Year 6 | For displaying the correct attitude and being a role model to her peers. |
| Khloe | Year 6 | For producing outstanding writing and displaying excellent effort. |
| Michelle | Year 6 | For fantastic effort with her presentation. |
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