WAMHS Coffee Morning: Positive Parenting Workshop Due to the success of the last WAMHS Coffee morning with the theme of anxiety, our WAMHS clinician Joseph will be hosting the second group on Monday 21st October 9.15-10.15. The theme this week is all about 'Positive Parenting!' You will...
Hackney Council is happy to announce the nominations for the Love Hackney Awards are now open.
This year’s awards are launching with ten award categories to capture the breadth and depth of the various individuals and organisations whose selfless and positive contributions make Hackney a great place to live and work.
Nominations for the Love Hackney Awards will close on Thursday 7 November 2024.
SJSJ would like to nominate Jacqueline McCaffrey, our school lollipop lady based at the crossing near Sutton House and City Academy, for the Mayor’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Please take a minute to click the link and nominate Jackie.
Over the last two weeks, the children at SJSJ have visited Hackney Museum to participate in workshops celebrating Black History Month.
The theme of the workshops was Carnival. The children learnt the history behind Carnival and how music, dance and costumes contribute to the celebration of Carnival.
The children had the opportunity to dance with flags from around the world with music and even designed their very own costumes for a carnival.
IMPORTANT – REGISTER TO VIEW SCHOOL PHOTOS
Exciting news! Carmel Jane Photography will be visiting our School on the 5th of November 2024, to take the Individual, Siblings & Class Photos.
All parents are requested to pre-register for instant access to your child’s photographs once they are ready, pre-registration is required for every photo shoot. Registration will be opened for 1 week.
Register in 3 easy steps in less than a minute:
Parents who pre-register will receive an exclusive 10% discount code for digital files! This will be sent via email by Carmel Jane Photography once the photos are ready.
Don’t miss out – pre-register today!
This month at SJSJ, we are celebrating Walk to School October. We are encouraging every child to make at least one active journey to school each week.
This could be in the form of walking, cycling, scootering, or getting out of the car/bus slightly earlier to walk to school. Each month, the Green Team will be giving out badges to those children who have made a conscious effort to take active journeys to school.
Our annual Christmas Raffle is fast approaching, and we’re reaching out to parents and carers for help with prize donations! Last year, thanks to the generosity of local businesses and families, we raised £1,300, which went towards school trips and a solar panel project. This year, we’re aiming to raise £2,500 for our Summer School Trips Appeal and playground improvements.
If you own or work for a business that might be willing to donate a prize, we’d love to hear from you! The school can provide official letters to help you reach out to companies. Any contribution, big or small, makes a difference and will be acknowledged on the school website.
Please contact the PTA at stjohnandstjamespta@gmail.com or the school office to donate by 10 November 2024. Thank you for your support!
Harvest Festival is being celebrated throughout the month of October, where farmers and growers give thanks for a successful harvest season; during this time churches, community groups, schools and individuals give to those who are less fortunate. Last Year your generous food donations made a huge difference to those families that needed help the most.
This Harvest, School Council are appealing for donations of dry, tinned, long-life and ambient foods. We will distribute these donations on your behalf to The Hackney Food Bank.
If you would like to make a donation to our appeal during this Harvest season, please give your donations at the school gate office until Friday 25th October.
The event will be on the 28th of October 4:30 – 6:30 at Hackney Church (St John at Hackney).
It will be such a fun night of games, activities, crafts, bouncy castles, food and more.
This is the link to sign up, although anyone can come on the day as it’ll be on a first come first served basis:
If a child is collected late from school (3.30pm) they are put into an After School Club and the cost for this is claimed back from the parent/carer.
If a child is collected late from After School Club (5.00pm) they are put into Extended Wraparound Care and the cost for this is claimed back from the parent/carer.
If a child is collected late from Extended Wraparound Care then a charge of £5.00 for every 5 minutes of lateness will be charged to the parent/carer.
Throughout October, we will be celebrating Black History Month. Each class will have the opportunity to participate in a workshop at Hackney Museum. To celebrate the return of Carnival in Hackney, the theme of these workshops will be carnival. The children will learn about the history of carnival in Hackney, as well as the importance of music and costumes in carnival.
Towards the end of the term, as part of their history learning, each class will complete a Black History Month unit. This will focus on what black history is, why people migrated to Britain in the 1940s, the British Empire and Sierra Leone’s capital city Freetown.
We can’t wait to share our learning with you all!
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:
This form (link below) is to apply for free swimming lessons in October half term, which will take place at Clissold Leisure Centre. Free swim wear is available to make the lessons accessible to all children.
Before completing the form please read the criteria below. If your child does not fit the criteria they will not be able to award them a place on the lessons.
| Name | Class | |
| Connie | Year 1 | For using her neatest handwriting. |
| Ellis | Year 1 | For excellent oracy in maths with part part whole. |
| Jayce | Year 1 | For being a kind thoughtful friend. |
| Shmuel | Year 1 | For doing his best in reading groups. |
| Sydney | Year 1 | For remembering capital letters and full stops. |
| Caleb O | Year 2 | For great concentration during writing. |
| Ire | Year 2 | For using a range of adjectives and time conjunctives. |
| Ishaq and Valentina | Year 3 | For brilliant use of ‘and’ to join sentences together in their writing. |
| Mary | Year 3 | For showing role model behaviour in every lesson, every day. |
| Anoushka and Lillianne | Year 4 | For beautiful artwork with amazing printing skills inspired by Faith Ringgold. |
| Kyla | Year 4 | For fantastic effort, focus and progress in reading lessons. |
| Levi | Year 4 | For incredible effort with using joined cursive handwriting. |
| Amayah, Andrea, Beatrice, Noah, Oceane and Sienna | Year 5 | For showing excellent team work during PE. |
| Julia | Year 5 | For fantastic effort, focus and progress in reading lessons. |
| Manuel and Thiago | Year 5 | For incredible effort with using joined cursive handwriting. |
| Eda and Raheem | Year 6 | For fantastic effort, focus and progress in reading lessons. |
| Iman and Michelle | Year 6 | For incredible effort with using joined cursive handwriting. |
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This week, as part of our Black History Month learning, year 5 have been looking at the life and work of painter Chris Ofili. Chris Ofili was born in Manchester and is well known for his references to his Nigerian heritage in his art. We......
This week in Year 4, linking to our Black History Month topic, we had the exciting opportunity to visit a workshop at the Hackney Museum, linking to the history of carnival. We had the opportunity to look about the exhibition informing us about the carnival......
This week in art we made our own prints using polystyrene. We had to cut the pieces out and create a repeating pattern. We are producing repeated prints in the style of Esther Mahlangu, who is the artist we are learning about this half term....
The children thoroughly enjoyed a trip to the Hackney Museum. They learnt all about the carnival and what goes into making this such an exciting event. In particular they loved playing the steel drums and dancing to the rhythm of the Soca beat. ...
This week in Year 1 our highlight was reflecting on our History unit over the half term. We have been exploring the history of our local area, Hackney and learning about the changes our city has undergone over time. We have also been learning about our own......
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In Nursery this week, we have loved exploring our new playground! We now have a new slide and climbing wall, which is going to support the children in developing their gross motor skills. Gross motor skills are the movements we make with large muscles, which......