We are happy to announce that the PTA have received an anonymous personal donation of £513 to cover the balance of what was left to raise to meet the £2,400 target. As a result we have been able to book fun days out for each...
Years 3 and 4 have been AMAZING in their music lessons this week. They worked brilliantly together to help their partners to play the tricky musical pieces on our instruments. This included reading music themselves, including understanding the notation for C, D and E notes, as...
Your child’s online life There is so much that we can do online nowadays including playing games, chatting with others, watching TV or sharing our videos/photographers. Being online can be great but it’s important that we set boundaries for our children to keep them safe whilst...
This week, St John St James have celebrated World Book Day and the pleasure that comes with escaping into the world of our favourite books and authors! We had a brilliant day here at school, starting with admiring the array of different costumes that the children...
Miss Bienias has been blown away by the journalism taking place this week in Year 6! The class has been writing newspaper articles, linked to our class text, "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare. These articles are discussing the murder of King Duncan and exploring potential suspects...
Year 5 loved going on their trip to the British Museum. We took part in a historical workshop, where we analysed artefacts from the Ancient Greek era and made inferences to slowly discover what each item was used for. We had a fantastic time. [gallery ids="7908,7909,7910"]...
In Humanities this week, Year 4 explored artefacts from a Viking Burial Ground called Sutton Hoo, which is located in Suffolk. The children worked in groups and used their prior learning to develop an initial hypothesis about life during the Anglo-Saxon era. After analysing a range...
In Science this week, Year 3 investigated how much sugar was in a range of drinks by looking at the nutrition labels on real drinks. We recorded the data in a bar chart. We were surprised to discover that a fruit smoothie contains more sugar...
Year 2 have been learning about shape this week. They have been exploring the properties of 2D shapes and what a line of symmetry is. Using shape hunts around the school and folding different 2D shapes, they have had an amazing week of exploring how...
In maths this week we have been looking at partitioning a two digit number into our tens and ones. We have then used our partitioning to help us compare the numbers, to find out which is greater than, less than or equal to. [gallery ids="7861,7862,7863"]...