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Nursery

Nursery

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On this page, you will find lots of information relating to our Nursery class…

Nursery Curriculum Map

To see what we will be learning about in Nursery, please click on the link below where you will be able to see our focuses in each area of learning during each of the half terms this year.

Nursery Curriculum Map

Class Newsletters

To view our half termly newsletter, please click the link below:

  • Autumn 1
  • Autumn 2
  • Spring 1
  • Spring 2
  • Summer 1
  • Summer 2

Class Timetable

To view our half termly timetables, please click on the relevant links below:

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Staff

  • Feriha Korbay

    Teacher
  • Sam Sait

    Nursery Nurse
  • Sara Jane Stella

    Teacher
  • Latest News
    What's happening in Nursery - Week 5
    In Nursery this week, linked to our topic 'transport' and literacy core text 'Naughty Bus', children have enjoyed learning the words and actions to the song 'The Wheels on the Bus.' As a class we crea...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 4
    This week in PE our learning intention was to perform toe taps with a large ball. Miss Korbay set children a challenge of 5 toe taps in a row whilst maintaining balance for 5 seconds, having the sole ...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 3
    This week in Nursery in celebration of Chinese New Year on Sunday 22nd January, children made their own lanterns. We discussed that most lanterns are almost always red to symbolise good luck. ...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 2
    Our learning in Nursery was linked to our topic 'winter' and our core text ‘The Snowy Day’ written by Ezra Jack Keats. The children created snips and cut shapes in a folded piece of paper to make a pa...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 1
    Linking to our new topic 'Winter', this week in nursery children drew their own snowmen. Children thought about the shape of the snowman's body and how many circles they needed to draw. Children were ...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 7
    For many of our Nursery children, it was their first time experiencing snow! We went on a sensory walk around our playground, listening to the sound our footprints make in the snow. We also filled a t...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 6
    This week in nursery children used 2D shapes to create their own shape pictures. We discussed and explored 2D shapes using mathematical language such as 'curve edge', 'sides' and 'corners' to form dif...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 5
    This week in Nursery, we went on a trip to our local supermarket 'Tesco'.  We bought ingredients/items such as flour, salt and baking paper to make salt dough decorations. We also used the shopping li...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 4
    This week in Nursery, we continued to extend our mathematical knowledge on 2D shapes. Linking to our literacy core text 'The Everywhere Bear' by Julia Donaldson, children created their own bears using...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 3
    This week in Nursery our maths focus was to identify the names of 2D shapes. We used shape stamps to print a picture and identify the shapes we printed.
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 2
    At the Malleable table this week in Nursery, the children have been using their fine manipulative skills (finger muscles) to thread paper leaves onto a piece of string to create a ‘Leaf Necklace’.  Th...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 1
    In Nursery this week, linking to our topic 'Autumn' children used natural materials such as conkers, leaves and pine cones to represent facial features when creating an image of a face. ...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 8
    Linked to our literacy core text ‘Lulu Gets a Cat’ written by the author Anna McQuinn, this week in nursery we have a ‘vets’ imaginative area which the children are using to reinforce the learning the...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 7
    This week in Nursery, our literacy core text is 'Lulu gets a cat'. Before reading the story we spoke about different pets and how we look after them. We also created a pictogram together 'What animal ...
  • Latest News
    What's happening in Nursery - Week 6
    This week in Nursery our focus text was 'So Much'. We discussed what happened first, next and then. Children created a story map of the story sequencing the events. ...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 5
    This week in nursery, our maths learning intention was to identify pairs of socks that are the same and different. We looked at different patterns, shapes and colours and used a washing line to hang o...
  • Latest News
    Early Reading - Workshop Presentation
    Here is a downloadable copy of the Powerpoint presentation used by Mrs March during the Early Reading Parent Workshop, which was held at the school on Friday 23rd September 2022. If you have any qu...
  • Latest News
    What's happening in Nursery - Week 4
    This week in Nursery, we looked at a British artist 'Gary Hume' and created a self portrait using mirrors to identify our facial features.
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 3
    This week in nursery we welcomed new children into our environment. We had so much fun playing together and getting to know each other!
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 6
    In Nursery this week we harvested our Radishes! We have been growing vegetables and today we pulled up our radishes. We sat down together and shared our bounty. We ate a piece of radish as well as the...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 5
    What can I see in my bucket? I can see… We used our knowledge of mark-making and our imagination to create our own bucket...... What can I see? Link to our focus text ‘Billy’s Bucket’ by Kes Gra...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 4
    We have been learning about Africa and the different countries which make up the continent. We have designed and made some traditional neckpieces inspired by Ghana, using the 'Collage' technique. Afte...
  • Latest News
    What's happening in Nursery - Week 3
    For Literacy this week in Nursery, we have been creating our own ‘Story Map’ of our focus text ‘Anna Hibiscus Song’ by Atinuke & Lauren Tobia. We are using our mark making skills to write and draw...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 2
    This week the children in the nursery class went on a 'listening walk'. Linked to our core text story 'Anna Hibiscus Song' writtened by Atinuke and Lauren Tobin, the children were encouraged to sit...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 1
    For Literacy we are making ‘Happy Hands’. We are writing up to ‘5’ reasons we are happy - one for each finger! This is a link to our focus text ‘Anna Hibiscus Song’ by Atinuke & Lauren Tobia. 'Wh...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 6
    This week in Nursery we have been busy 'Junk Modelling' - we have been using our cutting, tearing, gluing, stacking, taping and mark making skills to build some great creations. Robots were in high de...
  • Latest News
    What's been happening in Nursery - Week 5
    We took a trip to 'The Walled Garden' for a picnic in celebration of having wonderful friends and our achievements this year so far. We played together and explored the wonderful gardens. We shared st...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 4
    We have been looking at all things 'Spiders'! Our focus text is called 'Aaaarrgghh Spider!' by Lydia Monks. We used our knowledge of spiders and what they look like and the special things they do. We ...
  • Latest News
    What's happening in Nursery - Week 2
    This week in Nursery we were learning about all things 'Plants', we prepared soil, planted seeds and talked about the life-cycle of a Sunflower . We began to create our own 'Spring Garden' and planted...
  • Latest News
    What's happening in Nursery - Week 1
    We have been learning about the 'Life-Cycle' of a Butterfly. Our focus text is 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle which follows the life of a Butterfly from Egg -  Caterpillar - Cocoon - Butt...
  • Latest News
    What's happening in Nursery - Week 6
    We baked Bread!  We read 'The little Red Hen' and learnt about the importance of helping others and sharing. The little red hen made bread in the book so we made some bread too. We followed a recipe a...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 5
    The sun is shining and in Nursery this week we have been creating observational drawings of Daffodil flowers and painting them. We have been identifying the different parts of a flower and exploring w...
  • Latest News
    Red nose day
    Thank you to everyone that donated towards Red Nose Day 2022. We have been able to raise an amazing £187.00! The money we raised will be going to the Disaster Emergency Committee to help the people...
  • Latest News
    What's happening in Nursery - Week 4
    It's Science Week! We have been learning about all things science this week in nursery and have been doing some fun experiments! In our 'Pepper Germs Experiment,' we learned the importance of handw...
  • Latest News
    Check out what's been happening in Spanish...
    Recently, Miss Bienias and Miss Lawrence chatted about all things Espanol! Miss Bienias explained how lovely it was to see how the pupils' Spanish progresses throughout the school, thanks to Miss Law...
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    What's happening in Nursery - Week 3
    This week the children had the opportunity to create ladybird pitta bread pizzas. The children were encouraged to follow a recipe and count out the ingredients to a given amount. The ingredients inclu...
  • Latest News
    What's happening in Nursery - Week 2
    In Nursery this week we have been exploring colour mixing and how to make new colours from primary colours. Our colours of focus were 'white' and 'red'. We identified that when mixing the two we made ...
  • Latest News
    What's been happening in Nursery - Week 1
    For Literacy we have started our new focus text 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. We are using our knowledge of geometric shapes and patterns to draw our own Ladybird. What...
  • Latest News
    What's been happening in Nursery - Week 6
    In Maths we have been playing Board Games and practising our 'subitising' skills by beginning to recognise the pattern and number of dots on a dice. ‘Bus Stop’ - who will be first to fill their bu...
  • Latest News
    What's been happening in Nursery - week 5
    It’s the Chinese year of the Tiger!  (Lunar). In Nursery we have been looking at how 'Chinese New Year' is celebrated and watched ‘Dragon Dancing’ before re-enacting our own class unicorn dragon dance...
  • Latest News
    Sports Day 2021
    We were all very excited to finally be allowed to partake in our annual Sports Day at London fields in July 2021 when the COVID restrictions were lifted. Take a look at some of the events that took pl...
  • Latest News
    Gymnastics at SJSJ
    This half term, we are focusing on our gymnastics skills during our PE lessons. Take a look at some of the skills that the children have been learning...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, Spring 1, Week 4
    This week the Nursery children began their ’Art Project’. The class have been looking at the British artist Goldsworthy, an artist known for his sculptures and photography. Goldsworthy creates land ar...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, Spring 1, Week 3
    This week in Nursery, they have been having fun exploring transportation. The class are learning the actions and singing the rhyme 'The Wheels on the Bus go round and round'. For Expressive Arts, they...
  • Latest News
    Recycling Workshops
    This week, each class had the wonderful Kelly Sullivan from Hackney council into their classrooms to learn about the importance of recycling both in school, at home and in public spaces. They reall...
  • Latest News
    February Half Term Camp
    Dates: Monday 14th- Friday 18th February 2022 Times: 9.00am to 3.00pm (extended days available upon request) Age range: 5-12 years Cost: £100 per week (early bird bookings) or £25 per day ...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, Spring 1, Week 2
    This week in Nursery, the class have been focussing on Physical Development and the movement of their large body muscles. The children used the large climbing tunnel to motion their bodies up and over...
  • Latest News
    Gymnastics @ SJSJ
    Here are some photos from the first week of gymnastics lessons at SJSJ! By the end of the term children will know how to compose and perform their own routines. Lessons will focus on travelling,...
  • Latest News
    iPad Generation 2 Sale
    Due to the constantly changing nature of technology, SJSJ have a number of Generation 2 iPads for sale. The devices are perfect for home use and still have life left in them. The devices are being so...
  • Latest News
    Pre-loved Uniform Sale
    Each half term, we will be holding a sale for pre-loved uniform items. For one week each half term, a table will be set up in to main office where parents are welcome to come and see what items we ...
  • Latest News
    Magic Breakfast
    We have teamed up with Magic Breakfast to ensure that no child starts the day hungry. Our 'bagel bar' will be open each morning in the hall from 8.50-8.55am. If  you would like to grab a bagel b...
  • Latest News
    Window Wanderland
    It seems to me it ain’t the world that’s so bad, but what we’re doing to it, and all I’m saying is see what a wonderful world it would be if only we’d give it a chance. Love, baby, love. That’s the se...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, Spring 1, Week 1
    Nursery have been learning about all things Winter! The class put arctic animals into a bowl of water and made predictions on what they thought might happen when they put it in the freezer. The childr...
  • Latest News
    Christmas Lunch
    We hosted our annual Christmas lunch on Wednesday; as usual it was a huge success! The children had a lovely time and enjoyed listening to  festive songs whilst dining with their peers.
  • Latest News
    Nursery, A2, W7
    For literacy, Nursery have been looking at the book 'Dear Santa’ by Rod Campbell. They wrote their own letters to Santa complete with a stamp and posted them in their big red post box.
  • Latest News
    Panto 2021
    The children were lucky enough to have the panto come to SJSJ this year. They watched the story of ‘A Christmas Carol’ by the Hobgoblin production company. “It was really good, I liked that Mr S...
  • Latest News
    Christmas Celebrations at SJSJ
    Tuesday 1.45 – 2.30       Year 3 and year 4 disco 2.40 – 3.30       Year 5 and year 6 disco Children to come to school in normal school uniform and bring along their disco clothes in a bag. T...
  • Latest News
    Winter Reading Challenge 2021
    The Reading agency is running an online Winter Mini Challenge to motivate children to read at home which is a smaller version of the Summer Reading Challenge. Hackney libraries are supporting this by ...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, A2, Week 6
    As part of this terms RE topic 'Celebrations' Nursery went on a trip to TESCO to buy ingredients to make and bake a celebration cake. Before they went they discussed what a recipe was and made a shopp...
  • Latest News
    Christmas Jumper Day 2021
    Check out some of the jazziest jumpers the children have worn to Save the Children and raised an amazing  £181.56 to help protect the magic for children around the world. All money raised is going...
  • Latest News
    Young Hackney Netball Competition - 3rd Place
    Congratulations to our netball team who placed 3rd in the Young Hackney netball finals that took place this week.  All members of the team showed great sportsmanship and resilience throughout the comp...
  • Latest News
    Save the Children - Christmas Jumper Day 10.12.21
    On Friday the 10th December it is Christmas jumper day. Children can come to school in their Christmas jumpers. School uniform and school shoes must be worn. It's super fun, and it's easy to take p...
  • Latest News
    Christmas Performance 15.12.21
    After much thought we have decided to proceed with our plans to organise our Christmas Performance at St John’s at Hackney Church. This will take place on Wednesday 15th December at 9.15am. This de...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, A2, Week 5
    During  maths, Nursery have begun to categorise objects according to properties such as shape and  colour. They selected a variety of geometric shapes such as triangles, squares, circles and rectangle...
  • Latest News
    PE in Nursery
    Take a look at some of the incredible action shots that were taken of our Nursery class during their PE session this week. The children were learning to move over and under obstacles safely. Well d...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, A2, Week 4
    Nursery have been learning about geometric shapes and their properties. They have been making giant geometric shapes using their bodies and string. The class made individual string shapes as well as g...
  • Latest News
    PTA Christmas Raffle 2021
    The PTA have been overwhelmed by support for the this years raffle. Local businesses and families within our school community have been incredibly generous which means that we have our best raffle pri...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, A2, Week 3
    ‘Leaf Man’ is Nursery’s focus text and they made their own Leaf Man puppet. The class took their Leaf Man puppet on a journey around the school. They pretended to be the wind and blew Leaf Man up into...
  • Latest News
    Children in Need 2021
    We would like to say a huge well done, and thank you, to everyone who made a donation towards our Children in Need fundraising today; you all looked fantastic! So far we have collected a whooping £...
  • Latest News
    Chatsworth Youth Club
    Running Monday and Wednesday's from 5.00-8.00pm at Clapton Park Methodist Church
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    Reception Admission - September 2022
    Was your child born between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018? If so, they are due to start in Reception class in September 2022. Have you applied? You must apply for your child’s Recep...
  • Latest News
    Nursery & Reception School Tour
    Is your child due to start Nursery or Reception in September 2022? We are offering weekly tours of our Early Years classrooms for prospective new parents. Tours take place weekly on Friday mor...
  • Latest News
    Hackney Education's Parent Guide to School Attendance
    As we all know, pupils attendance at school is incredibly important. Hackney Education have produced a very helpful guide for parents. You can download the leaflet by clicking here. 
  • Latest News
    Nursery, A2, Week 2
    In Nursery this week,  they have been looking  at the Hindu festival of Diwali, a festival of light for their RE lessons. The children familiarised themselves with the story of ‘Rama and Sits’ and exp...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, A2, Week 1
    For the first part of the Autumn 2 term the nursery class will be exploring the season of 'Autumn'. The children began the week discussing the changes they have identified in the outdoor environment a...
  • Latest News
    Next PTA Meeting
    The next SJSJ PTA meeting will be on Friday 12th November  at 9.15am in the School Library. You can also join via Zoom; a link will be circulated beforehand. On the agenda - Christmas fundraising ...
  • Latest News
    PTA Christmas Bake Sale
    The Christmas bake sale will be on Friday 10th December at 3.30pm. We will need lots of festive bakes to sell and help with the stalls, so please put it in your diary!
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    PTA Class Representatives
    Want to find out more about the SJSJ PTA?   Speak to your PTA Class Rep: Nursery: Karen Widdowson Reception: Vacant Year 1: Geraldine Vessier and Louise Lawrence Year 2: Karen Wi...
  • Latest News
    PTA Fundraising: Christmas Raffle Prizes
    We need your help! The hunt is now on for some amazing raffle prizes for the PTA Christmas Raffle. Tickets will go on sale in early December and we need some fabulous prizes to give away! How c...
  • Latest News
    PTA Bag 2 School Collection
    The PTA has arranged for a Bag2School collection on Tuesday 30th November. How does it work? Bag2School are a fundraising scheme which collects and sells your unwanted textiles to importers and ...
  • Latest News
    New Menu for Autumn 2
    Chef Patrick has been working closely with school council to build the new menu based on the feedback that has been given by children across the school. Take a look at what's on offer this half ter...
  • Latest News
    Nursery, Week 7
    This week in  Nursery, the class started a new story book ‘Lulu gets a Cat’. They  have been looking at what they need to look after a pet and talked about the different pets they could have. In maths...
  • Latest News
    Punctuality
    Please ensure children arrive for school promptly at 8.55am for the start of school assembly. Our pastoral manager will be monitoring lateness to ensure children are arriving on time and will be me...
  • Latest News
    Harvest Festival 2021
    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 in...
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    School Photos - 4th November
    Individual, sibling and class photos will be on Thursday 4th November 2021. Reminders will be sent out closer to the date.  
  • Latest News
    Nursery, Week 6
    This week Nursery have continued to explore the story ‘So much’ written by the author Trish Cooke. The children have used their knowledge of the story to create their own story maps. During t...
  • Latest News
    Green Team
    The Green team enjoyed harvesting the vegetables from our planter last week. They harvested a range of vegetables including: carrots, turnips, beetroots, tomatoes and some huge cucumbers. They then ha...
  • Latest News
    Beef Ragu & Pineapple Turnover
    Today Chef Patrick introduced a new meal at lunchtime: it was a huge success! Beef Ragu (contains a staggering 10 different  veg), roast new potatoes, steamed and roasted broccoli, salad 'Tricolore...
  • Latest News
    New Menu Item - Quorn Chilli Wraps
    Check out what we had for lunch on Tuesday, Quorn chilli wrap. The children enjoyed the meal immensely.   “I love the new school menu! Who knew the vegetarian option was tasty and didn't lo...
  • Latest News
    Packed Lunch Policy
    We have recently reviewed our school Packed Lunch Policy. Please ensure that your child’s packed lunch is in line with our policy as this is in line with the school nutritional food standards. Plea...
  • Latest News
    Introducing Chef Patrick!
    SJSJ welcomed our new Chef to the team here at the start of the new term. Chef Patrick is incredibly passionate about improving school meals for everybody and is really enjoying getting to know the ch...
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    COVID Reminder
    The main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are: a high temperature– this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature) a new, continuous coug...
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    L10 Little Ballers & Little Hoopers
    SJSJ are very excited to welcome a brand new Saturday club to our premises. L10 Little Ballers & Little Hoopers will be running sessions every Saturday starting on Saturday 17th July 2021 for c...
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    Hackney Hispanic Week 2021
    This week, the children have been celebrating Hackney Hispanic week by taking part in some cooking activities and exploring some of traditions that underpin Spanish culture. Classes were split into...
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    Nursery (Summer 2, Week 4)
    This week in their Maths sessions Nursery have gone 'Pattern' crazy. They have been looking at Ghanaian 'Kente' cloth designs and the children used their knowledge of patterns to identify different sh...
  • Latest News
    Our Art Curriculum
    At SJSJ Primary School we believe that art inspires creativity, imagination and inventiveness. We believe that art gives our pupils the skills, concepts and knowledge necessary for them to engage and ...
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    Pride Youth Network
    Some Year 6 children have formed a Pride Youth Network. They are working with the fantastic charity  Educate and Celebrate to think about how we celebrate diversity in our school and represent and wel...
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    Nursery (Summer 2, Week 3)
    Continuing to explore our literacy text ‘Anna Hibiscus song’. The children in Nursery have looked a little closer at the continent of Africa. Focusing in particular on the country of Ghana (the locati...
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    NHS Tea Party
    We are celebrating the NHS’s birthday on the 5th July by hosting a Tea party themed event. The NHS Big Tea will be a national outpouring of love, thanks, and generosi-tea for the people who go above ...
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    20% off School Uniform from 06.07.21-03.08.21
    M&S are offering 20% off of our school uniform products, excluding accessories, from 6th July to 3rd August 2021 Sale Price applicable at checkout. T&C's apply   Visit our sc...
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    Summer Reading Challenge
    This summer, we strongly encourage all pupils at St John St James to get involved with the very exciting Summer Reading Challenge with the theme of Sustainability this year. You can get involved at ...
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    Green Team Update
    The Green team sourced some recycled balance bikes for the nursery class. The green team taught the nursery class how to ride a balance bike through a PowerPoint presentation and a demonstration. This...
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    Nursery (Summer 2, Week 2)
    This week in Nursery, they have been continuing to explore their literacy text ‘Anna Hibiscus song’. The main character of the story Anna is feeling happy and informs different family members how happ...
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    Year 6's Pride Youth Network
    Some year 6 children have formed a Pride Youth Network. They are working with the fantastic charity Educate and Celebrate to think about how we celebrate diversity in our school and represent and welc...
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    What's been happening in Year 6?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    Year 6 appear on the ITV News!
    On Thursday 20th May, ITV news came into St John & St James' to film year 6, as part of a feature about how schools are effectively teaching children a diverse curriculum, enriched in Black Histor...
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    20% off SJSJ's School Uniform with M&S (29.06-21-03.08.21)
    Good news!  We are pleased to confirm M&S will be offering a fantastic 20% off all uniform on the M&S Your School Uniform website. This will run from 29th June 2021 to 3rd August 2021. ...
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    This week in Nursery...
    In Nursery, the children began the week  by exploring their individual names. Given their name cards, the children we encouraged to identify the individual letters within their forename and then recre...
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    Music at SJSJ
    Thank you very much for your feedback and lovely comments from the parents evening survey. We always appreciate your feedback about ways we can further improve as a school. I thought I would take this...
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    School Street Reminder
    Don’t forget that our school is a ‘School Street’ which has been reinstated from Monday 8th March. That means that only pedestrians, scooters and cyclists are permitted to enter the street between 8....
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    What's been happening in Year 5?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    We need your help - empty jars
    Please help us by saving any empty glass jars and bringing them into school. We are collecting jam jars, chutney jars, unwanted kilnar jars etc. Jars with lids are preferred but we will accept any ...
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    Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 - Summer 1
    Look at Year3’s portraits inspired by the British artist, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The class chose to use only one strong colour as they noticed that in her portraits. Year 4 they have been loo...
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    Year 1 & Year 2 - Summer 1
    Year 1 have enjoyed PE with Mr Charles this term. They have focused on athletics and have been able to develop their running, sending and receiving skills and jumping. For their art lessons, ...
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    Nursery & Reception - Summer 1
    In summer 1, Nursery have been looking at the British artist Chris Offilil. They have been exploring  his paintings and have been inspired to create their own whole class mixed media piece in response...
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    What's been happening in Year 4?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    Check out what our School Council have been up to this week...
    Schools  suffer with parking, congestion, road danger and air quality issues immediately outside their school. School council aims too: Discourage car journeys to school. Improve air quality i...
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    Check out what the Green Team have been up to this week...
    This week, the green team had a workshop where they conducted a waste audit in our school. They took samples of rubbish from different areas of the school and measured the amount of rubbish which was ...
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    What's been happening in Year 3?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    Half Term Multi-Sports Camp @ SJSJ
    St John & St James' will be hosting a half term sports camp from Tuesday 1st June to Friday 4th June 2021. 
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    What's been happening in Year 2?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
  • Latest News
    What's been happening in Year 1?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    What's been happening in Reception?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    What's been happening in Nursery?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    Upcoming Mental Health Support Team Workshops
    Please see below the workshops and groups that are being offered to parents and carers by the East London MHST team over the upcoming months. MHST workshops can be accessed through the CAMHS websit...
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    New school meals menu for summer!
    Over the past year, we have been working closely with the super talented team at the school meals charity Chefs in Schools in order to improve our school meals. Chefs in Schools, whose patrons include...
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    Join the 6 week support group for Managing Child Anxiety
    Worry, uncertainty, and fears may be especially present during the current climate, given the changes in our lives, and the health concerns that people are experiencing. Following on from the workshop...
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    Time to welcome you all back to school...
    We look forward to welcoming you all back to school on Monday 8th March. Key reminders for Monday 8th March School starts at 8.55am. You will continue to use the allocated gates that you have p...
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    World Book Day 2021
    On Thursday 4th March, the children took part in celebrating World Book Day 2021. We would like to say a huge well done to each and every one of you that dressed up as your favourite characters; your ...
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    Take a Moment - Self Care Tips Workshop
    Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93278514394?pwd=V1pZQ1N1YWtWeDVhR2tnZFphTjFtUT09 Meeting ID: 932 7851 4394 Passcode: DsLj2G
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    CAMHS Coffee Afternoon – Sibling Rivalry
    Join the schools CAMHS Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Lara Charlesworth, for a coffee afternoon based around the topic of Sibling Rivalry.
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    Parent/carer - 6 week support group – Managing behaviours that challenge
    Join our 6 week parent support group which looks at managing behaviours that challenge...
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    Signs of COVID in children
    The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have created this very useful poster for parents. It details the steps that you should take at different stages of the illness and the signs that y...
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    Parent/carer Workshop: Managing Child Anxiety
    Thursday 4th February, 4-5pm with Mahak & Temi:
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    Parent/Carer Workshop: Managing behaviours that challenge
    Monday 25th January, 4-5pm with Sadia & Anne Marie
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    Children in Need
    On Friday 13th November 2020, St John & St James' helped to raise money for Children in Need. Everybody was asked to wear their pyjamas to school on the day and to bring a donation of £1.00. Throu...
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    World Kindness Day
    Friday 13th November is World Kindness Day . To find out more about this event, click here to visit the Random Acts of Kindness website.    
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    Playground Murals
    We have been working really hard over the past few weeks to finish the playground murals in the Key Stage 2 playground. We are really pleased with the end result; we hope you like them too! ...
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    Coronavirus Explained in Children's Terms
    Coronavirus is causing many people across the globe lots of anxiety and concern at the moment and our pupils are no different. The NHS have released a child friendly leaflet which is aimed at helpi...
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    SJSJ does World Book Day 2020!
    This year to celebrate World Book Day, the children focused on looking at different stories that highlighted the rights of all children. In Key Stage 1 the children focused on the story Giraffes can’t...
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    WE Day!
    On Wednesday the Rights Respecting Ambassadors were joined by some of their peers for a very exciting visit to Wembley Arena for the annual WE day concert! The children had an amazing time and got ...

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February Half Term – School Closed
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All Pupils Return to School
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INSET Day: School closed to all pupils
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St John and St James C of E Primary School,
Isabella Road,
Hackney
E9 6DX

Tel: 020 8985 2045
Fax: 020 8985 5768
Email: office@johnjames.hackney.sch.uk

Executive Principal: Sian Davies
Headteacher: Joanne Smith

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