Filter CategoriesAllYear 2School TripsYear 5Year 6 Latest News 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 ... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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! ... Latest News 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. Latest News 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... Latest News Parent/Carer Workshop: Managing behaviours that challenge Monday 25th January, 4-5pm with Sadia & Anne Marie Latest News Parent/carer Workshop: Managing Child Anxiety Thursday 4th February, 4-5pm with Mahak & Temi: Latest News 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... Latest News Parent/carer - 6 week support group – Managing behaviours that challenge Join our 6 week parent support group which looks at managing behaviours that challenge... Latest News 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. Latest News Take a Moment - Self Care Tips Workshop Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93278514394?pwd=V1pZQ1N1YWtWeDVhR2tnZFphTjFtUT09 Meeting ID: 932 7851 4394 Passcode: DsLj2G Latest News 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 ... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... 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... Latest News 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 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. Latest News 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... Latest News 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 ... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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, ... Latest News 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... Latest News 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 ... Latest News 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... Latest News 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.... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News This week in Year 1... Before the half term Year 1 created collages inspired by the artist Lubaina Himid. They used a range of different materials to represent their identity and background. In maths they were also... Latest News This week in Year 5... Year 5 enjoyed a visit from Apollo music string quartet this week. This was to finish off their cycle of music lessons with Apollo music from last year. The children thought about a scene in their ima... Latest News This week in Year 6... Year 6 enjoyed a virtual workshop with the Geobus! Linking with their science unit, 'Evolution and inheritance', the children developed their knowledge of evolution by listening to a presentation ... Latest News 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. ... Latest News This week in Year 3... Year 3 have started their new science topic: Light. This week the class walked around the school and playground looking for sources of light. They found that the sun was a natural source of light a... Latest News This week in Reception... Reception’s Yonka Shonibare inspired prints from the last couple of weeks are now on display. What lines and patterns can you see in the prints? Why do you think the children chose the colou... Latest News This week in Year 2... Year 2’s new topic is sustainability. They have produced some sustainability posters for their homework. Look at what they already know! Latest News This week in Year 4... On Tuesday, Mr Watson's desk was trashed and Year 4’s raffle tickets were stolen! Year 4 had to work out how they were going to solve the case. The class looked for clues and spoke to witnesses... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News Reception (Summer 2, Week 2) Reception have been learning about the story 'Splash! Anna Hibiscus'. In the story a little girl called Anna wants to splash in the sea with her family but they are all too busy to play with her. In... Latest News Year 1 (Summer 2, Week 2) The Year 1 children produced fantastic homework over the half term about their new geography topic ' Let's go to the Seaside'. Rupert went to the seaside and created a lovely piece with some of the th... Latest News Year 2 (Summer 2, Week 1) Year 2 have been planning and writing their own poetry based on their class book, The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle. The class have been focusing on using figurative language and have made a parti... Latest News Year 3 (Summer 2, Week 2) Year 3 has been learning about turns and angles this week. They can recognise whether or not a turn is clockwise or anti-clockwise and a quarter turn, half turn, three quarter turn and full turn. They... Latest News Year 4 (Summer 2, Week 2) This week Year 4 took part in the Guinness Book of World Records attempt for the most people singing on zoom at one time, broadcast live from the O2 arena. The class learnt to sing in harmony , an... Latest News Year 5 (Summer 2, Week 2) Year 5 had a fantastic virtual workshop with the Geobus today! They learnt lots more about different planets and used 3D glasses to bring the planets to life! The children got to ask questions to a sc... Latest News Year 6 (Summer 2, Week 2) Year 6 had the most wonderful trip to Hackney School of Food where they tried fresh vegetables grown in the gardens, made their own pizzas, played with chickens and tried the honey made on site. The c... Latest News 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... Latest News 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 ... Latest News 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... Latest News 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 ... Latest News 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... Latest News Year 1 (Summer 2, Week 3) Year 1 enjoyed learning about sustainability this week. They had a zoom workshop about climate change and the effects it has on the Arctic. The children learnt how a rise in global temperature is con... Latest News Year 2 (Summer 2, Week 3) Year 2 had an ECO workshop this week where they thought about what they could do to make the planet greener. They explored different recycled materials and used some of these to make their very own pl... Latest News Year 3 and 4 (Summer 2, Week 3) Year 3 and Year 4 enjoyed their sustainability workshop this week where they learnt about how to reduce food waste. They made their own recycled pots out of newspaper and planted a sunflower seed to t... Latest News Year 5 (Summer 2, Week 3) Year 5 have been on an exciting school trip this week. The children travelled to Stanhill farm to pick their own strawberries! They filled their punnets to the brim with all of the local produce they ... Latest News Year 6 (Summer 2, Week 3) Year 6 are in full swing with their performance practice! They have been working recently on the choreography for the songs and have been thinking about their stage presence and techniques to best eng... Latest News 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... 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 ... Latest News 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 Reception (Summer 2, Week 4) Reception have been incredible artists and scientists all week at home for their online learning. The class have been learning about 'Summer, Growth and Change' and carried out experiments like the st... Latest News Year 1 (Summer 2, Week 4) On Wednesday, Evie, who is a rights respecting ambassador, delivered an outstanding RRS workshop. She taught Year 1 about the rights of a child and about the different articles. The year 1 children we... Latest News Year 2 (Summer 2, Week 4) Archie and Sariah from Year 2 have been inspired by their homework all about the Olympic Games. They have produced some brilliant pieces of work based on their research! Latest News Year 3 (Summer 2, Week 4) Year 3 have become experts in the rainforest and the impact of deforestation. Here are their posters providing information about what we can do in our everyday lives to reduce deforestation. Latest News Year 4 (Summer 2, Week 4) In R.E, Year 4 looked at the different elements of a Eucharistic liturgy within the Christian church. The class chose a different part each and created their own presentation on that part, presenti... Latest News Year 5 (Summer 2, Week 4) Year 5 made jam from the strawberries they picked on their trip last week. They developed skills of cutting, slicing and bruising basil to put in the strawberry jam! It tasted delicious! The class wil... Latest News Year 6 (Summer 2, Week 4) This week, Year 6’s pride Youth Network, "Diversiteam" went to deliver workshops with the younger year groups to inform them about the work they are doing and share some books they have recently bough... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News 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... Latest News Well done Year 6 - PRIDE Youth Network Certificate The Year 6 class have been awarded this certificate for their amazing work as part of the PRIDE Youth Network Diversity and Inclusion Project. It has been so inspiring seeing the children presenting... 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... 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 Reception - Week 2 Reception children were excited to meet their new class pets the Giant African Land snails. As part of their journey to understand the world around them the children learned how to keep their snails h... Latest News Year 1 - Week 2 To kick off the new science topic seasonal changes, Year 1 went out into the playground to observe what they could see around them. They looked at the different types of plants they could find, the di... Latest News Year 2 - Week 2 Ocean and Orlando from Year 2 drew a great picture for their homework on the Great Fire of London. Jerry showed great presentation in his maths lesson on place value. Latest News Year 3 - Week 2 Here's a sneak preview of Year 3 hard at work creating their self-portraits in their Art lesson. Look out for them on display in the amphitheatre and the classroom soon! Latest News Year 4 - Week 2 This week in writing, Year 4 have been retelling a very well-known fairy tale, but have added some exciting twists along the way. Here is a snippet of Muyiwa's fantastic writing; he worked really hard... Latest News Year 5 - Week 2 Year 5 have been learning all about fairy tales in their writing lessons! They are focussing on the fairy-tale, 'The Little Matchstick Girl' by Hans Christian Anderson. As part of their class immersio... Latest News Year 6 - Week 2 Year 6 have had a fantastic first week back at school and it turns out the class are very talented actors! In order to understand the thoughts and feelings of the characters in our fairy tale text, Ha... Latest News Reception - Week 3 Reception class has been focusing on strengthening our fine motor skills through writing, drawing and using tweezers. Latest News Year 1 - Week 3 For Max’s homework in Year 1, he did some fantastic research all about our key scientist Michael Fish. He was a meteorologist and used to present the weather reports on the news. Max then created his... Latest News Year 2 - Week 3 In Year 2 Jerry in did great maths work partitioning 3 digit numbers. Beatrice created a detailed plan for retelling the story of the gingerbread man. Latest News Year 3 - Week 3 Year 3 are learning about rocks and soil in Science lessons. Check out some of the different ways they chose to sort and classify rocks in their lesson this week. Latest News Year 4 - Week 3 This week, in science, Year 4 have been exploring the human digestive system as part of our topic, ‘Animals including Humans’. Maggie found a very exciting way to share her learning with the class. Ov... Latest News Year 5 - Week 3 Year 5 have been making self-portraits in the style of Derek Russell. The class used thick brush strokes and paint to make out self-portraits. They also used a painting technique called 'double-loadin... Latest News Year 6 - Week 3 Miss Bienias has spotted that Year 6 are very talented historians and this really showed in their workshop with Hackney Museum this week! The class looked at primary and secondary sources from World W... Latest News Hockey Competition Year 5 and 6 have taken part in a lunchtime Hockey competition. The competition provides children with an opportunity to try out a new activity. It also prepares children for competitions when COVID ... 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 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 Reception, Week 4 Reception has been working on our gross motor skills by practising changing independently for PE and balancing games. Latest News Year 1, Week 4 In maths this week, Year 1 have been exploring ordinal numbers. The class used their understanding of these to help put the children into order of where they finished in a race. Latest News Year 2, Week 4 In their RE lesson, Year 2 created poster’s based on the Lords prayer. They used different images and used different languages to represent their understanding of a father figure. Latest News Year 3, Week 4 Year 3 really enjoyed their science virtual, interactive workshop all about rocks. They learnt that lots of objects in the classroom originated from rocks including plastic water bottles and metal sci... Latest News Year 4, Week 4 This week, in science, Year 4 were exploring the human mouth and conducted some research in groups to find out what function the different types of teeth have. The class then used mirrors to observe t... Latest News Year 5, Week 4 Year 5 have been enjoying doing athletics in PE. The children have been really active and have learnt how to warm up and cool down appropriately. Latest News Year 6, Week 4 In history this week, Year 6 have been answering the enquiry question “were the soldiers of the British Empire treated fairly?” as part of their World War Two lessons. They used sources of evidence 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 Year 1, Week 5 This week in science, Year 1 practised their scientific skill of observing over time. They recorded what the weather was like every morning and afternoon this week and used the weather forecast to dis... Latest News Year 2, Week 5 In Year 2, the class have been learning about The Great Fire of London this half term. Last lesson they looked at a key historical figure Samuel Pepys and what role he played. Year 2 learnt about hi... Latest News Year 3, Week 5 In Year 3’s grammar lessons, the class have been looking at what actually makes a sentence. They're now confidently able to identify the subject, verb and object in a sentence. This week they also add... Latest News Year 4, Week 5 Over the last two weeks, Year 4 have been learning about the rise of the British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria. As well as exploring world maps and identifying countries that formed part o... Latest News Year 5, Week 5 Year 5 have been learning about the difference between a main and subordinate clause in their grammar lessons. They used colouring pencils to identify different clauses in a sentence and then using th... Latest News Year 6, Week 5 Year 6 have been writing letters from the perspective of the protagonist, Joseph, in our class text "The Silver Sword" by Ian Serralier. They have been using figurative language to describe the concen... 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 Reception, Week 6 Reception has been exploring how to make repeating patterns. The class used vegetables to print their own repeating pattern wrapping paper. Latest News Year 1 & 2, Week 6 Years 1 and 2 took a tour of the newly refurbished St John’s church. They learnt the history of the church and asked lots of questions. Latest News Year 3, Week 6 Over the last few weeks, Year 3 has become experts in fossils. We have learnt how they are created and we can also name different types of fossils. As part of our learning, we created examples of what... Latest News Year 4, Week 6 This half term in science, Year 4 have been learning about the human digestive system, including the teeth and exploring their individual functions. The class set up an experiment to find out what aff... Latest News Year 5, Week 6 Year 5 had a fantastic workshop from the Royal Parks this week. The session was focussed on learning about invertebrates. During the interactive session the class learnt all in-depth about these creat... Latest News Year 6, Week 6 This week, Year 6 wrapped up their learning in history by answering their key question: Is War ever Right? After learning about World War Two, through a series of enquiries, Year 6 were asked to share... Latest News 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 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... 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...
