There was a great evening of football on Thursday! Thank you to Myddle for coming and playing such a great game… it was 2-2 by the end of the match with a St JOhn’s 4-2 win on penalties!
Author: Jen Whittingham
Celebration Assembly 19.05 – SO much to celebrate!
Wow… where do we start this week?! There has been so much brilliance and fun goings-on at St John’s – LET’S CELEBRATE!
Here are some updates from an array of in-school events that have taken place this week…
Coronation Fun Run
Monday was a brilliant morning at school as we all dressed-up and worked-up a sweat for a 25 minute Fun Run which had been organised by our wonderful Friends of the School. We are still awaiting the final total from sponsorship – watch this space!
Rounders
A Year 5/6 team attended the Corbet Area Rounders Tournament – they played brilliantly, put all their PE learning to the test and came 3rd overall out of 8 schools!
Football friendly v Myddle Primary
A group of Year 4/5/6 children enjoyed a super football match on Thursday evening when we hosted Myddle Primary. Evan and Mia played their first match for the school – they played fantastically! Overall, the match finished 2-2 but St John’s went on to win on penalties… A big shout-out to George, our brave Goalkeeper, who did a sterling job to save some shots!
Super Swimmer
Also on Thursday evening, Year 6 Elliot has been elected to attend swimming trials for the North Shropshire West Team at Oswestry School. Elliot competed in four races (back stroke, breast stroke, front crawl and butterfly) and we are delighted to announce that he WON THEM ALL! Elliot – we are all so proud of you.
Next he will represent North Shropshire West in The Primary Schools County Gala at the end of June. Go Elliot, go!
Here are all our usual Weekly Celebrations too:
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
Beau – For working so carefully in all her assessments & giving her best everyday
Evan & Mia – For representing Ruyton in football and playing their first match! A brilliant display of skill and confidence from both.
Nancy – for great listening
Oscar – for lovely manners and a great attitude to learning
Charlie J – for super reading – well done!
Laurie – for doing everything with a smile on his face!
Ariyana – for working so hard on writing
Archie – for excellent effort in assessment week
Robyn – for excellent effort in reading assessments
Bumblebees Star of the Week
Congratulations to Oakley for achieving Star of the Week this week! He earned it for following all the rules in Bumblebees and showing great listening. Well done Oakley, keep it up!
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Rabbit Class as they had the most tickets this week 👏
Swimming Award
We celebrated James’ AMAZING achievement of Level 1 in Learn to Swim – this is incredible for one of our Bumblebees children! We are super proud of you James – keep it up!
Athletics Winner
Year 6, George, shared his recent achievements with us too as he participated in an Athletics Competition in Telford. George had great finishes in sprint races, but also shone in the Long Jump where he won the event! Incredible effort Geroge, keep up the great work with Shrewsbury Athletics Club.
Phew…. That was a big week! Coming up next week:
- Year 6 are out today at an Archery Festival at the Ironworks Centre (Oswestry) – we look forward to hearing all about it.
- Year 6 are out (again!) to Crucial Crew on Monday to learn all about staying safe in the wider world
- Swimming: it’s the final week for Rabbits & Dragonflies next Friday – keep up the great work!
- Year 4 – have a great time next Friday at Lichfield Cathedral for an Inspire Workshop… it sounds intriguing!
Leavers Hoodies!
How great do our Year 6s look in their new leavers hoodies? A huge well done to them for being such a brilliant year group and set of role models at St John’s. We also celebrated the end of SATs week with a nice big CAKE!
Celebration Assembly 12.05.23
First and foremost, a huge congratulations to our Year 6s for completing their week of SATs with smiles as big as THESE!
You look great in your Leavers hoodies too… we are so proud of each of you.
Here are our Weekly Celebrations :
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
Year 6s! – For completing their SATs Week and showing such great attitudes
Thomas -for always concentrating and trying his hardest
Freddie – A brilliant week – well done Freddie!
Emilia – super effort with her handwriting
Tilly – for always producing neat, careful work
Dougie – For always trying his hardest
Lily – For always being willing to have a go – with a smile too!
Bumblebees Star of the Week
Congratulations to Harrison & Freddie for achieving Stars of the Week this week! They earned it for settling in to Bumblebees so well. Well done both, keep it up!
Golden Books
1st Award: Callum, Maverick, Poppy & Freddie
4th Award – James-Noah
9th Award – Elsie
10th Award – Amber, Elliot
13th Award – Arthur
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Rabbit Class as they had the most tickets this week 👏
Swimming Award
We celebrated Nancy’s AMAZING achievement of her 5m distance badge! As we always say, this is the hardest one to get. We are super proud of you Nancy- keep it up!
Evie also showed off her recent achievements – a 25m badge! Great work Evie 🙂
Shrewsbury Half Marathon 👏
A huge congratulations to all our amazing children who took part in the Shrewsbury half marathon on Saturday. You ran, you laughed, you smiled: you were an inspiration to us all! We couldn’t be prouder of each and everyone of you. Thank you to all the families too for their support on the day too 🙌
Weekly Celebrations – 21st April 2023
Welcome back to our Summer Term! Here are our celebrations for the first week back:
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
Seren – For always having a positive outlook towards tasks and her day
Ruby – For excellent effort with her learning
Harry – For super independent writing on the Great Fire of London
James-Noah – For great effort and improvement in assessment tasks
Maggie – Beautiful handwriting!
Mav – Super attitude to learning
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Rabbit Class as they had the most tickets this week 👏
Superstar Violinist!
Congratulations to Elliot for achieving his Grade 1 Violin with flying colours! Well done Elliot -we are all very proud of you.
Shrewsbury Half Marathon
Good luck to all our runners (35 of you!) who are attending the Shrewsbury Half Marathon tomorrow morning. Have a great time and we look forward to hearing how you all got on.
Happy birthday!
A big happy birthday to Liz and Nikki today!
Owl Class – Summer Term 2023
I look forward to welcoming everyone back on Monday for the start of our Summer Term! Hopefully you’ve all had a great Easter… I’ve spent lots of time with the woofers, catching up with friends and running around the lanes – burning off the chocolate and treats just to consume some more!
For the first half of Summer Term, our timetable is mostly the same: PE is Monday and Tuesday but remember that Music has switched to Wednesday with Mrs Kessel-Fell. Here is our timetable which you might like to print off and have a copy at home:
Furthermore, here is an overview of our learning this term:
Curriculum Map OUr changing world
There is a lot to pack-in around a topic of climate change, energy and our changing planet which will be taught across many of our subjects and lessons, including the opportunity for Owl Class to get inventive! I’ve no doubt we have a very busy but fun term ahead!
For year 6s – SATs Week is 9th-12th May (the week of the King’s Coronation Bank Holiday – week 4). For your information:
Tuesday 9th May: Grammar & Spellings
Wednesday 10th May: Reading
Thursday 11th May: Maths Paper 1 (Arithmetic) & Paper 2 (Reasoning)
Friday 12th May: Maths Paper 3 (Reasoning)
If there are any queries about SATs week, please don’t hesitate to get in contact.
After half-term (beginning of June), we will switch the timetable to fit in swimming lessons on a Friday afternoon but I will send out further details nearer the time.
As always, please email / get in contact if you have any questions, comments or are in need of a chat – I really appreciate communication between home and school to keep Owl Class a happy little place to learn and be!
Thank you for your continued support; have a great weekend and I’ll see you Monday!
Miss Whit 🙂
Easter Celebration Assembly!
It’s finally the Easter Holidays! We had great fun today with our annual Easter Egg Hunt – check out the class pages for more photographs!
Today we said a huge well done to our amazing Year 6s who had a very successful trip to Arthog this week. We’ll report more about it soon, but you made us very proud. You can also see below to find out the winner of the Friends’ Easter Egg competition!
Here are this week’s celebrations…
Golden Book Awards
There has clearly been lots of great classwork going on in school this term as the Golden Book awards gave been coming in thick and fast… these are awards for class work: each class has a different target e.g. Rabbits need to collect 20 awards to get in the Golden Book, whilst Owls need to earn 40!
- Blake- 1st Award
- Tobias – 1st Award
- Mwaita – 1st Award
- Harry– 1st & 2nd Award
- Nancy – 2nd Award
- Freddie – 2nd Award
- Beau- 3rd Award (Green Badge) & 4th Award
- Seren- 5th Award
- Lexi- 5th Award
- Aoife – 5th Awards
- Charlie Kay- 5th Awards
- Zander- 5th Award
- Dougie- 5th Award
- Sky- 6th Award
- Archie – 6th Award
- Logan – 6th Award
- Liz- 5th & 6th Award
- Oscar– 6th Award
- Sophia – 6th Award (Blue Badge)
- Ruby- 7th Award
- Isaac – 7th Award
- Emilia – 7th Award
- Sebastian- 8th Award
- Laurie- 2nd Award
- Arthur- 13th Award
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
- Arthur- for being so thoughtful and kind towards younger children at playtime
- Beau – for always being ready to learn
- James-Noah- for consistently being kind and helpful to others at Arthog
- Isaac – for amazing spelling results
- Millie J – for always being a kind member of the class
- Imogen – for making positive choices and respecting her friends
- Lilly – for always being kind and caring
- Isaac – for a super sensible attitude towards work
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Hedgehog Class as they had the most tickets this week 👏
Swimming Awards
Congratulations to Nancy for her swimming award, but also Evan and Elsie for completing a level on their Rookie Lifeguard course!
Easter Egg Raffle
We were excited to draw the winner of the Easter Raffle (hosted by the Friends). A whopping £94 has been raised so far!
Mwaita chose the winner of the bunny and Easter Egg… congratulations to Freddie! We look forward to hearing what name you chose.
Happy Birthday to Jackson and Mrs Beddoes over the Easter holidays!
Clive Cross-Country 🥳
An amazing effort by our cross country team this morning 👏
Y3/4 Girls – a brilliant turn-out of 8 runners! Charley finished 2nd and overall the team came 2nd! 👏
Y3/4 Boys – a squad of 3 finished together and earned themselves 3rd place overall 👌
Y5/6 Girls – We were SO proud of Brooke for representing Ruyton as our only girl! Not only did she finish smiling, she did it all again in the fun run!
Year 5/6 Boys – Our team of 4 had the biggest field of the day with over 50 competitors: our boys finished brilliantly but just missed out on top 3 places.
I was so proud of each and every one of you – thanks for giving me a fun morning! A huge thank you to all the parents / families for supporting this event and a special shout-out to Deejay for sorting the bibs! Miss Whit 👏
Celebration Assembly 24th March
It’s just one week until our Easter break and there is LOTS going on in school.
Firstly, thank you to all our parents / carers who joined us for parents meetings this week; it’s great to have everyone back in the school building and celebrating our children.
In our assembly we also took the opportunity to say ‘good luck’ to all the children who have entered the Clive School Cross Country event tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Good luck team!
Furthermore, our Year 6s heading off to Arthog next week – we hope you all have a brilliant time!
Here are this week’s celebrations…
Golden Book Awards
There has clearly been lots of great classwork going on in school this term as the Golden Book awards gave been coming in thick and fast… these are awards for class work: each class has a different target e.g. Rabbits need to collect 20 awards to get in the Golden Book, whilst Owls need to earn 40!
- Eleanor – 1st Award
- Hallie – 2nd Award
- Betsy – 2nd Award
- Caitlyn – 3rd Award (Green Badge)
- Isaac – 4th Award
- Alice – 4th Award
- Thalia – 4th and 5th Awards
- Magnus – 4th and 5th Awards
- Amelie – 5th Award
- Mia- 5th Award
- Archie – 7th Award
- Sebastian – 7th Award
- Robyn – 7th and 8th Awards
- Evie – 8th Award
- Alex – 8th Award
- Thomas – 8th Award
- Harvey – 8th Award
- Amber – 9th Award (Red Badge)
- Bella – 9th Award (Red Badge) and 10th Award
- India – 9th Award (Red Badge) 10th Award and 11th!
- Lucy- 10th Award
- Evan – 10th Award
- Eva – 10th and 11th Awards
- Percy- 10th and 11th Awards
- Devon – 10th and 11th Awards
- Sophia – 11th and 12th Award (Yellow Badge)
- Skyler – 14th Award
- Charley- 14th Award
- Ella – 14th Award
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
- Zander – amazing effort with spellings
- Logan – for super sewing skills!
- Bella – for always being ready to learn
- Eleni – good attitude to learning this week
- Maverick – great perseverance in phonics
- The Clive Cross Country Team for tomorrow morning all earned an acorn for their team!
Star of the Week in Bumblebees:
Congratulations to Nancy for being Star of the Week!
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Hedgehog Class as they had the most tickets this week 👏
Superstar guitarists!
Congratulations to Harry, Alice and Elsie for receiving commendations for their guitar playing from Mr Butler:
Swimming Awards
Congratulations to Caitlyn and Cody for their recent swimming achievements: