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Posted on April 4, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Weekly Celebrations – 4.4.25

Here are this week’s awards…

Weekly Celebrations

School Value Ambassadors (earning House Points with one pupil chosen each week per year group, awarded by teachers for showing one of our school values):

All of Year 6 for displaying ALL our school values in Arthog – All of the children showed a fantastic attitude during our stay at Arthog. They worked hard, they were organised, they were kind, caring and determined. They were amazing ambassadors for our school and were a pleasure to be with.

Year 5 Lucy for ‘Love’ and ‘Friendship’ – Lucy is such a kind, pleasant and funny member of Owl Class. She is a great friends to everyone and puts a smile on everyone’s faces while working incredibly hard. Well Done Lucy.

Year 4 Andre for ‘Love’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Andre works hard at everything he does! He’s always keen to put his hand up to answer questions and has developed a fantastic attitude to learning and personality since joining the school. Well done Andre.

Year 3 Florence for ‘Wisdom’ – Floss has worked hard this week with her handwriting and creating an information text. Keep up the hard work Floss!

Year 2 Mwaita for ‘Love’ and ‘Hope’ – Mwaita is a joy to teach! She has such fantastic ideas and has very thoughtful contributions in our class discussions. You’re a star!

Year 1 Lottie for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom – Lottie is working so hard in and out of school! Her confidence and ability is improving everyday – keep it up Lottie.

Reception Evie for ‘Wisdom’ – Eva has shown fabulous effort and understanding in Maths along with excellent stem sentences

Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)

Other Achievements…

Nancy received her ‘Water Safety Level 1’ certificate and she got player of the match at her football training last week.

Rosie has received a certificate and medal for her confidence in her karate lessons.

Delilah received a player of the match medal at her football training last week.

Laurie received a player of the match trophy for his excellent passing during his football match.

Aofie, Lucy, India, Zander and Andre have all attended knitting and sewing club this term. Check out their fabulous creations…

2 weeks ago
Posted on March 21, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Weekly Celebrations – 21.3.25

Here are this week’s awards…

Weekly Celebrations

School Value Ambassadors (earning House Points with one pupil chosen each week per year group, awarded by teachers for showing one of our school values):

Year 6 Eva for ‘Hope’, ‘Trust’ and ‘Perseverance’ – Eva has come a long way in her writing this year. She shows good self-editing and correcting skills, writes neatly and with ambitious vocabulary. Keep going with this Eva, well done!

Year 5 Sam for ‘Love’ and ‘Respect’ – Sam has had a great week, especially in Maths and English lessons. He is taking a good interest in our Galapagos Island unit, with his writing reflecting that. Keep it up Sam!

Year 5 Caitlyn for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Tolerance’ – Mr Arthur, Mrs Gregory and Mrs Grogan are all so proud of Caitlin for her willingness to keep going throughout every day this week to complete a full week’s worth of good work. Excellent and well done!

Year 4 Blake for ‘Love’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Blake is always going above and beyond with his homework. He is eager to learn and is a delight to have in class!

Year 3 Aoife for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Aoife is a valuable member of Dragonflies. She is a fountain of knowledge and is always working hard to deepen her understanding. Well done Aoife!

Year 2 Mwaita for ‘Love’ and ‘Hope’ – Mwaita is a joy to teach! She has such fantastic ideas and has very thoughtful contributions in our class discussions. You’re a star!

Year 1 Lottie for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom – Lottie is working so hard in and out of school! Her confidence and ability is improving everyday – keep it up Lottie.

Reception Olivia for ‘Perseverance’, ‘Friendship’ and ‘Respect’ – Olivia always shows our school values. She consistently tries her hardest, has a positive attitude, takes responsibility for her learning and is a kind friend to all.

Bumblebees Julian for ‘Perseverance‘ and ‘Wisdom‘ – Julian’s listening and attention has been amazing this week, he has given some wonderful answers during group time. Well done Julian!

Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)

Other Achievements…

India received a silver medal for coming 2nd place in a gala at her swimming club. Any of the swimmers who received a gold, silver or bronze medal will now go on to compete against other swimming clubs in the county – a fantastic achievement!

Eva received a player of the match award. Last week was a ‘silent supporters’ week at sporting events. Eva was commended on her ability to help and guide the other players in her team.

2 weeks ago
Posted on March 20, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Spellings – 20.3.25

Year 1: /k/ as in school, /sh/ as in chef

school
character
stomach
mechanic
chorus
chef
machine
parachute
chalet
brochure

Year 2: /j/ as in package, bridge

package
huge
bulge
edge
village
bridge
badge
hedge
smudge
fridge

3 weeks ago
Posted on March 14, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Rabbits Weekly Round-Up – 14.3.25

Last week we completed our poetry unit, based on the poem ‘At The Zoo’ by William Thackery. We created our own list poems and some of us even managed to include some lines that rhymed!

This week we have moved onto our new book ‘The Great Fire of London’ by Emma Adams. We are all very excited this is our book because we loved learning about The Great Fire of London in History at the beginning of the year. This book is non-fiction, so we have been looking at the difference between fiction and non-fiction books. We also identified features of non-fictions books in the text.

In Maths, the Year 1s have been looking at numbers from 0-50. We have been partitioning numbers into 10s and 1s and towards the end the week we have been looking at number lines and identifying one more and one less than a number.

The Year 2s have been continuing their work on multiplication and division. We have looked at multiplying and dividing by 5. Then we looked at the connection between the 5 and 10 times tables (e.g. if we know 5 x 10 = 50, then we know 10 x 5 = 20), the children found this really interesting – they thought it was quite tricky to begin with but once they got the hang of it they loved using what they already knew to answer trickier calculations.

In RE we have been learning about the Jewish celebration ‘Passover’. We have learned what ‘Passover’ is and how it is celebrated. We thought about special things we celebrate and how we do it.

In Geography, we have been continuing to learn about Tocuaro. This week we thought about why people might want to visit Tocuaro and what they could do while they were there. We created posters to tell people what they could do and see if they were to visit.

In PSHE, we are learning all about money. This week we thought about jobs and how we need a job to be able to get money and buy things. We thought about jobs we might like to have and what we’d like to spend our hard earned money on!

3 weeks ago
Posted on March 14, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Weekly Celebrations – 14.3.25

Here are this week’s awards…

Weekly Celebrations

School Value Ambassadors (earning House Points with one pupil chosen each week per year group, awarded by teachers for showing one of our school values):

Year 6 Tilly for ‘Tolerance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Tilly is brilliant at remembering or taking notes of key facts in lessons. She always brings retrieved knowledge to the next lesson where we recap. This is a brilliant habit Tilly, keep it up!

Year 5 Thomas for ‘Wisdom’ – Thomas demonstrated brilliant knowledge in our forces lesson this week in Science. He showed a great understanding in our resistance experiment! Well done!

Year 4 Emelia for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Emelia has been working incredibly hard recently! She is working independently in Maths and creating beautiful pieces of writing. Well done Emelia, keep up the hard work!

Year 3 Nancy for ‘Perseverance’ – Nancy has been showing great effort, determination and progress in improving her hand writing. Her dedication is paying off – keep up the hard work Nancy!

Year 2 Laurie for ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Friendship’ – Laurie is a fantastic role model to other in the class, he takes great pride in his working and encourages others to do the same.

Year 1 Jasmine for ‘Trust’ – Jasmine’s confidence is growing everyday! She puts her hand up more often to contribute and she is proud to show her work to others!

Reception Alfie for ‘Perseverance’ – Alfie has been working so hard in his phonics recently and his effort is really starting to show.

Bumblebees Ben for ‘Love’, ‘Hope’, ‘Trust’, ‘Perseverance‘ and ‘Tolerance‘ – Ben has worked so hard this week. He is working hard to master his name writing and has shown wonderful kindness to his friends.

Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)

Golden Book Certificates

Congratulations to Emelia, Layla, Harrison, Harriet, Percy, Charley, Tommy & Rosie

Other Achievements…

Harrison has completed his 25m swimming badge – great work!

Althea received her Bronze Level Swimming Challenge certificate.

Nancy received player of the match award from her football clubs

Beau, Nancy & James were very proud to tell us that their mum (Mrs Hurst) has received an award from Birmingham Children’s hospital for being one of their 100 heroes! This recognises their incredible top fundraisers. Collectively, over the last 12months, everyone who attended helped to raise a phenomenal £2.5million for their hospital, which is an outstanding and transformational amount. Mrs Hurst’s nephew sadly passed away last year and she wanted to raise money for the paediatric unit who cared for him. She raised a fantastic £6,300, an amazing achievement.

3 weeks ago
Posted on March 12, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Spellings – 13.3.25

Year 1: /s/ as in house, fence

house
mouse
goose
nurse
loose
fence
dance
force
place
prince

Year 2: /s/ as in celery, dress

celery
cinema
city
fancy
circle
dress
glass
missed
dressed
press

4 weeks ago
Posted on March 7, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Spellings – 6.3.25

Year 1: /j/ as in gymnast, germ, giraffe

gymnast
energy
germ
gem
genius
gerbil
Gerry
giraffe
giant
gigantic

Year 2: /air/ as in chair, square, bear

chair
fairy
hair
square
share
careful
aware
bear
pear
tear

1 month ago
Posted on February 28, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Weekly Celebrations – 28.2.25

Here are this week’s awards…

Weekly Celebrations

School Value Ambassadors (earning House Points with one pupil chosen each week per year group, awarded by teachers for showing one of our school values):

Year 6 Charlie for ‘Perseverance’ – for persevering with all the tricky challenges put before him during assessment week with determination and a smile. Well done Charlie!

Year 4 Sid for ‘Perseverance’ – Sid has worked impressively hard on his assessments this week and has demonstrated great progress. Well done Sid!

Year 3 Harry for ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Perseverance’ – Harry has really begun to knuckle down with his work, he is doing his best in everything he does and his determination and perseverance is paying off. Well done Harry!

Year 2 Hallie for ‘Wisdom’ – Hallie has worked so hard on her assessments this week, she has approached everything with a positive attitude. She has taken time and care to make sure she understands the question and knows how to answer it. Great work Hallie!

Year 1 James for ‘Love’ and ‘Friendship’ – James is a very kind and caring member of our school, he is a fantastic friends and enjoys celebrating the achievements of other. Well done James, you’re a star!

Reception Darcy for ‘Friendship’ – Darcy is a wonderful member of Hedgehogs. She always thinks of others and shows all our values everyday.

Bumblebees Ziwa & Utendi for ‘Love’, ‘Hope’, ‘Trust’, ‘Perseverance‘ and ‘Tolerance‘ – for making incredible progress in their learning and development, and for always making us smile!

Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)

Other Achievements…

We have so many fantastic swimmers at St John’s, it’s lovely to see how proud they all are for achieving their goals!

Laith achieved his 10m badge
Evie achieved her Stage 1 Learn to Swim badge
Seren achieved her 200m badge
Harriet achieved her 100m badge
Oscar achieved his Stage 4 Duckling & Stage 1 Learn to Swim
Olly achieved his Stage 1 Learn to Swim badge
Ruairi achieved his 5m badge

India recently wrote to the Prime Minister Keir Starmer to suggest that as a country we should have eco-days, where people are encouraged to pick up litter and generally be more eco-friendly. She received a response from the office of Number 10 Downing Street and her ideas have been sent to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural affairs, and she is eagerly awaiting further response from them! We are so proud of India and how she is trying to bring about positive change to the environment and those around her. What a star!

She is also currently trying to create the longest piece of finger knitting, Guinness World Records here we come!!

2 months ago
Posted on February 14, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Rabbits Weekly Round-Up – 14.2.25

We have come to the end of the first half of Spring term – it has flown by! Rabbit class have been working really hard this half term and have all earned a well deserved rest next week.

English:

We have come to the end of our book ‘The Dragon Machine’. At the beginning and end of every half term we do an independent piece of writing. This half term we had to create our own version of ‘The Dragon Machine’ story with a different character and creature. It’s fantastic to see the progress the children have made with their writing over the past few weeks – excellent work!

Maths:

We have tackled lots of different areas in Maths over the past few weeks, from money to times tables! It’s lovely to see the children enjoying their maths work and showing our school value of perseverance when finding things tricky.

Science:

We have been putting our scientist hats on recently by taking part in scientific enquiries! The Year 2s have been thinking about the suitability of materials and whether the material of an object can affect whether it can change shape. They had to create an enquiry question (e.g. Can all objects that are plastic be bent?), they then had to make a prediction, carry out their investigation and write what they had noticed.

Year 1s have been thinking about sorting objects. They have been sorting them based on their properties, what material they are made from and how they could be recycled. They had some excellent discussions about the importance of recycling and what they can do to be more ‘environmentally friendly’

Geography:

We have enjoyed finding out more about Tocuaro. The children created some wonderful information posters for homework with facts they had learned. We have used those facts to help us in our lessons. We have been able to locate Tocuaro on the map, we know it is in Mexico, which is on the continent North America. We also located Ruyton XI Towns on the map, which we know is in English and is on the continent Europe. The children can name all 7 continents after listening and learning the very catchy ‘Continents song!’

RE:

We have been continuing our work on ‘Who is Jewish and how do they live?’. We found out that Jewish people have ‘Mezuzahs’ which are small, decorative case which attach to the right doorframe of the entrance to their home, and inside is paper with sacred words from the Torah. Jews believe that it blesses their homes and they touch it every time they walk in as a reminder that God is always with them. We created our own Mezuzahs and thought about what special words we would include inside ours that would be important to remind people as they entered our homes.

Bird Feeders:

What a fabulous job Rabbit class did of creating their own bird feeders. It was lovely to see so many different bird feeders and hearing from the children how they were made. We spent some time thinking about where would be the best place for them to go around school to attract the birds. We have enjoyed checking if any birds have been snacking on our feeders!

I hope you all have a fantastic half term holiday and come back rested for the start of the second half of Spring Term. You have worked really hard, and should be very proud of your achievements this half term!

Miss Horton

2 months ago
Posted on February 14, 2025 by Zoe Horton

Weekly Celebrations – 14.2.25

Here are this week’s awards…

Weekly Celebrations

School Value Ambassadors (earning House Points with one pupil chosen each week per year group, awarded by teachers for showing one of our school values):

Year 6 Charlie for ‘Perseverance’ – for persevering with different challenges throughout the week.

Year 5 Emelia for ‘Perseverance’ – for demonstrating a positive attitude to all aspects of school life!

Year 4 Charlie for ‘Perseverance’ – Charlie has worked hard this week on improving his handwriting. He has also produced an impressive menu in RE for Diwali. Well done Charlie!

Year 3 Millie for ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Perseverance’ – Millie has been working hard this week on a persuasive piece of writing. She has worked hard to improve her sentences and has written a lovely piece of writing. Well done Millie!

Year 2 Grayson for ‘Tolerance’ – Grayson is always ready to learn. He is focussed on working hard and is able to manage distractions very well. You’re a star, Grayson!

Year 1 Cody for ‘Perseverance’ – Cody has worked hard this week to work independently. He has listened well and used his phonic knowledge to help him with his writing.

Reception Ellie for ‘Friendship’ – Ellie is a wonderful member of Hedgehogs. She is kind and considerate of others. Ellie always does her best in learning and produces beautiful work.

Bumblebees Tilda for ‘Love’, ‘Hope’, ‘Trust’, ‘Friendship’, ‘Wisdom and ‘Respect‘ – Tilda has a wonderful attitude to learning. She gives 100% in everything she does and ALWAYS shows respect and kindness to everyone in school.

Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)

Other Achievements…

Alfie received the ‘Man of the Match’ trophy during his football match last weekend. He said he got it for his excellent passing! Great work, Alfie!

Hallie has received her Bronze and Silver awards in Rainbows – a fantastic achievement!

Eva has achieved her ‘Gold Level – Rookie Lifeguard’ certificate, a brilliant life skill!

Love at St John’s

The children have been busy thinking about how they show love and how people have shown love to them. Mrs Bradshaw created a ‘Love’ board where they could share their thoughts. We see the love shine through our school everyday and it’s been lovely to see how the children are expressing love!

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