Please look in Book Bags for … Spelling & Writing Information Afternoon (please return no later than 1st October 2018) this is going out to pupils in Reception to Year 6; Travelling Book Fair (Letter and Pre-Order Form) for all families; For Reception & Year 6 pupils – National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) information. Reception pupils only – Parents’ Afternoon time slot confirmation.
Communications
Forest School Club – Years 3 – 6
Kris Kirby would like to run a Forest School Club on Tuesdays after school, starting on Tuesday 24th September. Letters are being sent home this afternoon. If your child is interested in joining this club, please return the slip no later than Friday 21st September 2018. We also need adult volunteers!
Letters – Wednesday 19th September 2018
Please look in Book Bags for the following; #wearredforzac flyer, Harvest Service, Tree Planting & Parent Evening Letters – these are going out to everyone. Could we ask that you please send back returns no later than the date specified on the letters. Many thanks.
Wednesday 12th September 2018 – Letters
Owl Class – Clubs; School Photographs, Percussion Sessions, Secondary School Application Forms & The Corbet School Open Day Pack (Year 6) & Whole Class Violin (Year 5) … Dragonfly Class – Clubs, School Photographs, Whole Class Violin … Rabbit & Hedgehog – Clubs & School Photographs … Nursery – School Photographs … PLEASE RETURN NO LATER THAN THE DATES REQUESTED
Letters – Wednesday 5th September 2018
Welcome Back! – Letters going home this afternoon are – Liverpool 2019 (Year 4 pupils) – replies required no later than Tuesday 11th September 2018; Charles Darwin – Museum in School (Rabbit Class) – replies needed no later than Monday 10th September 2018; Data Collection Sheets (Reception- Yr 6) – please check that the information we hold is correct, amend any errors and return to the school office as soon as possible. Many thanks.
Welcome back
Welcome back to our new term – it was lovely to see all the children arriving with smiles on their faces ready for the start of our Autumn term. I hope you have all enjoyed a super holiday in the sunshine.
We have a busy term ahead with Harvest, School photographs, Remembrance, School performances, Christingle and Christmas so keep an eye on the diary events over the next few weeks for updates. The staff will be sending out their termly overviews later this week and, as always, we value any support with the topic areas being covered. A big Ruyton welcome to all our new starters this term both in the nursery, the reception class and across the school. We have two new teachers this term; Miss Poppy Morris (in Rabbits class) and Mrs Sally Johnson (in Hedgehogs class) as well as Mrs Helen Whitaker, Mrs Emma Quigley, Mrs Tracey Green and Mr Wayne Gwilliam-Petty as teaching assistants. Preparation for Young Voices in Birmingham will begin soon as will our other clubs – letters to follow shortly. Our school values display has been updated in the hall with our value for this month being ‘Trust’ ; we have shared this together in worship this morning.
Julie Ball
Welcome back Owls
Welcome back Owl class; we hope that you have had a wonderful break and are ready for the new school year.
We have busy and exciting term ahead of us. Firstly, we are going to study our local area in a combined History and Geography topic. We will be finding out about how Ruyton XI Towns became a settlement originally and how it has changed over the years by looking at lots of different sources of information such as photographs, maps and census documents. If anyone has any resources that they feel would be interesting, please send them into school. In Science, we will be focusing on light for the first half of term and forces for the second half. Our art topic this term is ‘People in action’ during which we will be drawing and sculpting people moving. During our RE lessons for the first half of term, we will be finding out about how a mosque can help us to understand the Muslim faith whilst in the second half, we will be reflecting on incarnation. Through our PSHE sessions, we will be discussing health and wellbeing as well as beginning to look at our relationships with others and how we should live in the wider world. Our computing time will be spent initially discussing the importance of e-safety then moving onto designing an interactive game and code cracking. PE sessions with Mr Hughes remain on a Wednesday afternoon and Mrs Henney will teach dance or gymnastics on a Friday. Homework will continue to be given out on a Friday and bought back into school by Wednesday. Spellings will be given out and tested on a Friday also.
Enjoy the term and welcome back everyone!
Mrs Hollis and Mrs Henney
Message from Friends of St Johns
As we are rapidly approaching the summer holidays and Fun Fest has happened we would like to take this opportunity to say a massive thank our very generous sponsors, all those that donated towards the event, and all those that supported us by attending, without which none of it would have been possible. It was fantastic to see the community coming together to enjoy the beautiful sunny day with fun, laughter, friends, food and entertainment. We had an amazing day and we hope that you all enjoyed it as much as we did! A special thanks to Barry Oldham who couldn’t have been better as our Master of Ceremonies and all the acts and shows that provided fantastic entertainment in the arena. We are very pleased to confirm that we have superseded last years Fun Fest and you have all managed to raise a truly astounding £3,833.13 from the event which will go into the Friends Fund and support and enhance the learning and experience of the children at the school. We are eagerly awaiting two new outdoor learning sheds that have been ordered and will be received for the start of the new term in September.
It was also fantastic to see Amey and her family join us for Fun Fest and great to see her progressing steadily on her road to recovery. At the request of the children, the money that was made from the stocks (£195) will go to Amey to help support her continued recovery.
Finally, we would like to say that any feedback or ideas you have on the events we run is always greatly appreciated so that we can continue to improve and make forthcoming events bigger and better so please do drop us a line (friends@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk) or speak to any of us committee members when you see us. We are also always looking to gain supporters so that we can achieve more so if you would like to get involved, either on the committee or as a helper at the events we run, please do let us know or ask for more information.
Have a great summer holiday everyone and we look forward to seeing you in the new term in September where we will be having a “Meet the new parents” event in Café Eleven after school on Friday 14th September and would like to invite any current parents who would like to come and welcome the new parents into our community.
Kind regards,
Friends of St John the Baptist School
Ruyton Fun Fest
Wow! What a super afternoon yesterday! A fantastic well done and thank you to all the Friends of Ruyton school for the super Fun Fest on the school field yesterday. It was a fabulous community event bringing people together in the sunshine for fun and laughter, food and entertainment. Thank you on behalf of the children, staff and governors for all your hard work in making the event such a success.
Ruyton’s Got Talent
Key Stage 2 children have organised a ‘Ruyton’s Got Talent Fundraising Show’ in aid of Amey’s Fund … the event will take place on Thursday 19th July 2018 in the school hall, starting at 1.30pm. Tickets for this event are Free of Charge and available on a first come, first served basis (2 tickets per family in the first instance) from the school office. There will be a collection on the door and a raffle during the event, so please bring along plenty of money!!!!