St John’s RC Primary School

St John’s RC Primary School

Golden book awards
Class 1: Alyssa and Sana
Class 2: Jeremia and Kerys
Class 3: Michalina and Joao
Class 4: Ademide and Faith
Class 5: Kieran and Nikola
Class 6: Prence and Ajyal

Congratulations to class 4 for excellent attendance of 99.3 per cent 
Congratulations also to Year 2 for winning excellent behaviour award.

Please call in to the school office if you are not receiving school text messages. Please make sure we have your main mobile phone number on our system so that school text messages reach you as intended.

Big writing challenge Focus for the week:
Over the past week, the children have been learning about ‘challenging punctuation marks!’  Next we will be looking at ‘sayings and expressions’ such as ‘let the cat out of the bag!’ and you had better pull your socks up!’ as just 2 examples. Parents and Carers, can you encourage the children to work at these at home and put them into some interesting sentences and short stories?

Building work 
The old hall has now been transformed into a superb, modernised ‘early years’ setting.
The new steps and ramp into the school from Ann Street are now in use. Parents children and visitors are now able to access school through the original pedestrian pathway and then down the steps or ramp bringing you to the Reception entrance and other areas of the school.  The old Nursery and Reception class building are due to be demolished this week to make way for the new extension to be built.

Admission number 2011
Our capacity is increasing as well from an intake of 30 per year to an intake of 45 pupils per year. This will commence with our September intake 2011 meaning that we have capacity to take 45 children into Reception class from our current Nursery class as well as from other nursery settings.

Parking and traffic issues
Parents and carers, please be aware of the parking restrictions in the area around school.  Children’s safety is of course paramount so please make use of the school crossing patrol where appropriate and make sure children are well supervised at all times.  Due to the on-going metro-link work, there are road closures in the immediate area of school. There is also a temporary one way system in the vicinity so please take care and have patience at all times!

Family holidays
Thank you for only taking family holidays during school holiday time. No family holidays will be authorised during term time. If your child is off school at any time due to illness then please contact the school office first thing to let us know.