Letters

Year 5 are taking part in the Blackpool Tower’s School of Dance event on the evening of Monday 18th March. This is an exciting opportunity for children to perform on a real stage with a live audience and this year it is being held Blackpool Tower. Children are performing a Jive, could we ask that the boys wear dark trousers a white shirt and school shoes, School will provide a bow tie for the event. Girls are to wear a party dress with their school shoes. All girl’s hair should be tide up and in a bun if long enough. The performance starts at 6.45pm, and doors for tickets holders at 6pm, therefore all children need to be back at school for 5.45pm to ensure we have enough time to be seated before the show begins.

As part of this terms Tudor topic, Year 5 will be visiting the Turton Tower, on Thursday 4th April to take part in a “Meet the Tudors” workshop.

NDCWales run a Discover Dance session for schools and have invited St John’s to attend a 90-minute learning session, which includes dancing with the professionals, asking questions and learning and performing part of their exciting routine. We are asking for a donation of £2.00 per child to cover the workshop. Please return payment and slip by Friday 22nd March.

As part of our topic Reception are exploring our local environment. A short bus trip has been planned to look at some of the landmarks we have in Blackpool. The trip will also link in with the story we are reading which is called ‘The Naughty Bus’. We are asking for a donation of £3.50 per child towards the total cost of the bus hire.

Year 2 will be visiting the Central Library on World Book Day, Thursday 7th March, where we will be visiting Blodwen Dragonsblood; cousin to Professor McGonagall and expert in the care of magical creatures. Blodwen will be bringing with her a mysterious story filled suitcase and encouraging children to create and write about their very own magical creatures.

As part of this terms topic on “Egyptians” we will be visiting the Blackburn Museum. At the museum children will take a look around the museum before attending an “Egyptian workshop.”

As part of this terms topic on ‘Romans’ we will be visiting the Roman Museum at Ribchester.

As part of this terms topic covering The Human Body, Year 6 will be visiting Eureka Children’s Museum in Halifax, on Wednesday 30th January. The children will be able to look around the extensive galleries including “All about Me”, a look into how our body works.

As part of this terms topic on Victorian Toys, year 2 will be visiting Blackburn Museum.

Information about the year 2 fire station visit.

Parents’ Evenings are going to be held on Tuesday 19th March & Wednesday 20th March. Please make an appointment to see your child's teacher by returning the slip. The meetings will be held in your child’s classroom. We would prefer children not to come back to school during the parents’ interviews but we do realise this is difficult for some families. However, parents will be responsible for their children if they are brought back into school as no adult supervision is available during this time. If your child has siblings in school and you would like the appointments close together, please indicate this.

Thursday 7th March is World Book Day. World Book Day is an excellent worldwide event to encourage children to read and enjoy reading! We are kicking off World Book Day Week by giving the children a reading task. The highlight of book week will be on Thursday 7th March, we are inviting children to design and make a hat to wear that represents a story they know, or a character from a story they enjoy, for example ‘The Cat in the Hat’ wears a red and white stripy hat, ‘Willy Wonka’s hat’ is purple & can be decorated with sweet wrappers, don’t forget the golden ticket.

Please look over the new menu and talk to your child/ren about what meals are being offered.

Children can pay 20p at the school office to post a card in our Valentines post box for Cupid to deliver it to their Valentine!

KS2 children can ‘bank’ money, in any quantity above 50 pence, to go towards purchasing books when we have our Book Fair in the Summer. Your child will be given a card that will be kept in school and all money banked will be recorded on this. When the book fair arrives they will be given time to select books which will be paid through the savings in their ‘book bank’ account.

The school photographer will be in school Tuesday 29th January. They will be taking individual, family and class group photographs.

Information about the Reception Nativity 2018

Information about Year 1 and Year 2 Nativity 2018.

Information about the Christmas Party

Information about the Christmas Party.

Information about Christmas Dinner Day.

Information about library visits

Information about the book savings scheme we have in school.

Information about school dinners and how to change your child's lunch option.

A letter from Mrs Hall.

A letter for key stage 2 parents about Holy Communion.

A letter about the value of the month - Love.

A letter for parents about the value of hope.

A letter for parents about the value of Hope.

Privacy notice 2016.

A form for parents to fill in to request an absence.

Information for parents about the fluoridated milk scheme.

Information about how to make an easy fundraising account to help raise money for school.

A letter to fill in to request a holiday.

A copy of January / February's Newsletter which was sent home at the end of January.

The first edition of the resilient rangers newsletter.

The christmas newsletter for 2018.

A copy of the October 2018 newsletter.

A copy of the newsletter sent home in January 2018.

The festive edition of the newsletter.

October Newsletter 2017

The September issue of the newsletter.

Find out the latest news.

The newsletter from Feb 2017.

Children's Newsletter Jan 2017