Ms Toni Mason

World Book Day – 6th March 2025

World Book Day is just around the corner, and we’re excited to celebrate reading with our school community! After our last meeting with the Friends of St John the Baptist (FOSJB), it was decided that children can either dress up in their favourite book costume or come in comfy pyjamas ready to read. To make costume choices even easier, the FOSJB will be hosting a second-hand costume sale (see poster below). If your child has outgrown any costumes, please bring them to the front office to sell for a great price and help others find their perfect outfit! On the day, in addition to fun activities at school, there will also be bundles of books available for sale in the playground. All money raised from book-related sales will go directly towards upgrading our school library. Happy reading!

Please click this link to sign up for the events you can. Click here to sign up to help with the Easter Events

Hopefully we will have so many volunteers we will need to share out the opportunities. Thanks for signing up to help in advance. 

World Book Day

• Organising donations and setting up the Costume stall
  • Tuesday 25th February 2:00-3:30pm
  • Thursday 27th February 2:30-3:30pm
• Helping to sell costumes in the playground
  • Thursday 27th February 3:30-4:00pm
  • Friday 28th February 3:30-4:00pm
• Making up & wrapping with cellophane book packs for the book sale:
  • Friday 28th February 9:30-11:30am
  • Friday 28th February 1:00-3:30pm
• Manning the book sale stall:
  • Thursday 6th March – 3:00-4:00pm
  • Possible second day of stall if books left over:  Friday 7th March 3:00-4:00pm

Red Nose Day

• Selling Red Noses and ‘red accessories’ for Comic Relief in playground
  • Tuesday 18th March 3:30-4:00pm
  • Thursday 20th March 3:30-4:00pm

Easter Bonnet Workshop for children and parents

• Gathering and setting up items for crafting for families to purchase
  • Prep: Tuesday 18th March 1:30-3:30pm
  • Prep: Thursday 20th March 1:30-3:30pm
• Setting up the dining hall for the event:
  • Wednesday 26th March 1:30-3:30pm
• At the workshop – Selling ‘kits’ for bonnet making to families who come to the workshop
  • Wednesday 26th March 3:30-5:00pm (And tidy up)

Easter Egg Hunt

• Hiding eggs for classes to find in playground
  • Thursday 3rd April 8:45-12:00pm

Uniform

We wanted to give you a quick heads-up that we have had a message from Brigade that uniform costs will be increasing from March 1st. There hasn’t been an increase for 2 years. While we are still awaiting the new pricing details, we recommend purchasing any needed items now to avoid the upcoming increase.  Click the picture below for the uniform website.

Communication & Getting in touch

We send out letters and messages to parents via our Marvellous Me App and via email. Please do check your e-mail inboxes regularly. Any issues or if you need help please ask for support at the school office.

Based on parental feedback we are going to be continuing to send out key dates for the half term to help with all families and their planning. Please watch out for this in the coming weeks.

Thanks also for the great feedback and ideas for our E-Newsletters.  Please let us know if you have any ideas on items we can include.

Just a reminder… Lost Property

We have a new Lost Property collection point. For children in years 1-6 there is a container at the blue gates at the end of every day. The container will be moved to the front office from 3:45pm for children attending after school activities.  A reminder to all families – please make sure your child’s items are labelled – if items are labelled we can find the owners of items quickly and there won’t be a need to look in Lost Property.

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