Dear Parents and Carers, What a fantastic week it has been at SJB! We began by celebrating our new student leaders, with children from Years 3–5 proudly receiving their leadership badges. It has been wonderful to see them already beginning to take...
Dear Parents and Carers,
What a fantastic week it has been at SJB! We began by celebrating our new student leaders, with children from Years 3–5 proudly receiving their leadership badges. It has been wonderful to see them already beginning to take on their new responsibilities across the school.
There has been lots to celebrate in and beyond the classroom this week, including our Year 6 children representing St John the Baptist at the Church Schools Celebration Service and plenty of exciting learning taking place across the school. We have also begun our Black History Month celebrations, which will continue throughout October.
Next week is another busy one! Please look carefully at the key dates and messages in this newsletter, including information about our upcoming parent events and opportunities to come into school.
Thank you, as always, for your continued support and for being such an important part of our SJB community.
Warm regards,
Ms Toni Mason
SJB at the Heart of Hoxton
Meet Our New School LeadersOn Monday morning, we were delighted to officially introduce our newly elected School Leaders for 2026–27 in assembly. Each child was presented with their leadership badge, which they will now proudly wear around school as they carry out their new roles.
Children in Years 3–5 volunteered for leadership roles and were then elected by their classmates. They will represent their classes, work across different areas of school life and talk with our younger children to make sure their ideas and voices are heard too.
At St John the Baptist, we have several different pupil leadership teams:
• School Council – representing pupils’ views and helping to make decisions about school life.
• Eco Warriors – helping us look after our environment and make our school more sustainable.
• Digital Leaders – supporting safe, confident and responsible use of technology across school.
• Wellbeing Ambassadors – promoting kindness, friendship and positive wellbeing for everyone.
• Value Leaders – helping us celebrate and bring our school values to life every day.
Meanwhile, our Year 6 pupils are currently going through the application, interview and selection process to become our Prefects for 2026–27.
Watch this space – we’ll be announcing our new Prefect Team very soon!
As mentioned last week, we have followed up with the Council about employing a new School Crossing Patrol Officer for the zebra crossing on Pitfield Street. There are a number of reports of vehicles just not stopping.
Pitfield Street remains incredibly busy, and we are aware that some children regularly play nearby after school. Please remember that the road can remain dangerous even outside school hours, with reports of speeding bicycles and e-bikes causing collisions and injuries.
We ask all families, particularly those living locally, to be extra mindful of children being out unsupervised around Pitfield Street. We want to do everything we can to prevent further accidents and keep our children safe.
Parents’ Evening – Save the Date!Our Parents’ Evening will take place on Wednesday 14th October. You will soon receive an email containing a Google Doc where you can sign up for a 10-minute appointment with your child’s teacher. (See our dates poster for this half term with all the important dates!
If you have more than one child at the school, please take extra care to enter the correct child’s name on the correct class sheet – we had one or two misplaced children last year!
Parents’ Evening is a valuable opportunity to hear how your child is getting on, celebrate their progress and discuss any questions or areas where they may need additional support. We look forward to welcoming you and having these important conversations.
Our school has been chosen to perform at the MFY Proms at Royal Albert hall. We are so proud!
Tuesday 6th October Reading Forest Library Launch – see your emials for more info and to sign up
Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th October – Year 4 Residential Trip to Ufton Court
Wednesday 14th October Parents Evening
Friday 16th October – 8:45am – 9:45am Parents’ Open Morning – come and experience learnign at school
Friday 23rd October Black History Month Showcase 9am – all parents and carers welcome!
Friday 23rd October – St Johns Hoxton Family Movie Night
Monday 2nd November – Inset day: No children at school
Tuesday 3rd November – 8:45am Children return to school
This week, we learnt all about the Great Fire of London! The children enjoyed sequencing the key events and then drawing what they imagined the fire would have looked like. They loved getting creative and bringing the events to life!...
On Thursday the 1st of October Year 6 attended a Year 6 Service induction at All Saints Church on Haggeston Road. Students were able to ask questions to Year 7 students form Urswick School, and joined in with singing, dancing and faith based prayers and......
In Science, Willow created three parachutes with different sized canopies, but the same mass and dropped them to see which speed they landed at. We recorded the data and learnt the bigger the canopy the more air resistance it had so the slower the landing....
We’ve been interested in transport. We created a car, roads and pieced together tracks for trains....
It was great to go on our first trip to the library this week. It was lovely to see the children looking for their favourite authors and then selecting their books. Learning to love reading for pleasure is such an important skill for children....
Last Week, Year 1 went on the bus and saw monuments of London!...
Elm enjoying a sight seeing bus ride to Trafalgar square for writing....
Reception enjoyed a trip upstairs to the new reading forest this week! ...