Welcome to our new E-Newsletter! Dear Families, After a busy few of weeks, I am delighted to say a warm welcome hello to all of our families and to those that are joining us for the first time – we are so happy to have...
Dear Families,
After a busy few of weeks, I am delighted to say a warm welcome hello to all of our families and to those that are joining us for the first time – we are so happy to have been meeting you all at our many ‘Meet the Teacher’ events.
Over the course of the year there will be many events taking place across the school that we cannot wait to welcome you to.
Thanks to parents for the feedback on creating this new e-version newsletter, on developing the playground, on offering to volunteer and asking many questions to ensure we are working together to ensure your child achieves well while they attend St John the Baptist and beyond. I personally enjoyed the many positive comments families shared about our hardworking staff and the great questions that were asked about the content of the curriculum.
Sharing with families that our Key stage 1 and 2 (year 2 and year 6) results last year were above both National and Hackney averages bought many smiles as did our great conversations around how our vision ‘love your neighbour as yourself’ was helping us focus on how we treat each other with respect and kindness and many children were being recognised with Kindness Awards.
A highlight this week was when I was able to make a surprise visit to see our Year 4 children at Ufton Court. The children were eager to share stories of adventure and determination as they tried many new activities from climbing, ropes courses, archery, cooking, fire lighting and farm skills. The children have now safely returned and are ready to share their tales with excitement. See below for some great photos.
As always please do speak to myself or our staff with ideas, questions and thoughts.
– All the Best, Miss Toni Mason
Our theme has been – ‘Many Voices; Many Choices’
This month, we have been celebrating, Black History Month. There have been and there are still to come a number of exciting events and activities for us.
See you on Thursday for the showcase!
Good attendance at school is not just valuable, it’s essential. Going to school is directly linked to improved learning outcomes which should in turn lead to further opportunities and better job prospects. As well as this, going to school helps to develop:
Being punctual is as important as good attendance
Pupils need to arrive on time from 8:45am and unless they attend clubs, be collected promptly at 3:30 pm. Any children arriving after 8:55am, or picked up after 3:30pm will be given a late warning.
Year 6 pupils may make their own way home with parental consent and agreement from the leadership team. Nursery up to Year 5 must be collected by someone aged 16 or over.
We send out regular 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 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 to move online for newsetters. We have launched our E version (this one). Please let us know if you have any ideas on items we can include.
We now operate an a nearly new uniform shop. Please visit the school office and have a look at the many items we have available.
Can you please help us?
To make this a success we will be dependent on the generosity of parents and carers donating their children’s uniforms when they have finished with them. All funds raised go straight to our various fundraising projects and therefore benefit all the children in the school. Donations of uniform and PE kit can be left at Reception, in school hours, all year round.
Thank you for supporting the school.
We are excited to announce that all children from Reception to Year 6 have swimming lessons at St John the Baptist.
This is the half term that your child will be going swimming as part of their PE curriculum:
At St John’s we are proud to be celebrating Black History Month. We have been learning about inspirational figures and their achievements. Next week we are having a special showcase, and would love as many parents and carers as possible....
Year 1 Palm has had a thrilling week of learning. This week we have been exploring and manipulating numbers in mathematics, reading stories and writing about them, and exploring our local area of Hoxton in Geography. We are really excited for our upcoming bus excursion......
Year 4 were at Ufton Court this week and had great fun enjoying the sunshine and challenging themselves to do things they’d never done before. Balancing on the low ropes, feeding animals at the farm, lighting fires, taking a walk through a forest in the......
Last week Plum class went to the Hackney museum to visit the cultural centre of Hackney through out the years...
Year 2 had a fantastic school trip learning about The Great Fire of London, they visited Monument and went inside churches. They took part in activities including using a quill pen to write with, to explore what it was like to live during 1666. They learnt about Christopher......
This week reception class have been teaching each other different sounds. They have been working together and helping each other with their learning....
This week in Art we looked at a map of Hoxton and located our school, we then drew around our hand and stuck it in our scrap book. Next we drew pictures of different places we had seen on our Hoxton local area walk....
So great to see so many Y1 and 2 parents join us for our Phonics coffee morning and live lesson this week. When we work together, our children make great progress. Can’t wait to see you all at our next event....
This week in Hazel, we have been learning about the amazing things that Harriet Tubman did. We will be creating an autobiography on her, and so we worked together in pairs to identify the features that you would find in a biographical text. Watch this......