John Lewis Innovation Challenge 2018

Pupils will work in teams to design, plan and create an innovative solution to the following sustainability challenge, set by our Sustainability Managers:

How would you reinvent a school blazer to give it a new life?

Roxanne and Jamie:

“Year 5 took part in the John Lewis Challenge. we came up with creative ideas and then made them come to life. These are what our five groups made:

  One group also made a top hat.

We think all the groups did brilliantly and will be tough competition.

Our current topic of Pentecost is coming to a close and the final piece of work required the children to describe the actions and rationale of people they identified as Pentecost people. Thanks to our parents and grandparents we were able to represent a range of faiths including Judaism, Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism. Father Denis kindly agreed to join us and be interviewed by the different classes about his life in faith.

This is excellently captured by Abigail Gage in Year 3 who reported her understanding of the interview:

“Father Denis said, “Faith is about seeing Jesus in everyone, loving people and treating others like you want to be treated.Believing in Jesus is moral choice because you can choose to follow in the footsteps of God or not to follow in the footsteps of God”

Many thanks to Father Denis and our other contributors.

Please enjoy our newsletter for May.

School Newsletter – May 2018

Please enjoy our newsletters about the RE learning for this half term:

RE Newsletter EYFS – Summer 1 2018 – From Easter to Pentecost

RE Newsletter – Summer 1 2018 – From Easter to Pentecost

Please enjoy our April Newsletter.

School Newsletter – April 2018

The bar model is a valuable tool which helps children recognise what the question is asking them to do. It is not a calculation strategy and as such does not replace column addition or subtraction but goes alongside to add clarity. The key language is  the whole and the parts and to reinforce that we subtract from the whole to find parts and add parts together to find the whole.

Please find attached the PowerPoint for the workshop last night. We hope to provide another opportunity in the summer term with a focus on multiplication and division.

Mathematics BAR Model

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School Newsletter – March 2018

What a delightful afternoon!

Yesterday St John’s opened its doors to our grandparents with an opportunity to find out more about Fairtrade and Feed The World 2050 in the context of Catholic Social Teaching. All were treated to Fairtrade cakes and beverages provided by the staff and PA.

Early Years hosted planting sessions to develop their status as eco-warriors and provided opportunities to share a book with tea and cake.

Key Stage One held an assembly to share their understanding of Fairtrade. Each child shared their ideas for a Fairtrade superhero and many went on the describe how they would act in the future to make sure equality was a feature of their future. Year 2 also performed a short play they had devised themselves to explain the principles of Fairtrade.

KS2 presented Fairtrade information in their classrooms and explained why it is important to think now about how we will feed the world in the future. But there is no such thing as a free lunch and the tables were then turned as our guests became our Living Library. In order to make secure choices about the future we may need to look at food consumption and production in the past and who better to ask than those who were there. The grandparents were a amazing source of information and extremely generous with their time and knowledge. The pupils will now use these ideas in the responses stage of our project in the summer term.

Thank you so much to those grandparents who were able to join us and many people commented on how many smiling faces were seen across the age range. Thanks also to our invaluable PA. Looking forward to the next one.