Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• History and art brought to life with inspirational canal trip

  Fri 25 Oct 2019

   

  Fifteen pupils, aged between seven and nine, from our school enjoyed a visit to the local canal, including a trip aboard Anglo Welsh’s day boat ‘Abi’ as inspiration for their art project and part of their learning about the history of the local area.

   

  The children had a wonderful canal boat trip along the Trent and Mersey Canal. The experience was to support the children with their topic of learning this term, 'Meet the Artists'. The pupils also got to draw pictures of canal life, which provided the stimulus for the artwork that they have created for their canal-themed Art Exhibition.

   

  As part of the activity day the Canal and River Explorer volunteers provided the children with information regarding the history of the waterways and water safety.

  “We all had a wonderful time and were really enthused to create to some fantastic works of art to display,” commented Amy Dickenson, a teacher at St John’s Catholic Primary School.  “We are really pleased our pupils have been given this opportunity to enjoy a canal adventure day. Our learning project at the moment also involves the children finding out about their local area so it’s great to be able to bring the history of the canals alive with this visit whilst also inspiring their inner artists.  Thank you to both The Canal & River Trust Explorers and Anglo-Welsh Waterway Holidays.”

   

  Following this day out, the children also had a watercolour lesson with local artist, Michael Bowdidge, who spent time showing them his watercolour paintings and demonstrating some useful skills and techniques. The children learned about making an 'impression' using the watercolour paints and then used this to create their own canal paintings in the 'Impressionist' style.

   

  “Our students thoroughly enjoyed this 'masterclass' and are very proud of their masterpieces,” Amy commented.

   

  The class art exhibition will be held in December.

  

• Future Engineers get to Programme Robots at Amazon!

  Thu 24 Oct 2019

  Our students were lucky enough to be invited to Amazon's fulfillment centre in Rugeley this week to take part in a Future Engineers Workshop. They really enjoyed programming their own robots and Amazon even let them bring one back to school! Thank you, Amazon!

  

• Delicious Diwali!

  Tue 22 Oct 2019

  This week in Class One we are learning all about Diwali and celebrating the wonderful Festival of Lights. It is traditional when celebrating Diwali to give sweets and gifts to friends and family. We are so excited to welcome guests to our school's Open Morning tomorrow and we have spent the morning making Diwali brownies to share with them. 
  We have also received traditional Indian sweets, yummy samosas and beautiful Indian clothing to look at from Jai's family! Thank you so much!

  

• Comfy Friday!

  Fri 18 Oct 2019

  All of the children here at St. John's are having an extremely comfy Friday. Each child has dressed in their pyjamas to raise money for our charity 'Mary's Meals'. The idea for the fundraising event was suggested and organised by our Year 6 pupil Joe. Thank you to all of our families for their contributions and support.

  

• And now... the weather.

  Thu 17 Oct 2019

  Class 2 have had a great time watching each others filmed weather reports for their geography homework this week. Many thanks to all parents for sharing the homemade videos, they were extremely entertaining!

   

• Olympian gives Inspiration to Pupils

  Wed 16 Oct 2019

  Kristian Thomas, Olympic gymnast, came into school today to inspire the children about sport and fitness.  He talked to the school about the importance of not giving up on your dreams and also treated the children to a demonstration of his talents!

   

• People Who Care for Us

  Tue 15 Oct 2019

  Yesterday in Class One we were discussing and thinking about people who care for us. ❤️
  We were so excited to make special stones for our prayer table. Each of the stones represent people who love and care for us. We made stones to represent God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, Mary, John The Baptist, Father Julian and Deacon Michael.

  

• World Mental Health Day

  Fri 11 Oct 2019

  This week in Class One we have been studying the amazing book 'The Colour Monster'. We have been identifying our emotions and talking about how to manage them.

  
  For 'World Mental Health Day'  we made calming bottles that help us to calm down if we might feel angry or sad. We love watching the glitter and the bubbles travel up and down the bottle!

  

• Grandparent's Day Lunch

  Mon 07 Oct 2019

  It was lovely to see such a fantastic turnout for our Grandparent's lunch on Thursday 3rd October. We would like to thank all the grandparents for making this event such a great success. The children enjoyed sharing this experience with their family.