Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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The Chesil Literacy Project
Wed 24 Apr 2024We are delighted that St John's were invited to take part in the first ever Chesil Poetry Festival at Weymouth Pavilion today.
During the morning, our Year 5 pupils recited a poem, they have been practising for several weeks, to a live audience along with other schools in the local area. It was lovely to hear the variety of poems performed by all of the children involved.
Well done to Year 5 for being so professional in your recital!
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The Dog's Trust
Fri 19 Apr 2024Today we were visited by Vicky, the Education and Community Officer for Dorset, from The Dog's Trust.
Vicky led a whole school assembly followed by workshops in Years 4, 5 & 6.
These explored important messages to ensure safe and mutually rewarding interactions between children and dogs. The focus was on safety within the home, as well as out and about in the community.
Thank you Vicky, we look forward to seeing you again next year!
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West Dorset Dance Competition
Fri 22 Mar 2024Congratulations to our Year 6 Dance Team who won the KS2 West Dorset Dance Competition at Budmouth! They danced their 'Plastic in the Ocean' dance beautifully and did us all proud! Well done to you all.
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World Book Week
Mon 11 Mar 2024What an amazing week filled with books and stories, encouraging a 'Love of Reading'. Classroom doors were transformed into a book character or theme, ensuring that the children were transported into a world of reading. There were so many brilliant entries for our 'Story in a Jar' competition. It was a difficult decision to choose a winner but, thankfully we managed to choose two! One from both KS1 and KS2. Congratulations goes to them, along with a £10 book token each, and a big Well Done to everyone who took part!
World Book day started with a fantastic family Book Breakfast and it was wonderful to see families sharing a story with their breakfast rolls! It was great to see all the children dressed as their favourite characters and visiting every classroom during the morning to be read a story by the teacher.
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Year 3 Football Festival
Wed 06 Mar 2024Today some of our Year 3 children travelled to Budmouth Academy to take part in a Football Festival. The children played really well. We didn't win but we learnt new skills, had lots of fun and even brought home a medal each!
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Children's Mental Health Week 5th-9th Feb
Fri 09 Feb 2024This week we have celebrated Children's Mental Health Week with the theme, ' My Voice Matters'.
This is about empowering children and young people by providing them with the tools they need to express themselves.
When we feel empowered, this can have a positive impact on our wellbeing. Children and young people who feel that their voices are heard and can make a difference have a greater sense of community and self-esteem. This year, we want children of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to be empowered to work together to create a positive change for their mental health and wellbeing.
During Children’s Mental Health Week we want all children and young people to be able to say – and believe - “My Voice Matters”.We have ended the week with 'Express Yourself Day' and every child has chosen a wellbeing activity to end their day. This could be one of these *Football *Yoga *Art & Colouring *Dance *Playdough *Hama Beads. Do have a conversation with your child about what they have been learning over the half term holiday.
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Attendance Awards
Fri 09 Feb 2024We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone for supporting our drive to improve attendance. We have celebrated this today in our whole school worship with our attendance raffle prizes.
Congratulations to our lucky winners!
Remember, every child is back in with a chance, to win one of our raffle prizes, next half term. All you need to do is come to school every day.
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Year 5 take part in Shakespeare By The Sea Festival at Weymouth Pavilion
Wed 07 Feb 2024Watch our fantastic Year 5 Class perform, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' By William Shakespeare HERE
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Outdoor Learning with the Reception Class
Thu 01 Feb 2024Every Thursday afternoon our Reception Class pull on their welly boots and coats and venture outside, ready for learning.
Our outdoor learning session encourages physical development as well as gaining an understanding of the world around us.
In spring term 2 we are learning Geography skills, in particular - maps. This will encourage our spacial awareness and positional language as well as learning how to map our journey and how to read simple maps.
To help embed this learning, we are recognising parts of our school on a map and also drawing our own maps whilst exploring the school grounds.
We are also taking advantage of our session to look out for signs of spring and new life, we can't wait to see the new flowers grow and the blossom to flourish!
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Year 2 Sea City Museum
Fri 12 Jan 2024On Friday 12th January, our Year 2 class embarked on an exciting adventure to the Sea City Museum in Southampton. During our visit we learnt lots of facts about the Titanic, conducted a science experiment to find out how the Titanic sank and were able to look at objects that would have been used by the people on board the Titanic. Some of the children even tried on clothes which would have been worn by some of the passengers and crew.
Thank you to Miss Williams and the Year 2 team for organising a brilliant experience for our children, as well as the parent helpers who volunteered their time to make this trip happen! We all had a great time!
