School News

Celebrating World Book Day 2024

We had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day 2024. Our children and staff came to school in their pjs and comfortable clothing. The children read to one another, shared their favourite books and photos of their favourite places to read.

Year 5 Cornet Concert

Our Year 5 children have been learning to play the cornet and had the wonderful opportunity to share their musical skills by performing at an event hosted by Watford School of Music. Well done Year 5

St John’s C of E Primary School Disco, Years 2 & 3

St John’s C of E Primary School life is about developing the whole child. An important part of that development is creating opportunities for all of the children to make happy long lasting memories. The St John’s C of E Primary School Discos are fun filled events with entertainment provided by popular children’s entertainer, Mr Marvel

Yesterday, Year 2 and 3 came dressed in their favourite party clothing and sang, danced and laughed with their classmate and school friends.

A huge thank you to Mr Marvel, our PTA, The Friends of St John’s, our school staff, volunteers and everyone who worked together to make this event possible, your help was greatly appreciated.

St John’s C of E Primary School Parent Governor vacancy

There is an amazing opportunity to become a Parent Governor and we are inviting all current St John’s C of E Primary School to parents and carers to let us know if this is something that they would be interested in.

Being a School Governor is a voluntary role which involves attending Governors meetings and helping to make important decisions about how our school is run.

Please contact our school office for more information.

St John’s Community Choir starting 28th February 2024. Everyone is welcome.

Singing is a form of celebration, an expression of joy and a way to come together as a group to create something wonderful.

We are very excited to announce the launch of the St John’s Community Adult Choir, the choir will meet on the last Wednesday of every month, 7-8pm in the St John’s C of E Primary School hall.

There will be a voluntary donation of £3 per session.Come along, meet new people and let’s add to the feeling of joy in our school hall

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Regal London and views from the 25th floor

Thank you to our friends and neighbours at Regal London for inviting us to the ceremony to celebrate reaching the top of The Clarendon Works.

It’s been interesting to see every stage of the development from demolition of the previous building to the construction of the new development.

We are thankful to the team at Regal London for nurturing a relationship with our school which has included the extension of our rooftop playground.

Cinderella at Watford Palace Theatre

Thank you very much to our PTA, The Friends of St John’s for helping to make this trip possible by paying a percentage of the cost of the tickets.

Christmas Jumpers, Christmas Lunch and Father Christmas

Our children and staff celebrated Christmas early together on Wednesday. All of the children and staff were welcome to wear their favourite festive clothing. There was a temporary change to the lunch menu and it was Christmas lunch prepared by the Coombs catering team.

There was a special visitor in the afternoon. Thank you to our PTA, The Friends of St John’s, for writing a letter to Father Christmas inviting him to our school.

Carol Service at VWV

Thank you to VWV for inviting our Eagles to sing Christmas Carols in their Watford office. The children, who are Ambassadors for our school,  enjoyed spreading Christmas cheer by singing a collection of carols to the staff at VWV. Thank you for the warm welcome. We  wish everyone at VWV a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Visit from Luther Blissett, OBE DL

It was a very special day for our school on Wednesday. Luther Blissett, OBE DL came to visit and took part in the official opening of our Rooftop Playground extension. He had a tour of the school, met the majority of the children in their classrooms. had afternoon tea with the Active Eagles and kindly signed a book and a couple of footballs.

We are thankful to Luther Blissett for making the time to come to visit us and we are thankful to Regal London for extending our wonderful rooftop playground.

Thank you to Mr Sewell for coming into school over the summer holiday to help with the construction of the extension.