School News

Year 6 Leavers Celebrations: Tree Planting in Cassiobury Park

Our Year 6 class visited Cassiobury Park to plant a group of trees as part of their Year 6 Leavers’ celebrations. Cassiobury Park has been a special part of the children’s time at St John’s Church of England Primary School and it was important that the part was included in our celebrations. The current class will be the first St John’s Year 6 Leavers and a number of events have been arranged to celebrate this milestone.

St John’s C of E Primary School Book Fair

We are celebrating the joy of reading by arranging a number of exciting events for St John’s C of E Primary School Book Week. Our latest event was the Book Fair in our school hall yesterday. We showcased books by Fleur Hitchcook and local author, Nizrana Farook. Both authors attended the event and signed copies of their books.

Teach in Herts Recruitment Fair

Our friendly school Leadership Team attended the Teach in Herts Recruitment Fair last Saturday. It was wonderful to meet newly qualified and experienced teachers as well as school staff who were interested in learning more about working at St John’s C of E Primary School

St John’s football team

Monday The 27th of February 2023 was a football match. The St John’s football team were competing against a school called Bushey manor. We lost 11-0 but enjoyed it and had lots of fun. It was our first time playing on a big pitch but we never gave up. The star of the football team was Leandro with the best tricks in the world.

We can improve on not staying in a group and just spreading out. I hope we get invited to more amazing and fun football matches.

Match report written by Noell Year 6

World Book Day Costumes

On Wednesday, St John’s C of E Primary School children and staff dressed up as well known book characters. Our school was filled with a variety of creative costumes, the most popular characters were Matilda, Mary Poppins, characters from Harry Potter, Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Wally from Where’s Wally?

We are looking forward to St John’s C of E Primary School Book Week, 6th-10th March 2023. We have a number of exciting book related events planned.

World Book Day, 2nd March 2023

All St John’s C of E Primary School children and staff are welcome to dress up as a book character, for example Percy Jackson, Matilda or Harriet the Spy. It’s exciting way for children to engage with their favourite books. There are lots of ways to create a costume which don’t require lots of time or  spending lots of money.

Teach in Herts Recruitment Fair, 4th March 2023

St John’s C of E Primary School will be attending the Teach in Herts Recruitment Fair on Saturday 4th March 2023. Come along, meet our Headteacher and learn more about teaching and working at our school. For more information, please visit the Teach in Herts website

Celebrating our first Year Six Leavers

Love Thy Neighbour

The value of the month is Love. Being based on Clarendon Road means that we have the opportunity to connect with local businesses and form long lasting relationships. We have been very lucky to have received support from a number of organisations who have sponsored events, donated items or volunteered to support projects.

Our lovely neighbours next door at British Steel Pension Fund kindly donated ten office chairs, three desks and a storage cabinet to our school. We are thankful for their generosity, the kind donations have made a huge difference to the school office and classrooms.

OU Farshore Storytime Project

We are taking part in the Open University  Farshore Storytime Project, this involves the Class Teachers reading a book to the children for 20 minutes per day purely for enjoyment.

We are lucky enough to be one of only twenty schools selected to take part in this project and have been gifted 200 brand new books for our school library.