St John's School Watford - News and Events

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.

Important: Guidance from the Director of Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council re: Strep A

The Director of Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council has issued guidance for families regarding Scarlet Fever and Group A Streptococcus (GAS) also known as Strep A.

The letter can be accessed via the following link: Letter from Director of Public Health at Hertfordshire County Council

Collecting Personalised Christmas Gifts orders

The personalised Christmas mug orders are ready for collection for our PTA, The Friends of St John’s C of E Primary School.

Volunteers from The Friends will be available outside school with the mug orders after school during the last week of term . Please contact The Friends directly via email fofstjs@gmail.com for more details.

St John’s School Snowflakes

The children have been working hard to create their own snowflake designs. The snowflakes have been collected by the Class Teachers and have been used to decorate the school. The building looks wonderfully festive.