Over St. John's CE Primary SchoolHead Teacher Blog: Friday 26th April 2019
Date: 26th Apr 2019 @ 12:52pm
Breakfasts have begun! As blogged about before the holidays, we have joined up with the National Breakfast Programme to offer our children a free breakfast bagel in the morning as they arrive at school. Mrs Fogg ensures that the bagels are toasty and warm before our team of Blakemere volunteers serve them at the gate in the morning. If the children haven’t had time for breakfast in the morning, or would like an extra boost, then they are more than welcome to take a bagel to eat on the playground as they wait for school to start. These are available every day for at least the summer term, so do make the most of it!
Huge congratulations to Mrs Fogg, our former Kitchen Assistant, who is now our new Catering Supervisor! Mrs Sugarman, our previous Catering Supervisor, moves on to pastures new at the end of the month and following on from her rigorous interview this week, it was a unanimous decision to appoint Mrs Fogg. Mrs Fogg has often stepped up to the role of Catering Supervisor in Mrs Sugarman’s absence and her food speaks for itself – the daily homemade bread, creative fruit platters and delicious meals (including the ‘fluffy mash’ as one child commented on this week!) are all ones that we are very proud to have coming out of our kitchen. Well done Mrs Fogg!
Thank you to all who were able to attend our Easter Service last week. It did feel a little strange this year breaking up for ‘Spring Break’ as the holiday didn’t encompass Easter, and then returning to school to hold the Easter Service. However, the children did a fantastic job of sharing the Good News that Jesus has risen and put us all right back on track to enable us to celebrate that Good News at the weekend – I hope that you all managed to celebrate with your family and friends.
Staff have had their second twilight session this week around Mini Me Yoga and we are on track working towards becoming a Mini Me Yoga accredited school. Your children may come home telling you have they have been charging up to become ‘focussed’ or ‘calm’ or ‘healed’ to name a few as we continue to look at ways to give the children as many opportunities as possible that impact positively on their daily lives and learning.
In our No Outsiders Collective Worship this week, we looked at different families. We looked at a photograph of a lioness, taken in Tanzania, that was raising a leopard as its own and we read the story ‘I love you all the same’ by Donna Keith about Mama Bear and Papa Bear who had three cubs – a brown bear cub, a polar bear cub and a panda bear cub. We talked about how families are different, but that’s okay because, no matter how different families are, it’s about love and kindness. “Love each other. You must love each other as I have loved you.’ John 13.34
We have also talked about the conversion of Paul this week in Collective Worship. We talked about how unkind he could be and treated people who followed Jesus as Outsiders. Fortunately, he saw the error of his ways when he was blinded by a bright light. God sent Ananias to support him and they prayed together and then he could see again. He realised that the way he felt when he couldn’t see was the way that he was making others feel so he became a follower of Jesus and spread the Good News. We talked about having respect for other people of different faiths or those without faiths as we realise that, just because someone is different, we all have the right to be treated equally and with respect.
Confirmed Dates for the Spring Term 2019
Monday 29th April: Linmere and Delamere cricket coaching sessions
Tuesday 30th April: Class photographs
wb. Monday 13th May: Year 6 SATs
Tuesday 14th May: Parents Evening – information to be sent out in due course
Wednesday 15th May: Parents Evening – information to be sent out in due course
Friday 24th May: School closes for Whit holiday at 3pm
Don’t forget to keep checking the calendar on the school website. If you click on an event on the calendar, more information about that event will be given, if it has been added.
Take care,
Mrs E Snowdon