We hope you had a happy and healthy half-term break.
Do you have a friend or family member looking for a Nursery? Along with Reception, our Nursery was judged by Ofsted (January, 2025) to be outstanding. If you know of someone looking for a place, let them know about us. We have places in Nursery available.
Themed week: Being healthy
Our next themed week is the week beginning Monday 07 July. This is the second of two themed weeks each year.
Learning will be based around how to be healthy physically and emotionally. A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of Living and Learning.
Drug education
D:side will be delivering drug education sessions to all classes the week before our themed week. Information for parents and carers about these sessions will be available from d:side on Wednesday 02 July from 3.00pm-3:30pm. Weather permitting, you’ll find Dave in the main playground.
Sports Day
As part of the week, you’re invited to watch your child take part in our annual Sports Day on Thursday 10 July:
- Nursery and Reception: 9.15am – 11am
- Key Stage 1 and 2: 1.30pm – 3pm
Healthy way to travel to school
This themed week is a good opportunity to think about a healthy way to travel to school. We encourage children to use an active and sustainable method of transport, maybe parking further away from school, scooting, biking or walking to school. We’d love to see their active travel photos (send photos to stjamesoffice@spherefederation.org by Thursday 10 July). There will be a prize draw at the end of the week for children to win a voucher.
Can you help?
If your job involves an aspect of health and you can support our Being Healthy themed week by coming into school, please contact the office to pass on your details.
A few other things…
Due to the rising costs of visitors to school, we’re inviting you to make a small contribution: £2 per pupil will help us to pay for visitors and ensure themed weeks like this one can continue in the future. If you choose to contribute, you can do this on School Gateway. Thank you for your support with this.
Due to the nature of the activities planned, children are allowed to wear PE kit all week. Please respect our Uniform Policy for what to wear on PE days.
Staying safe in the sun
Now that summer’s here, it’s important to remember to stay safe in the sun. Please remember to apply sunscreen to keep your child safe.
Gold!
We’re happy to announce that we’ve achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2024-25 school year.
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust, to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we’re delighted to have been recognised once again for our success.
Every day matters
Our whole-school attendance figure is 95.2%. This means we’re above the national figure for primary schools: 94.9%.
Well done to children in Year 1, Year 3 and Year 5 – each of those classes have attendance above the school average…
- Reception: 94.6%
- Year 1: 96.1%
- Year 2: 94.6%
- Year 3: 96.9%
- Year 4: 93.8%
- Year 5: 96.4%
- Year 6: 91.8%
Thank you for making sure your child attends school as much as possible.
Finally… Have you had a chance to complete our short annual survey? It’ll take just five minutes or so. You’ve still plenty of time – the closing date is Friday 20 June.