Author: Miss Beatson

We’re so happy our forest school is back!

This term, it’s the turn of Year 5 and Year 6 to have their forest school lessons. Today, they’ve been building dens, making wishing wells and climbing trees.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our back to school festival last Friday. The PTA did a great job of organising the event so it ran smoothly. We raised an impressive £522.36  and £22.23 on uniform sales.

Already this term, the money raised from the PTA events have helped buy new musical instruments to support our music curriculum and a new speaker  which will help our wake up shake up sessions.

Thank you to everyone who helped to organise the event.

Before the Summer holidays, we invited you to take a picture of objects in the environment that represented the letters for St James. We’ve enjoyed looking at the photographs sent in-there were so many creative ideas! We announced our winners on Friday. Well done to all the families who took part. Check out some of the entries.

We had our annual Summer Fair on Friday and what a great success it was!

Thank you to the  PTA who organised the event and to everybody who came along to support the school.

The total raised was a magnificent £1,645! This is the most we’ve raised at a PTA event.

Thanks again to all involved.

 

Last half term, we had our second attendance competition of the year. All children who had attendance of 96% or above were entered into a prize draw. Well done to Hope in Year 6 who won the competition and received a £50 voucher!

Last week, most classes had attendance of 96% or above.  This was a great start to the final half term. Thank you to everybody who has been making sure their child arrives to school on time- this makes a big difference to the child’s school day.

Key Stage 2 had a fantastic day at John Smeaton Leisure Centre taking part in the annual Brownlee Triathlon. The children arrived back to school looking very happy- smiles on their faces and showing off their medals. Well done to all the children who showed perseverance, determination and courage.

This week, we’ve been enjoying our new playground equipment which the PTA have bought for the school. Thank you to everybody who has been part of fundraising for school- it enables equipment like this to be provided for all the children to use so they can have happy and healthy playtimes.

 

We’re finally having some signs that brighter, sunnier days are coming. It was lovely to see lots of children in our gardening club preparing some seeds and plants ready for Summer.

This week, they’ve planted potatoes, runner beans, broccoli and radishes. They were very excited to tell me that we have lots of tadpoles in our pond, too!

We have a variety of after school clubs happening this term and we still have some availability. If your child would like to join a club, please speak with the school office.