Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Advent Penitential Service

  Thu 25 Nov 2021

  Advent Penitential Service

   

  On Thursday 25th November we celebrated our Advent Penitential  Service with Fr Tom and led by our Year 6 children. It was a powerful reminder and reflection on the meaning of Advent and how we can use the coming weeks effectively to prepare for the celebration of the birth of Jesus. Many thanks to our Year 6 role models for leading us in    prayer and reflection. 

   

   

   

   

• KS2 Girls Tag Rugby

  Fri 19 Nov 2021

  KS2 Tag Rugby Club

   

  Some girls in KS2 have been enjoying playing Tag Rugby after school on Thursdays in a club run by Bath Rugby. The girls have been having lots of fun running around on the playground. They have had half of the four scheduled lessons and are looking forward to the remaining two sessions.

   

  

• Spotlight on Safeguarding - Squid Game

  Fri 19 Nov 2021

  Spotlight on Safeguarding – Squid Game

   

  We are very concerned  that many of our children are watching/playing Squid Games.

   

  If you have a safeguarding or welfare concern about a child, please email the school on safeguarding@st-johns-trowbridge.wilts.sch.uk

   

  You can also phone the school and ask to speak to Mrs O'Mahony, our Designated Safeguarding Lead. If she is not available, then please ask to speak to either Mrs Sessions or Mrs O'Rourke.

   

  All concerns will be treated in confidence.  

   

  For more information have a look at our school website, and also the NSPCC website.

  If a child is in immediate danger, call the police on 999 straight away.

   

   

   

• Open Day - Saturday 4th December 2021

  Fri 12 Nov 2021

   Open Day Saturday 4th December 2021

   

  We will be holding an Open Day on Saturday 4th December for         prospective parents who will be given the opportunity of touring the whole school as well as the reception classes.  Parents who already have children at the school are welcome and are encouraged to come as well.

   

  Please contact the school office on 01225 752006 to arrange a time to tour the school.

   

   

• Clifton Diocese Emmaus Water Pump Project

  Fri 12 Nov 2021

   

  Clifton Diocese Emmaus Water Pump Project

   

  Our school communities in the Clifton Diocese have a unique              opportunity to become involved in a project that will reach out to        thousands of young people and their families in the Masaka District of South-Western Uganda. Working alongside the International Tree  Foundation and the Masaka and District Land Care Chapter, we aim

  to provide independent water resources for 23 schools. With the         potential help of the family of Clifton schools we have the possibility of   extending this project to many thousands more.

   

  Uganda’s poverty levels have risen 10% since the pandemic began. Millions of Ugandans lack access to safe water and improved sanitation facilities. Subsistence farming is contributing to rising poverty levels. One way to break the cycle of poverty is to encourage the development of sustainable economies that our project’s combination of tree

  planting and clean water resourcing can bring about.

   

  One in four people in Uganda do not have access to safe drinking      water. That is around 8 million people. Some people, who already live in poverty pay 22% of their wages to buy clean water from water vendors.

   

  At St. John’s we are holding a raffle  to purchase water pumps and to maintain them for the 23 schools.

   

  Tickets are 20p each or £1 a strip.

  They will be on sale until the end of next week. The draw will take place during the week of 22nd November.

  Please support our raffle if you can.

  These are the prizes you could win.

  Thank you.

   

  

• Beach Clean

  Fri 12 Nov 2021

  Beach Clean

   

  Whilst away on their residential trip to Skern Lodge, Year 6 pupils did a beach clean whilst they were at Hartland on Tuesday. We are doing our bit for the   environment.

   

• Ant-Bullying High Visibility Jackets

  Fri 05 Nov 2021

  High Visibility Jackets

   

  The anti-bullying ambassadors now have their own design high visibility jackets to wear on the playground thanks to the talented Mrs Kras. These will help to identify them to all pupils in the playground and know who to talk to if they need any support.

   

   

  

• Trowbridge Football League Tournament

  Fri 05 Nov 2021

  Trowbridge Football League Tournament

   

   Congratulations to the Year 6 football team who took part in the annual Trowbridge football league held at John of Gaunt.

  We remained unbeaten and finished top  of the league. The children were wonderful ambassadors of the school and a credit to their family’s.

  Thank you   to all the parents who  showed their support and spectated, no matter the weather, and to the children who participated. 

   

   

  

• Wiltshire Artist

  Fri 08 Oct 2021

  Wiltshire Artist Nick Andrew

   

   

  Wiltshire artist, Nick Andrew, has generously    loaned the school some of his river paintings to help Years 3 and 4 with their Art learning.  Here, they are sketching from his paintings.

   

  More examples of his work can be found on his website nickandrew.co.uk.

   

   

• Harvest Service

  Fri 08 Oct 2021

  Harvest Service

   

  On Friday 1st October we celebrated our Harvest Service led by Fr Tom and our new Chapel Champion Team. It was a beautiful service and   focussed our minds on the gifts of Harvest and how we must be joyful and grateful for what we have each day. The children in Year 5 & 6 joined together in the school hall whilst the younger children joined via Teams. The singing was fantastic and our new Year 6 Chapel        Champions were wonderful ambassadors to the whole school community. Thank you again to all the families for your generous donations of food and toiletries, this will be taken to the Trowbridge Foodbank. We counted over 300 donations! We are looking forward to more celebrations of Liturgy and Mass together across the school year.