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Clean Air Day

Tue 06 Oct 2020

Thursday 8th October is Clean Air Day! The local Tunbridge Wells Friends of the Earth group are supporting this campaign in an effort to reduce air pollution around schools.

The results are in!

Mon 20 Jul 2020

This year's winning house is...

Bodiam!

It was a close call and the others houses were not far behind. Here are the final scores on the doors:

Bodiam - 40336

Scotney - 40078

Rochester - 40027

Hever - 39710

Well done to everyone for their hard work and good behaviour this year!

Winning moth posters at Grosvenor & Hilbert Park

Fri 17 Jul 2020

Congratulations to Leo, Lydia, Amelie and Martha whose winning moth posters are now on display by the bowling green in Grosvenor & Hilbert park. Well done!

More additions to the Early Years Magical Woods!

Tue 30 Jun 2020

Could it be magic?

There is more magic in the air as another wonderful addition to our Magical Woods arrived last week. Many thanks to the Edwards family (Bella in Maple class’s family) who kindly donated their amazing Wendy house to the Early Years Magical Woods. The children couldn’t wait to find out what had arrived. The beautiful little cottage will provide the children with fantastic role-play opportunities in the future.

Also, many thanks to Miss Villano, Juniper class teacher, who has added to the Birkby’s mud kitchen by making a wonderful kitchen unit for the children to enjoy. Our Early Years children have already been seen chopping, dicing and slicing on this great new addition to the mud kitchen.

Early Years Mud Kitchen

Thu 18 Jun 2020

More Early Years excitement!

There was much excitement in the Early Years outdoor area again this week. The very special delivery of a brand new Mud Kitchen arrived. However, this was no ordinary Mud Kitchen. This one was built by our very talented Mr Birkby (daddy of Albie in Elm class). This week, the children have enjoyed cooking, baking and preparing delicacies such as mud soup, stick stew and leaf buns. Our Reception children would like to say a huge thank you to the Birkby family for making this amazing Mud Kitchen for them. They absolutely love it! Also, thanks to the kind parents who brought additional resources for the children to use in the kitchen. There is no doubt they will be in constant use!

A message from Tenors Unlimited

Tue 16 Jun 2020

Jem Sharples of Tenors Unlimited wanted to say hello to the choir and all the children at St John's, so he has recorded a video to wish us all well.

Jem is one third of Tenors Unlimited and is also a former St John's pupil. Our choir have been lucky enough to sing with Jem twice in recent years and we are sure the choir will be very excited to hear from him during lockdown. Thank you Jem for getting in touch, we can't wait to be able to sing with you again one day!

Click here to watch Jem's message

The Magical Wood appears!

Thu 11 Jun 2020

The children had never seen it before! It appeared as if by magic! As the Reception children returned to school last week, a new Magical Wood had appeared in the Early Years playground. However, although it is called the Magical Wood, and it is rather magical, it didn’t appear from out of nowhere. A lot of hard work was put in to create this amazing new feature of our Early Years outside area. Built by Woodland Venture, it encompasses an amazing growing area and story circle. Once built, with the hard work and vision of Heather Roberts, the woods were brought to life. A huge thank you to Heather and her husband, who spent many hours creating the wonderful vegetable beds and cutting back foliage to give our new plants some light. Also, many thanks to Kelly Bryant who made some wonderful fairy doors which will be added to our woods soon.