Walk to School Day

Wednesday 20th October

A big well done to 4A who won the 'Walk to School Day' this week. They are now the proud owners of some 'It's good to be green' pencils.

Barcelona adventures!

Hola ninos!
Miss Burley and I have arrived at our link school. It is the same school that Mr Ricketts visited last year. School started at 9:00 this morning and the children had a break at 11.30. They have two hours for lunch whilst the teachers plan and meet with each other. They then have lessons from 3:30-5:00!
We have been to some English classes today (the children speak Catalan, Spanish and English!). They were learning about the colours, names and habitats of animals. We´ve done this in Spanish!
We must send these children some photos of your work so they can see how clever you are!
Missing you lots,
Mrs Cole and Miss Burley xxxxx

One week down!

Buenos dias los ninos y proffessoras!!

We have had a great first week here in Barcelona. We have been at the University of Barcelona this week and we have been learning lots of phrases and games that we can use to teach all of you when we get back. It's has been great!

Yesterday we went on an open top bus tour and saw loads of cool things. I went to see the Olympic stadium and Barcelona football club - the Neue Camp!! And Mrs Cole went to see a gallery. We saw all the lovely Gaudi buildings and they are all amazing!!!

We hope you are all well, we are off to Uni again tomorrow and tuesday and then start at our school on Wednesday - very excited!!

Adios amigos,

Miss Burley y Miss Cole!! xx

We have arrived!!

Hello all!

We have arrived in Barcelona. It is very windy, 20 degrees, but not raining so its all good! Hope you have had a lovely day. We start University tomorrow to learn lots of Spanish that we can then come and teach all of you! 3B and 6G we hope you have been good and aren't having too much fun without us!!!

We will be in touch as often as we can!!!

Lots of love

Mrs Cole and Miss Burley

Welcome back to St John's School Family

Hello
It was good to see you all after the summer holiday. We have had a good few days back at St John's thinking about what it means to belong to the St John's school family. We are like any other family; we celebrate together, we care for one another, sometimes we get cross with one another, we comfort one another and we are kind to one another.
Hope you all have a good year in your new classes

From

Mrs Smith

Brueton park

Nursery visit Brueton Park

Our mummies came to help.

We had a picnic.

We played games.

St John's trip to Rhyl

We enjoyed building sand castles.

The picnic was lovely.

We all had a lovely day.

West Midlands Fire Service Quiz

Last night, six Year 5 children entered a quiz run by West Midlands Fire Service. The children had worked really hard to learn all of the information and were well prepared. Emily, Isra, Raihaana, Mia, Eve and Anmol went to Highgate fire station to represent our school. We competed against seven other teams and did very well. We managed to finish in third place! Thank you to the parents who came along to support us. Well done girls! We were very proud of you.

Walk-to-School Day Winners!

Walk-to-School day was a great success this term - made even better by the nice weather! Thank you to all those who got up early to walk to school from places as far away as Stirchley and Moseley. Walking to school more often reduces pollution, reduces traffic congestion and makes us fitter!

I'm pleased to announce that the classes with the

most walkers were 1B and 3B. Well done!

Voice of the Library:
This book is so good that it is currently my favourite book of all times! It is called Warriors into the Wild by Erin Hunter. It is about a cat called Rusty, who lives the pampered life of a house cat but he doesn't think it is the life for him. He ventures alone into the neighbouring woods, intent on discovering the truth behind the horror stories of evil cats that lurk in the trees and eat bones for dinner. Instead of that, he finds a new friend, Graypaw, who is part of Thunderclan, the cats that the stories talk of. Rusty enjoys life there and quickly becomes an apprentice. Unfortunately, Rusty arrived at the wrong time, just after the mysterious death of Redtail, Thunderclan deputy and Ravenpaw, witness of redtail's death, has made a suspicious enemy of Tigerstripe. Rusty and his friends are determined to find out the real cause of the 'accident', but will the clan ever believe them?Most of all, will they protect the clan from the murderer? It is an amazing book, and many people I know really enjoy it. I would say that this book is for any body in keystage 2. Have a good read!

3B's Winding Toys

Mr Ricketts' wedding!!

Mr Ricketts is married!

Year 5 Rainforest Documentries!

Year 5 have been using the Macs this week - creating persuasive documentries about the deforestation of the world's rainforests.

A Story By Lucy H....PART 4

Lola fidgeted as she stood waiting by the door of her colourfuly decorated classroom. She had arranged with Miss Harnold that they would have a chat at lunch time so that Miss Harnold would undersand why Lola was a bit grumpy. Just as Lola was going to go and look for her teacher, Miss Harnold came trotting down the brightly lit corridoor.
"Sorry I'm a bit late; I had a bit of a long conversation with Mrs Fornet from year two," she was almost singing in her jolly voice.
Soon Lola was blurting out the whole story in detail; she had a good relationship with most teachers. Miss Harnold sat listening, quite suprised by the Lola that was being described now. At the end of Lola's speech Miss Harnold thought for some silent seconds. After that she fumbled through her letter folder and produced a cream letter from it.

Space Explorers!

Reception have been learning all about Space!

Football: Who wants to come 4th?

Mr. Taylor here: It's all happening, there are only a couple of matches to go until we find out who has won the English Premier League, Manchester United or Chelsea. Chelsea are still one point ahead but have to play harder matches than United (such as against Liverpool).

What is surprising is that other teams are working really hard to come 4th! The top four teams in the Premier League qualify for the Champions League next year - and the large amounts of money television companies pay them for playing in it. That money - and the respect that comes from playing in such an important competition - could make a real difference to those teams in the future (Would Torres or Messi play for a team who weren't one of the best?).

Why have I put this on the blog? Because one of those teams is Aston Villa -

and one is the team that I support, Tottenham Hotspur (Tottenham or 'Spurs' come from London where I grew up).

The other teams competing for 4th are Manchester City and Liverpool.

Do you support a football team? If not, then support St John's team which is playing again this Thursday. Whoever you support, find out how they are doing and let me know.

(but not if Villa win the race for 4th place because that would mean that my team have lost and I may cry!)

My first blog

Good afternoon,

Having promised Mr Ricketts, I am taking my first steps onto the St John's Blog.
My name is Mr Taylor & I am the curate at St John's Church - I will be blogging a little about what we are doing in Collective Worship on a Wednesday morning.
So far this year we have looked at the stories of Joseph and of Moses, looked at how Christians celebrate and mark certain occasions such as a baby being born, people getting married or someone dying.
When I take a baptism, wedding or a funeral I always wear certain special clothes which are called robes - but I also wear stripy socks underneath :-)

Global News

Hi, it's us again, Nisha and Bethany and have we got news for you. Today's news is:

The Sky is Full of Areoplanes!!

Aeroplanes have started to land at UK airports for the first time in six days after strict restrictions caused by a huge volcanic ash cloud were lifted. Flight officials decided to let planes into British airspace again after reassessing the damage the ash can do. They said test flights over the past few days had shown planes can cope better than previously thought with small amounts of ash in the air. But its expected to take a long time for everything to get back to normal. The restrictions have left tens of thousands of Brits stranded abroad after the Easter holidays because their flights had to be cancelled. Many have been trying to find alternative routes home by car, ferry or train. Three Royal Navy ships and a massive cruise liner have also been sent to Spain and France to help get people home. But not everyone has been trying to get BACK to Britain. The Liverpool football team embarked on a 1,200-mile journey to Spain on Tuesday for Thursday's Europa League semi-final with Atletico Madrid. Like thousands of other people, the Reds had to abandon plans to fly direct to Spain. Instead they took a train to Paris on Tuesday, and are now hoping to get another train to Bordeaux before flying on to Madrid.

By the way this is the 100th post on the blog.

Hip hip hooray

Global News

Hiya, it's Nisha and Bethany! This is our last Global News Update before Easter. Today's story:

The Arm Phone

If you're sick of carrying your phone around with you, scientists could have come up with a solution: a phone that you dial on your arm! It sounds crazy but the experts at Skin put have invented a gadget that projects your phone's numbers onto your skin. To make a call you just dial the numbers where they appear on your arm - and the 'phone' will call your friends! The device is still being developed and won't be in the shops for a while. At the moment you have to carry a projector with you for the device to work. The projector is strapped to your arm, and projects a keypad on your skin. When you touch a key, the movement is picked up by a sensor in the projector which sends a message to the gadget telling it what to do.

Lifeguards!