Easter Service - St James' Church Thursday 27th March
Our end of term Easter Service is in St. James’s Church today commencing at 09:30. All are welcome to attend.
Our end of term Easter Service is in St. James’s Church today commencing at 09:30. All are welcome to attend.
Please note that school finishes early on this final day of term:
Nursery, Reception & KS1 at Old Jamaica Road - 13:15 Finish
KS2 at Alexis Street - 13:30 Finish
Please also note that there is no after-school club provision today.
We've had a really great, focused Assessment Week with lots of terrific French and Relationship & Health Education learning too. This term has really flown and I can’t believe we break up for the long Easter Holiday next Thursday! Do remember we break up next Thursday at 13:15 (OJR) and 13:30 (Alexis St) with no after-school club provision on the final day.
This week, 6 Canada visited the London Transport Museum; Reception had a lovely trip to Lavender Pond; all children from Reception – Year 6 have had NSPCC staying safe assemblies; swimming lessons and library visits have continued as well as Violin and Recorder lessons. Y3&4 are looking performance-ready for their production of ‘Mary Poppins’ next week'. Thank you for helping us to support Comic Relief last Friday – we raised £227.19 as a school! Thanks also for donations of Easter eggs/bake sale items before our tombola and bake sale next Wednesday. If things are brought in before then, this is fine. In Collective Worship this week, we’ve begun to think about Easter in the lead up to Holy Week in the final week of term.
Please see our full newsletter below together with useful information regarding Easter holiday events, diary dates sheet and a flyer regarding after-school tennis coaching.
Wishing you, your families, and our whole community a super weekend; we’re all hoping for the Spring weather to continue!
God bless, from the St. James’ team
Once again, we signpost our families to our Safeguarding pages on this website including our Safer Internet Day which is celebrated every February to highlight the pleasures as well as pitfalls of internet use. Where to go for advice? Who to contact if you are worried about internet use in your family or by something you have seen?
Families shopping online and also considering buying devices for their children should consider the advantages as well as pitfalls. It is always useful to get some topical advice before you buy so here are some top tips to guide you.
The National Cyber Security Centre has a page giving advice on how to shop securely online, https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/shopping-online-securely. Here is a short video giving an idea of the topics covered:
They also offer a range of advice to protect you and your families as well as information on what to do if you are hacked or have a cybersecurity issue:
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/information-for/individuals-families
Childnet provide some valuable ideas around digital wellbeing:
https://www.childnet.com/blog/how-you-can-look-after-your-childs-digital-wellbeing-this-christmas/
Get Safe Online covers a vast array of safeguarding issues and advice, broken down by subject and by age range: https://www.getsafeonline.org/personal/article-category/safeguarding-children/
Children's Tech guide 2023 and also Setting up Tech safely for children
are both useful links from internetmatters.org
If you are a parent of a child starting Reception in September 2024, do contact us to arrange a tour of our school. We will be happy to arrange a date and time to suit you. Click the following link to fill in a form of interest; we will contact you to arrange a tour of our Old Jamaica Road site and give all the details about starting school you may need:
The Children's Commissioner has signposted a wealth of resources for families to access who have children either starting primary or secondary school, everything from what to expect to what to have for lunch! Do take a look, the links are from the BBC Bitesize website and are also listed below. The CC website also has lots of information regarding the wellbeing of children and is worth a look.
We have been asked to circulate the attached flyer to families regarding the vaccination of children between the ages of 5 - 11 years.
We would like to take this opportunity to introduce the Evelina London School Nursing Service. If you are a parent/carer of a child(ren) at school and are worried about your child’s health and wellbeing, school nurses are here to help. We work in teams across Southwark and Lambeth and you can contact us for confidential advice and support on a wide range of issues. Please see our flyer attached below for further details of the services we can offer.
Please let us know if your child has medical or physical and/or emotional health needs for which they need support. You can text a school nurse on 07520 631130.