St. John’s Catholic Primary School Newsletter 14 – 19th December 2025

This Sunday’s Gospel : EMMANUEL

This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came
to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a man of honour
and wanting to spare her publicity, decided to divorce her informally. He had made up his mind to do this when the
angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home
as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son and you must
name him Jesus, because he is the one who is to save his people from their sins.’ Now all this took place to fulfil the
words spoken by the Lord through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call
him Emmanuel”, a name which means ‘God-is-with-us’. When Joseph woke up he did what the angel of the Lord
had told him to do: he took his wife to his home.

Attendance Award – Year  6 – 92.8% – Well done!

Whole School Attendance – 86 %

Superstars of the Week!

YR – Amelia  for being aspirational in her learning and demonstrating resilience and persevering when encountering difficulties.

Y1 – Amelie for always working so hard and for always helping others!

Y2 – Isabella for always being kind, thoughtful and helpful in her actions and words.

Y3 – Jacob for being a kind and caring member of the class and always doing the right thing.

Y4 – Harry for his consistent good-humour, resilience and thoughtfulness

Y5 – all of year 5 for an excellent team and performances in the Advent service.

Y6 – Zian for really listening to feedback during our netball lesson, making improvements in his technique.

Proud Work: 19/12/2025

YR – Oliver for making a beautiful Christmas card.

Y1 -All of year 1 for being amazing sheep in our Nativity and your super dancing and singing! Well done!

Y2 – Isaac for his excellent teamwork in P.E. this week.

Y3 – Lewis, we were so proud of Lewis during the Advent Service, he confidently stepped in to read out part of the script last minute, showing the Common Good to his friends which were absent.

Y4 – Nicholas for his focus, hard-work and great effort on all his tests.

Y5 – Maija for the only 20/20 in the end of term arithmetic.

Y6 – Maximus for consistently high scores in our end of term assessments, demonstrating aspiration in his learning. Well done!

 Silver Reader

Y1 – Lydia

Y3 – Jacob, Annie, Zakariya

Y5 – Maija, Mati, Antoni, Aiden, Ross, Charlotte, Cailyn, Daniel, Rosie

Y6 – Maximus

Times Tables Rockstars

Rock Legend: Jacob M

Rock Star: Daniel A, Tymon Z, Arlo H 

Well Done Key Stage 2 for a beautiful Advent Service

We were blown away with the confidence and clarity that all the children displayed during the service. Beautiful readings, inspired reflections and singing that lit up the Church. What a joyful way to celebrate with our community this Advent season. Thank you to all friends and family that attended. 

Chartwells Order Deadline Dates

Please order by the dates below to ensure your child has a hot lunch in the Autumn Term.

A Jolly Christmas Lunch

A lovely Christmas lunch was shared with all the children this week. Children were served by all the staff and enjoyed christmas crackers that were kindly donated by the Friends of St John’s.  It was made extra festive as all were wearing their Christmas jumpers to raise funds for our link school in Kenya, St Benedict’s. The children raised an outstanding final total of £311.46. Thank you so much for supporting this cause. We know it will truely make a difference in the lives and education of the children of St Benedict’s. Thank you also to Mrs Curtis who as ever, organsied a super event.

2025/26 Term Dates!

Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 November: Parents’ Evening

Wednesday 19 November: Friends Movie Night 3:15pm – 5:30pm

Wednesday 19th November: Non School Uniform Day

Tuesday 25 November: Open Morning for 2026 reception starters

Friday 5 December: Christmas Fair 4:30pm – 6:30pm

Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 December: Reception Nativity

Friday 12 December: Teacher-Led clubs end

Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 December: KS1 Nativity

Tuesday 16 December: KS2 Advent Service at Church

Thursday 18 December: School Christmas Lunch

Thursday 18 December: Stage to School Theatre Group – Whole School Pantomime

Friday 18 December: Christmas Jumper Day

Friday 19 December: Last day of Autumn Term

Christmas holiday: Monday 22 December—Friday 2 January 2026

Spring Term 2026

Monday 5 January: children return to school

To keep up to date with future school events, please visit the school calendar which can be found on the parents page on our website.

Parents – St John’s Catholic Primary School

Friends of St John’s (A big thank you from all at school!)

A big thank you to the Friends and community that support them for organsing and funding the Panto to come into school at the end of term. It was great fun and very loud! The children loved the interactions and acting roles that they were involved in it.

We are so lucky to have such a proactive team that work so hard for our children and school.