The Seventh Sunday of Easter — John 17:1-11: THE HIGH PRIESTLY PRAYER OF JESUS
Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: ‘Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify
you; and, through the power over all mankind that you have given him, let him give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him. And eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I have glorified you on earth and finished the work that you gave me to do. Now, Father, it is time for you to glorify me with that glory I had with you before ever the world was. I have made your name known to the men you took from the world to give me. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now at last they know that all you have given me comes indeed from you; for I have given them the teaching you gave to me, and they have truly accepted this, that I came from you, and have believed that it was you who sent me. I pray for them; I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they belong to you: all I have is yours and all you have is mine, and in them I am glorified. I am not in the world any longer, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.’
Attendance Award – Year 6 -99.3% – Well done!
Whole School Attendance – 96.1%
Superstars of the Week!
YR – Asher, Cassandra, Charlotte, Jayden, Leo W W, Maria & Richard for their participation in our house group tricky word time trial this week. They demonstrated teamwork,solidarity and preferential option for the poor through supporting everyone in their team and working for the Common good. They ensured everyone had a say (subsidiarity) in improving their learning and respected the human dignity of those less able, while promoting peace as there was no conflict! They demonstrated stewardship by caring for God’s gift of each other and Miss Miles did not need to distribute justice as they all shared responsibility fairly. As a result of their hard and aspirational learning, they were able to beat their time from the previous day! They have every right to be confident in being themselves.
Y1 – Emily for always having a great attitude towards her learning, and always trying her best.
Y2 – Sophia S for persevering with her learning about ‘TIME’ in Maths this week.
Y3 – Ayda for always being polite, helpful member of the class. A total asset!
Y4 – Nicholas for his positive, cheerful and enthusiastic attitude to his learning, backed up with determination and resilience.
Y5 – Aiden for being an excellent learning partner.
Y6 – All y6 for your focus and determination during your SATS. You have demonstrated resilience and solidarity this week.
Proud Work: 15/05/2026
YR – Jayden for his enthusiasm and participation in our tricky word challenge this week. Jayden wrote tricky words on post its and covered himself in them! He helped others in the class and even continued his work at home and then continued it in school the following day too!
Y1 – Amelie & Joselle for working hard together to create their own poster all about fossils.
Y2 – Isaac for his encyclopedia entry of where dragons live, using positional language and conjunctions.
Y3 – Harry for always completing his homework which is evident in his times table practise within school. Keep up the good work.
Y4 – Megan for writing out her cafe role- play conversation in excellent French, tres bien! Super francais, tout correcte!
Y5 – David for his diary entry using accurate past tense verbs.
Y6 – Congratulations to you all!
Bronze Reader – 50 reads
YR – Deon, Zelda, Josiah
Y1 – Evander
Y3 – Jacinta
Silver Reader – 100 reads
YR – Iza
Y3- Ayda
Gold Reader – 150 reads
Violet Reader – 200 reads
YR – Simon
Y1 – Thomas
Magnificent Reading Award – 250 Reads
Spelling Shed Certificate of Achievement
Y1 – Evander
Y2 – Arianna
Y3 – Hannah
Y4 – Elisa
Y5- Olive
Y6- All Y6 for trying their best in SATS spelling test this week!!
Numbots
Brass: Grace B
Steel: Oliver B, Lydia G
Gold: Olive C
Copper : Grace B
Titanium : Mia P
Carbon Fibre : Mia P
Chrome : Sophie B
Times Tables Rockstars
Wannabe : Julia L
Support Act : Anthonia N, Teo L
Headliner : Hope W, Emelia-Macy D, Maria M Bausto
Chartwells Order Deadline Dates
Please order by the dates below to ensure your child has a hot lunch in the Spring/Summer Term.
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Week commencing |
Order deadline |
| Mon 30 March | Thurs 19 March |
| Mon 13 April | Thurs 2 April |
| Mon 27 April | Thurs 16 April |
| Mon 11 May | Thurs 30 April |
| Mon 18 May | Thurs 7 May |
| Mon 1 June | Thurs 21 May |
2026 Term Dates!
Summer Term
Thursday 21st: Marion Parade in school
Friday 22 May: Whole school Mass to celebrate First Holy Communion, 10.30am school hall
Friday 22 May: children break up for May half term
Monday 1 June – children return to school. Year 6 Bikeability week
Friday 5 June: Y5 Bikeability Taster Day
Monday 8 – Thurs 11 June: Y4 Multiplication Check & Phonics Screening Week
Thursday 11 June: Break the Rules day!
Friday 12 June: INSET day
Friday 19 June: International Food Festival day – Save the Date!
Thursday 25 June: Sports Day
Saturday 27 June 11am – 2pm: Summer Fair
Sunday 5 July: Save for the date! Horsham Children’s Parade. Years 2 & 4 to participate.
Monday 13 July – Teacher led After School Clubs finish this week.
Monday 20 July at 2pm: Leavers Mass at Church
Wednesday 22 July: children break up for Summer holidays
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.
International Festival: Friday 19th June!
Just to remind you, our International Festival this year is on Friday 19th June, please keep the morning free if you can!
Nearer the date there will be a board outside to sign up on. If you can help on that morning, please choose a country and say if you can stay to help all/part of the morning, or send food in. More details to follow nearer the date.
Without your help, we would not be able to hold this festival. Thank you so much!
Mrs Curtis
School updates and events
Amazing Year 6
Well done to our wonderful Year 6! They have completed their SATs this week and we could not have been prouder of how they approach it. We enjoyed breakfast together each morning which was full of giggles, flying apples and avoidance of eating crusts! They have demonstrated real confidence and maturity with each test and taken it in their strid. They have made their school, teachers, parents and each other really proud and showed that they are certainly ready for their Secondary school transitions in the not to distant future.
Marion Parade
In school on Thursday 21st May at 10.00 the school will gather together to have a celebration of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. In the Catholic tradition May is a month dedicated to Our Lady and this is our way of honouring that. We will share some thoughts and information about the rosary and then we will go outside and say the Joyful mysteries together and the Glorious mysteries. As part of the parade, we place flowers around the statue of Mary. We would like to invite each child to bring a flower into school on Thursday to help create a class floral display in celebration of Mary.
First Holy Communion Celebration
We are excited that some of our Key Stage 2 children will be making their First Holy Communion this Sunday at Church. It is a wonderful event that is shared with friends, family and the whole parish. We will be having a school Mass on Friday to celebrate together. Children are invited to bring in their First Holy Communion clothes and change into them for the Mass.
Many thanks
The friends of St Johns (PTA)
