St. John’s Catholic Primary School Newsletter 30 – 5th June 2026

Taken from the Gospel of Sunday 24th May 2026. John 20:19-23 (Pentecost Sunday, Year A)

In the evening, the disciples were gathered in a room. They had locked the doors because they were afraid of the people who had crucified Jesus. Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you,” he said to them. He showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord. “Peace be with you,” Jesus said to them again. “As the Father has sent me, so I now send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them. “Receive the Holy Spirit,” he said to them. “If you forgive the sins of anyone, then they are forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

Attendance Award – Year 1 – 98% – Well done!

Whole School Attendance – 96 %

 Superstars of the Week!

YR –  Jack for being inspirational in his learning and throwing himself into all learning challenges this week!

Y1 –  Violet for trying super hard in our maths – geometry lessons this week, and challenging herself!

Y2 -All of Year 2 for being amazing on our trip to Drusilla’s Zoo. I am so proud of you!

Y3 – Wilfred for using a spreadsheet program to create charts and graphs from data accurately and independently in computing!

Y4 -Lilian for her focus achievements and resilience.

Y5 – Kian for describing places in town in correct French with an excellent accent, and using his french outside the classroom in half-term.

Y6 –   Isabelle for her enthusiam toward her learning this week!

 

 

Proud Work: 05/06/2026

YR – Freyja for completing the lighthouse tower maths challenge this week.

Y1 – Theo for carefully labelling the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world in our geography lesson.

Y2 -Leo for his independent writing in English this week. He was using command sentences to give advice.

 

Y3 – Aiden for his brilliant retelling of the story “Flotsam”, showing a great understanding of our English text.

Y4 – Marco for working so hard in all the English lessons this week, focusing on quality, quantity and presentation.

Y5 – Charlotte for her diary entry written in the style of ‘Nik’

Y6 –  Samuel for making a fantastic start at learning his lines for the end of year production, performing his lines with character and enthusiasm – keep it up!

Silver Reader – 100 reads

Y3-  Molly

Magnificent Reading Award – 250 Reads

YR – Jonah, Nate,

Y2 – Ariana

Y3 – Zakariya

Y4 – Evie Rose

Y5 – Charlotte

Spelling Shed Certificate of Achievement

Y2 – Isaac

Y4 -Lucas 

Y5- Zenata

Times Tables Rockstars

Rockstar: 

Support Act :

Headliner : Noah C

Summer Term Chartwells Order Deadline Dates

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

2026 Term Dates!

Summer Term

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, and Y3 and Y4 Quadkids

Thursday 25 June: Sports Day: KS1 – AM, KS2 – PM

Saturday 27 June 11am – 2pm: Summer Fair

Sunday 5 July: 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.

Parents – St John’s Catholic Primary School

 St John’s International Festival on Friday 19th June!

This year’s International Festival is on Friday 19th June. If you can help on that morning, please keep the date free. There is a board outside to sign. Please choose a country and say if you can stay to help all/part of the morning, or send food in.

8.30 am: please come into the hall to set up for food tasting, with tables representing different countries, parents grouping together. Decorate your table with flags, photos, souvenirs and wear traditional costumes if you can. Each class will have a 30 min slot to come into the hall to try the different foods. Last session ends by 11.30 am.

Children can wear clothes from different countries too, e.g. traditional clothes, or a T-shirt from holiday abroad or football shirt, or Hawaiian style summer clothes! If you are at a table, your children can stay with you for some of the time but may be needed in class too. And they will get their slot with their class for food tasting too! Year 6 can stay at tables on their own.

Please could you make or provide finger food (nut free) that does not need cutting up, refrigerating or heating. You do not have to be the same nationality as the table. You can also bring in ready-made food (e.g. cheese, olives, croissants) or regional foods from the UK (e.g. Cornish pasties, Welsh cakes). Please list ingredients of any home-made food. Please also have food ready to serve in individual portions.

If your child has allergies, you may send separate food in (please inform your class teacher, and send a message to Mrs Curtis, many thanks).

We regret, we cannot accommodate babies or toddlers in school.

Without your help, we would not be able to hold this festival. Thank you so much!

Mrs Curtis

The Friends of St John’s…

This half-term our focus language is Ukrainian as we have some Ukrainian speakers in our school. Our Ukrainian children and Young Interpreters will be teaching other children how to answer the register in Ukrainian, and a few other greetings, or phrases, numbers.  If any children from Ukraine would like to bring in flags, souvenirs, traditional clothes, photos etc to show in class, please email the office or tell Mrs Curtis. We would love to learn more about the language and culture of Ukraine! Thank you.

Mrs Curtis

Water Safety

Drowning Prevention Week occurs on 14-21 June 2025, highlighting the importance of educating families, carers, teachers and instructors of children and young people about water safety. See below poster for further information.