September 2020

Sep 2020
The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan Cancer Support's biggest fundraising event, where the charity asks people across the UK to hold a coffee morning and raise money for people living with cancer. In 2019 the charity’s coffee mornings raised nearly £27.5 million. The St John’s College School PA’s Macmillan Coffee Morning took place virtually this year due to current circumstances and families were encouraged to donate £3 or more for each entry. Instead of being a coffee 'morning', eager bakers were asked to upload photos of their bakes to a padlet throughout the week as part of 
Sep 2020
Our Form 2 classes benefit from a Wednesday afternoon of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) every week throughout each of the three terms. The children are able to use the extensive facilities on offer at Senior House in our two Science labs and computing suite. Already this term they have carried out an orienteering session and as one of their first STEM teamwork missions, they undertook an engineering project which centred on working collaboratively to build the tallest freestanding structure using only 40 straws and 20 pipe cleaners. For their tallest tower project,
Sep 2020
The School's aim is to develop all pupils’ sporting ability to the full by providing a diverse, challenging, multi-sport experience at all ages and across all abilities. Sport can help to develop confidence and a positive mental attitude that permeates all aspects of a child's life. We hope to develop a love of sport that will last our children a lifetime. In offering such a wide range of sports we feel confident that the school has something for every ability and interest. We recognise the important mental and physical benefits that come with regular play and competition. Equally, we
Sep 2020
Senior House children have enjoyed art lessons in the open air during their first full week back in school. The children have made the most of the warm weather and covered outdoor space to work on figurative continuous line drawings.  Working with large-scale paper, the children drew portraits of one of their peers who posed for the group.  At first, the children were encouraged to try a 'blind' continuous line drawing where they only looked at the subject matter. These drawings help children to focus on observation skills and get them used to matching speed of mark-making with speed
Sep 2020
St John's welcomed 66 new pupils across the school at the start of the new term. Our youngest children spent a happy first morning in Kindergarten settling in and getting to know their teachers and classmates, as well as the routines of school life. During their first ever independent learning session they were able to 'free-flow' and explore the two expansive Kindergarten classrooms which had been set up with purposefully selected activities for their first day. The children also had fun investigating the Kindergarten outdoor learning space along with its own mud kitchen, raised flower