St John Vianney School Newsletter 12.07.2024

Assistant Headteacher's Message

Dear friends and family of SJV,

This time of year can present with many challenges for our young people as they begin to worry about transitioning into new classes and the long time away from school over the summer break. Our dedicated staff team continually support our pupils with this. Before the end of the summer term pupils will receive their new visual timetable for September and will have an opportunity to be in their new classes next Friday 19th July. On this day we will also welcome into school new pupils who will begin their SJV journey on September 3rd, when the autumn term begins.

The penultimate week has been a busy one with lots of our usual offsite activities taking place. Mr Cassidy, Mrs Griffin and Mr Foden also had the pleasure of taking the winners of our RNLI lifeboat art competition on an exciting visit to Anglesey, where the pupils got to experience a boat ride around Puffin Island and a visit the Anglesey Lifeboat Centre. What an amazing experience!

On Friday we had our annual sports day at Longford Park; our young people experienced a range of different sports experiences including Disc golf and Softball. Thank you to Mr Whelan for organising a great event.

Our School’s Governing Body met for the final time this year and we reflected on the journey we have taken as a school, and the wonderful progress made by our school community. The governors have asked me to pass on our heartfelt thanks for your continued support, as we all work together to provide our young people with the best opportunities possible.

As we look towards the final week please see our timetable of events below:

• Monday - class trips
• Tuesday - normal timetable
• Wednesday – Key Stage masses and awards at 9.30am for KS4/5 and 11.20am for KS3
• Thursday - KS3 festival and last day with current class
• Friday - New Classes for all pupils. School closes at 1.30pm for summer break

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Key information and Dates

Key Info:

School uniform: The Governors have kindly agreed to supply all pupils in KS3 and 4 with free school uniform again this year. You will receive an email next week with the dates, during the Summer Break, that this uniform can be collected from the school office.

Dates:

• Mon 15th July - Class end of year trips.
• Wed 17th July @ 9:30am - KS4&5 End of Year Mass.
• Wed 17th July @ 11:20am - KS3 End of Year Mass.
• Thu 18th July pm - KS3 Festival Afternoon.
• Fri 19th July am - Transition morning for new pupils and pupils in new classes.
• Fri 19th July @ 13:30 - School closes for the Summer Holidays.
• Mon 2nd Sept - INSET day- School is closed for pupils.
• Tue 3rd Sept @ 9:00am - School re-opens for the next academic year.

Stars of the Week

Congratulations to our Stars of the Week!

• Class 1 - Hassan - For helping his friend down the slide at Hideaway.
• Class 2 - George - For being a good team player in PE and improvement in behaviour.
• Class 3 - Khalil - For leading Class 3 prayers.
• Class 4 - Ryan - For remaining calm and sensible in an uncertain week for his class.
• Class 5 - Riley - For positive behaviour and attitude.
• Class 6 - Jackson - For showing maturity in difficult situations.
• Class 7 - Scarlett - For showing great resilience in sport.
• Class 8 - Callum - For a great attitude to school work and peers.
• Class 9 - Andrew - For having a good first week in Post 16.
• Class 10 - Bruno - For being very thoughtful to his friends.
• Class 11 - Inaaya - For helping her friends and for improved behaviour.
• Class 12 - Megan - For being a consistent role model and outstanding work at the Edge Cafe.
• Class 13 - Andrew - For settling in well to a new class.

Employees of the Week!

Congratulations Mr Brand and Mr Lomax!

Highlights of the Week

Our Catholic School

Our spiritual focus in SJV this week that describes presence of God on Earth amongst us is:

‘Let us welcome the light of God into our hearts’

- Pope Francis

Within our Catholic school, Class 7 enjoyed the final retreat of the year, led as always by our wonderful Chaplain Father Nick. I was very privileged to have attended with them and it was a wonderful and reflective end to the year together.

During RE lessons this week, we have been looking at artefacts in some of our world religions. We have examined a box of different items linked to Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism and tried to decide what their role and function might be. Next week we are going to research these items to see if we were right!

This week's Wednesday Word is "Listening''.

Mrs Garfin

Poetry Corner

As Ollie Watkins scored an amazing 90th minute goal against the Netherlands to keep England's Euro hopes alive last night, we thought it would be fitting to celebrate with this wonderful football poem by Brian Bilston. We are no strangers to football poetry here at SJV, working in collaboration with the National Football Museum to run inspiring creative writing workshops about unity and togetherness in the modern game of football. We hope to see some poetry on the pitch in Sunday's final. Come on England!

'Our very own young poet, Joe in Class 5, has taken inspiration from the great Brian Bilston and written his own version of the Football is... Poem. Fantastic and inspiring work Joe, well done!'

Oliver Lomax

Useful Information

Click on the following link to open a directory of useful links and information about facilities, activities and support available to you and your young person: INFORMATION DIRECTORY