Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Safety Advice for families

  Fri 24 Feb 2017
  Public Health Department are encouraging families to follow this advice with food brought into schools through snack and packed lunches.

   

  Doctors have issued a stark warning that young children can choke to death on whole grapes, following the recent tragedy of a young boy who choked whilst eating grapes at an after-school club. Despite first aid, the grape could not be dislodged and the child had a heart attack and tragically died.

   

  Why are some foods so dangerous?

  The size and shape of grapes & cherry/plum tomatoes means they can completely plug a child’s airway. The tight seal produced by the foods smooth surface makes them difficult to dislodge with standard first aid techniques.

   

  Young children are particularly vulnerable to choking on grapes/ tomatoes because:

   

  • Their swallow reflex is still developing.
  • Their airway is very small.
  • They don’t have a full set of teeth and are still learning to chew properly.

   

  We advise that grapes and tomatoes are cut in half lengthways and ideally in quarters.

  

• In school and ready to learn

  Thu 23 Feb 2017

  Term 1 to Term 3 whole school attendance was

  96%

   

  Well done families and children that attend school everyday. We are currently hitting our school target.

   

  As part of the school's development plan and our drive to ensure children are at school, on time and ready to learn we have been focusing on address persistent lateness and poor attendance.

   

  More about this approach can be found here.

   

  A massive well done to the families that have responded to school support and made improvements to attendance and/or punctuality.

   

  Analysis of mid-year attendance and punctuality has been completed and letters will be sent shortly.

   

  We are pleased to see a significant reduction in the number of children arriving late with a third less than in September, meaning more children in class on time and learning! 

   

  Please contact Mrs Eve (Inclusion Lead) if you want any support with ensuring good attendance and punctuality. 

   

   

• Success!

  Mon 20 Feb 2017

  Ask your children about the key ingredients for success.

   

  In assembly we discussed the importance of embracing failure and learning from it. We also discussed how important practice and hard work can be.

   

  During the next few weeks we will continue to look at how hard work, determination and resilience leads to success. Including some 'famous failures' and how failing made them successful!   

   

  Mr Beament will be looking for children that demonstrate these skills to help out with his assemblies. 

  

• Christmas stamp competition 

  Fri 10 Feb 2017
  The annual Royal Mail Christmas card competition has been launched there are competitions for ages 4-7 and 8-11.

   

  All entries must come back to school by 6th March

   

  Prizes include your stamps being sold at Christmas as well as the opportunity to win vouchers for yourself and for the school.

   

  The Rules:

  The entries must be completed on the forms sent out (these can be collected from Mrs Charlton or your class teacher) 

  Then need to be in colour (pen/pencil/pastels...)

  They should not include any writing

  They can use a computer drawing program but all work needs to be original (no clip art) and completed by the child without support.

   

  Any more questions please ask your class teacher.

   

  Good luck!

• Indoor Athletics

  Fri 03 Feb 2017

  Well done to all the in Year 6 children that qualified and competed in this year's regional Indoor Athletics Competition as part of the Winter Games.

   

  St. Saviour's Finished in 7th place

   

  Find photos and full results from the day below.

   

   

  Photos here

  

• Chess Tournament

  Thu 02 Feb 2017

  Well done to everyone that took part in the Chess Tournament held at SSJS last weekend. A total of 80 players from across BANES took part.

   

  SSJS had 11 players,

  Who each played 6 games,

  They won 25 out of a possible 66 points,

  Earned 11 certificates,

  Won 2 medals for getting 3 points from 6 (Toby U9, Alford U9); and

  won one age group winner's trophy (Finn U10)

   

  What an amazing performance all round especially for those who had never played a full tournament day before.