
Dear Parents
Happy Chinese New Year to all of our families who are celebrating this week. I do hope the Year of the Snake will be a happy and prosperous year for everyone.
We did enjoy the Reception Assembly on Tuesday and although some of the children became rather shy faced with the audience, the lantern dance was confidently performed and the class impressed everyone by knowing the order of the lunar years. Thank you to Miss Baillieux and the team for all of your hard work with the Reception children.
Community Café
It was lovely to see so many parents enjoying the parent art session in the Café on Tuesday and to meet so many of you at the informal drop in on Thursday after choir. We have been waiting to receive a payment machine and have been organising the staffing for the coffee shop. The winning art pieces have now been mounted on the wall and there are meetings afoot to create a programme of social events that will take place in the courtyard over the summer term. Soon it will be open on a regular basis. Watch this space…
50th Birthday Celebrations
We hope everyone has received their invitation to join us at our 50th Birthday Event on Friday 2 May. Through creative performances, testimonials and more, this will be an exciting evening of reflection, celebration, and learning. Pupils that will be directly involved in the performance will be notified in due course, but we hope that all families and pupils will be able to join us at the celebration. Please reserve your free tickets here ; places are limited, and booking up fast! As previously communicated in our autumn term newsletter Friday 2 May will be a half day at school including celebratory activities for pupils and staff, ahead of the event in the evening. More details to follow.
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I do hope that you have a restful weekend.
Best wishes
Mrs. Wyatt
At St James, we feel it is important to introduce our pupils to stillness and allow them to discover how to be inwardly free and deeply at ease within themselves. A short period of 5-10 minutes at the beginning and middle of every day is allocated to quietude in which pupils may meditate, contemplate or simply be still – according to their own spiritual inclinations.