St John Bosco Catholic Primary School

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Headteacher's Welcome

Welcome to our new school website.

St John Bosco Catholic Primary School has always been a particularly good school with hardworking, committed and fun loving staff.  We place great importance on the personal skills of all within the school including our Governing Board and are fully inclusive and imaginative in our teaching methods. Our newly developed curriculum starts in the reception class and carefully planned and sequenced lessons build on prior learning as well as revisiting previous learning to ensure that children remember as much as they can. We are all excited as we continue to develop our rich child focused curriculum.

We use a wide variety of teaching strategies to offer a broad and balanced curriculum, underpinned by state-of-the-art IT facilities which we continue to develop and support the teaching of the arts, sports and basic core skills as well as modern foreign languages, citizenship and community values.  Not forgetting an endless number of sports and after school activities. Our outdoor facilities are simply amazing and our children enjoy them to the full.

We offer breakfast facilities and a wide range of after school activities including sport clubs during holiday time based at the school.  We also offer our own after school clubs ST JOHN BOSCO KID-ZONE, which is proving a most popular support for working parents. The afterschool provision has access to all our extensive outdoor facilities and is a great way for children to stay fit and healthy.

We are delighted to welcome you and your child to our school as prospective members of a community where the Gospel values of the Catholic faith underpin our efforts to provide a quality education for all.

Visitors to our school, whether health workers, inspectors, Local Authority officers, parent helpers or others always comment on the wonderful learning atmosphere and beautiful manners that our children have. This underpins the very essence of a "St John Bosco Child." 

We are proud of our school with its happy and caring atmosphere and its tradition of hard work, academic achievement, sporting success and community involvement.  We look forward to working with you as a family, welcoming and valuing your contribution to the education of your child as well as offering you the very best of our professional skills and expertise along with a high quality of pastoral support and care.

We are a growing family school and it is our aim that you get to know our routines and us quickly. Every member of staff, teaching and non-teaching, is more than happy to help you in any way possible.  Please be confident to ask any of us for help if you have concerns, even if they seem trivial.  No problems are either too big or too small for us to tackle together - please ask.

On behalf of the Governors, staff and myself, I am pleased to welcome you to St John Bosco Catholic Primary School. If you have a few minutes you may enjoy the four short videos that give a real sense of what we can offer your child. Simply go to "Our School" and select "Welcome Videos." We hope you enjoy them as much as we did making them.

Mr D MacAreavy

Headteacher

Latest Newsletters

  • 06 Nov 2024
    Key dates for your diary

    Dear Parents and Carers,

    It has been great to see the children settling back into school routine following the Autumn half term. The run up to Christmas is always a busy time in school so we have included the following information regarding the remainder of this term. We have also attached a newsletter with key dates for your diary.

    Thank you to those parents who have already made contributions towards the whole school pantomime but we are still outstanding some payments. We would be grateful if these can be paid as soon as possible, preferably by Friday 8th November. If you have any issues regarding payments, please let us know.

    Christmas Bingo (Friday 29th November)
    The Friends of St. John Bosco have asked for any donations for their bingo prizes please. Any wine/spirits and chocolates will be gratefully received. These can be passed into the class teachers.

    Whole school pantomime (Wednesday 4th December)
    The performance is due to start at 10.00am. On this day, we would be grateful if all children come into school for 8.30am. It will allow staff to organize the children and get them on to the coach as soon as possible.
    Your child will need to wear school uniform and bring in a coat and a disposable water bottle (with your child’s name on). All children in the Juniors will need to bring in a packed lunch. Infant children will be provided with a school packed lunch unless you have stated otherwise. (Lunch choices will be sent out on a separate letter).

    Infant Nativity (Tuesday 11th & Wednesday 12th December)
    Both performances are the same. Due to capacity in the school hall we are limiting numbers of spaces to 2 adults per family and would ask that each family attends on one day. Letters will follow with regards to costumes.

    Thank you for your continued support,

    All staff

  • 25 Oct 2024
    Year 4 Homework

    Good afternoon

    Please find the homework newsletter attached for over half term.

    Thank you for all the lovely comments over the Parents' Evenings; it was lovely to meet you!

    Have a lovely half term week

    Mrs. Bretherton

  • 25 Oct 2024
    Newsletter 25.10.24

    Dear Parents and Carers

    Please find the newsletter attached

    Kind regards

    Lynn