As always at this time of year we have to say goodbye to our year 6 pupils as they prepare to move on to secondary school and their next academic adventures!

Some of these children have been at St John’s for a long time; many of them since their time in Reception Class and some even since their Nursery days.

They have spent their final week at St John’s performing their end of...

Yesterday morning we were all treated to a musical extravaganza as part of our whole school assembly!

The children who have violin and piano lessons at school had prepared pieces of music to perform to everybody. We were all really impressed with the performances from Keivan, Eden, Doyeon, Suyeong, Anthony, Joshua, Tami and Arnavaz.

We were also impressed by the skills of our...

Yesterday afternoon (Thursday) our year 6 pupils who have achieved 98% or higher attendance over the last school year were treated to their attendance award treat.

The 13 children enjoyed an outing to Creams Café in Canterbury where they were treated to a delicious ice cream!

Well done to all of them. We hope you can keep up the good work when you get to secondary school!

We send our congratulations to Mrs Rayner and her husband who have welcomed a baby boy into the world.

We send our best wishes to Mrs Rayner and her family.

Children from year 5 enjoyed a trip to Canterbury Cathedral this week to learn about Anglo Saxons and Vikings.

They took part in a costume trail around the Cathedral and re-enacted key parts of Canterbury Viking history!

Children from Fox class were treated to behind the scenes access to the Archbishop’s throne, also known as a Cathedra, and some of the children were even able...

Our wonderful Young Carers enjoyed an end of term treat this week when they took part in an amazing workshop led by Paul from Kinetic Circus.

They were amazed at Paul’s skills and had lots of fun learning circus skills themselves. 

More information about Paul and Kinetic Circus can be found at his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KineticCircusUK/

Several children from St John’s recently took part in KArtsCon2023; an art competition open to all children between the ages of 4 and 18.

This week they were awarded with their certificates during our whole school assembly and we enjoyed seeing their prize winning works of art.

Congratulations go to Ceanna, Ayyan, Rayyan, Prishitha and Adedamola. Well done to all our budding...