Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who came along to our Autumn Fete. Everyone had such a wonderful time and it was lovely to see all of our children, families and friends having such a wonderful time. Special thanks to Mrs Hudson for all of her work behind the scenes and thank you to all the staff who helped. Special thanks to our wonderful children who all made special things to sell on the stalls and to our Year 6 children for all of their help setting up and on the stalls! We rely on the support of local businesses and donations from our parents and carers who always make this day a success. WE RAISED OVER £1000 FOR OUR SCHOOL FUND!

We raised £155 at our coffee afternoon in aid of MacMillan. Thank you to everyone who turned up to show support for such an amazing charity. Thank you to Sara our lovely Cook in Charge for the most delicious cakes, they really were gorgeous! Special thanks to Mrs Hudson and Miss Robinson for organising the afternoon

Our ArtsAward children in Year 6 visited the Laing Art Gallery as part of their Arts Award Explore which is a nationally recognised qualification. The qualification is designed to encourage children to actively take part in visual art activities such as visiting galleries, looking at artists’ work, creating art and designing their own exhibitions. As always the children represented St James wonderfully.

We had a fantastic whole school trip at Adventure Valley. The children were all exceptionally behaved and had such great fun! The sunshine made the day even more special thank you to everyone who helped make this trip such a big success!

As always we continue to poverty proof our school and are eco friendly ambassadors. Please pop into school each evening this week from 3:25pm – 4pm to pick up some new/nearly new uniform!

Thank you to everyone who took part in our St James Carnival walk. This was a true celebration of our togetherness  which is always at the heart of our St James Community!

Everyone looked wonderful in their bright and bold colours and enjoyed walking with their friends and families. We really MADE SOME NOISE for our homecoming!

This was a great way to raise money for our school fund. Please return all sponsor forms and monies to the school office by the end of the week.

HOME SWEET HOME and what a FANTASTIC week we’ve had! Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to make this transition run so smoothly. The children are in their element and have enjoyed being back in their classrooms and playing on the field. We’ve all enjoyed having our lunches together and being all under one roof again. Home really is where the heart is at St James

Be vigilant in monitoring phone activity

We have been made aware of a WhatsApp group called ‘Add your friends’ which is circulating in the South Tyneside area. It is believed to be aimed at Y4, Y5 and Y6 children.

This group may or may not contain inappropriate content. We want you to be aware that children can be added into WhatsApp groups by people who are not in their contacts. It is important that parents and carers check their child’s phone to make sure that they are not talking to people that they don’t know online.

Below are a set of instruction to ensure that your child’s phone settings do not allow them to be added to any groups on WhatsApp by people they do not know.

1. Tap settings
2. Tap Privacy > Groups
3. Select the following option > My contacts

Now only contacts in your phone’s address book can add you to groups without your approval. If a group admin who is not in your phone’s address book tries to add you to a group they will get a pop-up which says they can’t add you. They will then be prompted to tap invite to group or press continue, followed by the send button to send a private group invite through an individual chat. You then have three days to accept the invite before it expires.

On International Dance Day sports leaders from St Joseph’s led a dance session with  Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 as part of our aim to gain the Artsmark Award. This session was based around emotions. The children explored a range of emotions through dance and then choreographed their own dance pieces.