HAF 2022!
It has been a fantastic year in school and I would like to thank all of our families for their support with the various events which have taken place. We look forward to welcoming pupils back to school on Tuesday, 6th September.
Year Six Leavers
As our Year Six leavers complete their journey in primary education, I would like to congratulate them on their exemplary progress during their time at Johnston C.P. School. The academic achievements of this fantastic group of pupils is outstanding and deserves to be celebrated. This is down to the hard work of pupils and staff. The whole community should be proud of them.
Good Luck Everyone!
Universal Free School Meals
From the 6th September onwards all Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children will be offered Free School Meals. This is an important step in reaching the shared ambition of ensuring no child goes hungry while in school. Later in the academic year, all other year groups will also be offered Free School Meals. As the new term approaches, we will share the menu for the Autumn term.
LRC 1
LRC1 have enjoyed reading lots of different fairy tales this term and linking our learning to these. One of our favourites was the tale of "The Princess and the Frog". We especially enjoyed this story as we had found a frog in our garden on Sports' Day and the story reminded us of that exciting discovery. We worked very hard to complete lots of interesting learning activities linked to frogs; we studied the life cycle of a frog and sang counting songs like "Five Little Speckled Frogs" practising counting backwards from 5. One of our favourite activities that week was our adventure to the bottom of our school meadow to see if we could find any frogs hiding in the stream by the fire pit. Unfortunately we weren't lucky enough to find any frogs on that occasion (maybe we were a bit noisy when we headed down there) but we did enjoy a morning exploring Maes Meithrin.
Early Years
Our learning has focussed on life cycles – from plants and giants to honeybees and pollination! The children have learnt the vital role bees play in our lives and know many facts about them. Did you know bees have four wings and the worker bees do a waggle dance to tell the other bees where the best flowers are?
Year One
On Wednesday, 29th June, Class 1 had an educational visit to Manor Park Wildlife Park.
During our time at the park, we were fortunate to meet the lemur keeper. We asked the lemur keeper lots of interesting questions about the lemurs including what kind of food they eat and where they like to sleep. The lemurs were extremely friendly and we were lucky enough to get very close to them.
Year Two
Class 2 have had a fantastic term learning all about ‘Our Wonderful World’. They all participated in a mock wedding and invited their parents to attend, Reverend Marcus performed the ceremony, then they came back to school for cake and champagne.
We have learnt all about mini beasts and habitats, completed a bug survey in the school field and even looked at the small, but marvellous, eco system in the school's stream, watching pond skaters and mud snails.
Year Three
Dosbarth Cadno have had a superb year this year. We have worked hard in our classroom, around the school grounds and out and about in such places as St. Brides Orchard, Castell Henllys and Broad Haven. Welly Wednesday has been a great success. Pupils have enjoyed exploring the nature and wildlife in our Maes Meithrin and have started to develop their bushcraft skills. We have discovered amazing things about our world from The Celts 2000 years ago to polar bears in The Arctic today. Our confidence to have a go and learn from our mistakes has grown tremendously and we can’t wait to develop these more in Year 4!
Year Four
Year 4 have enjoyed our topic "The Jungle Book", and have used it to create our end of year production. We have also been able to visit East Hook Farm to conduct a meadow study and gained the skills to investigate the health of our own meadow in Maes Meithrin. Children have been learning about biodiversity and the importance of meadows, learning about different varieties of meadow flowers.
Year Five
We have had a very busy end to Year Five! During language sessions we have been learning about suspense writing, whilst in maths we have been learning about shape and probability.
Pupils have particularly enjoyed our work on "Romeo and Juliet", creating character profiles, learning about Shakespearean language and much, much more.
Year Six
Year 6 have had a very busy last term to mark the end of their Johnston school journey. We have been busy working with Year 5 to produce a performance of "Romeo and Juliet", learnt all about Shakespeare and Verona and explored the language of the Shakespearean play. A highlight of this term has to be our three night residential trip to Bala! We took part in a range of adventurous activities such as paddle boarding, hiking, raft building, canoeing and kayaking. The children represented Johnston School fantastically and everyone had a great time. The children have also taken part in their transition activities to prepare them for their next step in education. We are so very proud of you Year 6 - da iawn!